AUTHOR'S POV -

Rohit Sharma is sleeping peacefully on his cozy bed with his little daughter wrapped up in his protective arms.

Umm wait, until the ICT is alive, more particularly Virat, how can our dear Rohit sleep peacefully anywhere in the world?

Rohit's phone started ringing loudly which disturbed Rohit's peace.

"Kaun pagal hain?" Rohit murmured and put his hand out to pick his phone but instead ended up dropping a glass on the night stand.

"Ro what the hell are you doing?" Ritika asked angrily listening to the glass fall.

"Trying to pick up the phone." Rohit said sleepily.

"Ro if anything breaks na I will break you." Ritika said.

"Yaar koi shanti se sone bhi nahi deta." Rohit murmured.

"I heard it." Ritika said and threw a pillow on him which made his eyes open and he found the phone which was patiently ringing.

"Kaun hain bey?" Rohit asked as soon as he picked up the phone.

"Ro yaar I miss you bro." a voice came.

"Kaun paagal hain subah subah?" Rohit asked.

"Arre its me." the voice came again.

"Oh you are such a famous personality me, whats your last name? Me Malhotra, Me Sharma, Me Kapoor, Me Shetty, who are you?" Rohit asked.

"Are you sleep talking or what?" the voice came again.

"I am wide awake in sleep." Rohit said, without giving a second thought to if he is making any sort of sense.

"Ro its two already wake up you lazy ass, god knows when you will understand that your life is not your life anymore, it has become Kumbhkaran's life now. You are a dad now if you dont wake up on time what will Sam learn? Ya I am there, her chachu to teach her about discipline and diet and workout and waking up on time and you are a complete unnecessary piece of shit but you are her dad and she will feel so bad when she knows how useless her dad is. " the voice came but it sounded annoyed this time.

"Cheeku?" Rohit asked knowing that only his amazingly horrible friend would nag him for sleeping so much.

"No Virat Kohli." Virat said.

"I thought a fruit called chiku was talking to me, you see science has progressed to much that fruits have started talking so I thought chiku called me up." Rohit said.

"Ro shut up, I just taught Sammie about fruits and this gibberish of hers is going to make her think that fruits talk." Ritika said.

"She is sleeping Ritsy." Rohit said.

"Kids now a days are smart enough to listen even in sleep unlike you who doesnt know who he is talking to on phone even when awake, oh half awake, no you are sleep talking." Ritika said.

"Its Virat yaar, annoying me, why did you call?" Rohit asked.

"Leave that, even Sam is still sleeping?" Virat asked Samaira started making noises.

"You jinxed my happiness." Rohit said.

"What?" Virat asked.

"She was peacefully sleeping in her dreams and you asked if she is sleeping and she got up, now at 2 in the night I will have to stay awake and play with her." Rohit said.

"Oh 2 in the night, open your curtains, the beautiful sun is out." Virat said.

"Its the night sun, you also sleep and let sleep." Rohit said.

"Its two in the afternoon get up you fool." Virat said.

"Learn to read time Cheeku its 2 in the night." Rohit said.

"Apne baap ko mat sikha warna" Virat said.

"Warna kya kar loge?" Rohit asked.

"Yeh lo aur utho." Ritika said pouring a glass full of water on Rohit's face.

"Mera kaam Rits ne kar liya give her a high five from my side." Virat said.

"Tell Virat ki high five se kaam nahi chalega." Ritika said.

"Tell Ritika that I know high five se kaam nahi chalega, isliye I will take the contract of handling Ro." Virat said.

"What? Arre take I will give the phone to her, talk to her only. Simply disturbing my sleep at 2 in the night." Rohit said.

"Its 2 in the afternoon Ro get your eyes checked." Virat said.

"Arre you get your eyes checked." Rohit said.

"Why is the sun out at 2 in the night?" Rohit asked as Ritika opened the curtains.

"Ya Ro night sun" Virat said.

"Arre yaar tell me why you called na." Rohit whined.

"Tell Virat to tell Anushka to call me." Ritika said.

"Yeh lo, tum dono baat karlo fir mujhe phone dena." Rohit said.

"Nahi nahi you continue." Ritika said and went out.

"Bak ab warna I am hanging up." an annoyed Rohit said.

"Ro yaar I miss you bro." Virat said.

"You are Virat only na?" Rohit asked and checked his phone and it was written VI CHEEKU VIR VIRAT ANNOYING ASS KOHLI SLEEP DISTURBER in the caller list.

"Ya bro I miss annoying you to death." Virat said.

"Ya this is Cheeku only." Rohit said.

"Only Mahi bhai calls me Cheeku." Virat said.

"This is pakka Cheeku." Rohit said.

