Vihaan and Mr.X
[ Part 1 : http://agentbhv.blogspot.in/2014/07/vihaan-in-and-as-vicky-jasoos.html ]Two days later. Saturday. Another bright summer morning...
At around 10:30am, Ojas's phone vibrates and he picks up the call to answer Vihaan, "Ya go on."
"Where are you?" whispers Vihaan.
"I'm home. Where are you and why are you whispering?" asks Ojas in a low voice.
"I'm home too. Come over in five minutes. Very urgent. Bye!"
"No no wait..." and even before he could say that he might need some more time to show up, Vihaan cuts the call.
Since Vihaan was in his home, Ojas understands that he was fine, but still reaches his place in ten minutes. "Where is Vihaan aunty?" asks Ojas.
"In his room. Don't know what he has been doing there at his window, but he is there since morning!"
"I will find out aunty" and Ojas goes in to find Vihaan scribbling something on his notepad. "So, what is it now?"
"Ah, you are right on time. The suspicious guy i told you, is here. See" and Vihaan points out to a man, talking to someone on his mobile and standing outside the gift shop with a bag of stuffed toys. He seemed to be a man of about 30 to 32 years and is of average height and build, in a casual pair of jeans and t-shirt. Nothing seemed weird about him, but his face was a bit rough with unshaven beard and all, but that was totally ok too!
"Ya i see him. What is it now?"
"We should follow him"
"But why? Vihaan, he seems to be a normal guy like us. Let go of him and this madness now"
"You are coming with me or not?"
Ojas gives out a very angry look, which he actually was. But then, not to disappoint Mr.Stubborn Vihaan who would go alone if needed, decides to join him on this so call'ed spying-a-normal-guy thing! "How long?"
"I don't know, but lets start. He is leaving."
They go down. Get their bike and wait for this Mr.X to complete his phone call and start moving on his way. They follow him for around 10 mins, until he reaches a stationery shop. All this while, Ojas kept calm and drove behind Mr.X, while Vihaan kept his mind running and seemed very excited to be on an adventure of his own thinking. Ojas parks his bike on the opposite side of the road and they see Mr.X go towards the back of the shop from the small passage between this shop and the neighboring one. They wait without speaking a word to each other for almost 10 mins, when Mr.X finally comes out.
"He doesn't carry any extra luggage, right?" asks Vihaan.
"Nope. Only that bag of stuffed toys from earlier" answers Ojas.
Vihaan stays calm for a second and starts to feel foolish to have been doing this and troubling Ojas. Meanwhile, Mr.X starts his bike and rushes off, crossing Ojas and Vihaan.
"Ok, lets go home. I'm sorry for troubling you" says Vihaan calmly, looking away from Ojas.
"Hop on Vicky Jasoos, i have got something for you" and kick starts the bike in a jiffy and Vihaan not understanding anything, gets on the bike.
In not more than few seconds and without the need of his best driving skills, Ojas catches up with Mr.X's bike and looking the perplexed face of Vihaan, clarifies "Look at his shoes. He wasn't wearing shoes earlier, but now he does"
"And no one would forget their flip-flops and get in to shoes unknowingly, meaning something is happening!" concludes Vihaan and his face glows brighter than ever, for not being wrong up to some extent at least!
After following him for another 10 mins or so, into a certain colony which is neither at the heart nor at the remote parts of the city, they find Mr.X park his bike beside a pole near a building and go in to it. Ojas maintained some distance by parking it at the corner of the street. Vihaan got down and moved towards the building Mr.X entered. He didn't call or wait for Ojas, but Ojas followed calmly.
But when Vihaan was about to enter the building, which was a one storey old building with faded paint, rusted gate, dried plants on either sides of the 10 foot path way from the gate to the creepy door and lacked every kind of maintenance possible, Ojas stops him and asks, "Do we really need to go in?"
Nods Vihaan. Opens the gate. Walks through the lawn to the posterior side of the building. Find a window. Checks if it is open and it was. Signals Ojas to be calm, by a finger on his lip and a silent whisper of 'shhh'.
Drags the window as slowly as possible and finds 3 people sitting on a table, with their backs towards the window and they being tuned to some work, seriously. With their back blocking the view, it became very difficult to derive something suspicious, but then, one guy drops a scissor from his hand and when he bends over to take it, Vihaan gets a glance of what they were doing!!
Vihaan takes his head back from the window slit and signals Ojas to leave. They come out calmly. Reach their bike. Move away.
After crossing the street, Ojas asks, "What happened? What did you see? Is anything wrong?"
"Yes. There is something wrong and i'm glad i was right!"
Ojas observes the pride in Vihaan's words. "So, what is it? What are we up to now?"
"Do you seriously want to know it all? Don't you want an element of surprise?" teases Vihaan!
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