|AN Writing Challenge~Closed*UPDATE pg 150* - Page 6

Originally posted by: Khushboo_AN

Hey Naina! 🤗

Yeah the deadline is on 15th August...I added it in the first page as well. 😉

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Dear Diary,

Love is a funny thing'.yeah yeah yeah'.I know'..I am the one who dreamed about love since I have understood the meaning of it but I tell you'..every girl deserves a Prince Charming.

Prince Charming is a man who loves you more than he loves himself'..not a Sadu who gets so mad at you that he takes every given opportunity to torture you for your mistake.....a mistake you made coz you were unsure of your feelings.

Prince Charming is a man who thinks the world of you'..not a Sadu who tries to make your world a difficult place to live in.

Prince Charming is a man who is like Armaan not Abhi.

I hate Abhi'.he broke my heart''.but I love Abhi too'.he is my world.

Oh Diary'..I need someone to help me.

Nikki.

Nikita slammed her diary closed. Then she opened the page she had just written on to tear it when her hand stopped and a tear drop fell on the page on the name Armaan and not and blotted it out.

Now the sentence read " Prince Charming is a man who is like Abhi"

The tears which were flowing suddenly ceased and Nikki stared unbelievingly at what she was reading.

"Dr. Nikita'.how do you feel?" the husky voice broke in her thoughts and she looked up to see Abhimanyu standing in front of her with questions in his dark eyes.

"Fine" she replied shortly and wiped her tears. She had slipped while running away after he had chased her to talk about Suman latha and had broken her leg.

Abhimanyu had turned at her scream and when he had seen her roll down the stairs and faint, his heart had stopped for a second. She had held his hand and told her in a child like voice how much it pained. When Riddhimma had sedated her she had concluded that he was a dream and spoken her heart to him. Yet, it was difficult for him to believe that she loved him.

"Did you'" before he could start his interrogation, Nikita bent her head and started picking the threads of the bedsheet. She had decided to give up on Abhimanyu Modi and Armaan Malik. She had decided to leave Sanjeevani. She had decided to join her father's practice'.in the United States.

"I am resigning" she told him and he stopped mid-sentence.

"Excuse me?" he questioned, unable to believe his ears.

"I gave in my papers to Dr. Gupta'.I have decided to go and study medicine in the States''.just wanted to inform you" she told him, without looking at him'.which was a good idea as he looked about ready to strangle her.

"Running away?" he threw at her.

"Yes" came her reply and she looked up at him and when he raised an eyebrow in question, this time she decided to give him the truth'.nothing but the truth.

"From you and Armaan" she replied and saw anger cloud those beautiful chocolate eyes, which inspite of the anger in them, made her heart melt.

"Armaan" he spoke slowly, only focusing on the name which had the power to tear his heart to smithereens.

"And you" she accentuated.

"Me'.you never did care'.about me''Armaan on the other hand" he smiled humorlessly.

"All the best Dr. Nikita" he wished her and left.

She had hoped he would at least stop her '.but he'.he had let her go. Now was the time to break ties with everything''her home, her country, her beloved Sanjeevani, Armaan, Ridzi, Atul, Anjie, Rahul, Muski and HIM.

After about 15 minutes, there was a knock on his door. And as he looked up from his files saw Nikki walk in, wishing him brightly,

'Good morning, sir!'

He was a bit surprised to see her, freshened up, looking bright and happy. Everytime he saw her in a gay mood, it reminded him how unaffected she was about what had happened between them. It irked him and made him so angry. He was consumed with thoughts about her all the time, where as she was least affected.

'You're late, Dr.Nikita, can u ever be on time?' he retorted.

'No sir, didn't u know, it is in style to be late?' she asked boldly. She couldn't help smiling. How she enjoyed poking him and making him even more angry !!!

'Dr. Nikita, I have no time for your funny jokes this early in the morning. There is too much work to be done', Abhi said looking back into his file.

'Sorry, Dr. Modi! I thought I will help you set your mood right! Obviously, your day has not started very well! Pata nahi, whose face u saw in the morning?', she replied irking him even more.

'Well Dr. Nikita, I am glad you realize that I am not in a good mood. So better beware and donot get into more trouble than you already are, or u will regret it. Anyway, it was your face I saw today first thing in the morning! So no wonder, my day is going to be rotten!', he said hotly.

Though Nikki had made up her mind to put up with anything he dished out at her, knowing very well that he was doing this only because he was hurting, his comment hurt her deeply. Her expression changed to one of sadness and eyes became watery. She was trying to put up a strong front, trying not to be affected by Abhi's anger and barbed attacks. But he was relentless, like a raging bull, and each word hurtful word of his pierced her heart. But with all her will power, to win back his love, she decided not to give up and continued her charade of happiness !!!

