Knight-in- Distress And Damsel-in-shining-Armor
"Manik,I love you!Marry me please..."
"Oh my hero!You're so hot,lemme eat you alive..."
"Manik my baby, you're so cool! Kiss me like there's no tomorrow..."
And many more such propositions from girls of all lots from all over the country which would take a usual guy to the edge of haughtiness and make him burst with jubilation,were more petrifying than a proposition from satan himself, offering immortality in exchange of his soul, for an exceptionally peculiar soul.The soul in question belonged to the most popular, loved and the most celebrated singer of India,The Manik Malhotra.His looks bestowed face to every girl's dreamguy,his body ruled the fantasies of the female population and his flawless voice possessed the flair to take every soul to the vertex of ecstasy.Manik had nothing against his fans or admirers.He loved and adored them a lot,in fact,he loved every creation God has blessed or cursed the Earth with but these innumerable marriage and many a times afflictive proposals were too much to handle for his mere 300 grams extremely delicate heart.
"Move away.Get out of the way...this way Mr Malhotra!"A stern and authoritative feminine voice resonated amidst the cheering crowd and usual propositions in the Guru Nanak Dev stadium of Chandigarh that just witnessed the monumental Manik Malhotra concert.Captain Nandini Singh Rathore led Manik Malhotra through the crowd protecting him from attacks coming from some crazy fangirls,someone claimimg him to be her husband of previous birth and someother to be his Radha,Sita or Meera.Nandini ,very bravely fought all of these goddesses and brought Manik to his car without as much of a single scratch as she had been doing for three damn months.
"Thank you Nand...I mean Ms.Rathore.If not for you It would have taken me million years to get out of that place."Manik said after taking a long breath of relief as he sat in the comfy confines of his car.As much as he loved singing for his fans,he hated the tribulations he faced to reach his car from the venue.He was perpetually grateful to his security team for pulling out an efficient rescue mission each time.And his current security head Ms Nandini Singh Rathore was the most efficient one,he'd ever had and he had seen a lot of them.He practically grew up among security personnels,well one of the 'perks' of being born in one of the biggest political families of India,which currently held the reigns of SOVEREIGN,SOCIALIST,SECULAR,DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC India.Manik,despite having poltics infected DNA was never interested in it.He had lost himself in the world of music at the mere age of 8 and boy he was a God gifted talent to the heritage of music for he imbibed the softness,serenity and merriment of music in himself to the extent that the harshness and bitterness that comes with politics could never touch him.
"That's my duty Mr Malhotra.Don't you know,I joined Indian Armed Forces two years back only to save you from those skinny little girls .God forbid,if some of them who think you're hot eat you up or the others who think you're cool drink you like their diet coke, I'll be damned if I let that happen.So it's absolutely fine,Mr. Malhotra."Nandini said sardonically with a scowl which seemed to permanently reside on her face,atleast as long as Manik had seen.Genes from Judo master father and hockey coach mother contributed significantly to produce a flamboyant progeny which came to known as Nandini Singh Rathore.The world famous Rajputi blood flowing through her veins and her ex-militaryman football coach flamed her adventurous being with undying patriotism.All of these factors channeled her to join Indian Armed forces since a very early age to save her Bharat Mata from all the devilsome enemies who'd dare to lay even a finger on it.Her ultimate goal after a very rigorous and bone-breaking training at military academy and not-so-significant-enough-to-brag-about duties at some small base camps was to get posted on the borders and fight the enemies head on and make them regret even thinking to harm her Maa..However,her dreams were brutally crushed when she was appointed to protect the son of respected Prime minister instead and from who-hormonal little teenage girls .Need not say she didn't really love her job as the savior of the Country's pride.
"Why are you always so rude and angry,Nandini?You know,you remind me of my strict P.E. teacher from school when you're angry which is always.It took me almost an year to recover from the trauma he inflicted on me during school.Common yar loosen up a bit and don't put me through that again."Manik said mocking a horror and panic-stricken face.He knew Nandini didn't like being his bodyguard but he didn't reciprocate her sentiments.He more than liked her as his security guard contrary to his earlier strong dislike towards this creature called security guard which left him alone in peace only in the peaceful confines of washrooms.For almost his entire life,washrooms had been his favourite place, his personal haven ,courtesy his obsessive bodyguards. His opinion about this creature had taken a U-turn ever since this very pretty and hot armygirl had been obsessively following him.In his defence, although he was scared of the propositions from his fangirls ,he was still a guy with normally functioning systems and these systems seemed to have been stimulated beyond control these days by this girl in the question .It was the absurd most lie he had ever told , when he said an angry Nandini reminds him of his P.E. teacher when in reality,he found her hotter-than-hell and sexier-than-sin in her angry avatar,which again was always. Riling her up had taken the first postion in his to-essentially-do list these days.
