What do you do when the one person you want comfort from the most is the one who caused your pain? How can I want so desperately for him to wrap me up in his arms but also want so much for him to leave me alone.
Manik entered a house with Nandini in his arms and put her down but she continued to hit his chest with her fists, she was really angry at him for doing this to her, her eyes had tears and anger both. ‘Tell me Manik why the hell? Why the hell did you do this? Before telling me this news why didn’t you kill me? Your enmity was with me and not with them, they were my only family, Rishab was my cute little baby brother, he was a child, what you got by doing all this? Idiot dumbo,’ she said in one go hitting him a lot.

He held her arms trying to stop her, but she wasn’t stopping, she felt like pulling his hair, she wanted to kill him brutally. ‘Nandini stop for God’s sake! Shut up! Please come out! Nandini came!’ he said calling out for someone. ‘Who the hell are you calling?’ she asked angrily and he turned her. The people in front of her brought a lot of emotions in her, happiness, tears, everything came together. She turned to Manik and smiled with tears in her eyes. ‘Manik, I knew, I knew you will never do this, but what to do? My heart said something else, mind said something else, so I got angry, sorry Manik, sorry,’ she said and to his surprise, she kissed his cheek and turned.

Her chachi and Rishab were standing in front of her with tears of happiness in their eyes. She ran to them and hugged her chachi getting teary eyed.


Oh Dil Se Dil Ka Rishta Judaa
Pal Do Pal Mein Mit Ta Nahi
Bandhan Dilo Ka Tut Ta Nahi
Bandhan Dilo Ka Tut Ta Nahi
Tere Dil Ka Mere Dil Se
Rishta Purana Hain
In Aankho Se Har Aansu
Mujhko Churana Hain
Mujhko Churana Hain
Mujhko Churana Hain
Tere Dil Ka Mere Dil Se
Rishta Purana Hain
In Aankho Se Har Aansu
Mujhko Churana Hain
Mujhko Churana Hain
Mujhko Churana Hain
Tere Dil Ka Mere Dil Se
Rishta Purana Hain
Nandini broke the hug and looked at Rishab lovingly and was about to cup his face but he moved away and held his head getting an attack as he recalled Shivani killing their chacha and fell on the floor, he moved his hands in front shaking them as if saying, ‘Move away from me, you aren’t my Nandini di , you’re Shivani.’ Nandini got worried and sat down along with chachi. ‘Rishu! Baby I m your didi, Shivani is in jail, I m your didi, Nandini, look at my phone, you used to play games in it, you used to play hide and seek with me, and you used to find me, we used to run in the whole house, you don’t remember? Chachi, please tell him I m Nandini and not Shivani.’

‘Ayappa, sab kuchh toh le liya humse humara, ab mere Rishab ko kiun tang kartay ho?’ (Ayappa, you took our everything from us, now why you’re doing this to my Rishab?) chachi said almost crying. ‘No chachi please don’t break down, if you break down, what will happen of us?’ Nandini said to her and Manik came forward and caressed Rishab’s hair. ‘Rishab, calm down and listen to me, she was in jail but I released her,’ Manik said. ‘Then he spreaded this news everywhere so that I m out of danger my child, don’t be scared of me,’ she said to him holding his face. ‘Yes Rishu, she’s your didi,’ Shanno (Nandini’s chachi) said. ‘Rishab you remember I told you in morning that there’s a surprise for you, Nandini was the surprise,’ Manik explained.
Rishab who was breathing heavily pointed at Nandini and then at himself and caressed the side of his own face as if asking ‘Nandini didi who used to calm me like this?’ Nandini was in tears seeing his condition. ‘Yes she’s your didi,’ Manik told him and smiled at him. Then he joined his palms and put it under his right cheek tilting his head asking her to prove it by singing him his favourite lullaby. ‘Ta ri ra ri, ta ri ra ram, ta ri ra ri ra ram, sun sun gudday lori ki dhun, hoja meethay sapno mein gum. Ta ri ra ri ta ri ra ram, ta ri ra ri ra ram, tim tim karta tara hai tu, mera pyara sa chanda hai tu, tujhe dekh k he to din shuru hota hai, tujhe dekhe bin yeh dil ruk sa jata hai, pagal sa baawra hojata hai sun, tu mera sooraj hai tu mera kaandha hai tu meri aankho ka tara hai sun. Sun sun gudday lori ki dhun, hoja meethay sapno mein gum,’ Nandini sang with tears falling from her eyes. Rishab sat up after he calmed down and smiled and wiped her tears kissing both her cheeks hugging Nandini and she hugged him back happily.


