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The Unexpected Guests

 

We all are aware of the three unexpected guests in Vivaan’s garage. And how they were acting smart by declaring almost everything in their plan. And how Rajveer had shut their mouths with his high magnitude speech.

The tale continues further.

“Here’s the deal, Rajveer. We know what you are up to tomorrow in court. We also don’t want the dates to be postponed any further. As a friend, I am requesting you to call Robert and tell him to release Irfaan’s two subordinates which you have put in jail for no reason.” said Albert, polite this time.

“Or else?” said Rajveer.

“Else we kill you and nothing else!” shouted Irfaan, almost ordering Ram to shoot.

Ram was stopped by Albert later on. “What are you up to now? This was not the plan! Just go with the plan dude!”

Albert then shouted on Irfaan.

Irfaan was calm but his reactions were mixed. His face did not seem to be calm but his body was burning in fire. Fire of anger. Fire of revenge from Rajveer. Fire of everything said by Rajveer.

The shutter was open all this while. Maybe it was that which lead to such high intensity shouts. Rain was hell all this while. They say ‘Cats & Dogs’ true. It was a cats and dogs rain.

Someone’s running was heard. Maybe more than just someone. It seemed like there were two or three men running towards the garage.

Albert was about to start his word play but didn’t after hearing the padding sounds.

It was Vivaan’s dad. Vivaan was very excited and angry at this site. Angry for the unexpected guests sitting inside the garage and excited for the unexpected guests who came running as fast as they could in that rain.

Something happened. Something unexpected. Something really not acceptable. Something Albert would have never let happen.

A gunshot was fired. Two actually. And one of them hit Rajveer, close to his heart. Or maybe through it?

The three started running  out of the garage. The gunshot fired was necessary to scare Varun Ahuja, who had come running in this heavy rain towards the backside of his house.

Two men who had accompanied Varun were scared to death and they fell on the ground suddenly. Varun was not scared. As he could see the three running towards the main gate, he snatched the pistol from one of his men who were lying on the ground, to aim at the three running people and ended up shooting one of them.

That one shot was Ram. He died on the spot.

After that the two had escaped from the main gate and went long away. Never to return.

When everyone gathered breath, they picked up Rajveer, thinking he was alive, but he never seemed to agree to that.

How much he would have begged the almighty to save him. Just one more day of his life. Just one more day to work for the good and punish the bad. But no, said the almighty.

And took him away from all.

They all rushed him to Varun’s car and rushed him to a hospital.

There, Robert was already present. And after the short operation was over the doctor in charge came out of the operation theatre and said, “There was no bullet found. He is fine now. Will be fine in two days.”

Of course. He will take these many days to be able to give a statement in court. He was talking now but not walking now.

He showed resistance when he was shot. And that’s probably why he wasn’t dead at that shot.

And since the shot was taken by Irfaan, someone so close to killing yet so far. Or maybe he didn’t shoot at the right spot because he was scared and was running all that while struggling to take the best shot.

True.

But there was something for which not much time was left. It was 2 already and the next date was around 8 hours from now. And becoming fine for the upcoming date in these many hours was next to impossible.

But he had to be fine. If he ended up being fine, then this would have been a sure shot victory for Vivaan and A.K. and if he wasn’t fine then they were losing. Because without his orders, the two actual culprits could not be taken to the court and proved guilty.

But somewhere, Vivaan and A.K. had planned to play on the next date and win somehow.

Meanwhile, the tension was more in some other place, about ten kilometers from Rajveer’s hospital.