‘That running girl once told me’ Kevin says from behind aiming his head with his pistol, ‘hope for the best, but prepare for worst’

‘You’re alive Kevin?’ he asks angrily getting surprised.

‘Unfortunate for you, the guy you shot was George not me’

He shoots Mr. Jack on his forehead.

‘Thanks for saving me but right now you must leave, this is police operation’

Kevin slowly walks away, seeing the crime world for the last time, waving it good-bye.

Scamp to Lamp

Next day, while Julia was packing her bags and stuff weeping since morning, a doorbell rang outside her home. She wiped off her tears and went towards the gate. As she opened the gate, it was Inspector Kevin. He said to her:

‘Good morning Ma’am’

‘Yes how can I…’

‘There’s someone who wants to meet you’

‘Who is it?’

‘The wild scamp!’ Kevin exclaims interfering them from Inspector’s left side.

‘Kevin you’re alive?’ Julia asks happily getting astonished, ‘I knew it, I swear to God, I had a doubt’

‘Your sixth sense was right’

‘I know someone else might have been shot, but look at you Kevin you’re looking so weird, with bandages all over on your face’

‘Identity of a scamp, this time I’m proud of being a scamp’

‘Scamp? A trouble maker?’

‘Yes ma’am’ Inspector says to her, ‘a scamp is someone who creates trouble wherever he goes, but he is a special scamp because wherever he creates trouble, he comes back alive with success, which is a very rear case’

‘Anyways sir it was a nice adventure with you’ Kevin says to him, ‘Thank you for the job, now we can live individually. And if you need me please ask for help without hesitation’

‘Sure’

They both shake hands, and Inspector Kevin leaves.

Kevin and Julia soon get married. Kevin for the first time earns his livelihood with drugs but legal according to laws of his country. And now they never had a chance to deal with the crime world because Kevin now was neither a tramp nor a scamp, but a sort of lamp for patients.

The Heartbroken Patient
July
Austria, Vienna, inside the city’s mental hospital, a patient was sitting on a wheel chair, weeping silently. His elder brother Austin arrives with a nurse and drags him towards a room. While they are taking him, the nurse asks Austin:

‘Is he your brother?’

‘Yes’

‘What’s his name? What happened with him?’

‘Trevour…’ he replies sadly, ‘he was a lover, an obsessive lover’

‘So he lost her, or just got rejected’

Austin remains silent.

They reach room 427. Trevour is admitted there.

Moments later outside the room, Austin reads a poem written by his brother, few weeks earlier, the poem was entitled: ‘Love…Gone Forever’:

I always loved you very much,

And my feelings before have never been as such,

I’ve always dreamed of living with you,

But unfortunately you went away and flew,

And now my Love is Gone Forever.

I looked out for you everywhere,

As I wanted a last moment to share,

But later I was badly astound,

Realizing my love was nowhere around,

After which my Love was Gone Forever.

Without you my love, it’s only sadness,

And I live in a world of loneliness,

I want you back in my life once more,

And this will happen one day, I’m sure,

Because I don’t care if my Love is Gone Forever.

He also cries a little but the nurse interrupts his thoughts,

‘Mr. Austin, what were the doctors saying, what is his actual illness?’

‘The doctors haven’t diagnosed it yet, but one thing is clear that he can be a danger to women, because the illness was caused by a woman’

‘Danger to women? How?’ she asks curiously.

Austin tells her about his mind’s illness and she gets quite surprised to learn about such a state of mind.

The Patient Goes Missing

Few days later, while Austin is sleeping at his home, he is disturbed by a call on his cell phone. He wakes up and answers the call:

‘Hello?’

‘Mr. Austin, your brother is missing from the hospital’ a woman speaks from the other line.

Austin gets alarmed hearing this he gets up and asks:

‘What the hell do you mean?’

‘Please come here immediately, we can explain’

He hangs up his call and prepares to leave.

Half an hour later, he arrives at the hospital in his car. He enters inside furiously and yells at two nurses standing outside room 427,

‘What the hell were you two doing? You were supposed to guard him!’

‘Yes, but he didn’t escape from the door. He escaped from the windows’

‘Windows? Did he climb down?’

‘Must have’ the other nurse replies.

Austin stressfully rushes towards the psychiatrist’s room. The nurses follow him.

Moments later, while he is at Doctor Jeff’s room, he exclaims:

‘You’re going to be in great trouble if you don’t find him, you were responsible for him and now he is gone’

‘Look Mr. Austin, we are more concerned about him than you are. I have sent a team of cops to search him. Just be patient, let’s hope for good’

‘He must be all alone outside’ Austin cries, ‘he might die if they don’t find him’

‘Well he is more dangerous to society as compared to people who can be a danger to him’

‘…I just don’t understand one thing’ he says after thinking for a while, ‘I saw him locked with straps on his bed. How could he possibly escape?’

