Tere ishq mai

Chapter-22

"Mammmaaaaaaa" screamed Manan loudly...

Nandini run towards his room to find him standing on the bed all with a horror face....

"Kya hua bacha" asked Nandini while moving towards Manan...

Manan direct his finger in a direction, Nandini looked towards that direction only to get a terror attack....

And why she would not get terrified while seeing COCKROACH.. She too jumped and stand with Manan and shouted "Mummy "....

Manik was witnessing this and how hard he was trying not to burst out loudly...

"Mumma are you also scared of cockroaches" asked Manan innocently...

"Offcourse bacha... Girls toh darti h almost all cockroaches se..." said Nandini while shooing the cockroach...

It's quite cute later on, because Manan was super scared of a cockroach and Nandini killed the cockroach after making several attempt while closing her eyes even though it was obvious that she's pretty scared of it too. -laughs-

After that Nandini was relieved and asked Manan "how he could be scared of cockroaches when he wanted to be a man".

" Who said men cannot be scared of cockroaches?" Manan asked, leaving Nandini stunned...

Manik witnessing all this started laughing and Nandini too burst into laughter leaving Manan confused that why the hell they are laughing.

Later on, Nandini asked Manan to go to sleep because he still had that performance tomorrow. Manan asked if Uncle Manik could be there, but Nandini told him again that "Uncle Manik can be your good friend beta..... but he cannot be your daddy"....

Manan was very sad and went to cancel the words "Dad" of the name "Manik daddy" on his drawing of his alien Daddy.

Later, Manik webcammed with Alia, and he told her that he's living in the house of a single mum, but her five year old son, Manan was quite cute.

Alia said " Eh... this is the first time you laughed mentioning someone else other than me"...

Manik said smirking "Is someone sounds jealous?"

Alia started laughing on that... Manik said that Alia should come here for a walk some time, but Alia told him that her father's already very anxious about the case, and she wanted him by her side as soon as possible.

The next day, Manan was very down because Nandini's choice of performance was knitting.

He was also sad that his alien daddy didn't turn up. Manik stuffed a stack of papers into his bag when Ashish turned up and told him about the deal that Manan had with his friend.

Later, Manan's friend whom he bet with took Manan's equipment, the one that sent signals to his alien daddy (Nandini had given Manan that equipment and told him that this would send signals to your alien daddy) and laughed at him. Manan went to take it back, and in the tug of war, it accidentally dropped on the floor and broke in two pieces.

Manan started crying, took the pieces and ran out of the kindergarten.

Guess who appeared!!!!!!

Manik who dressed up like some alien cool daddy. He stepped out of the car and went " Mi Xiu, Mi Xiu, Mi Xiuuuuuuuu" ( Miss uh Miss uh Miss uh)

Manan was shocked while seeing him in this attire. Manik taught Manan how to rollarblade and after the performance, Manik wanted to punish Manan's friend for Manan, but Manan stood up and thanked him.

He said that "he had always known that Manik uncle wasn't his daddy, and that his father wasn't even an alien. " Then while sniffing he added "I don't know where my dad is, I don't know why my daddy didn't come to find me.. but it's okay because I have Mumma and Dhruv uncle... I had a great time today.. Thank you!"

Manik was stunned by this small speech of Manan... He thought indeed the mother and son are very strong to deal with their problems...

Whereas Nandini cried because she didn't expect Manan to be so smart and yet so thoughtful. Manan's friend felt bad and apologised to Manan while Manan forget him...

Later, Manik took Manan home and taught him how to rollarblade properly.

Nandini remembered that Manik told her last time that his father taught him how to rollarblade, and so she asked Manik why he wanted to teach Manan that.

"No idea, I just thought it will be something that a father will do". Manik said while teaching Manan...

Hearing that Nandini was in tears...

Tu safar mera

Hai tu hi meri manzil

Tere bina guzara

Ae dil hai mushkil

Manik looked towards Nandini and Nandini at once rubbed her tears... But Manik had noticed her teary eyes..

Tu mera khuda

Tu hi duaa main shaamil

Tere bina guzara

Ae dil hai mushkil

"Manan don't you think we should teach your mumma also" asked Manik playfully...

To which Manan smiled and agreed whole heartedly giving him a toothy smile...

Mujhe azmaati hai teri kami

Meri har kami ko hai tu laazmi

"Nhi ..." Nandini tried to resist but Manik and Manan were holding her hand...

Junoon hai mera

Banu main tere kaabil

Tere bina guzaara

Ae dil hai mushkil

Nandini was looking towards Manik while Manik was giving her instructions.. Manik taught Nandini how to rollar blade as well...

Yeh rooh bhi meri

Yeh jism bhi mera

Utna mera nahi

Jitna hua tera

They accidentally fell on the lawn. Manik was holding Nandini's waist and she gripped his shoulder tightly closing her eyes..

Mera aasmaan dhoondhe teri zameen

Meri har kami ko hai tu laazmi

Manik looked towards Nandini.... This whole incident brought memories to Manik's mind again, because years ago, he taught Nandini how to skate on the ice rink as well.

Tune diya hai jo

Woh dard hi sahi

Tujhse mila hai toh

Inaam hai mera

He looked towards Nandini and started getting flashback of the converstations...

"If one trust the other enough to give her hands to him, it shows you the other person would protect her forever.. So, kya tum mujhpr trust krogi... I will always protect you"

"Life is like a beautiful melody only lyrics are messed up"

Zameen pe na sahi

Toh aasmaan mein aa mil

Tere bina guzaara

"I don't know but sometimes I feel there is some connection between me, you and Manan " said Manik unknowingly...

