4 EPISODE 4

''YOU GUYS KNOW THAT WHY THE WHOLE WORLD'S BEST FORCES ARE LOSING HOPE?'' SHE ASKED AS SHE PRESSED A BUTTON THAT STARTED SHOWING THE VIRTUAL WORLD GLOBE JUST IN FRONT OF HER.

ZAIN STEPPED ASIDE SO ALL OF THEM WOULD BE ABLE TO SEE THE GLOBE.

''THERE'VE BEEN MURDERS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE LATE AT NIGHTS'' ANSWERED THE GIRL WATCHING ZAIN.

''GREAT EMILY! KNEW THAT YOU MUST KNOW THIS NEWS AT LEAST'' SAID ZAIN AND GAVE THE GIRL NAMED EMILY A VERY PRAISEFUL LOOK.

EMILY TOOK ZAIN'S EYES AND THEN TOOK JIN SHING'S EYES WHO WAS STARING AT HER AFTER SHE SAID THAT.

''ERRR-DON'T MIND PRETTY GIRL BUT YOU'RE DISTRACTING ME, CAN YOU PUT IT ON--ERR--THAT HOOD, PLEASE'' SAID PAX WATCHING HER AND THEN WATCHING THE REST THREE WHO WERE WATCHING HIM DOUBTFULLY.

ZAIN TOOK HIS EYES INFORMALLY AND DIDN'T REPLY.

''AHH! I FORGOT DEAR JAEHOON, I'M SORRY. YOU CAN'T UNDERSTAND WHAT WE SAY. WAIT A MINUTE'' SAID THE GIRL WATCHING THE KOREAN GUY AND THEN GIVING HIM AN EAR POD, MOST LIKELY TO TRANSLATE EVERYTHING FOR HIM.

ZAIN THEN TURNED BACK TO THE OTHERS.

''SO I WAS TELLING YA GUYS THAT Y'ALL ARE HERE TO PERFORM A VERY SPECIAL TASK'' SAID ZAIN AND WATCHED THE GLOBE.

''AND WILL YOU PLEASE TELL ME WHAT IS IT?'' SAID JIN SHING IN ATTITUDE.

''JIN SHING! DON'T MIND IT BUT I DIDN'T LIKE YOUR ATTITUDE'' SAID ZAIN IN MORE ATTITUDE.

JIN SHING TOOK HER EYES AND SEEMED EMBARRASSED.

''YOU GUYS ARE HERE AS HITMEN AND WOMAN. KINDA'' ZAIN CONTINUED ''AS YOU KNOW THAT THE BEST FORCES OF BIGGEST COUNTRIES ARE DONE WITH THE MURDERERS SO THIS'S A VERY SECRET TEAM WHICH CONSISTS OF YA GUYS. SPECIAL TECHNOLOGY WILL BE GIVEN TO YA AND THEN Y'ALL WILL BE TRAINED. OKAY'' SHE ADDED.

''SO YOU'RE GONNA PAY ME FOR THIS?'' ASKED JIN SHING.

PAX WASN'T LIKING JIN SHING MUCH BECAUSE HE WAS ONLY TALKING ABOUT HIMSELF.

''OF COURSE'' ASSURED ZAIN.

''I'M NOT GONNA BECOME A HITMAN JUST FOR A FEW HUNDRED DOLLARS'' SAID PAX THINKING THAT HE WAS SOUNDING MORE CONFIDENT AND HARD GUY LIKE JIN SHING.

ZAIN TOOK HIS EYE AND ASKED ''WHAT'S RONALDO'S NETWORTH?''.

''RONALDO! $500 MILLION, ESTIMATED'' SAID JIN SHING WHOSE EYES WERE SHINING NOW.

''DOUBLE OF GREAT MAN'S NETWORTH FOR TASK YOU'LL PERFORM'' SAID ZAIN AND TURNED TOWARDS THE BIG SCREEN.

THE KOREAN GUY PUT HIS HAND OVER HIS MOUTH IN AMUSEMENT WHILE ALL REST THREE'S EYES WERE WIDE OPENED IN ASTONISHMENT AND THEIR JAWS DROPPED DOWN.

''GOOD JOKE'' SAID JIN SHING AND PASSED AN UNCONTROLLABLE SMILE.

ZAIN TURNED BACK AND GAVE JIN SHING A LOOK WHICH MADE HIM SAY ''ISN'T IT?''.

''OF COURSE NOT'' SAID ZAIN ''Y'ALL NEED MONEY BUT THE WORLD NEEDS Y'ALL'' SHE ADDED AND TURNED TOWARDS THE SCREEN AGAIN.

''AY! SENORITA! YOU'RE NOT JOKING BECAUSE IN CASE, I'M GONNA MEET A HEART ATTACK'' SAID PAX AND PUT HIS HAND OVER HIS CHEST, NEAR THE HEART'S SIDE.

''BETTER ASK FOR AN AMBULANCE THEN'' SAID ZAIN WATCHING HIM.

''JINJJA?'' ASKED THE KOREAN GUY.

''NAE JAEHUN!" REPLIED ZAIN POLITELY AFTER TAKING HIS EYES.

THE KOREAN GUY ALMOST JUMPED FROM HIS PLACE WITH EXCITEMENT.

''I SHOULD JUMP THE SAME WAY TOO'' SAID PAX WATCHING HIM GETTING EXCITED.

''YEAH! IT MAY STOP YOUR HEART FROM GETTING AN ATTACK'' SAID ZAIN AND SMIRKED.

PAX SIGHED DEEPLY BUT IN AN APPROXIMATE LAUGH.

''LEMME INTRODUCE YA GUYS TO YA GUYS THEN'' SAID ZAIN MALIK AND TOOK JAEHOON'S EYES ''JUN JAE HOON FROM ULSAN, SOUTH KOREA'' SAID SAID WHILE POINTING HER HAND TOWARDS JAEHOON.

