Chapter 3

She was thinking hard, there was something she was forgetting in her list, was it to buy something or paying some urgent bills...she was raking her brains to find it and just then she bumped into something....she looked down to find a man lying in a pool of blood and then her mind suddenly went thinking into different tangents. Was she imagining this? Or is it real? Should she touch him? Is he dead? Which number to dial for the cops? Should she even get into this? Should she ignore and walk off like other chickens do? What??!!!

She gradually calmed herself down. She gave a second hard look at this guy. He was dressed well. He was wearing a coat and the white shirt he wore was soaked in his blood and the black pants thought didnt show the blood loudly enough still was soaked in glistening blood. There was blood everywhere on the road. She bent down to touch him. He didnt seem to move and didnt make any noise either. She checked for a pulse, and yes she found it bleak. She dialled the 101 first for the ambulance and then dialled the cops. They requested her to be with the person till they arrived and keep talking to him.

Wait with a strange person lying in blood and not know if his killers are gonna come back for reassurance. She looked around, she didnt see a single soul in the neighbourhood. She called home and told her live-in friend, Asben about her situation. He offered to come down to the place immediately. So she waited for him to arrive and till then she kept asking questions to the person who she was sure was dazzed by now. There was no reply from him for any of the questions she asked. Why is the ambulance taking so long? and where are the cops?, she wondered. Are they planning to be there after he is dead, just like in the movies?.....Just then her friend arrives.

Asben was her friend from office and they shared a room for economical reasons. They got along well with each other and neither of them had any wierd or strange habits to handle so it was a peaceful existence for both of them and it taxed their purse even lesser.

Asben was apprehensive of waiting at the scene of the crime till the cops arrive and tried to talk her out of it. He was more worried about the way the cops treat witnesses as criminals. And he hated the long interrogations they carried on with. So as he was trying his best to get her out of there, the ambulance arrived and the personnels took a look at him and thought he had a chance to live. But they wanted his FIR to be filed first for them to take him to the hospital and for that they had to wait for the cops to accompany them to the hospital. So they all waited this time for the cops, Ashmi was hungry now more because of all the actions happening around her. The cops arrived 15mins after the call, so much for their immediate help, she thought.

They asked her a couple of questions and asked her about Asben. And they left with the ambulance but with a note to her that she would be needed tomorrow at the station at 11am for interrogation in this case. They assured her that it would be done fast and they would releive her within 15mins.