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<font><font>P</font><font>a</font><font>r</font><font>t</font><font>O</font><font>n</font><font>e</font> </font>
<font>She stared at her reflection in the mirror with a blank expression on her face. Unlike a normal bride, she wasn't looking happy. Only sadness clouded her expressive eyes.</font>
<font>She glanced at her reflection, taking in the blood red color of her wedding lehnga that had golden border and sequin designs. The blood red colored reminded her of her bleeding heart. And that..that's his favorite color. He loved it when she wore something of that color. But now it reminded of her broken heart.</font>
<font>From head to toe she was decked up in different jewelries, her make-up, styling, everything was perfect. Only if they all knew that she hated perfect things. She was in love with imperfection after all.</font>
MANIK MALHOTRA
<font>The man whom she had fallen in love with. The man who, though was arrogant and annoying, attracted her like fire attracts a moth.</font>
<font>Fire..he indeed was a raging fire who was burning for revenge. And had played with not only hers but her friend's feelings too. He had claimed that he loved her but he placed that baseless revenge of his over their love.</font>
<font>She hates him but she loves him more. And that was the thing that irked her the most.</font>
<font>Why!!? Why couldn't she forget that man? Now that she's getting married, she should concentrate on her would be husband, Aryaman but Manik's thoughts just never left her.</font>
<font>"Stop nandu, just stop thinking about him!!" she chided at herself and wiped the lone tear that had slipped out of her eye.</font>
<font>A knock after, the door slightly opened, " nandu, come. Its time to go, pandit ji is calling the bride!" came her amm's voice. At times she hated her for bringing Aryaman's proposal for her. If only she knew that she didn't want to marry Aryaman . But she did and still didn't care because according to her there was no better man for her nandu other than Aryaman.</font>
<font>Slowly she stood up and walked outside,her amms accompanying her to where the mandap was set. Aryaman was already there, dressed in a sherwani, his face was covered with sehra.</font>
<font>Her amms made her sit beside Aryaman. Soon the chat of mantras and other rituals started. While everyone around her was happy, she felt dying as each second passed.</font>
<font>Dreams are really bubble like. She had dreamed her marriage to and with Manik. He had promised that he wouldfulfillher every wish and won't ever let her go. But nothing such will happen now. Her dream bubble broke just like her heart.</font>
<font>"Now the pheras will start. Bride and groom should stand up now and take the seven pheras, the seven vows." said the pandit ji.</font>
<font>As the pheras started, nandini was reminded of the seven vows that she and Manik had unofficially taken.</font>
<font>On valentine's day, he had specially arranged that all for her. He knew that she was still aryaman's fiance but his love for her knew no bounds.</font>
<font>But he broke his every vow except his revenge.</font>
<font>She didn't realized when the pheras got completed. Soon they were declared husband and wife.</font>
<font>Nothing could happen now. Her fate was sealed, her life was with Aryaman now. She belonged to him, his wife, but her heart even broken will always beat for Manik and Manik only.</font>
<font>She didn't cried a bit when the bidaai happened. Just blank as her life had nothing but was filled with darkness only. Darkness that Manik had warned her of but she had countered it, saying that even in darkness she won't be alone, because he would be there with her.</font>
<font>She and Aryaman were sitting at the backseat of the car that was driven by a driver who would take them to a hotel where a room was specially booked for them, the newly weds.</font>
<font>Half way through the ride, Aryaman made the driver stop the car. He got out of the car and the driver followed. All this made nandini curious. What was happening?, she thought.</font>
<font>She found it fishy that Aryaman still hadn't removed that sehra and why the hell he was giving that driver some cash??!</font>
<font>Nandini too came out of the car as she saw the driver leaving.</font>
<font>"Aryaman..what's going on??" she questioned as she walked close to him. He took a step back and adjusted the sehra.</font>
<font>"Aryaman...?" she trailed off. It was then when she noticed his left hand that he used to adjust the sehra.</font>
<font>There, on his ring finger was a tattoo. It was a script. "MaNan" was elegantly tattooed in the size of a simple ring. Just like hers that she had been hiding with that huge ring Aryaman gave her on their engagement.</font>
<font>She held his hand and turned it. He clutched his hand in a fist but nothing could stop nandini now. She forcefully opened his fist and was numb to see her name "nandini" tattooed on the inside of his ring finger.</font>
<font>It wasn't Aryaman. Hell!!! That guy could not bear the pinch of a needle and tattoos weren't his cup of tea.</font>
<font>She immediately recognized the tattoo as she had a similar one on her ring finger. The only difference was that she had Manik's name on her finger.</font>
<font>"Manik..." she murmured with a shocked but soft voice.</font>
<font>Nothing was said from his side. Nandini stepped closer and hastily removed the sehra. She was right!! It wasn't Aryaman.</font>
<font>"Manik..." she fumbled with her steps but got the support of the car to maintain her balance.</font>
<font>"Manik!!!!" she cried as she saw the love of her life, her heart breaker standing right in front of her with misty eyes and a cheeky grin!!</font>
<font>What the hell!! Why the hell was he at Aryaman's place. OMG!!! Manik and Aryaman's place, means that she got married to Manik?!!!.</font>
<font>"Congratulations love! Finally we got married!" Manik voiced out the answer to Nandini's query.</font>
<font>"Aap??...where is Aryaman??"</font>
<font>Manik frowned and made a face, "Don't talk about that chicken!! Just few punches and kicks and he was over like a coward!"</font>
<font>Nandini didn't knew how to react. She was earlier prepared to marry Aryaman but now she got married to Manik instead. And Manik hit Aryaman, he beat him!! God...why??!!</font>
<font>"Nandini..." Manik was interrupted by nandini who just said, " I want to go back home. I don't wanna talk about anything here, or lists to you at all!"</font>
<font>She snatched the car keys from Manik and herself sat at the driver's seat.</font>
<font>Manik groaned feeling like punching himself for teaching nandini how to drive a car. Seeing now that she knew, she was going away from him.</font>
<font>So Manik decided to implement his plan B. He poured something on his handkerchief and placed it over Nandini's nose as fast as he could.</font>
<font>Nandini just had opened the door to the driver's seat but was attacked from behind. As she inhaled What Manik had poured over his handkerchief, she started feeling dizzy and just in seconds she was unconscious and in Manik's arms.</font>
<font>Manik picked up nandini, his love, his life and now his wife in his arms and placed her on the front seat and buckled her seat belt. He then that on the driver's seat. Using his index finger he gently removed the dark tendrils and placed a kiss on her forehead.</font>
<font>"I know that I got late, I am sorry. It took me your absence to realize that you mean to me so much more than my revenge. I love you nandini, I had always and i promise to you that I will fulfill all my promises-humesha"...</font>
<font>And then he turned the car and started driving on a different path.</font>
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<font>To be continued!!
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