Aashna's pov:

2 days after we land in Australia, it's finally the day when I have to attend the match.

So I am getting ready, I don't wanna go extra and look desparate so I just wear a jeans and a cute little top.

It's too hot in Australia that's why I prefer on wearing less clothes and that ripped jeans really helps the air to pass through.

I call my friends Adhira and Mahi and ask them when are they gonna come over, we were a group of four but one of our friends Shivanya shifted to India 3 months ago.....I still haven't told my friends that we are going to see a match because they are huge fans of cricket so it's like a surprise for them.

It's 7 p.m. and we were in the car already, I was in the driving seat and I  silently checked the location Shubman sent me on the GPS, when I told him I was coming, he just told me that his assistant will guide me to the sitting area, he also texted me a simple heart and that just made me smile and blush.

"Hass kyu rhi he, blush kyu kr rhi h?" Addy said.

"Mujhe to pehle hi shak tha ki isko koi pasand aa gya h." Mahi said.

"Oh my god, you guys, it's nothing!" I said and started driving.

"When it's nothing fir hame bta na kahan jaa rhe h." Addy said.

"Yaar thoda wait karo na, ye lo gaane sun lo." I put on some music for them.

Soon we reach the stadium and they just look at me.

"Ek minute, ye kahan park kara he tune, it's a stadium, you know that right?" Mahi said.

I finally decide to tell them the truth.

"Ok so I met this guy on the airport and then we met again on the plane and we just started to talk and yk he's so cute and so tall and he had such cute dimples and he works for ICT so he invited me to watch this match and he said I could bring my friends, tbh I think he's taken a liking in me."

"Aashna singh chahar, are you saying that we are watching a match, WHAT THE FUCK" they both shout at me.

"Let's go guys, we're gonna be late!" I say and open my car door.

"Wait, wait, wait, tujhe hamari kasam ab bta bhi de what is this guy's name?" Mahi says.

I huff.

"Ok fine, his name is...Don't laugh ok? He has this old style name." I warn them.

"Just fucking tell us!" Addy say.

"Alright, he told me his name is Shubman." I tell them and get out of the car.

They are still in the car so I knock the window and addy opens the door and asks me.

"Ana, did he tell you his surname?" She asks.

"Yeah, Shubman gill." I casually say and move forward.

"Do you by any chance has his picture or something?" Mahi asked.

"I think we took a selfie on the plane." I check my phone and find it. I give them my phone and keep moving forward.

When I don't hear their footsteps, I look back.

"Guys what are you doing? Come on we're going to be so late." I snatch away my phone and pull them with me.

As we go inside, a very pretty girl approaches me with a bitchy look on her face and asks for my name, once I tell her, she leads me to the VIP sitting area and I ask her if she was Shubman's assistant?

"I mean, that's all I am to him now that you, having to come have ruined everything for me, I don't like you so much." She spat.

I was quiet taken aback when i heard those words, why would someone say that to me, and that too an employee.

"Isn't that's what you're supposed to be? His assistant?" I asked her normally.

"Uh huh! Of course, that's ALL I'm supposed to be! Thank you so much for telling me." She said and left.

Well that was weird, I mean, did she talk like that with everyone else or was it just me?

I turned back to my friends who looked like they were having some serious conversation and when they saw me looking, they stopped. What is going on?

"Guys....is there something that you're not telling me?" I asked with raised eyebrows, slowly walking towards them.

"Did this Shubman guy tell you what he does? Like what's his job?" Mahi asked me.

"Uh....he said he worked for ICT, I just told you guys in the car, bhul gye kya?" I asked.

"No Ana, as in what does he do for them? What is the probability of having a 2nd Shubman gill work in the ICT?" Addy said the second half to Mahi.

"Believe me I've been a math student all my life but it's just zero." She said back.

I'm just getting so confused by all this like what are they up to?

"Ok yk what, I can't get what you are saying, so please explain, what is going on?" I said.

"Ok here's what you gotta do! Just call Shubman, tell him you're here, and ask him where he is, then insist that you wanna see him, let's see what he does." Mahi said.

