"Not that I didn't like it but why so sudden?" Shubman looked at Ishan who was fiddling his hands.

When Ishan bid everyone bye and had his already packed bag ready [he never opened it since Mayank brought him to Punjab] Shubman insisted to be the only one taking Ishan to Airport.

Everyone knowing the lovers need some alone time they let him go, Mrs Gill didn't said anything because, well she was already traumatized seeing them together in the morning, she doesn't want to experience another shock. So that's how Shubman and Ishan were in Mayank's car, going to the airport.

But when a red light came and Shubman stopped the car he was surprised with a sudden kiss on his lips.

"I wanted to kiss you before departure and as some people might be there so I thought of just giving the goodbye kiss here," Ishan muttered.

Shubman pulled the car aside on the curb making Ishan look at him in confusion. But before he could ask him Shubman pulled him back kissing him again.

Ishan wrapped his arms around Shubman's neck melting into the kiss. He bit onto Shubman's lip sulking on it afterwards making Shubman moan against his lips.

Ishan's hand tightened around Shubman's neck when he felt Shubman's touch on his thigh.

"Shu—" Their moment was interrupted by a call on Shubman's phone.

Shubman groaned trying to ignore it but Ishan pulled back slumping against the seat making Shubman pull back as well while harshly whipping out his phone.

It was Sara.

Ishan also must have sneaked a peak because his mood turned sour while grumbling a small 'oh'.

"Ish–"

"It's okay, pick up her call. Let's not keep her waiting." Ishan gave a small smile while looking out at the window.

Shubman stared at him before putting the phone on speaker.

"Hey Shubman," her voice blazed inside the car making Ishan look back at him.

"Hey Sara, how are you?" Shubman asked all the while staring back at Ishan.

"Well not at all good. Infact who would be okay with waking up with hundreds of messages of people giving their condolences to me, while I don't even know what happened." She gave a dramatic sigh.

"Sorry about that, I should have warned you beforehand." Shubman replied looking at Ishan who was scrunching his nose feeling bad for Sara.

"It's okay, I got some extra publicity so that's a win for me lmao. But hey I watched the interview and couldn't you be less harsh? You literally said I was a forced crush to you... I thought you liked me atleast a bit more than that," Sara snickered.

"Wait you knew I had a crush on you?"

"Shubman you literally acted like a lost puppy but then again you used to ghost me everytime for Ishan. Now I can understand why,"

Ishan looked at Shubman who was blushing.

"It's not like that,"

"Oh please you can't lie to me yo— yeah dad, okay just give me a moment. Hey Shub I have to go out real quick, I will talk to you later? Say hyy to Ishan from my side okay?. Byee" She said cutting the call not even letting Shubman respond.

"You didn't had to put it on speaker. I do trust you," Ishan said.

"I don't want you to blindly trust me as well. Besides we are going to meet after weeks so I can't let you get anxious as well even for a tiny bit," Shubman grinned.

"Well I don't have anything to be anxious knowing you can ghost everyone for me," Ishan chuckled.

"You see I have been always in love with you so I don't care about anything when it comes to you," Shubman shrugged nonchalantly.

"Okay Mr Lover boy, but let's get going now? I don't want to miss the flight," Ishan shook his head.

"Ofcourse your highness, whatever you say." Shubman replied putting on his seat belt and drove to the airport while they talked about how they will miss each other.

---

"You sure you have everything?"

"Shubman stop, you have asked it nth times now. I have everything," Ishan sighed taking his stuff and going towards the line.

"Wait, are you sure you are not forgetting anything?" Shubman asked and Ishan groaned.

"You tell me, what did I forget?" He stared at Shubman with a clipped expression.

"This"

Shubman smothered his face with kisses. Ishan was taken aback at the sudden feeling but leaned in after a second.

He gave a peck on his lips at last pulling away with a smug smile.

"Now you have got everything," He hummed.

"You are unbelievable, why did you do that here?"

"Didn't you wanted to give me a goodbye kiss? I just did what you wanted,"

"But we are in public," Ishan said pointing at the strangers who were staring at them, some even recording them.

"I don't care about others. What my babe wants, my babe gets."

