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 :)