Ram and Sindu

            by Reddy Seelam

 

She had been following the same routine for a week now, sindu sat on the same bench in the far side of the park, waiting for her victim in the early morning mist of Hyderabad, the local park is usually covered with people but due to the week day it was almost empty. She was nervous, and vengeance. She made sure the dagger she had been in place and the time right as planed. The ACP (assistant commissioner of police) came over to her, noticing a familiar face.

"Hey are you new here? I’ve have seen you here for a week" asked the curios ASP.

"Yeah I am new here. I used to see you with your friends, but today you're alone. That's what I have been waiting for" she replied.

"What do you mean waiting for me...”?

She made them his last words; she just looked one more time at her success and walked away with a victorious smile.

                 "What the hell is the meaning of these?” asked rams father.

"Of what?" asked ram knowing the reason.

"These applications from a university in Hyderabad" demanded his father.

"It's an application for the university cant even read. Did I get in or not huh?” asked ram.

"Of course you got in but you're not going, that's final." Said his father

Ram turned around to get support from his mother and sister, but it was of no use. They had a finger on their nose and closed their eyes like the three monkeys.

"Oh come on, it's safe and there is no harm its just an eight hours away."

"Why not here, we have everything here,” Said his father.

"Come on"

"Ok only if we think it is safe,” said his father.

Ram agreed he thought that they would just hit a couple of calls and then they would agree but due to his fate they all tagged along to see him of at his new house in Hyderabad. Rams father made sure ram lived in a good neighborhood. Ram got in his new room, got ready and went to collage. While his parents packed up and went back.

                  She went on home and had a peaceful nap. She enjoyed a few days of rest before she had collage again. It was going to rain, the clouds were black and full the wind blowing in a strong breeze these clues made her happy she loved the rain and it was coming. She immediately ran for an ice cream.

Ram noticed the rain forming clouds and ran for an ice cream nearby. But a girl beat him to it; he was surprised that someone such as this beautiful girl would have a habit of an ice cream in the rain like him. He didn't say a word but look at her the whole time while she ate her ice cream.

He had to know who she was so he did some homework, which reveled that she was a new girl also and no one knew her, expect her name sindu. He thought he would come to her later and he continued his way in to collage. Even before he went to the office he went in to the library and walked around as if he had lost his way. Then in a corner he found the thing it was a statue of Buddha, as he went near he was shocked at the sight of a rose in the hands of Buddha. Only our family gave a rose for Buddha, can it be my family or is it some fool. He thought and went back to the office and got his schedule.

                                                      

 

Sindu after her ice cream ran to the library in wet cloths and offered a rose to Buddha. While coming out of the library she had a strange felling and looked around, but she only saw a person looking around as he was lost. She went to the office and got her schedule and ran to her classes. In her classes she saw that boy again. Every time she saw that boy it made her think she was related to him. But she knew it had to be impossible. Of course she won't ever forget that night 12 years ago.

During class ram had the same feeling, but kept it to him self. After class he went up to sindu and introduced himself.

"Hi my name is ram, your very pretty he complimented" thanks she replied not knowing what to say.

He saw her for a moment and then said

"You know I am an open person and say what ever comes to my mouth. I just saw you out side eating ice cream, and to tell you the truth I also have some similar habits like you." He said and went off.

After meeting a few time in random places together they became friends, but never reveled who they were. They would call each other but never talk about stuff other then meet here and there. Like that they became close, that once ram took her to his parents and introduced her to them. That's when ram finds out that she is an orphan and they take her closer to the family. Now and then she herself comes and goes.

After a few months of collage, ram thought its better for himself to get back on his original plan, the reason he came away from home. He started to do some research on his rivals, when he stumbled across one that was declared dead he was sad that he was not the one who killed him. But he was still happy that there were more to take revenge on he made a detailed schedule of all his rivals' moves and set dates of when he would finish them off one by one. But he came across a problem the brother of one is in the states and he needed him here to finish the job. But no problem he thought. He just thought of another plan to lure the brother back to India. After he was satisfied of his plans he closed his book and went to do some setups and get ready for the huge surprise party.

He came back in the evening, just to find his parents there in his room,

"Hey what are you doing here?” he asked his parents.

"Your dad took a while off so we thought we would spend the time with you" said his mom.

"That's cool" he said and went in and sat on the sofa,

What to do now? I can't leave them alone; if I do then they will suspect me. Naw they will find out soon who cares, I will just find a way, He thought. He stayed with his parents most of the time and stilled found some time to do some preparations, for his adventure.

