“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 :)