Nandini realizes that the place where she is going to be tutored is where she saw them go the other night, and blurts out, "you're not living together?" manik acts surprised, even though he totally orchestrated this whole meeting, just to prove to nandini that he ISN'T living with alya, but nandini doesn't know that, and just squees silently in delight.
Nandini gets back to her old self, making chocolates for manik, to the utter delight of nyonika. She fantasizes giving him a perfectly wrapped box of chocolates, and in return, he gives her...a diamond ring.
She heads out that night with her chocolates, but it starts pouring rain, and to top it off, her taxi breaks down on her way to manik. She shows up at the restaurant sopping wet and trembling.
Alya comes over to her table, telling her it's useless to wait for manik tonight because he is has a tutoring session again with some other random girl. She brings her a cup of coffee.
Sure enough, Nandini takes one sip and faints.
Manik's boss lets him off early to take nandini home, making alya give nandini the evil eye.
They head outside and can't manage to get a cab, so manik suggests walking to his apartment and then calling nyonika for a ride from there. Nandini is of course thrilled to be invited over, no matter the circumstance.
They head to his studio apartment, where nandini confirms that she's his first visitor and manik calls nyonika to come pick her up. But nyonika tells him that she doesn't feel like it, and promptly hangs up on him.
Manik gapes at his phone in disbelief and goes to shower. Nandini freaks out about being in a situation straight out of a romance novel, and wonders how to act. She thinks to herself, gulping, "But...this place only has one room...and only one bed!"
Manik comes out, putting her on edge, and he asks knowingly if she's nervous. He gives her a change of clothes and she washes up.
Meanwhile, nyonika calls harshad and asks him to relay a message to Nandini's mom: that she'll be spending the night at manik's place, and not to worry. Harshad goes into a trauma, and after recovery asks where manik lives, but nyonika doesn't know, and wouldn't tell him anyway, so upon hearing vague references to where manik works, he runs out to track them down.
He eventually shows up at manik's restaurant, rain-weary and freaked out, and then passes out.
Nandini sits uneasily, as manik finishes reading and then goes to bed. She timidly says that she'll just sleep on the floor then, which he agrees to wholeheartedly, telling her to grab one of his jackets, as he only has one spare blanket.
That's enough to break the spell, as nandini's spunk returns. She says that most men would insist she take the bed, but he answers coldly that he's not in the mood to say those words to her. Nandini: "You're not even a human being!"
Cue nandini in bed, and manik on the floor. She asks if she can turn the light on—she's afraid of ghosts. He says he can't sleep with the light on, but then he turns it on anyway. Next, she wonders if he isn't cold. She offers to switch places with him, annoying him to the point that he just gets into bed with her, announcing that they'll just sleep like this, so that she'll shut up about it.
But once they're in the same bed, they can't go to sleep, and Nandini starts nervously gulping again, which he notices. He supposes that she has a valid reason to be nervous, since anything could happen—a kiss, or something more...
He springs up and nandini does too, lingering for a moment...and then he lies back down, deflating her excitement. He turns his back to her, saying that he's not going to do anything, so she shouldn't raise her expectations.
Nandini frets that maybe he doesn't think of her as a woman, but he reads her mind, and assures her that it's nothing to do with her. He just doesn't want to fall in line with nyonika's plan for his life, strapping him down to her pre-ordained path for him.
Nandini smiles as that comforts her, reminding her that he doesn't hate her, and she can't manage to fall asleep from the pitter patter of her heart. It turns out that manik is wide awake too, smiling to himself. They lie awake like that, adorably nervous and content, and trying not to let it show.