A Sew Through Time [Bandbudh And Budbak]

8: Kitchen chaos

Drumming music clashed with the symphonic band party. Robes tangled, jewelery stampeded, till one pulled Badri down to stand up.

Budh thwarted the measle off the buffet table easily.

Standing back, Badri placed his hand on his temples and looked around, scanning every fleeing face with determination.

Sircar spit his cigar out and rolled up his sleeves. Jumping over the buffet table where Budh was picking a kulfi, he kicked away the dessert batch and punched towards Badri's direction.

He ducked, grabbed his hair and pushed his face off their precious buffet. Sircar jumped up again.

"Itna maar khane ke baad tera bhi pet nahi bhara?" Badri muttered.

"Bharta toh yaha thori dikayi deta!" Budh chortled.

"You two will SUFFER!" Sircar stood up and shouted at anyone to catch them.

The chaos ignored him.

"Nobody got the time to hear you even" Badri laughed, "Aur tu aya hume duniya dikhane?"

"He needs to touch some grass!" Budh giggled.

"I'm gonna break your bones!"

"Murga ban ja" Badri pointed.

"WHAT?!" Sircar broke into a laugh, "You think you imps like you can make me murga?"

"If we can turn you into a gadha, then why not a murga?" Budh giggled "Now, are you gonna bend or do one of us has to-" he drew his hand back.

"Don't you dare!"

"Do as he said" One of the underground people showed his fist, "Warna-"

What bad luck to be insulted in front of the lowly crowd! Stubbornness grasped Sircar, and when he turned around, the crowd grew in numbers, as if they gathered to watch him. He was cornered from all directions.

Having no other option, he knelt on the buffet table held his ears while sobbing. The crowd laughed till Budh did the favour of kicking his butt.

Sircar rolled away like a barrel.

"Jisne liya humdono sey panga, " Badri laughed, "Usko bana denge hum murga!"

"What panga?!" cried the scissor MLA, "What have we done to you?!"

"Even Mega Robot from level thirteen doesn't lie like that, right partner?" Budh chortled.

"Who Mega Robot?! You are the one who's making us suffer for doing nothing! What do you want?!"

The duo looked at each other.

"Nothing" Budh shrugged.

"PAGLA GAYA HO KYA?!" Scissor MLA shouted, "You ruined the moment, you ruined everything! Now you're telling you came here for NOTHING?!"

"Aye hai na uncle!" Budh raised a brow, "Kisiko toh kachre ghar sey bahar, dustbin mey fekna parega na?"

"Sab punishment bina kahi nahi jayega!" Badri giggled, "Akhir, principal hai hum"

The air stung like chilli, adulterating the clean, air-conditioned place. A thin band of white smoke snaked inside the castle.

The MLA fell on all fours and skidded under their table, grabbing his throat and pulling out his tongue as the fire grew inside his lungs.

The underworld pack led the way for the duo to climb down and run past the coughing crowd.

"Badri, you go catch bhosdiwada" Budh said, "I'll join you later"