A Fan-Fiction//OurLoveWillHealUs\\Chapter 13(b)! SENT via PM - Page 41

"Surround yourself with people who electrify you, make you feel the blood in your veins, remind you that there is something bigger out there and you need to get it."

We got near the jeep and realised that we were nine now and the jeep still could only bear eight people. So, we decided to hire a local cab cum bus in which we could all fit in. Except Cabir, rest of the Fab-5 was behaving normal. Cabir was 'quite' unusually. In the bus I told Navya how we end up meeting Fab-5 and what happened after that obviously deleting 'some parts'. Then Navya got to know that those people were none other a famous band in India, Fab-5. Navya admitted that she was having a feeling that she has seen them before and also heard a lot about Fab-5. Actually Navya is not a rock music lover and Fab-5 is into that only, so it didn't surprised me that she didn't recognize them. It was so ironical that five celebrities were traveling with four people from their native land only but still they didn't know them.

Manik was constantly glancing at me, passing me his sly smiles and usual trademark smirks and I was having a tough time handling myself in front of Navya and offcource my friends but to my pleasure, we reached our destination, The Carnival soon. Everyone started going down and I sighed in relief. Each one of them were down the bus till now and I was about to go but someone held my hand and pushed me backward.

I didn't took much time to recognise the touch.

"Thodi der ruk kar chale..", he whispered huskily in my ears.

"Kyu?", I asked the stupidest question. He pushed me more towards himself. He has comfortably settled his arms at my waist as if it was his own belonging.

"Kyuki me keh rha hun..", He replied in a loving but Still demanding voice. Before I could say anything, he shushed me, "And I know tum bhi yhi chahti ho.."

Though I was hell affected by this closeness, still I composed myself and raised my eyebrows, "Itna confidence Mr. Malhotra!"

"Well, I define confidence Ms. Deewan.", he replied gentlemen-ishly. I rolled my eyes, "You and your dialogues! Hmare friends neeche wait Kr rahe h jbtw..", I reminded him.

"Toh karne do!", he said intently looking into my eyes.

"Vo yahan aajayenge.."

"Toh Ane do!"

"Vo ayenge toh dekhlenge.."

"Toh Dekhne do.."

His eyes caged mine. We were advancing towards each other as if we were under some spell but before anything could happen, an unfortunate thing happened- I sneezed.

"How did you catch cold?", Manik asked with utmost concern as if nothing happened or was going to happen between us.

"Look who's asking!", I said irritatingly getting out of his hold.

"What do you mean?"

"Khud raat ko mujhe shower me geela krte ho aur phir subah uthke puchte ho 'How did you catch cold?'", I said the last part imitating him.

"Par mene tumhe ache se sukhaya tha aur jacket..", he remembered his attempts to save me from cold, "Ek min.. Wait! Tumhe sab yaad agya?", The bulb inside his brain glowed suddenly.

"Han! Aur ab tum mujhe kuch jhooth bhi nhi bol sakte kal raat ke baare me..", I stated with a smirk. Manik gave me a So-What look.

"I don't need you to lose your memory so that I can tease you.. I have some other ways also!", he winked at me.

'Oh God! Someday he will surely kill me with these dialogs of his..'

I tried not to show my real emotions and just rolled me eyes, "Whatever!". Before he could do anything else I stepped out of the bus and found him following me. We got out of the bus and found our friends giving us indifferent glances.

"Vo.. Umn.. Actually mera phone gir gya tha.. And then.. Vo.. Vo mil nhi rha tha toh Manik was helping me.", I fumbled in my defence.

"Humne kuch kaha thodi na Nandani.. Toh tum yeh clarifications kyu de rhi ho?", Mukti teased me. I sighed. Navya was giving me queer glances. Manik just shrugged at Mukti's remark, "Tum logon ka hogya toh andar chale..", he said and gestured with his hand to move forward and we all did so.

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The carnival was grand and the people there were going wild. We all decided to start with the rides and I instantly pointed towards the biggest one that is the giant wheel

"Nandani lets start with the small one..", Aliya squealed.

"Han tum toh pheli hi ride me upar pahunchaogi..", Navya complained. I just sighed.