Hearing this Nandani at once open her eyes and try to stand up but she had badly injured her knee... Seeing this Manik tried to help her, but she showed him her hands to stop and somehow slowly move out from that area...

That night, after Manan fell asleep, Manik took the first aid box out and helped to bandaged Nandini's injured knee. She tried to stop him but he was too adamanat... She thought of the sweet memories that they had last time, and she cried. Manik thought may be she is crying because of pain of injuring her leg.. Nandini thanked Manik because it's the first time that she had seen Manan so happy, but Manik said that she didn't need to be so touched.

She asked Manik why he treated the both of them so well, but Manik just laughed and said "I'm the kind that once I start doing something, I will not give up" [caring for the both of them] and Nandini was stunned because he said the same thing to her last time.

"As long as I'm here for a day.. I will be here to protect the both of you... You are right.. I should try my hardest for you, for Manan, for all the villagers to fight the case. It was Manan who taught me to be honest with myself."

So, to honour his promise to Nandini that he would help the villagers, Manik called Mr Sexana and asked if there were other alternatives other than buying the land. All the villagers had to survive on this land, but Mr Sexana was irritated and told him that he would get another Lawyer to settle the case and that Manik didn't need to care about it anymore.

Dhruv went to save the guy Naman who he suspected to got duped into selling their land and succeeded in getting him out but not before two major things happened

1. learning that Manik was the future son in law of Mr Sexana i.e. no hope for them to win the case

2. in order for them to escape, he pushed the gang leader Brother Fang into shelves where there're bottles of acid and a bottle overturned, so Brother Fang's eyes got acid in them.

The next morning, Nandini found shredded pieces of paper in the bin and upon reading them, she realised that Manik had initially planned on duping the villagers. Those forms that they had to fill in if they wanted to complain? They were actually forms to agree that they would take the money from Mr Sexana and move away from this village. Nandini realised that Manik really wanted to help them, since he even shredded those papers.

Village Head came in and thanked him again. Manik felt super guilty because those villagers treated him so nicely and thought that he's so nice but they didn't know that he was planning to cheat them all along [until well, last night]

Dhruv suddenly came into the office and said " Actually you're a liar"...

Sarla scolded Dhruv and said "he would be our village's savior, how could you talk to him like that" but Naman appeared, with lots of injuries, and said "He's the son in law of Sexana Corporation. He's simply sent here to shut you all up!"

So now all the villagers were reeling from the shock that Manik was the son in law. Dhruv said that Sexana Corporation couldn't succeed in chasing away the villagers after scamming Naman [ they got someone to get him addicted to gambling, so that he will gamble his land deed away], so they sent Manik to chase them off.

Manik said that he really didn't know about the scam thing. He told them that it's true that initially, he wanted to follow what was Mr Sexana instructions, but after coming to Village, he got to know all the villagers and knew how nice they were to him.

He realised that the way Sexana Corporation tried to obtain the land was too extreme, which made him suspicious, and that he really wanted to help them.

Dhruv said "I'm not at all interested in listening to your nonsense.. If we didn't know your true identity, we wouldn't even know if you sold village away. Whatever that Sexana Corporation did to us is the same as robbery. You can scam! We will find a new lawyer. We don't need you anymore"

Manik replied him by saying that "they had no evidence to prove that Naman was scammed, and that without him, there's no way village could win the case".

Village Head was so angry that he collapsed from a heart attack and even though Manik rushed up to see what happened, all the villagers just started shouting at him. They were so angry that they wanted to beat him up with stone but Nandini suddenly appeared and they accidentally hit her instead.

Dhruv saw, and asked everyone to stop, but Manik was equally angry and shouted "STOP!!!!!"

Nandini requested for everyone to be calm and that she believed him. Ashish's Father said that "she must have selfish intentions for wanting to help him out, and that maybe they were already together [since they're living in the same house]". Seeing that the villagers were turning against Nandini as well..

Manik said that "he's the one in the wrong and they should not implicate the innocent, so he left the office" but not before seeing Dhruv holding Nandini's arm [because she was ready to rush out towards Manik], seeing this Manik's was uncomfortable with Dhruv being around Nandini.

Later, Dhruv told Nandini that he's not the same Manik that the both of them had known. Now, he's just someone who knew power and as long as you have money, he could fight and win the cases for you. Nandini told him that she didn't know how to explain to him, but she believed that Manik wouldn't harm any of them, simply because he's still the old Manik.

She turned around and was going to walk off when Dhruv asked "Is it because you still love him"...

"I just don't want to wrong him" she said and she walked off, while Dhruv shouted "Are you lying to him, lying to yourself.... or lying to me Nandini..."

Nandini rushed home to see Manik angrily packing his stuff and he was even angrier when he saw the bruise forming on Nandini's forehead.

"I really want to help them now, why won't they calm down and believe me? If not for that damned case, I wouldn't beat damned that pervert, then I wouldn't be sent to this damned village!!" said Manik furiously...

"What case?" asked Nandini..

Manik told her that he accepted a case of a sexually abused victim and his client's a big boss who sexually harassed the domestic helper and her daughter at home. Even though he already won the case, when he heard the client talking to the daughter in a very rude way, he lost his mind and punched him.

Nandini told him that "I always believe... that in the deepest corners of someone's heart lies the most honest side of that person... something that cannot be faked.... That was the reason while you won the case then also you punched that guy after listening his shit... "

"Is he like that too? Manan's daddy? You sound like you know someone like me" asked Manik suspiciously..

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