2008
I heard my phone going off and sighed knowing it was Ajju and Radhika letting me know they were close to the location where I was currently meant to be.
It was my final game of the season playing for the Deccan Chargers, I had enjoyed my time with them, learnt a lot and had seen quite a few places. The members of the team were friendly, way too friendly for a guy who was used to keeping his head down and passing by hearing the whispers of him hitting the jackpot with a girl like Ritika or how he had gone from a popular athlete to a shadow of himself thinking he was better than everyone else. Being here, the guys made an effort to make sure the word team meant something and it made me remember why I had fell in love with Cricket in the first place. The brotherhood...
I still kept to myself for the most part but it made the last few weeks bearable having people who could lift me up or remind me of how many days there were before I would see Ritsy. I wasn't the talker but the usual love life came up after drinks with the guys and of course the smile associated with her name never faltered. So I spoke about the love of my life and in that way kept her close.
It was weird, she was somewhere I did not know but the closeness was still felt. The love was still felt and all I could do was wait for when I would see her again, see that beautiful smile and her brown eyes before she hopped into my arms. So I ended up heading home alone to a rented apartment here when all I wanted to do was to be in my home with Ritsy, which I would be getting soon.
I had been there a couple days ago, we had visited Mumbai for matches and made sure I was able to get to our apartment. Although walking in there reminded me she wasn't there because I didn't get a hug or hear Rohika filling the apartment, smelling the sweet smell of her baking feeding my sweet tooth. I had tried not to focus on that because I had been a man on a mission, getting things ready, preparing our home for what was to come and that was our homecoming. That's where we would be flying to later on tonight after the game...
"I could drop you of." I whispered filling the silence that had been there since we made our way outside the building that was home for us for the last year.
"In my own car, Ro?"
"I just don't want to leave you yet" I let out a sigh as I loaded her suitcase into her car. She packed light, leaving most of her belongings in our home, it provided me with some hope that she wasn't trying to escape me. But as she stared up at our apartment building eyeing the top floor with the sadness evident in her eyes, I knew she wasn't leaving willingly.
"I mean." I began wanting to erase the sadness in my voice knowing I was making it harder on us but she simply turned towards me with a small smile.
I closed the booth and stood back against the car as she took her place beside me. I felt her hand lace in mine before she nuzzled her face into my neck placing a few kisses into it before moving in front of me. "I love you."
"I know" I smirked briefly kissing her forehead.
"I am in love with you, hopelessly in love with you Ro. She smiled before peeking up at me.
"I'm not sure how I managed to find someone so special in a world that always seems to remind me how cruel it can be"
I frowned a bit which led to her placing her finger between my eyebrows and squeezing it causing me to stop.
I chuckled before kissing her, tightening my hold on her.
"You're my one and only, Ro"