Ishan couldn't help the blush forming on his cheeks.

---

Shubman thought he would be okay without Ishan.

He had spent months without seeing Ishan before so he would be okay if he won't get to see Ishan now as well.

But this time he couldn't.

It had been 2 weeks since Ishan left to his home. Shubman had been missing him too much, good thing was that Ishan also missed him. They have been videocalling at night everyday.

They both told about everything which happened. Like how Shubman told him his father sent divorce paper to her mother after a week telling her either to stop this drama and come back or he is going to give her divorce.

Mrs Gill sent him back the divorce paper with her signature on it.

This resulted in constant 3 days of fights from their families telling her not to do it at this age. Everyone yapped on her about how wrong she was doing. Nobody questioned Mr Gill that had ticked Shubman and Shahneel.

That's why after 2 weeks, they were finally in their new home, away from all the relatives and Mr Gill.

Shubman and Shahneel had to use their savings, but they were happy now. Today only they had moved in. Final touches were still left and they had a lot more furniture still left to buy but they were ready to move in.

Shubman was showing his house to Ishan through video call right now. The house was pretty big and the thing Ishan liked the most was the wallframes on hallway. It was filled with pictures of Shahneel and Shubman. A few with Shubman, Shahneel and Mrs Sharma as well.

"And this is our room," Shubman said showing his room.

"Woah it's so big,"

"I know, it's the master bedroom. Neel wanted it first but Mom said I am going to bring you here soon enough so we are going to have the master bedroom. You should have been here to see Neel di's face," Shubman snorted.

Ishan chuckled.

"Oh by the way, Mom got a job." Shubman said.

"Woah congratulations,"

"Thanks, Mrs Sharma asked her to join her boutique. She needed a new accountant for her boutique so she asked Mom."

"That's great, I am glad everything is working out finally for you." Ishan smiled pecking the screen.

"Damn I am missing all those kisses now, when will you come to me?" Shubman pouted.

"World Cup starts within 2 months," Ishan shrugged.

"Baby if you won't come here within 2-3 days then I will come there myself." Shubman scowled.

"Okay okay meri Jaan, give me a week atleast. Mom and Dad are actually getting into the idea of me being gay now. You know they even planned a strictly family day for tomorrow. So no phone usage for tomorrow. Even the wifi will be cut and we will just play indoor games and a few outdoor games as well," Ishan chirped.

"Wait so you won't call me tomorrow?"

"I will get my phone back till night so I can call you. But I won't be able to message you all day. I promise I will make it up to you at night,"

"But how will I manage all day without your message and random selfies,"

"You have to help your family in moving in. Focus on that,"

"Fine but then at night you will have to do thaaaat," Shubman smirked.

"No Shubi! I can't masturbate on call...my room is not soundproof,"

"Then you will just have to keep the voices in, and you know what? Our room is soundproof." Shubman snickered.

"Don't tell me you asked about that from contractor,"

"Naah, it wasn't me. But mom asked the contractor 2-3 times if the room is really soundproof or not. I guess we really traumatized her,"

"Fuck no, I won't be able to show my face to aunty ever again." Ishan whined.

"Don't worry, I explained her that we are grown ups now and sometimes have our needs."

"We got into a relationship for like two days and within those two days ended up having sex 3 times," Ishan scoffed.

"We just have high libido,"

"Fuck you and your libido,"

"I would rather fuck my handsome boyfriend."

"Y—" Ishan stopped hearing a knock on the door. He told Shubman to wait a second before opening the door of his room.

Mr Kishan were standing with a few bags on his hand.

"Time to give your phone to me young man. I want to make sure you sleep early so you can wake up early tomorrow," Mr Kishan said.

"Just a second dad, I was bidding Shubman good night only."

Mr Kishan gave a tight lipped smile to him while nodding his head.

"Go ahead do whatever you want, from tomorrow you will not see him anyways,"

"Huh?" Ishan looked at his dad in confusion.

"Tomorrow you won't see him. No phone allowed remember?"

"Oh, oh yeah! By the way dad why did you bought so many lemons?" Ishan asked peeping inside the bags.

