Nandini

"What the hell " I shouted as soon as I barged into the living room where all the guys were planning manik's so-called bachelor party.

"What happened ?" Manik asked as he stood up abruptly. All the girls stood behind me giving their guys a hard stare.

"Oh don't act like you're a saint, where the hell are you guys going for your bachelor party ?" I said huffing like a bull.

"Nand-" before manik could complete Cabir stood up and spoke.

"We are going to las-vegas " Cabir declared sending a mocking glare at navya.

What's his problem man ?

"Out of all the places in this world you want to go there only ha ?" I said cringing my forehead, turning my glare to Cabir.

"I heard there are nice strip clubs over there so "

His words riled my blood pressure up. He wants to take my man, the one I'm gonna marry next week to a strip club. I'm seeing red right now.

"Nandu no we are not !" Manik tried to intervene.

"Yes we are " Cabir said menacingly smirking at navya, who paled at his words.

"Cabir yar ...." I heard manik's tired voice.

"No manik ! You promised " Cabir glared at him and manik sighed in distress.

"Listen to me Mr. Cabir Dawan" I started speaking taking daring steps towards Cabir, furrowing my eyebrows.

"If you do that then even we girls will go to las-vegas" another step forward.

"We will book a room in the same hotel that you're staying" another step forward until we are millimeters apart.

"And we will call a male stripper to our room and I.....I'll personally make sure that navya will be the one to remove his
g-string" I said in dead voice making his eyes go round.

"You wouldn't " he said in disbelief.

"Oh trust me I would, so better change you're plan" I said smirking and walked back into the room with other girls ignoring manik's plead.

I, Nandini Murthy am about to become Nandini Manik Malhotra and this idiot wants to take my soon-to-be husband to a strip club, Ha ! Like I'll let that happen in a million year.

Yeah ! We are getting married before Mukti and Abhimanyu, mukti is new at her job and she wanted to wait until she settles down in her career and Abhi is fine with that. But when manik saw mukti change, pushing her marriage forward as soon as she joined the company, he got worry where even I'll do the same so he told our parents - No scratch that - infact forced our parents to start planning the wedding as soon as my finals were over.

My graduation day was the blast, you guys remember the girl who told on me that I was cheating in the exam, well she definitely had a blast on that day. Somehow a bucket full of black paint fell on her as she stood on the stage to receive her degree and I have no part in that prank, believe me, I'm completely innocent 😉.

And now here we are after a month planning bachelor/bachelorette parties. We girls planned on kicking manik out of the pent house and get a lot of booze, chicken, Maggie, pasta,pizzas and not to forget the heavy speakers.

But when I heard about boy's plan, I just raged up. I mean what has gotten into Cabir, why is he hell bent on taking manik to a strip club, for what ? a lap dance. I mean come on, I could only give manik one.

When we girls were back into our room and I narrowed my eyes at navya.

"Navya what is going on ?" I said crossing my arms.

"Babe, is everything fine ! I mean what's wrong with cabir ?" Aliya asked placing a hand on navya's shoulder.

We saw tears slightly accumulate in navya's eyes. We all tensed up and moved closer.

"Navya you're scaring us, what happened ?" Mukti said holding navya's hand.

"I went to mall few days back to buy some things for Arav, when I was coming out of the mall I met Sushant" navya said ducking her head,controlling her tears. Mukti and Aliya gasped.

Oki ! I'm officially confused now.

"Now who is this new character ?" I asked rolling my eyes.

Navya sighed.

"When we were in high school I had a big crush on Sushant, I was so sure that I was in love with him and vice versa. I used to follow him like a love sick puppy, starting he used to ask for help but later they became orders. He used to order me around to do his works and I did everything he said because I used to think that, he ask for my help because he trusts me and loves me. After a while I met Cabir, we became friends and through him I came close with all these guys. I never had a clue that Cabir had a crush on me. Even Cabir started to see how badly Sushant treated me, nearly like a servant. He tried to warn me but I got mad at him for badmouthing the person I love. But on Valentine's day, I thought of confessing my love to Sushant and planned a surprise for him. But instead he surprised me or crushed me by proposing to another girl infront of the whole college. I was in a pretty bad state at that time and the only person who saved me was Cabir. I apologized to him, later we got close. Cabir always treated me like a queen, that's when I realised such an asshole, that Sushant was. Time passed, Cabir and I fell crazy in love with each other and I never really thought about Sushant after that" uff ! Here I thought navya and Cabir's story was all sweet and cringe worthy. Even they had their up's and down's.

"So You met him, what's the big deal. Why is Cabir acting like a pig ?" I asked wiping her tears.

"When we met, we were surprised to see each other after such a long time. He apologized and asked to join him for lunch just for the old time sake. I told him about Cabir and Arav, he looked genuinely happy and congratulated me. It was just a friendly lunch. But the place where we went, there manik and Cabir were having lunch meeting with their client. Cabir saw us together and hell cracked up. From then he's acting like this" navya finished her story and I wanted to break Cabir's each and every freakin teeth. Why are boys do dumb ?

