Shreyas' POV

I open my eyes to find my favorite person. Man I missed this so much. If there's one thing that my work made me upset, it was having to be away from Jess.

She wiggles towards me and groans sleepily as her eyes flutter open. "Morning.", she says groggily as the ends of her mouth curl into a small smile.

"You look so cute when your asleep.", I mutter softly.

"That would be the billionth time you're telling me this and I don't think I'm even over-exaggerating, you literally tell this every time you watch me wake up.", she mumbles.

'I was thinking of something..... Could you like, come along with me for the rest of the season?", I ask her.

Her eyebrows furrow together as she thinks, she tells, "Babe what about my clinic though."

"Arrey, I'm pretty sure Jo won't mind taking care of it.", I whine, "Just come na please, it's been so long since we've spend time together."

(A/N: Joanne, Jo for short, is Jessica's sister who is also a veterinarian doctor. They both have a clinic together in Mumbai.)

"Um, okay.", she agrees, "I'll come with you."

"I like the sound of that.", I grin as I snuggle in close to her. A yawn breaks my thoughts as I look around to find who was it.

"Abhe tu yahan pe kabse hai?", I asked Ishan in a little bit of surprise.

"Arre kabse matlab? Kal raat toh hum sab saath mein match dekh rahe the na?", he tells me,"uske baadh we all just fell a sleep and well, I don't sleep walk so main abhi bhi yahan hoon."

"Ye Smri aur Kash kahan chale gaye?", Jess wonders.

"Knowing them, midnight snack ke liye gaye honge and now they're out again to eat.", Ishan guesses.

"And..... teko ye kaise pata?", I ask him with my eyebrow raised.

"They always do this when they come to meet me at any hotel.", he tells with a small laugh.

"Then, I guess we'll get ready and join them too.", Jess suggests and Ishan leaves to his room.

"So I'll go and take a shower now.", Jessica tells as she gets out of the bed.

"Maybe I could join you?", I ask her with a smirk and my eyebrow raised suggestively.

"Babe.", she tells sternly.

"But why nottttt.", I whine.

"Because your sister and her friends will be waiting for us below to eat food with them.", she stated, "we can't be late."

"Which is exactly why we should do it. I mean one time together instead of two seperate times. See?", I negotiate.

"You're so annoying.", she rolls eyes.

"You still love me tho.", I say as I wink and grin at her.

Ishan's POV

"Yaar ye dono kahaan hai?", Smriti groans as we wait for Shreyas and Jessica to come.

"Bhook lagi hai.", Kash whines and Smriti agrees with her.

"Didn't you two eat food at 12 o clock?", I ask them.

"It's been almost 8 hours yaar. Of course we'd be hungry now.", Smriti whines.

"Waise bhi you should eat for hunger, not for the time.", Kashish tells.

"Hear hear.", Smriti adds.

"Tumlog itna time kyu lagate ho?", I groan as Shreyas and Jessica finally come.

"Woh, ummmm", Shreyas drags.

"Mujhe ready hone mei todha time hua.", Jessica mumbles and the three of us eye them suspiciously.

Since the food was served by Buffet system in this hotel, we all left the table to go and get some food.

I see Shubman sitting with his team and wave at him as a give him a smile. He does the same at me.

"Ishan, if you want you can spend time with him when you're around me you know that right?", Smriti mentioned as she takes some food on her plate.

"But, I don't know, like isn't that awkward?", I ask her hesitantly.

"You guys are really close, best friends even. Don't let what happened between us affect your friendship.", she tells me, "what happened between us was before of our shortcomings and mistakes Ishan."

"Tu na ek dadi ma jaise baat karti hai.", I poke fun at her as I grin and she rolls her eyes at me in response.

"Chalo waise, we're both going to be here for another three days until the match and tum log toh kal se hai apne kaam mei busy ho jaoge. I'll spend time with him after you guys go.", I tell her as we make our way back to the table.

"Guess who Smriti and I met yesterday?", Kashish asks us.

"Oh god, Kash chup karo yaar.", Smriti groans.

"Aisa kon hai, Smriti doesn't seem to happy about this.", Shreyas laughs.

"Shubman.", Kashish tells us and I cough because of almost choking on my food.

"How bad was it?", Jessica asks Smriti.

"Well thankfully, Kamlesh was there too so it wasn't even more awkward.", she tells us.

Kashish gets a call from Anushka, cutting off our conversation.

"Guys guess karo kya hua?", Anushka asks us excitedly.

"You finally met Virat and ABD?", Kashish asks her curiously.

"Nah, but I met Abhay.", she grins.

"Finallyyyyyyy", Shreyas tells, "how is he?"

"Very flirty.", Anushka tells as her cheeks turn slightly red. Kashish, Smriti and I share a grin, Abhay flirts a lot when he likes someone.

"And I also have some news.", Anushka smiles.

"Cut the suspense aur jaldi bolo na.", Jessica tells her.

"I.... got a job in Mumbai and I will be moving there next week.", she announces.

"Wait really?", I ask her excitedly.

"Haan, Smri and Kash can I move in with you guys?", Anushka asks them.

"Obviously you can, ye kaisa sawaal hai?", Smriti gushes.

The four of us were going to be together after a long time, I think with a smile.

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Author's note:

This chapter was kind of a filler chapter, I hope you liked it!

I'm sorry for a slight delay, it took some time to finish as I've been a bit busy with college assignments.

Lots of love,
S.

Published on: 24 May 2021