ManVeer SS: Fallen Angel - Chapter 21 - pg. 145 - Page 109

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Originally posted by: xxDaydreameRxx

please when lovers romance freinds(u know who) should not interfere

🤣 AHhaa yes I know what you mean. 😆

Okay no disturbance, promise. 😉

Yup, FINALLY! And it's totally and 100% ManVeer.

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Chapter 21

It had been a week since the club incident. A week since Manyata had last seen Uday.

Why the hell was he doing this!! Manyata thought angrily for the millionth time in the past few days.

At first she was happy with his absence. Although the events were very blurred in her head, she remembered enough of what had happened that night to feel too embarrassed to lock eyes with him again. But that just made the situation even more unusual. How was it that Uday was letting go off such a good opportunity to tease and irritate her?

By the third day, she felt ignored and eventually pissed off! She stormed around the palace muttering a string of swear words under her breath wherever she went. Vijay even made a note to himself to avoid crossing paths with her as she seemed to him like a volcano ready to erupt any second.

On the fourth day, after a long day of arguing with herself, Manyata finally swallowed her ego and called on Uday's cell phone. The first time, he didn't pick up and Manyata was tempted to smash her phone against the wall.

After five minutes of pacing around her room Manyata dialed Uday's number again.

"Hello'" Uday's voice answered the phone. Manyata's eyes grew wide. He picked up! Now what!? She realized she hadn't even though of an excuse to call him. Before she realized it, she had panicked and cut the phone.

Manyata slapped her forehead. What the hell was she doing?

A couple seconds later, her cell phone started ringing, and looking at the caller ID, she knew who it was. Manyata gulped.

And finally pressed the talk button.

"Hello..." Manyata answered in a fakely firm voice.

"Hi Princess," she heard the smooth silky voice of Uday.

"Stop smirking!" Manyata shouted angrily.

"Not bad Princess...And sorry, can't help it when I hear your voice," Uday said flirtingly.

"If you're done wasting my time can I hang up now?" Manyata said with attitude.

"Whoa! You're the one who called Princess. By the way is this a new Princess thing? Call someone and then hang up on them?"

"I called by mistake okay. Wrong number!"

"Yeah and that too twice," Uday mocked.

"What is your problem!" Manyata skrieked.

"That you don't tell me yours," Uday said calmly.

Manyata paused for a couple seconds.

"I just called because I just wanted to know...what are you up to? You haven't been coming since so long, what plan are you making now!?" Manyata asked rudely.

She was answered with half a minute of silence, and started to wonder if she was taking this too far, until Uday finally answered.

"There is no plan Princess. When will you understand."

It wasn't a question, it was a statement.

"What do you mean?" Manyata asked, her voice lighter than before.

"Princess I'm just doing what you wanted me to do. It's you who made me realize that if I really care for you, than I need to learn to set you free and that's just what I'm doing. You're free Princess. Free to do whatever you want."

Manyata stood motionless as the words sank in.

"And what if...what if you were never supposed to set me free in the first place...what if this is a mistake..."

"What do you mean."

"Nothing. Bye Uday," Manyata hung up the phone without waiting for a reply. She started to feel a sinking feeling in her stomach as his words settled in her mind.

Isn't this what she had wanted all along? To defeat Uday and his ego? To show him that he could never win her no matter how hard he tried'?

She had done it. She had defeated the great Udayveer Singh. Then why wasn't she happy...

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It was now four days since the day Manyata had the phone conversation with Uday.

Vijay stared at Manyata as she continued to play around with her food, not actually eating anything. Looking at her, he couldn't help notice the stark contrast between the Manyata sitting at the table in front of him and the Manyata who had stepped in their palace just months ago. Looking at his baby sister, he couldn't help feel like she had finally lost herself to royalty. There was this distant look in her eyes, like she wasn't present with them despite sitting with them. Her actions'they seemed so methodic all of a sudden, they lacked the usual enthusiasm, the over-the-top crazy childishness. He recognized the reason why and sighed.

After a typical breakfast Manyata rose up from her chair proceeding to lock herself in her room again. She knew she was rather depressing to be around these days and preferred not to dampen the mood of others around her.

"M-bhai wait!" Vijay called out to her.

"Vijay bhai, what happened?" Manyata asked curiously.

"I need to talk to you. Right now!" Vijay commanded.

Manyata sighed and followed him into the quiet study room.

"Manyata what are you doing!" Vijay exploded as soon as they were alone.

"What do you mean?" Manyata asked confused.

"Why are you doing this to yourself? For heaven's sake, why don't you just admit to yourself that you're missing Udayveer. You guys can barely survive without eating each other's head everyday, then why are you distancing yourself from him!"

"Me!? I'm the one distancing myself!?" Manyata finally snapped.

"Yes you Manyata! Look at yourself Manyata! It's barely been a week since you've been away from Uday and you are lifeless. Why don't you understand Manyata, he isn't just an enemy, a friend or a well-wisher for you...Udaveer is a part of you! Without him you only have a body and a title, the title of a Rajkumari. With him, you have a soul!"

Every word out of Vijay's mouth seemed to crush down at Manyata like it weighed a thousand tons.