We all decided to start with a small ride. Cabir went to get the coupons and we all were about to settle ourselves on the ride but Manik got a call and he stepped out, "It's an important one, just excuse me!", he didn't even looked at me and went far away and before I could do anything the ride started. It was a small roller coaster. Navya clutched my hand in fear and I looked at her in disbelief. I tried to look at Manik's direction but he was now nowhere to be seen. I sighed in frustration.

Everyone had a lot of fun except me because of that jerk. We had almost taken 4- 5 rides but still there was no sign of him coming back. Above all, god knows why but I was hell affected by his absence.

"Lets have that cotton candy!", Vidhi demanded excitedly. I rolled my eyes at her childish demand. But listening to her, Ishita, Navya and Aliya too wanted to have it. So, me, Mukti, Cabir and Dhruv were seeing them eating that pink candy. Everyone was talking but I was busy mentally cursing someone.

"Han.. Han Manik!", I heard Cabir's voice mentioning his name. I saw towards him and he was talking to him on the phone. He gave him the directions where we were and after few minutes that jerk was in front of me. I didn't pay Any attention to his arrival purposely and he was least bothered about it. He was behaving normal. Here I wasn't able to enjoy the carnival even a bit because he wasn't around and there it's pretty normal for him If I ignore him. This man was really testing my patience, Nandani Deewan's patience!

After few more minutes, we heard loud music and in no time we all were surrounded my some dancers, people carrying drums and some more people dressed in colourful dresses. In short, that area has become a little circus. Many people started dancing with those half dressed dancers. A dancer started dancing flirtatiously in front of Manik inviting him to dance with her.

I was already fuming because of his nonsensical behaviour and here this dancer was adding fuel to my feelings. Though I knew that Manik wasn't someone who will give his attention to anyone but still I was jealous. Wait! What did I just said? Ooops thought! M jealous? Nandani Deewan is jealous? Jealous of that ordinary dancer? Because of a jerk like Manik? This guy is surely doing some wonders on me. I was busy working on my 'Jealous theory' and there he winked at me and started dancing with that dancer. It took me some time to realise what just happened. So all this while he was behaving like this purposely because I wasn't paying him any heed and here he was dancing with that bitch just to annoy me.

'Cool Malhotra! Nandani also knows how to play these games..'

While everyone was busy dancing on the beats and he with that girl, I found a handsome guy who was also in that circus group in his fancy shirtless outfit. I started dancing with him and made sure to pass Manik a 'wink' as my payback. At first he was busy showcasing his dancing skills but as soon as he saw me with a guy that too a shirtless one who himself wasn't leaving any chance to come close to me, Manik's expressions was a treat to watch. The way he curled his lips made me laugh which I tried to suppress. He gave me a Go-Away-From-Him-Or-Else-I-Will-Dig-His-Grave-Right-Now look. But who cares? I leaned onto that guy more and started dancing in full swing. And that was enough for Manik! He was coming towards me. That bitch tried to stop him but he jerked off her hand and came to me swiftly. He held my arm harshly and pushed me towards him. I shrieked in pain and gave him a deadly look. How dare he? Nobody has ever held my like that? But his expressions were no less, he wasn't a bit guilty of his behaviour.

'Certified Jerk!'

God knows how many times I have called him a 'jerk' today but he deserve it, so no regrets! He literally dragged me like a gunny bag. Come on man! Me ek jigti jagti ladki hun. Behave normal! He made sure that we were far away from that crowd and were alone. We came near a penthouse like structure and he pushed me to a wall. I was totally sandwiched between his torso and that lifeless wall.

Our friends was totally unaware of our absence. They were totally into the music and dancing their hell out. Navya was dancing with Ishita and Vidhi. Aliya and Dhruv were having a couple dance. Mukti and Cabir were busy doing their pagalpanti wala dance. Everyone were dancing in full swing. Suddenly, Cabir and Navya got hit with each other's back while dancing. They looked at each other and flushed. Navya looked sideways not making eye contact with Cabir while Cabir tried to say something but couldn't. Mukti saw a man dressed in joker and a slight smile appears on her lips. She remembered something.

