Best Friends

56. Thought

"Vi enough and stop with ur questions now and sleep! It's 4 am and ur body needs rest if u have to recover early! So now shut up and sleep!" Rohit ordered sternly making him lay down and covering with comforter.

"Rude ho Gaya hai Tu" Virat said closing his eyes feeling drowsy and tired due to minimal sleep and medication.

Rohit just shook his head at the reply and patted his head like a child so that he would sleep properly. He knew it is a long way ahead still. Doctor had told how Virat will feel detached when they will go on the field and he will require time to recover. For now he was just gonna focus on Virat's recovery.

"I am sorry Rohit" he heard Virat mumble after 5 mins.

He saw that Virat was speaking in his sleep. He rarely did that. It only happened when Virat would be really stressed.

But after few mins he was in deep sleep. Rohit rested his head on the headboard and tried to get some sleep himself which was so difficult these days. He wanted those days back badly where he could fall asleep in a sec anytime anywhere!

Next morning,

Mahi went to Virat's room to check on him. He knew Rohit would be there as he didn't find him anywhere in the house.

He opened the room only to see Virat sleeping with his head in Rohit's lap and Rohit was sleeping in sitting position.

"Ro, get up kiddo! Your back must be aching" Mahi said softly caressing his hair.

"What happened?" Asked Rohit a little startled seeing Mahi there. For a moment he thought something happened to Virat.

"Nothing Ro! I am saying lay down properly, you will ache ur back!" Mahi said softly.

"No it's okay! We should wake Virat also. He should have meals on time kal bhi 2 am ko dinner kiya hai and then medicines gets delayed" Rohit said rubbing his eyes off sleep.

"2 am? He woke u up?" Mahi asked and Rohit nodded.

"Cheeku wake up" Mahi woke him up softly.

"Hmm" Virat just mumbled and was dozing off again.

"Vi uth ja breakfast karna hai, it's late already!" Rohit said and made him get up literally making him sit so that he wakes up.

"Rohit u go, I will help Cheeku! Come on get up" Mahi said to both of them.

After sometime in Rohit's room,

"Hey Virat is waiting for you at the breakfast?"

"And he sent you to call me?" Rohit asked raising his eyebrows questioningly.

"You wish" Ab said but Rohit could feel the sadness behind that two words with Virat behaving almost as a stranger to Ab. He knew how hurt Ab was.

He still couldn't pin point what was bothering Virat about his and Ab's bond. He knew he was not jealous, it was something else!

"Then?" Rohit asked.

"No I just saw him not eating his breakfast so I realised that he is waiting for you" Ab answered back.

Rohit just sighed at that.

"What's wrong Rohit?" Ab asked softly seeing him silently looking out of the window. He didn't went rushing down knowing Virat is waiting for him.

"Whatever happened, I was this close to loose my best friend. The pain he has gone through, listening to that it breaks my heart just by imagining how hurtful it must be. In all of this, there is this one thing that never left my mind. It was always there at back of mind, not my first thought but a disturbing thought to say the least" Rohit explained.

It was easy now to talk to Ab. There was no hesitation because Rohit knew that he understands it better and don't know for what reason but that was very comforting in all chaos for Rohit.

"What thought?" Asked Ab softly.

"That Virat didn't trust me enough" Rohit said with so much pain that Ab could feel it.

"Rohit but—"

"Ya I know Ab, he had his reasons for it which I am not saying is wrong or something. But it's just I am really hurt. I am not angry but I just feel that I deserved to know all this but he didn't consider me worthy enough to share" Rohit said.

"But you know him Rohit, how he is" Ab tried to console him may be.

"I know him Ab, I know him very well. And for this very reason everyone or even him for that matter is expecting me to understand and let it go. But for some reason I can't Ab! I can't" Rohit said as a tear tickled down his cheek.

Ab kept his hand on his shoulder.

"You know he didn't share because I would feel that guilt may be. And he was not wrong, yes I do feel it but the pain so much more than guilt. The pain of not able to incorporate the trust in our friendship. The pain of feeling a failure as a friend" said Rohit being broken due to this whole mess.

"Why don't you talk to him about everything that you are going through?"

"And then, he will overthink at x200 speed and deteriorate his health! No, thank you" Rohit said knowing Virat.

"So you will wait till he gets better and you get worse yourself simultaneously by thinking x100 times. Like it's a competition to do it one by one" Ab said back.

"U know it's very difficult to argue with you" Rohit said having hard time to control the chuckle on his sarcastic reply.

"Oh ya I know" Ab answered giving a grin.

"Rohit, Virat is waiting for you and threatening to come upstairs" Bhuvi informed knocking the door and breaking their conversation.

"Ya coming" Rohit answered.

"So u are just gonna pretend that u are okay" Ab asked as bhuvi was out of the hearing range.

"What's there to pretend? I am okay" Rohit answered.

"Sure I believe you" Ab said rolling his eyes.

They both arrived downstairs and seeing that Virat just mumbled, "Not again"

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