MaNan SS||*New Life with Shrink*||Chap 14:pg 85(22-04) - Page 6

Originally posted by: Pooja2899

nice story.
getting more and more interesting.
waiting for next part.
continue soon.

Now this sounds like a fresh concept!
Bored of married or teen manans!
Will be looking forward to it!
I must tell u dear! You presentation writing pattern and style are amazing!
I read it in real hurry! But i really wanted to support you for such good work!
I will read it later itminan se!!!
Will waiting for stoey to unfold!

Guuud luck for ur story princess<3

Stay happy stay blessed
Mishshergill

Originally posted by: etuu

uniqueness overloaded... seriously starting was superb...after reading my curiosity is now on high... OK OK please update soon... yeah if possible then whenever you update please pm me ...

Originally posted by: Paro_rudra

loved it<3<3
nandu doesnt seem like a pyscho but surely a unique and exceptional case..
it was long update
thanks for updating dear
i love ur writing...
waiting for the story to unfold

Originally posted by: Adeebaayub

This looks weirdly different and so intriguing .
HIM and HER has to be Manik and Nandini.
Hope so .

Well , the zeal to get everything perfect is exhilarating but if overdone will have the opposite consequences .

I am so looking forward to this piece of work .
God bless you girl .

Originally posted by: Angel_manan

Very nice update.
Beautiful written.
Loved it very much.
Very interesting...
Waiting for next update.
Continue soon.
Thanks for pm.
Lots of love
Purna

Originally posted by: mishshergill

Now this sounds like a fresh concept!
Bored of married or teen manans!
Will be looking forward to it!
I must tell u dear! You presentation writing pattern and style are amazing!
I read it in real hurry! But i really wanted to support you for such good work!
I will read it later itminan se!!!
Will waiting for stoey to unfold!

Guuud luck for ur story princess<3

Stay happy stay blessed
Mishshergill

Originally posted by: DesaiK

Amazing update

Guys if you really want to appreciate then Appreciate Preeti.

Its her concept. I have just given words to it.

Chapter 2

Dancing in the Dark

"I saw her today cabir" Manik said still in thoughts. And cabir was shocked to hear it.

Before cabir could come out of shock and question all the hundred doubts that came in his mind with manik's one mere line of seeing her, a nurse barges in the cabin panting heavily.

"Sir, patient no 79 is really getting out of our control and is not letting us inject also. Please come sir!" the nurse said.

"Lets go. Cabir you stay here I will just check" Manik said picking his coat and rushed out immediately leaving a thoughtful cabir.

Manik went and cabir and nurse were left. Nurse gave a flirtatious smile to cabir showing her teeth.

"Cabir sir aap thak gaye hain me thoda sa massage kardu." She seductively said getting closer to cabir and he understood her meaning

"You know what when u smile I feel like giving u phone number" Cabir said huskily with the same smile on his lips.

"Your's? Then what are you waiting for? The nurse said excitedly raising her hand

Cabir took out a card and placed it on her palm and traced seductively and said.

"Its my friend who is a dentist. Just say my name and he will also give discount for your checkup." Saying so, he moved out of the cabin while the nurse stood there shocked.

Nandini's pov

The cultural festival was exactly like the numerous ones I had attended in my previous college but it was not competitive at all. It was more for fun and entertainment. Ye t it had a lot of corporate sponsors. I was told that it gave the seniors a good working experience to organise such events.

When we entered the venue, I was dazzled by the flamboyant way it was done up. The glitter, glamour and the stylish way the compere was addressing everyone, the huge speakers and the shiny ball in the centre suspended from the ceiling which reflected disco lights, the dance floor, the stage, the corporate banners that blended in seamlessly and smoothly, were all well integrated.

Chaya, Jigna, Uday and Joseph too were impressed. We were a little late and it had already begun. The compere was now announcing the next contest which was popularly called JAM or Just a minute'.

"You must take part in this," Joseph said.

The Compere was calling for entries and before I could protest to Joseph, he caught my hand and raised it high, calling out my name. She immediately announced it on the mike and I had no option but to go up on stage.

