Knock Knock - it's the Cops!

[Thursday:]

22:35 - Finished watching one of the deadliest documentary - a deep sigh!

'The world is full of doom and gloom traders' - I muttered ; shutting my lappy down, carefully placing it on the side-table.

23:00 - As I prepare for my bed; took a gulp of air to dust away the thin coating of pessimism from my brain - clearly the documentary didn't go down well.

23:15 - Already in bed, deep down still thinking about the documentary.. 'What if... How... Why Not...'  All of a sudden - my security door goes slamming - Bang!

A sense of fear gripped me; I ducked further into my quilt.

Convinced myself that it was the wind, that took the security door for a ride; Quite often I forget to lock my security door.

'Geez - What a wrong timing'

Almost recovering from the shock and heard a much assertive knock on the door - "Knock, Knock"

Despite having the 'Do not knock' sign board on my door.. someone just knocked the door! 

Could be two things; either 'Opportunity' has knocked or I am in 'Trouble'! - Chances of the latter happening was more.

A knock at this time of the hour - is very unusual!

I gathered all the courage to get up and see what's going on - my brain still pre-occupied with the documentary. By the time, I reached the door - another knock - "This is the cops!"

I was alarmed! 

"What have I done?"

"Last I checked no one expects a cop on the door for watching a documentary..."

"Is it that I have shared something, that I shouldn't have on social media...."

All these were playing in the back of my head, as I got the door.

Conversation between Me and the Cops went as follows:-

C: "How ya going?, sorry to bother.. Just wanted to check, when was the last you have seen your neighbor?"

M:  "Umm... [Shrugging off my shoulders], dunno know, maybe couple of weeks"

C: "She hasn't shown at her work for couple of days and there is a missing complaint"

M: "Oh.. nah, no idea, I can try and ring... grabbing the phone... dialed the number.. 
Tring! Tring! Tring! ... no luck! not picking up"

C: "Alright, thank you!"

They walked away in deep dark.

I immediately grabbed my keys and locked the security door... double checked everything... and jumped in the bed.

The plan was to quickly go to sleep - but my brain had different ideas - it had its ACP Praduman (Indian desi Sherlock) hat on.....

My dismissive thoughts were:

 - What happened next door?

 - Why am I not conscious?

 - What if, she is deceased?

 - Who did it?

 - What if, the body is lying in there?

and it went on and on and on... Thanks to ACP Praduman..

[Friday]:

I had decided to track the behavior next door and keep a close eye....  given I had my Sherlock hat on!

07:30  - The inner and security door are locked...

10:00  - I phone the girl, but no luck - no response!

16:35 - I drive into my car-pot and give a quick glance at my neighbors - see the inner door open and security door closed... her dog sitting right in front of the security door...

I clasp the energy to walk up her door .. usually the dog when she sees me.. she will bark.. but that day she was quite...

Man, that was unusual..

That rose suspicion - "Daya, pata karo ye kutta aaj kyun nahi bhaukaa??"

19:00 - Someone drove the neighbors cars and came back in 30 mins...

19:35 - Heard the dog bark loudly ...That's it, guess the lady is home!

Case solved!

I convinced my mind and asked it to relax.. everything is fine!

Deep down, I still needed to see the person to be completely convinced!

Guess, that was convincing for the night..

[Saturday]:

10:00. - Knock, Knock - It's the cops again!

C: Her friends haven't heard anything from her for last couple of days..

M: I gave them them the summary of things that happened the day before - told them I feel, all looks ok!

10:30 - The neighbors car pulled in the car-pot and the cops started talking to her...

I saw the girl and was happy...

I had a brief chat with her and apparently she just wanted to be away - Fair enough! 

Told my mind - you see "Dead girl - walking and talking!!"

Now switch off your ACP Praduman mode and let me have a quite weekend!

The next day - I narrated all this to my friend and he told - why do you have to tell them all is ok,.. why get in mess?

and I was like - Oh come-on we are from Mumbai, we solve these type of cases everyday..

'Kaun kaha gaya? kitne baje aaya?' ye sab to brush karte karte solve kar dete hai!

We had a good laugh, but the thought of having a dead neighbor gave me chills!

Now lets chill, until next time!

Love you all, keep reading!