Chapter 1

A girl with very very long hair nd age of probably seventeen or eighteen years old just jumped down on the ground through the end of tunnel. She traveled through that tunnel which she found out mistakenly for the first time in her life because of her friends.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

With the little candle holder she kept walking through the darkness with the small light of candle leading towards freedom which she never knew. She welcomed the daylight in her life, in all senses with the open sky over her head for the first time, before this she had seen the sunlight from the window of her castle where she has been kept as hostage.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For the first time she was greeted by the kindness just after she entered into the world of humans otherwise she has spent her life serving for witch though she have two friends dragon nd rabit but alas they are animals. She haven't been with humans.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

She chose to discover more of life which she always have wished nd today she got a chance. As she was walking she heard the someone's Yelp nd she stopped to help the little girl who has mistakenly slipped into the trench, her life was hanging on the branch of a tree in between the way down to trench. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rapunzel helped her by giving her ankle length long hair, that little girl held them tight nd with their help she was climbing up, due to that pull Rapunzel fumbled but two warm, rough yet soft hands clutched her waist from behind holding her safe and that's how she saved a girl, she was about to see the ever so handsome or probably only handsome man in her life,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Fuckkkkk" Nandini groaned in irritation due to sudden interference of her little brother . 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Why the fuck u switched off the television?" She was huffing in the anger.  She can't bear anyone ruining her barbie movies. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"U curse so much Di" her brother cringed at her cursing though he is not at all saint but he never curses until it's very frustrating. And credit to his self control he never had cursed in his house in his 16 yrs of life.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"She was just about to meet her prince charming u ruined my moment idiot ..... So ur reason should be worthy or else u r gone" she threatened him and he gave bored look to her , off course he is not scared of his sister.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"U have seen every barbie movie at least for infinite times so I will suggest start behaving like a girl of 23..... Then may be u can get rid of the tag 'Single For Life'" did her mother rubbed salt on her wound ? Yes she did.  Her mother came in the living room with money, bag and list of items in her hand , it's nothing new for Nandini because she knew her mother is over supportive than a normal middle class parent should be  , who tease their daughter for not having boyfriend ?. Crazy , but she loves her extraordinary mother and she can't help her mother by giving boyfriend related tensions which will add Masala into Aunties Gossip Club where her mother also can participate,  because she is already in love with someone who doesn't even know her existence.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

No she is not some stupid teenage fangirl but her love is as complicated as fangirl's love . 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Before you two will team up against my barbies tell me what you want me to do ? ..... And I am warning you I am not doing any household work" she said seriously and they rolled their eyes at her. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"I have already washed dishes after lunch ..... Nd don't worry we have stopped expecting such things from useless person like you" her brother mocked her because she never agrees for household work. She is tantrum queen of house, she is older sibling yet immature nd he is more understanding for his age. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"I might admit u really have started using ur brain ...... So tell me what work I have to do?" She asked after getting up from sofa and stretching her arms in air while yawning .

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Nothing much just go to the vegetable market and bring all Vegetables that I have mentioned in list ..... And don't u dare to say no , it's ur type of work so better do it without any tantrum because we are out of vegetable stock in fridge" having no any option she nodded in agreement because roaming outside is her fav job. She went into her room to change her comfortable shorts. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

