How it all began (A Rohit-Virat Friendship Fanfiction)

Misunderstandings

A/N: Copy-paste of my short story of the same name. Those of you who have already read it, forgive me😅

Rohit was dropped from the Test squad for the England tour in a shock but not unjustified decision. Though Rohit always valued Test cricket above everything else, truth be told, he was far too impatient for the longest format of the game.

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About the same time, the ICT Twitter handle posted a picture of the team with Anushka Sharma in the front row. Virat's teammates teased him sportingly and the thing wouldn't have mattered.

However, some commoner commented on the photo about 'different rules for different people'.

After returning to India from England with the rest of the team staying behind, Rohit saw, to his surprise, that the newsfeed was flowing with "Rohit Sharma likes a Tweet directed against Virat Kohli; rift in the Indian team?"

God, how jobless were these people? When did he like any Tweet like that? Rohit felt slightly annoyed, but in an hour he had forgotten all about that.

He was reminded of it few days later, and not in a good way.

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Always together, thought Rohit, narrowing his eyes at yet another photo of Virat and Rahul together. Surely, he wondered, Virat had other friends too? Why did they always have to be together?

He didn't care, of course. Virat could be friends with anyone he wished to be. But well...he hadn't spoken to Virat in a long time. That night he messaged him.

Rohit: Whats's up with you and Rahul?

Virat: Meaning?

Rohit: Why are you guys always together?

Virat: What the hell! Can't I be with who I want?

Rohit: Of course. Sorry to have asked.

Virat: No, why did you ask?

Rohit: ...

Virat: Rahul's fun to hang out with. Always on the go. You know him

Rohit's heart sank swiftly. There was no reason for Virat to be a jerk all the time, he thought fiercely. [Reference to the fact that Rohit is a extremely lazy person, never on the go!]

Rohit: Well, you and your team are performing real well these days-- always on the go

Virat: Do you always have to be such a sore loser! Just because you're not in the team, it's suddenly you vs India?

Rohit: Oh? And I guess we all know why I'm not in the team!

Virat: You total prat!

Rohit: You're a bad luck charm, you know that?

Virat: WHAT?

Rohit: India loses a lot when you play well!

Virat stared at his phone, shaking with anger. Then he video called Rohit. If he dares to decline it...

But Rohit accepted it at once, and both of them glared at the other's livid face.

"You don't deserve to be sportsperson-- really you don't," said Virat scathingly. "You're so unsportsman-like!"

"You sledge people sometimes--and if--" began Rohit, racking his brains for an equally cutting retort.

"But I don't go all moody and bitter at personal downs!"