"Ah, delicate little flower son of the...?"Nandini said gritting her teeth.
"What!!!Are you cussing me,Ms.Rathore?"Manik interrupted her not quite believing,she was actually using such derogatory words.One thing that he hated to the core other than violence was degrading the gift of language with the abusive cussing words.
"Prime Minister!"Nandini said suddenly.
"Huh?Where?"Manik said startled.
"I was about to say Prime minister before you interrupted Mr Malhotra."Nandini said in a dangerously low voice.
"Oh, I'm sorry.I thought you were.." Manik said feeling guilty for assuming worse about her.
"Forget it,your problem of overthinking isn't ending anytime soon.Pack your stuff .We're leaving for Delhi in two hours."Nandini said dryly with her scowl intact on her face and escorted a-quieter-than-a-nursery-kid-standing-in-front-of-teacher-ready-to-slap- Manik to his hotel room.
"Careful,Malhotra.Why in the hell are you so clumsy?"Nandini held Manik who was about to kiss the floor after knocking down an innocent vase providing shelter to beautiful daisies.He was lost in pehla nasha while walking towards his pehla khumar but the innocent looking vase got in his way making him do not-so-Naya intezar for his not-again naya pyar,i.e. the pure and pristine white marbeled floor.But before his intezar could meet its fate,he was brought out of his nasha by his personal Khumar-in-shining-armor.
"Hey, I'm not clumsy.Its just that the floor loves me so much that it keeps wanting to hug me or kiss me again and again and these vases and tabes and chairs and walls keep getting in my way.They just enjoy bullying me again and again."Manik said so innocently that made his new gay cook Sundarilal want to cuddle him and take his love away from this cruel world and cruel people like this arrongant singh rathore who keep holding and scolding his poor baby making his blood boil with anger and jealousy.If only his baby look at him once with even an ounce of love and passion of that of his own,he would fight this entire world to be with him.If only.No girlfriend record of Manik had flickered a ray of hope in his heart which fell irrevocably in love with Manik at first sight itself and he acquired the post of his cook after a lot of struggle in order to be in his proximity.But his dreams were shattered when he heard Manik telling his daima about his dreamgirl,but even with a broken heart,he loved him and prayed for his happiness because his love was true so what if it remained unrequited.
"Yeah right,I forgot I joined Indian Armed forces two years back to save you from the bully chairs and tables and walls and yes Malhotra do tell me if I should stop interrupting your romance with your beloved floor?"Nandini said exasperated gritting her teeth.Manik Malhotra is the most unbelievable guy she'd ever seen.With the looks of Greek God and body of the finest militaryman,this guy is scared even of a tiny cockroach and on the top of that manage to look hot even while being clumsy and falling on the floor.Contrary to what her parents and other people think,she wasn't angry for not being sent to borders,maybe she initially was but now she was angry for feeling things for him.She was angry for not being able to control her hormones around him.Even though she had no knowledge of music, she was transported to another world when he sang .She hated that felling in the pit of her stomach when she saw his lips moving so sexily while singing.It was sheer torture to be constantly around such dangerously hot guy.
"Oh no no,I have no intention to romance floor ,Nandini.I prefer romancing hot angry girls with sassy mouth,Instead."Manik said seductively bending very close to her.
"It's Ms Rathore,Malhotra.I have to go check something.Be careful."Nandini managed to say concealing her breathing anomaly and unusual cardiac activity with great efforts and almost ran from there.What's with this weird behaviour from Malhotra.Was he saying about me, the hot angry girl?Stop it Nandini .Don't overthink.It's his problem not yours.Be professional,Be professional.Nandini said to herself and busied herself in checking the new security software to be installed in the penthouse.
"Ahhh"Nandini came running to Manik's room as she heard him screaming but stopped at the entrance to see him jumping aound the room shirtless .Nandini froze then and there, only her eyes and brain remained in motion.While her eyes roamed over his perfectly toned bare upper body,her brain ran wildly to the forbidden territory.She was jolted out of her fantasyland when Manik knocked down another vase sheltering the beauty of his favourite red roses and was prevented by Nandini from hugging the floor ,once again leaving it whining and cursing Nandini for interrupting their romance.
