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Chapter 16:
Nandini's POV:
I was completely ignoring Manik which was pissing him off like nothing else, and somewhere down the line I was just loving seeing him flustered. Even though it was hard for me to ignore him, he had hurt me immensely yesterday and I just couldn't pretend that didn't happen and be normal with him. Till yesterday he was so obsessed with Anjali, and now that I am wearing a short skirt and have a face painted with makeup suddenly I'm 'beautiful'? Who does he think he is, he can't just insult and compliment me whenever he wants. I continued to ignore everything he was saying and sat in the garden finalising the venue for the talent show when he suddenly snatched my laptop from me and closed it. Now he was getting on my nerves, I was already really mad at him for yesterday and now he wouldn't even let me work in peace. I was starting to lose my patience with him, so I gave him a last warning 'Manik just give me my laptop back and leave', but how did I ever expect him to listen to me, even after getting insulted by me so much he had the nerve to say 'what if I don't?' and smirked at me. His smirk, which usually I found extremely sexy, today pissed me off to the limit where I lost all my patience, he hurt my self esteem yesterday by saying I wasn't good enough for him and now he had the audacity to smirk at me. I fisted my hands and before he could register anything I threw a punch at him with all the force I had. I didn't punch him because he was annoying me today, it was for what he had said yesterday, I had to take all my frustrations out at him one way or the other. Man it always feels so good to punch him, usually seeing him in pain kills me but today giving him pain with that punch seemed so satisfying. I smiled with satisfaction, I was pretty happy with that punch, I was impressed with myself. He stood there in utter shock, very quiet for a good minute or two trying to figure out what just happened, but when he felt a stream of blood escaping his lips, he roared my name with the typical monster Manik look. Well unluckily for him and luckily for me that monster doesn't scare Nandini Murthy anymore. He started to walk towards me stomping his feet and huffing like an angry bull ready to run me over. Okay now I was starting to get a bit scared, Manik can be very unpredictable. Before he could reach me I just ran for my life, he also ran after me whilst roaring like a lion. Unfortunately he was much faster than me, he didn't even need to try hard to catch up with me, when he did he caught hold of my wrist and pulled me towards himself with such force I banged against his muscular chest. He left my wrist and got hold of my waist so I couldn't escape in anyway, I was caged between his arms.
No matter how angry I was at him, I always lost my senses when he was this close to me, and that's exactly what was happening. I was just so lost in his eyes I forgot everything, his arms were like home to me, I stopped protesting to get out of his grip. I saw his hands coming to cup my cheeks and I just closed my eyes to feel his warm touch on my face. In no time his hands were on my cheeks, but the touch definitely wasn't warm, it was cold, and wet? What the hell. I opened my eyes as I felt something on my face only to realise this stupid idiot in front of me had smeared mud all over my face. He let go off my waist and smirkingly said 'and that's what you get for punching Manik Malhotra'. All hell broke lose for me, I was fuming.. How dare he! Just as he was about to walk off I took some mud in my hand and threw it right in his face. He was again startled seeing someone actually putting up a fight against him. It had definitely hurt his ego. 'You're going to regret doing this' he said with a smirk coming towards me, he got more mud in his hand and threw it on my perfect outfit. I groaned with annoyance, it took me so long to get ready this morning and he ruined everything before anyone even got a chance to look at how good I was looking.
Manik's POV:
Her punch had hurt my ego. There was no way I was allowing her to get away with that punch. She knew what was coming her way so she ran like there way no tomorrow. But did she actually think she was going to get far with those tiny legs, I was much faster than her. In no time I caught hold of her and pulled her close to me. Even in this situation I just had to have her close to me, having her close felt so right, so I pulled her closer to me by her wait, I wish I could keep her in my arms forever.. Wait MANIK SNAP OUT OF IT, she's distracting me, I need to get my revenge. Being so close to me she closed her eyes, maybe with fear.. I smirked knowing she was scared of me, I saw a flower pot very close to me and took a hand full of mud and very carefully smeared it all over her beautiful face. It took her a few moments to realise what I had done. God it was so much fun to see her irritated. 'And that's what you get for punching Manik Malhotra' I said to her bragging about myself and let go off her after being satisfied with my revenge.
