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Virat's POV:

'A happy family consists of both Mom and Dad. With you two staying separately, I will never feel that our's is a happy family'

Her words kept playing in my mind. Should I get back with Anushka to receive my daughter's love?

It's been three days since that outburst took place and I've atleast replayed it hundred times and kept thinking of it all the time.

Why can't I call Anushka and talk to her about this?

But why would she agree that too when she's not at profit?

I tried to gather courage to call her, to hear her voice directed to me instead of the tv screen but it was futile.

After spending good time contemplating about it, I've decided that it would be better to send her a message.

Or... will Voice message be a better option than a text?

Right, that way there's high probability of her responding with a voice message too, and that will enable me to understand the emotion behind the message.

Hi Anushka, I hope you are well, actually-

I stopped as I didn't want to present my meek tone. I cleared my throat, gathering some courage I began again.

Hi Anushka, you were really brilliant in your last film-

No it's not necessary to mention that I watch her films. I'll just keep it limited to Vamu.

Hi Anushka-

My voice trailed off as I forgot what to say. Understanding that it wouldn't work that way, I've decided to pen down what I wanted to tell her and then send the voice message. After giving it a thought, writing it and rechecking if I added any unnecessary information, I decided to send the voice message.

Hi Anushka, firstly I don't know if you'll check this, but my intuition says that you will. And don't worry, it's only about our- it's only about Vamika and nothing else, that I can assure you.

So the thing is, she had an outburst recently and she mentioned how she'll not be happy as long as we stay separately.

Though we've drifted, one common thought of us would be to make her happy. So I just wanted to ask if you'd be ok to comeback here only for her sake.

I promise to not interfere in your life, be it anything. And I'm proposing this only for her not with any other motive and you don't have to worry about anything.

I'll be waiting for your reply.

I pressed the send message immediately put my phone away and began walking into the kitchen.

'Relax Vi, calm down.' I told myself as my heart rate increased and I started feeling breathless.  I began taking deep breaths to not get into another panic attack. I can't let that happen infront of Vamu.

To divert myself, I've decided to cook lunch. I went towards Vamu's room and knocked on the door waiting for them to open it.

'Any problem?' Vamu asked as she saw me. It's become a routine for her to keep asking the same thing atleast fifteen times a day.

So ofcourse she was doing it out of pity and not love even when she says it's the other way.

'Nothing. I just wanted to ask what you'd like to have for dinner.' I said.

'Where are we ordering it from?' Sammy asked.

'No, I'll cook it.' I replied.

'Is it? Then Vamu let's go help him.' she suggested.

'Yeah let's do it.' Vamu said skeptically.

'No it's fine. I can do it. And if it's about the taste don't worry, I've been cooking for two decades now.' I affirmed.

'My dad's been cooking for five years too, but it sucks.' Sammy said.

'So are you implying that my dad's food sucks as well?' Vamu asked.

My dad How good does that sound.

'Of course not. I can feel that he's a good cook. I just thought it would be fun to cook together.' Sammy said.

'Cool then, let's do it.' Vamu said and three of us walked into the kitchen.

'Ok so what shall we do now?' Sammy asked excitedly as she pulled up her sleeves, washed her hands and started searching for the basic  ingredients in the shelf and put them on the cabinet.

'Woah! Calm down. Why are you getting so hyper?' Vamu asked her.

'Because I was never allowed to cook. My parents are always like " Oh the oil might spill on you" " You'll cut your fingers" "Your hands would burn if you touch the hot vessel" and all. So I'm never allowed to cook. Each time Mumma isn't in the mood to cook, we have to eat the bland food dada makes but I'm never given a chance'. Sammy whined.

Dada, isn't that what sammy calls Ro. Coincidentally this girl is Sammy too. What if she's really my sammy? But no, if she's my sammy she'd definitely remember me but what if she remembers me but doesn't wanna talk to me?

No Vi, dada is such a common way to call fathers and Samira is such a common name too. This is  just a coincidence.

I convinced myself to stop thinking about Ro and focus on lunch.

'Fine then, you two do it while I'll get a chair for myself.' Vamu said as she went into the living room.

'God, she's so lazy. But don't worry uncle, I'm here. I'll do it all. You just give me the directions. Or no, you sit as well, I'll see from google.' she said as she began washing the knife and the chopping pad.

'No, I'll help you. You tell me what you want to eat.' I asked her.

'I was thinking that we are three members right. Let's cook three different dishes and share them.' she suggested.

'That's gonna take so much time. Will you be ok with that?' I asked.

'Of course I'm ok. Let's start now. Let's make Rajma chawal as one of the dish. What else shall we make?' she asked.

'Do you like Rajma chawal?' I asked.

'I love it, I mean who doesn't?'

'Make white sauce pasta for me.' Vamu ordered as she brought a chair into the kitchen and sat next to us.

'And what will you do? Sleep?' Sammy asked her.

'Yeah. Also you've said it yourself that you want to cook so why are you whining about me not working now?' Vamu asked.

These two resemble me and Ro a lot.

And this the first time I noticed how identical Ro and Vamu are. She cooked for me that day when I haven't eaten but today when there's someone else to so do it, she decided to relax, Just like Ro who would be lazy at all times except when someone truly needed him.

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Yesterday when I asked you guys to share any ideas, there was this one person who messaged me saying that:

Hey you asked for some ideas right, the story is focussing too much, or rather ONLY on Virat so how about writing something about Rohit too? Unless you only want Virat to be the main character and continue keeping Ro in the story just for the sake of it.

I'm not the person to clarify anything. I did receive these kind of foolish messages before as well but they were super evident that they were against one particular player, so I ignored them straighly.

And also that happened when I wrote 'Virushka Our eternal love'. So when I received a message saying I was biased to Virat and wrote so less on Ro, I didn't even bother to reply cuz that's so ridiculous and foolish of that person to say so, when it was Virushka's love story.

N the next time it happened was when I wrote 'Trolls' one shot which was about Vi talking to Rits to cheer her up when there were too many trolls on Ro. Again there was another person messaging that I was baised to Rohit and ignored all the trolls that Virat faces. Which again I ignored as it was only a one shot.

There are 1-2 others too which I don't wanna mention cuz you did get my point right, reading the above two examples.

But this time I just wanted to clarify this to all those who's thinking the same as the person who messaged me as this is a full length story. 

When I write something, I don't think ' I've written 500 words on Virat so I must write exact  500 words on Rohit too' or any thing like ' I will only write about X and wantedly ignore Y and not give him any role'

When I write something, I go with the flow . And I focus only on the plot and story development and not on any specific player.

And this story is special to me, Ofcourse like all my other stories, and I have so much planned to write in this one and this is gonna be a long journey.

And I'll never focus on any individual person but only focus on the story development.

So if you feel like I'm biased to anyone, then please stop reading this story from now on.

I'm not gonna clarify this again neither will I even focus on it while writing.

Please read my stories only if the plot excites you and not because you love any particular player and don't expect me to write keeping the players in mind, because I'll not do that.