THE CHASE

CH#1:"PICK UP"

I was blank. Completely blank.
I didn't remember a thing that happened. It looked like as if someone had wiped off my memory. I looked around with confusion and shock. "What do you remember?" A man with crimson long hair stood in front of me.
"Who are you?" I spoke slowly wording out each syllable slowly. I was exhausted. I felt as if I had slept for years and woken up to see a man questioning me what I remembered...
"I am a person who is here to help you. My name is NICOLE NICOLAS, L.A.P.D"
I gave a little smile after listening the name as it sounded like two people but then I almost collapsed hearing the later.
"Wha-what have I done?"
"You have done nothing, I suppose but the problem is that the whole Police community is thinking that you are a guilty terrorist."
"I am...a terrorist? That is news!" I said almost collapsing off the wooden chair I was seated on.
"That is why I am asking you, what is going on?" The man asked speaking the last part of his sentence slowly.
"How should I know? I don't even know what I have done." I said pretty frankly.
The officer blinked twice and then looked at his friendly officers with desperate look and finally looked back at me.
"Okay...okay...what-is- the-last-thing-you remember?" The officer spoke out slowly as if I was deaf.
"The last thing... It was some picture... On some slip of paper... Looked like a slip of note. Some picture of some guy a person had. I don't know...umm... Who was he?? Ahh... The guy on the slip looked quite older." I said as I tried to remember.
"Well...unique! Can you sketch the person whose picture you saw?" The man asked.
"Not so well. Umm..." As I was trying to remember, a saw a little frame behind the man, on the wall.
"Excuse me..." I told the man giving him a little shove aside.
The frame got clearer. It was an old person's photo on the frame.
"What?" The officer asked intrigued.
"He." I pointed at the picture.
The officer looked at the frame and looked back at me and asked,"He was the man you saw on the slip of paper?" He made a confused expression.
"Yes, him! Is he so famous? You keep his photo frames. Wow"
"That is George Washington." He said pointing at the photo frame.
"God's sake. You are still drunk. So, you mean to say that you just saw a money slip, right?" The officer asked angrily.
"Wait, I thought it was some 'Missing poster'. That is the word?" I asked blinking confusingly." The officer made an 'I am fed up of you' expression and said,"So, all you remember was having a money note slip or whatever you call it, with you?"
"Yes." I smiled.
"Whom did you give it to?" The officer asked lowering himself towards me.
"Whom? I kept it, of course!" I smiled again.
"You have it now, right? Show it to us." The officer said pulling himself back up from his lean position.
"I... Lost it." I smiled a third time and the officer didn't seem happy to see it.
"How? What?" The officer cried angrily.
"What what? Someone left the stove on. Not my fault."
"What do you mean left the stove on? Where did the stove come from?"
"Oh god.. someone left a stove on maybe which caused the fire or bomb blast or whatever. In that blast, I lost the guy." I explained quite impatiently.
"What? Which guy?" The officer looked like a Psyduck to me now.
"The guy! The guy behind you!" I cried with impatience.
The officer looked behind as if it were some horror movie and then sighed,"Oh yeah... So you mean to say that you lost George Washington aka the Note, right?"
"Finally, you did get it." I gave little sigh.
"How much did you even drink yesterday? You are the most drunk person I have ever seen." The officer said pulling a chair for himself. "That is none of your business officer. Go catch the guy who left the stove on or else I really hate negotiating."

"This is not about any stove, sir. It is according to the reports that it is a planned murder and you are sir the only member alive of the club right now. As in the only survivor. It is actually pretty impossible that a normal human survives such a blast and that is why the judiciary blames you that you have some mastery behind this case and you have cleverly enough survived. So, for the time being, you are our suspect and we will have to arrest you.""I am sorry, sir." The officer explained.
I blinked at each of the present officers one by one and then scratched my eyebrow a little.
"Am I really a terrorist or you people are just taking advantage of me being drunk?" I almost spit while saying that.
"No, sir. The proofs that we have been given proves that you are a worthy suspect."
I looked at him with a shrinked eye. My expression was like,"What?"
"So, I need you to surrender yourself to us for the time being."
I was blank. Completely blank.
Nicole pulled out handcuffs off his pocket and was about to strap them over my wrists when a huge flashbang blinded me. Someone threw a flash grenade followed by a smoke grenade. The room got filled with smoke and FLASHBANG noises and I could hear almost nothing neither see any of the officers. A hand came out of nowhere and put a mask over my mouth. The hand pulled me out of the chair I was seated on and pulled me towards the window.
"You gotta jump!" The man who had pulled me off told me. He wore a mask and was of my height. His eyes and hair was covered by an AFGHANI SCARF.
"Who the hell are you?" I asked loudly still trying to get rid of the flash effect on my ear.
"No time to explain, just jump off." He told.
"Why should I listen to you?" I asked again loudly.
"God... just do it!" He screamed making a face of disapproval and pushed me off the window.
The earth became circular to oval and as I landed, the world went black.
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If you are enjoying this mystery/thriller atmosphere then you gotta just wait for the next day for CH#2. It will release soon and till you wait, why don't you discover the latest writers, beginners of WATTPAD? Go check out AarushGadanayak and the latest story he is writing. Hope you will like it. Till I am back, stay safe, take care and keep reading, THE CHASE!
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