Mukti's POV

I was pissed off, officially pissed off! How can someone fight so much? Like everyday, everytime! Well, you all must be thinking whom m talking about, well, they are none other than my own parents! Sometimes I wonder, how I came into their lives, because they made love? Or I just got downloaded in their life from somewhere? I always wanted to have a sibling just like Abhinanyu. He's so lucky! He has a big brother, a small one and a cute little sister like Nandani, a complete loving family. Even Manik had an elder sister to take care of him. And look at me? I don't even have normal parents.

I was feeling suffocated in my own house that's why I came here in the park, my usual sport during weekends at this time. You must be thinking, why? It's simple! Because at weekends my parents are at home and they only pass their time by their favourite hobby- fighting! It was afternoon, I.e., lunch time. That means all the children were at their home having a good meal with their parents or have gone out for picnic as it was weekend. But me, well I never had a normal childhood, so there was nothing new in it! But where's Abhi? He should have been here. Yes I texted him. It was normal during my weekends that I call or text him during odd hours but that poor chap still always manage to come despite having a loving family to look after him. But today he's late and I was hating him for that. Unfair, right? But what more can you expect from a lady hitler? Yes, Abhi calls me that. It's not that I like this name, but right now I was missing him! Oh god!!! Where's that monkey??

"Excuse me!", I heard a voice behind me. I was sitting on a bench. I looked behind me and shouted at what I saw, and got up and moved away as fast as I could from that bench. I saw a boy dressed in a joker's attire with full make up because of which I wasn't able to decipher his real face. The big red nose was indeed looking funny but seeing a joker so close can be scary at times, and that's what just happened with me.

"Who the hell are you?", I asked in gada dhari bheem style as Cabir Calls me.

"Your friend sweetheart..", the clown replied.

"Oh really?", I asked him crossing my hands at my chest.

"Offcource!", came the reply.

"Listen just get out of here or else I will kick your ass.", I threatened him.

"Ouch!", he exclaimed keeping his hand on his heart, "At least mujhe apko entertain krne ka mauka toh dijiye.."

"Why the hell do you want to entertain me?"

"Because mujhe pta hai Ki ap bore ho rhi h..". I just rolled my eyes and on the other hand he gave me puppy looks. I agreed. After all, Abhi hasn't come yet, so its better to do something rather than nothing. I sat on that bench again and gestured him to start whatever he wanted to.

He was already looking very funny and top of that the things he was 'trying' to do and was failing in them miserably was a treat to watch. He tried juggling but end up hitting himself with that blue ball. He tried head standing but fall back like a heap of waste. He tried a lot of things and end up making fun of himself. Finally unable to control my laughter, I started laughing like anything and didn't even realize that he had stopped doing those stupid things and was staring at me as if he got what he wanted.

I finally got over my laughing session and gave him What-Happen look.

"Finally Mukti!", he sighed in relief and got rid of that colourful wig and red ball on the nose. My mouth instantly turned into an 'O' shape as be was none other that Abhimanyu!

"Oh god! Toh it was you.. Mujhe phele hi samajh Jana chahiye tha.. Ruko tum! Btati hun me..", I started running towards him and started kicking and beating him.

"Oh Mukti.. Stop.. Arrey wait.. Hold on.. For a second..", he managed to say something between my beating sessions but I didn't stop.

"I have a surprise for you, Vo dekhne se phele hi maar dalogi kya!"

"Surprise?", I questioned and finally stopped.

"Thank God!", he sighed in relief, "Ab chalo mere sath..", he took me to a corner and there was a box. Before he could say anything, I opened it myself. I opened and shouted in excitement. It was having two large pizzas of my favourite flavour with chilled cold drink. Well, what can I ask more at this hour of the day. I just started eating my pizza as if it will get vanish in a second.

"Haww! Not even a thank you..", Aryaman complained sitting beside me.

"Khane ke baad..", I said inbetween my munching. He was constantly staring at me while eating like the way I watch an action movie. I was done with my lunch but he still was glaring at me as if he was in a trance. I got an evil idea in my mind. I took out my phone and clicked his picture in that funny clown attire. He finally came into the real world because of the camera flash.

"Ab toh yeh fb pe upload hogi!", I started running saying this because he was after my phone. We both were running like idiots in the whole garden forgetting about the world. I wonder what the people present there were thinking about a clown running behind a girl who was holding a cold drink and a mobile phone in the other hand. So, in this way my depressing and boring afternoon turned into a fun- filled one.

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