Struggles of The End

Chapter 5

There is a magic in the tea of Kolkata and there's an even more special magic in the roadside tea stalls. There is a tea stall just outside Lindsay school and it's quite famous for the brewed tea that it makes. Its basically a terracotta cup that Gopal, the tea stall owner keeps directly on a hot flame for a while until its smoked and immediately pours the coffee into it and then creates a show for the audience by juggling the tea from one cup to another, hence the brew and the taste of the terracotta smoke.

But, say whatever about the theatrics, the tea tastes really good.

Shubham went there after the school brawl to have a ciggerate and a cup of tea. And yes, even in school uniform that place did offer ciggerates to school students, because most of his ciggerate revenue came from students.

As usual Shubham was an audience of the way Gopal Da juggled the tea and he was in awe at it everytime when he saw it. He always thought how did Gopal Da managed to hold the tremendously hot terracotta cup without even an expression of pain in his face.

He was having all those thoughts when suddenly he felt a loud thud on his face. The next second he was lying on the ground, his head bleeding.

He touched the back of his head with his fingers and looked at his fingers to find blood and mud. Someone bashed a terracotta cup on his head with brute force. He looked up to see 5 boys in casual dresses standing in front of him and behind them were Dyuti and Sareen.

He looked at each one of their face and thought which one was which one's boyfriend and who were the useless best-friends trying to become boyfriends. He did not finish his mental judgements when a series of blows and kicks started landing on him by all the boys there. They probably were at college. Shubham was trying to get up amongst all of that but he was not able to. The kicks were not stopping.

One of the guy then sat down Infront of him. "Had enough? We don't think so. If you want to save yourself from all of this, walk with us to where we are taking you."

Till then the people from the road already had rounded up there thinking what was happening. In these parts, no one stops no one from doing anything. They just round up and enjoy the show asking each other what show is going on. Then when its all over and everyone had a good laugh and a good time, they all forget it and walk down their own paths.

Shubham got up and followed the boys. Its not that he could not put a fight with them, but this was not a movie and he knew that. There was no point in fighting 5 boys that too who seemed a lot elder than him. It was foolishness, he would have been much more hurt if he tried to fight with them, so he chose not to. Strangely they were walking towards the school. Shubham looked behind once to see who all are coming but he just saw the boys with him. Dyuti and Sareen weren't there.

They reached the school gate. He looked up. The lightboard with Lindsay International High School was glowing brightly in the dark. They walked past the school gate towards the side of the school. The boundary was broken there. Renovation was going on that part of the building. One of boys signaled him to walk past the broken boundary and go inside the premises. Shubham did that and after him all the boys came inside the school premises.

He could not understand that out of all places why were they taking him to the school. He walked to one boy who seemed to be in charge there.

"So, which one are you? Dyutis's boyfriend or Sareen's boyfriend?

Or you just are a no one trying to get in their pants, huh?

You think by doing this as a favor to them would earn you that?"

The boy listened to this and walked to stand just in front of him.

"Don't you think that you are not in a situation to speak this much? You do not have to think who I am, you would understand who I am in just a few minutes."

Shubham was going to say something when he suddenly felt a real hard blow to this head.

Everything started to become dizzy right in front of him. Things started to turn black. His feet started trembling and he was even facing difficulty standing on his feet at that moment.

He fell on the ground head straight unconscious.