Best friends

Raju a nice handsome man ,thought there are many traits in him to mention first thing that hits your mind is that he is a mega fan of the Tamil super star Rajinikanth. He was doing final year B.com in a college which you can never locate on a map because it was too conspicuous to be on maps. But he never did mind anyway no one else would have admitted him into their institution anyway. There is another thing which he loved so dearly: it was his friends Santhosh and Deepak. Together they made an awesome trio. Virtually the hero's of the college or so they claimed. They did every thing possible to get into everyone's bad books.

They and accomplished the impossible on that day they had managed to get tickets to Thalaivar's movie on first day but God forbid not the first show. Sadly their exams came in the way for the first show. Not that they would care its just that due to Deepak's folly they ended up with night show tickets. Too late for Raju. But he was too excited to admonish. It was the long awaited movie Padayappa. The theater also was to conspicuous to be listed.

The movie was a ball for the trio there was dance howling clapping and what not. There was total frenzy in the movie hall. With immense joy of having seen the movie they all left from the theater. They were home bound. They had an exam on accountancy next day. It was a left over from first year. It was not cleared to maintain nostalgia is what they would say.

All three sat on Raju's father's old bullet. It was not a bike but rather just rudiments of it. Police in Chennai are highly duty conscious. They were vigil and on the look out for the drunk and drive in order to prevent accidents on road and mishaps in they family budget. They were caught in the way.

Police:"Are you all drunk? Where to? Why 3 of you? No not good!"

Santhosh:"No sir not drunk went for movie sir."

Deepak:"Yes sir please let us go sir we have exam in the morning."

Police:"Ha ha exam and movie! I don't think you will pass. Triples is an offense so pay and go!"

Raju""Please excuse us sir no bus at this time. We don't have money sir."

Police:"No no else court case only!"

The police man's face brightened on seeing a lorry. Everyone who is anyone know that lorry yields more. The boys seized the opportunity they got on to the bike and started to move slowly. They police way ahead and became aware that they were trying to escape he tried to note their number but it was too dark.

Police:"Hey come back here!"

Deepak:"Get lost looser!"

Santhosh was on a high that they managed to escape and wanted to established their victory hence he spat on the police officer. Not that it was aimed and all he cannot even hit a dog at 200 mts distance even with a football. His bad day the saliva from his mouth was projected in such a way that it hit the police office in some point in its trajectory.

The police grew wild. He left the lorry driver Scott free and took his TVS 50 and went on hot pursuit of the trio. Raju was riding he was breaking up a sweat he didn't know what to do. Raju's house came first but the police was too close on their tails to commit any folly. If their rigid parents come to know this mishap then grounded for life. Deepak cane up with a plan. They stopped in a friends house and there Raju and Deepak got down. They took their friend's bike and left in the other path. It was Santhosh that the police wanted to he was on Raju's bike all alone to fend for himself.

They didn't not ditch their friend its save that atleast other 2 are out to save Santhosh if he gets caught. They bid brief good byes and departed. Police was hot on trail. He was gaining it was amazing considering that his two wheeler too was just a bunch of nuts metal and 2 thread bear rubbers. Santhos didn't know what to do fuel was less he could not keep riding all night. Soon day break would come. He stopped and hid the bike in the bushes. He sat in a bush. The police also stopped there because he could find no trace of the Kinetic Honda. He started to see for any marks and found tyre Marks he started to beat on the bush with his lathi. Santhosh swayed in order to escape from being detected. But wrong bush. It was full of thorns. Each one went into his skin nice and smooth like knife into butter.

Santhosh was in agony he could not shout out his pain the police was frustrated and left. When the coast was clear Santhosh came out. Checked the damage and went home.

The next day Deepak came to Santhosh(who was heavily covered in bandaid) and Raju who were waiting for him after the exam. They never had a chance to speak about the incident. Again they had performed well enough to maintain that nostalgia excuse. Santhosh was going to begin his agonising tale when Raju cut him short and said "All this is common for the daring. I've got tickets for thalaivars movie. Want to see it again?"

An unanimous"Yes!"