Minutes passed as I stared her from distance. Suddenly a guy approached her, she looked panic, the guy was one of our classmates, but still it looked like she was troubled by something. Beside there was also something inside me that was provoking to interfere. I walked to them and said, "Hey."
"Hi." She replied as she looked at me. There was a glow in her eyes.
"Did I make you wait?" I asked ignoring the guy.
"See you later." The guy replied as he headed to the other side.
"Did I disturb your talk?" I asked.
"No." She replied immediately. I was right there being something troubling her.
"Let's head for the library."
She nodded and we walked in the direction of library. She was walking silently, her looks made me curious.
"Was he troubling you?"
"Oh no, it's not like that." She replied.
"Okay. You did not seem comfortable with him." I spoke.
"Oh no. Actually, I am not used to such conversation." She replied.
"Sorry, if I asked anything strange." I said, as I thought she was talking about our conversation.
"I am not talking about this conversation." She said, she looked relaxed. "The earlier one, he surprised me." She added.
"Oh, I see." We walked together for few minutes the topic was now diverted to the studies. We reached the library. We took our seat near a computer. The project started and the next few hours went by rapidly. We ended up after three hours. She copied the data and we headed out.
"Would you like to take a coffee?" I asked her. She was hesitant, I thought she would turn me down. "It's okay if you don't want to." I added.
"Oh no, actually I don't take coffee, how about tea?" she said. I looked at her, a smile spread on my lips.
"You can smile?" She asked me.
"Everybody can smile." I replied.
"Yeah, you are right." She replied.
"It's that way, around the corner." We headed towards the small shop. Luckily, we found a table, the shop was small but the tea here was famous, so usually there used to be no room for the customers and they would have to wait.
"I too don't take coffee." I said as we sat down on the table.
"Really, but you laughed earlier at me." She spoke.
"It was not for you but me. I thought girls like coffee more so." I replied.
"I was just kidding." She said as she smiled. She looked beautiful.
"Your smile suits you." I spoke.
"Oh, thank you." She spoke. The waiter served us the tea.
"Hmm, it's too good." She said as she sipped it.
"Told you." I said, she was just like a kid, hesitant at first but relaxed and free later.
"Can we have a pic?" She asked. "As a memory."
I nodded, she pulled her phone out, it was an old model. She took a selfie, as we finished out tea we headed out.
"How much did it cost?" She asked.
I sighed, "It was my treat." I spoke.
"Fine. But next time it would be mine." She spoke. I nodded, I walked her to the bus stop, she boarded the bus and I headed for my way but I wanted to stay longer. After a long time, I wanted to be with someone, I raised my head and look at the sky, the clouds were floating in the sky.
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"Be home early. You know tomorrow you have got a fresher's party." Eddie said from the other end.
"Yeah, I know." I hung up the phone. The crowd was increasing, the black market was more active in the dark, it was already past eight. I moved towards the Night Club bar, as I got inside, I headed for table no seven. It was already occupied. I took a seat on the opposite side.
I took out a joker from my pocket and placed it on the table. The man looked at me, I was already masked.
"There are on the move, he wanted to exploit the weakness of other shareholders, news is that he will soon get half of the shares." The man spoke. "He had kidnapped the daughter of Mr. Khan, who holds 14% shares. They have kept her in the underground, here is the address." The man put up a Jack on the table I took the Jack and he took the joker. The man got off the table and headed his way. The warehouse was close to the bar, I walked to the place. The shutter was half closed as I went near it, my phone rang.
"Who is there?" a man form inside shouted.
I received the phone, "Call back after 10 minutes." I replied. As I pulled the shutter up, ten to fifteen men were gathered in the place, some of them had weapons.
"Hey you, get out of the place." One of them said.
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My phone rang again, received it. "Yes?" I asked.
"They kidnapped Mr. Khan's daughter." He shouted from the other end.
"I know that, I am taking her home." I dropped the man I was holding in my right hand. "She is unconscious, things were easy." I replied.
"Why did you go there? I would have handled the situation." He spoke.
"My dear friend, let me work out once in a while." I said, "Let's talk later." I said as I hung up the phone. I walked through the bodies lying through the warehouse, the girl was still unconscious.
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