𝙏𝙝𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝘽𝙧𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙝𝙤𝙤𝙙

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"Yeh sahi hai , family time woh bhi hamare bina "

Virat's breathe hitched as soon as he heard the voice , his eyes misted and breathe shook , he was not prepared for this . How was he here , wasn't he supposed supposed to be out for some of his tours .

He had prepared every scenario inside his head before he even decided to come home but this was something out of syllabus . He was not ready to face him yet .

"Abb apne ro ki taraf mud ke bhi nahi dekhega ...." Rohit said in an almost breaking voice , Virat gathered all the courage he had to look up to rohit , his once best friend.  Meeting him was the most difficult part , even more difficult that meeting Mahi bhai .

Both Mahi bhai and his father have given him a closure , though a painful one , yet he had reasons to be away from them but rohit's case was completely different.  He never had hurt him directly , yet his actions had once broken the innocence soul . And that's the only reason he cannot bring his heart hate him completely but he cannot love him like before too as though unknowingly yet his actions had hurt him a lot .

Keeping his emotions in check he stood up and turned towards rohit , and before he could register anything he was engulfed into a bone crushing hug by rohit .

"Kya cheeku tu toh kaffi fit ho gaya , khana nahi milta kya wahan theek se"

Rohit asked in a cheery voice backing off from the hug . Virat looked at him amd shook his head but before he could say anything rohit moved ahead gently touching prem and saroj's feet . They gently smiled at him , blessing him .

"Abb baatein khatam ho gayi ho toh khana khane chale " saroj asked rather sarcastically which no one can say no to so the other four men just nodded .

She moved out and as soon as she was gone rohit whacked virat hard who gave him a confusing look

"What ..." he whined showing the other 2 men a glimpse of their old cheeku . Who was happy , carefree and who knew how to whine . Here the cheeku they saw in this few hours did none of these .

"Saale phone tak karne ka time nahi Mila na tujhe 2 saal me ek baar bhi " Rohit asked pouting while virat sighed .

"Look rohit mai busy tha time nahi Mila and I knew tu bhi nayi team me settle up hone me busy hoga iss liye nahi Kara tujhe call kabhi , samajh na" Virat said , though he wanted his voice to be crisp and formal bit no matter what his heart always gave up when it was about rohit .

While on the other hand rohit was disheartened listening to virat . Firstly he called him rohit and secondly he said he was soo busy that  he didn't gat time to call him once in TWO LONG YEARS !! that's something more disheartening.

"Itna busy tha ki 2 saal me ek baar bhi phone nahi kar paya tu ?" Rohit asked a bit emotionally , virat just gave him a look and started to move out of the room .

"Aur mera team ke saath busy hone ki baat kahan se aa gayi virat , tune mujhe kabhi phone nahi kiya samajh aata hai kya kabhi phone check bhi nahi Kara apna , karta toh dekhta na ki kitni baar phone kiya hai tujhe , maine , uncle ne aur Mahi bhai ne , par shyad tu sachme kuch jyada hi busy ho gaya hai " Rohit said all in anger and moved past virat woh stood there still .

After hearing to rohit he didn't had any eye contact with the other two men and moved put of the room . While the 9ther two sighed

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The sole reason of virat to leave the city was to be away from his family , to be away from the people who have hurted him badly , to be away from the memories that used to haunt him . To be away from every pain he felt during that one painful month , but now he is back here at the square one , where everything started and ended too .

Listening to rohit's words he remembered how the first thing he did after reaching Mumbai was to block Rohit , MSD and his father's number and how he decided to never meet them again .

And now sitting here in front of them waiting for your food to be served was something virat didn't expected to happen this soon .

Though he was away from home , but he was not sad . Yeah it took time for him to adjust but once settled, he was happy there . Yep his heart had some bruises but it was on its way to healing but the first day at home itself was like rubbing salt on his old wounds .

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Virat looked around to find himself sitting on the dining table with all other family members when a plate was placed in front of him .

He looked at the house help who place the plate in front of him . One more change he noticed since he returned home , most of the things that his mom used to see were now taken care by the house help .

"Arey mai yeh nahi lunga"  Virat said almost immediately as he saw his mom serving him a bowl full of chole .

As soon as these words left his mouth all four pair of eyes were on him looking like they have seen some sort of aliens .

"Hehe aise mat dekho diet pe hoon , coach sir meri jaan le lenge" Virat said with an awkward smile while other 4 looked at him shocked .

Virat was not some who will leave his favorite food just because of his diet and that too when he was on an official leave . While on the other hand virat knee that he cannot break his diet , At least not now , not at any cost ! .

"Arey ek bhatoore se tu koi Mota nahi ho jaayega , maine itna pyaar se banaya hai khaa le cheeku" his mother said trying to make an innocent face while virat sighed , he knew that something like this would have been coming .

"Maa I know appne itne pyaar se banaya hai but please samjho na mai yeh nahi khaa sakta, meri diet chal rahi hai"

He said holding his mother's hand , trying to make her understand, while she was still not completely convinced but let him go .

While Virat served himself some salad , rohit amd prem devoured into the delicious plate of chole bhatoore MSD took roti along with some sabzi in his plate . He too was on his diet as he had some tours coming up and he cannot compromise with his fitness .

All of the members were busy enjoying their food along with Prem rohit and MSD talking about some random things trying there level best to include virat in their conversations, and virat trying his level best not to get frustrated in front of his mother kept on giving some crisp and on point answers , when suddenly his phone rang .

Virat looked at his hand and then at phone, sighing he asked his mom to put the phone on  speaker mode as his both hands were busy .

As soon as the speaker was turned on they were greeted by a loud angry voice shocking all ........

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-Samridhi