Manik & Nandini Stars & Fireflies part 85 page 143 thread 2 - Page 84

Hola people.. Im back with a new chap.. hope you will like it cause it has something that i very strongly believe the butterflies and their magic...

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Manik & Nandini - Stars & Fireflies 81

they say when you love someone you look at yourself from their eyes.. love is that one magical thing that makes every long wait worthwhile, every pain sweet and every moment a beautiful memory... love is the butterfly..love is the rainbow and love is the beginning and end of it all..

the warmth in manik's hug was too sweet for nandini not to be effected.. she responded to his warmth and love and hugged him back.. the world stopped when these two embraced each other.. everything else became irrelevant and melted in the warmth of their love when two souls healed each other with their presence and touch.. but as they say love is just not spiritual its physical too.. manik broke the hug and cupped nandini's face and kept looking into her eyes..nandini caressed his cheeks with her soft touch and gently whispered "manik.." "i need you nandini.." manik said and hearing this initially she was startled but then she looked into his eyes and saw love not lust so he closed her eyes as a sign of approval...

manik went near to her.. so near he could hear her heart beat and feel her warm breath.. his planted a soft kiss on her forehead and nandini circled her arms around his neck.. he then kissed both her eyes making her fall in his trance and the kiss moved on to her nose.. finally he came close very close to her lips now she could feel his warm breath on her and she thought her heart would come out of her body.. she clinched his jacket tightly giving in to his desires...manik slowly brushed his lips with her hers making her shiver and said "one step at a time.. i'll wait for this cause i want this kiss to be beautiful more then our first.." nandini opened her eyes to see a smiling manik looking at her with all his love and at that moment her respect for him grew million fold.. she was looking at manik malhotra who was famous for his flings and kisses and what not but here he was ready to take it slow and steady until she accepts him as her part and he wasn't even complaining...

but manik being manik how can he let go off nandini without some authentic manik malhotra teasing session.. soon his smile turned into mischievous smirk and he said "waise do you want me to repeat the action of my birthday night remember na.." he gave her a raised eyebrow 'i got you look..' and made her go all red with blush.. she took at pillow hitting him and yelled "manikkk.." and soon they both started a sweet pillow fight which was broken when chachi came in with snacks and tea... soon after manik finished the tea and took leave asking chachi to give company to nandini.. nandini stopped manik and asked "where are you going?" he kissed her forehead and said "i'll be back soon princess.."

chachi smiled at nandini and sat next to her and said "you are so lucky nandini.. after that incident i never thought and expected that he can have a side like this also.. babaji tum dono ko har buri nazar se bachaye.." and all nandini could do was sit and smile.. soon chachi made nandini lie on bed and asked her to catch a nap while she went down to prep for dinner and also made rishabh sit and look after nandini.. as soon as chachi walked down she heard the door bell ring expecting chacha she opened the door to find an unknown person.. he greeted her warmly and gave his introduction as desmond the butler whom manik had sent to assist chachi cook as per nandini's diet.. chachi went a little more aww on hearing manik's care and concern and welcomed desomnd with a smile...

few hours later manik walked back to nandini's home with a gift box and greeted chachi.. chachi came near him and held his ear and said in a fake angry tone "so you don't trust my culinary skills around nandini haan.." manik smiled and said "are no chachi its just that i didn't wanted to burden you with additional work so desmond will help you.." manik tried to explain and chachi who very well knew his motive and loved pulling his leg said "haan haan sab pata hai mujhe.. ab jaa nandu ke paas.." manik smiled and went in nandini's room...

manik slowly opened the door and found nandini sleeping and rishabh napping on the near by couch.. he couldn't help but smile on this cute bro - sis moment.. he slowly went and patted on his shoulder.. rishabh woke in a jerk and manik said "relax rishabh its just me.." although rishabh and manik never spoke much and manik's betrayal to nandini left rishabh visibly broken and angry on manik but manik's recent change in behaviour.. his lover for her sister thawed rishabh somehow.. he looked at manik and hugged him as he couldn't speak.. manik was taken aback but he hugged him back as an indication to accept whatever rishabh was trying to convey...