Standing on that stage with the spotlight focused on me I felt a strange sense of exhilaration. A million thoughts were swarming in my mind like a pack of bees whose beehive has been disturbed. I struggled to rein them in. They were floating across in hordes and my mind struggled to keep up the pace. I tried to slow down my thinking, tried to desperately make sense of what I was feeling but the more I tried the more aware I became that I couldn't. A sense of ecstatic feeling was washing over me in waves. I was aware of the compere now pushing a bowl towards me which held bits of paper that had the topic for JAM written on them. I took out one and opened it. It read "Clint Eastwood's drinking preference Good Vodka, Bad Martini and Ugly Rum." I had ten seconds to compose my thoughts and then I would have to speak on the topic without a pause, a stammer, a stutter or a grammatical error. The theme sound track from the motion picture Good, Bad and Ugly' started playing and suddenly every note in the music that was playing in the background became so poignant, so clear and so very intense.

As the music faded I started speaking about how Ms. Martini, Ms. Vodka and Ms. Rum were actually three ladies who had a crush on Eastwood and how their styles of sipping alcohol affected their relationship with Eastwood. I spoke effortlessly and my speech was full of sexual innuendos and I had the audience roaring with laughter. I felt supremely charged up with my own cleverness and stunned myself by speaking so clearly and so engagingly that the compere forgot to ring the bell at the end of one minute. I continued for a full three minutes, before she realised and then interrupted me and announced my amazing performance. By now the audience was screaming "More! More! Let her continue. We want to hear more." I grabbed the mike from the compere and continued for two more minutes. I was feeling invincible, irresistible, charming and at the top of the world. When I stepped off the stage, with thunderous applause resounding in my ears, Joseph came and hugged me and carried me in the air and I squealed in delight as I told him to put me down. Chaya, Jigna and Uday crowded around me and looked at me with awe.

Manik's pov

"Tring.. tring.." My trance was disturbed with a phone ring. Huh! It was like those typical cheesy movies where hero is watching her heroine smiling and someone comes to distract him.

"hello" I said irritated as it was cabir

"hello Manik...kaha he tu?? Aur ye itni awaz kyu aa rahi he?? He said shoutingly as the noise here is really loud after all my nandu performed so well.

"umm.. wo..."I was looking for some excuse as I don't want him to know where am I.

"ok tujhe time lagne wala hai to baad main batana filhaal hospital aaja. Its emergency" he said and I made a bad face as I have to leave from here. But work comes first. I will be back nandu.

Yes actually I was passing by and I saw nandu entering the college and I quietly followed her. And I watched her every move. She is still the same intelligent, crazy, little, courageous, notorious and cute too.

I walked to my car and started to drive while recalling yesterday morning. Yes I had seen her yesterday in the park where I go to teach yoga to the senior citizen. She was there doing jogging. She was in her pink jogging track suit. She was looking cute little one. There were some weird expressions on her face. I can see how crazily she concentrated on jogging. She walked past me but didn't even look at me once!

It seems as if she has forgotten me. How could she? I sighed.

Nandini's pov

"Oh my God! You are really too good yaar. We had no idea you were that good!" said Jigna.

The music now changed to dance music and alcohol and starters were being served. The rest of the evening was purely party time and people had already begun dancing. I suddenly wanted to dance. I was never one to be this enthusiastic and usually preferred to be a bystander, but I seemed to have transformed entirely that night. It was as if a different person had completely taken over me.

"Come on, let us dance," I told Joseph who was surprised as I pulled him towards the dance floor and we began dancing. It was as if I had drunk a lot but the truth was I had not touched a drop of alcohol. I was dancing with wild abandon and gyrating wildly.

We finally stopped after a long time. Then Joseph asked me if I wanted to go up to the terrace. He said the view was marvellous. I agreed immediately without much thought. I could see Chaya dancing at the other end of the dance floor. Jigna was enjoying a drink and talking to a guy I did not recognise. I gestured to her that I was going upstairs. She nodded absent-mindedly.

Joseph and I made our way upstairs, through a narrow set of stairs. As we went up, the cool night breeze hit my face. There seemed to be a million stars in the sky. We could hear the music from downstairs very clearly. I looked around the terrace and found that many people were sitting around. Some couples were making out. Some stood at the edge of the parapet, looking around at the millions of twinkling lights that looked as magnificent as the stars in the sky. The city stretched out for miles around, spread out like a magic carpet, it's ugly underbelly, crowded buildings, streets, sprawling slums and millions of people cloaked by the magic darkness of the night studded with glowing city lights, unaware of the happenings on top of this single building that was a part of its thousands.

I looked to the side and could see Uday and a group of guys. Uday was sitting, leaning his back against a water tank like structure, made of concrete. He seemed to be unnaturally still and that was when I noticed a syringe planted in his elbow and he was slowly pushing the plunger in. I looked at Joseph and saw that he had noticed it too.

"Do you want to try?" he asked.

