DETECTIVE TILAK

AN UNEXPECTED CLIENT

When does your day become short?
No , its not winter I'm speaking of.
Yes , u know it. When u have a heavy load of work which u have to finish , given a deadline in the evening and so the day is finished on the blink of ur eye.
But that wasn't in my case.
Because I never am awake till it is 5 in the evening and never asleep till its 4 in the morn.
I spend all my day asleep.
Most of my colleagues call me nocturnal bcz I start working at around 8 in the night.
And my work?
Well not much , I'm just a private detective, with a tummy, a bald head and no work at all.
From almost a year , I'm totally dumb and lazy.
And so I'm weak at finances and that is the reason I sleep whole day, just to avoid the breakfast in the morning  and lunch in the afternoon.
After I wake up , I go to the tea stall , take out a newspaper and read having my cup of tea.
And while returning , I always give the same reason while paying the vendor, which is,
'Write it down in my account' and the person simply scribbles it down mumbling some bad words about me.
I return at around eleven , and back to my small damp room, where I usually spend most of the time reading Sherlock Holmes again and again.
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It was the 3rd of December , and I was returning from the tea stall , when I saw a woman standing near my room door , and one more thing about me ,
I always expect for the worst , so that when I see the outcome , I'm always happy.
And so I thought the lady was here by mistake, I went to her and said ,
"Excuse me , ma'm , I think Mr.Sharma
( who was another detective who was far more famous than I am)
has his office in the next street"
When I looked at her closely , I found some familiarity in her face.
She replied ,
"But im here to meet , Mr.Tilak, do u know him?"

So awkward , someone comes to ur face and asks 'do u know u' , seriously,
WHAT THE HELL.

Now I know where I had seen her, she was my girlfriend in college !!!!
But I shut my mouth up and simply nodded.

She again asked,
"Hello? I asked , do u know him?"

I replied,
"I am the person ur looking for"

"Sorry, but I have no time for jokes, I know who I am searching for and I have his phone number, so, please mind ur business if u don't know him"

I couldn't take it , so I replied ,
"As u say, Sneha"

"How do u know my name?"

"Who can forget their first girlfriend?"

"Tilak? It really is u!!!! I'm really very sorry if I was rude"

"No that's OK , I'm a bit familiar with the criticism now. By the way , u can come in, if u want !"

"Yeah, sure "

After cleaning the rusty chair , I placed it right in front of the table where I sit.

The first thing that she spoke was,
"U have changed a lot Tilak. The Tilak I knew was far more handsome , and had hair on his head"

"Well, people change , and so have u , Sneha. U look beautiful than before .
Jokes apart, why were u looking for me?"

She initially was a bit shy to talk, then somehow made up her mind and said,

"You see, around a month ago, my nephew that is my brother-in-law's son met with an accident and he died . But..."

"But....u think it was a murder?"

"Exactly"

"Tell me everything that u know and don't miss a single detail"

"Sure.
U see my brother-in-law , Pranav, was not in much of a touch with the family. He used to stay with his wife Mary, and their son , Ravish in London . After his marriage he took flight , for 3 years there wasn't much of a contact with us , and then after 3 years we got a call that Mary was pregnant .
And from then they used to call on every occasions and festivals , birthdays and anniversaries .
And then they had a baby boy.
When he grew 15 years of age , Pranav and Mary decided to come back and stay with us.
Everything was going alright , and when Ravish was about to be 17 , we decided that we will celebrate his 17th birthday in our family farm at Ooty .
And so we went  there ,but the night before the birthday party , we had a small pool party , I don't know why but Ravish wasn't getting into the pool , so my husband, Anurag, thought that he should enjoy , so he pulled him in the pool , but, Ravish and his mother were totally refusing , and so Anurag ,gave up the thought .
But after an hour or so, when we decided that it was time to sleep, we heard a scream, it was Mary and in the pool , there was the body of Ravish , floating lifeless. And that's it."

I noted down some important points and started asking her questions,
"First of all, sorry to ask, but, why me?
I'm no famous detective ."

She answered ,
"I knew that if I went to anybody else they would think that this is a pure accident and wouldn't accept the case. And after all , we hadn't gotten out of our relationship , so I thought that u wouldn't refuse "

She was right, our relationship hadn't ended , it was a mere problem of economic class .
So we had decided that she would stay in touch with me even after marriage , though I never knew when she had gotten married .
She really was smart.
But she spoke up again which made me a bit embarrassed .

"And also seeing at ur condition , I think u are not very busy these days, are u Tilak?"

"Well, whatever it be , I'll take ur case , but one question , why do U  think that this a murder."

"Not only me , but my whole family thinks it is. Half of them think that it is Mary who killed her own child and is planning to kill even her husband for the property."

"And what about the other half?"

"Well, they think it's me"
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