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After he gave send off to Ashwini, he went straight to the police station and he took the file related to the case. Rajeev is seriously studying the case, everything happened at the crime scene seemed obvious except one thing. There are two rowdies who lie dead at the crime scene. Those two are working for Veera Reddy. The neighbors living next to ACP Surendar’s house(he is main victim) didn’t see nothing suspicious that day and they even don’t know that ACP is dead until they were told by police. He couldn’t figure out the person who killed them. Right then, Akash who is working under him came up with the Post Mortem report of all the dead at the crime scene and informed Rajeev that it was with him.

Rajeev asked,”Who killed them?”

Akash said,” Sir, it is obvious that Veera Reddy and Narasimham are responsible, but they are clever enough that they didn’t leave any finger prints on any weapons”.

Then Rajeev immediately,” I know that, I’m asking not about ACP Surendar and his wife, but I want about the person responsible for the death of those two rowdies?”

Akash told him that finger prints on the weapons didn’t match any of ACP’s or his wife’s (they were main victims) and they are still checking for matches of finger prints from their relatives. Rajeev thought that it is impossible to catch that person as it seems completely misleading and as if it is planned before to mislead him. Thinking that way, he stopped worrying about that. Then, he received a call from one of his guys saying that Mallesh is staying in a nearby hotel and he will give full details after Rajeev goes there. Mallesh works for Veera Reddy and he is the one that murdered ACP’s wife and he keeps moving from place to place to prevent himself caught by police. He couldn’t go outside the city as there are many police checkposts allover the outskirts of the city.

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As soon as the new guy entered the bus, Ram asked him,”Who are you?”

This guy told him that he is Rahul. Ram didn’t care who he was because he has ID card which was given to everyone and he has the ticket. Shweta and the rest of the singles couldn’t hear this conversation as they were seated in the last. The bus started.

After Rahul took his seat, Shweta asked him,”Who are you? Where is Rahul?”

“You are …..”

“Shweta”, she told him.

“Shweta, I am Rahul and he, Arun is my close friend. If you doubt me, see I have my ID card and ticket.”

He is sweating as if he is tensed. This made her think that he is saying something wrong. She asked him,”You are lying. If you are Rahul, then why didn’t you get into the bus in Hyderabad?”. He replied,”Because my grand mom who stays here felt ill few days back and she had undergone surgery. After taking care of her still she got fine, I got into the bus.”

She seemed not convinced and again stroked him with a question.”Then why his bag is still here? How would you so heartless knowing you grand mom is sick, how can you plan a trip?”.

“Huh”, he said thinking that this interrogation will never end and it is impossible to convince her,” I asked him to buy these things for the trip as many of them will not be available in this place. I bought these tickets before she was ill, i.e., long time ago”.

Now, she seems slightly satisfied. Then she suddenly changed her face expressions in such a way that she was going to put another question. He realizes that and he says,” Please.. If you still doubt, I will agree that I’m not Rahul and I just escaped from mental hospital”

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Next one: “E5 The Night at the Hotel” is pretty big

As soon as she got into the bus, she was asked to show the ticket. Rajeev told her that he registered her under different name to keep her in safety, but it came to her mind that what if they had her photo. So, she turned back and about to get out of bus and ask Rajeev about that, but she wasn’t given chance as Ram (incharge) asked the driver to start the bus after she showed her ticket. Ram was bored of waiting for her from half an hour and even after that, Rajeev and she had a long conversation which annoyed him. He asked her sarcastically,”Ma’m, don’t you and sir talk to each other at home? “

“Rajeev is not my husband. He is a police officer and he promised me to protect me from someone who are trying to kill me if I help him bring them down”, she answered him. He showed her seat and asked her to be seated. She was surprised to see few singles in the bus. As soon as she got into her seat, Ram started giving instructions as well as information about the trip.

“It is a 7-day trip. You will be given a Identity Card to make sure that you belong to this bus. We dont provide you the food, but we will stop at the hotels with whom we made contracts, there you can eat and rest there. Finally, you have to take care of your luggage. We are not responsible for anything you lost in this trip. Our Schedule, we will spend 3 days in Goa and use the other 4 days efficiently so that we cover important places in all the 4 capital cities of the 4 states Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka and Maharashtra”.

Shweta’s seat was next to Aruna who is married and she has a 6-month old baby. Shweta thought that it is not a good idea to start conservation with her because she is busy trying to make her little child sleep. Aruna tried and couldn’t succeed and her child keeps on crying. Shweta first thought of reading a book she brought to read during the journey, but couldn’t read due to this disturbance. She tolerated for a while and later raised from her seat to call Ram. She went to him and told him,” I cant sit there and that little one is making a lot of noise and I cant even read the book.”

Then he said,”Ma’m, kindly adjust for a while and she will sleep after a while as her mother is trying to sleep her.” She doesn’t want to sit there. So, she told him,” I cant enjoy the journey if I am seated there. She is a housewife and I am single. She will talk about her child, husband and different types of curries. I am not interested in those things. I want to be seated beside a single like me. Can you arrange one?”. She is a journalist who want to be free and independent. So, she obviously wont like such things.

He thought and replied,”I understand your situation and I will try to arrange with someone who approaches me with the same problem. Now please be seated.”

