( Edit done by me after a very very long time. 😋 )

• You and me are like stars and moon in night, can't be seen in the day light but shines brightly in the darkest midnight.. •

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Manik's Pov

Am walking to the direction of door which connects the garden area and the hall, totally lost in my own thoughts I didn't realize when did I bump in the person I shouldn't have.

"Watch out bro!"..he muttered in his disgusting tone and lately everything about him makes me feel puking, he is the one who shouldn't be here atleast not today when I have witnessed something mesmerizing in her eyes..

Manik : "Arnav, get out of my way.."..I said in a nonchalant tone but it hardly affects the rigid him.

Arnav : "I know you must be in hurry but can't we talk? I mean sometime back we did but it didn't seems like it affected you at all so I analyse that you need one more face-the-reality session..".. I hardly paid any attention to his idiotic senseless and baseless talks and changed my route to enter inside the hall where probably she is waiting for me. But as I walked a little towards my right, he walked to his left blocking my way. I walked to my left, he walked to his right again blocking my way which irked me to the core.

Manik : "What's your problem Arnav?"..I asked in a low tone voice as wasting my energy on him by increasing tone is totally out of my list.

Arnav : "My problem is very simple which you might can solve. As always!"...his last two words come out with a smirk on his face, which reminds me of all the times we ever had- pubbing, drinking, spending nights on the streets and most importantly bluffing around girls.

Manik : "If you are aiming at Nandini then stop right here. I won't let you harm her.."..I warned him in the most dangerous tone I can have, and then he raised both his hands in his defence.

Arnav : "I don't even intend to. You can trust me on this - I really don't mean any harm to her. But there is someone in the party who might trigger her long lost memories and and and...."..he stopped in the most dramatic tone leaving me horrified..

Manik : "What do you mean by someone? Who is inside?"..I instantly freaked out as a wave of concern, fear, pain rushed inside my body travels straight to my heart and pumped out all the oxygen out of my system. His statement made me so worried and out of rationality that I didn't even realized that he got to know about the memory lost part of Nandini's life.

Arnav : "Manik, you remember her beloved sister and yours ex with whom you cheated on her and from her only this game has been started.."..he answered in his filthy tone but chill ran down my spine.

Aliya? Oh my God! Aliya is in the party. No. No. No this isn't happening. No.

My heart is screaming at the loudest tone with only helplessness building inside, the damage might have already done it's been 20 minutes I'm out, Aliya must have came face to face with Nandini and what if she told her everything? What if Nandini knows the bitter truth of our lives? What if something bad happened to her? No. No. No. No. No. No

My heart started aching at it's worst now, I hardly cares about the consequences I'll face after this truth steps in our world because right now all I care about her and only her, if anything bad happens to her this time then I really don't know what I'll do next or will I be able to survive afterwards? But who cares for their own life when the person whom they love to the moon and back is in some danger.

I ran out from there shoving him off, I don't care about that laugh he passed my way when I ran as if I'm chasing my life's train and if I miss it I'll loose my own breath. Well! It isn't wrong either, indeed she is everything to me which termed as life...

I entered inside and stood on the gate holding the handle, my eyes travelled everywhere in the hall, every inch, every corner covered with my eyes but no I can't locate her and this made my heart heavy and my soul suffocated. I need to find her anyhow, she can't meet Aliya at any cost at least not when she is in her happiest phase of life or may be she should never come face-to-face her..

My eyes stopped on the person who is also looking everywhere in the crowd i.e. Mukti and I took a sigh of relief when somebody came from behind her, ahhh! There is my girl. My angel. Safe. And sound. But some frowns on her forehead caused worry to me.

She is asking something to Mukti with concern and sometimes anger as well, even though she is standing far away from me and in amidst of immense people I still can figure out her mood, the way she is holding mukti's hand and then her eyes travelling to and fro in the crowd clearly defines she is trying to find something very impatiently, perhaps someone. Then Mukti placed her free hand on my darling's shoulder and tried to cajole her, perhaps asking her to calm down then she pointed towards the stage a bit to their left but Nandini denied to the thing Mukti asked her.

Then Nandini took out of her mobile from the back pocket of her blue star printed denim jeans, as she dialed a number she is looking exceptionally beautiful and my heart filled with pride, as in the next moment my phone started ringing in my hand but my eyes fixed on her, she gave a tiring look to mukti when she tried to explain some things to her but Nandini seems to be determined to kill someone and here am thinking who that person can be?

