“What the hell was that!?” Jinks suddenly almost yelled, breaking the silence. Virat stood there facing the team who had heard every single word exchanged between the two best friends. The youngsters were shocked seeing two people who always exchanged fun banters, fighting and yelling at each other today.

“Virat! Can you please open your mouth!?” this time it was Jaddu who was frustrated seeing Virat silent and asked.

“Nothing,” Virat muttered and started to move around in his room.

“What do you mean by nothing! We saw what happened and it surely didn't look like ‘nothing’ to us,” Ajinkya said.

“Guys, chill! They both are mature adults and can handle this themselves,” Ritika spoke, knowing well that both of them would realise soon. Virat looked up at her and just kept staring at his other best friend.

“It's high time both of you act like adults and if not adults then at least as the captain and vice-captain of the team, this isn't the example that Dada or Mahi Bhai set for us and we also should not set it for the next generation who are standing here,” Ash said.

“But when have we both ever let our thing affect the team, we have always acted as professionals and this is a simple thing that we both will solve by ourselves. Can everyone please leave it like that, it was a mistake that you all heard everything, let's behave as if it never happened,” Virat took a strong stand.

“Virat, we can't unhear what we heard,” Harry muttered, whereas everyone in that room wanted to bang their heads somewhere.

“Harry! Please spare me today, I am already worked up and you don't want to be my next target,” Virat said with gritted teeth.

“And this anger will hurt some people whom you don't want to hurt someday,” Jinks said looking straight into Virat's eyes. Those words struck Virat like a bullet.

Ritika had enough of the advice and said, “I am no one to interfere in the team but they both are friends and no friendship is all colourful. Let them do what they want to and leave it to them guys,” she supported Virat.

“Exactly, we won't let it affect the team,” Virat assured.

“Fine but please get done with this at the earliest keeping your egos aside,” Jinks said and moved out of the room and the rest followed. The only two left now were Anushka and Ritika. Anushka was also the first one to see the fight in the camp and decided to not interfere while Ritika was accustomed to RohiRat fighting like 5 year olds.

“I will leave you both to do whatever you want to,” she teased and turned around to leave.

“Rits, why do you always support me?” Virat asked the question that was bothering him while Anushka stood there looking at the duo.

“I am not supporting you, it's just people need their space and I get it. But you know Virat Jinks was right, you need to control your anger and Ro needs to control his childishness, these traits though look small, can affect you both later on.” Ritika sighed. “Anyways, leave this, I am off to that other angry bird since this one now has calmed down or will eventually,” she wiggled her eyebrows between the couple.

Virat laughed at her teasing and said, “Yeah yeah go and you too can do whatever you want to,” he teased. Ritika shook her head and moved out of the room after muttering a goodbye to both of them.

Anushka looked at Virat and didn't know what to say. Did he expect her to say something? But what should she say? She didn't want to interfere but at the same time wanted to have a chat with him. But thinking again, she thought maybe it wasn't the best time to talk about the situation.

“Want to watch a movie?” Virat asked, breaking her string of thoughts and also indicating that he didn't want to talk about the matter. Probably Ritika was right, they would solve it themselves. She nodded her head and settled down picking up a random comedy movie.

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Rohit had posted the cryptic post but deep down he knew that Virat didn't mean the words he said. He felt like deleting immediately but the mistake was already made. Both the boys couldn't control their emotions and needed to learn how to not get affected by small rumours. They had to sort their shit out but they needed to do that with calm heads.

Ritika entered the room and saw the story as soon as Ro posted it. She sighed knowing that Rohit wasn't in the perfect frame of mind to do sensible things and she needed to chat with her husband.

“I know I shouldn't have posted that but it was already late,” he whispered as soon as she sat beside him on the bed. “I am sorry,” he again muttered.

Ritika shook her head and said, “I am not the one you need to apologise to Ro and you know that too. You are mature adults and please behave like one. Banters are fine but blaming each other isn't, understand that,” Rohit again opened his mouth to say something but Ritika interrupted him, “You aren't the only I had this chat with. I have told the same thing to Vee. He wasn't the only one at fault, if we have two angry people in a room, will it make any difference Ro?” she questions him.

He understood her point, “Rits, I understand the point but why always shout? He could have asked me to leave, we could talk later!”

“Knowing you, you would have shouted his name from outside the room which did result in everyone coming out and seeing what suddenly had happened! And Virat was already dealing with the media, Ro. He was frustrated!” she explained.

“And don't we always express ourselves to the people we are close to and trust with our mood swings? Ro, you too know how the media is, in fact you too are dealing ever since that like. So understand his situation too,” she looked at Ro, trying to understand what he was thinking.

“Ohkay, we will talk about this tomorrow or after sometime, don't worry. I get the point,” he said and wrapped his arms around Rits, silently thanking her for explaining and being there.

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Hey guys,

As promised here is the next chapter. Again a normal chapter, but I really wanted to show the emotions in this track so please bare with all the chapters coming up which are going to be a mix of both normal and instagram. Mostly, it will be normal with posts or stories here and there.

Will be back to Instagram chapters in 2-3 chapters or maybe less. I hope you liked the chapter and the emotions I tried to display, also the bonds. Less of Anushka cause it wasn't a great time to have a chat with Virat, but that's coming soon 😜

Thank you for the love on last chapter 💕

Stay safe
Love, Aarohi ✨