lol - no please don't say that ... i'm a twisted kind of complex writer sometimes... especially, when i take the luxury of bringing long gaps between my updates and lose train of my own original plots...
so basically, abhi had met nikki at this ball, and she didnt know who he was, and he got info on her, just to sort of pull this 'im ur senior act' on her, cause she'd been too snappish at him without knowing... when he interacts with her, he kind of realizes how much he's been missing on having fun in life... u know? one of those time u just have a really nice time after a long long time and stay up in the n ight thinking why ur fun days are not around any longer? so he has one of those nights, and then zeros it down to her, and thinks, hes in need of someone like her in his life... not as a lover (he thinks so at that point) but just this someone he can gel with outside of work, who's company really makes time feel worthwhile... and the idea of it is so stuck into his head that he lands at her temp stay place while shes on his campus (info for which he's got access to as an organizing committee member) earlu on chirstmas morn.... and obviously thats more than a shock to her - hes but a one time acquaintance and one that she hit off with on the wrong note... so when he asks her to be friends, in the impulse of 'i have to get a yes out of her' he just makes up an identity for himself - which again on just a fleeting impulse thought becomes armaan... its just a name that crosses his mind at that point and he utters it... and then obviously, the details of who he is, bfall ina ccord with who armaan is... its like slip of a lie, and then many more to keep it afloat... its also a well working lie, cause armaan is a person for real with all the stats that he gives for himself, cif she was ever to randomly check... without tallying faces that is!
thing is - its this notion in his head at that precise point that if he says hes this senior guy and all, she'd treat him as that, in that position and not a friend, never getting easy or letting him into her personal life as such. so he plays being a student like her... and when armaan malik just slips out in the spur of the moment, hes anyways not in a position to say no, i mean, im abhi or something - because correcting himself in any way could be like confusing her even more when hes already sort of shocked her with the entire lets be friend act...
thats lengthy way of saying that its just a random lie, to become friends with her - not like no one ever does that, right?
complication is, when he keeps living the lie, never correcting her, everytime he tries to, he cant get himself to do it, and of course by the time he does - its much bigger than just a trivial little lie on the door step of a girl he's approaching first time... u see that?
from Nikki's POV - so when he first tells her he's another perso altogether, all she gets out of him is the details of his real identity, before locking herself up in her own room... by the time he begins to narrate the set of entire facts to her, her asthma has taken over and she has passed out, so she doesn't really get to hear the details, which may have angered her for then, but could have been easily sorted and resolved in not half as much ime as of their eventual separation... when she does wake up, its with a new resolve, of shutting herself from this guy who she believes has played her for a fool... when abhi realizes at going to her hospital how much she has shut herself up, he believes there is no going back to what they were (plus he thinks she has made this decision for them after knowing all the facts he told her, which is not true) so he lets her be, and goes out of her life. eventually in time, she comes to realize that he wasnt fooling her, but that brings her to a worse predicament, because she cant figure why he'd keep his identity secret all that time, and yet she finds it this unforgivable betrayal on his part... she gets this feeling of having been a part of a clandestine affair, as if it had been something wrong to do, and to have her true love feel so shady gives her no good reason to forgive him either... so although she never gets over him or moves on, she is also not able to bring herself to give him another chance (Which could actually bring her forth to the knowledge of all facts that she doesn't know)
now when she runs into the real Armaan malik, its not that she can suddenly see sense or need to forgive abhimanyu - its just that kind of kick she had needed all along in her time of separation to approach him for facts... to question him and ask him why he ever lied to her, and hid his identity (cause that questions always been with her, but her sense of being betrayed, and not knowing al of the truth has kept her from making that one first move a second time.) basically, she can't risk herself even trying to trust him again, and seeing that real armaan gives her the impulsive motive to make that call shes been on the verge of many times,.. and it then that she learns of the real truth - the simple yet complicated facts... at this point one can see that she has gone through a year of separation and realized how stagnant her life has become... she has realized his worth manifold from before, as has he himself... its that point of their lives where more than ever the two of them know the other has always been the one for them but unfortunate circumstances have rendered them apart... at this point learning the truth cant even make her angry... cause she is so relieved to understand how beneath such a huge issue lay such a trivial reasoning and line of facts... that she cant believe how ridiculous its been to be apart all that time... she realizes what she has lost, and what she never wants to never again... she realizes that even though he made a mistake, he was neither fooling, nor betraying, but simply fell ins tep with a series of circumstances that led them to an unforeseeable disaster... she cant grudge him his mistake enough to not get back with him ...
and soooo! the story comes about! *phew*!
i hope that explains khushi! like i said in my end note, its nothing big and complex... no bad guys and girls... but simple things in life have a tendency to complicate beyond measure, and imagination and get blown ridiculously out of proportion such that we stand at the thresholds of circumstances we never foresaw! and just that! =)
glad u asked me straight up - cause its given me this inevitable chance to put it out in plain words! for you, and for anyone else who may have been more than just a little confused!
cheers,
nj
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