Abhi was finally free of worry and relaxed calmly walking towards his bus stop, soon past the café and kept walking. Suddenly a hand touched Abhi on his shoulder. "Oi! Kiddo what is you doin?". Abhi slowly turned back in horror to see the same mysterious man appear out of nowhere while he held Abhi's shoulder in his rough hand.
Abhi shook the man's hand off of him and jumped back a few steps.
"What the fuck do you want!? Why have you been following me for so long?" Shouted Abhi while not taking his eyes off the man for even a second. He was literally shivering in his timbers.
He took a stance in which he could swiftly kick the mysterious man in a professional-looking elegant suit and run like the wind was carrying him along.
"Yo Chill out cuh. Also the word 'cuh' just means a friendly way to say 'friend' if you didn't know. Anyways, I was just gonna ask you the same, why have you been following me?" Said the man who wore a professional-looking elegant suit. With a straight face. Unironically.
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A few seconds passed and no one said anything, it was like time had stopped and the only sound in the world was the whistle of the flowing wind adding to the already awkward silence.
Abhi who looked a bit perplexed after seeing a man dressed in such formal attire talk in slang language and turn the 'follower' accusation back on him, replied:
"What? I'm not following anyone you were the one constantly on my trail, also why would I follow you?"
"Nuhuh, I be goin' anywhere and you still somehow always be in front of me." Said the professional-looking man with a serious expression. Unironically.
"…" Abhi was dumbfounded. He shut his eyes for a second and serious rubbed his temples with pressure.
"So according to you, I am the one who is following YOU but walking in FRONT of you?" Said Abhi as pointed and himself and then at the mysterious man wearing a professional-looking elegant suit.
"Well, now that yah put it liek dat it do be kinda upside down innit." Said the man wearing the PROFESSIONAL-LOOKING ELEGANT SUIT. UNIRONICALLY!
"…" Abhi was silent for a full 10 seconds without saying a single word.
"Hmm, now that I be thinkin' 'bout it, from yo perspective it would really seem like I be stalking you or some." Said the professional-looking man in a completely serious look. again UNIRONICALLY!
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Abhi creased his eyebrows and tilted his head, and his expression was completely lost. The man continued to talk without waiting for Abhi to reply.
"See now I get yo perspective but it's just that, I NEVER! see anyone going the same route as me so I was very suspicious when a kid from my school was going the exact same pathway as me. Made me hella suspicious ya know!" Said the professional-looking man looking directly into Abhi's eyes with a completely serious expression.
"…" Abhi was speechless once again. After a few seconds Abhi facepalmed his own forehead and started laughing hysterically. He just couldn't hold it any more. He started tearing up and had to hold his stomach because he couldn't stop laughing. All his anxiety, fear, anger, anguish and literally all his emotions turned into pure hysteria looking and the professional-looking man in an elegant suit talking like a four-year-old.
"Oi-oi What ya laughing at?" Said the Professional Man with a bland face.
"I can't believe I was so scared of THIS!" Abhi said, without without waiting for a reply he continued as he was still laughing.
"Ha-ha I just can't believe it." Said Abhi while still laughing.
"What do you not believe cuh?" Said the Professional Man with a bland face again. Unironically.
"How were two people running around the city, thinking they were being followed by the other person, not just that but both were suspicious of each other because both of them thought no one else had the same travel route as them ha-ha I can't believe this it's too much." Says Abhi while his tears start rolling off of his face purely from laughing.
"Well, it is quite humorous not that you put it like that ha-ha," said the man with a slight giggle. finally not keeping a straight bland and serious face... unironically.
"Oh man, glad we cleared this up. I would've been paranoid for weeks instead of laughing if I didn't get to talk to you and just ran off ha-ha. Well, glad I did now I gotta go see you around." Said Abhi as he finally started to calm down
Abhi tried to turn and chase his bus when suddenly the mysterious man grabbed his shoulder once again. Abhi's eyebrows scrunched up and he asked in a perplexed tone "Uhm, what?".
"I can't just let you go now, need to know what you are doing in this part of the town." Said the mysterious man with a stern tone and serious look. This time really really seriously.
Abhi's lips quivered with a hint of fear "What now? Just let me go, dude, I thought we were settled our little misunderstanding why are you still holding me back." Abhi continued his efforts to get rid of the man's grip on his shoulders, but he couldn't.
Well, it didn't seem like he was using all his force to resist the professional-looking man wearing an elegant suit, because directly hitting a stranger or using excessive force could quickly escalate the situation to an unnecessary extent. Even if things did end up getting resolved Abhi couldn't afford to waste time, as he still had a job to go to and it was a very important day at the job as well.
"Yes, but I still need to know why one of my kids is on the outskirts of the city at this time." Answered the man with the professional-looking elegant suit with a blank expression.
"Huh? What do you mean by "my kids" who the hell do you think you are?" Asked Abhi with a slight stutter and anxious tone.
The professional-looking mysterious man replied:
"Me? I'm the principal of your school homie".
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