Armaan's point of view
The other team had taken a time-out. It was three minutes of the game to go. We had the lead by eightyone points to sixtyseven ' there was no way the Rockets could beat us. I panted like a dog as I was sitting on the bench next to rahul ' my best friend and team-mate. atul was standing in front of me drinking water from his water-bottle. He bent down and placed himself sitting on the floor and I saw how ridz sat on the other side in the background. She looked a bit confused.
"Dude, you've been hanging around with that mama-chick a lot latley" I heard rahul whipser as our coach was pepping us. He must have noticed I looked at her.
"How'd you know?" I asked confused. I hadn't told him I had been hanging out with her.
"Seriously dawg, you don't read the magazines? Your pictures have been all over" He told me in a low voice. No one of us wanted the coach to hear we wasn't listening.
"You do?" I asked mumbeling and rasied my eyebrows.
"Hell yeah! You can find out a lot in those" He whispered and smiled. "Hey, did you know I was engaged?" He added and I started to think. He and muskaan got engaged? How fun!
"You and muskaan got engaged?" I repeated whispering in a happily tone.
"No, I got engaged to som dia-girl" He told me and shrugged his shoulders. I was confused'
"So you and muskaan broke up?" I looked at him questionly.
"No. I've never met that dia in my life" He said simple and I laughed a little. okey was that suppose to be funny.
"Sorry Coach Thomas, please continue" I mumbled embarrassed and he continued with his pep-talk.
"See, that is why I don't read the magazines" I whispered to rahul and he smiled.
"So you and mama havn't adopted that girl together?" He wondered and nodded to the grandstand where ridz was sitting with Amy in her lap. I now saw how that angie was sitting next to her.
"God no!" I exclaimed as quiet as I could.
"Alright, alright! Just a theory the Times had" rahul mumbled and I shoke my head.
"It's her kid. You know, the kind of kid you are pregnant with" I whispered in a stupid kind of way. I didn't notice how weird it sounded saying that until the words had left my lips.
"I know. So, you're in to her or what?" rahul asked mockingly and smiled interested.
"What do you mean 'in to her'?" I asked even more stupidly.
"Like, are you going to introduce her to us or what? Is it serious?" He rambled quiet and I smiled secretive.
"I don't know" I mumbled and looked up at her. The horn blew and the game had started again. I got up from the bench and put my water-bottle down.
"Alright guys, this is our night! The victory is ours!" Coach Thomas screamed before me and rahul walked out to the floor as almost every person on the grandstands was screaming 'Knicks'. I felt home. The basketball court was my home.
It felt like it was only a couple of seconds we played. I did score six points though ' and rahul scored two. The game ended eightynine points to sixtyseven. You could say we won big. All the guys was sitting in the dressingrooms for a long time afterwards and celebrating the victory. It wasn't until all the girlfriends came that the whole team was separated. Teammate after teammate left to celebrate on their own and without even knowing ' it was only me, atul and rahul and muskaan left. rahul was the only one of us who had a girlfriend."Great game, guys!" The last player ' Nate ' said before leaving us all alone.
"Yeah, it was a great game" I agreed and started to dig in my bag to find my clean sweater. I felt something vibrate and I took out my cellphone ' ridz's number was calling me. I smiled to myself and answered.
"Talk to me" I said shortly and the three of rahul muskaan and atul looked at me.
"Hi, it's riddihma" She introudced herself insecure.
"Hello there" I said charmingly and I swore I could hear her giggle.
"So, where are you?" She asked and I looked around. Why on earth did I look around!? I knew where I was!
"Uhm.. the dressing-room" I mumbled and rolled my eyes to myself. I was so stupid sometimes' Gosh..
"Alright, me and angie are outside of the stadium" She told me quickly.
"Oh! Well come inside! I'll send one of my slaves to meet you guys" I explained quickly and smiled.
"Uh? Ok" She said hesitating and I heard how she began to walk.
"I'll see you in a sec!" I said friendly before hanging up. When I looked up at my three friends they had huge smiles on their faces.
"Was it your new girlfriend, armaan?" muskaan said teasingly from where she sat in rahul's lap.
"Oh shush, what are you ' in high school?" I hissed and put my phone back down in my bag. "Besides, you need to run out and meet her" I bossed her and she looked confused.
"Oh is she coming here!?" She exclaimed excited after a while and giggled. Obvisously they hadn't listened to my conversation with her.
"Yes.." I said after looking at her weirdly. She clapped her hands of expectation. "And I can't run out like this, so please can you do it for me?" I begged her and held out my hands pointing at my body. I was only dressed in a pair of shorts. I was probably the slowest dresser in the world.
"Of course I can!" She shouted and flew up from rahul's legs. I knew she would do it. muskaan is always this excited when someone meets a girl. Not that ridz and I was in love or anything'
"There'll be two women and a little baby you'll meet! One curly girl and one straight hair!" I shouted before she ran out of the dressingroom and I turned to rahul and atul who was both already dressed.
"Your girlfriend is nuts, you know that, right?" I said laughing to rahul and he shrugged his shoulders.
"I know" He answered simple. muskaan came back just a few minutes later. I had only managed to change from my shorts to a pair of jeans. She walked in to the dressingroom dragging ridz and angie after herself. I quickly got up from my seat and walked over to ridz ' who had Amy sitting on her hip as usual. She did pull a pram infront of her though.
"Hello" I said and smiled gently.
"Why hello to you too" She greeted and I saw how her look travelled down my bare stomach. I just remembered I didn't wear a shirt yet. I smiled big and I looked over at angie.
"Hi angie" I said shortly and she smiled.
"Hi armaan" She imitated just as short.
"Everyone.. or as many fo you there is.. this is riddihma , angie and Amy" I introduced them and looked at rahul and atul. They came over and shoke hands. "This is atul , rahul and muskaan" I added and held out my hands towards my friends.
"Yeah, we've met" ridz said when I pointed at muskaan.
"Hi, I'm atul. Single too" He said a bit scared and angie continued to shake his hand. Poor guy..
"You wanna get going?" I asked ridz in a low voice. She looked up at me.
"But we just got here?" She said hesitating and looked at the others.
"Alright then, if you want to hang around in a smelly dressingroom.." I answered despondetly and she smirked.
"Your friends are nice" She said simple before she got coaught up in a conversation with muskaan. I sighed and walked over to rahul and got dressed. The night ended up a bit diffrently than I thought. The six of us, or seven with Amy, went to a private restaurant where we spent the whole night. It was really fun ' no crazy papparazzis or fans could bother us during the whole evening.
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