One hour passed. She thought that none except her was facing such a problem, but he received complaints from almost every single. So, he made an arrangement in such a way that all couples are seated in the front and all the singles are seated in the back. There are 8 singles, out of which 5 are men and 4 are women. The other 3 girls other than Shweta are Archana, Swathi and Swapna. They are studying in a college. One of the 5 men looks more older than all of them. The other 3 are Arjun, Sanjay and Satish. They all are in 20’s and he is in 30’s. They asked him if he is not married and the reply is a no. They thought it might be some personal reason as he didnt tell them. They introduced themselves and our journalist introduced herself as Shweta and she is a school teacher and none asked her about her relationship with Rajeev as they thought she was his wife. The elder guy introduced himself as G.K. Subbarao and he is a software engineer.

Rahul is seated besides Shweta and he is good looking and innocent. He thought he is lucky to be seated besides such a beautiful girl. Their conservation is about various rumours in Telugu Film industry and also about politics. This went on until the bus stopped for lunch near Hotel. They were asked to return within 30 minutes as they were already late and behind the other buses. He told them to take it as a warning. Rahul separated from them saying that he had some work to do. After having finished the lunch, they got into the bus and took their respective seats. Ram gave signal to the driver to start the bus. Then Shweta shouted that Rahul hasn’t returned yet. Then Ram said,” Everyone are asked to return within 30 minutes. Then, its not our fault as we warned. We will wait for 5 minutes and then we start the bus.”

When the bus is about to start, a new guy entered the bus. His face is full of sweat and looks highly tensed.

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“Is everything allright, Ashwini?”, Rajeev asked her.

Ashwini is the key witness to one of the cases that he is dealing, in which Veera reddy and Narasimham are the prime suspects. His goal is to eradicate Rowdism from the city for which these two are the main hindrances. Both of these are rivals to each other. They already attacked her once and tried to kill her, but this attempt became futile because of Rajeev. From then, he provided her with full security to keep her safe and well protected. As they are suspects, they shouldnt leave the city. So, he thought it would be safe for her to be outside the city and thats why he planned to send her on a trip, but he is not going with her for he had another task to be completed.

Rajeev realized that nothing has gone wrong as their faces indicated. Then he asked her,

“Why are you late and is your cell switched off?”.With this question, he made himself look like a police.

Ashwini answered, “I forgot cell’s charger at home and due to lack of charge, cell was switched off. On the way, I remember this thing and asked them to drive back as it is imporant because I will talk to my parents every day and another reason was that I was searching for a good camera to take pictures of myself during the trip. I went through many shops and could not find a good one, but finally adjusted with this one”.

“How much is that?”, he asked her.

“10,000 bucks. You are sponsoring my trip and everything required for my trip, right?”, she asked him.

“Yes, Of course”, he told her and thought this might cost millions to bring them using her and he told her,”There are certain things you have to know. To keep you out of trouble, I registered your ticket on a different name, Shweta and so, introduce yourself as Shweta. Second thing is that to look after you, I appointed these two guys Arjun and Suresh who will be following your bus and will keep their distance from the bus and finally, one of the highly skilled policeman, once worked as a secret agent for the police and he looks like other tourists and I dont want you to get disturbed by him. So, I am not telling you his name” and murmured in a very low voice so that she couldn’t hear,”I can’t spend millions on you”.

“So, you cant guarantee my saftey even during this trip. I want to be feel free, independent and be myself. I think my house will be more safer than this with this protection”.

“Actually what you think is wrong because we wont let them go out of the city. All journalists think like you and want to be like you want to be”, he replied.

“What about my parents, dont you think they need some protection because I think they may act through them?”, she asked him. He again replied that they would get it.

All of the tourists in the bus looking at them, waiting desparately for her to get into the bus and even praying to the God to end this conversation quickly.

Finally their conversation ended with Rajeev saying,”Have a nice trip and Good bye”. She got into the bus and the trip starts.

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P.S.: … and it starts

Its half past eleven in the morning. Special buses were appointed by AP tourism board for AP tourists to visit several tourist places in Southern India. The trip starts in Hyderabad and ends in Goa going through Tamil Nadu and Kerala. Special incharge is appointed to each bus to take care of tourists. Every passenger has to book in advance for the trip and they were allotted based on the time of ones reservation. All the buses took off 11 in the morning. This is the last of them. All of its seats were occupied except one. Its incharge, Ram, quickly went through the passenger’s list to find out the missing one is Shweta.

He got off the bus to find whether she was anywhere close to the bus or not. To his surprise, he saw Rajeev, Sub-Inspector of Police, waiting desperately for someone. Then Ram thought it was Shweta whom he was waiting for. He gave a sign to Ram not to start the bus. Ram couldn’t ask the driver to start the bus not only due to respect toward him but also Rajeev is short tempered.

Rajeev is known for his sincerity and at the same time he listens to everyone’s problems, but now he is completely tensed and he is blaming himself for letting her go without him. He is smoking cigar to control this tension. He allowed her to buy things for her that are required for the trip. Its almost half an hour that he came here. He called her number twice, but “Out of Coverage area” is the reply message to every of his call. Now he dropped the cigar rubbing it with the foot.

Everyone has certain goals so as Rajeev has some. To achieve one of these, she is the one that helps him, but her car is not there in his eyesight. So, he got into his car and about to start his car. To his relief, he found her car being escorted by two of his police’s cars approaching the bus. As she got out of her car, he got out of his and asked her,

” Is everything allright, Ashwini?”

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P.S.: the eStory continues

This is a short one but you will find it interesting. At the same time, you will find similarities between this and a Telugu film’s story, but unlike in Telugu movies, hero wont dominate other characters in this story. I would like to mention that characters in this story are only imaginary and not related to anyone’s life.