"But he...he doesn't care about me..."

Vijay slapped his hand on his forehead.

"Manyata Uday hasn't talked to you since a week. Isn't that enough proof of how much he loves you!? Of how much he respects your feelings? Manyata, Uday is a changed man. Maybe if you knew him like I did, before you came in his life, you would realize the full extent to how much he has changed. And it's only for you, just you!"

Manyata gulped.

"I'm stupid right?" She asked.

"Very."

"Is it too late now!?" She asked scared.

"Never."

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Manyata rushed into Udayveer Mansion, out of breath, her eyes searching every corner frantically.

"Uday?" She called out to what seemed like vacant air.

Unnati heard a frantic knock on her bedroom door and quickly opened it so see the distressed form of Manyata.

"Manyata, what's wrong?" Unnati asked worriedly.

"Unnati, Uday kahan hai?" Manyata asked. Unnati looked taken aback for a second and finally answered.

"Manyata woh, Dada toh aaj Jaigarh jaanewale the doh hafton ke liye," Unnati said.

"Jaanewale the? Does that mean he's still here?" Manyata asked panicked.

"Maybe, actually he just left out the door a short while ago. You probably missed his car, he might still be there though," Unnati answered.

"Thanks Unnati!" Manyata was about to go before Unnati held her arm.

"Wait let me just try his cell, maybe he'll pick up and stop," Unnati said.

"Yea, but please jaldi karo Unnati!" Manyata said urgently.

Unnati dialed Uday's number.

"Manyata, number switched off a raha hai!" Unnati said but before she had even finished her sentence, Manyata had bolted out the door. She needed to see Uday before he left for Jaigarh. Who knew when she would be able to see him if he left today?

As she ran out into the main hall of the mansion, Manyata realized the futileness of running with heels and yanked them off, as to run faster. Unfortunately, as luck would have it, she bumped into a vase on the way. A vase that broke into a thousand sharp pieces, one of which pierced right through her foot as she ran over it.

"Owww!" Manyata shrieked as pain shot up in her foot, but only paused for a mere five seconds before running out the door, the pain in her foot becoming secondary to the pain in her heart.

Why the hell was the stupid mansion so huge!? Manyata thought as she ran towards the front gate. Luckily she had spotted a familiar black jeep just in time.

Uday who had been leaning against the door of his jeep, talking on his cell phone, was all of a sudden disturbed as he heard a familiar voice call out his name. He turned around but before he got the chance to realize what was going on, he nearly felt knocked down by the force with which Manyata had jumped on him.

Uday could barely believe his senses as he felt Manyata's tight grip around his neck, her body was out of air and panting against him. But even if this was a dream, he wanted to experience every moment of it, and so he closed his eyes and tightened his arm around her waist, allowing himself to feel the very essence of his love.

When Manyata felt like if she held on any longer, her bones would crush, she finally let go and looked up at Uday angrily, who still didn't know whether to believe his eyes or not.

"Halkat vede khasmanu khane!" Manyata said pushing Uday back.

"How dare you! Tum mujhe chod ke ja rahe the!?" She shouted at him. Her words seemed to have broken Uday out of his trance.

"What are you up to? You haven't been coming since so long, what plan are you making now!?"

The words rang in his mind again and he was quick to remind himself of the promise he had made to himself.

"Manyata what are you doing here?" Uday asked coldly. The coldness did not go unrecognized by Manyata who stared at him dumbfounded by the sudden change in his demeanor, the seemingly irritated expression on his face.

But this time, she refused to be fooled by it. Not this time Udayveer.

"What do you mean, what am I doing here? I'm here because I want to be. In fact I'm going to go with you wherever you go whether you like it or not!" Manyata said with an attitude only a Princess could manage and proceeded to open the door and sit on the front seat of his jeep.

Uday stood rooted at his spot and closed his eyes momentarily. Why do you always make it so hard, Princess. He thought frustratedly.

He turned around to face her with the most menacing expression he could manage. Being a Yuvraaj had made him an amazing actor.

"Get out Manyata," he commanded, shattering Manyata's earlier confidence.

Maybe Vijay bhai was wrong. Maybe it was too late. Manyata thought, heartbroken.

Without another word, Uday opened the door of his jeep. Yet before he could motion Manyata to get out, his eyes fell on something that was shiny red in colour on the pavement. Was it blood!? His eyes traced the tracks of blood from as far as the white front steps of his mansion up until...her foot that was smeared with red. Uday gasped at seeing the blood on her foot and immediately bent down on his knees to see the deep gash on the bottom of her foot.

"Manyata!" Uday said her name angrily. He couldn't believe what she had just done.

He looked up to meet her eyes and his frustration seemed to vanish as tears started to form in her eyes.

"Bohat dard ho raha hai Uday," Manyata said and now the tears had started to fall down and spill from her eyes down her pristine face.

Uday felt a sinking feeling in his stomach, as he felt as if she wasn't referring to the pain in her foot.

He stood up and walked towards the driving side of his jeep. He sat down and proceeded to start the jeep.

"Mujhe apne ghar jaana hai," Manyata said decisively and turned to open the door and leave but Uday had quickly held her arm and pulled her back.