"Why is he overreacting so much ?" I said.

"No Nandu, Cabir went through a lot. When navya was in love with that Sushant, Cabir was crazy about navya. We saw him getting hurt, when ever that prick treated navya badly. Seeing your love, love someone else and to see them get treated like a slave isn't easy" mukti said.

"I know mukti it hurts but it's in the past, she is his wife and they have a child together. He should at least let her explain " I said supporting navya.

"Guys, I just want us to go back to the way we were, nothing more and nothing less" navya said in desperation.

"Sista leave that to me, I'll bring him right on track" I said patting her shoulder.

"You guys just plan the bachelorette party" I said and others nodded their head.

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I came out of my room to see abhimanyu and druv lying on sofa talking about something I care the least about. I made my way to kitchen in search of Cabir only to find manik ransacking the cupboards searching something.

"What are you searching for ?" I asked leaning on the counter.

He turned around startled.

"Geez, you scared me ... I need sugar and I can't find the damn thing " he said in frustration.

I rolled my eyes and marched to the opposite side of where he is standing and opened the cupboard, grabbing the box of sugar I gave it to him.

Giving me a small smile, he took it and added it to his coffee. Uneasiness was clear on his face. I moved towards him and held his arm.

"What's wrong ?" I asked softly. Though I'm mad at him about the whole strip club thing.

He sighed and leaned against the counter.

"Its just ... I don't know, Cabir is sad, hurt and I just don't know what to do. He's always been there for me you know " he said running his fingers through his sexy hairs.

"Where is that knucklehead ?" I asked.

"He's near the pool "

"Cya then" I said turning around towards the direction of the pool.
"Woah woah ! Why are you going over there ? Look he needs some time alone ! Let him be. Please don't go all Nandini Murthy on him " manik said, his voice filled with defence for his best friend. I found it kinda cute.

"The only one person I go all Nandini Murthy on is you that too in our bed so stop being a mother hen and let me talk to him" I said grabbing his collar. Manik furrowed his eyebrows and finally agreed warning me not to hurt cabirs feelings right now.

Giving him a peck on his lips, I walked towards the pool. As I entered the pool area, I saw Cabir sitting on the couch by the pool with his head laid back.

Cabir

Damn it !

Everything sucks ! Everyone sucks !

Why does everything has to be damn difficult ? I thought my life was sorted with my parents, navya, Arav and my friends but no that Bastard had to swoop in and destroy it. Every time I think of him, all I can imagine is navya being treated like a maid by that jerk.

My thoughts were disturbed when I heard someone clear their throat. I opened my eyes and saw Nandini standing near the couch. Sighing I moved aside making space for her to sit. I know she won't go back without talking.

She sat beside me, I leaned forward resting elbows on my knees. I raised my eyebrows at her silently asking why hasn't she started her speech yet.

She observed me for a minute and smacked my head hard.

Ow !

"What the hell" I said glaring at her. This girl.

"You know, you are the best example for MCP right now " she said.

"MCP ?" I said rubbing my head. Man ! She's strong.

"Male chauvinist pig " she said smirking making my anger rise upto an whole other level.

"Nand-"

"No you listen to me mister, what the hell do you think of yourself haa, cabir ? It was hard for you seeing her with him but just imagine what she might have felt. You saw her being treated like that but she was the one who was treated in such a bad way and not to forget, she was the one who saw the person whom she thought was her love, propose someone else, stop being so selfish and start thinking from her point of view. She's not cheating on you. She doesn't have any feelings for him. She's your wife and you guys have a child together for Christ sake" she rambled on, in one go. Breathing heavily she stopped. And my thoughts went spiral.

I'm hurt. Seeing her with him at lunch just flashed red, it was high school all over again. I don't know what I was thinking but I just hate that Bastard and I don't want him anywhere near navya.

"Idiot, even now years after your marriage she blushes like a brand new bride every time I tease her with your name. You have no idea how lucky you are " she said patting my knee.

I rubbed my face in frustration, man I messed up. I couldn't stop myself from smiling listening to her. Navya's blush is to die for. So darn cute.

"I .. I just .."

"Stop stuttering and go talk to her"

"I don't know, she's mad at me. I said pretty awful things to her"

"Go and talk to her before I lock both of you in a room"

I rolled my eyes.

"Cabir" she yelled.

"Fine" I slammed my hand on the couch and got up.

This women is annoyingly persistent.

Nandini

My bachelorette party was a success. Cabir and navya solved their issue in the guest room and let me tell you they took their time so I told the maid to change the sheets. I'm not talking any chances.

All boys had their party in druv's apartment and we girls had our party here.