Mr Kishan quickly pulled the bags behind.

"They are just some stuff for tomorrow. We might end up thirsty so bought them for shikanji. Don't worry about them and give me your phone quickly,"

"Yeas dad just a second,"

---

Shubman was missing Ishan so much. Even when he was decorating his room with a few pictures of his and Ishan on the wall he couldn't help but kiss each one of them before placing them.

Even at night while waiting for the call he was very anxious. When it was finally time for their call, Shubman had called him but his phone was switched off.

Shubman waited for two more hours before going to his mother's room. His mother told him maybe Ishan was tired and went to sleep early. They can talk tomorrow.

Shubman hummed while sleeping with her mom.

---

The next day, it was evening already.

Ishan still didn't contacted him. His phone was switched off.

Shubman had gotten Raj's number from Mayank and called him a dozen times but Raj's phone was switched off as well.

Feeling uneasy he told Shahneel he wanted to go Bihar and meet Ishan.

Shahneel tried to stop him but Shubman wasn't listening to her.

Shahneel was trying to calm him down first and when he was finally breathing like a sane person, Shubman's phone buzzed. It was Mayank.

Shahneel quickly put the call on speaker.

"Shubman, I have Raj on hold. He wanted to talk with you but he doesn't have you number. He is currently calling through his hospital's landline." Mayank said.

"Please merge the call with Raj, Shubman is going to burst if he doesn't get to know Ishan is fine." Shahneel said.

Within a few seconds, the call was merged.

"Is Shubman on call?" Raj asked timidly.

"Yeas Raj bhaiya, I am here." Shubman replied.

"Shubman, I-I need your help,"

"What happened?" Mayank asked.

"I-I-I a-am so sorry guys. I am the worst brother,"

"Bhaiya you are scaring us,"

"Sorry, it's just...I thought they also wanted the best for Ishan. I couldn't do anything. I tried to but they are my parents, I can't fight with them,"

"Raj bhaiya please tell us what happened."

"I can't tell in call. Can you come to our home and help Ishan? Please come, I won't be able to do it alone."

"I am coming this instant. Please just tell Ishan is okay and safe atleast?"

"..."

"Raj bhaiya is Ishan okay?"

"I don't want to lie...he is anything but fine."

"I am taking the first flight to Patna. Please Dii tell mom when she comes home," Shubman said.

"Shub, I am coming with you." It was Mayank.

"Mayank you don't have to–"

"Ishan is my friend as well. So wait for me, I am coming to your house," Mayank cut the call.

"I am going to fucking kill his parents,"

"Shub, calm down! They are his parents. I am sure they wouldn't have hurt him that much."

"No parent should even hurt their child dii. Our dad were so bad towards mum still they never hurt us because we were his blood but look at them," Shubman's jaw tightened.

"Shub, we should just focus on making sure Ishan is safe. Ishan needs you so don't be harsh on the parents. Just focus on being there for Ishan. He is the first priority,"

"He is my only priority. I am not even going to care for his parents. Ugh why is the earliest flight after 2 hours," Shubman groaned throwing his phone in frustration.

Good thing his phone bounced on bed.

"Shubhman Gill if you won't take a few breathers and sit down then I will chop your head!"

"Dii...you are not getting it, Ishan needs me. I can't be there for him. I am such a bad boyfriend," Shubman sighed sitting on the couch with his sister following him behind.

"It's okay Shubi, you are not a bad boyfriend. You will be there for him soon,"

"I just feel so helpless right now, I want to be with him right this instant."

"I know but we have to be patient. Stressing over things we can't do anything about will not solve it,"

Shubman hugged her wordlessly. Shahneel hugged him back while slowly patting him.

Let's just hope things aren't as bad as Raj depicted them.

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A/N - I didn't explained those baba and jadu mantar because some of you were uncomfortable.

Some peeps also misunderstood as kala jadu meaning someone died...I mentioned it as "kala jaadu belief" because some people think it will work.

And I don't think so it actually works because if it did then people won't be using bombs and guns to kill others.

I am totally against these practices and you all should be against it as well. I don't want anybody's parent coming to me and accusing their children started doing it after reading my fic—