Maria was so excited n happy to see Abhimanyu that she ran to him n extended her hands gesturing him to pick her up.

Maria: friendz...friendz
She kept on chanting unless abhi pick her up in his arms n kissed her on her forhead in return he got a kiss on his cheeks.

Maria hugged him tight n rested her head on his shoulder.

Abhimanyu was totally surprise he looked way too shock he stared at Manik inorder resgistered whether they were really here or his mind was tricking him.

Maria cubbed Abhi cheek after hugging him for sometime as she didn't find her friend talking to her which he usually does

Maria: whatt happenin friendz u no happi to see mee
She said sadly making a cute pout.

Abhi pulled her nose n poke her small tummy.
While maria rub her nosy

Abhi: oye my choto my baby I m so happy n surprise to see u my jaan. Infact I m out of words love.
He kissed her cheeks

Maria: I n papa wand to surpri u... U like it na...
She said playing with his blazer.

Abhi: Liked it kya I love it baby.... I got to meet my choto sa packet of joy. My baby angel.
He said n winked at Manik.
Whereas Maria was happy to hear this she hugged him again.

Manik was mute he just fake smiled looking at Abhi when he would look at him.

Nandini was so guilt she didn't had courage to face her bhai today.

Mukti was just staring at the floor with head hung down not knowing how she will talk to him n ask for him to forgive her for not trusting him.

Abhi walked inside the house n settled down with Maria on his lap on the couch.

Maria was so happy to meet him that she was not ready to leave him for a even a second. She even didn't let Abhi meet Manik also. She kept on blabbering everything to him about her new toys, doll, papa, what all she ate, what her papa told her everything n abhimanyu was listening to each thing carefully as if they were some important points n agenda of his board meetings. And at the same time questioning her too about why, how, when....

Maria would occasionally look at her papa too to ask him n tell him to answer to abhi n asking for his approval. As this soul would never leave her papa alone.

But today Manik would just nod n hardly understand what they were talking about as he was thinking of ways to sort out the situation n how will he cool down Abhi anger knowing him well he knew he was damn angry n right now just faking out to be all okay n cool.

Abhi n Manik used to always listen to Maria patiently n carefully not letting her feel ignored or her toddler talk's r not worth it. They use to give each word importance n correct her at the same time if she did something wrong.

Maria: N u know friendz papa toldi that we have to attend cabby chachu weddi so we cami here par I told I wand to meet friendz.
She said n smiled at him sheepishly

Abhi smiled n pulled cheeks of the innocent doll who told her heart out to him.

Abhi: I know N ur friendz love u so much so this my angel.
He said kissing her cheeks.

The other trio was now just looking at the bond of this two carefree soul who were busy with each other not caring about what's going around.

From the time Abhimanyu entered the house he not even for once looked at Mukti or Nandini. He only used to look at Manik occasionally to see him deep in his thoughts n when their eyes use to meet they used to fake out a smile knowing there is something wrong.

Manik was thinking of all the possibilities to get Abhi, Mukti n Nandini together n to clear all the grief n misunderstanding between them.

Manik moved towards Nandini n Mukti
He spoke to them in whispers when he saw Abhi was now totally occupied with Maria.

Man: Listen let me handle. Abhi look okay right now but definitely he is angry so don't talk directly. And specially Nandini u don't land up doing something stupid again n put all three of us in trouble.
He warned Nandini.

Mukti nodded silently par how can
Nandini just agree she is always ready with her question n argument.

Nan: Par Manik... I will talk to bhai n apologized n if..

Manik cut her out

Man: Nandini after what blunder u have created u think that Abhi is going to listen to u. And u have not yet seen ur bhai devil side n I bet u it's not a plesure to see him that way. So let me talk first kk ???

Nan: But...

Mukti cut her now n said

Mu: Nandini please let's do what Manik is saying I don't want to see angry Abhi please. He know him way better than us.

Nandini having no option just nodded as she was guilt to put Mukti also in this situation so arguing with her was not good.

Manik self talk : ohh God this is going to be a hell difficult. Knowing Abhi short temper nature. And his ruining each and everything in anger. Kk fine I m too like that only par yet right now it's Abhimanyu. He looks all okay, nice, sweet silent par this silences is just before the storm come's that silences He will definitely lose his temper soon if either Mukti or Nandini go n talk to him. And he will land up hurting them but after realizing it he will be more hurt.
Manik Malhotra u have to do something. Yup....relax u can do it. Bus my baby keep him accompany for some more time so I get some idea to deal with him.