"Am I a fruit that you are doing my kaccha pakka?" Virat asked.

"Ya you are a chiku, wait I will take a knife and cut you." Rohit said.

"I miss calling you a dumb head." Virat said.

"That toh you call me on video calls, chats and phone calls too so not valid." Rohit said.

"I miss hitting you after that." Virat said.

"Ya ya that makes sense." Rohit said.

"But you dont, I miss waking you up." Virat said.

"As far as I remember you hated waking me up." Rohit said wondering whats wrong with Virat.

"Ya I miss hating waking you up because waking you up is like annoying you, troubling you, kicking you, hitting you, slapping you, making you fall from the bed, screaming my lungs out at you, nagging you, breaking your door open, thinking that you are dead from good, pouring cold water at you, playing loud music in your room and you still not waking up." Virat said.

"Ro Ro Ro are you alive?" Virat screamed.

"Huh kya? Did your lecture on how to wake me up done?" Rohit asked sleepily.

"You slept again? I miss teasing you for sleeping anytime, and anywhere." Virat said.

"Ritsy tera bhai Cheeku pagal ho gaya hain." Rohit screamed and Samaira started wailing.

"Why are you screaming? She woke up now." Ritika said coming into the room.

"Ro" Virat said.

"What?" Rohit asked.

"You dont miss me?" Virat asked.

"Yeh Virat Kohli nahi hain I need proof that you are Virat, call Anushka on the line, you are not Virat Kohli." Rohit said.

"Arre I am Virat only." Virat said.

"I cant trust on that, give me proof." Rohit said.

"Ask anything." Virat said.

"Why did I unfollow you on insta?" Rohit asked.

"We planned to show that we have a rift." Virat said.

"What do I do whenever we are travelling?" Rohit asked.

"Sleep." Virat said.

"How many times did I forget my passport, actually leave I dont remember that so I will have to believe anything you say. How do I describe things?" Rohit asked.

"Yeh bahut aisa hain, yaha bahut woh hain, woh bahut wesa hain." Virat said imitating Rohit.

"You are right and now what - " Rohit was going to asked.

"Shut up Ro, not a question more I am Virat only if you ask one more question I will kill you through the phone itself I swear I am serious." Virat screamed over the phone.

"Ya you are Virat only." Rohit said.

"I miss listening to your dumbness." Virat said.

"Ismein kisiki aatma bas gayi lagti hain." Rohit said.

"Arre stop na I am really missing you yaar. When will we play together again?" Virat asked.

"Ya so you can get me off my dear bed at 6 for practice." Rohit said.

"Ya what else and then making you practice all day long without break." Virat said.

"And then not letting me have food." Rohit said.

"What not letting you have food? You having food is cheating on diet" Virat said.

"Oh I only want to have pizza that too with vegetables and you call that a cheat meal, I get protein from cheese, vitamins and minerals from veggies, carbs also and on top of that I take multi grain base on diet so how is it a cheat meal?" Rohit argued.

"Where are the fats in the pizza then? You forgot to mention them." Virat asked.

"Fats are necessary in a balanced diet even Sammie knows that right Sam? She is telling you to learn what a balanced diet is before bragging that you know everything about dieting." Rohit said.

"One useless ass you are." Virat said.

"Same to you." Rohit said.

"But yaar you are right eve I miss annoying you." Rohit said.

"Hain na? No one can resist my charm." Virat said.

"I said I miss annoying you not hugging you or anything." Rohit said.

"Stop being emotional dude, I understand." Virat said and Rohit wondered whats wrong with Virat.

"Why did you call me anyways? To tell that you miss me? See Ro I know that you miss cricket but you miss me also? So sweet of you but I dont miss you at all." Virat said.

"Are you mad? I dodnt even call you and its you from the past 10 minuted telling me how much you miss me, and its worse that couples telling each other miss you baby." Rohit said.

"When did I say I missed you?" Virat asked not wanting to sound sappy, knowing that he just missed his bestie a lot and now Rohit will make fun of him.

"You call me forgetful, and you are being ghajni right now." Rohit said.

"No you were telling me I miss you, I was just listening to your useless chatter. Now stop wasting my precious time bye." Virat said and hung up.

"He is mad or what? This lock down made him mad, more mad than he was, psycho only." Rohit said to himself.

On the other hand, Virat who never told Rohit how much he loves him and how important he is to him, wondered what made him call Rohit and tell him that he misses him so badly..

"I miss him too but." Rohit said to himself and looked out.

"Its actually day." Rohit said aloud looking at the sun.

"I bet he is looking out and realizing I was right." Virat said to himself.

"I miss you bro." they both said at their respective places to each other and felt the other one responding to them with equal amount of emotions.