~Yes Captain~

"Protective Circle"

K.L. Rahul was pacing in Hardik Pandya's room, looking quite haggard and bullied to be honest. Jasprit Bumrah aka Jassi aka Boom Boom mirrored Rahul's expressions.Well, at this moment Hardik wanted to profess to everyone that these guys just looked bullied, he was the one really getting bullied here. Yes, He, who was lying on Shreyas's lap looking at Kiddy (Kuldeep-he is a kid, so Kiddy)and Monku (he's a monkey, no, rocket science involved in his naming) doing something on Kul's lappy.

Well, Yas- because only, Virat was allowed to call him Shreya and Harry loved his life a little too much to take that risk, wasn't sitting idly too. He was throwing a smily ball on the nearest wall and catching it. Hardik pondered who was his neighbor and would they mind this "Tk-tk" sound? But then decided he didn't care anyway. Well, they can go and complain to Virat if they wanted too and it's not like he was the one doing it?

"Where the hell is Yuzi?" Harry's musing on his neighbors reaction was broken by Rahul's frustrated yell. His bestie was literally looking like a fire-breathing dragon right now. Harry didn't know who was the reason behind his brother's such grumpy mood? He just hoped for the sake of that person that the person doesn't come anywhere near them.

"Umm...He went to get ice-cream with Nattu, Rishu,Subhi and Prithvi" Kul replied looking up from the laptop and all, Harry heard was ice-cream.

"Kiddy!! Yuz ko bol mere liye rainbow cone laye" Harry exclaimed eagerly, Yuz should have informed him about this outing he would have accompanied them too. Harry thought adjusting his head in Shrey's lap, geez, he liked Virat's lap better but his idiotic brothers weren't letting him go anywhere near Virat, right now. So, He had to make do.

"Mere liye bhi" Shreyas said following Harry's suite, spiting the pacing people in the room even more.

"REALLY PANDYA" Rahul couldn't help but demand eyeing Harry totally frustrated.

"What did I do now?" Harry couldn't help but ask totally defensively. It wasn't his fault Yuzi wasn't around. Rahul just looked like he couldn't believe him and Harry could just stare at Shrey questioningly, who looked as lost as him.

"Be serious guys" Jassi couldn't help but snap, here, he was dying out of worry and these guys...humph.

"How is ice-cream related to seriousness? What's even the logic behind it? Can't I lick ice-cream and be serious?" Harry couldn't help but ask Jassi and Rahul very-very innocently.

Both of them just glared at him heatedly in return and didn't he mention, he was the real bullied person in the room.

"Weren't you going to call Mahi bhai?" Rahul demanded, hands on hips as he looked at Harry with absolute scrutiny. Harry just nodded making a whole lot of show of grabbing his phone and dialing Mahi bhai's number and just like his first fifty or so tries, the call went unanswered again.

"Seems like Mahi bhai misplaced his phone again," Harry said shaking his head sagely, "Should I call bhabi? IT's around 5:30 am there, isn't it?" Harry asked when his umpteenth call went unanswered.

"Wow...it took you only about fifty calls to figure out the time difference" Rahul spoke grouchily sharing a look with Jassi, who seemed equally grumpy.

"well, none of us focused on that point, to be honest" Monku clarified, looking up from the laptop screen again.

"And Shrey, spotted another clown" Kuldeep informed Shreyas, well, they were on sm clown hunting session, realizing laughing over the clownish statements together was the better way to deal with it. The time they had spent in quarantine over-thinking over such stuff and bolting them in their hearts. It was good to let it go and laugh together.