Aria

We reached the stadium and we took the seats at the stands allotted for family and friends. The toss was scheduled at 10 minutes from now. I was very nervous. I've seen shreyas play before but for some reason I felt a whole zoo running in my stomach.

The last game I watched shrey play was 7 years ago. So much has changed since then. Now I'm his girlfriend, cheering him wearing his Jersey, standing here along with the wives and girlfriends. It all still feels like a dream.

We won the toss and decided to bowl first. I was also very very excited to see Deepak and Rahul olay because this is the first time I'll be watching them play live.

Deepak opened with the first over and I was completely spell bound. I didn't know he could play so well. Everytime I saw him or shrey or rahul on the field, I felt proud for some reason. All their hard work and dreams and now they're finally playing for the country. I felt like a proud mama of three kids.

The opponent managed to hit a humongous total and it was time to chase. After the fall of two wickets, including Rahul who hit 35 for just 12 balls, shrey stepped in at number 4, the place he's destined to play. I couldn't keep it in when I saw him enter the field with his bat. I got up and jumped up and down cheering for him and screaming his name.

"Someone is super excited", said Nats.

"Look at her happiness. You guys are way too cute", cooed devisha di.

I blushed and sat down.

"No no don't stop. It's your man there on tue field", said dhana.

I was at the edge of the seat when the bowler bowled the first ball to shrey.

A four. His classic cover drive.

That's when I knew, that my shrey will win the match for the team. The next following overs, shrey and virat bhai gave no chance for the bowlers to take a wicket. They slodged every ball to a boundary or a six or even two runs. Some kind of run machines the both of them.

They had made such an amazing partnership and shrey was at 98* for 64 balls. They only had 2 more balls and 6 runs to win the first match.

I sat there chewing my nails, my heart beating so fast like I just ran a marathon and I was sweating. A few more minutes and I would have chewed on my fingers too.

Shrey was on strike and for the next ball he came forward and hit a huge six.

112 meters!

Oh my goodness gracious!

"And that's a win for the Indian team, finished by the classy shreyas Iyer making his century in just 65 balls", roared the commentators.

I could not sit anymore. If they let me I would have ran to him and hugged him. I jumped higher and higher and clapped my hands and screamed at the top of my lungs. I'm pretty sure I'm gonna lose my voice but I don't care.

He did it.

Shrey did it.

He removed his helmet and kissed it. Then he turned around to face me. He kissed the bat and blew it towards me, pointing the bat at me. All the cameras faced me at this point making me flustered.

Dramatic shrey. Had to do it like this only, I thought face palming myself.

Once they were done with the post match presentation where shrey got the man of the match award, I finally got to meet him.

I ran to him on the field and hugged him.

"You did so well. You were amazing on the field. You.. you..  I'm speechless", I said panting.

"You know there are many cameras pointing at us right now", shrey whispered into my ear.

"I don't care", I said still hugging him.

"You know what the secret of my success is?", He asked breaking the hug and looking into my eyes.

"Boost?", I said giving him a shy smile.

"Arey yaar. Tauba tauba saara mood kharab kar diya.", he said shaking his head and glaring at me.

I laughed at his disappointed face.

"Okay okay I'm sorry. What is the secret of your success Mr. Iyer?", I asked joining my hands behind his neck.

"You Ms. Nair. Your presence is magic enough for me. Remember how everytime you attended my games I used to hit a 50 or a hundred? Nothing has changed. It's always been you", he said touching his forehead to mine.

"It's always been you", he whispered again looking into my eyes.

"I'm gonna cry now. Stop being so cute Iyer", we heard a voice.

Do all members of the ICT have such bad timing? I thought it was just Rahul.

We turned to see Hardik standing there holding Agastya in his arms and Deepak and Rahul also stood beside him.

I left shrey and ran to rahul and hugged him.

"You played so well I'm actually surprised", I said laughing.

"I can be serious when I want to", he winked.

"Rahul stop trying to steal my girlfriend", groaned shrey.

Both of us ignored his comment.

I then faced Deepak and grinned.

"Dayum boy! What are those amazing skills?", I said punching him on his chest.

"Rahul gets a hug but I get a punch? Not fair Ari", he pouted. Such babies. I hugged him too and then stood next to shrey again.

"Only wishes for your friends is it? Nothing for us", asked virat bhai coming to us.

"All of you were so amazing bhai I can't even begin to explain", I said flabbergasted.

"Yeah she was on the edge of her seat for most of the game I thought she'll legit fall", laughed devisha di.

"Edge of the seat? Ha! Look at this", said Nats holding my hand and showing them my nails. There were almost nothing left.

I immediately pulled them off feeling embarrassed.

"If you were so hungry you do know we provide food no?", Smirked Rahul. Annoying means.

I glared at him and every body else started laughing.

Wait why are they laughing. I'm angry. They shouldn't be laughing at my angry face.

"Is that supposed to be an angry face", asked hardik.

"Um yeah?", I said confused.

"You know what you look like when you make that face?", Giggled shrey.

"What?".

"Pikachu", he said laughing.