How can that person made my girl angry? And for a moment my heart cried with the thought that she might be calling RJ. My phone stopped ringing but who cares my full attention is on Nandini, I started moving in her direction and now her phone is in her hand and she look more furious, mukti snatched phone from her hand and now she dialed a number from her phone, I am loosing grip on myself, whom they both are calling so impatiently​? And again my stupid damn phone started vibrating again but this time I ignored deliberately as I want to reach her first.

As soon as I entered a bit closer to her visionary area, she looked at me with a motive I-will-kill-you and in that moment I felt like What I did now? I walked closer and as soon as I reached right in front of her, she held my hand tightly which made me shocked, mukti looked not so surprised by her behavior.

Nandini : "Where the hell is your damn phone?"..she asked in a furious tone although making sure none around us can hear. I looked puzzled for a moment but in next I realized.

Holy shit! She was calling me! My heart cried and I felt like banging my head on the nearby wall as how can I be such idiotic creature?

"Ahhh! Actually. Hmm. Wohhh. Han. Nahi. Ummm. "..god forbid Manik stop stammering so badly, my mind chided me but her deadly gaze on me made me more nervous and at the same time scared as well. She look not less than a thousands year hungry vampire when she is furious.

Mukti : "I better get out of here.."..she murmured slowly and I looked at her nervously with a look save me but what I get in return was only all the best expression. And she walked out leaving me alone with a furious Nandini who'll surely going to kill me right now.

Nandini : "Don't tell me your phone was on silent and you didn't realized it ringing all this while. Don't you dare give me that crap."..she chided me with all the rights which made my heart swelled with joy, for a moment I forgot all the shits crossed my mind lately and in this moment I only want to cocoon her in my arms and ran away far from here where only she and me can live.

Manik : "No! It wasn't on silent but yes! I didn't realized you were calling me because I never considered myself worthy enough to be the center of attention in your world."..I answered with honesty, looking straight in her eyes and next I found all the fury out of her eyes and again her eyes softened perhaps! My words impact..

Nandini : "Manik! You are the center of my world. You are more than worthy to be worried about or to care for.." ..how she always manage to caught me off guard, the honesty, the genuinely concerned tone of her makes me fall more badly for her.

I don't know what came in my heart that I hugged her tightly in an instant, leaving her baffled and grabbed People attention towards us, I can feel their eyes on us but I don't care and am sure she too doesn't as she reciprocated with equal fervor and even more intensity. Something has definitely changed between us.

I can feel that change, I can feel every nerve of her body is proclaiming something to me, something am not able to decode but my soul has recognized it long back.

But suddenly my mind drifted back to the era which made me realize why I came all the way running? Why I was so scared a while back? And this realization made me worried all of a sudden. My eyes travelled back and forth in the whole crowd but nothing that I can locate. Weird! She is no where in my visionary area.

As I am not able to find her in the crowd, I have left with no other option than confronting Nandini only. I have to ask her about Aliya but cleverly.

"Umm! Nandini, have you met anyone in the party lately?"..I asked softly as the nervousness took over my rationality. But she looked confused by my sudden question.

Nandini : "Manik, apparently​ I met several people in this party. "..she answered In her chilled, matter of fact tone and I instantly took a sigh of relief. The way she answered my question and is behaving around me clearly shows that she hasn't met Aliya yet. Thank goodness!

"Yea! Stupid question I know."..I covered up with a mocking expression but the way she stared in my eyes makes me feel like she had sensed something is fishy in my behavior.

Nandini : "I really hope you aren't hiding anything from me."..she cornered me with her deadly stare as if she is able to see through my soul ,I instantly took away my eyes from her and calmed myself.

"Its performance time Daisy. Let's go!".. I changed the topic and held her hand and tried to take her from  there but she didn't surrendered, she kept standing there like a statue and all am thinking right now is why she is looking me with her big doe eyes, especially carrying galore of emotions in them.

"What?"..I asked with confusion all over my face and she gave me her dimple smile which instantly took my breath away.

Nandini : "I like it when people give nick names to me but the way you called me Daisy. I love the sound Manik! .."...there is such honesty in her eyes which I can never escape from, all I wonder is what good I committed in this lifetime that this angel has came in my world and dispel all the darkness surrounded.

"Come. Let's go."..I softly said with a smile because am not able to put words to my emotions she has awaken in me.

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Third person pov

Backyard of the venue:

RJ is standing all alone in the mid of the backyard garden, the whole backyard is covered with beautiful small small trees, grapes vine beautifully covering the entire high boundaries from the four corners, land is covered with neatly trimmed grass and a white swing placed in the side which is shining under the moon light. Everything looking so romantic and passionate as if goddess of love herself decorated the whole area.

But for RJ nothing is beautiful today, nothing is making him feel ecstatic, overwhelming pain built inside his soul is taking his sanity from him, obviously! It's too hard for him to hand over the girl whom he love more than his life to someone else. Although he knows that's the most right thing he can do but somewhere down the line he isn't able to do so, for a moment he wants to be selfish and take away her from there. But at the same time his heart denies to it. He is screwed badly.

Just when he was lost in his thoughts, he heard a soft but harsh sobbing sounds. Which instantly broke his reverie and he looks extremely confused as who could be there at this hour and be in so much pain. Those sobbing sounds pierced his heart badly.

RJ : "Whose there?"..he called a bit louder while approaching the nearest dark corner, but got no response in return.

As he walked a little more closer to the corner area which is full of darkness, the sound of weeping keep on increasing and it became so obvious for him that sound belongs to a girl.

RJ : "Kaun Hai? Whose there?"..he again called but got no response in return. And soon a small Ray of moonlight fall on the girl curling in the corner of the backyard garden, her hands tightly holding her knees close to her body, her head hung low, her long hair acting as a veil and the sound of her sobbing echoing in the calmness of weather, piercing the chilling silence of darkness.

He walked closer to her still oblivious of her identity, he sat down on the floor right in front of her but totally clueless of how to console her. All he is aware from the fact is that - her pain is causing incurable heartache to him.

RJ : "What happen?"..he murmured softly as if his words itself can heal her wound, he is shocked by the fact that her pain is affecting so much on him. Perhaps! He himself has faced such agonizing situation. That's why he is able to relate so well.

She raised her face slowly to see who the person is- who seems to be so much concerned and worried for her. But as she raised the face, RJ is shocked to find kajal there.

RJ : "Kajal!"..he murmured underneath her breath with a boggling expression, her situation is worse than he could have imagined, her red puffy swelled eyes filled with only tears, her nose has became all red by constant crying, her lips swelled and turned dark shade of red because of continous weeping, her Kajal has ruined badly, and the worst part is her psychological condition looks more devastated than her physical one.

As soon as she found RJ there, she hugged him with utmost force as if she is in a bad need of a warm embrace, as if- if she won't be able to take her heart out today then everything inside her will explode and she won't be able to survive.

RJ: "What you doing here? Kya hua Hai tumhe Kajal? Talk to me."..he asked impatiently, his heart and mind is thinking about the worst but his soul is not able to tolerate her pain.

Kajal : "Why? Why? Ahhh!"..she cried bitterly in his arms, clutching his blazer tightly in her fist from back, dipping her face in the crook of her neck, she found herself safe and confident enough to share her pain, her torments with him and perhaps! Only him. He let her calm down, continuously caressing her hairs, holding her tightly, he set her free.

RJ : "Shhh! Calm down. Am here, am right here."..he murmured softly and slowly while she let herself open in front of him.

Kajal : "Why he has to come back? Why every time I fall apart? Why does every single time I am played with my own feelings and become a puppet of my own mind? Why?"..she cried, she complained, she freaked out, but this time all for good. It's the pain of 5 years which has came out and it requires a lot of strength to confront your own demons, your own self which is hell bent in ruining you only.

RJ : "Talk to me Kajal, tell me what's bothering you? Am here to listen, am always here."..his soft velvet like tone touched her heart, her weeping decreased and she raised her face to look at him, he too has tears in his eyes, she found assurance in his eyes, some kind of commitment, honesty which she can trust even with her eyes closed.

She again hugged him and cried her heart out, may be she want him to console her, to make her understand that everything will be fine soon, that everything will come back to normal, and most importantly she'll be able to survive this.

Kajal : "hum usi se pyaar kyu karte Hai Jo hume sirf dard deta Hai?"..she cried inconsolably in his arms and for the first time he is able to feel that pain in her soul which she has never made anyone see including Manik.

RJ : "Kyunki muskaan toh anjaan shaks bhi de sakta Hai, magar dard sirf woh he de pata Hai Jo Dil ke kareeb ho.."..his words made her snuggle more into him and let herself weep in his arms while he silently let her cry as much as she can..

Har dard ki dawa banayi Hai,
Us Khuda ne yuhi nahi likhi takdeero mei judai Hai,
Jinhe likha Hai ek dusre ki hathon ki lakeero mei,
Ae mere yaar! Un dono ki raahe humesha he rab ne milayi Hai..

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