Against the odds

The first public spotting and the social media frenzy

Shubman's POV

A month or two or probably three had passed since the World Cup? Shubman didn't know neither he wanted to remember. His form only went downhill after that and he did not like it one bit. Today was another one of his overthinking days but Sara beat him to it. There was some jio event in the evening and she wanted him to go with her. He tried reasoning with her, but nothing worked in front of her. He ended up agreeing to meet her directly at the venue.
He wore a black tux, made his hair, applied his favourite perfume and put on a watch. He took his car keys and got ready to leave.

He called Jugnu to ask if he was ready. Truth be told he felt bad for dragging Jugnu everywhere just because him and Sara wanted to meet. But that was the only way things could be less suspicious. Though it annoyed him when he saw an edit of relationship rumours between Sara and Jugnu. Are people dumb?

He reached the venue before Sara and Jugnu and boy was he awkward. He didn't know like half of the people there. There were also some snobby rich people who he didn't want to talk to at all. But since his parents taught him manners he smiled politely at everyone he made eye contact with. That was a stupid thing to do, he realised when one of the girls he smiled at starting flirting with him.

"Hey hottie, you look so edible" she said in a seductive way, Shubman found it extremely cringey.

"Umm ... I'm... Uhh" He stuttered, this was the awkwardest he has been.

"Get the fuck away from my boyfriend you grown ass woman behaving like a hormonal teenager" Sara's voice boomed through the venue.

Shubman's eyes widened as he looked at her, her face red with anger matching her dress. She looked hot and adorable at the same time.

"Your boyfriend? Oh he has low standards. You are not good looking and you do nothing except for being a famous cricketer's daughter "

Shubman was about to interfere and say something but Sara looked at him and shook her head. She wanted to handle it herself.

"Firstly, you don't need to worry about his standards. He likes women who have values and are respectable, which you're clearly not. Secondly, yes I'm my father's daughter. So what? And sweetie I do a lot of other work as well. You should search, you're anyway obsessed with things that belong to ME" she ended her sentence and looked at me. Her eyes showing possessiveness, jealousy and anger.

"You... How dare you? Do you have any idea who I am?"

"No? I don't know useless pieces of trash "

"Ok babe let's calm down, let's get you some juice" I interrupted before Sara could pull the other girl's hair out. I took her elbow and took her with me

Sara's POV

Shubman was lightly dragging me to a different place. I stopped and jerked my hand from his.

"Why did you drag me?"

"If I didn't, you'd probably rip the girl's hair out. You looked angry, if looks could kill she'd be dead by now"

"What do you expect? She was flirting with MY boyfriend"

"Ok ok miss jealous bean. Calm down, I'm all yours. Don't get worked up" he said and took me in a slow kiss. I melted so fast.

I kissed back equally slow, tasting him as much as I can. Thankfully we were in the garden where no one comes. I raked my hands through his hair and deepened the kiss. When we pulled apart we were both out of breath. We joined our foreheads and giggled softly.

"Let's go back in" he whispered and I nodded.

We spent most of the time with each other but we were also careful enough to get away if someone was making a story or something and we were in the background. Things were pretty good. When it was time to leave I asked Jugnu if there would be paps outside. He asked someone else and said no one is going to be there.

So Shubman and I walked together, orry and Jugnu just behind. I wanted to go with Shubman in his car. But obviously no one wants that. As soon as we reached the exit we saw the paps.

Shubman's POV

I saw the paps and immediately moved away from Sara's side and went a bit behind the door. Sara came a bit behind the door too.

"What do we do now?" She asked clearly upset. I so wanted to hug her right now but I can't.

"You leave with Jugnu first, I'll leave later. I'm going to pretend I was talking to orry." I signalled orry and he came a bit forward and pretended to talk to me.

Sara sighed and went with Jugnu. I left ten minutes later.

As soon as I reached him and opened insta, it started flooding with notifications. At first I thought it was just normal but I noticed the ICT group chat blowing up so I opened the gc. I vaguely saw my name but couldn't read anything as everything was so fast.

ICT- THE MADNESS VERSE

Shubman- GUYS? What's going on?

Jaddu bhai- dekho to kaun aya, aj ka hero.

Ishu- aashiq a gaya. Isliye Mera phone nahi uthaya tu.

Virat bhai - The first public spotting, congratulations shubi

Bhuvi bhai- Why are you guys overreacting? They are not rare pokemons.

Rohit Bhai - I'd agree in other circumstances bhuvi but this is actually something to overreact about.

Shubman - can somebody enlighten me? What's going on?

Rahul bhai- The whole social media is going crazy after seeing you and sara together in one frame for the first time. And so are these idiots.

Shubman- ohh... OH? Wait, is it all over sm?

Abhay- yeah ofcourse it is.

Nagar- Congratulations Bhai. Ab to public bhi ho gaya.

Shubman- kuch bhi mat bol. Mai ja raha sone.

LIE. That was a lie because for the next hour Shubman stalked all the shubhsara fanpages with a fake account. He sent a few reels to Sara too which she didn't see because she was asleep as soon as she reached home.

After an hour of stalking, Shubman kept his phone down and went off to sleep, smiling to himself. He wouldn't tell it to her but now that people mostly know they are actually dating, he just wants to post a picture with her and announce to everyone that she is his girlfriend. Only his.

Okay omg another update after ages. I try to stay active but it's just so impossible. Anyway tell me what y'all think about this chapter. Sorry to everyone who's dms I did not answer, I'll be answering soon. And also expect an update for the ICT os book too. I'm planning to write part two of the shubsara- Sachin msd one with msd, ziva and rohirat as mains.
Ok bye then
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