JAEHOON WHO LOOKED SHOCKED SLIGHTLY BOWED TO EVERYONE.

''WHY DOES HE BOW SO MUCH?'' PAX ASKED AS HE WAS BEMUSED ''I MEAN USUALLY WE ONLY BOW TO LADIES'' HE ADDED AND LOOKED AT EMILY AND THEN BACK AT ZAIN.

''IT'S IN THEIR CULTURE, BOWING EVERYONE SHOWS RESPECT'' ZAIN REPLIED WATCHING JAEHOON AND THEN PAX ''EMILY LEE EVERYBODY! FROM TARANAKI, NEW ZEALAND'' ZAIN ADDED AND WATCHED EMILY WHO HAD JUST TAKEN ZAIN'S EYES AND THEN MOVED THEN DOWN.

''PRETTY LADY LEE'' SAID PAX WATCHING EMILY MOVING HER GAZES DOWN.

''YES SHE IS'' SAID ZAIN AND EMILY TOOK HER AND PAX'S EYES ''PAX HUDSON FROM LONDON, UK'' ZAIN SAID AND TOOK PAX'S EYES DIFFERENTLY.

''OH HELLO EVERYONE'' SAID PAX BUT NO ONE REPLIED.

''JIN SHING EIDENBURGH'' ZAIN CALLED AND TOOK JIN SHING'S EYES WHO WASN'T LOOKING HAPPY ON HIS INTRODUCTION ''FROM TORONTO, CANADA'' ZAIN ADDED AND PAX AND JAEHOON STARTED WATCHING HIM BEMUSED BUT EMILY'S GAZES MADE JIN SHING FEEL LIKE HE NEVER ACTUALLY HAD HIS INTERNALS AND SOUR WATER CAME INTO HIS MOUTH ''DON'T WORRY ABOUT HIS NAME, HIS PAPA IS HUGEST FAN OF ANIMES AND SO NAMED HIS CHILDREN LIKE ASIANS'' ZAIN ADDED AND JIN SHING MOVED HIS GAZES FROM EMILY TO ZAIN ''BY THE WAY, I LIKE IT. YOUR NAME, IT'S NICE''.

''WHERE ARE YOU FROM?'' ASKED JIN SHING AGGRESSIVELY WATCHING HER TURNING BACK TO THE BIG SCREEN.

AFTER LISTENING TO THIS, ZAIN TURNED BACK TO THEM AND TOOK ALL FOUR'S EYES ONE BY ONE AND REPLIED ''FROM ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN''.

''PAKISTAN!'' PAX SAID UNCONTROLLABLY WHICH MADE ZAIN LOOK AT HIM ''I MEAN- SOUNDS GOOD. PAKISTAN. NICE NAME'' HE ADDED TO COVER HIS CONFUSION ''BY THE WAY NEVER HEARD ABOUT IT BEFORE''.

''IT'S AN ASIAN COUNTRY'' SAID JIN SHING WATCHING PAX AND THEN ZAIN.

''YES IT IS'' ZAIN REPLIED AS AGGRESSIVELY AS JIN SHING ASKED.

''CAN I GET A FRIEND WITH MYSELF PLEASE, I WON'T FIT HERE'' ASKED EMILY HOPEFULLY AFTER LISTENING TO EVERYONE'S INTRODUCTION.

''WE'RE NOW TALKING ABOUT PEOPLE WHO'RE ROAMING IN THE STREETS OF LONDON, AUCKLAND, SEOUL, OTTAWA, ISLAMABAD AND MANY MORE CITIES, IN DARK NIGHTS. SO WE CAN'T MAKE OR GET FRIENDS, MISS LEE!'' SAID ZAIN WATCHING HER.

EMILY COULD SEE FLAMES OF TERRORS IN HER EYES.

''BUT WE CAN BE FRIENDS'' SHE SAID, POLITELY NOW ''SO! WHO'S GONNA BE MY FRIEND?'' SHE ASKED AND RAISED HER HAND IN THE AIR JUST THE HEIGHT OF THEIR WAISTS.

THE KOREAN GUY IMMEDIATELY WALKED FORWARD AND PUT HIS HAND IN ZAIN'S HAPPILY, WATCHING HER.

ZAIN PASSED A HEARTWARMING SMILE TO HIM WHICH MADE HIM BOW TO HER.

AFTER JAEHOON, PAX PUT HIS HAND HAPPILY TOO.

''ADD ME TOO'' HE SAID HAPPILY AND ZAIN LAUGHED A BIT.

JIN SHING AND EMILY WERE LEFT.

''AY! LEE! COME ON, JOIN THE PARTY'' SAID PAX WATCHING EMILY HAPPILY.

EMILY TOOK HIS EYE AND PUT HER HAND OVER HIS AFTER PASSING A SMILE.

''AY! BURGH! EIDENBURGH! COME ON MAN!'' HE SAID AND JIN SHING UNFOLDED HIS ARMS WHICH WERE NEAR HIS CHEST AND PUT HIS HAND OVER EMILY'S AND PASSED A FORCED OR UNFORCED SMILE.

''GREAT THEN, WELCOME Y'ALL'' SAID ZAIN AND TOOK OUT HER HAND.

AFTER HER JAEHOON AND PAX MOVED THEIR HANDS OUT TOO BUT JIN SHING AND EMILY FORGOT AND SO THEY MISTAKENLY TOOK EACH OTHER'S HANDS. IMMEDIATELY, BOTH REALIZED IT AND TOOK EACH OTHERS EYES AND THEN SET EACH OTHERS HANDS FREE.

PAX WATCHED THE SITUATION AND SMIRKED SECRETLY.

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