CHAPTER 14-RAIN

I came to my cabin and waited for the working hours to end.I have already informed my landlady that I am vacating the house today.I left office early in the evening and drove my new car towards the street food corner of Pratap.Pratap had also returned from the trip. I also called him and told that I am shifting.

"Pratap"I said

"You came so early"his voice sounded a little heavy

"Yes, my stuff has to be sent to the new house, so I that's why I came early".I said

" Yes I... "he stopped speaking and started looking at the car.

" Wow! is that yours".he said

"Yes you can say, I have got this car from the company for use."

"One day Ravi, you will have your own"he said.

" Thanks "

"Big men Ravi, big men"his voice seemed to be very sad,I was feeling a little weird.

"Pratap is there any problem?"I asked him

"I am so stupid, you had to leave from here one day"Now I understand why he was sad, he was sad because I was leaving.

"I will come here to meet you"In fact, I myself did not even know that I would ever be able to come here or not because my bungalow was far away from here.

"Everyone says the same thing while leaving, just never forget me"He couldn't stop himself from crying.

Tears started flowing from my eyes too, I had a wonderful time with Pratap." Good friends are hard to find Pratap, even harder to leave and impossible to forget"I Said

"I have made your favorite hamburger for you, god knows whether I will ever be able to feed you this again." he said

We were both quietly eating hamburgers, he still looked very sad. To change his mood, I asked him that "How was your trip?"

"Good".

"And how was she with whom you went on the trip"

"You are talking about Peny".

" So her name is Peny".

"No her name is Penysia but I call her Peny".he said and blushed

"Nice I want to meet her".

"Wait i'll show you the pics of my trip"He took his phone out of his pant pocket and started wiping it with cotton.Pratap always kept his phone very handy. He started showing me the photos of his trip and started telling me about the places where he took these photos.Peny's face was similar to someone's but I didn't pay much attention on it.

Now his mood was feeling a little better. After a while I told him "Now I am getting late, I have to shift stuff too".

"Yes you must be getting late but take this before leaving" he gave me a photo frame in which there was a good picture of him and me and bbf was written on top of that frame.I hugged him and gave him my new address".

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It took just a mini van to move my stuff from my old house to the brand new bungalow.I had clothes, family pictures and some books. I was not allowed to bring my own furniture, so I had put all my furniture at Eve's house.I didn't need a 5-bedroom duplex bungalow with 3 servants, but a manager should live in such a house.I stood in the lawns of the new house, supervising the environment.

A servant held up some old photographs of my parents."Where should I keep these sir?"he asked me. In one framed picture mom and dad were walking on a street. I, all of two years, was sat on my father's lap. I picked up that photo and saw mu parent's faces.I hadn't cried over my parents once in the last 10 years. Yet I didn't know why I felt so overwhelmed that day.My parents would have loved to see me move into such a big house. If only they could see this!

"Put them up in the front room", I said

We finished the move by 9 in the night. I had my dinner and I went to my bedroom which was better than the rest of the bedrooms.I threw myself on the bed.I looked at the window as the moon was shining outside. I don't know when I fell asleep.I woke up in the morning with a phone call.

"Hello" I said

"Hello" It was Neha mam "come to the office as soon as possible".she said and hung up the phone.

I reached office as soon as I could. All the people were standing around something. There was the sound of a woman crying loudly. I saw that Neha was talking to someone on the phone, she was looking very serious.

"What happened" I asked Jennifer.

she kept quiet, When I looked ahead of the crowd, I found that everyone was standing around a big parcel, and a woman was crying sitting next to that parcel.I looked inside that parcel, I took my breath away seeing that thing. It was a human corpse covered in blood, A paper written RAIN was pasted on the head of that person. Then Neha mam said that "Ritojha mam is coming to london tomorrow, she will handle it."

I had no idea what was happening and what is going to happen.