Pride vs Prejudice

Chapter 12

"Look over here. You go there" one of the goons instructed others. He, it seemed, was clearly the leader of the group.

Ria's phone buzzed again. Great! Her mom was just not going to stop calling until she responded one way or the other. Worse, she would get her Dad and Lav on her case in a short while.

Ria quickly responded with a 'Can't talk to you right now' message. She wasn't hopeful, but she had to try something. The goons were the priority right now.

Her phone buzzed again. This time a message 'Why not? Where are you?'

Ria looked over at Shiv. He was rubbing his forehead with his fingers. Well he wasn't the only one who was feeling a headache come over. Ria was sure she was going to get a migrare because of this. If not a stroke!

'I am in the bathroom' Ria finally messaged, just to get it over with

'Why? Are you not well? Do you have upset stomach? Diarrhea?' came the response

She was not going to respond to this. There was going to be no right answer to this. And quite frankly, right now she wished she had the diarrhea. It was have saved her from being here!

The branch she was sitting on shook a bit and she looked around. She saw Shiv standing on it. What the hell was he doing now? Had he lost his mind?

Before she knew it, he had pulled out his phone and thrown it away at a distance.

Okay! The boy had lost his head! She was sure now. That is if he had one ever. She could get that he was pissed because of her phone ringing, but throwing his phone away was plain crazy!

Shiv sat back down on the branch again and looked at her and then at her phone.

Oh no! He wasn't getting her phone as well. She tried to hold it closer to herself, but Shiv leapt at her and pulled it out forcefully. 

She looked at him annoyed. The idiot had hurt her wrist in the process.

Shiv tried to open the phone. It was locked. Served him right! Ria thought. He looked at her in anger and pointed at the home button. She shook her head. She wasn't going to help him unlock it.

He gave her an angry look. She was sure that if he could speak, he would have grunted. He pulled her hand, even as she struggled to pull it back, and pressed her thumb on the home button, unlocking the iPhone.

She was about to scream at him, completely forgetting the goons, but he closed her mouth while gritting his teeth. She bit his hand. If she could not talk, she could still bite. Served him right for snatching her phone!

He pulled his hand back, throwing her an angry look before he went back to the phone.

Her message with her mom popped up as her mom went on a messaging spree. Oh god! This wasn't happening! She wished this would just be a silly nightmare that she would wake up from. But the smirk on Shiv's face told her it was all real.

Shiv closed the messages and dialed a number. A phone rang in the distance. Ria was confused. She realized he was now calling his own phone. What was he doing?

"I can hear something" one of the goons called out "Out here!" he yelled to the others

He rushed back with the phone towards his leader, who was standing a few meters away from the tree that Ria and Shiv were hiding in.

"I found this phone. That is what you must have heard a while back" he said to one of the others

"It must belong to those two. They must be around" the leader said