She got ready within five minutes, she didn't Changed her T shirt but just wore Jeans after pulling out her pajama shorts.  Then she gave few strokes of comb on her open hair, she applied Johnson baby powder nd then baby lip balm on her luscious lips. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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HALF NOTE  Music Company, 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Inside the cabin of Chairman, three responsible people who are obliged to follow the order given by their boss, were standing and their boss was sitting on his chair which gives him authority nd makes him powerful man present in the room where no one is allowed to disobey him. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Manik Malhotra was sitting ever so royally in his Three Piece Black Armani Suit with one leg folded on other, back rested on chair pushing it back as per it's flexibility. His posture was ever so casual yet sexy enough to turn on, any girl. His confidence and power makes him stronger nd superior than everyone. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There he was glancing on the written detailed description of the next album deal which his music company gonna launch, there are celebrities who dies to work with his company why won't they? afterall it's India's best music company, Half Note. He loves to be at number one position because winning runs through his veins and he hate loosing. No matter how much cunning he could be at times but he never lacks in his work, he hates incompleteness though his own life is incomplete mess. Calculating the profit he could make out from this album deal his smirk grew wider and just as per his habit, his long slender fingers picked up one cigar from the cigarette box while his other hand was busy holding the file. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Placing one long cigar between his two fingers he just advanced his hand horizontally in front of the face of his new P.A Karan, giving him hint to lit it for him, so that he could just breath the smoke filling his lungs with it to his heart content then letting go the smoke in the air through his nostrils nd mouth.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Without wasting another minute Karan just took out the lighter from his pant pocket, following the command of his boss, it's a part of his regular duty. He is not at all clumsy but he didn't knew how it happened all of sudden that lighter slipped out of his hand and directly landed on the file. Pages started burning in the fraction of second making the fire alarms alert, alarms started buzzing creating the noise in whole building. But three people in that room witnessed the scary scene which was enough to choke air out of their lungs.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Manik threw that file away after the second lighter fell upon it, he started panting heavily seeing the fire in front of him. He started sweating more with each passing second, he couldn't care less about his stern image infront of his employees because all he could see was fire in front of his eyes. Though he had tried to overcome his fear for fire over the years but he couldn't achieved that milestone. All he could see was burning of the pages in that fire, before papers could turned into ashes they were wet due to water poured on them from above fire alarms. Fire indeed stopped in a minute but Manik's emotions didn't get controlled instead his eyes turned unexceptionally red as if flames of fire has touched them. Truth to be told it actually touched him awakening the dreadful memories he had lived. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"I ..... I ..... Am Sorry" not knowing how to correct his mistake Karan admitted it. He knows there is no forgiveness for mistakes in Manik's life and he already prepared himself for the worse. He knew Manik's monster is awakened at the moment. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hearing the stammering voice of  Karan, Manik snapped at the real world. His eyes roamed on the scared yet astonished faces of his employees who were standing there seeing him getting all vulnerable. He controlled his urge to kill them for seeing him in weak state though he wasn't being so weak that they would mock but still whatever seconds his vulnerability stayed, it was embarrassment for his strong personality. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"U go home ..... I will try my best to get the copy of same file if they have it ..... And if not then please give me some hours I will make another contract with the help of  lawyer" gathering all the confidence he has, Karan suggested to Manik and also tried to reduced his punishment if that's possible. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Manik realised they all being spectators of the thing that file had burnt which not at all bothered him, in fact it didn't clicked into his mind untill now. So except Karan no one saw his vulnerability but just considered his actions as the reflexes which made him less worried about his image. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"U better handle it on ur own ..... And file should delivered by u at my place before 10pm" without even waiting for his nod, Manik moved away from there. It was hard to digest for employees, that he let go of Karan so easily. Given to Karan's loyalty nd perseverance other might have accepted Manik's softness towards him but they are not at all ready to accept that Manik has forgiven or forgotten Karan's deed which scared them most. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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"Rishu we will go to that market which is near to my fav panipuri stall, okay?" Nandini said after sitting back on their Activa. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Di I won't, that market is too far from our house ...... And besides that I don't like panipuri nd all, that much to travel 2km" off course he is very much health conscious nd because of that his height nd physique is more than good for a age of 16. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Please na bro .... Please ..... I haven't visited that stall from last month" she pleaded.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Then u should have come with ur friends" he replied back. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Both r busy ....... And u know na I can't ride this Activa" she expressed her sadness, tried to melt his heart. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Exactly it's ur work and still I am helping you" he was annoyed too. Because their father took car with him today nd Rishu has to help her. They only have one car, Verna.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"It's okay ...... U don't have to care about ur useless sister's taste buds ..... It's okay" she sounded like a poor kitten and this time it worked on him. He knew she is being drama queen but still it doesn't seem right to hurt her.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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"Where should I take u sir ?" Driver came running to Manik as he saw him walking out of company nd directly coming towards parking, covering the distance by brisk walk. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Key" his cold, raged filled tone was enough for driver to pass the key without any chance of deniel even after knowing that Manik is not best driver on Mumbai's street and his current mood is going to worsen the upcoming situation.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