But I definitely underestimated her, she fought back, she threw mud at my face, I just smirked knowing this was gonna be fun... And that's how we began a mud fight, we were having a snow fight with mud, it was a mud war. She's absolutely tiny but she puts up quiet the fight, we were throwing mud at each from a distance but slowly that distance started to decrease. I was busy defending myself from her mud attacks when suddenly she let out a scream, she was about to slip and fall, and I quickly got hold of her waist to stop her from falling. Again she was in my arms, I pulled her up and made her stand straight, very close to me. We were again close to each other and taking this as the perfect opportunity I grabbed her closer by her waist and smeared mud all over her face. She huffed in annoyance and tried her best to free herself from my hold so she could attack me back but this time I wasn't letting go off her this easily. I was almost under a spell, mud fight was forgotten business, now the only thing on my mind was her, her eyes and her lips. Even though I possibly couldn't have her any nearer to me since there was physically no distance between us I still pulled closer to me with a jerk. My hands involuntarily traced her arm from her hands to her shoulder and then cupped her very chubby cheeks. 'Manik' she whispered and her breathe hit my face, igniting so many feelings inside me. My hands were fixed on her cheeks, and my face was moving closer and closer towards hers. In this moment I had no self control, I wasn't in my senses, I didn't know what I was doing. All I could see was my target, which was her lips. Just as I was about to place my lips on hers she pushed me away and ran from there leaving me very confused.
Nandini's POV:
During the mud fight we had come so close to each other without even realising. Before I knew it I was again in his arms, he was pulling me closer and closer, he suddenly started tracing my entire arm making me shiver at his touch. I was too lost in the moment to realise what I was doing. I didn't protest, I let him do whatever he was doing. He moved his hand to my face and cupped my cheeks very lovingly, he was staring deep into my eyes throughout, and I was staring into his. He was coming closer to me, we were about to kiss when I realised everything he said last night. Reality hit me and I remembered just how mad I was at him. I just pushed him away and ran from there regretting every single thing that just happened between us.
I ran like a maniac to control my feelings, I wanted to be as far away from right now as I possibly could. He was really giving me a hard time. I just ran to my room, banged the door shut and closed my eyes to feel his touch on my body once again. I kept replaying the moments we spent together in my mind, but the one thing that was replayed the most in my mind was what he said to Cabir last night. I could never forgive Manik for that, ever! He broke my heart into a million pieces by saying that. I just paced from one end of my room to the other being so confused by everything going on around me, just then Anjali entered the room 'Nandini we need to speak, I have to tell yo...' her sentence was left incomplete as she saw my state, she looked at me from head to toe and squealed 'what the heck happened to you?' she asked about my very muddy state. 'Don't ask! I need to take a shower, we'll talk after that..' saying this I rushed into the washroom to get myself cleaned up, without giving Anjali a chance to speak.