‘Well, it’s my assumption that he didn’t do this alone. I’m sure someone else was involved behind this?’

‘You mean the nurses?’

‘Possibly, but we can’t claim right now. First we need to find Trevour’

The nurse arrives and opens the door from behind Austin and says:

‘Look what is this’ she shows a piece of white paper.

‘Where did you get this?’ Austin asks snatching it from her.

‘Under Trevour’s pillow’ she answers.

The letter states:

“I escaped because I’m not mad, I’m perfectly ok. Don’t worry and please don’t try to find me. I’m going back to Lindsay my love”

Austin gets anxiously worried after reading this and says:

‘This love story wasn’t meant to have a happy ending’

Two Months Earlier

May

In Vienna, Trevour Karl was a twenty-five years old guy who had a very loving and caring heart for everyone. He had a creative mind of poetry writing. He lived with his elder brother Austin Karl. Their parents had deserted them several years ago. Since then, Austin was looking after his brother. Trevour was jobless and survived because of his brother’s earnings.

Other than this, Trevour was in love with Lindsay Swank a girl of his age who lived in his neighborhood. He was very much passionate about her and had many dreams or fantasies of achieving her and living a married life with her. Lindsay and he were just friends, but he believed that their relationship something was more than this.

One ordinary day, Trevour was walking in his area’s streets. As he walks past another lane, he hears Lindsay talking to someone. He follows her voice and goes to see her. He finds her, and sees her talking to another guy on a bike. She seemed to be enjoying that guy’s company. This expression of enjoyment in her face seemed to annoy Trevour and he angrily goes towards them. That guy leaves on his bike and Trevour comes towards Lindsay,

‘Hi Trevour, what’s up?’ Lindsay asks him.

‘Who was he? What was he saying?’

‘He was my friend in university, we just met after three years’

‘What sort of friend?’

‘What do you mean by that?’

‘I mean to say…’ he says getting straight to the point, ‘that I didn’t like you smiling with him. I can’t see you enjoying with any guy other than me’

‘That’s rubbish Trevour’ she says closing her eyes. ‘You know we are just friends’

‘No we are more than that!’ he yells.

‘I’m not your girl friend Trevour’

Saying this she leaves him angrily and walks away quickly. Trevour gets painfully disturbed hearing this.

That night, Trevour was lying on his bed but couldn’t sleep as Lindsay’s words were echoing in his mind.

‘I’m not your girl friend Trevour’

He gets up from his bed and cries a little. Slowly he gets mad on himself as he begins to hurt himself, by punching his wrist twice on his mirror and breaking it causing his arm to bleed.

The Con Couple
Somewhere in Vienna, there was a con couple of a guy and girl, Rupert and Pamela. They used to con people by first making them fall in love and then secretly taking away their money or any other possessions.

One night while the couple was at a bar, they were having a beer. Rupert was counting some money. Pamela asks him:

‘How much so far’

‘Well, it’s not much. We need more money’

‘Whom should we target this time?’

‘I think I’ll go for it this time’ he replies looking around.

‘Should we pick someone here?’

‘No, this time I’ll play, and I know three girls that can befooled with my charms’

‘Whatever you do’ she says taking a sip, ‘this time we have to grab a heavier amount of money’

‘No problem’

An hour later, they are standing outside the club. Pamela asks him:

‘So what’s the plan for tomorrow?’

‘I’ll go on a date. You stay at home’

Then his eyes suddenly see a guy who was standing next to a BMW car. He points that guy and says:

‘How about this, you go and woo this guy and con him within one week’

‘…I can’ she replies after thinking for a while, ‘he seems rich but not difficult’

‘Just get me his car keys, I want his car’

‘Ok’

‘Your name’s Brenda for him’

She follows their appointed guy and Rupert makes a call from his cell phone to some girl.

Lindsay with Rupert
Next day’s afternoon, Lindsay is at a restaurant waiting for someone. Moments later, Rupert arrives and walks towards her table. She stands up and says:

‘Good afternoon Michael, you are late but I liked waiting’

He gives a gentle smile to amuse her and sits in front of her.

‘…So what’s up?’ Lindsay asks after a while.

‘Oh…well I’ve been thinking about you since long. I mean I’ve been waiting for this date’

She gets a little more amused.

‘So Michael, what are you having’ she says.

‘Oh yeah of course, let’s order’

Moments later, after they are done with their lunch, Rupert asks curiously:

‘So when are you taking me to your home?’

‘Soon within this week’

He crosses his fingers under the table and says:

‘Thanks for the lunch’

That evening, Trevour was lying on his bed, day dreaming his future life with Lindsay. He was planning to propose his love for her but was very much frightened of getting rejected. This was the greatest fear of his life, due to which he didn’t express his love yet.

He sat up and imagined his life without Lindsay for a while thinking if he loses her one day. This thought disturbs him making him feel if there could be more boys in her life, so he creates a stanza of a poem ‘Love Race’: