Chapter 21

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6:00 PM

Manan's room👇

The room was dark, only the faint light of the bulb was lightening the room

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The room was dark, only the faint light of the bulb was lightening the room. Alarm started ringing playing a very annoying and loud tune. Manik was unaffected by the alarm, but nandini got irritated in her sleep. She was so tired that her muscles were not cooperating. Her eyes felt heavy, yet somehow she managed to push her body up and stretched her hand leaning on manik's body to reach to the phone kept on his side of table. After switching off the irritating alarm, nandini's mind urged her to take a short nap, as some time was still left, but her heart ordered her against it, so she sat up on the bed leaning against the bed's frame and switched on the lights. As the lights turned on , manik pulled a cushion and covered his face, annoyed. Nandini after waking up, for the first time saw him, and she saw him topless. She remembered he had slept with his vest on but now..maybe he woke up in mid -sleep and took off his vest.

She drooled over his physique, well-crafted muscular body and the tattoo ...it caught her attention again as he was sleeping on his stomach. She bent down and kissed him over his tattoo. He moved slightly in his sleep but didn't wake up. Nandini carefully removed the cushion from his face and she giggled when she saw that he was sleeping with his mouth open, which was also the sign , that he was extremely tired. She didn't want to disturb him, so she just kept looking at him lazily, for sometime not wanting to move.

Finally when it was 6;30 , she thought of waking him up, as they might get late. So she again bent over him and whispered in his ear "manik,, plz wake up" but he didn't move , so she slightly shook his shoulder and whispered again , her lips touching his earlobe, "manik, plz wake up, otherwise we will be late, plz" this time her words registered in his mind and he opened his eyes and turned to face her, while she sat up in her former position and he smiled and said something that made nandini laugh.

Manik: good morning..(seeing her laugh) why are you laughing?

Nandini: (after controlling her smile) manik..its evening...not morning..so good evening..

Manik sat up on the bed embarrassed and managed to say "oh sorry, good evening" smiling sheepishly and wearing his vest. Suddenly nandini remembered that she wanted to know about the tattoo, it's quite intriguing.

Nan: manik, can i ask you something?

Manik: yeah of course, first let me order coffee, you will also have it right? Your eyes are puffy..

Nan: yeah coffee is going to be my saviour and you saw my eyes, what about yours, its red due to waking up in mid deep sleep.

He signalled her to keep quite as someone picked up the phone on other side.

After ordering coffee,

Manik: ok now tell me what you wanted to ask?

Nan: about the tattoo on your back, its very unique...how did you get the design? Is something special about it?

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