Chapter 12: We were never meant to be
"What?" Nandhini hears a manly voice. She recognized that voice more than her own voice. She opened her eyes wide and turned around and saw manik at the door. She could see anger build up on his face. He looked at Aaryman with eyes full of hate...
Everyone opened their eyes wide as they observed manik's reaction to hearing the conversation.
"Oye Teri! Yeh to star plus ka scene hogaya" kabir says in shock. Navya hits his arm and gestures him to stay quite.
Manik looks at Aaryaman and slowly walks towards him but before he could get too close nandhini runs in between both of them, facing manik.
"Relax manik!" She screams, she knew manik is filled with anger right now.
"Move nandhini" he says softly.
Nandhini nods a no.
"Manik let's sit down and all talk. Kuch nahi huwa ha I swear. Na hi Aaryaman na kuch galat kiya ha! He hasn't even said anything to me. Mujhe toh kissi or sa pata chala. He kept everything in his heart and moved on. Kuch nahi kiya isne" nandhini defends Aaryaman.
"I SAID MOVE NANDHINI! " he screams with all his voice. Nandhini shook from his high pitched voice that was full of anger.
"Hath jao nandhini" Aaryaman says. Nandhini looks at him in shock by turning her head towards him.
Everyone gestures nandhini to move as well. They knew manik very well, in anger he could forget that nandhini is in front of him.
Nandhini gulped and slowly moved out of the way.
Manik just stares at Aaryaman for a few seconds then with all his strength punches him in the face. Aaryaman immediately started bleeding from his nose. Nandhini and Aliya yelled in shock.
Manik was about to punch Aaryaman again but before he could dhruv tapped manik's shoulders.
"Buddy listen to him once" dhruv says slowly.
"Kya bolega yeh? How will he explain that he has had his gandi ankhein on my biwi for years and mein Paglo ki terha isko upna dost samjh raha hoon. Or how will he explain that all my friends, my fab 5 knew this but kept it a secret from me all this time. How will he explain that to protect him, meri upni biwi mujh sa jhoot bol rahi thi. She preferred sleeping alone last night than telling me the truth. Kesa explain keroge tum Aaryaman?" He asks looking at Aaryaman and he sighs.
"Listen manik. I fell in love with nandhini before you both were officially a couple. You both had something going on before I even joined space academy but I did not know that. Slowly slowly as I became friends with nandhini I learned that she loves you. I tried to impress her for a few months to win her over. But I realized how happy she was with you so I decided to let her be with the love of her life. I swear I had no intention to ruin your relationship. You both decided to get married, it hurt me but I stayed quite, I couldn't come to the wedding though. I stayed away so I would not cause problems. Same with Paris. I had to come for Aliya and dhruv but I couldn't stay too long. Nahi dekha ja raha tha, you two on your honeymoon. I'm getting over her and she is still my best friend, nothing has changed. " he says.
Manik was not convinced.
"Everything has changed. Kal mera bedroom mein, meri biwi ka sath, bed pa hath paker ka kya keraha tha?" Manik says in anger and nandhini opens her eyes wide.
"What?" Aliya yells.
"Manik! I was just telling Aaryaman to back off. We were having a conversation, I told you I am handling the situation. Do you not trust me? And you are always physically close with aliya and mukti! Do I say anything!" Nandhini yells in anger.
"Manik, nandhini has a point. You have slept over at my house, in my room. Nobody cares about that because sub jaante ha tu mera buddy ha. Nandhini or Aaryaman na sirf haath pakra and you are..." Mukti says but manik gestures her to shut up.
" Tumhara or mera alag situation ha mukti! Neither of us like each other that way. But Aaryaman likes nandhini! Situation hi alag ha! Or kya pata nandhini might feel something for him as well" manik says in a taunting way and looks at nandhini. She looks at him with disgust and eyes full of disappointment. She walks towards him and gives his chest a push.
"Seriously manik?" She says and pushes him again and he moves back. She moves forward and continues pushing him.
"You really think I would have married you if I had feelings for someone else? You think I would consummate with you if I liked someone else? Manik I am sick and tired of fighting with you! Jub hum college mein tha, we would fight all the time! You know what would happen then? I would be sitting by the staircase, crying my eyes out. Aaryaman would see me and ask what's up.
I would tremble in tears and tell him how much I love manik and can't stand the thought of being away from him. Aryamaan would help me resolve the issues you and me had! Manik I get that you are mad because Aaryaman was crushing on me. I was mad at him too when I found out. After all I was married to a man I'm madly in love with. But unfortunately that man doesn't even trust me. So what's the point of this marriage anymore?" She says in tears and manik looks at her in shock.
"What do you mean?" He mumbles under his breath. Nandhini takes a deep breath.
