Loved but not forgiven ✅

Confrontations

"Manik Malhotra!!" they heard Nandini's voice boom in the living room

All the four ran out covered with flour to see the huffing Nandini, next their eyes roam around the living room, the pillows were dishaved, there were muddy shoes kept in the entrance and some of the mud, there was water spilled somewhere, a sweat covered jersey was on the sofa, basically the whole living room looked garbage

"Yeh kisne kiya?" Arav asked other three but to his bad luck all the three were thinking the same thing

Nandini looked at the four covered in flour and her anger rosed to it's peak

"What the hell have you done to my house!!!" she yelled at all of them

"Manik kya hai yeh sab?" she said all the others were in blur now

"I swear maine kuch nahi kiya" Manik said all scared

"Tho yeh kisne kiya?" she asked in rage "This muddy shoes, sweaty jersey, this pillows" she said her face turning red

"Aur yeh Arav tum par gaya hai pura ka pura" she said making Cabir and Abhir giggle and Arav glare at them but MaNan were busy in their own world

"Itne pranks, itni complaints, sabko marta phirta hai, can't control his anger" she said huffing

"Kal bhi you didn't see uss bacche ko kaise mara" she said making him remember the school incident

"But he did it for his friends na" Manik reasoned

"Ha yeh achha reason hai, don't defend him now like you are his lawyer" she said her left hand on waist and right hand pointing to him

"Tumhare tarah he is stubborn, keeps his things everywhere in the house, see the floor Kitna kharab ho gaya and Aiyyappa mere flour ka dabba gira diya tumne" she was continuously blabbering

"He is just like you pura din mein sochti hu ki kya karu iska, he never listens, bilkul, bilkul tum par gaya hai" she said fustrated

"Aab mera beta hai tho mujh par hi jayega na" Manik said and Nandini looked at him

"Dekha, dekha same, same tum par gaya hai" she said pointing Arav and Manik simltenously

"Shhhhhhh Jaan kya hua hai" Manik said holding her arms

"Isne, Isne fifth floor wale Mrs Banarjee ke doggy ko chod diya" she said sitting on the sofa and then made a face and threw the sweaty jersey away

"Arey I had reasons" Arav tried to defend

Looking them talk Abhir lean to Cabir

"Challo" he said and quitely dragged him away

"What?" Cabir asked

"Nothing, don't you want to get clean" Abhir said and dragged him to his bathroom

"Tum bhoat samjhdaar ho" Cabir said making Abhir sit on the slab and cleaning his face

"I can do it myself" Abhir said holding his hand

"You can but I want to do this" Cabir said continuing his work as Abhir looked at him intensely
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"See he had reasons" Manik said to Nandini siting besides her as Arav stood in front of the

"Lo, Lo uski side lo aur" Nandini said hitting Manik on his left arm

"Arey but wo boli raha hai na Nandini that he had reasons" Manik tried to defend again

"Accha What reasons?" Nandini asked  raising her eyebrows