A Tumbler Full of Tales - ICT and beyond (ON HOLD)

From one Captain to his Just Retired Skipper - Parte Uno

From one Captain to his Just Retired Skipper - Parte Uno.

A/N - Addictive... It is too addictive....

But this one is a little *I dunno what I am doing*

Aha... Well, as usual

(With a grain/bagful of salt)

So, while trying to watch a pointless movie with cousins (because they insisted) and despairing about work tomorrow (I always do)

Unto and Onwards.

"Hello?"

"Hello!"

"Virat?"

"Why will someone else call you from my number?"

"I don't know, Virat. I didn't mean it like that, I guess."

*a chair scrapped along the floor* "You guess?"

"....Yeah?"

"So these days you guess at things to get them done?

*slumping back into a hardback chair* "How are you, Virat?"

"Do you care?" *a cupboard banged shut* "Do you care, Mahi Bhai?"

"I would like to think I do."

"Really?"

"...Cheeku?"

"You lost your rights to use that name!"

*laughter barely held back* "All of India and more use that name, Cheeku."

"...Ok, you lost your rights to use that name with me."

"So, I can still use it while talking to others?"

".... Are you trying to be funny, Mahi Bhai?"

"Trying? No... I am being funny!"

"Only you think so!"

"Really? Then why are you smiling?"

*hastily 'not' smiling* "Me? Moi? No sir. No.... I am not smiling!"

"You so are!" *arms crossed across chest with great contentment.

"I hate you, MS!"

"Then why did you call me, Ch.... Virat?"

"To tell you that I hate you! That we hate you!"

"Who are this 'we'?"

"The Team, of course!" *fingers drummed over tabletops.*

"The cricket Team?"

"......Of course!"

"Don't yell. Virat! I am just asking.... So, which cricket Team? Past, present or the probable future one?"

"What? Mahi Bhai!"

"..... Yeh dekho! Now he is wailing." *Deep breathes to stop the bubbling laughter*

"Why do you never take me seriously, MS?"

"Seriously? Or Siriusly? Like Sirius Black, of course."

"You are still using bad Harry Potter puns?"

*laughter rang through the room* "When did I stop? Now, why did you call me, Virat? I am sure that the Captain of the Indian Men's Cricket Team is much too busy for idle chit chat."