BROKEN - to be healed by her (manan ff)✔️

78 : A half of the sum!

Nandini's pov:

     You know how the early mornings are, the serene epitome of calmness and embodiment of peace fill every cell of your system with life rejuvenating them, pumping in hope for a better day than the previous albeit quite to the contrary was my morning this day instead of hopeful for a happier day it made me think about the plethora of obnoxiously absurd possibilities making me anxious every second as it passed by, anxiety knocked harshly too severe for the scenic allure from Manik's balcony to bring ounce of peace at my foyer, only rigorous series of anxious thoughts and decisions too tough to be made recurring. Manik has been dull all these while since back from the session, he spoke less and toiled harder everything else taken a back seat. He wouldn't talk to me and shrugged every effort initiated by me compelling me to make the decision that I have been hesitant about all this while...taking Manik to Mehra mansion.

This wasn't the only conversation I had with Dhruv later that night was another thing that brought me to this conclusion..

Flashback..

" Kaka! Main janta hu ki aap mujh par bilkul bharosa nhi karte aur voh jayas bhi hai...maine koi zyada vajah di nhi hai bharosa karne layak par kaka, yeh baat janna mere liye bahot zaruri hai...please kaka ek Baar meri madat kar dijiye, aap Jante hai na...jo kuch bhi hua main kabhi Jaan Kar nhi kar sakta...aap." As I walked closer Dhruv's distinct whispers made much more sense to me, his voice croaky and brittle as if on the verge of a breakdown. As much as I wanted to empathize with him, the fact that he dared to walk up here and justify his deeds bluntly asking for some sort of favor angered me to no means.

" Ohh..really Dhruv! I assume you can surely do better than this void emotional blackmailing..you know after all you are a Shekhawat good with games I suppose?" mocking I stood right parallel to him starring into his eyes as sheer disgust engulfed every part of me.

" Look Nandini..." I caught his attention soon enough, turning to me he spoke in an explanatory tone but I cut him out before he could get started at all.

" Look what huh? The fact that your seven years-long slumber has finally been interrupted and all of a sudden you want answers and have been struggling to get those? Or that you are whining and mourning after your oblivion that you had been withholding your entire life has been shattered to pieces and everything is shaping out in a way you dreaded it too...is that what you want me to see?" ranting is all I did struggling to hold back furry filled stream that seemed to have no end, breathing ragged, deep, eyes almost turning red as I spoke starring right at his slumped emitting despair self.

He heard all that I had to say with no ounce of resistance just quietly jumbling a weird ring that adorned by his index. his unresponsive, composed self-made me stop soon, gathering my spilled composure together sighing, at first I looked over to kaka and asked him to head inside after assuring him about looking into the matter.

" Why are you hear Dhruv? Why now?" I questioned rhetorically even though I fairly knew what all of this was, since the time I walked out of the cafe after meeting him I was certain that I'll hear something from him soon, with not even a last glance at him I was well aware of the fact that I did strike a few forbidden chords which will make him think, the thoughts that he was keeping at bay and have been feeding his fears were all slapped right across his face.

Maybe he wasn't oblivious to the possibilities rather petrified to face them, briefly aware of the repercussions truth had....that's the thing about truth it always has repercussions some prefer facing it while others are too soft for it....Dhruv had been the later one for all this while for one reason or the other, the truth was scary and he never wanted to stand staring right into its eyes until truth decided to do so.