Finally Maria completed talking each n everything with Abhi.
N Abhimanyu came near Manik but poor soul was so busy in talking to his self that he didn't realized.

Abhi punch him on his stomach to get his attention.

Manik hold his stomach n shouted

Man: ouch.... pagal hai kya
He said pressing his hands on his stomach

Abhi: nai par tu kar kya raha hai where r u lost. Don't tell me u r standing here and calculating profit margin n EPS...
He said raising his eye brows

Whereas Manik looked at him being confuse

Man: Nai...No I was not doing this.... mai teri jiska pagal nai hu jo free time mai EPS ki bari mi soochu kk...

Abhi: Acha toh kya aisa sooch raha tha bol...

Man: sooch kya I was crusing u from when. Maria ko kya mila mujhe toh bhuli gaya.
He said n wipe his fake tears.

Abhi: chup kar nautaki.
He said n took him in bear hug.

They both broke the hug after what seem ages n Abhi spoke again.

Abhi: tu pehla banda hai jo apni beti di jealous hai... shee Malhotra
He said making ashame face

Man: acha... aisa hai ji
Manik punch him on his stomach n took him in a hug again

Both starting crusing each other in each other's ears so no one could hear them except they both n broke the hug laughing loudly.

Nandini n Mukti were feeling so left out. Abhimanyu was ignoring them to such a extent that they felt they were not in the Mansion only.

Abhi: So Cabir is getting married in Bangalore seriously kab u didn't tell me.

Man: I told u Cabir is getting married short term memory loss.
He said n hit his head.

Abhi: Dude shaddi kar raha hai wo bola idiot Bangalore mi hai yeh kab bola jo sab si important tha
He too hit him back

They were right now behaving like two college boys who can't stop abusing n blaming each other for stupid thing

Man: I wanted to come here n surprise u baba that's why I didn't tell u that part of info.
He said hitting his head again

Abhi: kk got it.... Thank u for this.... after such a long n tiring day finally got some peace after seeing u both here.
He said n took him in side hug.

Manik smiled

All the while Nandini was admiring Manik, his actions, his way of saying his facial features....infact every small thing.

Abhi: I m damn hungry tu fresh up hoja we will have food together waise bhi cook ko time lagiga so u take ur time. Chal tera room dekha deta hu.

He said passing by Nandini to go upstairs calling the housekeeper

Nandini could not keep quite anymore this cold attitude of Abhi was getting to her nerves.

Nan: bh...bhai...vo

Abhi ignored her n looked at Manik who was standing still there

Abhi: Manik chal. Maria baby let's go n fresh up chalo

Maria who was sitting on the couch n watching a favourite cartoon look up n nodded.

Maria: 5 min friendz my favourti (favourite) cartoon.

Abhi smiled n nodded.

Abhi: Manik chaliga kya statue of liberty ban lar kadda hai chal.

Man: Wo Abhi mein hotel mi booking karva de hai so....
He said to receive a deathly glare from Abhi

Abhi: Hotel like seriously... U r staying here with me.

Man: Dude par... listen

Abhi walk up to him angrily

Abhi: I m not listening to u, u r staying here it's final. First of all booking karni ka tu sooch he kaise sakta hai... Stop testing my paitences.

Man: kk par I came to know about the phone call thing.

Abhi: What phone call
He asked being confused.

Man: Nandini told me ki

Abhi cut him off

Abhi: Where is ur luggage ??

Man: Abhi I m talking something important.

Abhi: Maria baby where r ur bags n toys jaan
He said ignorning Manik

Maria: car

Abhi: chal mi driver ko bol ki tere room mi send karta hu U go n rest for sometime

Man: Stop ignorning me Murty

Manik said being irritated by Abhi now.

Man: Nandini told me it was ...

He was cut off by Abhi

Abhi: U can't understand I don't want to talk about it.

Man: What u mean u don't want to talk huh.

Nan: bhai...I kno...know I made
She said almost choking

Abhi: U got to know all na happy... good for u both... And thanks for giving me a reality check of what u think about me.
He said first time looking at nandini n mukti with anger n pain clearly visible in his eyes.

Mu: abhi
She called out par he disappear in the kitchen to instruct cook what to make for dinner n housekeeper about manik room n their luggage.

Abhimanyu knew that Manik had cleared the misunderstanding as when he entered he could see guilt in both the girl's eyes as their head were hang down n they didn't look at him.