Unusually Unusual!

Chapter 6

I looked up to see that we were alone, and all the other goons were lying. On. The. Ground. Unconscious. Suddenly Rajesh jumped on the masked man and punched him in the face.

That man losing his balance, fell down on the ground, but quickly got up and gave a swift but hard punch to Rajesh in the stomach. He stumbled a little bit.

"Rajesh!" the other man made a mistake to look at me, Rajesh took the opportunity and kept his index and middle finger on the side of the neck of that man and twisted it. Surprisingly enough the man fell on the ground, unconscious.

I without wasting any time ran towards Rajesh and hugged him. He stiffened, then relaxed and hugged me back. For once I thought that his breath hitched, but I shrugged it off.

I was too scared to think about it. I felt safe in his embrace, I hugged him even more tightly when I remembered how he disappeared before.

I pulled away and started hitting his chest softly. He caught my hands and scowled saying the words that I least expected from him in this very situation.

"You hit like a girl for the first time!" he exclaimed showing his surprise. My jaws dropped.

"SHUT UP!" I yelled only to receive his deep laugh. His laugh somehow made me relax. Seeing him no one could think that he was- I mean he is in danger. How could he laugh like that after fighting with that masked man? Masked man... then I remembered the reason of punching him like a girl. Wait! What do I mean like a girl? I am a girl. Ugh! "Why did you disappear earlier?"

"That" his humored expression was replaced with a serious one, he sighed, turned me around and pointed at the unconscious bodies lying here and there "To do this. Did you think that I was a coward who ran away to save his life?" he raised his eyebrow.

I couldn't help but blush, true to his words I thought the same. "I uh I... I" instead of agreeing with him, I changed the subject.

"That" I pointed at the masked man. "Who is he? Let's see his face" he looked between me and the other person a few times then gave a big time sigh, nodding. He removed the mask of that person. After seeing his face I fell on my knees. The person behind that mask was none other than the murderer himself. Rajesh dropped his body and in the next moment he was squatting down in front of me wiping my tears. "He fo...found us? He came to ki...kil...l" I couldn't even complete my sentence as a sob escaped from my mouth and I completely broke down

"Don't worry, you are safe now, he is unconscious. Okay, from now on I will protect you" he said looking in my eyes. I couldn't help but ask him to promise me. "I promise you."

I quickly hugged him feeling a little bit strong. I was a type of girl who gets scared easily yet I didn't show this side to anyone. Only my parents knew how weak I was. And today Rajesh had seen the real me. I can say that he is quite shocked about this but was smart enough not to comment about it.

"It would be best if we keep on moving" Rajesh said as he pulled away after sometime.

"But this man..." I started saying.

"Don't worry about it I am going to take care of him." He said while carrying him on his shoulder like a sack of potatoes "Ajay will come rescue us next morning until then we have to keep him. I presume you don't have any problem with this arrangement and don't worry he'll be unconscious"

I nodded and started to walk beside him. I don't know why I did the next thing I did, I took Rajesh's left hand in my right hand. He raised an eyebrow at me. I shook my head rapidly yet didn't leave his hand. He tightened his grip as a response.

"By the way, you look beautiful in that saree of yours" eyeing me from top to bottom few times. I for sure knew that I was a complete mess after running for that long. I was about to mutter a thanks when he added, "you actually looked like a girl."