"I don't know. Maybe I should go live with Chacha Chachi for a while. Maybe we need a break manik. Kabir can you drop me home I need to get my clothes before I leave" she says and walks toward the door. Everyone looked at her in shock. Manik held her arm and pulled her back.
"Nandhu tum kya bol rahi ho. Humari shaddi ko 1 week huwa ha and you will go back to your maika? Everyone will figure out ka koi problem ha. And remember what you said this morning. We aren't teenagers dating in college. Bumps will come in this marriage doesn't mean we give up" manik says sweetly and rubs her hand. Nandhini looks him in the eye.
"I'm not giving up. Just taking a break, maybe we were too immature for marriage. alag rahenga kuch din toh akal thikana ajae gi dono ki" she says and navya laughs at nandhini's language but everyone else was so serious.
"Sorry" navya says.
"Nandhini don't do this. Meri waja sa yeh separation hoga toh I won't be able to sleep at night. Please I really don't want to see you two separated. Can't see my two best friends hurt" Aaryaman says and manik rolls his eyes. He did not believe his bullshit one bit.
"No if our relationship is weak enough for a third person to affect it then maybe we aren't meant to be" nandhini says sadly. Manik holds her cheek.
"Hey! Kesi baatein kerahi ho? Pagal ho? We are meant to be that's why you are mrs malhotra today. Please forgive me nandhini" manik begs her. Nandhini thinks for a while.
"Okay but you both have to promise something" nandhini says to manik and Aaryaman.
"Aaryaman you will seriously get over me and I will find you a date okay?" She asks.
"Yes ma'am"Aaryaman says.
"And manik you will seriously stop doubting me and fighting with me. First you thought I would push you off a plane now you think I will choose Aaryaman over you. You need to trust me please!" She says.
"Okay promise!" He says
"What plane?" Dhruv asks but just then the door bell rang and navya opened it and harshad was at the door and they both looked at each other awkwardly.
"Babe you are here" mukti yells and hugs him and navya moves aside.
"Isi ki kami thi, anyways we will get going " manik says excitedly and holds nandhinis hand and rushes out of the apartment.
"He is so getting laid tonight" kabir jokes and everyone laughs.
"So what else is up?" Harshad asks.
"Nothing just baby shower prep..." Dhruv says but stops in between as harshad wasn't even invited. Navya face palms herself.
"We are having a baby shower for our baby but since you have 0% interest in this baby you are not invited that is what is up harshad!" Navya screams at him and mukti awkwardly looks at kabir.
"Okay enough! Me and mukti are best friends and I'm married to navya and mukti you are engaged to harshad. And navya you and harshad are having a baby and you probably hate him. But I don't know how we will work this out with so much awkwardness. Pura group disturb hota ha because of the two of you! Either ek dosre KO berdast kero ya become friends because I won't jeopardize my relationship with my wife or my best friend because of this situation!" Kabir yells in anger.
"Kabir is right is situation ki waja sa everything is awkward. I'm best friends with both navya and kabir and I'm engaged to harshad. Its so weird for me when i care about navya's baby but at the same time I get jealous because it is harshad's baby as well." Mukti says.
"My situation is the worst. I'm so happy to be a bua(phuphi) and i love this baby so much but Bhai isn't accepting this baby. Imagine guys when this baby grows up he will learn that his bua loves him but not his dad" Aliya says sadly.
" I'm his dad!" Kabir says in anger.
"We will tell the baby that you are his bua because you are like my sister" kabir says.
"Then what would I be? I can't be the bua of my husband's baby!" Mukti says.
"Toh tu uski amma ban ja!" Kabir says sarcastically.
"Harshad I want you to legally give custody to me and kabir I want you to adopt the baby this way legally the father will be kabir and not harshad" navya says.
"Okay" harshad agrees immediately.
"How sick Bhai. You really don't care about your own blood! Don't you even care about continuing our families name! Our heritage? You are mom and dads only son. Don't you want to continue our legacy?" Aliya asks in disgust.
"You can do it Aliya. Dhruv won't mind if your kids last name is saxena. Right dhruv?" Harshad asks dhruv.
"I'm sorry harshad but unlike you I want to continue my family name. " dhruv says.
Harshad just rolls his eyes.
"You know what I'm leaving. Let's go dhruv" Aliya says and they both leave.
"I'll.come.with you!" Aaryaman says and follows them.
"Maybe you should leave as well harshad" kabir says looking at him directly.
"Wait Harshad!" Mukti yells and kabir is confused.
"I didn't want to do this in front of Aliya because I know how upset she gets on the littlest things." Mukti says and takes off her ring and places it in harshad's palm.
"We are done" she says.
"Mukti?" Navya says in surprise.
"I have been thinking about doing this for days. I value my friends more then him. Or kya guarantee ha that he won't leave me just like he left navya" mukti says.
