Road Not Taken ✔

Chapter 3

Its been 10 days since my results came and Divya and I have decided to visit our favourite ice cream parlor because it is second last day of our holidays and after that for next two days we will be very busy with our studies. Ice cream palor is half an hour away from my house  . Divya will come to pick me up from my house at 5:30 pm and it is already 5 in the clock so, I need to hurry up and get ready in time . At exact 5:30 pm Divya comes home and we are ready to go. We leave by 5:40 pm on Divya's scooty and reach to the ice cream parlor at 6:10 pm. Divya orders Vanilla Strawberry sundae and I settle for chocolate Blackcurrent cone . We both were busy chit chatting and didn't realize how the time passed and it was already 6:45 pm. I asked Divya to go home as it was getting dark . We cleared the bill and drove the scooty towards my home . Divya was driving and I was sitting  behind Divya .

Abruptly we heard a loud pop sound . Argh....tyre of the scooty got punctured . I gave Divya a glare and she gave me " not my fault" look. So, we are struck in the middle of road with no one around. Street lights are flickering and dogs are barking at us like we are thieves . Divya calls her dad for help.Anuj uncle(Divya's dad) assures us that he will be here in 10 minutes .Ok.... then Just 10 minutes then we will go home I internally assured  myself.

Divya is listening to some songs from her mobile with her ear phones on while I am looking up at the stars. Suddenly we hear honk of a car and due to the bright glare of the car headlights we could not see the car clearly but we thought it was Anuj Uncle's car so we ran towards it but as we reached near the car we realised that this was not Anuj's uncle car. We decided to quickly to go back where the scooty was parked but suddenly someone slides the window down. The man sitting in the window seat blows a whistle towards us while the other man sitting in the driving seat winks at us. Argh....so these are basically eve teasers sitting in a high class car .

Divya and I look at each other communicating through our eyes and within a split second we decided to run back to the scooty. We are running like crazy and I guess if I ran like that in a race I would probably secure a gold. I hope these goons are not following us but to my horror they are right behind us. Divya and I reach the spot where the punctured scooty was parked .

The goons were grinning like those villains in movies and we were helpless . I wish someone rescue us from this situation like those movie scenes in which a hero saves his heroine but this is real life and nothing such happens in reality. I am shivering with fear while Divya has become a rock statue.

The goons are just few inches apart from Divya while I am trebling near the scooty. Suddenly it strikes me that Divya keeps a pepper pray in her scooty for safety. I quickly open the seat of  scooty and take  out the pepper spray , the goons are baffled but before they got any clue I sprayed  the pepper spray in their eyes . They screamed as their eyes were burning. They ran as if they were chased by crocodiles. They tried to run away in their car  but they rammed into a tree as they were nearly blinded by the pepper spray.

A police phantom car which was on its regular patrolling stopped seeing the wrecked car front and when the goons were being arrested , Anuj Uncle came and he got to know what had happened . He got late due to traffic jam on his way and he could not come to pick us within 10 minutes . He assured us that we both were safe and took us home .

When I got home mom scolded me . She told me that it was our fault because we were outside after dark. It was our fault that we  were returning home late. Ok....I admit that we lost track of time in chit chatting and got late. But was it solely our fault, I mean  the scooty got punctured otherwise we would have reached home on time. Secondly , Anuj Uncle got struck in traffic otherwise we would have reached home without any trouble. Thirdly, those eve teasers were at fault who were eve teasing us.

I am thinking what will my mom say if I again get struck in similar situation after becoming a doctor . Will she blame me for being late or will she be proud of me for being on duty till late night. It is funny how adults can be ironical in their own principles and opinions according to their mindset and convenience.

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