THE REVOLUTIONISTS

Chapter Two

They called themselves 'The Revolutionists''. Vijay was one of them. He explained me some of these in last few days. My head was having a hard time wrapping these all.

Vijay was on that train because he had to make sure everything was on schedule and as planned. All was well until he met me. He decided to save my life and kidnapped me. The situation became more complicated when he brought me to him home. People started asking questions. And that was not good news. If they knew who I was they would probably kill me. So, I'm Vijay's 'childhood friend'.

Uncle ji was the leader of their clan. Vijay didn't know about me much, so I had no idea how he introduced me to them.

I was an engineering student. I couldn't study further after my graduation for financial problems. My mother died when I was 6 or 7 years old; and in my final year of my college, dad passed away too. Luckily, I was picked up in the counseling process during my last semester. I used to work as a software engineer trainee at Informatica.

Vijay disappeared for the next couple of days; he was quite busy with his schedule. In these two days I recovered a lot, I felt like nothing happened at all.

I talked to Atreyee more. We were getting along together very well. But I was very surprised to see that she had no complain about Vijay; though his work involved killing people.

- At least he fights for the people who can't fight themselves. He has the guts to fight and stay in the right path while the whole society is being infested.' She said.

- How is it right if they are killing innocent lives to fulfill their purpose?' I asked.

- It doesn't matter if the cause is true and honest.' She took a breath. 'Do you have any idea how the voracity is taking over the youth's? Someone has to fight against all these.'

I couldn't argue any further. I had no words to convince her that their path was not a sacred one. She was too stiff to understand that. But maybe someday they will listen to me.

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Atreyee knew a lot of things. She told me how 'The Revolutionists' got rid of their former leader, who was obsessed with money and was involved with smugglers, poachers. So, they replaced him.

Their soul motto was to reduce corruption from the society. And the last train explosion was a warning to the authority; who were responsible for the grand price rise around the country. The farmers weren't making enough money for their living; and making a life out of harvesting was becoming a nightmare day by day. The brokers were refusing to pay them enough; they couldn't even sell their own products in the open market. The whole market was controlled by the brokers; and when the money gets into the wrong hands, it leads them to torture the needy people and make profit from their sufferings. But the Government was ignorant about all these stuff. They were only interested in the vote bank. Farmers had no choice but to commit suicide; and lots of them had fallen into these traps.

I was wondering, if she had so much to say; then what would Vijay say if we ever start discussing this. He could probably go hours and hours.

My favorite thing was to take a walk into the woods. It was great stretching my legs once in a while. But this time I went too far. The thoughts of how beautiful that place was leaded me to an unfamiliar place; I got lost. And surprisingly I found that Uncle ji. He saw me standing around that place, and came towards me. What was he doing in there?

- Hey, you. You are that friend of Vijay, right?' He asked. 'What was your name again? Prateek, right?'

- Yes... How are you?