Teri Bechaini Ka Teri Tanhaee Ka
Ehsaas Hain Mujhko Sun
Main Jo Saath Tere Hu Phir
Tujhe Hain Kaisa Gham
Dard Baat Lenge Hum Sun
In Palko Mein Khushiyo Ka
Sapna Sajana Hain
Tere Dil Ka Mere Dil Se
Rishta Purana Hain
Suddenly he broke the hug. ‘What happened Rishu?’ she asked getting worried. He lifted his hand above his head as if telling about height. ‘Who? Chacha?’ she asked and he nodded and then he acted as if holding a knife in hand and raised his hand behind his head and brought it down at once. ‘Shivani killed chacha?’ she asked and he nodded. He caressed his face. ‘I know guddu, and I will take revenge of his death very soon, they don’t even know that I m not their Shivani but I m Nandini, their biggest enemy. Poor Shivani, she has such empty relationships,’ Nandini said with hatred in her words. ‘No Nandini, do you remember that nagin dance of yours in ethnic wear? I really don’t know what was it all about, but whatever it was, you nailed it, but Sakshi mausi got doubt on you, you shouldn’t have done that, and if you wanted to do it then you should’ve done it in our room,’ Manik said giggling a little.

Nandini too laughed and stood up going to him placing her hands on his shoulders. ‘Manik, it wouldn’t have been so much fun if I would’ve done it in your room, it was just to irritate Nyonika, Sakshi and most importantly you, ha ha!’ she laughed making the trio totally confused. ‘But why Nandini?’ he asked. ‘I thought you should be reminded of our olden days and how my heart was broken by you all just because I am a look alike of Shivani,’ she said looking at him sharply. ‘I wanted to save you, but what to do? I owe them my life.’
She sighed turning her back towards him and then slapped him suddenly turning to him shocking Shanno and Rishab. ‘All this was started by you, right? You put this idea in that stupid Sakshi’s mind, then she came to my house with fake relationship, she showed me fake motherly love, fake are the Malhotras’, you all are born to be fake. Fake personality, fake relationships, fake love, fake everything!’ she said with bloodshot eyes. ‘They ARE fake, but I m not, if I have loved someone truly, so that is you, I loved Shivani, but as a best friend,’ he said pulling her close looking directly in her eyes.

Meanwhile in the prison, Shivani had been staring at the entrance since the duo ran away. She hadn’t even blinked her eyes, it was as if she was a statue. Ishita who noticed this, got confused and approached her placing her hand on her shoulder but she didn’t react. ‘Shivani,’ she said but she was too lost. She went in front of her and shook her holding her shoulders and Shivani was knocked unconscious on the floor the very next moment.
‘Shivani! Jailor! Please come fast!’ Ishita called out. ‘Either it is a friend or either it’s an enemy, none can be left like this,’ Ishita said and the jailor came there. ‘What happened? Why are you shouting?’ she asked. ‘Look she got unconscious, she was numb before that, I think she should be taken to the doctor immediately before something serious happens,’ Ishita said getting concerned. ‘Uh oh, it’s nothing as such, it’s just her drama to get out of here,’ she said and took a glass of water emptying on Shivani’s face and Ishita closed her nose immediately.
‘What are you doing? Water may go in her nose,’ she said and Shivani woke up coughing badly. ‘Told you,’ said the jailor and went away. Ishita rubbed her back. ‘Are you OK?’ she asked but Shivani didn’t react and stared at the entrance. ‘No, m not OK, didn’t you see how she has done black magic on my husband?’ Shivani replied totally enraged. ‘Leave all that, did you really faint or were you..?’ she was cut in between. ‘I really fainted, I m not that much dramatic as you think I am,’ Shivani said. ‘And you’ll be shocked to know that even you’re a look alike of someone,’ Shivani continued.
‘What? Tell me you’re joking,’ Ishita said. ‘I m not, I have a photo which I always carry with me, as it’s of a dead member of my family,’ she said and took one end of her dupatta and it had a knot tied over there, it was a very big knot, she opened it, it had a small photo frame. She stared at the photo for a little while caressing it getting teary eyed and showed it to Ishita. Shivani wasn’t joking, it really was a look alike of Ishita. She got shocked to see the photo. ‘Shanaya Malhotra,’ Shivani told her as she stared at the photo.
(Guys do you remember Ishita was living as Shanaya Raichand in yhm acting as her own look alike after Raman had pushed her from the cliff? I thought it would be perfect to show her look alike as well but here she is Shanaya Malhotra, I think I should’ve named this story as Humshakals instead of Iss Ishq Mein Marjawan, no? Haha just joking, stay tuned for next update)