Aria

When I woke up in the morning shrey had already left for his training. He had only one session in the morning and then he was free to go. As soon as I freshened up I got myself some nice breakfast and took my phone to check my work mails.

But instead of mails I found thousands of tags and messages. What is happening?

When I opened one of them, it was an article in a tabloid about shrey and I.

"Who's the mystery woman Shreyas Iyer is dating?"

"Are they really dating or this is just another PR stunt?"

"Things you didn't know about the girl our heart throb Shreyas Iyer is dating"

More and more and more of those.

How did they get my personal information?

How did they know who I am?

Just like that my very private life was not so private anymore.

I opened instagram to find thousands of follow requests and even worse, message requests.

I opened a few and all I found was hate.

"Gold digger"

"Leave him alone"

"He's deserves better than you"

"Bitch"

"Stop spoiling his life"

"Find someone else life to ruin slut"

All I did was go to the Stadium and support him. Why are they yelling at me? Did I do something wrong?

I couldn't read any more hate messages. I threw my phone and tears started flowing down my face.

I didn't expect them to be all rainbows and unicorns about it but also I didn't expect them to be this rude.

When I couldn't take it anymore, I got out of my room and went to the room beside mine.

After a lot of contemplation, I slightly knocked on the door hoping the person inside wasn't sleeping.

I Heard footsteps and the door opened to Natasha carrying Agastya. She seemed to be feeding him cause Agastya had baby food all over his chubby face.

"Aria, what happened darling? Are you alright? Come in", she said holding my hand and pulling me inside.

She made me sit on the bed while she made Agastya sit in his Walker and he immediately started jumping.

She washed her hands and hugged me.

"Tell me what happened honey", she said wiping my tears.

That's when I couldn't control.

I broke down.

I sobbed and sobbed, and Once I was done, I was still hiccuping and Nats gave me a glass of water and rubbed my back in comfort.

"Do you feel better now?", She said in concern.

I slowly nodded.

"Do you wanna talk about it?".

I thought for a minute and then nodded again.

"Okay.. tell me", she said holding my hand in hers.

"I just saw my phone and... And... The fans... Shrey's fans... They're being.. rude to me. They're calling me names.. and more...", I said tears starting to fall down my cheeks again.

"Oh honey", she said pulling me into a hug.

She rubbed my back while I regained myself and looked at her.

"They are fans love. They can't see their Idol or crush with another girl which is not them. They go rogue but trust me they get used to it"

I just kept looking at her trying to take I'm everything she's saying.

"We also need to learn to ignore them. The papers and the press will write absolute bullshit. But please don't take them to heart. I know it's all very new to you, but I know for sure you'll get through it", she said gently squeezing my hand.

"Did this ever happen to you?", I asked her wiping my tears off.

"I sure did. Hardik was just out of that scandal about the stuff he said on that show and then when we started dating, it was everywhere. It spread like fire. I was being called so many names. I can't even say those in front of Agastya. But look now, they all love me and the baby. So give it time. I'm sure shrey is very serious about you, so you have a very long journey to go with him", she smiled and hugged me again.

Her words made me feel so much at peace.

One thing I learnt was Ignore!

When we finished talking about this, I saw agastya had dosed off in his Walker, so I left the room so that Nats can put him to bed.

I went back to my room and took my phone again, did nothing about the messages I saw. Only opened my emails and went into the shower. This is gonna be hard. Ignoring something so big, but I gotta try it.

When I came out of the shower, I found three dirty pigs on the bed.

"No not happening! Get out of the bed you pigs", I yelled.

"We're tired please let me stay here", whined rahul as he stretched out on the bed.

"Atleast put a towel underneath you like Deepak did", I said throwing two towels at shrey and Rahul while Deepak winked.

"Why are your eyes so swollen?", Asked Deepak while I turned to dry my hair.

Why does this guy have to be observant argh!

"It's nothing. I slept in too much. That's why", I said continuing to dry my hair.

That's when I felt someone's hands on my waist and I was immediately turned around to face shrey.

"What happened?", He asked me.

"Do I have to beat someone up?", Asked Rahul as he sat up straight on the bed.

"Tell me what happened babe", shrey said placing his palm on the side of my face.

"It's nothing", I said looking down.

"Don't hide it from me honey. Tell me what's bothering you", he said pushing my chin upwards making me look at him again.

"It's just.. some people are being very rude to me on social media. So I got very upset about it. But don't worry, Natasha calmed me down", I said reassuring him.