I take a deep breath and do as they said.

He picks up the call and at the same time, the announcer announces the batting of Australia was about to begin, so the crowd started to cheer so  loud, like what's the craze?

"Aashna? Are you here?" He asked.

"Hey! Shubman, yes I'm here and yes your assistant helped us but you know, she was a bit rude, well anyways but where are you? I wanna see you!" I say to him.

"Are you seated nicely?" He asked.

"I am seated with two of my friends but where are you, I wanna see you!" I said to him.

"You'll be able to see me in a minute's time on the field, I'm just about to come out of the dressing." He said.

After 2 seconds of silence, i say.

"What does that mean?" I say, he's so confusing.

"I'm sorry, did I not tell you I work for ICT?" He said.

"Ok Shubman, wtf, you never said you played! As in you're a cricketer??" I asked to confirm.

"Well yes is all I am able to say right now cause I've gotta go but please don't get mad, please meet me after the match, please!" Shubman said to me elongating his pleases.

"Alright! You'll have a chance to explain and tbh I'm quiet excited to see you play, all the best for that, but it doesn't mean that I'm not mad!" I say and try to sound angry.

We hang up after saying byes and see yas.

"What did he say?" Addy asked.

"Uh...guys he is a cricketer...." I said and they looked at each other.

"We already know, but how dumb can you be? Like didn't you just know?" Mahi said.

"Guys, why didn't you tell me?" I said.

"Well because, it was not our place to tell you, it was something he had to tell you!" They said.

"Hmmm....the match has begun, let's just watch it ok?" I siad.

Pagal hi kr rakha h in dono ne toh!

India won the toss and they chose to bowl first.

I see Shubman, Virat Kohli and more cricketers taking their positions on the field, Shubman looks really young in front of them.

I ask my friends for their names and they tell me about the team.

Now I know that this Rohit Sharma guy is the captain and and there is Shubman's passive competitor Yashasvi Jaiswal, slim and tall like Shubman.

On one hit, both Shubman and Yashasvi run to catch the ball but Shubman ran with explosive speed and caught the ball first. Yashasvi just turned and left, then all the senior players came and hugged Shubman.

After some time, a player named Travis Head came out to play, and my friends told me that he was villian of the year 2023 for India because we lost the world cup. It was really funny to hear that.

At one hit, Shubman ran again and took his wicket and the whole team erupted into joyful shouts and hugged and lifted Shubman, virat kohli even kissed Shubman on his cheek, I think that was so cute and it bought a smile to my face.

Slowly, the inning(addy told me what an inning means) got over and it was time for India to bat.

Shubman came out with Rohit Sharma and started to bat, he hit many sixes and many fours and ran so fast to take runs, and very soon he had made a century.

The stadium erupted into cheers as we have a huge Indian population in Australia.

Shubman is such a talented cricketer, apart from my butterflies and feelings for him, I am genuinely proud of that man.

But Shubman got out on 195/2 after making 138 runs. His hit got caught by some Australian player.

He was liteally seen making a sad face, I felt kinda bad about that but his score is awesome.

The match got over and India won by 4 wickets.

After the match, Shubman messaged to meet me in the lobby area and we went there to see him, after 3-4 minutes, we saw Shubman coming towards us and I had to stop myself from cracking a smile because hey! I'm mad at him.

"Hey!" He said.

I rolled my eyes.

"Hey! come on I'm sorry" he said.

"Hmm." I said and turned because I just can't stop smiling.

I controlled my smile again.

"Aashna yaar I'm sorry na!!" He said.

"Achha ok! Don't talk to me, just tell me did you like my batting today?"

I finally looked at him and glared at him.

"Well yk guess who said all the best to you before the match?" I said.

"Of course, I just kept thinking about that throughout the match. And look what happened, we won!" He said.

I smiled.

"Do you forgive me now?" He asked.

God is it just me or he looks really hot in that white jersey? And he has a stubble growing which means he hasn't shaved for a day or two and during the game, he had those blue shades...omg.....ok now I get the craze of the shubman gill that my friends were talking about.

