They didn't want him. His team had abandoned him. And most importantly Rohit hadn't spoken for him.
His world broke apart that very moment. His team, his family, his everything had appealed for his removal from the team. He was at a loss for words. He didn't know what to do but all he knew that sleep was far from reach.
He awoke from his half slumber with nightmares of them mocking him every half hour his eyes red from stopping himself from letting the tears drop. He had pretend to be asleep when Anushka had woken up in the next morning and she too knew that he wasn't asleep. Ziva who happened to be sleeping next to Virat,woke and saw his blood red eyes. She was terrified as she never saw her Virat Chachu like this.
"Chachu are you ok?" She whispered quietly.
Virat quickly wiped his unshed tears and whispered back "Yeah baccha I'm fine, I was just thinking about how much you all love me and I'm so lucky to have you all." He half lied and half told the truth and his tears slowly started to drop.
Ziva felt really bad seeing her Virat Chachu like that and wiped his tears with her hands and Virat felt extremely happy at himself for keeping this cutie with him for the night otherwise god knows what state he would have been in.
"Ziva baccha come out na I've set breakfast for you and Virat don't be lazy because it's your birthday you hurry up aswell." Called Anushka from the kitchen.
Ziva rushed out hurriedly but Virat just couldn't make himself get out of the bed. He just knew that he didn't want to face the world after this. Anushka and Ziva had to use his own trick on him and pour a glass of water on his head and he felt somewhat normal.
"AAAAH!" he shrieked leaving the two girls laughing 😂. He realised he had to be normal at least until Ziva leaves.
"Ok fine I'm getting up." He said defeated. "Ziva get ready quickly we'll go to the beach today!" He responded leaving a jumping Ziva. She obeyed her Virat Chachu and ran out of the room.
"Virat, I know what happened. I saw your phone last night and I couldn't believe it either. You need to act normal for Ziva and for the world. We need to make them believe that it's all utter nonsense." Anushka spoke calmly.
"B-b-ut Anu i-t-t-s not ok. They don't want me anymore 😭." Virat broke down completely in his wife's arms and Anushka immediately felt so guilty for joining in with their plan. She wiped his tears and planted a small kiss on his forehead and said
"Come you promised Ziva that you'll take her to the beach. At least enjoy that." She spoke with maturity.
Virat attempted to eat his breakfast but ended up just playing with his food drifted in his thoughts of all the memories with his team.
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On the side, the entire team was having fun preparing the house for Virat's birthday, little did they know that this prank of theirs has scarred Virat's heart beyond repair.
" Jaddu no. Don't !" Exclaimed Bhuvi running around the house and Jaddu with a mouse in his hand.
"Jaddu kill it!" Screamed Hardik sort of scared.
"No are you mad let it go!" Replied Rohit.
"Rohit please don't tell me your love for animals extends to a mouse. Seriously." Jinks spoke above all the chaos.
"Yes and my life's mission right now is to stop Mr Ravindra Jadeja from killing that poor creature!" Rohit screamed back determined making Jinks slap his forehead in disapproval.
By this time Rohit was trying to get the mouse out of the house and Jaddu was trying to kill it. The whole house was filled with screams and shouts and fortunately for Jinks and Bhuvi the only other 2 sane people - Mahi Bhai and Ash walked into the room. Mahi Bhai sighed at the scene and quickly took charge.