He was famous for rash driving, he likes to control everything around him including his own feelings but he can't control on his speed because he have lived life all by himself that everything is limitless for him. Even he wished to touch the sky nd raised his limits over the sky. Keeping the fact of his limitless speed he always prefer driver along with him for any traveling purpose, very rarely he drives by himself.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Black Audi rashed out of the gate after making screeching sound of tyres clearing the fact that very strong friction happened between tyres nd road. He settled inside the car just after taking the key from driver but his emotions were not settling down. Inspite of the cool temperature inside the car he was sweating as if those flames of fires were touching his cold heart. Realising the desperate need of getting rid of sweat he turned A.C at its last capacity, threw away his blazer, waist coat and opened almost 4 buttons of his plain black shirt. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Instead of all other vehicles on the road all he could see was fire nd all chaos outside his cars turned into the painful nd unbearable wails for him. No matter how vulnerable he becomes he never let tears fall from his eyes, crying is not his thing that makes his eyes even more stronger. They can hold most worst painful grief within them, but drawback of those Beautiful dark brown eyes was that they can't hide the indefinable redness they carry after controlling any emotion at the point of highest of it's intensity. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As if control to his limitless passion nd impulsiveness one two wheeler came in front of his car in the middle of road and abruptly stopped at particular spot bringing out Manik's best version of self control over his high speed. He tried his level best to avoid accident nd he almost succeeded but the boy nd girl on that bike got hurt because of sudden push from behind which led them to loose control over their bike, but at the right time to avoid their falling on the ground boy put his feet down on the road but he couldn't stopped brushing of their hands on the pieces of glass, due sudden force from behind they got pushed on the handcart where bangles were placed, on the side of road .

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"What the fuckkkkk" Nandini cursed while climbing down from bike nd controlling her breathing rate . Off course it's not normal to meet such accidents everyday,  it could have been dreadful if it wouldn't have been controlled but still it gave mild panick attack to Nandini. She is the unique combination of weirdness as she is scared of bike accidents but she can drove the car at the speed of light that too safely and she aimed to fly in the sky. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Di u r not supposed to curse in front of ur little brother" her brother replied back after coming to her side to check on her. It was crowded area of Mumbai , so people around the other shops gathered there blocking Manik's way, as he didn't came out of the car he just saw both girl nd boy is safe so that he doesn't need to spend time over fake concern which would avoid his another police encounter. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Accident happened just few hundreds metre before the main vegetable market. Manik usually don't come to this area which is always surrounded by commoners but today he was out of drug stock. He was in urgent need of it that he himself came to take some stuff from a drug dealer of Mumbai who lives in that gully which is behind that Market.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As expected people forced Manik to came out of the car to compensate for loss. He knew they are so powerless in front of him but they are dumb who will waste their nd his precious time in police case. To avoid wastage of time he wore his sunglasses to hide the redness of his dark brown eyes and came out of the car without buttoning his shirt properly which gave clear idea of him being rich spoilt brat who was driving roughly. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Don't cry okay ...... Take a deep breath ...... It's easy ..... Don't panic okay?" Ever so brave Nandini said so calmly while removing piece of glass from her brother's wrist. He didn't even stirred a bit but she was hell anxious, she is not homophobic but sight of blood nd pain hurts her. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"First u stop over reacting..... I am fine ..... It's not even paining ...... And show me if u have any injury" stopping her helping hand he said and she rolled her eyes at him. He is 7 yrs smaller than her but always behaves more mature-ly.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Excuse me, girl" one of the famous lady of that street tapped Nandini's shoulder to show her Manik who is the source of her accident. Not to miss the eagerness of lady in upcoming fight, off course she is famous for nasty fights with other ladies in community.  This is the one side of Mumbai which belongs to real Maharashtrian people. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Manik was standing there waiting for upcoming ranting about accident nd accusations on him and then he would throw money on their faces and get escaped from here. It's not difficult for him to rescue himself by dialling one or two numbers but he chose not to do so. He just wanted to calm his senses by taking that stuff which will numb his senses for hours and then he can go back to his bossing zone. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

