Love Behind Chaos

Chapter-05

Author's pov

       The sun dipped low over Ahmedabad, casting a warm orange hue over. Kiruthika had just settled on the balcony swing open with a book -something she'd been dying to read for weeks. Her ear buds were in, her tea was hot, and for once there was peace.

 But not for long. The sliding glass door flung open with all the grace of a tornado. In marched shahneel gill - stylish and dangerous when she had an idea.

"Kiru!", shahneel chirped, tugging out one of her ear buds.

Kiruthika looked up warily, " what now di?"

Shahneel  :  Gt match is tonight aganist MI !, It's at our home ground. You have to come with me!

Kiruthika blinked, " no absolutely not, di".

Shahneel gasped at her words, " are you seriously going to sit here reading while your future husband smashes sixes and fours on the field."

"Exactly why i wanted to stay home." She muttered under her breath.

 Shahneel wasn't deterred. " come on, kiru! You haven't been to a Gt match yet. You'll sit with me in the VIP box, we'll scream ourselves hoarse, eat popcorn and I'll introduce to all the WAG's of cricketers, it will be fun.

" Your definition of fun includes public outings, cameras but i don't want that at all. "

 Shahneel plopped beside her on the swing, " look i get it. I know you and Shubman are still...weird. "

 Weird?, " kiruthika raised an eyebrow. "

"Finee, Awkwardly hostile but lowkey flirty if you ask me. "Shahneel grinned." But that's exactly why you should come. You might even... I don't know, not hate him for two hours?.

 Kiruthika narrowed her eyes. " you're annoying, di. "

 Aww but you like it, don't you? " shahneel said while nudging Kirti.
 
Silence fell for a moment. Kiruthika stared out at the golden sky, chewing her bottom lip.

Finee, I'll come. " she sighed".

Shahneel squealed. " yess , you won't regret it, I swear!.

Kiruthika : i probably will.

Shahneel : ohh come on,  i have already picked your  outfit.

Kiruthika looked at her in horror, " you what --? "

Later that night, in a packed Narendra modi stadium, the crowd roared as Gujarat titans chosen to bat first.

And in the vip box, kiruthika sat beside shahneel while wearing a GT jersey with shubman's name and Jersey no across the back.

She tried to focus on the game, but her eyes kept darting towards the field. There he was, Shubman gill standing like he owns this whole place. The crowd was chanting his name as he and Sai sudharsan came to bat. Kiruthika hated how her heart races every time she sees him.

"He is looking here ", Shahneel whispered, nudging her while kiruthika looked at her with an unimpressed look like she is done with all this nonsense.

Then the match started, shubman took strike. The crowd went feral. The bowler came charing in. First ball-- whack. Straight pass mid -off. It was four.

As the overs passed, he build a beautiful innings. Boundaries, quick singles. Every time the camers zoomed in on him, the stadium roared. The score board was 174-5 after 15 overs.

The innings reached the last two overs. Shubman was at 89. The tension crackled like electricity. Everyone and kiruthika despite herself leaned forward, plams clenched.Next ball was a six.

"Come on.." Shahneel muttered now genuinely invested.

Shubman stepped back, adjusted his pads.His eyes flicked towards the box -- towards her and for a second, he smirked confidently while kirti swallowed hard.

Final ball of the innings. He swung and it's six.The crowd lost it. Hundred. Kirti exhaled.And then without warning, shubman raised his bat and looked straight at her.

Shahneel screamed beside her, " he decidated it to you".

while kirti wanted the ground to swallow her whole as her heart was thudding out of rhythm. She doesn't know if he is playing with her feelings or something. He first said that he doesn't want to marry her at all but now he just dedicated a century to her? She doesn't know what he was implying on.

After the break, the second innings started and everything was going perfectly for GT like MI lossing earlier wickets. But what got kirti's attention was a certain someone who just now appeared on the big screen and then  the whole crowd was screaming one thing which break her heart.

Shubsara chants?.. No it can't be. She is going to be his finance not sara but still kirti would shake off the feeling, the worst part she just started to fall for him again after that cafe incident but now it seems like fate has other plans.

"Ohh look, they are back. Now i know who he decidated that hundred to. Sarah is lucky you know. She must have come here to watch him play, i guess."some girls behind her said while giggling.

But it hurt her more than she could care to admit after when the match is finally over, she left the place without even caring about shahneel who is partially screaming to stop her but couldn't. Kirti reached her home and went straight to her room without even acknowledging her family.

She sat on the bed and soon tears started to ran down her cheeks. She didn't attend shaneel's call and switched off her phone. She laid back down on the bed. Finally She drifted off to sleep with a heavy heart  after crying for hours.