 

 

One very hot afternoon, when everybody takes a cool nap under a fan at home, Ram wonders around the once his native place. While walking for an hour or so he came upon an ally, which he hadn't noticed back when he was a kid. He walked into the ally and saw a familiar face a face that haunted him for 12 years, it was one of them guys who killed his mother in front of his eyes. A sudden rush of power and rage kicked into him, but he stopped himself and made a plan.

"Hey kuthe ka sallae, marchoda agangea (hey you cousin of a dog, I am going to kill you)" he shouted at the man and ran back out.

The guy pissed by those words got up and followed ram, ram was smiling for he got his plan to work, he made the rowdy run for about 10 minutes in and out of tiny allies before he stopping in a center (like a small downtown). Then when the rowdy showed up breathing like an f upped exhaust system, ram came near and started to narrate a story.

"How in the hell do you know this?” asked the rowdy still trying to catch his breath.

Ram doesn't say anything, and comes closer to the rowdy and asks how he was related to the main man and asked why they did what they did on that night twelve years ago. The man didn't answer he gave him a blow in the face, and asked again but didn't answer. "You better talk now or..." bam bam bam ram gave him five blows at random places.

"Ok, ok ill talk."

"That's better, now tell me what I want and I will give you your life deal" ram had him in his hands now.

"Deal, the man that ordered the plan is a mafia leader, he sells drugs back and forth between India and the states. That time when he was in India your father got in our way so we got the asp and planed the murder and made it look like a gas leak. Then the asp made the rumors and we got away with it, and the man that ordered this lives in Berkeley the address is 1003 university ave, between Allston and Addison his name is cobra" saying all the information he knew the rowdy pleaded for his life.

"Sorry, good night" said ram before chopping off his head.

Ram took the head and packed it up in a plastic doll, and made sure that the head would jump up on opening the package. Then he sent it to the states, so that who ever was the cobra would have to come to India knowing he has a threat.

 

 

 

Cobra on the other hand was enjoying his newly opened club. After the removal of his obstacle he had a very straight path to victory. He was so rich he owned five clubs, about ten imported cars, two huge palaces. He now has grown bigger then ever, just recently he killed his rival the mafia leader of Pakistan. And now he was relaxing when he received a package from India, he in a rush thinking it was a turbine opened the package. Poof the head flew from within the package and landed in his lap. Immediately his security came in and surrenders him just to make sure no one was one he now. He was so mad that he threw the head aside and shot the person who brought the package to him.

"What the fuck is the meaning of this shit?” yelled cobra, panicking. It took him a few seconds to regain and found the head familiar. "Somebody wants us in India, and I want him killed. Get the plane ready, we leave today" he ordered his boys.

 

 

Sindu walking around nothing to do saw ram running from the person she wanted to kill. Wait a minute, she thought. But before she could say or think she saw ram and the guy talk and then ram saying something chopped of his head. Luckily he didn't see her. She saw ram talking the head and putting it in a box. Shocked by what she saw went back to her house and sat on her bed trying to get things straight in her head. Could he be him, nah it's impossible or not. May be he is my bava (mother side cousin). This thought haunted d her and made her think. Wait a minute there were only ten bodies in the newspaper, but if my bava is dead there should be eleven. So it's him, ram is my bava. No wonder I and her have the same tastes like the rose for the Buddha and vesting our old house be for going to the college, and eating ice cream in the rain and also the same enemies. She then concluded that cobra should have also gotten the signal and was coming to India.

 

 

Cobra on renter found that it was ram and another girl who started to threaten him; he cleverly did a background check and found both were from the same city and carried the same rare last name he kind of knew. He remembered the incident a while ago when he killed a whole family because an officer was coming in his way of drug dealing. He then found out that he missed two people and they were this ram and sindu. Cobra got his men and went for sindu. They caught her and called ram to get there.

Ram wondered why would they get her to get to him then he thinks that she is really is her family. Ram goes to find sindu tied up to a chair and crying for help, rams eyes fill out of tears after seeing his only family left.

Suddenly cobra gives entrance and looks at the sentimental touches between those two and laughs.

"Its so cute to look at you both birds like this you know" he talks in a sneaky voice.

"Just you wait you basted, you took away my family, my uncles and everyone I know. Know for that I will take your lie and get my revenge," said ram with range in is eyes.

With out another word ram charged at cobra and his men and fought with all his might. After all he came to get his revenge and his family.