THE SUBTLE CHASE-- A short story

It was just another sunday , i had my breakfast and got into my bike ( a pulsar 220cc) and drove towards my friend's house and just when i was crossing caf'e coffee day i lost my senses for a second. There was a very very beautiful girl standing at the entrance, awestruck i applied brakes and stopped a few paces ahead and she too started walking in the same direction . I slowly turned my head looking for her and she saw me too. [background music : kangal irandal...] but she wasnt smiling . she gave a queer expression ,there were two chances one was that she was in some kind of trouble and the other was that she didnt like me, the later seemed more probable to me. So I waited for her to pass me and then may be proceed to my friend's house.

Then suddenly someone sat on my bike and the most unexpected thing happened , it was her. i couldnt stop smiling, gently i brought my hand towards her and said, ' Hi Im gokul anand' and she replied 'just go' .not expecting this kind of a reply i said 'may i know ur name'. and , she replied with a bang on my head ' just go, these guys are trying to kidnap me' . that was enough for me , I gave my bike a full throttle and we were moving at 100 km/hr and the thugs were actually moving faster shortening the gap between us. There was a signal ahead and I had to choose a path from three. to the right was gomathipuram an area where i seldom roamed and in straight was my school and in furthur mattuthavani bus stand, so i had to choose between a left and straight path. As i neared the signal , i suddenly remembered that it wasnt my bike that i was riding and i didnt even have a license.

There was a traffic police to the left and so I raced in towards the bus stand, the thugs were even closer now. In this tense situation , I forgot to realise a thing... she was clutching so hard to me that there was hardly any gap between us, i smiled to myself [background music: partha mudhal..] . Now the bad guys were almost on me when i was a few yards from the bus stand. i had to do something extra-ordinary now, thought for a moment and steered my bike towards my right in a sharp curve to enter the bus stand . i drove inside honking everyone out of my way nudging into small gaps where i can find them, there was an exit at the other end which obviously the goons didnt know. Taking sharp turns i raced towards the exit, turning back i noticed that they werent chasing anymore, excited i shouted ," dai naa madurakaranda".

In the process i failed to notice a stone slab in front of me and bumped right into it. we both fell off the bike and quickly getting myself up , i gently forced my hand towards her and she grasped my hand at once and we were scampering at a brisk pace towards a safer place. With the situation more calmer now , i slowly glanced towards her , she was more beautiful than i first saw her, with her free hair dancing in her shoulders and her sweat like droplets of diamond were dripping onto her cheek.

There was a small street ahead with uncompleted houses on both side and we entered into one of the houses and i asked her ' atleast now you can tell me who you are' she replied ' im swetha, daughter of anil ambani' shocked i gulped and listened to her. ' i was on my way to kanyakumari as a part of college tour along with my friends and while crossing madurai these guys started chasing me in the station and eventually i missed my train and the rest happened with u, i cant imagine what i would have done without you' and she hugged me and i slowly moved my arms around her and at the same time i heard footsteps and it happened to be the chasers ofcourse.. [ vada pochey!!!]

They stopped a foot ahead of us like they always do in movies and commanded to hand over her. i gently pushed her aside telling her ' i can handle this , just watch '. Atlast it was time for some action, i had to think of some strategy first,.... may be like vijay ' Ah there is no place for comedy here' and then thought of jackie chan and bruce lee ; ' i neither knew karate nor kungu' and then it suddenly striked ' wat about sherlock holmes' i had watched the movie twice recently and i knew exactly wat i needed to do. the procedure neither required great strengths or martial arts... and then i rehearsed myself in my mind the following....'first distract the target , then block his blind swing, counter with blow to his left cheek, dazed he will attempt a wild hit, employ elbow block.. a kick in the ribs and fracture left jaw. The result : jaw fractured , diaphragm haemorrhaging, three ribs fractured. Physical recovery: six weeks.' all was set there were three guys and one stepped forward and i thought to myself ' lets do this one by one, follow the steps carefully'. took out my hanky and threw it on his face , then distracted he attempted a blind swing [..... it was happening as i had planned] i quickly shoved my left hand blocking his swing and proceeded to hit his cheek when everything came to an abrupt end.. the other two guys caught me like a cockroach and the other guy kicked me on the ribs .... i fell a foot away wondering to myself ' its not a tamil movie afterall',gasping for air i stood up wearily when swetha came and said ' let me finish this ', unconscious i fell down.

A scream woke me up still mostly unconscious , i slowly opened my eyes .The scream was from one of the guys, Swetha stood in a karate pose with anger masking her beautiful face. even at this time i couldnt stop admiring her beautiful torso. Again i fell unconscious, when i woke up again i was kissing Swetha.. her soft lips brushed against mine with ease. she said ' i love you, i will never leave u until death' With the intention of kissing her again i moved forward when another set of thugs came.. now in larger numbers. i quickly grasped her hand and scampered across the street. [background music: sambho siva..].
i heard distant noices now that of a bomb about to explode ,.. the amplitude and frequency of the sound kept on increasing.. then i heard ' THUD THUD THUD' we ran for our lives now slowly both the noises combining , it was as though i was going to die . running with still her hands grasped i fell into a deep deep hollow... for a second i couldnt see anything and then three blades joined together at the centre was approaching me.there was some letter inscription on it. it said'C...........R..............O...............M...........P..............T.......O.........N. it was my fan and i was lying on the ground beside my bed and as for the bomb sound it was my clock beeping loudly.... and the thud thud was from the door. slowly i gathered myself and opened the door. AJ stood there 'you are late again its almost 8.30 am'. i regrouped myself , took my bucket and ran towards where i should for i had another agonizing day ahead in the class.