A strange sense of absolute assuredness combined with a manic wild abandon was engulfing me now. It was nothing like I had ever felt before.

"No, but I want to dance."

"Shall we go back to the dance floor?" asked Joseph. He had his hands around my waist, from the back now, like he was my boyfriend and funnily I did not care. In fact I liked it that he was being protective towards me.

"No, I want to dance now," I said and before he could say anything, I had reached over to the parapet, climbed on top of it and started balancing precariously over the edge.

I saw the shock and fear in Joseph's eyes. It made me laugh and it compelled me to shock him more. I was oblivious of the danger. I was immune to the fact that death was certain if I fell backwards, a drop of more than 10 floors. I was enjoying it immensely and feeling indomitably powerful.

"Nandu"what the hell are you doing? GET DOWN RIGHT NOW," Joseph screamed. Several people turned to look. It goaded me on even more.

"It would be marvellous to jump, won't it?" I laughed again, now a little uncontrollably.

"Nandu"that is quite enough, Please come down now. Please. I beg you" said Joseph and I could hear the fear and desperation his voice.

"What has she been taking? Which idiot let her have it? " asked a guy whom I had never seen before.

Suddenly I felt a bolt of anger shooting up inside me. How dare this imbecile even imply I was drugged? I had not even taken a drop of alcohol. I felt violence surging inside me like a wave and suddenly I wanted to hit him. I jumped off the parapet towards him.

"Who the f**k, are you?" I shouted at him as I advanced towards him. He took a step backwards, clearly taken aback and it enraged me further. I went towards him and grabbed his collar.

"Do you f**king know? Have you f**king seen me doing drugs or drinking?" I was shaking him now and he did not know what to do. Expletives were flowing from my mouth like water, something that wasn't what I did normally. It was as though I had no control over what I was saying anymore. I could see alarm rising in him and again I was finding that funny. I wanted to laugh, but by then Joseph had grabbed me from behind.

"That is enough. Come, let us go downstairs," he said. It seemed as if he was frightened even to say anything to me.

I turned around and saw Uday watching the whole thing impassively. Jigna and Chaya too were on the terrace now. I had no idea when they had come up but judging by the looks on their faces, it was evident they had witnessed a lot of the drama that had just unfolded. I could see concern in their faces now.

"It is okay, I am fine" I assured Chaya though I had no idea what had just happened and why I had behaved like that.

"Umm, tell the truth. Were you drinking? Or have you taken something? Did Uday give you a fix?" asked Joseph.

"No, I haven't. Haven't I been with you whole evening? Come on guys. I thought at least all of you know me," I said, a little offended.

"It seems like I really don't know you Nandini. You're full of surprises today. Anyway, you managed to scare me stiff," said Joseph and he was looking at me strangely now, as though seeing me for the first time.

"Sorry, it was just a bit of harmless fun. I guess I went a little overboard," I said half contritely now, sensing that they were really concerned.

We took the train back to Chaya's home. Joseph and another guy from our class saw us off at the station. Joseph asked if he should accompany us. Chaya assured him that we would be fine.

Later that night, Chaya and I spread out a mattress in her drawing room.

"Hey Nandu," whispered Chaya as we lay down "Don't take such risks again. What if

you had fallen over?" she asked.

I could not answer her. I had no idea myself what I had been doing. It was the first time in my life that I realised that I could not TRUST my own self anymore. It was a very terrifying thought. I blinked away tears of shame that had been welling up in my eyes and threatening to fall. Then I turned over to the other side and pretended to be asleep though it was a very long time, probably hours before I managed to fall asleep.

Writer's Pov

On the surface Nandini seemed normal. But underneath changes were taking place, so subtle, so gradual and slowly, much like the gradual movements in tectonic plates which would then result in a large outburst like a volcanic eruption. BOOM!😲

To be continued...

Guys the statement written in bold indicates the change taking place in nandini. Many of you guys have noticed in this update that she has started to act crazy and unfortunately our dear manik didn't saw all this. He only saw her performance. So nandu does crazy things but we will look it in a different point of view. Well I thought story is kinda getting serious so I added cabir.

What if i say i am in love with your story plot and more over your way of expressing and writing!
I really wanna pount out ever small small things which took place in the chappy that were actual essence of the chappy which will definetly gonna make the story really interesting further!

Ohky seal it! I am following the story from now!
Do pm me... And yeah! I know u dont need it but still if there is anything i can help u in... Dont hesitate i am just a pm away!

Guud luck princess<3

Stay happy stay blessed
Msishergill