I immediately pulled out my beloved phone and called up one of my tomboy friends who's dad was the richest man of England, excluding the monarchy of course."Yes, bro.", She said in her usual rough way."Dude, I need your help.", I said."Speak. What can I do for you Signor?", She said I was sure with a smirk."Jenny, you need to ditch a guy. Please, don't say no. ", I said nearly pleading."And who's that idiot?", She asked."Indian guy. Anirudh.", I said."Fine Neil, let me get there and I will help you out, in any case I was damn bored here. We'll have some fun, finally.", She said in the best boyish manner possible.I released a breath of relief. Time for some fun."What is up with you?", Akansha asked as I smirked at her mildly.I pulled her by her arm towards myself. She just looked up at me, startled.I placed my hand on her cheek and said,"Trust me, I will get everything okay.", I said as she immediately wrapped her hands around me."I know that.", She said, hugging me tightl
"What?!", I stammered immediately."Oh yes, Parker. Don't be a donut now. Come on, give me my payment.", She said seductively.Akanksha stood beside me and I knew she was nothing but aghast."Umm, Jenny can't you have your payment in any other way?", I asked feeling the tension increase."I don't think so..", she said with a wink as she placed her hand on my shoulder.I don't know if it was a reflex but Akanksha immediately removed her hand."I'm sorry Jennifer, but he is mine.", She said sharply.Isn't it amazing when your girlfriend becomes possessive about you?Not that I wanted to kiss Jennifer."Is it?", Jenny said with a raised brow."Yes.", Akansha said, keeping her tone sharper than a knife."Listen, Mr. Parker, I want the kiss or umm I will make a racket out of your life. Trust me, you will be real regretful about this.", Jenny said nearly threatening me.I suddenly felt that she was really not joking as she walked away in rage."She's serious about it.", I whispered as I han
I immediately rushed to the police station along with Akansha who seemed to have turned pale in fear."Sir, Neil Parker.", I said as I stood in front of the inspector's desk.Mr. Inspector seemed too disgusted of life as he spoke to someone over his mobile phone and gestured me to sit.I could translate what he was saying,"Yes! I heard. I will get one kilogram of tomatoes and one kilogram of potatoes! Now keep the phone!", Saying so he hung up the call and finally looked at me."Yes! What do you want?!", He said in the perfect Bengali ascent."Sir, that's what we are asking. Someone from here called us and told us there was a FIR against Neil.", Akansha said in Hindi."Ah! Neil Parker? Yes. Come on, into the lock up", He said standing up casually as if he was asking me for a cup of tea."Excuse me? Why would I? What are the allegations?", I asked him standing up."Oh yes! That foreign girl came and complained that you have harassed her. So there you need to get in. Come on. Don't was
I sat in the empty prison quietly. The sound of mosquitoes coming and buzzing near my ears was too irritating to go around with but then, did I have a choice?I sighed as I rested my head on the cemented wall behind me. It was cold but it was okay for me. I was from London after all.I looked at the wall opposite to me. There was nothing in my mind, just blankness and one thought,"Would I get out of this empty and cold jail, ever?"I slowly closed my eyes and fell asleep.I was woken up next morning by a hit from a stick. I slowly opened my eyes to find the constable looking down at me with loath."Come on you lazy head! Wake up!", He said in Hindi, extremely harshly.I slowly got up as he pulled me out of the prison with handcuffs on. I was made to sit in the police van as he sat opposite to me, looking at me with extreme loath."Where am I going?", I asked as he gave me a hateful glance and said,"To get what you deserve. Punishment.", He said as I drew in a deep breath. I looked o
I stood in still silence. The fear seemed to have crept deep into my being. The consequences of anything going wrong were dire.I gulped nervously. I could remember my Merchant Of Venice oddly today, I remembered Basssanio had said that even if a rotten case is put forth in an eloquent manner it might be considered true. This was exactly the case with me. I wanted to breakdown but I knew it would be of no help. The witness came up opposite to me on the identical platform."Your Honour, I have seen this man pulling a girl towards him and trying to sexually harass her.", He stated. I could have cursed him on his face but I decided to maintain my composure as I clenched my fist.The web of lies, at their ultimate best. "Your Honour, I would like to ask a few questions to Mr. Das.", My lawyer said as he walked up to Mr. Das."Permission granted.", The judge said."Now, what time was it approximately when you saw this happening?""It was around ten in the night.", He said as I felt hopele
I drew in a sharp breath and asked,"When is my next hearing?""Two months later.", The lawyer said looking as calm as possible."What?!", I said aghast as Akansha looked at me for a while and immediately looked away."That is the truth. Now, that's the bad thing about law you see. You cannot help it but yes, you can get a bail and go around. ", He stated coolly."Awesome!", If I was not in jail I would have been critical of the law system but then, at the moment it did not matter at all."Now go with those two idiots and sit in the jail for sometime. See you soon.", The lawyer said and signalled the two policemen who immediately came and caught hold of me and pulled me back to the van.I was soon into the jail I had been in yesterday waiting desperately for my 'cool' lawyer to arrive.I was looking at the wall opposite to me when I suddenly noticed my lawyer entering the police station.He spoke to the inspector who was very pleased to let go of me."My advice is that you should firs
Akansha looked at us in shock. Her eyes started to water slowly, I knew she had misunderstood the situation. She immediately turned and ran out. I moved Jennifer away and ran behind her like mad."Akansha!", I shouted as she ran out. I followed her out of the hotel to find her nowhere. My throat went dry. I was sure she had misunderstood the whole situation and that was not a good thing.I started looking around, maybe she was somewhere, after all - she could not vanish in thin air.I started running from one end of the footpath to another screaming her name. After a while I stood hopeless along the road as cars zoomed past.I felt a hand hold mine. I immediately turned to find Jennifer looking at me empathetically."Trust me, she'll understand.", She said softly as she handed me some money."Get to her. ", She said. For a moment, all my anger for her seemed to melt away as I took the money and immediately caught a cab.It took quite some time to reach the apartment we had been stayin
I drew in a sharp breath. A feeling of deep and intense hatred seemed to grip me.That disgusting man was still upto breaking me and Akansha apart! I so wanted to murder him!I pulled out my mobile phone and called Jennifer, if she could get me into jail she could do much better with Anirudh.She picked up the phone quite instantaneously."Everything is fine?!", She asked immediately, sounding tensed."No, but I need your help.", Saying so I told her the plan to which she agreed quite instantly."I'll do as you say, just explain things to Akansha. I'm sure she will understand, she is just manipulated.", She said as I agreed and hung up the call.I walked out of the room, looking for Akansha.I found her standing at the balcony looking out blankly. I tiptoed behind her when she said,"You know what Neil? You will never change..", she whispered as her voice broke away. I wrapped my hands around her as she tried to shove me away."You trust me?", I asked in a low whisper drawing her clos