LOST|Chapter Two - Accident
'Where are you going Nakul?' a voice stops a young man in late 20s, he turns around and finds his father staring at him, anger is visible in his eyes.
Nakul gets irritated 'what dad?'
'Nakul, it's late, where are you going?'
'Out.'
'Out where?'
'What am I? 10? Come on dad, can we do this another time? Plus why so much care all of sudden? Oops, sorry I mean why so much enquiry tonight?'
'Nakul!' ACP is absolutely tired of Nakul's behaviour he tries not to lose his cool. 'You are never home Nakul, start spending some time at home I never see you home, you are always out.'
'Wow, this shows how much time you actually spend around here. It's not my fault that you never see me here, if you'd really wanted me to see me around here you'd be here to see. It is not me who is never home, it is you. In fact most of times you don't even know if I'm at home or not. It shows how occupied you are being ACP.'
'Nakul, stop it. What has gotten into you?'
Instead of answering Nakul just sighs and starts playing with his keys. It is getting hard for ACP to tolerate such behaviour of him he does not understand what has gotten in him.
'Dad, I have to go. We can do this another time, when we meet again.'
'Do I need to tell you what is wrong in that sentence?... Nakul if you want to live in this house...'
Before ACP could carry on, Nakul interrupts him.
'Then I rather not live... You know what I don't even want to come back here. Living in this house and living in a hotel is about the same thing.'
ACP is shocked at his son's words, Nakul never before expressed his feelings about not wanting to come back to home. Before ACP could response Nakul picks up his jacket from the chair near him and leaves. ACP hears his son's voice from outside saying 'Goodbye Dad.' ACP shakes his head and goes into his room, thinking about what to do about his son's behaviour. Nakul was getting rude day by day; ACP didn't understand why is he doing such stuff? Every now and then he'd see his son in some newspaper or hear from someone that Nakul throwing tantrums at party, getting into fights. Getting a complain phone call regarding Nakul wasn't new to ACP, but recently it was quite low. But still Nakul's behaviour with ACP was getting bad, day by day it was high time ACP would do something about this. After a lot of thinking ACP calls Abhijeet and lets him know that this weekend he will be spending time home, with Nakul so he is not coming to bureau for 2 days so he asks Abhijeet to manage all the paperwork and if there is a real emergency then call him, Abhijeet agrees ACP bids goodbye and hangs up.
3 hours later ACP is awoken by a loud and constant phone ring, as he picks up he is surprised to hear Inspector Rathod on the other end. Inspector asks ACP to come quickly on the Narrow Bridge, it's been an accident. Inspector does not disclose any more information and curious ACP quickly leaves for the accident spot.
As ACP reaches the spot the first thing he notices the accident is absolutely horrible, car has turned upside down, all the windows have been smashed completely, the glass is spread inside the car and outside on the road. As he makes his way towards the car, he can see a body stuck inside the car. Suddenly ACP stops his tracks there as his gaze moves towards the number plate his body turns cold, his feet refuses to move.
'This can't be... it's not... not possible.' After a moment he slowly moves towards the front of car towards the body, praying madly inside that it is not who he thinks he is. ACP bends down the see the face of victim. Suddenly he jumps back shouting 'NO!' startling the other people who were on the accident spot.
'Then I rather not live... You know what I don't even want to come back here.' Nakul's last sentence comes rushing back into ACP's mind and it pierces his soul like a sword. As ACP regains control over his body he rushes towards the car and starts to pull out his son. Nakul's whole face is covered in blood, there are some glasses stuck in his face. ACP tries to wake up his son, call his name repeatedly, hoping he will response, but it all goes in vain. Inspector Rathod tries to inform ACP that Nakul is died, he died immediately after the accident but ACP could not hear the Inspector's words, that moment everything vanished, the world, the people, nothing existed ACP could not see them or hear them. It was just him, trying to wake up his son. Inspector holds ACP gently tries to move him away from the car, but ACP doesn't move and calls his name again. 'He is dead, sir.' ACP shots deadly glare to inspector who only whispers 'I'm sorry.'After few moments ACP starts to regain his senses and Inspector Rathod explains to ACP what happened meanwhile other inspectors try to remove Nakul's body from the car. Inspector tell ACP Nakul was driving drunk, he must've not see the car coming front until it was close so he quickly turned his car which caused it to crash at the edge of bridge and it turned upside down. He tells ACP the owner of other car is also here if he wants to meet him but ACP is not interested in this. Nakul is gone, forever. 'Then I rather not live...' 'Goodbye Dad.' Nakul's last words ring in ACP's ears, tears starts to stream down his eyes and he closes his eyes hoping it is all a bad dream.
As he opens his eyes he feels a burning sensation in the eyes. He does not care about the burn, he looks around finds himself on Nakul's room, and he is lying on his bed with his diary on the floor. It must've fallen from his hands when he read an extract from his diary. ACP lets out a loud sigh, it isn't a dream after all, he did lose his son.