After coming out of the shower I saw Cabir and Anjali pacing to the two corners of my room. I was kinda embarrassed to even face Cabir after yesterday, but I knew I had to. 'Guys, everything okay?' I asked them to get their attention. 'Nandini we need to talk' said Cabir. Anjali and Cabir made me sit on my bed and explained everything that happened yesterday, what Manik said and what he meant. I tried recalling his exact words, Manik said 'Look at Anjali, she's beautiful and then Nandini is just..' he left his sentence incomplete. That means Cabir and Anjali were right, I misunderstood Manik.. How could I judge him without even knowing his side of the story. Guilt overtook me as I behaved so horrible with him today, he made so many efforts to talk to me and I was so mean. SHIT NANDINI! Whilst I was cursing myself in my mind Anjali continued, 'Manik loves you Nandini, whether he knows it or not. For Manik it is and it always will me Nandini. But I am still mad at Manik because I'm being dragged into all of this for no reason and by the way what exactly did Manik mean, that I'm just a pretty face and not a beautiful person like Nandini?..' Anjali said making a grumpy face and it was her turn to set forth her complaints, Manik surely needed to be taught how to say things without sounding offensive. 'No Anj that's not what he meant.. He was just confused! You know how he is right? He was analysing things in his brain, maybe he forgot he was saying everything out loud' Cabir spoke in his best friend's defence. There conversation was hardly audible to me since I was too lost in Manik's thoughts, what would he be thinking right now? Shit shit shit!!! 'Nandini' Cabir said my name to get my attention, 'it's high time you fight for Manik! I don't know why you're doing what you're doing but if you haven't realised all this is extremely unfair on Manik. I haven't said anything to you ever, but now I need to speak for him. You don't want him to be close to you but you don't want him to be close to anyone else. What the hell do you want? He loves you and you love him.. I don't understand what the god damn problem is!' Cabir spoke, or rather yelled at me. He was very protective of Manik, and was probably getting frustrated with my behaviour. 'Cabir I can't' I said as I walked out of the room to avoid further discussion on this topic.
Manik's POV:
I was furious at myself for losing my self control out there. She dared to punch Manik Malhotra and I was trying to kiss her, what the hell is wrong with me! In order to avoid the feelings that I had inside me by having her so close to me I focused on the anger I had in me for her for being so rude to me, for ignoring me and for punching me. I have been nothing but nice to her, HOW DARE SHE PUNCH MANIK MALHOTRA! The anger was over taking me, I had not felt this much anger inside of me since a very long time. She had the power to control me entirely, she could control my behaviour and emotions and I didn't like that, I didn't like that fact someone had so much power over me. I placed my hands on the wall of the shower room and let the hot water calm me down. I closed my eyes to control the storm raging inside me when suddenly I started seeing things. 'Yeh jo pen tumne toda hai na, it's not just a pen' I saw Nandini crying and screaming at me, what the hell was going on. Everything was blurry, she seemed really mad at me, she was constantly crying, was she crying because of me? I tried to focus more, to hear what we were saying 'anyway iske ilawa kuch samjhana hai to, I'm all ears' I said to her with a lot of arrogance in my tone. The next thing I saw shocked me, she punched me. In front of the whole college.. Was I actually remembering something from my past?! That day in the storeroom Nandini told me she punched me before for breaking her appa's pen. Is that what I'm seeing, the first time she punched me??! My head started pounding, I felt dizzy and my brain felt heavy. Just as I saw her punch me I opened my eyes with a jerk. For the first time in two years I was able to see something from my past.. I don't know whether I should happy or furious, happy because I remembered something and furious because she punched me. Just as I was trying to figure everything out I heard someone open the door of my room. I needed to be alone right now, I didn't want to see anyone.
Nandini's POV:
I left the room and to ran to search for Manik, after not being able to find him anywhere I rushed to his room. He was still in the shower, 'who's there?' he asked as he heard his room door open, do I tell him it's me or should I leave? I debated whether to talk to him now or later when he again yelled 'WHO IS IT?' he seemed angry, and he should be. I behaved so ridiculously this morning. 'Erm Manik, it's me.. Nandini.. Look I know I was very rude this morning, I'm sorry. I don't know what happened to me and I took it out on you.. I'm sorr...' my sentence was left incomplete when I felt a pull on my arm.. Before I could register anything I found myself in the shower along with Manik who was there standing only in his shorts. He had pulled me in with so much force I again banged into his bare chest, I was completely drenched and extremely close to him. He looked at me with so much anger in his eyes. His grip on me was becoming tighter and tighter, and it was staring to hurt me. His behaviour seemed very aggressive, what was going on with him? 'Manik' I said his name almost as a whisper, he was really hurting my arm.. Just as I said his name he let go off my wrist and gripped my waist and pulled me even closer to himself.
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