Hardik Pandya Imagines✔

It's a date.

“What are you smiling about?”

Rohit, clothed in nothing but a towel around his waist as he’s just come out of the locker room showers, notices a big, stupid grin on Hardik’s face. Hardik’s looking down at his phone, reading a text message, but he literally cannot stop smiling.

“Nothing,” Hardik replies, typing out a message on the screen.

“That doesn’t look like nothing,” Rohit laughs, trying to peek over his shoulder to see who he’s talking to, but Hardik angles his phone away.

“Give me some privacy!” he exclaims, playfully shoving Rohit away.

“It’s Y/N, isn’t it?” Rohit says gleefully. Hardik sighs and gives him an exasperated look. “It is!”

It definitely is. Hardik’s practically in love with his best friend, but he doesn’t have the courage to tell her, so he’s okay with just being friends for now. Or at least, that’s what he keeps telling himself – but he often thinks about what it would be like to take her out on a date, or to kiss her on the lips, or…to do other things that friends don’t do. The guys have noticed that he fancies her and they’ve begun to tease him relentlessly every chance they get.

“What, Hardik’s still hung up on Y/N?” Polly a.k.a Keiron Pollard yells from the other side of the locker room.

“Obviously,” Rohit says. “Look at him. He’s blushing! He’s in love.”

“I am not,” Hardik says defiantly, but he’s so distracted by arguing with Rohit that he doesn’t notice his elder sibling ,Krunal come up and grab his phone out of his hand.

“Let’s take a look at these messages, huh?” he laughs as he begins to scroll through Hardik’s thread of messages with her. Hardik loves his teammates but honestly, when they tease him like this, he could kill them.

“No, stop –” he tries to lunge for his phone, but Krunal is too quick.

“Is there something you don’t want us to see?” Krunal asks, before gasping. “Oh, is she sending you nudes?”

“No, she’s not – and don’t talk about her like that,” he says defensively. He doesn’t want his teammates picturing her naked. “She’s just coming to pick me up from practice.”

“On a date?”

“No.”

“You should make it a date.”

“Bhai, no, I swear, if you text her anything from my phone –”

But Krunal’s already typing away on Hardik’s phone, sending a message. Hardik lunges for his phone again but Krunal is fast enough to slip away from his grasp. The entire locker room is laughing at poor, lovestruck Hardik as he chases his elder brother around the room.

“Fine, here!” Krunal laughs and tosses the phone to Hardik.

Hardik sighs with relief and looks at his phone – and he groans in frustration when he sees that Krunal texted her a message asking her on a date.

“She’s gonna think that I asked her out!” Hardik whines.

“Is that such a bad thing?” Rohit chuckles.

“I wasn’t ready to ask her out,” he sighs. “What if she doesn’t want to go on a date with me? This might have just ruined our whole friendship!”

“Get over yourself,” Rohit slaps Hardik on the back as they walk out of the lock room together.

Polly and Krunal trail behind them, along with a few of the other guys, as they walk outside of the training center. Hardik spots her right away – she’s leaning against the building, waiting on him, looking as beautiful as ever – and his face lights up with a smile again. He can’t help it. It’s like an automatic reaction – every time he sees her, he automatically smiles.

“Y/N,” Hardik calls and waves to her, getting her attention.

She looks up and sees him, and Hardik immediately begins to apologize for the childish actions of his teammates as she walks toward him.

“I’m sorry about the date thing, it’s fine if you don’t want it to be a date –”

But as soon as she gets close enough, she reaches up, grabs Hardik’s face, and kisses him on the lips. Hardik’s so surprised at first that he doesn’t kiss back – but then he realizes what’s happening ...Holy shit! She’s kissing him! and he immediately begins to kiss her, too. Hardik ’s vaguely aware of his teammates laughing and teasing him in the background, but he doesn’t care. His hands find her waist and he tugs her closer until they’re completely pressed together. Her fingers mess up his hair and she deepens the kiss for a brief moment before pulling away, leaving them both out of breath.

“It’s a date,” she smiles at him. “I’ve been waiting so long for you to ask me out.”

And there it is again – the dumb, happy smile spreading across Hardik’s face. Until one of his teammates ruins the moment with a smart comment.

“Damn, Harry!” Polly yells from the parking lot. “Get a room!”
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A/N :
Sorry guys for this late and silly update..

I know I said I would update yesterday but I had to submit my practical files before the practical exams which start from Monday..Yaay (*fakes enthusiasm*).

I hope this will make up for the delay..

Something like this actually happened back in school and I was like why not include it here 😏

I was Krunal in that situation btw 😂

And guys, Don't forget to tell me in the comments if you loved this chapter 😘😘