chapter 6

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Izhaan's POV

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I sighed deeply and exited the court room. I spoke non-stop for hours, and I have been standing for so long, to say I was tired would be an understatement. To be honest I was mentally exhausted more than physically

I stopped to have a talk with my client, after assuring him that everything was on our side, i turned to leave when I saw Kabir walking towards me

"That was some good arguments" he complimented, I chuckled

"Thank you sir" I saluted dramatically

"Where are you going now?"

"To office" i shrugged

"Have you got five minutes to spare?" He asked getting serious

"Yeah! Tell me" I said, he took out his phone and showed me some CCTV footage, it was about the case he was handling right now

"Something seems a little off in this, but I really can't put my finger on it, what do you think?" He passed his phone to me, I looked at the video once, twice, thrice. I exhaled heavily

"Oh! I get it" finally finding the odds in the footage, I explained to him

"Goodness! How could I not see it? You really have an eagle's vision. Amazing" he patted my shoulder lightly

"Thanks" I returned his phone to him. "I'll take your leave now, the hearing of your case starts in fifteen minutes" i reminded him

"Yeah. Let's go clubbing this weekend, it's been a little while"

"Sure. Make a plan and let me know" I said

After talking for another minute we both went our separate ways.

I stopped when I saw inspector shaurya standing, he was talking on the phone but when he saw me approaching he hung up

"All well?" I asked

"Not really! My wife is angry at me. She said that I don't have time for her and I am always just busy with work" he face palmed himself, I laughed

"That's quite sad" I joked

Inspector shaurya and I are a kind of team, we both have helped each other a lot in resolving cases. We honestly make a good team.

"Are you heading to office now?" He asked

"Yeah"

"You remember our coffee is long due, let's go catch up over a cup of coffee, I need a shoulder to cry on right now" we both laughed at his terrible joke

"So, shall we?" He asked

I took a moment to think if I had any important work, my schedule of the day looked pretty clear for now

"Yes! Sure"

"Great" he beamed

"Let's go in my car" I walked towards my car, he followed me

We both settled in the car and I began driving. There was a silence of a few minutes in the car, then he spoke

"I'm quite positive that the court will give his verdict by the next hearing"

"Let's hope it is in our favour" I said maneuvering the car in the fast lane, he let out a chuckle

"Of course. You are so good at your arguments and in proving your point, the verdict "will" be in your favour"

"It's not about my argument, my point proving or anything about me. I just don't want any innocent life to suffer and that's all I try"

"You are too honest and truthful to be an advocate" I just laughed it off.

His phone rang, he answered.

"Inspector Shaurya Sehgal" he spoke, then he was silent for a while. "Ok" he said then again he fell silent "which school?" He asked and that got my attention

School? Whatever the call was about it involved kids, I hope everything is fine.

"I'll be there soon, don't worry" he said and hung up.

"Is everything ok?" I asked

"We will have to reschedule our coffee meeting, I have to go to the school"

"School? Why?"

"There's some stupid girl creating a big scene infront of the school, she even got the kids involved, the principal just called, he was going crazy"

"A girl is causing a drama? What does she want with the kids?"

"Some protest. I will find out more about it once I reach there. You drop me here, I'll take a cab" he said

"I will drop you"

"Are you sure?"

"Yup. Which school?"

He gave me the address and I drove towards the direction. It was not really far from where we were

"What will you do with kids?" I asked

"Nothing. They are just kids, what can I do with them, I will just probably arrest the girl and take her to the police station."

"Yeah that would be the right thing to do"

Soon we reached, I stopped the car, and looked outside. I saw a large group gathered outside the school. Whoever that girl is, surely knows how to create a scene

"Thanks man" he said while getting off, I also got down to see him off

"No problem" I said and shook hands with him. He nodded and disappeared in the crowd

I wondered what was the protest about, curiosity got the best of me, and I found myself looking around.

I saw a few kids holding up a cardboard "SAY NO TO HOMEWORK" was written on it.

What? Homework? Seriously?

I saw a girl with a few kids standing on the roof of the car, that is so dangerous. What if any kid fall from there?

