Before I Fall Again... On hiatus indefinitely. - Page 44

Originally posted by: -publicenemy-

Thanks man! It's a bit of a dizzying experience to write 3 FFs in one go... I don't know what I was thinking - while Lavender was started on a whim and with no real plot in mind than as an OS, both BIFA and KH came on so strong that it had to be written and I couldn't wait until I finished my other FFs to start them. So, now I am trying to figure out how to juggle all the stories along with WORK (i know, miracle of miracles, I still work for a living!) and my family/social life. The only problem is that I can't make myself write on command; BIFA takes a long time to write for whatever reason (It took me 3 hours to write 3 paragraphs before I finally put it away this morning and decided to do some actual work instead), but KH comes out my fingers like an avalanche while Lavender is currently at a slight impasse... And poor GO - b/c it's almost wrapped (5 chapters more max), it's being thoroughly neglected... So, to all you folks who ask for updates for specific stories, it's not that I don't want to, I just wish I could clone myself a few times and assign them each of these stories so that it gets some undivided attention like REEL used to get.. hehe...

-D

Originally posted by: Kishmish

I have a feeling that Manu was equally in love with Niki but realised that she was too young ... he wanted to give her time to grow up ... be more focused towards her education and know her mind well ... he seems like a very grounded character ...

" He would look at me and shake his head, but still wouldn't stop pushing me to study harder. Initially, I had told him that it was distracting to study when he was sitting with me. And he had told me that there was a difference between infatuation and love. Infatuation was when you lost yourself in each other. Love was when you found yourself in each other. I had tried to absorb that thought. I often did feel lost in him. While I had pondered that, he had said that I made him want to strive harder and that he wanted to do the same for me. We had studied together until I no longer felt distracted, until I could sit with him for hours and focus on my studies, drawing comfort from the fact that he was not someone who couldn't handle not having my constant attention. I hadn't known you could be still in love. That you didn't need words or actions to keep it alive as I had always thought... It had just seemed to flourish on its own, something beyond anything I could actively do to keep it going."

And maybe he knew all along that the girl his family was showing him was Niki only ... but hadn't realised that by just going off and not keeping in touch with her had a worse impact on her ... she was not just going to accept him so easily ... as she felt that he had rejected her ...

Nirmala , Abhimanyu , and the song ... Kaise Kahein Alvida haunting me and it's only Friday as yet ... want to visit the backwaters of Kerala sooon ... Devi ... where are you ??? 😉

Originally posted by: hegdemedha

Sure, he is laying the foundation, albeit a completely new foundation, on a fortuitously granted new lease on old ground. From Nikki's point of view, he did vacate the ground that they shared four years ago. Had he insisted on a discussion to clear out the misunderstandings four years ago, he may or may not have been able to prevent the tenuous foundation they had just started to lay from being washed away. However, for reasons best known to him, neither did he try to save it nor did he come back to visit.

Assuming that he would have been faithful to the vows he would make to his wife, he, in fact, did decide to set down the foundation on another ground.

So, would not this foundation be a new one? The core of the old foundation -- whatever closeness they may have shared -- had been washed away. To borrow from biblical passages, it was almost as though that foundation had been built on sand. All that remains of the old foundation is a heightened physical awareness of the other, something which they did not consciously address earlier.

PS: This is, of course, based on events from Nikki's point of view. This allows me to ignore the earlier analysis with impunity.😆

Lata, Medha and Kishmish check out MIL & Niki's convo...

Originally posted by: FaithnFate

Lata, Medha and Kishmish check out MIL & Niki's convo...

MIL did spring some facts of her son and him seeing the chori😉...Check!!!! Check!!!