'Oh, really? Then how come u decided to have this meeting in the morning? U would have known that u will be seeing my face the first thing in the morning. I thought that is how u would like to start your day !!! ' Nikki said, keeping her hands on her hips and smirking at him.

'Well, as usual, Dr. Nikita, you are absolutely wrong. I had wanted to get over this meeting yesterday itself .... get it out of my way ...... and then forget about you. But apparently you were too busy. U had no time for work since ...' Abhi glared at her and added ' .... you were too busy fooling around with Siddhant.' He retorted, giving her one of his trademark cold stares.

That's it! She had it enough. How dare he throw baseless accusations at her? What did he think of himself? Just because she was being nice and letting him get away with murder, he can say and do anything he wanted to. Nikki was wild .... really, really, wild. She wanted to throw something at his face. Her hands were itching to get hold of something .... anything and fling at him. She looked around to find something thinking ......

She had been just doing her work yesterday. Infact, she was helping him by hand holding Siddhant thru his initial study of the New Sanjeevani project. She knew that Abhi had too much of work already ... she was feeling so bad that he hardly had anytime to breath.... she thought she could atleast help him with this so that he would have one thing less to worry about...... so inspite of being so tired herself, she had volunteered to help Sid. But this beastly guy ..... unfaithful, insensitive, arrogant bear, who cannot see beyond his own nose, was now accusing her of fooling around with Sid ..... who did he think he was? .... thinking this she was still looking around for something to throw at his face.

Abhi was surprised, that she did not respond for a second and was looking around for something. He was wondering what was happening to her,

'What, Dr. Nikita ? .... Why suddenly u have nothing to say? Cat got your tongue? Or surprised that I hit the nail right on the head? Well, now I know you too well. I know all your tricks and what you are upto. You cannot fool me any more !' He smirked and said with a sarcastic smile.

But then suddenly, she walked around his desk, stood in front of him with hands on her hips and said,

'What?' she said horrified at his accusations. 'What did you say?' unable to believe his accusations. 'Just repeat what you said earlair!', she glared at him, loosing her temper more by each second.

'You heard me, Dr. Nikita. I do not have time for this right now. So let us start to work', Abhi said turning to his files.

Suddenly, he found that he was being whirled around as his chair swung with a force. He was shocked. The file fell out of his hand as he felt the sudden jerk. He was shocked to find Nikki leaning towards him, with both her hands on the arms of his chair, towering over him, her face pushed close to his face, her long hair was cascading down her shoulders, just a few inches away from him, she was staring with her sparkling big angry eyes straight into his eyes.

'So u have time to insult me, but when I ask u to justify it, u have no time. Just because I let u insult me once before, without putting up a fight, without asking you to take it back, does not mean that you will get away with it again and again, do u understand?' Nikki said going even more closer to him. She was at a point of exploding. She was fuming, her eyes were spitting fire and cheeks were burning red. If she could, she would have scratched his angry dark eyes out, which she was always drowning into. But unfortunately, she will die before hurting him any more than she had already done.

She was looking into his eyes which were like a few inches away. Suddenly something changed in them. The anger disappeared. She could see it was replaced by an awareness ... an awareness brought by her closeness. They moved towards her lips and back upto her eyes. As she gazed into them, she saw that they had become darker and deeper. Suddenly she realized what she had done and how close she was to him. Her senses were completely captured by him, she could hear his breadth, smell his aftershave, and could feel his sight on her face. She felt as if he was touching her lips with his hungry eyes. Suddenly feeling conscience she lowered her gaze, but only to see his bare chest thru his unbuttoned shirt. That was her undoing ... she was completely motionless. Could not do anything after that, she was completely gone .... incapable of doing anything .... drowning in his aura.

Slowly, Abhi lifted his hand. Caressed her cheeks, moved his index finger up and down, and moved his hand at the back of her neck, digging into the softness of her hair, bringing her face even more closer and lips just a breadth away. Time just stopped, they were in this position, for God knows how long. Both of them completely lost into each other, unaware of the surrounding.

She heard, Abhi whisper huskily, ' Nikki ........'

She realized, Abhi was waiting ..... not moving. She knew that Abhi was not going to make the first move anymore. He had burnt himself once. She had broken his trust. He was not going risk hurting himself again, she could see in his eyes how much the pool incident had hurt him .... she will have to make a move now. If she wanted something, she was the one who had to set the ball rolling. But then what did she want? She herself was confused ... she was in unchartered territories ... having no idea what to do. She only knew that she had to make up with Abhi, she had to fix the damage she had done, she had to do whatever it takes for Abhi to forgive her and fall in love with her. So slowly, collecting all her courage, she moved forward, closed her eyes and placed her lips on his ....very softly ..... giving herself to him........trusting him .... with her heart and soul. Ready to take whatever came her way after this ......

Hey everyone,