The Lost Job And The GIRLFRIEND -- 3

EPISODE -- 3



Our hero was at the dockyard, injured mercilessly, with wide opened eyes thinking only of “Shanaya” and his date before he fainted. He regained his senses somewhat 5 hours later and found himself in a hospital. The doctor visited him and confirmed him now everything was fine and he can go home after recovery, may be 1 day. He was in hospital with few penny in his pocket Rs 1500/- in his account, thinking what he might have to pay on being discharged. But to the rescue of Prbhat it was a government affiliated hospital, so he needed very small amount as fee. He realized that he didn’t had his phone with him, remembered that it was destroyed at the dockyard, thinking that Shanaya might have tried to contact him, immediately left the hospital for the dockyard. He saw his phone lying on ground completely destroyed, only he could find the SIM card worth to be used. He ran to his room searched for an old phone he had in spare. As he inserted the SIM and switched on his phone, the phone rang, it was Shanaya. He picked up the phone, she shouted at him for not responding for such a long time without prior intimation. She was too worried and tensed. He explained her that he was in a non-network area so she couldn’t contact him. After their conversation, Prabhat contacted his Editor. The editor too shouted at him for his negligence and the trouble he created for the channel, as after hitting Prabhat the Minister’s relative went to his office to warn him. Prabhat tried to convince him but his stars to the worst, he was fired from his freelance journalism job. What to do? Prabhat neither had any sensational news that he could sell to other channel   nor he can cover any news as his camera was in pieces. Few drops of tears were shining near his eyes crawling down towards his cheeks finally fell on the ground.

Our hero was in such a pathetic situation that he couldn’t think what next to do. In a rush he also forgot to buy his pain killers. He gathered his will and went out in search of a job. He was in search of a job that he could get daily wages so that he could bear his DATE. The whole day passed but he had only his documents in his hand and no job.It was now dark and he was all alone in streets walking disheartened. Then something happened which brought him some luck. He saw two men fighting, their exchange of words while fighting made it clear that one of them was looting the other, finding him alone on the road , terrifying him with a knife in his hand. Prabhat with all his courage ran towards them ,the criminal seeing him coming to rescue the man ,struggled a little more but could only escape ,giving a cut to the man .The man fell on ground ,Our hero chased the criminal ,caught him ,had a struggle and somehow the criminal managed to escape ,threw his cross bag towards Prabhat , in order to escape.

The man in the meanwhile came near Prabhat with his documents that fell during his struggle thanked him, blessed him and went his way. Prabhat also decided to leave the place, he found the cross bag near his feet, picked it up and opened to see the belongings. His eyes sparkled to see something inside. The bag had a knife with some money inside. He took out the money and counted by sorting the notes, it summed up to Rs 8000/- approx. with few extra coins. It was clear that the money was snatched in the night from several victims by the criminal. After a long trail of hard lucks finally his star shined, a huge smile came on his face.

Now Prabhat had around Rs 10000/- with him was all happy that he could afford the date easily.

                                                                Present day (The Date)
                                                                Venue: A 5 Star Hotel

Shanaya was in front of him staring continuously at him. Our hero was also not less romantic, he too was exploring her eyes. This pin drop silence was hindered by a voice “What will you have Sir?” It was the waiter with the MENU that he offered to both of them.

Our hero opened the Menu. Guess what would have happened. Prabahat was a boy from a small town, went to normal restaurants, so he didn’t had clear idea what it would cost him in a 5 Star hotel.
He predicted that it would cost him much but clearly unaware exactly what would be the cost.

The waiter was waiting for the order, Shanaya ordered, she would start with a “Velvet Mushroom soup”, Prabhat’s eyes at once searched the name and his eyes went through the price, OMG, Rs 1800/- Per serving. The amount even higher than what he had spent ever throwing party to his friends. He was shocked, heart beat pouncing .The waiter again asked “what will you have SIR?” Prabhat in a very low voice, and a fake smile said  he will just have water. Shanaya asked him excuse to attend an important call, in the meanwhile he hurriedly explored the rates. Every single second he was just calculating his total budget and the prices making him pray to god.

He was searching the meals that would cost him cheapest, his fingers stopped at a point, yes he found the lowest price in the price column. His fingers scrolled towards the meal option having the cheapest price, his heart again sank to see the name:

“Mineral Water : Rs 600/-
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