She recognised the person just after the second her eyes landed on him, off course he is famous personality of Mumbai but only to the people who knows world outside the bollywood nd television. He definitely owns a music company nd celebrities dances on his fingers but he is not known to the common people.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Already she wasn't in mood of street fight but seeing love of her life, every alternative thought was gone from her mind and her gaze travelled over his body. She didn't missed the drool worthy bare chest of the most handsome man alive in her life but not laying her eyes there for more than 2 seconds she noticed how bruitely his black shirt is void of cufflinks which might have got lost during drive nd cloth near the cufflinks was burnt, that didn't pinched her heart but the burnt skin under that cloth made her hissed in her mind. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"What happened to ur hand?" Indeed he felt spark nd adrenaline rush passed through him when her soft fingers brushed the sides of that burnt part on his hand.  No matter how mild air blew on his wound was, but there inside the chest cavity her heart was jumping vigorously just after touching him. It did felt like dream to touch him, he has been a off limits to her ever since she have loved him. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"What the fuck is wrong with you?" He pulled his hand away from her touch, his action was so harsh that it felt as if she is a piece of shit nd he would get dirty by her touch. He hated her the moment she blew air on his wound ever so carefully, he hates innocent people and he loathe softness of their heart. His world is full of all types of people except innocent ones.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Diii ..... What the hell ...... There is a piece of bangle stuck in ur wrist" when Manik slightly jerked her hand at that time only Rishu saw piece of glass. Immediately he ran towards his Di.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Listen I am not in mood for any shit ..... So take this 2000rs it's more than enough for ur loss ...... And now let me go" she kept looking at him while he took 2000rupees note from his wallet, indeed she was hurt, it was their first meet nd she didn't wished for this heartbreak at the very first face to face meeting. 2k was like a drop of water from a sea for him but he have no intention to waste his money on commoners for no reason.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Aaah .... Fuck" she winced in pain when Rishu pulled out the piece of glass from her wrist. This physical pain braught out her back from her mental pain. Manik's eyes soften a bit after seeing Rishu taking care of his sister. His eyes stayed on Rishu for longer than necessary, he admired him for few seconds.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Di stop cursing or else I will tell mom ..... And don't wince it's not at all deep but just little bruised" again like a big brother he scolded his over dramatic sister.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Aww my little baby bro .... First wipe these tears" she pulled his one cheek nd wiped his 2-3 drops of tears. It's true he is physically more stronger than her but he is emotional fool. He have muscular body but his heart is so fragile.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Someone please save me from this family drama" Manik groaned in sheer annoyance. He realised today is not his day, some or other thing is just triggering his sensitive points which has made him insensitive. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"U Mr ..... I know my sister is little dramatic or emotional fool to care for unreasonable and undeserving people but that doesn't mean u will insult her ..... Keep ur money with u nd ur road is clear ...... U r very much allow to leave" he said it very clearly without fearing from Manik because at this moment his sister's respect is more important to him.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"U don't deserve my time" Manik spoke with full rage, in between that he also removed his sunglasses. She shivered seeing the redness dripping from those eyes which used to be enchanting for her, those eyes still carry that old intensity of passion in them but today what she saw was much more nd dangerous, there was a web of different feelings in those captivating eyes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Exactly nd u r not even guilty for ur deed nd we r not beggars so that u will show some mercy on us ..... So spare us from ur inhuman self" Manik killed the urge of pulling gun out of his dashboard inside his car and emptied those six bullets in the head of sixteen years old guy. But his attempt of saving his sister restrained Manik for doing that.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Just pray to ur God ..... That u won't have to see my face ever again in ur life" Manik's words did scared that little soul because his words held the power nd surety. Nandini pulled Rishu to her side, taking him in side hug and caressing his hair she tried to make him feel protected. He won't show his fear but she knew how fragile he is. Staring deep in those doe shaped black eyes for a 3 seconds Manik stormed out from there. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Mr Malhotra do honour of spending some money on driver so that God won't grant my brother's prayer in any other form which won't allow u to be on earth for him to see u again" seeing her brother scared ,is the weakest point of her, and no one is allowed to scare her little brother. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Without turning back to see her face, he drove off the car with normal speed or rather in slow speed from there but not before glancing at her through the window pane of his car. The rage he saw in her eyes was not something soft like her earlier self, this time she was feisty, but she wasn't a monster like him, he did see her care for him behind the venom filled words of her. He can never failed to understand a person and that's why he is master of manipulation.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Let me know if you found any mistake.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

How was the first chapter?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

................... Aish ...................