A large number of school students were gathered around the car, a few helpless people were staring at the girl, i assumed it was the staff of the school

How people can be so silly? I wondered. I turned my back to leave from there, I opened the door of my car and was about to sit when I heard a voice

"WE WONT STOP TILL YOU DONT FULFILL OUR DEMAND" a familiar voice rang, I stopped and turned around

Oh please no! I hope it's not who I think it is.

I stood on my toes to get a clear glimpse of the girl who was creating a chaos. Anger ran in my body when my suspicion was confirmed, it was really her.

She had a megaphone in her hand and speaking through it. She was so loud, I was sure that her voice could be heard even from miles away

Has this girl taken an oath to embarrass me? I should just go from here and let her rot in jail. But what will happen if my family finds out

"YOU PEOPLE ARE KILLING THEIR INNOCENT CHILDHOOD AND CALLING ME WRONG? COME ON KIDS, EVERYONE SHOUT WITH ME" she said then all of them started shouting "no homework. No homework"

I made my way to the problematic girl through the crowd. I came face to face with shaurya, he was speaking with a very worried looking guy, he was the principal perhaps

"Sir please stop her, she is destroying the name of my school" he practically begged

"Don't worry sir, I am calling some female constable to arrest her" shaurya spoke, I panicked hearing him

He took out his phone and was about to call someone when I ran and stopped him

"Please don't" I said, he looked at me with a big frown on his face

"Izhaan? What happened?" He asked, I took him away from the earshot of the principal

"Don't get her arrested please" I pleaded

"Why? Do you know her?" He asked

"Unfortunately yes. I know it's a huge favour I'm asking but let her go, please"

"Look Izhaan! I have to stop this chaos, and that will only happen if she stops" he said with a sigh

"I will take her away from here, right now. Just don't press any charges"

"She must be someone important for you, because the Izhaan I know, would not put his morals down for someone random. Take her away, I will handle the situation"

"Thanks dude! I owe you big time" I muttered and turned around quickly

I went near the car she was standing, non stop she was speaking on the megaphone. When I reached there I held her leg, she looked down at me, her eyes widened in shock

"Izhaan!" She spoke, but she forgot that the megaphone was still near her mouth, my name roared and now everyone was looking at me, i felt embarrassed

"Get down" I said, I raised myself and snatched the megaphone from her hand

"I can't! I'm helping these kids" she said shaking her head

I was so mad at her, without caring about anyone, I held her and slided her down from the car, she kept on shouting, but I didn't listen.

I helped the kids get down the car, once the roof of the car was empty, I turned around and held her hand.

"What is your problem?" She screamed, I dragged her from there, I looked at Shaurya, he nodded at me

Once we were away from the scene, I left her hand.

"Are you crazy? What the hell were you doing?" I shouted

"I was helping those poor kids" she crossed her hands at her chest, "I don't know why you had to stop me"

"Helping? You call this helping? How stupid can you get? Why did you have to get involved yourself in such a situation, I don't understand" I was seeing red

"You only said do something productive and now when I am doing you have problem with that also" she said, I scoffed

"You think this was productive?"

"Yes! Of course! It was! Schools these days are burdening kids with homework, they don't have time to play or watch their favourite cartoon. This is injustice"

"Injustice? I don't believe it, I never knew you were so stupid."

"I am not stupid, you are insensitive. How can you not see that these innocent children are loosing their childhood because of unnecessary burden. Someone has to raise a voice against this wrong doing, and i would gladly be that someone"

"Stop testing my patience. I am tired of your childhood behaviour. I'm warning you, mend your ways before I do something I don't want to do."

"I'm not scared of you" she looked straight in my eyes.

"I have not done anything to make you scared of me, yet. But that doesn't mean I can't" I gave her my best death glare, there was a momentarily fear in her eyes, but it disappeared as soon as it came.

"Whatever" she said with an attitude and then walked away

"I'm watching you" I shouted

She turned around and flipped me off, I clenched my fist in anger. She sat in her car and drove off.

So ill-mannered. There is nothing good about her? My patience is really hanging on a thread right now.

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Ayesha's POV

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It was my day two at the office. Yesterday it was quite eventful. It was 9:30 when I entered the office. I met the devil's secretary, her name was Rose, she is the sweetest person I've met in this office so far, I've spent a lot of time with her yesterday after I was thrown out

"Good morning sweety" she said when she saw me

"Good morning" I smiled, she gestured me to go in the office.