Today was my mehendi(henna) function. It was a blast, we danced and had lots of fun. All my relatives are here, they are staying at raj uncle's. Actually according the old ladies of our family, bride and groom should stay in different places itseems. But manik had some urgent work and all his files are at our house study , so all the boys laid their tent in a guest room while girls occupied our room. All my things are here so I'm staying over here only but manik will stay at the mansion tomorrow and day after tomorrow is our marriage so no problem.

My cousins Meera, Tanu and Niha are here. Even Mona is here with us. Mukti was excited to meet them, she introduced them to aliya and navya and somehow everyone blended in. Naina akka(sister) will be here tomorrow. Gagan is with the boys.

Now it's almost 3 AM and all of us are awake talking. No one is interested in sleeping and neither am I.

"Akka I'm bored" Niha said resting her head on mukti's shoulder.

"Yeah man, we are all together. Let's have some fun" mukti said getting all excited.

"Let's dance" Mona said standing up.

We all shrugged and joined her.

We all danced for a while but Mukti stopped the music.

"Guys what might boys be doing" Mukti asked smirking.

"Sleeping, what else ?" Navya said rolling her eyes.

"Oh come on, I was hoping jiju(brother-in-law) would come searching for you in desperation " Tanu said to me twisting her lips.

I rolled my eyes.

Manik and sneaking around...yeah right !

"Don't keep your hopes high dea, I'm sure he's busy with his first wife" I said frowning.

"First wife?" Meera gasped.

"His work"

"Akka, you'll give us a heart attack some day" she said slapping my arm.

"Now that you have discovered how unromantic my soon-to-be husband is , how about we sneak into their room" I said smirking.

"Good idea" Aliya said grinning.

"But what will we do over there ?" Navya said in confusion.

"Leave that to me" I said and we all walked out to guys room.

Gagan, Cabir and Manik were sleeping on the bed. Abhimanyu and Druv were sleeping on extra beds on floor. Manik and Cabir were sleeping face to face with their one hand under their head and other hand on their legs respectively.

I smirked as I got an idea.

"Aliya take a photo when I tell you, Okay" I said to her and she nodded.

"Aww look how cute he's sleeping" navya gushed looking at Cabir like a love sick puppy. Gross.

"Wait until morning, he won't be able to sleep for a while" I said winking at her making her frown.

I moved towards the bed and lifted cabir's arm and placed it on manik's butt.

God! It's gonna be hilarious.

I signalled Tanu to switch on all the lights, everyone snickered looking at what I did. I glared at them to keep quiet. I waved my hand at aliya to click the picture. She did. As soon as our work was done we walked out of the room silently switching of the lights and closed the door.

When we reached our room everyone broke out laughing including me.

"Now what akka ?" Niha asked grinning.

"Let's post it on FB " Mukti suggested.

"And even on instagram " aliya supported her.

"No ! Lets make it more spicy" I said with a evil smirk.

Manik

I woke up early and saw Cabir snuggling Gagan, I snickered at the scene. Maybe he thought it's navya. Shaking my head, I took my phone to look at the time and its already 8. Shit ! I should wake them up.

Today is my haldi(turmeric), by tomorrow Nandini will be my wife and I just can't wait to call her Mrs. Manik Malhotra.

I woke everyone up and went to washroom. After finishing my business I came out to see Abhi and Druv rolling on the floor laughing. Gagan laughing his heart out while Cabir sat on the bed covering his face.

"Guys what happened ?" I asked them. Gagan, druv and abhi looked at me for a second and again started laughing like a maniac. What the hell is so funny ?

Cabir pushed his phone towards me, not meeting my eyes. Giving him a weird look I took his and played the video.

Nandini and rest of the girl came in front of the camera and song started.

$$ Because you know I'm all about that bass
'bout that bass, no treble
I'm all 'bout that bass, 'bout that bass, no treble
I'm all 'bout that bass, 'bout that bass, no treble
I'm all 'bout that bass, 'bout that bass

Nandini held the phone and others standing behind her started lip syncing the song making faces according to the lyrics. Aww she looks so cute in her pj's.

Yeah, it's pretty clear, I ain't no size two
But I can shake it, shake it, like I'm supposed to do
Cause I got that boom boom that all the boys chase
And all the right junk in all the right places
I see the magazines working that Photoshop
We know that shit ain't real, come on now, make it stop
If you got beauty beauty just raise 'em up
Cause every inch of you is perfect from the bottom to the top

They moved the camera around and made a signature move together using their hand. What's so funny in this ?

Yeah, my momma she told me don't worry about your size
She says, boys like a little more booty to hold at night
(That booty, booty, uh, that booty booty)

When this lyrics started a picture came up, image of me and Cabir sleeping and Cabir's hand on my -- oh my god ! Shit shit shit !

What the fuck is this !!

Nandini !! Damn it !!

I won't let this go so easily. I'll make sure you pay for this.

I saw everyone watching the video again and laughing. I rubbed my forehead in irritation.
Wait ! To whom all did she send this video ?

Holy shit ! I'm screwed.

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Last epilogue by the end of this week.

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