CRAZIEST STORY

CRAZIEST STORY - Chapter 7 - part 1

It was an almost 12 hour flight. Enough time for us to rest. We reached Las Vegas at 10 am. Due to the long hours of flight we were jet lagged and wanted to rest. We found a hotel soon and booked 3 rooms this time. I wanted some time alone so took the 3rd room. Sonali stayed with Kajal in one room and Niharika and Unnati in the other.

I entered my room and threw my bags on the sofa and dived into the bed. I woke up after a couple of hours and went for a shower. It was relaxing. I always love taking hot showers when I'm tired. I put my bags down in one corner of the room and sat on the sofa. I remembered the time we had spent in London and Madrid; the surprise that Rico gave - best surprise I ever got in my whole life! I could feel my eyes well up with tears. But just then I remembered about the "phone calls". The blank calls I had been getting. I got my cell and there again was a missed call from some unknown number. I opened my call list and wrote all the numbers on a piece of paper. The numbers were different. I put the paper in my bag, slipped into my jeans and put on a blue shirt and went to Niharika's room. I knocked the door several times. Nihu opened the door. She said, "Sorry, I was in the bathroom and Unnu is sleeping. What's up?"

"Oh. Okay. Anyways, Nihu, I'm going out for some time. If you people wake up have something, okay? Don't wait for me. I'll have something outside if I'm hungry."

    "Yeah okay. But where are you going?"

    "Just some urgent office work. So need to go. I'll be back."

    "Okay." She smiled and I left.

I did not wait for the lift. I went through the stairs. I went to the reception and asked for the nearest police station. The lady wrote down the address on a piece of paper and gave it to me. I put it inside my bag. As I was doing so she asked me "Everything okay ma'am?" 

 I said "Yeah... noting to worry... urm.... is it far from here?"

"Not much ma'am. You can go walking there."  She gave me the directions to reach there and I followed it.

I reached there in 10 minutes. It was quite close. I went in and I saw an officer sitting at the desk searching through some records. I went to his desk and said "Excuse me, sir?"

He looked up and said, "Yes ma'am? Please sit. How may I help you?"

"Well, I'm a tourist here. I've been getting blank calls since past three days." I take out the piece of paper on which I had written the numbers and hand it over to him. "I got the first two calls when I was in Madrid and the last call today some time back."

"Okay. So what do you want us to do?"

"I just need to know where these calls are made from."

"Okay. We'll try. But it would take at least about two days trace them down."

"Okay. No problems. Just give me call when you trace them."

"Yeah sure. Your name and contact number ma'am?" I gave him my details, said "Thank you" and left. I walked for some time in a different direction which I myself didn't know. I just kept walking. Oblivious of what was going around me. I was disturbed by the phone calls I had been getting! "Why only when I had gone for this trip?"  I kept thinking. I noticed a park on the opposite side of the road. I went there and sat on a bench there for a while trying to distract myself from my own thoughts.

I realized I had been out for a long time. I started moving back to the hotel. Now I didn’t know my way back to the hotel so I got a taxi and went to the hotel. I reached the hotel in 15 minutes and went to my room. I kept my bag on the beg, washed my face and the went to Sonali's room. Unnati opened the door. I went in and Sonali came up with her list of questions! And the first obvious question was "Where I had been all this time?"