Sara smiled as she was woken up with sweet kisses all over her face while Shubman smiled widely looking at her cute face.

"What are you doing?"

"Loving my wife."

"Is it?"

"Umm hmm."

"I love this way of love."

"Ohh then I will do it daily."

"But why are you waking me up so early?"

"Because we have a flight to attend."

"What flight?"

"Baby snap out of you sleep, we are leaving for Delhi today. Remember my match?"

"Ohhh yesss sorry sorry I forgot."

"It's okay there's still time you go and get ready."

"But our bags."

"Packed baby."

"You are soo good Shub."

She kissed his cheek and he smiled.

"I know love."

She got up and quickly got ready while Shubman did the last minute packing. Soon she was out and they were out for the airport.

The flight was a short one and soon they were in Delhi. They checked in in their hotel and as always Shubman directly fell on the bed making Sara shake her head.

"Are you going to practice tomorrow?"

"Tonight baby."

"Itni jaldi kyu?"

"Because coach thinks we are lacking somewhere and he isn't wrong, many of us are having some problems with some particular balls."

"Ohhh okay."

"Why you wanted to go out?"

"No just asked."

"Hmm now come here."

"I will let me get fresh first."

"Come fast."

She nodded and went to the bathroom while Shubman sighed and took his phone replying to some important messages.

Once Sara was out she did her skincare and laid beside him while before her back could touch the mattress Shubman pulled her on him.

"Aeyy what is this?"

"What what is this? Why will you sleep so far when I am so close."

"Shubman you are too much."

She giggled and slapped him lightly while he smiled and kissed her head.

"Waise I have an idea Shubman."

"And what is it baby?"

"If you score..."

"If I score?"

"If you score a hundred or more runs than that in the next match I will give you that amount of kisses."

"You are kidding."

"Why will I be kidding Shub?"

She pouted and Shubman's eyes widened.

"You can't be serious."

"I am serious,very serious. See if you score a hundred then hundred kisses, if you score 125 then 125 kisses and you know if you score...200 then 200 kisses and also I know you won't go beyond 50 so my win."

"Since you are challenging me in this let's see baby who wins and be ready to give me as many kisses as possible."

He tickled her stomach and she laughed falling on the bed.

"Okay okay stop, I am sorry."

"You won't go back on your promise hmm."

"I won't."

"I love you Sara."

"I love you too Shub."

"Move your hands let me see the wound."

"Aree it's healed now."

"Still."

"Dekh liya now go and get fresh it's already your practice time."

"Ughh duty calls, you sleep I will get ready and go."

"Hmm go and practice well and make us proud."

"I will love."

He dropped a last kiss on her head while patting her making her sleep. Once she was asleep he quietly slipped out of the bed and got ready and locking the door he went away.

As Shubman walked towards the nets he was greeted by his teammates whom he smiled at. Soon Virat came to him.

"Kaisa hai Shubman?"

"Badhiya Bhai. Aap kaise ho aur Vamika?"

"Hum sab mast hai Shub but I think tu mujhse kuch chupa raha hai."

"Mai? Nahi toh mai kyu kuch chupaunga aapse?"

"Accha fir Sara ko chot kaise lagi?"

Shubman gave him a sad smile and Virat patted his back.

"Bhai woh toh you know humari India ki public kaisi hai. They don't even have humanity towards us players. Leave it."

"It's okay Shub hota hai but please take care and avoid crowded places, okay?"

"Yes Bhai."

"Toh set for the match?"

"Yes Bhai. Bohot ho gaya ab, it's time to show them what Shubman Gill is."

"I like the confidence."

With that they continued the practice and after practicing for almost 4 hours they were ready to go back to the hotel.

The match day arrived and Sara was seated, anxiety taking over her as she heard India would bat first. The crowd cheering did nothing less to her anxiety and she found herself copying Ritika's action of crossing her fingers making the other ladies laughed at her.

Her feet automatically stood up as she saw Rohit and Shubman entering the field doing a little warm up.

"Sara baith jao baba, it's okay."

"No bhabhi, I don't think I can take a seat. It feels weird."

"You know I was the same in our early marriage days, even though I knew Rohit since many years but everytime he came out to bat my anxiety would take the best out of me."

Sara smiled at Ritika and looked ahead only to see her favourite face smiling at her. She gave a wide smile back and showed him the crossed fingers.

The first ball was taken by Rohit and he pushed it for a run. Sara stood up again as Shubman took his stance to face the ball.

The ball was a dapper but thankfully he survived. Sara heaved a sigh and looked ahead again. The second ball came and Shubman pushed it towards the boundary making Sara jump in happiness.

As the match progressed Sara watched each ball with precision hoping for him to score as much as he could, she knew he was badly hurt after that incident.

He couldn't see her getting hurt because of him and since then he was determined to make the tables turn. The kiss things were just in the sense of humour but Sara knew he would have done it anyway.

He was currently batting on 98 and Sara's breath was stuck, he was doing it again but this time only to prove everyone that she was not his weakness, she was his strength.

And finally with a four he completed his century making Sara jump all over the place in sheer euphoria. Ritika hugged her to calm her down and that's when she saw Shubman pointing his bat towards her with a kiss.

Tears flew out of her eyes and she gave him a flying kiss back making him smile wide. The match resumed and Sara finally kept her feet back on the ground.

Soon the match was over and Shubman earned the man of the match. While the interviewer was asking him questions,one specific question caught his ears and he paused for a second.

"For your this question all I would say is, my game is not defined by what I do with my wife off the field or for that matter it is nowhere related to her. If I cannot score runs it's my mistake, not hers. And I try everytime to improve my batting,my techniques. It's my sincere request please keep her out of it and I won't tolerate the things which happened to happen again. If she gets hurt one more time I will bring the world down, thank you."

The interviewer was shocked but stabled himself and asked the further questions while once the interview was over Shubman took the trophy and directly went to the pavilion where Sara was sitting.

Sara jumped on him as soon as he was in her view and Shubman laughed while balancing himself with her. He kissed her hair over her head and pulled her closer.

Once their moment was over he made her stand on her feet again and gave her the trophy of man of the match.

"Get ready to shower me with 156 kisses baby."

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I know I am very late, even after I promised that I will update on Sunday but my Sunday exam got postponed to Monday and I got so lost in preparing that I forgot to update.

This update is a short one too because I really don't have time to write anything.

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