Pikachu? That yellow thing from Pokemon?

How? Why?

"Eh?", I said glaring at him again.

"See see this exact face", pointed out hardik laughing again.

This felt like a team full of Rahuls.

"Okay okay guys don't scare the poor thing off", said virat bhai.

"We have a small meeting about the next match. You girls go ahead to the hotel we'll meet you in some time", said virat bhai asking all the boys to assemble at the field.

"I'll see you super soon", said shrey kissing the side of my forehead.

I nodded at him and left with the girls.

Once we reached the hotel I decided to do something nice for shrey now that he had played so well.

When shrey used to play well, we used to go to our favourite vada pav shop and eat vada pav, gol gappa and jalebis with rabdi.

Even though he's on a diet now I thought I'll surprise him with all this and bring back those happy memories.

So I called the reception and made a special request for them to get us food from the same stall and along with that some virgin mojitos and masala dosa as well.

I decided to also decorate the room a little bit. I asked them for scented candles and a diffuser.

I ran warm water into the bath tub for a bubble bath and added a few drops of lavender essence for the smell. I lit candles all around the bath tub and played some soft music.

By then the food arrived so I asked them for nice plates and plated them well. I also dimmed the lights in the room and put on the diffuser with some warm rose fragrance.

Once I was done, the door bell rang. I knew it was shrey. So I jumped off the bed and ran to open the door.

There he stood, sweat dripping down his hair and he had a tired look on his face.

"Aww my poor baby", I said taking his kit from him and putting it down ans directly pushing him into the bathroom.

"What are you doing", he asked slowly walking into the bathroom.

"Just pampering my man", I said and took him to the bathroom.

He stopped and looked around.

"A bubble bath?", He asked widening his eyes.

"For me?", He asked again pointing towards him.

"Yes darling. Just for you", I said and asked him to strip.

He happily threw his sweaty clothes away and when he was just in his boxers he jumped into the bath tub.

Such an adorable fucking baby he is.

I too removed my clothes and  when I was down to my lingerie, I sat on the side on the tub and placed shrey's head between my knees.

I took some shampoo and starting slowly massaging his head, lathering up all the soap nicely and giving him a nice head massage.

He groaned and relaxed under my touch and leaned back and placed his head on my thigh. I continued to slowly move my fingers along his hair while he looked up at me.

"Close your eyes or the shampoo will get into your eye", I said smiling at him.

"No. I never want to stop seeing you. I know it sounds very cringy but that's the truth", he said putting out his hand and placing his palm behind my head and pulling me down for a kiss.

Once I was done washing his hair I asked him to take a body bath. He insisted I give him that too but I had to go arrange the bed.

After a lot of whining and pouting he agreed to do it. So I left the bath and dried myself, wore my favourite PJ's which was shrey's tshirt and my shorts and then set the tray of food on the bed, picked a movie on Netflix and waited for him on the bed.

He came out looking like the sex god he is.

Drool drool.

So much drool, I can swim to him.

He saw me shamelessly staring at him.

"This is all yours babe", he said winking and turning to get his clothes making me blush.

Once he was done wearing his PJ's which was just sweatpants, he joined me in bed.

"Have I ever told you that you're the best?", He sniffed my hair and kissed me on the head.

"Yeaah sometimes", I said.

"You did all this just for me?", He placed his hands on the side of my face looking into my eyes.

"Yes. You're special to me and I always want you to feel that way", I said leaning forward and placing a kiss on his lips.

Shrey deepened the kiss. Our lips moved in perfect sync and very quickly we were out of breath.

"Ugh I could do this all day long", he said placing another kiss on my lips.

"Okay so I have a surprise for you" I said grinning.

"Okaaaaay", he smirked and leaned behind on the pillow.

I opened the lid showing him all the food.

"Wow! So much food!", He said immediately picking the vada pav and taking a bite from it.

He chewed on it for a few seconds and then realisation struck him.

"This.. this is from our place?", He asked his lips twitching into a smile.

I nodded grinning from ear to ear.

He looked at me with teary eyes.

"Shrey... What happened?", I said wiping a tear that was rolling down on his cheek.

"I haven't visited this place ever since you left Ari.  This place held all my special memories of you and everytime I looked at it, it hurt me. This is the first time I'm having something from here after 7 years", he said sniffing.

This brought tears to my eyes too.

This is why mumbai will always be special to me.

"Hey it's okay. I'm here now. We're here now", I said kissing his forehead.

"I love you Aria. You mean the world to me. I mean it when I say it", he said kissing my cheek.

"I know love", I said squeezing his hand.

He continued happily munching on his vada pav and sipping on his virgin mojito.

"The taste is still the same. Absolutely delicious", he said with his mouth full.

Once we were done eating, I dimmed the lights more and put on a rom-com on Netflix and cuddled into Shrey.

"Baby?", He whispered.

"Hmm?".

"You're the best thing that happened to me. I love you so much", he said hugging me tighter to his body.

"I love you too shrey", I said turning and kissing his bare chest.

Years apart, yet the same feeling.

I love Shreyas Iyer.

Always did.

Always will.

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