Ishan has been feeling really sick these days. Not physically but mentality, he is exhausted from everything and he thinks he definitely needs a break. A break from everything, A break from everyone and A break to focus on himself.

He has been continuously traveling with the team to play but at the end when he isn't included in the playing 11 he feels just so sick. He is done of getting replaced, he is done of being a substitute player. He wants to make his own name and have his own place in the team instead of being other people's substitute.

He has always been the extrovert, the life of a party and a person who likes to crack jokes even when he himself is not feeling good. He is always the therapist friend whom everyone tells their problems to. He is the person who cannot see anyone sad but now he himself feels so done. He is tired of everything and fed up of the same thing happening to him again and again.

Ishan was scrolling through Instagram when he saw a post which claimed that "Ishan Kishan will play in place of Virat Kohli in T20 World Cup" He just laughed at it because it's literally so funny like these people don't even include him in a bilateral T20 and people think that they'll let him be the replacement of Virat Kohli and that to in T20 World Cup. No one can be a replacement for Virat Bhai and that's the truth he thought to himself. He then thought about opening the comment section and saw how everyone is making fun of him and comparing him to Virat while few were saying this can't be true.

He is sick of all these comparisons. He often gets compared to all other players and he doesn't want all these comparisons to happen. He still has many things to achieve in his career and comparing him with senior players doesn't even make any sense!

Whenever he gets any opportunity to perform for his team he always does and still gets drop in the next matches or series, at first Ishan wasn't much bothered about this but now after it's happening again and again with him he can't help but feel.. Lost, Sad, Empty.

He knew that he needed a break and he thought that now it's the perfect time to take one and that's when he decided to withdraw from the Ind Vs Sa test series because anyways they won't let him play.. or would they? Nah Ishan shook his head at his own silly thought.

So Ishan was sitting in his house going through his inner turmoil just then his phone buzzed with a notification and he opened his phone to see message from Shubman. He opened the chat and read the message..

From: 𝙎𝙝𝙪𝙗𝙞

"𝘈𝘳𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘰𝘬𝘢𝘺 𝘣𝘢𝘣𝘺?"

He was surprised to see the message from Shubman and wondered how his Shubi always knows how he's feeling. He smiled at his own thought and hesitantly replied to the message.

'𝘐'𝘮 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘦, 𝘔𝘦𝘳𝘪 𝘫𝘢𝘢𝘯' Ishan replied
'𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘸𝘩𝘺 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘴𝘶𝘥𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘢𝘴𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴?' he couldn't help but ask this question to Shubman.
Ishan waited for his reply as he was typing.
"𝘐 𝘥𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸.. 𝘐 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘣𝘢𝘥 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘴 𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘺𝘰𝘶."

Ishan felt touched by this concern, Shubman has always been there for him he thought and chuckled at his thought and he started feeling that all the stress he had is disappearing. Just then one more message came which read..

"𝘚𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘐 𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘺𝘰𝘶?" Before Ishan could reply he saw that Shubman is calling him so he quickly picked it up.

"Ishu I miss you soo much yaar" came the baby voice across the phone as soon as Ishan picked it up. Ishan just giggled at Shubman's cuteness and said

'I miss you too Shubi' and just like that they talked for hours and hours and Ishan didn't know what he was blabbering just then he heard the sound of Shubman sleeping. He laughed at his cute little voice and

'Good Night, Meri jaan. Tu nahi hota toh Mera kya hi hota' he said and then ended the call.

After this long conversation with Shubman Ishan felt much much happier and fresh. He wasn't feeling sleepy so he started scrolling the reels just then he saw a reel and he felt his eyes watering at the reel.

It was a reel of his and Shubman which stated that "He was there when no one else was" and Ishan just smiled at the reel while his eyes were filled with tears of happiness.

He then opened the chat of Shubman and typed
'𝘐 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶, 𝘑𝘢𝘢𝘯' and sent it to him and then he liked that reel and closed his phone and slept peacefully.

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P.s- All this negativity which is going around for Ishan is just making me so mad. He doesn't deserve all this he just deserves love and only love. I can't wait so see him play again! Just best wishes and love for him. Also I'm missing Ishman sm, Bas jaldi se unka reunion hojaye🥹💗.

The selectors are just blind fr. Hope Ishu bounces back stronger!

Also tomorrow is my English board exam so please wish me luck.

Thankyou:)