A Side Character In Your Life (ShubIsh | AbhiNit)

Shubman Gill and Abhishek Sharma spent their teenage sharing a dream. That someday, they would open for India together.

When that dream finally comes true, they can't stand being in the same room with each other.

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Shubman would say they never dated. Abhishek doesn't have proof to counter that. But he has known for some years now that he was always only a side character in his closest friend's life.

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Nitish comes into Abhishek's life at his lowest when Shubman has found his soulmate and tells him their childish romance had merely been a glitch in the matrix. And Nitish makes Abhishek hope that the past can be left behind.

Shubman and Ishan know they are each other's forever. There was never any doubt. But when Ishan loses the central contract and fades out of the national team while Shubman is promoted to new heights every day, they find an ocean between them.

And Shubman finds that it's so lonely at the top.

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But it was Shubman-and-Abhishek first. Before there was Ishan or Nitish. Before they were famous. Before they were successful. Before they even knew themselves.

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Do you ever really get over your first love?