Cookies

He opened the envelope to see a letter.

Along with the letter, there was an invitation card from the same person.

The letter read;

'Dear Mr. Dayal

It's been a long time. Hope you are doing well so far.As you know I am doing quite well in my business,recently there are many reasons to celebrate.Though we have never been in good terms and have only seen each other in the most unfortunate situations, I'm still willing to give you a chance.Hence my intention is to invite you and your fellow officers to the party that I'm holding tomorrow. Hope to meet you soon.

Thanking you

Your well wisher

Faizan Hussain'

"Why is that politician inviting me? " Dayal asks as he crumbles the paper in his fist.

"I have no idea what this man is thinking about" Loy shrugs it off.

Jake takes the paper from Dayal and tries to open it. He reads it and says "This doesn't feel right. How come he changed all of a sudden? "

"He must have some other intentions"Sam says in an obvious tone.

" Of course. But shall we go? "Jake asks.

" No. Nobody is going anywhere.Loy, just throw this in the dustbin. "Dayal snatches the letter from Jake and gives it to Loy.

" Are you sure? I think we should go. "Loy says.

" No. We have many other things to do rather than to attend his stupid parties. "

"Oh! "

"But if you want you can go to my place." Dayal says to Loy and he nods.

In the evening, Jake's apartment;

"I can finally sleep now." Jake says, letting out a deep breath.

He laid straight into the bed and stared blankly to the ceiling. He tried to fall asleep but could not because his stomach started making grumbling sounds.

"Sigh..oh dear. I'm not in a mood to cook anything. " He says to himself but somehow he managed to get up from the bed.

Suddenly there was a knock on the door. He walked towards the door to open it and saw Mrs. Ghosh standing there.

"Oh" Jake reacted.

"Hey sweetheart. Did I disturb? " She says with a smile as she walks in.

"No. I just woke up a while ago. "

"Oh. By the way, I made some cookies today so I bought something for you too. "She hands him a big jar filled with cookies.

" You didn't need to.. "

"I'm giving it to everyone here. " She interrupts.

Jake holds back his smile.

Moments later, Sam appeared and joined the conversation. After the landlady left she could finally talk about what she initially came for. Mrs. Ghosh went to the other floors to send her cookies.

"We need to talk." She said.

"What do we need to talk about? "Jake asked.

"About tomorrow. "

"Huh? "

"Will you let me in first?" She enters the apartment pushing Jake aside.

"We are going to the party and we are going to expose the politician. You need to join us. "She says as she sits on the couch.

"When did you decide this? I...I don't even know what… What are you talking about? " He stammers.

"We called you a hundred times but you didn't pick up " She says, widening her eyes.

He checks his phone to see it was on silent mode. There were around thirty missed calls from all of them. Then he realised he was lying on his bed ,staring at the ceiling blankly a few minutes ago and must have missed these calls.

He gives her a sheepish smile and takes a seat on the other couch.

"Well, do I need to go? "

"Of course! "

"Ahh….but you guys are enough for this whole matter. I think you can handle " He says with a paout.

"If we could handle it alone, why am I even here. Why would Dayal even take you in the team? "

"What are we doing? "He asks, agreeing to her.

" We are attending the party and will act all normal in front of those VIPs. Mr. Dayal says, they must have planned something for him, so we need to be very careful. But of course we need to keep an eye on the politician. When we get the chance we will make him confess to all the things he did. "

"And how will we make him confess? "

"That you will know tomorrow. Your role is to bring the politician to a particular room where we will be waiting. "

"He will not agree to come with me! " He says, shrugging his shoulders.

"You are the only one who knows about his residence properly, so we can't risk asking someone else to do it. "

"Okay.I will try my best. "

"Thanks." She says and stands up to leave.

"And yes, Loy is not coming with us tomorrow. Actually we didn't involve him in this. Dayal said he's recently been busy because of some family matters. " She adds.

"Oh! "

He replied with a short nod.

"And wear some formal clothes! " She says, taking a look at his present clothing.

Jake was not even sure if he had any single shirt that looked decent. As he had all those casual dull coloured t-shirts. Thankfully he had one black jacket that he brought recently during the interview he had for the company.

If he would have known before that something like this would come up he would have brought a good pair of trousers. He can borrow from Sid though, but he's sure Sid will never lend him his clothes! '' he thought.

"You just wear something that looks simple" She says as she turns to leave.

"Are you already leaving? " He asked.

"Yeah. Why? " She asks, raising her brows.

"Take some cookies. "

He says making a puppy face.

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