soon after rishabh went manik switched on the lights of her room which woke nandini up.. she looked to find it was dark outside and said "oh god how long i slept.." manik smiled and said "its ok princess you are allowed to sleep.." he helped her getting up and made her comfy.. he passed the gift box to her and she gave him a puzzled look.. "are buddhu its for you.." manik said "its a small piece of magic that my grand pa passed on to me on my forth birthday and i believed in it with my whole heart but then he died, dad left and i forgot about this magic... but then years later you came along and made me believe in this magic..so nandini murthy i am giving you a little bit of that magic back.." a misty eyed manik said to a teary eyed nandini.. they both wiped their tears and she opened the box with great enthusiasm and she found a jar with a caterpillar.. "a caterpillar.. how is this magic?" a confused nandini asked.. manik smiled and said "wait for few hours princess and who will see magic happening.."

nandini agreed to wait to see what magic manik was talking about.. in the mean while manik suggested to practice for the play to kill time.. soon they were ready with their scripts and started going over their lines but all the while nandini was looking only at the jar and getting impatient.. manik smiled on seeing that even nandini can get impatient.. soon it was time for supper and nandini was served delicious khichadi but as it with every patient nandini too cribbed for having it.. to make her feel better even manik decided to have the same khichadi instead of his usual supper... but to his surprise even manik loved the khichadi..."manik you don't have to pretend.." said nandini to manik who was busy feeding her and him both the khichadi.. "nandini i am not i seriously loved it princess.." manik said sending nandini to a virtual coma...

as soon as dinner wrapped up and nandini was done with her meds manik smirked and said "time to unwrap the magic.." he brought the jar and asked her to hold it and look at it.. nandini kept looking at the jar with utmost sincerity for 5 minutes and started getting impatient.. "manik yeh.." suddenly she stopped talking and her eyes widened and mouth too opened widely.. within a few minutes manik and nandini both saw a beautiful butterfly emerge from that caterpillar.. "Magic.." manik said looking at her.. "magic.." that's all nandini could say but her smile and twinkle in her eyes conveyed everything to manik when words failed her... "this is the best ever gift manik.. i will always treasure it.." and she kept the jar aside and hugged him tightly.. for now that's how she said i love you.. manik smiled and took her in his embrace hiding her from all the evil of the world.. "always.." nandini said "and forever.." replied manik closing his eyes to enjoy this moment of bliss...

the love birds cute moment was disturbed by fab5 who started coughing and laughing along with abhi.. manik and nandini broke the hug while nandini got back to her job of blushing manik rolled his eyes and said "like seriously.." "oh forget it little bro..." abhi said while he and mukti came running and hugged nandini.. they broke apart and said in unison "thank you nandini.." leaving everyone surprised.. abhi clarified their doubts saying that its cause of nandini mukti and him are finally together.. unable to control the surge of emotions mukti again hugged nandini when tears swelling in her eyes "thanks nandini for giving me the love of my life.. thank you for being so kind and generous to us when we were so alone.. thank you for being an anchor for all of us in the stormy seas of life.." she then turned to manik and said "thank you manik again for falling in love with her and sorry that we misunderstood you.." unable to speak further mukti hugged manik and the rest of the gang followed..

manik was unable to speak anything.. for the first time in his life he felt complete..he felt he had everything and he felt content.. he looked at nandini who was looking at their reunion with a huge smile and tars of happiness.. he blinked at her for a thank you and she blinked back to remind him for their always & forever.. soon they broke the hug and aliya said wiping her tears "enough of crying lets mark this new beginning with celebration.." she took out a huge chocolate cake with "welcome to fab5" written on it.. nandini was over the moon and so was manik.. they all cut the cake.. fed each other played with each other.. there was laughter, smiles, happiness and merriment in the atmosphere and nandini thanked her aiyappa and prayed to keep her's and manik's family and happiness safe..

while everyone was busy dancing and singing manik came to nandini.. sat beside her...took her in a side hug and whispered "always.." to which she smiled and replied back "& forever.." .. the rest of the gang saw this and went all aww and came to running them for a group hug and thus being a complete family...

end of part 81...

ciao..