Introduction

Welcome to a story where I am writing my imagination of what if my favorite couple manan had a journey like this let's have a pick in the story.

Some love stories don’t begin with soft smiles or whispered promises.

They begin with chaos. With bruised knuckles and stubborn hearts. With two souls colliding before they even know what the word love means.

Manik Malhotra never fit into boxes. Loud, reckless, protective to a fault, he was the boy who fought first and thought later. His world was music and fire, a constant storm that few dared to get close to.

Nandini Murthy was his opposite. Quiet, gentle, and endlessly curious about the stars, she carried dreams that stretched far beyond the small town she grew up in. Where he was fire, she was starlight. Where he was noise, she was silence.

But destiny has a way of weaving together opposites in the most unexpected ways.

When they met as children, something happened—something no one could explain. It wasn’t friendship, not right away. It wasn’t love, not in the way they would come to know it later. It was something deeper, unshakable… as if the universe had whispered finally and placed them side by side.

Years passed, but the thread between them only grew tighter. Through schoolyard fights and teenage heartbreaks, through secrets, tears, laughter, and reckless confessions, Manik and Nandini built something that neither time nor distance could destroy.

He protected her like she was the only truth he trusted.

She believed in him when no one else did.

And together, they learned that sometimes love doesn’t arrive with flowers. Sometimes, it arrives like a storm—loud, messy, impossible to ignore.

Their journey wasn’t perfect. It was complicated, filled with drama and jealousy, with choices that hurt and moments that healed. But beneath it all was something pure—an unbreakable bond that turned childhood friends into soulmates.

This isn’t just a story about growing up.

This is the story of two lives entangled by fate, of a boy who became her protector, and a girl who became his anchor. Of two hearts learning that even in the darkest nights, love can burn brighter than the stars.

Because some stories aren’t written on paper.

They’re written in constellations.

And this one? This one was always written in theirs.

But love is never just about stolen glances and sweet promises. It tests. It bends. It sometimes breaks—only to come back stronger than before. For Manik and Nandini, every season of life brought new storms: misunderstandings, fears, and the weight of growing up too fast. Yet, even when the world tried to pull them apart, they kept finding their way back to each other. Because theirs wasn’t an ordinary connection. It was destiny, reckless and eternal. And sometimes, when the universe chooses two people, nothing—not time, not distance, not even heartbreak—can keep them from the forever written in their stars.

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