when 77 met 32 [ishman ff] [shubish]

2025

Suhani was planning on something. After that encounter with Abhishek, she felt like she didn't have enough time anymore. she wanted this to be as quick as possible. She could sniff trouble from the look Abhishek gave her that day.

"Can you be quicker than that?" she asked on call one evening. "Do you think this is a joke? I don't even understand why you gotta pull something like that." An irritated voice spoke from the other side of the call. "just answer my question." "No, this cannot be any quicker. I asked for a week, and I will take a week. No bargaining. Remember, this is a favor not an order."

"Alright, you have 3 days remaining until your weekends." She said, quite annoyed at the last line. "Suhani, can you not tell me what this is about? Please? Maybe that way I could be able to help you better." The other voice spoke. "No. Just leave me be. This once please." She said earning a sigh from the other end.

"whatever you do, don't get hurt." "I know. Arrange it for me as quickly as possible." And she ended the call with that. Suhani wanted this person to arrange a meeting with the members who already left cricket. A meeting that would not alert anyone. She couldn't do it, the team members couldn't do it, but this person, he could.

She didn't want to take help from him, but desperate situations called for desperate solutions. In 3 days, she would need to ask questions to the members. What questions could she ask to make things clearer? Sometimes there aren't wrong answers, there are wrong questions.

She didn't want to make that mistake, so, she sat to analyze the list of questions that would grant her the golden answers. She wasn't a professional detective and that could be a problem here. so, she asked all the members for their advice. And she got some also. If they are gonna work as a team they may as well share the burden of wrong questions.

Abhishek on the other hand was in another stress. He wanted to tell about those phone calls to the members but he also didn't. if those calls weren't related to Ishan and this matter at all then this would just create unnecessary confusion in the team. Delaying things further.

But what if it was related to her? "why do you look like that these days?" Abhishek was snapped out of his thoughts when he heard Mayank. "I don't really know what you mean by that." Abhishek replied. "what do I look like?" he asked. "like you are thinking about something. This is not related to cricket at all, is it?" Mayank said.

Sometimes Abhishek felt like he was too easy to read. But then this was Mayank. He has never once read Abhishek wrong. "can you answer a question for me?" he asked Mayank. "of course." "how do you trust people in unideal situations." And Mayank started laughing at that, "Why would you laugh like that?"

Abhishek sounded quite offended. "no. hahaha. It's just that, I never thought I would hear you of all people say something about not being able to trust someone. You always trust." He said. "well I shouldn't, right?" Abhishek asked feeling quite stupid.

"you know being able to trust people is a blessing. Don't feel stupid for that." he can read minds. That's it, was what Abhishek thought. "and to answer your question, you can't. you can't trust people in unideal situations, but you are Abhishek Sharma, so, you can." He said with a smile. And Abhishek thought that maybe things weren't as bad as they looked like.

"Why did you call us here?" AnmolPreet's face came into view. "I need to ask you a few questions. I hope I am not imposing too much." Suhani's voice could be heard in the background. "You quite literally forced us into coming here, what else do you call imposing." Another person said.

"okay great. Let's move on. So, let me introduce myself first. Hi. My name is Suhani and I work as the head manager for the ICT." Some of them already knew that information, and some looked surprised. "And I know. I know about the things that you're so desperately trying to hide." She said in an intimidating tone.