The match day

"Ma we are going to be late. Pa stop setting your hair again and again please." Vedika was calling everyone to hurry.

"Are we ready?" Asad came in all ready and excited.

"I have been ready for half an hour but look at ma and pa." Vedika complained.

"Faster auntie uncle we will miss the flight."

"I am ready. Harish you look good now stop adjusting you hair again and again, you don't have much left anyway." This made everyone laugh.

"Can you stay a day without making fun of me?" Harish asked annoyed.

"No I can't I am your wife." Hema said swinging her pig tail.

"Please don't embarrass me there in front of Aditya's family." Harish requested.

"I will think about it." Hema said smugly.

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Vedika, her parents and Asad got out of the taxi outside their hotel. They all entered the hotel and checked in.)

"We all have rooms on the same floor?" Harish asked.

"It was difficult during the matches since this hotel is closest to the stadium but we got it." Asad said as they all moved towards the elevator.

"I will just go to my room and sleep for a while." Vedika said.

"Tomorrow is the match we all should rest." Harish said.

"You are so excited as if you are going to play." Hema said.

"We are avid fans auntie, we are more excited than the players themself." Asad said.

Vedika's phone rings and she picks it up.

"Aditya." Vedika said.

"Vedika where are you?" Aditya said from the other side.

"I am in Bangalore Aditya we just arrived." Vedika informed.

"Great it is almost night and our practices are over. I am coming to meet you." Aditya said.

"Don't you have some restrictions on meeting friends and family before match?" Vedika asked.

"There are but I will steal an hour." Aditya said.

"I don't want you to do that Aditya you might get in trouble." Vedika said.

"I wanted to meet you." Aditya said.

"And we will but not now and I am going to go rest now. See you tomorrow Aditya." Vedika said.

After a little more chit chat on the way to room they both hung up.

Asad went to his room, Vedika to hers and Hema and Harish to theirs.

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(Same hotel, another room)

"Welcome Vedika but have fun as long as you can I assure you it won't last." Subha was saying.

"I can get her right now." Aman said standing right beside her.

"No not yet. And you can't kidnap her in this hotel we need to wait and also I want Aditya to forget her, consider her worthless for himself. Only then I can have him back." Subha said.

"He love her too much to think that." Aman said.

"He don't love her. Never ever say that again or that would be the last minute of our deal." Subha said boiling with anger.

"As you say but this plan will take too long I can't wait that long to have Vedika." Aman said.

"You will have you time soon Aman trust me."

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"I am ready come on let's go." Vedika hurried out of her room into the lobby where Hema Harish and Asad stood waiting.

"What were you even doing there?" Harish asked.

"Nothing pa I couldn't find my binoculars." Vedika said.

"Vedika why you didn't accept Aditya's offer to sit with the cricketer's families." Hema asked.

"I couldn't ma, it didn't seem right since we are friends I didn't want to trouble him for much." Vedika said.

"That is your wish Vedika we are with you." Hema said and Harish and Asad agreed.

"Thanks ma let's go."

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"We came early I told you." Vedika was saying to Asad.

"Only half an hour it will pass fast." Asad said.

"I am hungry already." Vedika wiened.

"You can buy something from outside." Asad said and Vedika leaves from the stands to buy something to eat.

"4 popcorn and 2 cola." Vedika said to the man at stall.

"Ok mam." The man said and started filling the cups.

Suddenly something tapped Vedika's shoulder she turned to see a crushed ball of paper at her feet. She picked it up and straightened it to read. It said

'Fell too hard'

"What is this? Must be a mistake." The note made no sense so Vedika ignored it and threw it in the bin.

After a while she went back to the stands and sat with Asad, Hema and Harish.