The Black Magic Bully

The Confrontation

It was only a few minutes till Raghav entered my room and sure enough Kirti was with me at the time, I tried to tell him I didn't feel like coming, but it was no use, as I had forgotten to tell Kirti that I wasn't fully ready to implement Aditya's plan. I went in with Raghav.

As I got to Raghav's room about 15 yards down the hall.

"What is it?", "That 5000 rupees the master wants", I continued. "I know how to get that; I just pretend my book are lost, and that I need money to repurchase them". Raghav slightly nodded.

"Get the money when you can", he answered. "I was gonna ask you about Harshita", Raghav answered with a half fake gleam in his eyes.

"What is up with you knowing fortune 500 businessmen and top-level scientists and being too shy to call your own crush, call her right now on your own phone".

Raghav had no choice, he whipped out his iPhone 5 and called Harshita on the number I gave him, and called Harshita twice. She didn't answer.

"Harshita is not picking up the phone", complained Raghav.

"It's almost midnight, can't you guess she might be sleeping now", I told him. "be patient and call tomorrow".

"Let me try on your phone", he asked. At the very moment, I remembered what I had messaged to his crush. I thought of refusing, as he was liable to find out that I had told the girl he likes that he is a criminal. I wouldn't fight him, Raghav was twice my size, plus, it would make it that much too obvious that something was up. I let him have my phone after I told me that it had ran out of balance, he gave me 10 rupees of balance by Paytm before I out it in his hand. He called Harshita again.

This time, she cut the call herself.

Raghav called her again, and when the same thing happened, he said "you sent those nice messages about me to her didn't you". I couldn't risk starting a fight I let Raghav see them.

Raghav quickly got to the text I had given Harshita. He furrowed his brow in annoyance, as he saw I had sent a similar text exposing his criminality to a few others.

"I told you to tell no one about this!", he stated, "why did you just tell everyone!?".

"You said we both would die if I did this!", I responded. "how come we're both still alive!?".

"That is because you broke out of the contract", responded Raghav. "If you were still in the contract you would be dead by now".

I sat in silence for a moment.

"Well since I am not dead, I guess I didn't need to give you that 5000 rupees for the master".

"I don't want to be cruel, Raghav answered, but I don't think we will be friends after this".

"That's fine", I answered back.

And left the room.

I went straight upstairs, and called all the guys at room 454, with whom I had made the plan, telling them that it failed, and that they all needed to get on the first floor where mine and Raghav's rooms were immediately.

"This is an emergency, we need to get down right now", I told them.

They all agreed, all 12 of them agreed to walk down the four flights of stairs to mine and Raghav's floor.

I retrieved one of my phones from my room. And turned on the finely tuned recording function as I put it in one of my pockets and wrapped my jacket around my waist to conceal its bulge in my pockets. Kirti was also called. I later learned that he too had turned on the recorder in his phone and hid it in his jacket, inside the room.