All About Mahi and his Brothers

My Prized Possession

Hello guys, hope you are all doing good. Before I begin with, I want to thank awesomeshivu for creating an amazing cover for this new venture of mine. I have decided that I would be writing one-shots on Mahi and the Indian Team whenever I find time as most of you all want me to keep writing more on Mahirat.

Coming to this one-shot, I have written it for a contest hosted by awesomeshivu again and I am very happy to share that this story has been one of the winners of the contest. Hope you all will like it too. Do comment and let me know.

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In Mumbai, at the prime of night, there were lights here and there on a 35 story building, and on the top floor, in a lavish four-bedroom flat, a man is in his deep slumber when he felt two pairs of hands poking him trying to wake him up.

Slowly, with a slight irritation evident on his face, he opened his eyes only to find two happy faces beaming at him.

"What happened girls? Why are you not letting me sleep?", asked the man looking at them.

"Happy birthday papa", wished the ten-year-old girl wrapping her hands around him.

"Thank you so much little one", replied the man hugging her back.

"Many many happy returns of the day Vi", wished the woman sitting beside him and giving him a side hug.

"Love you Nushki", replied Virat kissing her forehead. Not giving any moment of peace for the couple, their daughter Vamika pulled Virat off the bed.

"Come on dad, let's open the presents"

"Baby, we will do it tomorrow morning, okay...now it's too late. Let's go to bed", said Virat feeling sleepy.

"No, I can't wait so long... please dad", requested the little girl and Virat didn't have the heart to disappoint her. So, he took his mobile and while answering few calls and replying to messages, he walked into the hall where he found more than 20 gifts piled upon. Looking at them Virat exclaimed.

"Nushki, I am turning 41 and not four okay?"

"Shut up Vi...these gifts are sent from your teammates", replied Anushka with a smile.

"Wow", saying Virat examined the tags on each gift.

Shikar, Jaddu, Ro, Harry, Shreyas...

We were all together for almost two decades and I have celebrated many of my birthdays with them during our tours yet not once they gave me a gift directly except the cake smash but just after the year I have retired, they are showering me with so much love...Are they so happy getting rid of me or are they missing me?

He was lost in his thoughts when Vamika nudged him to open the gifts.

He opened Rohit's gift and he chuckled looking at the contents.

"An eye mask", said Vamika taking it from her father and placing it on his eyes and that's when he realized there is something stuck inside. As he opened it, he found two pictures of him and Rohit printed inside, and a note was stuck there. He removed the note and not understanding what is the purpose of the pictures inside an eye mask, he opened the note.

Note: Happy birthday Virat. After a lot of thinking, I bought this one for you to remind you that you should not forget me even in your sleep.

"Brilliant", whispered Virat putting back the note and the gift safely in the box.