"Aw, Thank you Rathore.You truly are my Knight,no Damsel-in-shining-armor."Manik said curving his lips into that killer smile of his which was the cause of her breathing and cardiac anomalies which were getting serious day by day.
"Why were you screaming like that and jumping around like a monkey?"Nandini asked trying to normalize her body and failing miserably. Her own body had started betraying her , each and every muscle was hell bent on defying her orders like right now her eye muscles refused to listen her and did not stop ogling at him.
"Oh that,Barcelona beat myunikhs and won the UCL. I am so happy that I was hooting and dancing."Manik said animatedly and the aura of happiness around him made the world look more beautiful and sparkling suddenly for Nandini.Nandini didn't realize when she started loving her job of protecting this unbelievable guy from girls and lizards and cockroaches and chairs and tables and of course his beloved floor.What was that,did she actually say such flowery things?No she was going insane.Ah,this incredible Malhotra.
"Do you call that dancing?You were jumping like a monkey Huh,So you watch football too.Thank god you do have some traits of normal guys."Nandini tried to sound sarcastic but could not help the softness to grace her voice and her lips to curve up in a rare smile.
"Captain Nandini Singh Rathore,don't tell me you think I'm not normal."Manik asked incredulously.He'd had a big share of scuttlebutts running about him over the years since he entered the limelight like any other celebrity and one of them was him being a gay for he never had a girlfriend tagging him to the parties.He laughed at these rumours and shrugged them off at that time but never in his wildest dreams had he imangined that Nandini the girl for whom he developed amorous feelings for the first time in his life will think about him like this.
"Well let me clear your doubts,then."Manik said in a low husky voice and bent down to kiss Nandini who could not process what Manik concluded from her words and when she guessed she was further taken aback by his kiss.Her muscles acted on their own before she could even think of ordering them and responded to Manik's kiss.
"So now you know I'm perfectly normal Ms Rathore."Manik asked getting back to normal after experiencing his first ever kiss which was just phenomenal.
I never doubted you in that sense at the first place,you overthinking brat."Nandini said rather angrily making Manik wonder if he was overthinking again for her to return his feelings.
"How dare you kiss me just to prove me your point?I thought you're sweet and angelic flowery boy who respect woman and have a heart bigger than what they call male ego.But you proved me wrong.You're such a jerk."Nandini said furiously feeling foolish to have developed feelings for him.
"What, no, Nandini,you're misunderstanding it.Yes I kissed you to prove a point but the point I wanted to prove is *pause* I love you.Yes I'm an overthinking jerk and I am scared of petty things but I really really love you and I know that you feel for me too or you wouldn't have kissed me back,hai na?"Manik clarified before she starts overthinking things.His life experience say overthinking welcomes trouble with open hands and he didn't want any trouble with his armygirl. He waited for her to say something and then he waited some more and again waited.
"Say something,Nandini.You're scaring me."He asked gulping when she didn't reply after some more minutes.
"Do you really love me?"Nandini asked again to make sure she heard it right after the confession sank in.
"Yes, I swear on my dad's government."Manik replied as if his dad's government was the only eternal thing in this universe.
"Couldn't you find anything less convincing than that kakistocratic government of your father?Ha,you're such a brat."Nandini said angrily with Manik's favourite scowl sitting on her beautiful face serving his purpose.
"And I'm also sweet, angelic and flowery guy.Now please say what you feel for me,pretty please."Manik pleaded softly battling his eyelashes to give special effects making Nandini laugh heartily.
"Yeh,I love you too and I don't know why.You're so not my type."Nandini said trying to be her usual rude self but a beautiful smile broke from her face.What could she do,her muscles had stopped listening to her long back.
"I might be not your type,but I'm the only one for you and you're my very own Damsel-in-shining-armour."Manik said with so much love and affection that she thought would make her throw up at another time but now that it actually happened, it overwhelmed her and warmed her cheeks for the first time ever.
"If I'm damsel,then you're my Knight,ummm,Knight-in-distress and I'll always save you from all those girls and lizards and tables and..."Manik bent down to pull her for another kiss before she could complete the list of his foes.
And the floor cried whole night for its unrequited love and it remained cold and empty forever.
Hello people,this was my first ever OS.It is a very simple light hearted OS meant for fun. I hope you guys enjoyed reeeading it.Please do comment and tell me how did you find it.
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