AGNI

Chapter 2 - My Stranger...

Lee's Cafe:

"Haan ji Mumma" she replied as her mother spoke on the phone "Ji" she nodded giving a bored expression.

Her eyes met his and her blood boiled "Kon woh gadha? (That Donkey?)" Sanskar smirked as she continued "He's not a baby anymore, he is completely capable enough to take care of himself!"

He nodded as she shook her head "Fine! I'll see what I can do" she exclaimed bored again and now he started ringing the bell annoying her more.

"It's some makki bhin bhinaing around me since a week" she replied to her mother making him frown "Anything is better then a makkhi dude!"

She twisted her lips but then chuckled "That donkey brother can do nothing, boys are just useless. I can handle this makkhi myself!" Sanskar stuck his tongue out.

"Okay, now bye!" she cut the call off and gave him a token. He gazed around "Every table's empty and yet you give me the farthest one? Why baby why?"

She leaned on her desk with anger "First of all, I'm not a BABY!" he covered his ear as she stood back straight and continued "Either that table or no table, choice is yours Makkhi!"

He grabbed the token and walked away as her lips curved up "Is it just the case and me or does it include a third person, say a person whose name starts with an R and ends with an I?"

He gave her a straight look "Shut up! and do your work okay?" and he walked away.

The fifteen missed calls on her cell phone went unnoticed but the high pitched scream grabbed both their attention, she trembled in fear as he ran past her.

Sweat beads formed on her forehead as she tried to breathe, he rushed in his right hand on his gun but someone dashed into him. He held her as she hid her face in his chest "Please help" her voice laced in fear "there... "

He caressed her hair and gave her a moment but then separated her, his hands on her shoulders as he asked "Where?"

Ragini was shivering "The cold storage, he looked all pale and .... and he jumped in me from no where. I... "

"Shh... You stay here, I'll have a look okay?" she grabbed his hands "No" she shook her head "Please... don't leave me here alone. What .... what if he comes here."

"But if I don't go now, he might run away" he exclaimed and but she was in a denial mode "No! I can't stay here alone please... "

"I'm right here" Aira exclaimed holding onto her "Officer you can do your work."

Her grip on him loosened as she now hugged Aira tightly who consoled her "Shh.... Baby, it's not him."

The other words became indistinct for Sanskar who turned towards the cold storage, the gun now in his hand as he slowly pushed the door open the person suddenly fell over him with a gun in their hand.

Gun shots were heard and both the girls got alert "We need to go, he's alone." 

The sudden change in Ragini's attitude shook Aira as Ragini rushed the same way Sanskar did "Are you really the same Ragini that I know?" she wondered following her.

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The dead body was covered in white and taken out, Aira frowned as Sanskar pulled her along "I'm putting a harassment case on you officer!"

"Yea sure, once I complete this case I myself will write the FIR. I badly need a vacation!"

Ragini stared at him confused "In a jail?"