EPISODIC STORY WRITING

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   "ok, that money you pick-pocketed right now it belongs to my girlfriend!" he snapped at me...

if there was some random guy i would have handed him back, but this was the thug who took my 100 bucks! i couldn't just let him walk away with it!

"prove it!" i repudiated,

"prove what?" he demanded,

"you are her boyfriend, that super hot chick...because as the experience goes i don't believe you when it comes to money..."

his face softened,in confusion mostly! 

"go to hell!" i barged in for the women checking counter. In his stupid attempt to stop me he almost was elbowed and thrashed. 

i ran past back to help him while he panted in pain,

"can't you see that was ladies' counter you retarded!"

I helped him to the closest available seat.

This time it wasn't college squalid shirt, he was in easy wear, unexpectedly smarter then before, only he wasn't (otherwise why would he get himself beaten up?)

"i just wanted her cash back!" he murmured,

"did the women guard broke your rib? if yes i am not taking you to hospital!"

"thats highly generous of you, could you get me some water? "

i bought him water ,

"she would be gone way far by now, wouldn't she?"

"are you a stalker? what's your deal?"

he soothed himself with water, gulping sip by sip, testing my patience...

"technically she is not my girlfriend... we were best friends..."

"oh god! then you began to feel for her...you proposed her, she declined your offer. " i said and sat beside him!

he didn't lie to me back then after all, he himself was one of those guys. 

"yes...and what would giving back her 500 do good to you?"

i bolted high and mimicked,

"hey hot chick aka my friend aka heart breaker i saved you bucks, now will you please marry me?"

he stared at me annoyed, his one brow floating over the other, now i knew what he would look when he was mad!

"i just wanted to confront her after the whole proposal thing falling apart" he explained or tried, mostly talking to himself.

he took a deep breath while for the first i realized what the hell was i doing, talking to a stranger. though, the notion of how i was comfortable with him (even in my tank top) did cross my mind!

"you are right, i was here just to check if she was as miserable as she made me!"

"clearly she wasn't! look at that huge purse, if few cash slipped it doesn't matter."

"she is very rich, that's not the reason i love her..."

"hey? Mr vulnerable, i need the cash, can i just go now?"

"you have her money!"

"she left it! i picked it...simple, we never had an implied contract of returning it!"

" lets play another game, my life is way more screwed up then yours, we play who's more on the bad luck streak, if you win you get the money..."

"cool...lets just get out of here, we aren't the crowd pleaser kind! "

we scooped to the nearest Chinese center. Although it began to get dark and i could clearly see nut heads!

"i never won first prize ever!"

he began, 

i stared blank, this was his bad luck? what should i say? Its been six months i heard my Father's voice? i am college less? friend less? hopeless?

"ahh... i don't remember a moment in my life i believed anything was completely true. There was always element of doubt in all "

"not even when you slept by your mother's side?"

"questions were not the part, skip it!"

"i lost my job recently, i am broke..." he gnawed,

"i couldn't reach my college on final documentation day on time , i am college less. "

"the girl , the only girl i loved broke my heart..."

"i don't believe in love, what do you say for that?"

"my mother prefers my younger brother...he is like the apple of her eye.."

"my parents are getting divorced! " i babbled like no trace of emotion were attached to this news...

he stared at me horrified,

"you know what, i don't even know what the hell am i doing, take your cash...i just gotta catch the metro..." i kept the 500 in-front of him, hurried, my eyes fighting hard not to cry... 

"hey wait up!" i heard his voice from a distance,

what the hell had i done? i never shared my things with strangers...i opened it up in-front of him so that he could pity me. I felt rage at my own stupidity!

he paced hard to catch me in few seconds...

"halt" he ordered..

"look that was stupid! you can have this, i can swindle my mom into sending me more, you are jobless..."

"we both are freaks...right? you proved it five minutes before and i by lot many things today!"

i smiled, 

"this belong to both of us in a way, you spotted it and i deserve to veg out on that girl's money..." he continued, while we both stopped,

"yeah, you make sense" i heard myself saying that, it was a relaxed voice...

"you like pizza?"

"sure!"

"lets go to Dominoes and buy ourself a good meal!"

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