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Next Morning,
Nandini freshened up and went to the kitchen to help Navya, who had already dressed up and was making breakfast for both of them.
"Navya let me help you" Nandini said entering the kitchen. "Thank you Nanz but it's done, here" Navya replied handing her their perfect breakfast, half fried eggs with a cup of steaming frothy coffee.
"Nandini yesterday" before Navya would have completed, Nandini interrupted saying, "It's a new day right? So just forget about what happened yesterday, just let it go" Nandini smiled at Navya and although, not totally convinced, she smiled back thinking of letting the matter go for now.
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"Manik you seem lost, is everything okay beta" asked Raj looking at Manik playing with his food staring at the ceiling.
Coming out of his thoughts, Manik replied," everything is fine dad"
After a second, Manik stopped Raj and said, "Dad, My friend liked a girl a lot, in fact he..he loved her but then she broke his trust and he broke up with her"
Raj looked at him raising his eyebrows, "so what do you want me to say?"
"Did he..he do the right thing?",asked Manik. "Of course not Manik, you did wrong" Raj replied while listening to the YOU Manik looked at him stunned.
"Dad it's my friend" Manik replied uncomfortably. "I am your dad Manik" he said with a smile while Manik looked at the floor.
" Anyway, you were wrong Manik" "Why?", questioned an impatient Manik.
"Do you remember Manik, when you were in school, you had broken your classmate's bottle?"
"Yes dad but how is that related to my question" Manik said confused.
"On that day, your mother and I, instead of punishing you, had asked you for the reason behind your behaviour and it was then that we had got to know that the child whose bottle you had broken had been bullying you since quite a few days because of which you were feeling disturbed. Your anger got accumulated and then finally, when he tried to bully you again you broke his water bottle and warned him to stay away from you" Raj said smiling.
"Yes dad, I remember, but how does this imply that I was wrong" Manik repeated the question that came to his mind.
"Just think Manik, what would have you felt like if on that day, instead of letting you explain your side of the story, we would have punished you" asked Raj and as soon as he uttered those words Manik looked at him with eyes wide opened as realization dawned upon him.
He immediately got up and hugged Raj uttering a quick thank you before running out with his car keys.
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Manik reached Nandini's place and saw that the door was ajar. Knocking, he waited for her to respond but since noone responded, he walked inside.
There, in the living room, he spotted a cupboard with the name Nandini carved on it. Since it was slightly open, he could clearly see the things kept inside. The collection of the little things kept inside confused him. It was then that he heard the noise of cutlery coming from the kitchen and headed towards it.
There he saw a woman, whom he assumed to be Nandini's domestic help. "Where is Nandini?" The woman looked up startled on hearing someone's voice in the house where she was all alone, or atleast that's what she thought.
"Who are you?" The woman asked with raised eyebrows. "I am Manik, Nandini's " boyfriend shouted his heart, ex boyfriend argued his mind. Finally, to end the battle between the heart and the mind, they came to a mutual ground. "Nandini's boss" he huffed.
"Didi has gone out Sir" the woman replied. Manik nodded and made an exit from her home. He thought to check Navya's home to find Nandini.
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Nandini entered into the electronic store and looked around carefully to find the watch that she had seen in the advertisement a few days back. "I hope Manik likes my gift, may be this will help me to lessen his anger so that he listens to what I have to say" she uttered while looking around.
"The young business tycoon, Manik Malhotra's girlfriend and the marketing head of Haute Fashion is a thief" as soon as these words reached her ears, she looked around to find that this was the headline of the day being displayed on all the televisions in the shop. Suddenly her head felt heavy and she felt a throbbing pain across her body. Her hands turned sweaty and she started looking around rubbing her hands together.
Looking around to confirm that noone was noticing her movement, she sneakily picked up a new packed headphone set and put it in her bag. It was then that a shopkeeper rushed towards her and claimed that he had seen her stealing the headphone set.
The security of the store along with the manager came towards her, "Ma'am we need to check your bag" the manager uttered. "No you cannot" Nandini said and started walking towards the exit.
"Okay then, call the police Rajiv" the manager said instructing the security guard who nodded while blocking Nandini's way.
Soon the police arrived and since the headphone set was found in Nandini's bag, she was arrested.
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"Nandini Murthy, the Marketing head of Haute Fashion has been arrested" The old headline was now replaced with this new spicy big news.
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Manik rushed to the jail as soon as he got to know about Nandini's arrest.
"I am here to get Nandini Murthy's bail" he told the inspector. "My lawyer will be here in a few minutes" he said in a tone of authority.
" Not needed, A lady has already paid for Nandini Murthy's bail, we are just completing the formality, then she will be out." The inspector's words stunned Manik as he knew that Nandini was an orphan, she didn't have any relatives or friends for that matter, of course, except Navya but he had got to know that Navya had gone out of station, when he had went to her house a few hours back, to find Nandini.
"Manik" he heard a lady's voice and turned around. There stood a woman in her early forties. She wore a simple light brown coloured saree with minimal accessories.
"Yes, but I am sorry I didn't recognize you" Manik said with a deep frown on his head.
"Come let's sit and talk" said the lady pointing towards a bench placed outside the station.
"But Nandini" Manik looked unsure about going outside as right now his mind was clouded by only one name, Nandini.
"She will take some time to come, the formalities are still being completed." The lady said and Manik nodded his head following her.
Once they settled on the bench, the lady said, "Manik, you don't know me but I know you really well" she smiled while Manik stared at her confused.
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