"You sure you don't wanna talk to me about it again", he asked.

"No babe. I think I'm fine", I said giving him a genuine smile.

"Okaaay. I'm here for you okay?", He said hugging me. Not long after, three extremely sweaty boys were hugging me from all directions.

Why did I even take a shower!

After another shower, shrey asked me to get ready.

"Where are we going?", I asked him but got no response.

We took a cab and as we reached the place, I could feel my heart in my mouth.

We were headed to shrey's house.

Why didn't he tell me he was taking me home. I would have dressed better.

I looked down at my ripped jeans and looked back at him.

"Babe what?", He laughed.

I punched him on his stomach.

"Why didn't you tell me you're bringing me here. I would have got something for aunty or atleast dressed better", I said continuosly hitting him.

"Okay okay stop. Ma and papa are not at home. They left to Delhi for some work. Only shresta is at home", he said holding both my hands at the wrist.

I calmed down a little and we got down from the cab and walked towards his home.

He stopped right before the door where I used to live in 7 years ago.

"Remember this place", he said holding my hand.

"Yeaaah", I looked around to find so many things had changed.

Shrey got the key and opened his door to find shresta on the hall watching some random movie.

"Look who's here", shrey said getting shresta's attention on me.

"Oh my god! Oh my fucking god!", She said jumping off the sofa and running towards me.

"Easy there tiger", shrey said holding me closer.

"Bhaaaaabhi", she hugged me so tight getting the air out of me.

"I've been waiting to see you again. It's been so so long", she said continuously talking.

"Yeah it has. It's nice to see you again too shresta", I said giving her a wild smile.

That's when I saw Betty running towards shrey and she jumped on him. Shrey easily carried her and got her to me.

"Babe meet Betty, you're substitute when you're not with me", he said kissing Betty.
I went to pet Betty while she licked my face and wagged her tail continuously.

Shrey went into the kitchen saying he wants to make lunch for me, while shresta and I sat on the sofa catching up on all the things we missed out on.

"But I have to tell you one thing though", said shresta.

"What is it?"

"You have such bad taste! Why this monkey? You're so pretty you could have easily got someone so much more good looking than him", she said gagging making me laugh.

"Hey whats wrong with him?", I laughed.

"Everything".

Once we were done laughing over funny shrey stories, I went into the kitchen to see what my sexy chef is making. He was making some white sauce pasta and chicken tenders.

I slowly crept behind him and hugged him.

"Now it completely feels like home", said shrey turning around and kissing me.

"Shrey the food will burn", I said pushing him but nothing. He didn't budge.

"One kiss please".

"Shresta is right outside shrey. She might walk in any time", I giggled.

"I don't care. Now kiss me", he said leaning forward and kissing me hungrily.

He finally got himself to finish cooking and we all ate together.

The next two matches were also a win for India. Shrey played exceptionally well. So did the whole team. Shrey continued dedicating his games to me and the fans continued abusing me but I'm getting the hang of being the girlfriend of a cricketer.

My one week of leave was over and I had to go back to Bangalore. Shrey, deepak and Rahul came to drop me off to the airport.

Natasha and devisha di gave me their numbers and told me to call them anytime. Agastya gave me a hug too. I'm sad I didn't get much time to spend with him.

After saying goodbye to everyone I boarded my flight and I was off to Bangalore again.

When I landed, I saw sagar waiting for me. I havent seen this ass in so long. He's finally back from all the vacationing and living with scarlet now that she went back to Australia again.

"Hey bubbles", he said hugging me tight.

"I missed your face I don't even know why", I laughed earning a glare from him.

We got into the car and sagar drove. While I was on the way home I opened instagram to find shrey had tagged me on something.

It was an old picture of us from after one of this matches. It was the same picture that I have on my bedstand. It was of a sweaty shrey hugging me while we both grinned at the camera with the caption, "Always and forever".

When did he get so cheesy.

My thought was broken by sagar.

"There's something I have to tell you", he said suddenly getting nervous.

"Is scarlet pregnant?", I gasped.

"No woman!", he screamed.

Then what?

"You're parents have come", he said looking straight at the road ahead.

"That's amazing! I haven't seen them in so long", I grinning.

He had an uncomfortable look on his face.

"What is it Sagar?", I asked him now getting worried.

"They want you to get married".

Hi babies.
Sorry took so long to update.
I hope you like this one.
Get ready for the upcoming chapters 🤭
That's all I'm going to say.
Bye
Love,
S❤️