"I won't mukti!" Harshad yells.
"You know why I'm breaking up with you? Because I am pregnant and I know you don't want a kid so better to break up now" mukti says and everyone looks at her in shock.
"Seriously?" Harshad asks.
"Yes I have the reports to prove it" mukti says with a serious face.
"Dude you seriously need to work on your c*nd*m wearing skills" Kabir jokes.
"Mukti I don't want this kid. You are right. Either get an abortion or break the engagement. I just can't have a kid " Harshad says.
"You already have my ring. You know my answer, You may leave..." Mukti says seriously and harshad leaves with the ring.
"Mukti when did you find out ?" Kabir asks her.
"I'm not pregnant. I lied to see if he would fight for me. But he didn't." Mukti says sadly and sits down on the dining table chair and starts crying. Navya looks at her in shock and goes and hugs her.
"I should have never let you get back with him. Pehle he cheated on you with younika, then he got navya pregnant and ditched her and now this" kabir says in anger.
Meanwhile:
Nandhini and manik rush home and into their room while holding hands. Manik immediately shuts the door and locks the latch(kundi). He holds nandhini's hand and pulls her closer. Her back facing him, she smiled as he gripped her waist.
"I've missed your body so much" he whispers in her ear and she blushes. He quickly takes off his shirt and then picks her up in his arms and gently places her on the bed. Manik was on top of her
"Manik promise me you won't fight with me every again!" Nandhini says as she looks into his eyes. He smiles and gently twirls a chunk of her hair around his finger.
"I promise. Sorry for being so stupid. I thought I lost you to Aaryaman" he says sadly. Nandhini rolls her eyes and pinches his bare chest.
"Ouch what the hell?" He yells and gets off of her and lies down on his side of the bed.
"Manik how could you even think that? I married you! You are the one forever and ever. Ek lerki ka liya pyaar ,jazbaat , intimacy is a big deal. She can only open up to a man she truly loves and once she falls in love her love is like a rock. Nothing can shake it. Samjhe? Why did mukti give harshad another chance? Because women don't easily give up. So if you ever doubt me again just kill yourself. Manik I want to spend every second of my life with you.want to grow old with you! In fact at this moment I want you *ns*de me!" She says and then blushes on her last sentence and manik.opens his eyes wide.
He smirks and lays on top of her again
and starts kissing her neck wildly. He slowly lifts her t shirt a little and holds her bare waist. He then gets rid of her t shirt and she was left in her b*a and jeans. He continued kissing her but then he heard his phone ringing. He slightly shifted his eyes towards the side table as his lips were still intact with nandhini's lips. He decided to ignore his phone and continue but the noise kept disturbing them and nadhini backed out.
"Utha lo phone. It must be important" she says and sits up . manik rolls his eyes and leans over nandhini to get the phone.
"Kon dimakh kha raha ha" he says and checks his phone and opens his eyes wide.
"What happened?" Nandhini asks.
"10 missed calls from kabir!" Manik yells. Nandhini opens her eyes wide.
"Navya? Is she okay?" Nandhini screams.
"Wait let me check my phone too" nandhini says and quickly pulls out her phone from.her purse.
Nandhini quickly looks through her phone and then puts her hand on her mouth in shock and then holds her head.
"Kya huwa? Did something happen to the baby?" Manik asks, trying to look over at her phone.
"No mukti and harshad broke up" nandhini says and shows manik a text from navya. manik boils in anger.
"Did harshad cheat again?" Manik yells with all his voice.
"Shh mom uth jaegi. Its late!" nandhini says and manik doesn't care.
He quickly calls and puts it in speaker.
"Dude what happened?" Manik asks as soon as kabir picks up.
"Yaar mukti was testing harshad. She told him she is pregnant and he ditched her. She isn't pregnant though lekin she is heartbroken" kabir says. Manik gets teary and sighs.
"Dude mukti was confused about him for so long. I knew something like this would happen!" Manik says feeling helpless.
"Mukti abhi kahan ha ?" Nandhini asks.
"Still at my house. This all happened after you guys left" kabir says.
"Okay we are coming. 5 minutes!" Manik says and picks up his shirt from the floor.
"No! You guys just patched up. Relax. Its fine here. Tum dono tension nahi lo" kabir yells through the phone.
"No I'm coming. Nandhini can go to sleep if she wants to. I'm.not leaving multi alone tonight." Manik says.
"Me neither. I am.coming too okay!" Nandhini says.
"Tum log nahi samjhoge? Okay fine ajao." Kabir says and cuts the call.
Manik quickly grabs nanandhini's
shirt and hands it to her and continues wearing his shirt and they both run out of the room.
