"Maybe," said Rahul. "Maybe things aren't meant to be the same forever."
"Maybe," said Virat.
He didn't believe it, and yet he did.
Because the 31-year-old man addressing him was KL Rahul, an Indian cricket hero, a husband and an adult, and not Rahuliya, Virat's little brother and "property"...and he had been KL Rahul for quite a while, even if Virat had shut his eyes to it.
You think that one bond with that one person in your life will stay the same forever, and suddenly one day that person seems miles away, slipping out of grasp, maybe never to return again.
Has that Rahuliya slipped away from Virat for good?
Certainly not if Rohit Sharma has anything to do with it!
In a sad alter universe, Virat and Rohit fell out bitterly 5 years ago, and things have never been right between them again.
It took Virat five years to realise how empty life seems without the person he once considered his best friend and with whom he spent every moment of the day for more than a decade, and that he can't quite live without him.
Rohit doesn't seem to think that way; Rohit has accepted the indifference.
But Virat just can't bear the indifference any longer.