|Manik Malhotra| |Nandini Murthy| And their broken pieces. Broken, But Beautiful. (Disclaimer: Anyone who's in support of the Israeli genocide, please stay away.)

Previously known as 'THERE FOR EACH OTHER' "And when my eyes fell on you, I realised that all I ever needed in life, To flourish and to bloom, Was you". Nandini Murthy isn't someone too keen about love because well, responsibilities, or maybe she uses that as a shield to stay away from love. She had never gotten her heart broken before, but the fear of love, is still firm in her heart. Manik Malhotra is too keen to love. Fairy tales and romantic comedies are his to go to escape. He wants to feel every damn emotion love brings with it. But does the Dawn and Dusk ever coexist?

****Can be read as a general fiction. If you want an arrange marriage tale with humor, emotions and love, hop in right away**** Love is supposed to be a beautiful feeling, and that's doesn't stick true only to romantic love. Every kind of love, friendship and family, romance or pets, every love is supposed to lift you up, and not bring you down. Manik Malhotra had loved Nandini for quite a few years, from afar, but when given a choice to marry her, he refused. Nandini Murthy had known her Appa's favourite student up close and personal for quite long but the order to marry him, didn't suit well with her. But then, sometimes life doesn't give you open choices. In their cases, Neelesh Murthy didn't give them choices, and in a span of few days, they were married. Join Manik and Nandini in an arrange marriage where the husband is vary of what love actually is when he claims to have loved his wife for years and the wife with fairy tale notions understands the reality of love in life!

#PRIVATE STORY# Ten years is a lot of time, especially if you are not in contact with someone, isn't it? Manik Malhotra and Nandini Murthy were childhood friends. Best friends. Until, she left the city after her tenth grade. And now she is returning after ten long years, to the same city, with a hope to meet him, and recreate their childhood memories. But the person she meets isn't the one she left. Also he has another best friend, someone she thinks had replaced her importance in Manik's life, and all he remembers now is her, Shiwali. What now? What will Manik and Nandini do, when they meet again, especially when both of them are not what they used to be? Will their friendship rekindle or will it be lost forever? Welcome to a short saga of our very own MaNan.

Synopsis: What happens when a lawyer with very little discretion meets a player boy? Amidst the flush of ego, attraction, seduction and a hell lot of complication, can love of all things prevail? * *Please read with an open mind and absolutely at your discretion! *This is an alternate universe rendition of MaNan's love story . Note: Manik and Nandini are strong, ambitious, independent people; their characters here is much darker than the one in the show; by darker I don't mean negative; they are bolder, more open and progressive in their choices in life. Hop on, if you like what you read! ;)

#6 in Lifestory out of ~10K stories (June, 2021) When THE Nandini Murthy met Manik F*CKBOI Malhotra, during her undergrad days in New York, it was the Holiday season! Christmas trees, New Year celebration, chick-flicks on Netflix, everything promoted LOVE, and it was under the Manhattan starry nights and mistletoes they fell in LOVE! But. BUT Life isn't a feel good Holiday movie, right? What went wrong, why did the most perfect Christmas love story ever, need a HUSTLE? Would MaNan finally make a perfect New Year picture post card, or would they forever remain in each other's life as the name they would use as secret passwords! Join me to know more! ;)

What is it like to change your school suddenly? New school, new strangers and no friends? And then suddenly you come across a boy with whom you make best friends instantly and later realize you are falling for him? But oh wait! Remember your mom telling you to behave and not do such things!? *gasps* Hi, I am Nandini Murthy and this is my story. The tale after the best mistake I did. My life after Manik Malhotra became my first crush and changed everything. Title: @starfliesx ❤ Cover: @weirdosaurs ❤ 🥇Winner of Pine Awards, 2020- Teen Fiction category *Previously known as Manik Malhotra- My First Crush*

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

Join in to witness Manik and Nandini strive through the challenges thrown by life. It's all about them growing individually and growing as a couple. How would they balance their careers, their dreams, their relationship, their family and their friends?

A refugee. That's how she describes herself. Amidst a growing career graph, loving sister and doing parents, a few good friends and everything else one would die for, she is not happy. She seeks refugee in the hills of kasauli. A break that is going to change her life! An escape. That's what he is looking for. Apart from a charming smile, everything in his life is messed up. His demons scream out loud to him and he is trying to escape his own life, in the mighty hills of kasauli. ~What I was seeking was a something which could fill that huge painful void in me. Later, I realized it was you~