Kabir and navya's house:
Kabir opens the door and manik and nandhini rush inside. Kabir points towards the bedroom and they all go inside and find mukti crying like crazy. She was cuddling with navya on the bed. Aaryaman was standing next to the bed. Nandhini sat down on the bed and joined the hug.
"Its okay mukti Jo hota ha behtar ka liya hota ha" nandhini says as she rubs her arm.
"Ya I am actually pregnant with harshads baby but me and kabir fell in love and got married. And kabir is bisexual. So see I turned out fine!" Navya says trying to calm her down. Mukti looks up at everyone and her mascara was smudged all over her face.
"Guys I appreciate you all being here for me. But I want to be alone. Aaryaman can you drop me home?" Mukti says and gets off the bed. Everyone looks at her with pitty.
Manik comes close to her and wipes her tears. Mukti looks at him and hugs him tight and starts crying on his shirt.
"Manik you were right all along. I should have listened to you when you warned me to not accept his proposal" she says while breathing heavily and crying. Manik felt so much anger towards harshad but he had to be sympathetic towards mukti right now.
"Shh relax. Its all okay. Your are not Alone hum Sub ha tumhare pass!" Manik says and gives her condolence. Mukti wipes her tears and nods her head. She looks around the room and smiles realizing all her friends are here at 3 am at night just to be there for her.
"Aliya or dhruv kaha ha?" She asks as she notices they haven't came. Kabir looks at her with guilt.
"I didn't tell Aliya about the break up. Harshad is her brother. She might be as hurt as you are and dhruv KO bataynge toh he will obviously tell aliya" kabir says and Mukti nods.
"I'll tell her tomorrow myself..." mukti says and pauses in between her sentence.
"No kal baby shower ha. Aliya is super excited for that. I can't tell her tomorrow" mukti says and navya looks at her baby bump.
"There will be no baby shower now. My best friends engagement broke do you really think I would want to celebrate anything? Hum mein as koi enjoy nahi kerega." Navya says and looks at kabir for approval and he nods his head.
Mukti looks at her in shock and holds navya's hand.
"Please no navya! Don't cancel the party! Engagement tooti ha koi mera nahi ha!" Mukti says.
"See I'm fine" mukti says with a fake smile.
"Jhooti" kabir says and hits the back of mukti's head and she bursts out crying again.
"Guys but seriously. If we won't have the baby shower Aliya will be more hurt. And I love this baby very much and this baby is the only happiness in my life right now! Meri kasam ha tumhe navya or kabir you will not cancel tomorrows party!" Mukti says in anger.
"She has a point. Aliya will be heart broken if we cancel the baby shower. She loves her little niece or nephew so much" nandhini says as she pats navya's belly.
Navya and kabir finally agree.
"Okay guys enough! I am fine! Everyone go home and sleep! Kal no one will tell Aliya or dhruv! And we will have an epic godh berhae!" Mukti says with a fake smile.
"You are sleeping over here madam!" Navya yells!
"No you are coming to my house!" Nandhini yells.
"Tum dono pagal ho? Couples ka beech I don't want to be a third wheel" mukti jokes.
"Kya third wheel? Manik KO daffa karo. You and me will sleep in my room and manik can go to the guest room. Simple" nandhini says with a smile.
"She is already here! She is sleeping over here!" Navya yells.
Kabir and manik both looked at each other awkwardly because one of them was going to sleep alone tonight.
"Guys stop it! I'm fine! Aaryaman can drop me home. I can spend the night alone!" Mukti says.
"Abha Aaryaman ka ghar hi chali jao!" Kabir says than realizes that sounded inappropriate since both of them are single.
"Umm I don't mind . Soha's room is empty you could crash there and if you need anything throughout the night my room is right next door." he says remembering his dead sister.
Mukti awkwardly looks at him.
"I don't know" mukti says. Nandhini sees this as an opportunity. She has been wanting Aaryaman to find a girl for ages and mukti needed a shoulder at this moment.
"Haan go there mukti. Apna Aaryaman tumhara khayal rakhega!" Nandhini says. Manik looked at her and understood her intentions right away. Manik felt a little hesitant about the idea of Aaryaman and Mukti but even he knew that Aaryaman was a way better guy than harshad.
"Ya come. Manik, kabir ya dhruv hote toh you would say yes. Mein dost nahi ho kya? Just because I'm new doesn't mean I don't care" Aaryaman says.
"Aaryaman! Okay fine" she agrees and smiles. They say bye to both the couples and leave.
"Let's just hope Mukti doesn't sleep with him as a coping mechanism" kabir jokes and manik hits his stomach.
"Chup ker! Or zyada soch mat. Soja! Chal bye!" Manik says and he and nandhini finally go home after such a crazy day.
Thank you so much for reading! I love you all. I am so sorry i always make you wait! I am LAZY girl lol. Sorry you guys are the bessttt 👏
Edited by mebigirl - 9 years ago