Dear Diary, I'm in love. I'm so in love that it hurts to be away from him. But the thing is that he's my sister's husband...

They say finding true love at nineteen is a blessing. Or so they thought until they believed in their love. But some people are really unlucky without any apparent fault of theirs. Manik Malhotra came in a similar category. Eight years later, when they met again, at their college reunion, love was bound to reignite. Or was it? Join Manik Malhotra and Nandini Murthy in their journey of finding love, throwing it away, changing drastically and then their strive to reclaim it.

His mantra- "A natural smile is the prettiest and coolest thing you can wear." Hers- "Head up, stay strong. Fake a smile and move on." The not so perfect match of a sane with a total insane. It is said that opposites attract but will they ever? Don't think too much just tap/click the read button ;-)

Manik Malhotra, Nandini's soulmate & Cabir's best friend, has been missing for the past 4 years, presumed dead in a car accident he had been involved in, yet the circumstances of his disappearance were strange. For the past 4 years, the two had teamed up to search for Manik, but remained empty-handed, encountering dead-ends. While Nandini was believed to be living a mirage by refusing to accept Manik's death, Cabir was accused of encouraging her delusional behavior. Just when all hope seemed lost, Nandini supposedly found him. "I know I have been proven wrong before, but it was him..." Nandini recounted, vividly. Battling with the fear of Nandini losing her sanity and the hope of finding Manik, Cabir, along with Nandini, embarks on a journey to find him. *** Manik Malhotra had been on the brink of losing his sanity for years now, torn between reality and imagination, confusing one with the other, he had thought he had been running behind a mirage. He was told there was no Nandini, yet right before he was standing the girl everyone claimed had been only a figment of his imagination... --- Awarded:- #Featured Stories - Best of Outreach Hidden Gems - November 2022 - by Wattpad Outreach Team #"Top performance", 5.5 ⭐ - "one of top performance" - reviewed by "The Mystical Awards - June edition 2020" #1st place 🥇 in "MaNan - Long story writer" - Judging round - Star and Moon PaNi/MaNan awards #1st place 🥇 in "MaNan - Long story writer" Judging round - SILVER AQUA AWARD 2020 #2nd Place in the category of "General Fiction" - THE CRYSTAL ROSE AWARDS #3rd place 🥉 in the category "Fanfiction - Indian" - Tricolor Triennial Awards #3rd Place 🥉 in the category "Fanfiction" - The 10 Awards 2020 Book cover made by @monu2525 If you are reading this story on any other platform other than Wattpad, please read this story in its original, safe form, on Wattpad (Link: https://www.wattpad.com/story/185935493-living-in-a-mirage ).

His life was simple and plain until she turned it upside down by introducing him the world through a new lens. Her life was chaos until he came as a fresh breeze and taught her what love is. They were two opposite poles of a magnet but the people around them knew magnets never existed as a monopole and they were destined to be with each other. -Translations provided wherever required.

|Alternate Universe| An arranged marriage tale of Manik and Nandini, set in the era of late 90s. Beautiful cover made by :- @weirdosaurs. #1 on Manik on 28th March,2022. #1 on arrangedmarriage on 13th April,2022. #1 on Forever on 10th September & 4th December, 2022. #1 on Hardship on 20th November, 2022. #1 on Compromise on 26th November, 2022. #1 on Companionship on 7th December, 2022. #1 on Foreverandever on 24th January, 2023

He, Disciplined! She, a beautiful chaos! He, Stalwart! She, a wanderer! He, a soldier! She, a commoner! And their Thousand encounters

"Make me fall in love again. Harder. And replace her in my heart. Make me love you so much that you run as the blood in my veins. That...I'm not able to think of even my own existence before you. Make me crazily fall for you, please?" "Is that what you want me to do?" "30 days. 30 sessions. If you can't succeed in this span, you'll help me die. You'll be the key to my death" I suck a sharp breath at the condition put forward. "Deal." "The last fold in the story, Doctor?" I pray to all the stars above for him to not make it anymore difficult for me than it already is. "You will make me love you. But..you can't fall for me." My heart aches.

The guy whose name Nandini didn't knew never wanted anything but friendship from Nandini, his favourite bartender. Trying to get over a breakup was hard but Nandini made everything easy. Silly flirting and fights was the course of their relationship. Until a kiss came into the picture and with the events that followed it became difficult to be just friends, when one wanted something more and the other didn't.

"The heart wants what it wants" Just a journey of a stubborn Malhotra and calm Murty amidst all the daily life problems. A Marriage. A blessing for one, nightmare for another. ___ "The heart wants?" He asked. "The heart wants." She confirmed. (Can be read as a general fiction.)