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It's not even nine in the morning and yet Hardik is already tired.
When Rohit and Virat Bhai asked him to keep an eye on Ishan and Shubhman, he thought it was because they were up to something.
Something uselessly troublesome, of course.
But the more he observed them, the more it started feeling like he was witnessing a serial from star plus where the main leads are forced into an unhappy marriage by their families and have nothing in common besides a mutual sense of hatred towards one another but then later develop feelings and act all awkward with each other.
His mother used to love these type of plots.
He wishes he could just drop them both at her front door.
His stress levels would reduce immensely and his mom will have unlimited entertainment to keep her company.
Win-win situation for everyone.
Sadly, the two are needed on the team, So his mom's entertainment package will have to wait for the time being.
They're all sitting down for breakfast and Shubhman moves around the table, balancing his plate in one hand and holding his mobile, sunglasses, napkin and handkerchief in the other hand.
The guy's habit of overestimating how many things his hands can hold have already led to multiple disasters in the past.
Hardik has been an unwilling eyewitness to at least five of them.
And yet this moron refuses to learn.
Shubhman stands behind the empty chair right next to him, and Hardik grabs his plate on instinct before it can fall on the table, or the chair or worse, on his head.
The memory of Shubhman almost dropping a plate full of pasta on Virat and then smacking it away before it touched him both terrifies and makes him laugh even today.
Shubhman pulls out the chair, takes his seat, dumps everything he's holding onto the table and takes his plate from Hardik, completely oblivious to the distasteful look he's getting from the older man.
It's just Salad and a spoonful of rice.
Hardik resists the urge to scold him because knows how this conversation will turn out.
The few times he pointed out the lack of.... Everything in the plate, Shubhman got overly defensive.
Their argument had resulted in Shubhman leaving the table without eating anything, and then roaming around like a kicked puppy throughout the day.
It had made him feel like a horrible monster who had snatched food from a baby.
Even though he didn't and Shubh isn't a baby.
So he doesn't comment on it anymore.
Afterall, something is better than nothing.
Even if that something is bland pasta and shredded leaves.
Hardik grabs his unfinished glass of juice and Ishan, who is sitting right across him on the other side of the table, decides to speak up;
"Are you going to audition for Victoria's Secret Models?"
He almost spits out his drink.
Ishan glares daggers at Shubhman's plate for a second before snatching it away.
Ishan throws him a nasty glare and surprisingly, Shubhman shuts up. He gets up and walks back to the side table where their food is laid out and places spoonfuls of stuff on Shubhi's plate.
He comes back and puts the now fuller-looking plate in front of him.
Hardik resists the urge to slap himself to make sure this isn't a exhaustion-induced fever dream because shubhman actually starts eating without any complaints.
He does make disgusted faces though.
Ishan keeps watching him and only starts on his meal after Shubh has finished his.
Hardik looks around and catches Rohit and Virat Bhai throwing him questioning glances as if he should know.
.....Well technically he should know but, it's not like he can keep an eye on the two idiots All the time.
God knows what they get up-to in their room.
And for the sake of everyone's sanity, it's best that only God knows.
Ishan basically inhales his breakfast in five minutes and rushes towards the door.
The moment he walks out, their entire table breaks into chaos.
"What the fuck was that?"
"Did they exchange friendship bracelets privately?"
Hardik feels a pair of arms grab his shoulders.
"Virat bhai... Atleast let me finish my breakfast first."
Virat bhai did not let him finish his breakfast first.
Instead he dragged him away, Rohit bhai following them.
Hardik soon realized that virat Bhai had a very..... interesting perspective on Ishu and Shubhi's interaction.
"Until yesterday they weren't even talking to each other and today Ishan is basically feeding him breakfast?"
"Well.... I wouldn't say feeding I mean - "
"Come oooon Rohit.... You saw right?"
"Yes I did... Ishan filled his plate but Shubhman used his own hands to eat."
"He ate the food Ishan selected for him!
That too without a single complaint!
You know what that means right??
It's basically like being spoon fed!"
"And then the way Ishu ran after him?"
"Virat Bhai I'm pretty sure he was walking....."
"No. I don't want to hear anything from you."
Virat bhai rounded on him then, all hyper excited and fully pumped as if they have a test match with England in five minutes.
"You were supposed to keep an eye on them- "
Constantly. And they also argued constantly. I don't know why they were like this either."
"Maybe they're hiding something."
Rohit bhai piped in with his wisdom waterfall.
Hardik shot him a sarcastic smile.
"No... I mean... What if both of them have done something they shouldn't have...like sneak in a dog or drink too much alcohol..."
Virat gently patted his shoulder.
"Rohit not everyone is like you."
"No... But it would make sense."
Teaming up with someone you don't get along with to cover up a mistake..... Hardik himself had done that many times.
They pondered over it for a minute before Virat Bhai broke the silence.
"So... What do you guys think?
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