I knocked on the door

"Enter" he said. I opened the door and entered.

"Good morning Mr Khan" I said cheerfully, he looked up at me, then he looked at the wall clock

"You are late" he said glaring at me

"No I'm not. Yesterday I came at 10" I made it clear

"Office time starts at 9 o'clock, you were late yesterday, you are late today" he stood up and walked towards me.

"Oh ok ok. So what work do I have to do today?" I asked totally ignoring the topic of me coming late

"500" he said

"Huh?" She asked

"Today you will write 500 times, that you will never come late"

"But I have not come late today, Mr Khan. I have come early" I stood my ground

"1000" he said

"This is extremely stupid and childish. How big your ego is that it is not letting you see that I am NOT late today" i walked right up to him in anger, we were just a few inches apart

"5000" he said.

"Ahhhh" I raised my hands, as if I was going to strangle him, but put my hands down and stomped my foot

"Fine" I said and picked up a few papers from his table, "but I will only write 500 times" I said pointing a finger at him. He didn't say anything, and just returned to his chair

I sat and began writing. I don't understand how this will help me in getting the degree, this idiot person is taking advantage of my situation.

God knows what he wants from me.

I completed writing 500 times, I looked up at him, he had some files open in front of him, he was reading intently. I threw the sheets towards him, there were total three sheets, two stopped in front of him while one fell on his lap

Without moving his head, he looked up at me. I leaned back on the chair.

"Done" I said while moving side to side on the revolving chair.

He was quiet, and he just kept staring at me, there was no emotion on his face.

A few things I noticed about Mr Khan are that he talks very less, and he is very authoritative and he likes to intimidate everyone. But none of his charm works on me, I take no shit from him

After a long wait and blank staring when he still didn't say anything, I spoke

"Low on energy? Should I get you coffee?" I asked laughing loudly, his lips formed a little pout and he narrowed his eyes at me

I remembered the yesterday incident and my laughter increased. He got up from his chair and went towards the large rack where a countless numbers of file were kept

He looked at me and smirked. He slided his arm around the files and they all fell with a loud noise. My laughter died and I got up from the chair

Shelf by shelf he threw all the files down, I gasped and looked at him in disbelief. What the hell is he doing?

After he was done creating a huge mess, he returned to his seat, he sat comfortably on his chair.

"Why stopped laughing? Not funny?" He raised an eyebrow at me.

"Why did you do that?" I asked

"Pick up all the files, arrange them in alphabetical order and put them back" he said

"What?" I asked not believing what he said

"You heard me. I was pretty loud and clear"

"Do you really want me to arrange all these files? Alphabetically?" I asked staring at the mountain of files

"Are you deaf? How many times do I have to repeat myself?"

"I will not do it.  Why are you making me do all the stupid work possible? What will I learn with it? This is not a part of my job." I screamed at the top of my lungs, I lost the last ounce of patience, I ran towards the file and kicked them in anger

"I will not arrange these" I was furious

I don't know how it happened, but one second he was sitting on the chair and on the next he had me pinning against a wall, and his face was dangerously close to mine

"What do you think of yourself? Nobody talks like that to me. You better treat me with respect" he said angrily

"If you want my respect you will have to earn it, behaving like a jerk won't make you any respectable" I retorted

He tightened his grip on my arm so much, that it started to hurt.

"You have not even seen a jerk side of me till now. Now zip up your mouth and get to work"

"Ah you are hurting me" I yelped, but instead of leaving my arm, his grip tightened even more

"I don't care. Do your work"

"But this is not my work" I snapped at him, he pressed my back on the wall a little more

"I will decide what your work is. I'm telling you for the last time, stop defying me. You won't like the consequence" his  face was so close that I could feel his breath falling on my cheek.

He left my arm and pulled back. My hands immediately shot up to rub my arms, it was hurting. I cannot lie, this side of him intimidated me a little.

I turned towards the file and started sorting them out. It took me an entire day to get things in order.

As the impact of his proximity wore off, my wittiness was back again. Every time he said something nasty I would snap at him.

The day went by. And by the day end of it, I was so tired. I reached home and just went straight to bed.

Next day I was late again and again he made me write, this time 1000 times. It kept happening for the whole week.

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