CHAPTER 20- HOLD ON

"I.... "

"Hold on" commissioner said.

"What?"

"You saw a man dying in front of you, but you did not complain to the police, why?"The commissioner said in a suspicious voice.

"Can I ask you a question" the prisoner said.

"Ask"

"Police must have found many missing dead bodies everyday, right".

"Of course".

"You don't even have the information about how many dead bodies are registered."

"Ya but... "

"And why does this happens?"

Commissioner kept silent.

"This happens because many people do not register the complaint of missing dead bodies to police, you must know why other people do not complain, let's not be shy tell me."The commissioner was just looking at his hands.

The prisoner said to the police officers standing around the room that "You people must know, hey you guys are capable officers right, so please tell me the answer."No one said anything.

"Mr Dwins You don't even know the answer, you know the answer, but the answer is a bit tight, that's why you are not answering. So I'm gonna tell you the answer, the answer is People are afraid, people are afraid of those people who drain your hard earned money like water in a few minutes, rich people..and you also know that money speaks more than people, sir ".For a while no one said anything, then the prisoner said, "I don't want to embarrass you guys anymore, so now listen when I heard the sound of the doorbell, I felt kinda strange because the night was enough ...I felt a little scared too, because some time ago I came to meet a man whose father killed a person in front of me, but then I thought there are guards outside, they won't let any wrong person in and even if someone comes in, then I can take help of my guards, I slowly opened the door but there was no killer or shooter outside, but there was priscilla outside who was shivering with cold.

"Priscilla...what are you doing here?"I was relieved to see her before but now I feel kinda weird, But seeing her condition, I asked her to come inside.She sat on the sofa, she was still feeling cold. I turned on the room heaters and told the servant to make hot chocolate. After a while she told me "When did you change the house?"

"Just a few days ago,but what are you doing here".

"I was waiting for you standing outside your house since afternoon".

"I went out of town for some work".

"Now you have a bungalow?" she said.

"Ya".

She looked around, she saw the huge T.V., the velvet sofas and 12 seater dinning table." Your company is doing this well"she said, wide-eyed.

"This is only the beginning, I guess" I said.

"You worked very hard for all this, you deserve it"she said.

" Maybe "

"Admit it naa..., you know that I don't lie".

"This is your biggest lie that you don't lie"She fell silent, maybe she knew what I was talking about.

Then"I know that you have a lot of complaints with me, to be honest, I started hating myself after that accident, I had stopped going out of the house, I used to curse myself just sitting in the room. I even tried to kill myself but I did not have that much courage, after some time when dad died, mom and I came here, I joined the job of journalist, thought while working I will not get time to remember the old things and then...I met you"After saying this she took a deep breath.After hearing all this, the hatred I had against Priscilla subsided a little.

"And when I met you I thought God gave me a second chance"Her voice seemed like she was just about to cry.

"Can you forgive me"she said

"There is nothing to forgive" I said

"Forgive me"

"Alright, I forgive you"we got up from the sofa and we hugged. She was crying and I was too. I don't know why but I couldn't stop myself from crying.

That's when" Sir"we split up.The servant was watching us standing with a tray in his hand.

"Hot chocolates" he said.

"Keep them on the table" I said. He put the tray on the table and left. We picked up our cup of hot chocolate and started eating quietly.After a while she said that "seriously, I didn't expect to see you like this".

" Didn't expect what? That your stupid classmate from school could get a real job".

"Yeah,you are quite stupid", she said pretended to agree.Our eyes met we burst into laughter, we hadn't shared such a moments in years. We used to laugh like this in school-in sync and for the silliest of things-a burping kid in class, her mimicking the teachers, me pretending not to sleep during history class.

After sometime, I was sitting quietly ,everything that happened to me today was swirling in my mind.

"Any problem" she asked me.

"Ya"

"Why, due to recent deaths?"

"No, not for that,Today I met my old family".

"You went to Pluibar City" she said in a shocked voice.

"Ya,my company is opening a factory there, I went there in that connection".

"What happened there" she asked me.I told her the whole thing, she listened to me silently then said that "You must have felt strange right?".

" Why?"

"It would be strange for you to meet them again."

"Ya, but this is life and I think you should leave now it's too late, my driver will drop you home".

" No thanks I can go home alone".

"Priscilla"

"Okay okay you win" she said. I called my driver.

We walked towards the Entrance"Thanks "she said softly and hugged me and hold me slightly longer than usual before she left.

" Bye "I said but she had already gone.