WITHERING ROSES

Adrenaline

5:53 AM
We went to a tea shop around 50 meters away from the back entrance of the park. The sun had not come up yet. Could she still come? What if she did? I kept looking back every time I took a step, expecting her to be there, anywhere my eyes could see. We reached the tea shop. I didn't know if I would ever feel like going to the park again. I sat facing the road opposite to the park. In order to reach the park, one had to head right after exiting the rear entrance of the park and take the first left and walk about 50 mts. From the front entrance? It was a straight road. Catherine didn't talk. I ordered a lemon tea and asked her what she wanted. She straight up asked for an oreo shake.

"I'm sorry what?!"
"I said I want an oreo shake."
"this *waves dramatically at the shop* is a tea shop!"
"ok?"
"this *laughs* isn't starbucks, the chef doesn't even know the spelling of latte...... or coffee."
"so um... what's nice here?"
"basically everything. You could try a tea with butter biscuits, it tastes nice."
"ok then. I'll have that. And uh... what are these things?*points to a tray filled with a type of fried snack*"
"oh they're amazing you should totally try those!"
"yeah but, what're they called?"
"to be honest......*eyes wide*"
"*eyes wide*????"
"I don't know*laughs*"
"what the*laughs*"
"yeah I'm serious. I don't know what they are but they taste really great!!*Laughs*"
"ok I'll have one*laughs more*"
    So we ordered a lemon tea, a normal tea with butter biscuits and two of those pointy spiky tasty things that I don't know the name of(till date)...... till date(yeah). As soon as Catherine took a bite of it

"OMG THESE ARE AMAZING!!!"
"woah what the.. calm down Catherine."
"OMG THESE ARE AMAZING!!*crazy look*"
"you haven't even tasted the real south Indian food yet*laughs*"

         She looked behind me for a moment, paused and then spoke again.

"I thought india was a backward country."
"some parts are. Why?"
"I see a lot of BBC."
"News always focuses on misery Catherine, good for business. Humans like suffering just to know how good they're living compared to the sufferers. Well what made you think otherwise?*laughs*"

     She pointed behind me, I looked back. She was pointing at a mini cooper coming from the parks main entrance.

"yeeaahh, lots of high end cars here. Plenty rich people actually."
"hmhmm."

    The car went past us. That's when I saw it's number plate. That's when I realized.

"shit that's a fucking mini cooper..."