Against the odds

Worse than a breakup

The rumours surrounding shubman and Sara hadn't quietened. They increased with each passing day and this kinda bothered Shubman. Even though Sara kept telling him that it's fine and that they'll remain friends no matter what, the media's outrageous comments made him angry. He saw comments like, "apne idol ki beti hi pata li, nice way to gain attention from your idol". Shubman had clenched his jaw at this comment, he knew his friendship with Sara was genuine, it was not for Sachin sir's attention and yet he couldn't help being bothered at such comments.

Sara on the other hand was frustrated of telling shubman that they were just friends and that what the media and the people say doesn't bother her, because it clearly did. She blushed whenever she saw an edit shipping them, and the urge to like them was high. She was tired of lying to shubman that they were just friends when she clearly didn't feel any friendly emotion for him. She had enough and decided to confess to shubman, she couldn't take it anymore. Even though a part of her told her to tell this to him in person when she visited India, she couldn't stop herself. It was as if her hands moved automatically dialling shubman's number.

On call
Shub- hiii laraaaaaaaa
Sara- hi Shubman
Shub- shubman? You don't call me by my full name, specially when I'm calling you lara. Is everything alright cookie?

Sara's heart fluttered at that nickname he had given her because of how much she loved to eat cookies

Sara- yeah, I need to talk to you about something important shub
Shub- yes, what's it?
Sara- well these rumours going around...
Shub- yeah ik I hate them too, but I can't help it, even the general public is involved you know?
Sara- that's not where I was going shub
Shub- then what's it? What's bothering you?
Sara- remember I told you that these rumours don't bother me because we're going to remain friends no matter what?
Shub- yeah, so? You're scaring me aru. What's going on?
Sara- I don't think I consider you as my friend anymore
Shub- whatt?? What are you saying? Are you drunk aru?
Sara- no I'm not drunk.
Shub- then what...
Sara- I like you shub
Shub-......
Sara- say something for god's sake
Shub- I... Don't.... Like you
Sara- ohh
Shub- can we remain friends?
Sara- no I don't think we can, not right now but maybe in the future shub
Shub- unfollow me on insta then
Sara- huhh? Seriously. That's what you want to say? You care so much about social media. You're a cricketer and I'm more active on insta than you but it seems like you're more bothered about followers than I am.
Shub- will you unfollow me first or should I unfollow you?
Sara- you're an asshole. Byeee

Sara couldn't believe shubman. He didn't even request her to be friends when she denied, as if he only cared about his image on social freaking media. She opened her insta and unfollowed shubman right away. She was hurt, ofcourse she was. It felt as if Shubman didn't care about her feelings. It was okay if he didn't like her but they were friends then why was he so cold and rude? Sara went towards her balcony and sat there looking at the sky for what seemed like hours. She surely wasn't going to India next month for the break.

Shubman opened his insta, unfollowed Sara and went straight to practice. His face devoid of emotions. He kept running laps, ignoring the calls of his captain and coach to come for batting practice. Ishan looked at him and immediately knew something was way too wrong.

Virat turned to look at ishan with a concerned look.
Virat- what is this guy doing?
Ishan- he does that when he's bothered by something
Virat- then can you stop him?
Ishan- it's hard to stop him when he gets like this.
Virat- but we have a match tomorrow.
Ishan- don't worry virat bhai he'll perform well.
Virat- that's not what I'm worried about, if he keeps going like this it'll be very unsafe to play him tomorrow, his health can be affected
Ishan- I'll talk to him bhai, don't worry
Virat- you should probably tell that to Rohit

They both looked towards Rohit Sharma who was currently looking at Shubman going round and round while chewing on his nails as he asked to their coach for the 1000th time what was wrong with him. To which the coach sighed exasperatedly, because he didn't know too.
Ishan shook his head at the sight and jogged upto Shubman, trying to catch up with him
Shubman as if feeling his presence slowed down.

Ishan- wtf happened?
Shub- Sara told me she likes me
Ishan- wth? And what did you say
Shub- I told her I don't like her and told her to unfollow me from insta
Ishan- are you insane? You rejected your best female friend and this is what you said to her afterwards?
Shub- yeah she did call me an asshole
Ishan- you are an asshole
Shub- leave that how's Aditi?
Ishan- she's fine, she's perfect... Wait stop changing the topic Ben stokes.
Shub- I'm going for batting practice

Saying this shubman went to practice, ignoring the glaring of his coach or the exasperated sigh from Siraj who was called from a music jam session to bowl to him.
Ishan immediately called Aditi

On call
Aditi- hi ish, done with practice? Best of luck for tomorrow.
Ishan- dits, how's Sara?
Aditi- huhh? Why are you suddenly asking that? What happened?
Ishan- just tell me first how's she?
Aditi- idk, I talked to her in the morning and she seemed fine, not like her usual self but she seemed fine still. Wth happened Ishan?
Ishan told her everything and her eyes went wide in disbelief
Aditi- Why did shubman lie? Doesn't he like her? Or he's in denial? Anyway he didn't have to behave like an asshole
Ishan- ik ik, Adi babe, can you check up on Sara and let me know the situation there?
Aditi- yeah I'll check up on her, don't worry
She immediately cut the call, if it was a normal call she would've blushed at him calling her babe, but this was no time. Her bestfriend was potentially heartbroken, she had to check on her And make sure she was alright

Alright guys, that's it for this chapter. Yk I always thought why they unfollowed each other and this is what I came up with. Why do you think they unfollowed each other?
Anyway tomorrow is semis and I've never been more scared. I don't think I'll be able to watch the match, it'll bring back bad memories. I'm just hoping for the best right now.
Also I saw a video on insta wherein sara was papped after allegedly meeting Shubman. Idk how true is that but if they did meet then AHGHGGHHG 😭🧿❤️
Anyway bye y'all, pray for tomorrow, pray for our team to win.
Bleed blue 💙🇮🇳✨