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A little Closer

I got up the next morning. Excitement and freshness sprinted through my veins. Although usually, I was too lazy to get down from my bed right after I opened my eyes, today was different!

I finished my morning business and rushed down to the breakfast arena. I flung open the door, only to see all the tables were empty. The broad smile which I wore left my face within milliseconds. Where are all these people? Just when I was about to step in, I saw a staff member reaching toward me.

" Yes ma'am? How can I help you?"

"Ummm. Sir, I was here to have breakfast with the Indian Cricket team, but I see no one here! Can you please help me? Where do they have their breakfast ?"

He chuckled. "Madam, they are going to have breakfast here, but I guess you are new! On the days when they are not playing matches, breakfast is served from 8 am till 11 am. So we still have 15 minutes for the breakfast to be served." Oh!

I left the breakfast arena and decided to visit the unoccupied cafe shop, well, unoccupied according to me. As soon as I stepped in I heard someone sobbing. Standing 10 feet away from the person I identified him to be, Shreyas. It was Shreyas Iyer who was sobbing.

"Hey, hi!
Umm..... sorry to interrupt but what's bothering you? Something you wanna share? Can I help you out with something?"

"No, thanks" he replied brushing his tears away.

"Hey, don't be too harsh on yourself, see I won't force you much to share your problems with me. But all I know is sharing your troubles might help in removing excess baggage from that tiny little heart of yours."
He chuckled.

"Wanna sit and have some coff........" He was about to ask me out for coffee but then.

"Hey hi, I was searching for you everywhere." Said Shawn, he stood beside me and placed his hand on the small of my back. He. Freaking. Touched. Me. Woah!
"Come let's go we'll have breakfast, it's ready," he said as he gently pulled me to move

"You go, I'll quickly join you" I smiled at him, he was behaving, Ummm..... Quite weird today.

"You guys are together?" Shreyas raised a question, he stiffened, as he shifted his gaze from me to his coffee cup. What happened to him now? Look at me and talk Mr Iyer.

"Umm no? Why would you say that?"

" Yesterday, you guys were together for the entire time. Plus your cheeks say out loud that 'someone special' just touched you. So yeah!"

"No, we aren't together, it's just we knew each other since school days so I was just comfortable enough to open up with him for the first day."

"Yeah whatever makes you sleep at night." He smirked still gazing at his teacup. Woah! This guy also had a smirk on his face. Just then...

"Baby?" I turned back to see Tanisha stepping toward us. I shifted my look back to Shreyas, my eyes suddenly caught him clenching the teaspoon as hard as he could.

"What are you doing here baby?" Asked Tanisha as she almost moved me aside and settled herself in Shreyas's lap. She encircled her arms around his neck and moved dangerously close to him. While on the other hand, Shreyas let his hand rest gently on the table.
"Nothing just wanted some coffee you know" he forced a smile.

"Okay, the breakfast is served let's get some food okay?" She kissed his cheeks.

"Okay". They both got up and left, before finally leaving the cafeteria Shreyas turned back and looked at me once.

I mean what just happened? At one moment he was crying, the other moment he was getting all kissy-kissy with his girlfriend. This boy is strange.