Twins on and off (A KulCha Friendship Fanfiction)

Part 3

The three Man U fans came back a little while later. Kuldeep dashed to them at once.

DK and Vijay Shankar, who had been talking about something, greeted him, but of course, Yuzi looked aloof.

"I'm terribly sorry, Yuzi," breathed Kuldeep, once the other two were out of earshot. "Next time I promise--"

"I would've gone with you if it was Barca's home ground," said Yuzi coolly.

"I know, but that's because you don't love your team like I love mine," said Kuldeep, patiently earnest.

"Your team?" said Yuzi, raising an eyebrow. "D'you mean Barca or PSG?"

Yuzi saw Kuldeep's face turn white.

When his favourite player, Neymar Jr, left Barcelona for PSG, Kuldeep had cried for three days straight, totally inconsolable. It took him months to stop thinking about that irreversible loss all the time, and the rest of the team was always careful not to remind him.

Yuzi knew he shouldn't have resorted to a low blow like this.

Kuldeep turned and left without a word, no doubt feeling the sense of loss all over again, thought Yuzi. But he couldn't go to comfort Kuldeep just then, since they hadn't really returned to talking terms yet.

An extremely remorseful Yuzi could only stare after his best friend as he disappeared round the corner.

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~From Kohli's point of view~

"Why aren't you sitting with Kuldeep?" Rohit demanded of Yuzi at dinner. "What happened to your custom?"

And they are always accusing me of tactlessness.

Actually, though, it wasn't Rohit's fault, because evidently he hadn't even considered the idea of Kuldeep and Chahal fighting. They aren't like Rohit and me, fighting over all sorts of trivial issues. They aren't like Bhuvi and Hardik, either, with Bhuvi always acting like Hardik's mother.

They're like twins, Kuldeep and Yuzi, two parts of the same person, always together.

"He's kind of mad at me," said Yuzi in a low voice to Rohit, but I could still hear.

"I thought you are mad at him," I said.

"That, too," admitted Yuzi.

Rohit grinned and looked at me.

"Glad to know we're not the only ones, eh, Virat?' he said.

I shoved him hard and told Yuzi, "You two won't be able to stay mad at each other for more than 24 hours."