"I...I.....what? No I won't forgive you that easily!" I said.

He came closer and held my hand and said.

"Can I take you out on a date to apologise?" He says and I blush.

"Ummmm....???" I pretend to think.

"Please come, please go on a date with me, now don't say no, I said I was sorry." He said.

"Ok I will go on a date with you, then I may think about forgiving you for lying to me." I say.

"Yeeee, thank u so much!!! So kal shaam 7 bje, be ready, semi casual?" He says.

"Done, come to pick me, but right now it's pretty late and we need to leave...so I'm so sorry I can't really see you today." I say.

"Oh no it's alright, please late mt karo, it's already 11, just get home safe" he says.

"Do you need a ride home, I can manage that much." He says.

"No I drove us here and thank u we can go back just fine." I say.

"Ok fine but text me when you reach, don't forget to." He says and hugs me briefly.

After saying byes, I go back to my friends and they start to tease me as we drive back home.

Third pov:

As soon as Shubman heard a notification sound differentbfrom the others, which he had set for texts form Aashna, he picked up his phone and saw that Aashna had texted him saying that they had reached home.

Shubman was relieved to hear she had got home safe.

He texted back saying he will see her tomorrow at 7 p.m., said goodnight and sent a heart.

Aashna sent back a heart too.

This made Shubman smile and he closed his phone and kept it aside.

Shubman was declared man of the match today.

He had scored fairly very good and took two wickets.

It was all because of her and he gave himself zero credit.

She had said all the best to him before the match and those three words coming frin her filled Shubman with so much vigour that he wanted to just give his best.

Shubman's game had improved since she came along, he genuinely drank less and smoke less and he found himself getting happier than before, his life had taken an upward curve.

Aashna may be just a simple girl for everyone else but for him, she appeared to be like goddess Lakshmi.

Bringing light and prosperity as she enters into his life, he wanted to keep her happy, smiling always.

And he knew that it's only been a few days since they met and they haven't even had their first date but Shubman wanted to spend the rest of his life with Aashna, it's like he knew she was born for him, for them to get married, to have children, for him to give her all the happiness that he could.

He didn't realise that he had a wide smile on his face.

"Abey oh romeo! Pda pda orgasm kyu le rha he?" Ishan asked getting out of the bathroom.

Shubman opened his eyes and sat in bed.

"Tu ese orgasm leta h, smile kar ke, tabhi toh ladkiyan bhaag jaati h, ab tu he hi itna creepy." Shubman said to Ishan.

"I mean to say ki tu kya soch rha h?" He said.

"Kuchh nhi kl date he meri." Shubman said smiling again.

"Abey saale, bataya nhi tune, kiske saath?" He said sitting on bed along Shubman.

"Arey mene bataya toh tha wo jo plane me mili thi." Shubman said.

"Accha? mujhe nhi pta tha ki tu itna serious ho jayega!" Ishan said.

"Haan.....kuchh to he yaar, I just can't help it." Shubman said.

"Like what?" He asked.

"Like.....not a single hook up since I met her, only 6 cigarette pichle mahine, no drinking all night.....sab band." He said.

"Toh wait....tune apni assistant ke saath bhi hookup karna chhod diya?" Ishan asked.

"Well....haan!" Shubman said.

"Tabhi wo pissed off rehti he tujhse, salary ke saath ka bonus khatam ho gya he uska, ab smjh aaya mujhe!" Ishan said and Shubman threw a pillow on him.

"Ab bas Aashna, aur koi nhi aur Aashna nhi, toh bhi koi nhi." He said quietly and leant back and clised his eyes.

"Chal shi h, theek h me sone ja rha hu, tu bhi soja, apni beauty sleep le le, kl date he launde ki." Ishan said.

And in the boyish masti, they both fell asleep.

AUTHOR'S RANT: here's it, Aashna finally found out...and do tell me if you're liking the story, then only I will continue it, otherwise there is no use of it all. Bye bye, see you with the next chapter.