The Single Decision
A car screeched to a halt in the middle of the road ...People came out of it and witnessed the bloody scene in front of them...A person lying there with a bullet hole in his chest and the other person still standing there with the gun still pointed straight ...The people could not believe what they were witnessing...It was as if their worst nightmares had come true...Especially for one person who never in his wildest dreams could've imagined something like this would ever happen in his life.
Few moments ago...
Abhijeet(lowering his gun) saw someone coming up behind acp sir and raising his gun towards him so instead of lowering the gun fully he raised it again and pointed towards acp sirs direction and fired
Acp sir thinking that abhijeet is shooting him also raised his own gun and fired
And two shots were heard in the vicinity...two bullets fired at the same time ...One bullet was fired to save someone's life and the other one was fired to take ones.
Acp sir looked at himself and saw there was not a single scratch on him but then he realized something and looked back and saw a shooter lying there dead with a single bullet to his head...but then came the actual realization of what might have happened and with a look of horror in his eyes he turned to look at what he has done.
Abhijeet was standing there very still and then blood started seeping out of his chest...he looked down to look at himself and when he looked up acp sir saw the various emotions which flashed in his eyes(pain, anger, sorrow, anguish, fear) all these emotions reflected in the blink of an eye but stopping at a single question as to WHY??
Why did acp sir do it?
Why the loyalty towards his country was not enough?
Why didn't acp sir trust him?
Why the bond of 25 years was just broken like that?
Why wasn't he trustworthy enough?
All these questions acp sir could see in his eyes...And then a similar scene played in front of him..
Flashback
Acp sir- Nakul ruk jao warna mai goli chala dunga.
Nakul- Aap mujhpar kabhi goli nahi chalayenge dad.
And then a gunshot rang out and his son was dead...
And when he came back to the present he realized that something similar has happened yet again but only this time the person he shot he didn't know for sure was guilty or not..
He saw abhijeet falling but he couldn't move a muscle as if he was stuck on his place
He looked on as the scene unfolded in front of him unable to do anything and realizing what the single split second decision he made has costed him.
So that was the end of chapter 2...Thank you to everyone who reviewed and read the story...I hope you're enjoying it so far...See you in the next chapter...So till then *cheers*
Regards,
Angshupriya Saha