"You're not going anywhere." Uday said firmly and before Manyata could protest he had started driving the jeep.

Neither of them said a word until the jeep came to an abrupt halt.

"Where-" Manyata started to say but after studying the building in front of which Uday had halted understood that he had brought her to the City Hospital.

"I'm not going," Manyata whined like a child, but Uday seemed to have zoned out her words. He opened her door and without even sparing her a look, scooped her up in his arms.

Manyata was taken aback but did not say a word. She watched him as he took her inside and arranged for a doctor to oversee the wound on her foot, all the while acting as if she didn't exist and he was merely holding a lifeless object in his arms.

It was a very busy day for the hospital, so the doctor informed them that they would be sharing a ward room with another patient to which Uday made no objections. Manyata felt herself being placed down lightly on a hospital bed and proceeded to stare motionlessly into space as the doctor started to clean the wound on her foot.

All the while, Uday stood beside the hospital stretcher and watched in pain as the doctor cleaned the blood on her foot. He noticed that she didn't so much as flinch, when the bandages were being wrapped tightly around her foot.

Manyata heard a wailing noise and turned her head to the side. What she saw seemed to have broken her heart way more than what she had felt moments ago. She watched and tears started to formulate in her eyes as her eyes fell on a mother who was crying over the dead body of her son. Studying the features of his heavily bandaged yet motionless body, Manyata could make out his age to be nothing more than sixteen or seventeen years.

The mother shrieked and wailed and cursed. Her relatives, no less traumatized, were trying to pacify her, but to no avail. The woman had lost her baby. The core of her existence.

Uday looked worriedly at Manyata who looked like she was on the verge of breaking down and wished he had refused the notion of sharing the room with someone else. He immediately sat down beside her and held her hand comfortingly. Manyata turned to face him and her eyes pierced right through him.

He was surprised as Manyata let out a laugh.

"Funny isn't it, that even though none of us have a guarantee, no assurance that we will even live to see another day, another second, how shocked we get at the very notion of death. Why is it more surprising that someone died at the age of seventeen then it is then someone dying at the age of seventy? It shouldn't be, because at the end of the day, we are all going to die."

Their eyes transfixed into one another, Manyata continued.

"I'm only Rajkumari Manyata and you're only Yuvraaj Udayveer as long as we live. Because after we die, it doesn't matter whether we're a Princess or a pauper, we're all just lifeless bodies...Phir kyun, kyun jab humme pata hai ke ek din hum sab ko miti mein hi mil jana hai, kyun hum zindagi ki kadar nahi karte. Kyun hum sapne dekhte hai lekin unhe pura karne ki himmat nahi karte?" Manyata asked and Uday was momentarily lost in her words realized what she was trying to tell him.

Why? Why had he and Manyata wasted so much time...so much time in letting their egos getting the better of them? So much time only wishing for each other's love but never achieving it? Manyata and Udayveer were only Manyata and Udayveer as long as they lived, than why waste a lifetime running after meaningless things when they knew that in the end, they gave meaning to the life of one another?

"I have to talk to the doctor about your medicines," Uday replied simply.

Manyata stared at his retreating back as he walked out the door without another word. And that was it? That was all he had to say about everything? She felt a weird mix of rage and hurt mixing with the pain in her foot which was now starting to thaw out her numb senses which had previously been too overwhelmed with emotions to feel the sting of the physical pain.

She really couldn't bear this any longer.

Without waiting for Udayveer to return Manyata stood up on her very two feet. She was momentarily blinded by the sharp pain that shot up her leg but made herself walk her way out of the room nonetheless. She was relieved to see no sign of Uday in the hallway and though she was highly uncomfortable with her paining foot, easily made her way out the hospital and its doors.

Stepping outside Manyata limped slightly as her bare feet came in contact with the rough pavement. She didn't know where she was going but only knew that she needed to get away from the hospital that seemed to have sucked the life out of her. Summer heat and the scorching sun pounded down on her, making sweat roll down her back, but she continued to walk on the sides of an extremely busy and chaotic road.

Then all of a sudden, as if the heavens had took pity on her condition, the sun hid under the clouds and Manyata started to feel the first few drops of a downpour of rain that was to follow.

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After having cleared all the doubts in his mind, Uday came back in the room with a fresh mind. He was tired of the games that they had been playing with each other and wanted to end the distance between them once and for all. Yes, he wanted to confess his undying love for his Princess. He wanted to tell her how much she meant to him, that life without her was unimaginable...

But Uday was in for a shock as he found Manyata missing from the stretcher, and not just from the stretcher but the whole hospital itself.

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Yes can you believe it, even after stretching this update for three thousand words, I still didn't get to the point? Manyata and UV have still not made up. 😕 Actually I didn't even realize the length of this thing as I wrote it so I feel like I kind of owe you all an apology for not delivering the promised romantic ManVeer scenes in this update. However I really hope you still enjoyed reading this update, and I can tell you guys right now - next update- ManVeer will finally unite. 😃 Meanwhile, please do leave me your awesome amazing comments as they will only encourage me to get to work faster!

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