After Ramu cut the call, Rani cried out loud and started to think about her past days with Ramu. Mind is the only vehicle which travels very fast than any other thing in the world. Rani was doing her third year Engineering in Instrumentation and Control Engineering in a college on the outskirts of Chennai. On that day, Rani was going to her college in city bus. In city buses in Chennai, it is a habit of the guys who were hanging in the foot-board of the jam packed buses to give their books/bags to somebody who is sitting by the window side of the bus near the door steps.
On that day, a tall handsome guy named Ramu who looked to be around 23 years of age gave his notebooks to Rani who was sitting in the seat nearby the back door in the bus. Rani collected his books and kept them with her safely. There is an other guy passenger in the bus who stood near Ramu in the second door step asked ramu,"Please give way, I have to get down in the coming signal." It is a bad culture here in Chennai that people get down from the bus even at Signals which is very risky and can cost his/her life.
The bus was jam packed; Ramu was not able to give way to the other person. Ramu decided to get down from the bus for a second and let the other person get down. He stepped down the bus; unfortunately the bus started moving. There was severe traffic on the road; all vehicles started to move fast. Ramu shouted the other guy, "Get down fast, bus is moving!!!". Atlast the other guy got down the bus. By that time, bus started to move fast. Ramu ran hard to catch the bus as this is his last bus to college and leaving the bus could cost his one day absence in college.
Bus started to move really fast. People in the bus shouted at Ramu to leave the bus as it seemed practically impossible to catch the bus at that speed. Ramu ran very fast. Atlast he tried to step into the bus. Unfortunately his leg slipped and he fell down. People got shocked. It looked like he had a severe crashed bones in his legs and he tried to get up, but an uncontrollable water lorry which came very fast smashed him hard. Blood started to peep out of his head and almost all parts of his body and he fell unconscious.
People in the bus and on the road got shocked of the incident. Both the water lorry and the bus stopped. People around figured out that the drunken lorry driver was responsible for this tragedy. Lorry driver was arrested by the traffic police for driving at a very high uncontrollable speed. Few of the people in the bus took the heavily injured Ramu to the hospital. Ramu was taken to the hospital. Traffic was cleared and the bus started moving, after all, these incidents are not new for Chennai roads.
Since the bus was jam packed, Rani didn't realize who fell from the bus. Rani had to get down at the last stop. Her stop came and there were only few people who got ready to get down from bus. But no one came to collect the book. She thought of handing over the books to Bus conductor so that if the book owner gets into bus the next day, he can get it from the conductor. She casually opened the book. A blue-colored hand-written name "Ramu" was written in the book. Also in the last page, she found a Chennai mobile number.
But there is no name associated to the mobile number, so she couldn't conclude it is the mobile number of the person who gave the book to her. She thought for a moment,"Mobile number is here. So there are two possibilities. It should be Ramu's number or any of his friend's number. In both the case, I can hand over the books". She called the mobile number which was written on the last page of the book.
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