That SCREAM and that CAR

“That one chapter really screwed me.” I heard my inner voice say to me as I, with my friend Vidisha Barwal and my little brother  Bhavesh Tikku were walking home from school. Yeah, first terminal exams were over, mathematics answer sheets were distributed today and that one unit- matrices and determinants really did cost me 50 marks (which happens to be a great shock when you had never scored less than 93 in maths) OUCH! That really hurt.

As I made a mental note of what mistakes I did and the reasons of my poor performance this time, and as me and Vidisha were discussing about  my close friend Swatika’s unusual habit of excessive bargaining (even with gol-gappe vala) , something happened .

Something?

Yeah that WAS something! Not a hallucination. At least that’s what I hope.

A…. S-C-R-E-A-M
A scream of a girl from inside a car.

A scream of a girl on the almost empty NH-21. Before I could figure out who or, what it was.. .. a speeding car came .. from behind and literally did the snake dance on the road. Was the driver mad? Thank god there were no children on the road.

Within a second, it was gone… vanished. 

It all happened in a jiffy, the car went SO fast i could only notice it was an 

HP 2-something. plus the name plate  had red border that's all.

so now, instead of rogitating about the obviously mad person i again switched over to my phantom of repenting.

suddenly bhedu (vidisha) said "was it a kidnapping" , and mathematics mourning made way for ACP Pradyuman of CID (our THE best thing on tv) 

Bhavesh and Vidisha had seen a person in white shirt on the back seat lean forward towards the driver.

And the girl screamed BEFORE the car went wild

WHAT THE HELL?

"Did you see the car number?" was what we said at the same time. Surprisingly, even my brother, very famous for his extraordinary observation of everything, didn't notice (well, i wouldn't blame him. the car was TOO FAST) . so we kept thinking, gathering facts, more thinking.

meanwhile our we saw our auto come towards us being driven by 

the alcohol addict BUNTY (the STARE man)

we boarded. continued our discussion. (our no use discussion) 

whatever it was 

all's well was my wishy 

but i sensed something fishy

whatever it was, we'll never know

as ACP Pradyuman trademark dialogue goes "Kuch toh gadbad hai"