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Dharma, The Pact of Righteousness

Dharma, The Pact of Righteousness

On one stressful day, I was tirelessly returning from work, I was quite disappointed and felt like crying. My eyes were filled with tears but I tried to hold my tears because I was outside at that time in the Spring town subway and I was literally surrounded by people from all the sides so it felt a bit embarrassing to cry in the public. Ooops I am sorry, I guess my emotions must have affected my manners as I forgot to introduce myself well I am Dan, Dan Rodrigues.

I am basically a writer of crime-thriller books and you might be thinking the life of an author is really sweet and relaxing but it’s not like how you think, the scene here is totally different.  I have been working on a crime thriller book since last week and today was the deadline to submit it to the publishers but I wasn’t able to complete the ending. I have been in doubt whether the hero needs to follow the path of dharma or he needs to follow some crooked ways in order to give the book a sweet happy ending.  I was still puzzled about how to end it, anyway, now I didn’t have much time to think of it, so I just tried to think of some excuses to tell to the publishers. When I reached there, I took a deep breath and told them some of the best excuses which I could think of and I must admit I gave them a lot of valid points which supported my statements but it seemed like they didn’t even care about what I said. They slowly took a deep breath and said “we are not here to listen to your bloody excuses.” Today was the deadline, and it’s your responsibility to finish the book and if anyone is to be blamed then it’s you.

Then they closed the grand deal between us and if they wouldn’t do that then I would have gotten a great sum of money but, because they have called off the deal I couldn’t do anything now and it was too late. I was now returning to my home by catching up on the Spring town subways and was trying to reach home as soon as possible so that I can calmly think about what to do next. Thinking it made me more emotional than before that’s when all of a sudden a tall scrawny figure knocked me down, he was wearing a red coat and his face was covered with a black plain mask, he rudely pushed me and kept a greenish package with symbols in my hoodie pocket then he said ‘’move out of the way.’’

He was followed by some tall thugs, one of them stopped near me and asked ‘’dear sir, sorry to disturb you but do you have any contact with the rodent who wearing that mask and was running over there as we saw you speaking to him, he pointed at that rude fellow and asked me. They also said that they are police officers but my instinct wasn’t certainly sure about that due to their appearance and it was safe not to give them the green package which was dropped into my hoodie pocket. So, I just sighed and told the thugs that the rude fellow just knocked me over and ran away, so the thug just sighed at me and started running toward the rude fellow with the mask.

Then I took that package to the restroom and then secretly opened it so that none of the thugs would see me with the package, on the package, it had something written in code language on it. Thankfully I actually used to go for tuitions on learning code language when I was a child to program some kind of game, cause I used to be interested in crossword games, so anyways learning coding paid back, and I was able to recognize what was written on the packet., it said: “to Apollo Stefen”.

Then I quickly remember that Apollo was the publisher who declined my deal today then I slowly opened the package to see what was inside the package and to my surprise inside the package lay the picture of a teenage girl beside the photo her name was written, her name was “Natasha Alfred”, then with the photo there was a few bundles of money tied up by some rubber band was kept inside the package too, now I realized something was fishy. I quickly contacted my cousin Henry Rodrigues who was a senior police head constable. I told him everything about the package and the masked man, then he told me that he will be coming there with a small squad as soon as possible. By that time I went and brought a black mask then I brought a red coat and wore it, then I neatly rewrapped the greenish wrapper, and I exactly dressed like the rude fellow who pushed me then when the squad reached there. I told them that I had a plan in my mind.

So this is the plan, first I have dressed as the rude fellow with the mask who was the person who kept the file in my hoodie pocket then I told them that I would go see Apollo in his personal room which I just went before to tell my excuses about the delay of my story, then in order to entre Apollo’s room I would need protection, so 2 people from the squad should control the camera of the publisher’s room and the rest of the squad has to wait outside the publisher’s room and peep through the gap of the door if anything goes out of hand, and then I entre and ensure whether apollo have any weapons or not and I will also try to know what was his deal with a picture of the little girl in the packet, then after that when I exit the publisher’s room I will give a signal to the squad and then the squad will enter the room and will successfully keep the publisher under arrest, that was my master plan. Everyone agreed to follow the plan. So then when everything was set up, I took a deep breath and entered apollo’s room with the package he laughed at me wickedly and said I knew you would come back to me, he grabbed my collar and raised a gun at me I started to get nervous that’s when the squad burst open the door and entered in, it almost seemed like the squad was able to read my mind and as I really needed them at that time, then the squad successfully arrested Apollo.

The fraud was arrested and was taken to the police station for tight torture so he would speak out about why he is doing this and did he have such a fake reputation. Apollo was under the custody of henry then after tight torture finally apollo revealed the reason why he is doing this, he told that he had been kidnapping many young kids and then have been selling them to high owners so that he would earn a great amount from them but when he kidnapped Natasha later did he notice that she was the daughter of a rich man, so her father let tall thugs search for her and they have found one of our staffs who was the rude masked fellow who pushed me and as his identity was now revealed, Apollo was trying to kill him but the poor fellow realized it and escaped from the clutches of apollo but escaped with his file about Natasha and took the money apollo received from the owners by selling Natasha and then escaped but on the way the thugs have spotted the poor staff then started chasing after him and accidentally the file fell in my Hoodie pocket.

According to Apollo’s calculations he sold around more than 1000 kids last year, Henry noted all the details about the kids kidnapped and send a huge crew to track them and apollo was punished heavily. Henry later thanked me a lot and said “you’re the reason for saving the lives of a million kids.”

He thanked me and my picture came in the newspapers and I was the people’s talk. This experience also gave me the idea of a right ending to my book, so it ended like this: No matter if it’s the hero or the villain, both should follow the dharma but if they don’t, they will greatly regret it throughout their lives.

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LAKSHMI LAJISH

8, Gems Millenium School Sharjah

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