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Nandini was worse than anybody had suspected. After leaving for Manglore, Nandini and Rishab went straight to their Amms. Amms was informed about Manik and Cabir's accident by Chacha and Chachi. She was astounded to hear the news but was shattered to hear about Nandini's state .She had started to like Manik and his friends and then this happened. She began to worry of how difficult it would be to handle Nandini as in their last visit to Manglore, Amms had eventually realized the deep love Nandini and Manik shared.

She made arrangements of Rishabh and Nandini's arrival. They arrived in Manglore and for days Nandini cried in her Amms's laps and tried to take out all her grief. Amms tried to help her to get her music back but Nandini was adamant that she did not want to do anything related to music instead this time she decided to concentrate on her dad's science and Manik's stars. While Amms believed her to be improving from her trauma, she was actually dying each day from inside. She was becoming a lifeless person day by day and nobody knew about it.

She occasionally talked to Navya to take updates about her health and in the time that she stayed in Manglore, she reunited with her old friend Sujata who was happy in her relationship. She told her nothing about Manik. She tried her best to make everybody believe that she was fine and to an extent she was successful.

After two weeks of her arrival in Manglore, Nandini decided to study science in a college in Chennai as the doctor that Dhruv suggested was also in Chennai. Amms was reluctant but was convinced otherwise by Nandini. For Dhruv's treatment Amms agreed and Nandini along with Rishab left for Chennai.

Nandini did not tell Navya and the others about her being in Chennai. Rishabh's treatment started immediately after their arrival in Chennai, the doctor assured her of a successful treatment which was the only good news for her. She was staying alone with Rishab in a rented flat opposite to the flat of their father's best friend, who was close to Amms and agreed to take care of them.

The Chopras were a family of 5 people, Nandini's Uncle, Aunt and their three kids- a boy approximately the age of Nandini and two twin girls a year elder to Rishabh. They were good people who supported them in all the shifting, settling, getting admission and visiting the doctor. They gelled well with them.

The carefree yet responsible Nandini had become less innocent and more focussed. Her entire day was time tabled, she woke up at 7, freshened up, made breakfast ,packed lunches ,made Rishabh eat the breakfast , drop Rishabh to the hospital where he had his classes each day ,go to college, attend lectures, pick up Rishabh, go back home ,clean the house, go the their Uncle and Aunt's for dinner , spend some time talking Science with her Uncle and his son whom she had become good friends with, return home , compete her studies and sleep . It was as if she had become a robot. Rishabh was there with her but he could not do much because he was himself a kid and a lot of things confused him, it was also difficult for him to cope with so many changes all at once.

Nandini did not talk about it but her guilt was killing her. She had started to blame herself for everything wrong in everybody else's life. She had began to think that whatever happened with Soha was her fault as it was her love for Manik that pushed Soha to resort to such extreme measures. She also blamed herself for creating tiffs between FAB5 and she blamed herself completely for Manik and Cabir's accident. Nobody was accusing her yet she was accusing herself for everything because she did not know any other way to explain her heart. She found it convenient to blame herself for everything wrong. She missed Manik but could do nothing about it, she wanted him to come and tell her that she was not responsible and that they will be fine.

She was elated to know about Navya's baby and congratulated her immediately as and when she got to know about it. Her entire day revolved around these 6 people and the imagination of Manik, Amms, her friends and Chacha Chachi in Mumbai.

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