Nandini explained what had happened on the day of the party.

Nandini : "If you still don't believe me, you can contact Samaira's friend. Tell her that you came to know about it through me, but don't tell anything else about me, not even how you met me if you want to know the truth."

Nandini : "Alya, I never intended to snatch anyone from you. In fact I came here to look for Mukti and meet you. I thought I will get in touch with you and find out why Harshad is staying away from home. He never gave me a proper reason when I asked him. It took a while to figure out that you are Harshad's doll. By the time I knew it was you, I also figured out that you hate me."

Nandini : "Though I still don't know why you think that I snatched him from you, I might have unknowingly become the reason for him to stay away from home. I apologize for that and I will rectify it immediately. I am going away from his life and you can get him back. He is returning day after tomorrow and you can meet him at this address."

The address came up on the screen and the recording stopped.

Mukti : "You are Harshad's doll?! You had seen his picture with me, but you never told me that you knew him."

Alya : "I am sorry Mukti. I felt that I would lose all your friendship if I told that he is my brother. Though he left us and went, and I am angry with him, he is still family. They wanted to break his bones and I didn't want him to get hurt."

Mukti : "It's alright, I understand. Even I didn't tell them about him for similar reasons."

After seeing the address, Manik figured out that it was Nandini's address. If Alya and Mukti could meet Harshad at that address and Nandini was going away from his life, that meant that she would be leaving from there soon. Manik left immediately.

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Manik wanted to meet Nandini before she left. He had been thinking of meeting her and talking to her since he met her last. He wasn't in his senses to be sure if what he felt the previous day was his imagination or reality.

Manik was on his way to Nandini's house and Nandini was on her way to the station. Manik reached her house and asked for her.

Caretaker : "She left in the morning for a trip from college."

Manik returned to the college and figured out that there wasn't any college trips scheduled that week. He had no clue where else to look for her.

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Meanwhile, Nandini was at the station. She had left home without thinking where to go next. She stood looking at the board trying to figure out where to go. A girl came and stood next to her, and that girl was astonished seeing Nandini.

Girl : "Are you Nandini?!"

Nandini recognized her as her senior, Sunaina from her previous college.

Nandini : "Yes Sunaina. How are you?"

Sunaina : "I am fine, but I can't believe my eyes. I never thought that I will get to see you again. I thought you were.. I am glad you are fine.. you have become very lean though."

Sunaina : "Where are you going?"

Nandini had a blank look on her face. She still didn't know where to go.

Nandini : "I just know that I have to leave from here, but I have no idea where. It must be a place where no one can find me."

Sunaina didn't know what Nandini's current issue was, but after seeing her blank look and state, she didn't want to leave her on her own.

Sunaina : "Why don't you join me then? I missed my bus, so I have to take a taxi. No one will be able to find you there because not many people know that such a place even exists."

Nandini : "Thanks.. but I don't want to trouble you."

Sunaina : "There is no trouble. I have to go alone now and I stay there alone too. I will get your company if you come with me. You can stay with me till you figure out where you want to go."

Sunaina convinced Nandini and took Nandini with her.

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When Manik met his friends later, he seemed exhausted.

Cabir : "Are you alright? Why do you look so tired?"

Manik : "I think she left and I didn't even get a chance to meet her and apologize."

Alya's thoughts : "Good riddance. Finally, she is out of her lives."

Alya : "She put you both in such an unpleasant situation. She spiked your drink and put Mukti under stress, and you still went to apologize to her? She should be the one to apologize for what she did, not us."

Manik : "What she did to us is nothing when compared to what we did to her. She tried to explain, but you both didn't let her. You left her no choice, so she had to opt that way. She cleared Mukti's misunderstanding and went away from your brother's life and still you are accusing her. You were the one who came up with the idea of hurting her, but you don't seem to be regretting it one bit."

Alya : "Why should I regret? There is still no proof that what she said is true. Even if it is true and she isn't Mukti's culprit, she is mine. What we did serves her right."

Manik : "You still don't believe in her. Do you have proof that she is your culprit? Or are you also assuming like Mukti?"

Alya : "I don't have proof, but I know she is."

Manik : "Then I can say for sure that you have also misunderstood her like Mukti. What about you Mukti? Is your misunderstanding cleared or are you also still doubting like her?"

Mukti : "After yesterday's experience and seeing the pictures today, I agree that I misinterpreted what I saw. But I am still not able to believe that Samaira could have done something like that. I am still not able to understand what I saw the next day."

Cabir : "She said that you can check with your friend's friend. You can call and confirm if you want. Or we can wait till day after tomorrow and get all your doubts cleared at once."

Mukti dialed Samaira's friend's number and after a few pleasantries,

Mukti : "I came to know through Nandini that Samaira tried to trap Harshad because she loved him. Is that true?"

Samaira's friend : "What?! Even you saw Nandini's ghost. It is true that Samaira planned, but Nandini foiled her well laid out plan. Samaira was furious at her, so she tried to frame Nandini. She got some pictures of her with Harshad and showed it you. She also told you that they were having an affair because she wanted you to break up with Harshad. I am getting worried for Samaira. Nandini's ghost won't spare her."

Mukti : "Why did you say Nandini's ghost?"

Samaira's friend : "If you see someone after their death, it means that you are seeing their ghost right? I also saw her ghost a few months back, she wanted to know where you were."

When Nandini went to meet her roommate to check if she knew Mukti's whereabouts, her roommate thought that it was Nandini's ghost. Nandini knew her roommate was afraid of ghosts, so she used it to her advantage to get the information she wanted. The roommate only knew that Mukti was in Mumbai, not about where she was in Mumbai.

Mukti : "What are you saying?!"

Samaira's friend : "Don't you know? She met with a terrible accident the day after that incident and she died. It seems it was even difficult to recognize it was her. You know how Nandini was, she always wanted to do things right for everyone, so I think may be she foiled someone else's plan too, and may be that's why they murdered her."

After Mukti disconnected the call,

Mukti : "I am not able to understand anything. We all saw Nandini here and she was saying that Nandini met with an accident and died around the same time I came here."

Alya : "That girl is playing some drama .. don't know what she is up to."

Manik : "She isn't someone who will play drama unless necessary. Probably she has a valid reason behind it. She might have had an accident for real, probably that is the reason she is so pale and weak."

Manik didn't want to hear anything against Nandini, so he defended everything she did. This only increased Alya's hatred towards Nandini.

It was Mukti's turn to regret now.

Mukti : "What did I do? I trusted the one whom I shouldn't have and mistrusted the one whom I should have trusted. She did a favor by saving him, but I took revenge in return and hurt her. I behaved rudely with her and said all sorts of things while accusing her, but now I can't even apologize to her."