Shreyas's PoV

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Deepika needed publicity and so did I, our little deal was purely professional. But according to the rest of my teammates, I'd fallen in love with her during our little elevator journey. Anushka Sharma sat beside Deepika asking trillions of questions along the lines of, "Vami's been coughing, I haven't really given her any proper treatment, is she okay?"

Deepika answered each of them calmly and patiently, I'd gotten the feeling that she's been bombarded by moms before. Vamika gurgled with annoyance, I caught the little gulab jamoon's attention by sticking my tongue out at her. She knitted her eyebrows together and watched me with curiosity as I twirled a coin through each finger, I made an exaggerated toss into the air and caught it with my palms closed. She leaned towards me, intrigued. I opened up my palm, the coin safely tucked away in my sleeves. But according to her, it disappeared. Vamika squealed catching the attention of her fussing mother and father. Virat's gaze instantly flew to where his little bundle of joy was bouncing up and down and then to me, he soon fell back to sleep, realizing that there wasn't much to worry about. Deepika, on the other hand, fixated her gaze on me with curiosity. Suddenly I was self-conscious.

Crap!

I fumbled around slightly, and the coin slipped out from my sleeves. Vamika's eyes and Deepika's flitted towards the coin on the ground and a sheepish me, Vamika sighed and slapped her tiny little palm onto her forehead seeming to say, 'silly chachu'. Rishabh Pant, my bus seat partner (unfortunately), snickered. 

I shot him a glare, Vamika ignored me for the rest of our trip and paid much more attention to Deepika, who was her new favorite person. She squealed and watched Deepika with wide adoring brown eyes. I huffed slightly, feeling jealous that Deepika had won her attention so easily.

"-I'm telling you, it's perfectly fine." Deepika soothed Anushka, "I'm a surgeon, if there is a medical emergency I can handle it. Go enjoy your time with your husband!"

"But I can't ask you to do such a large favor for us!" Anushka didi protested, and Virat groaned, "Make up your mind, Nush. Vami might wake up, and we'd have to cancel our plans."

"Exactly," Deepika grinned triumphantly, but Anushka still had one card up her sleeve, "What about spending time with your boyfriend, hm?"

"Boyfriend?" Deepika blinked repeatedly like a goldfish. Anushka's face transformed into a mask of confusion, mirroring Deepika's.

Does this woman have short term memory loss? She's going expose us!

"Yeah, well." I entered the room, sensing that I needed to intervene. "Whenever there's a baby involved, I magically disappear from her memory."

Virat chuckled, nodding his head and agreeing with me. "She loves Vami more than me."

"Smh," Anushka shrugged, not arguing against Virat's statement. "Not my fault your more needy than our one-year-old."

"Also Vamika's so much cuter." Deepika cooed, lifting her away from Anushka's grasp. Vamika beamed winningly, seeming to agree that she was much better looking than her father. "Aw, yes you are! Yes, you are!" She twirled the baby around before nuzzling Vami's cheek. I stepped into place with her, placing my arm around her shoulder to play the part of her boyfriend.

"Aren't you the sweetest little rasagulla!" She chuckled when Vami batted my arm off Deepika's shoulder, my jaw ticked slightly.

Attention seeking Baby

"Fine," I scoffed, folding my hands. "No more magic tricks."

Vamika sneezed at me, and turned her head away. Deepika snickered, "Looks like she doesn't want your tricks anyways."

"Deepika's better, hm?" I grumbled, Piku bit down on her lower lip to control her laughter as Vami bounced up and down, nodding. Virat and Anushka seemed to give in at last, Vamika flat out ignored her parents and clung to Deepika when they waved good-bye and left to the restaurant.

"Wanna watch a movie?" I offered, hoping to spend some time with her and getting to know her a little better.

"Sure," She shrugged, Vamika cooed and rested her head on Deepika's shoulder. "But it's gotta be something this little rasagulla can watch too."

"Frozen?" I responded dryly, Vamika's eyes snapped open.

"I guess we have her approval," She laughed as Vamika beamed at me like I did something right for the very first time.

Great, I'm spending time with a toddler

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Goal: 7 Votes and 8 Comments

Again, dont msg me at 3 AM, cause beauty sleep is important 🖐 

But what a cute chapter, should I write more chapters featuring Shreyas, Deepika, and Vamika (If yes, go on and write down some ideas

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Question:

Where do you live?Toronto (used to be LA)