The Bully

It was a lazy day, I was at my handwriting class struggling with x and z, it was around 6:28 PM when I got a call from an unknown number, at first, I thought that it was one of my classmates Damodaran who was suspended for a weird haircut for a couple of days, I was not allowed to use phone so I declined the call after winning the war with x and z, I left the class- as soon as I entered the busy road I slid my phone from my pants and called on that number again, “Hallo” I said when the call was picked, there was no reply, I hung him up and called him again in a hope to hear my friend Damodaran voice! “Hallo, Damodaran,” I said “Aee this is thala Vijay speaking who is this,” said a voice then I discovered that it wasn’t Damodaran it was a prank call! I hung the call, after a few steps of walking the person called again, I picked up the call I could hear a few voices laughing “hey fool this is don speaking, lets go and watch a movie” said the voice I could hear those bunch of idiots screaming and saying bad words, I knew it was Gopal one of my bullies “Listen Gopal I know this is you stop playing the fool with me, you come to school tomorrow then you see what I do” I said in an angry voice, Gopal and his friends did a failed attempt to threaten me on the annual sports meet, I got very angry I wanted to beat then badly, very badly, thinking of that just reminded me of what my father said me once 'never use physical strength on your enemies, use your damn brain'. I was walking near a small police station and I got an idea “Listen Gopal, I am near Choolai police station and whatever you said is  been recorded I am sure you don’t want me to show the recording the police” I said, the phone was actually recording the call but the file was not in an playable format, I could not hear what the bully  spoke as he and his companions-in-crime  were speaking simultaneously I hung up the call, as I crossed the busy road leaving the police station behind they called me again I declined the call, after a couple of minutes they called me again, this time with a different number, I was sure it was them,I answered the call “Hallo I am calling from Puliyanthope police station..” “Shut up douche bag I know it's you” I said before he completed his words and hung up the call, this time I blocked the caller I was at the extent of my anger I had made up my mind of showing the recording to the principal, they called me again with an different number, I answered it “I am your mother calling from your fathers police station” said a voice “hey man this time I am serious, cops are standing right in front of me should I show the recording to them don’t make me mad I am not kidding” I replied, this time they hung up I went to my house I was furious I banged the door, as soon as my mother opened it I went inside and turned on my PC and as it turned on I accessed cloud storage where all the recorded calls were stored automatically, as I synced the call recorder app, all my recordings were updated and then I started searching ways for converting those to any playable format, I had decided to take my phone to school to show the recording to the principal, I could clearly imagine my self-talking to the principal in my mind my imagination broke when I got an call from an unknown number, this time the number was different, “what the heck! This is the third number” I said to myself and answered it “Hey C this is Kamalesh Speaking boy..” “What is this going on?”I questioned him “What happen, did you get any calls again?”  He said “Oh yeah! And I think you and Gopal are also involved in it!” I said “No no no boy I am not involved they were my friends who called you, they took your number,”He said in a low tone “You gotta be kidding me, dude..” “Sorry boy, this will not happen next time,”he said before I could complete my sentence! The word sorry  was totally unexpected “Please control your friends I am very angry, you call me and waste my time-I don’t like it we just have a few months together(The board examinations for 12th standard were going to start in  four months) lets just be friends” I said “I know boy I am your friend only I assure you this will not happen if next time you get any call you can complain it to police I will support you”He said, I was shocked, “It's okay” I said and hung up the call. “WTF! Was that” I said to myself “he just apologized” I added, I shut down my computer and went to my room and started watching game of thrones on my phone after seeing two episodes continuously I was tired and decided to take a nap, it was 10 PM as I laid down on my bed my mother called me for dinner as I woke up I got another call that was the fourth phone number from which they called me, I picked up the call I could hear Gopal saying “Hey C this is Gopal” he said,

“ya say,” I said

“listen  boy I am sorry for what had happened, you please don’t say anything to anyone, not even to your friends because my name will only go”(by 'go' he meant Spoil,as it would bring him a bad name in school)

“Well okay, but I should not get any calls in future”

“I promise you won’t get any calls”

“Okay then fine!”

“Okay boy ate ah”

“sorry?”

“had dinner?”

“no, not yet!”

“Okay boy bye!”

“Bye!” and he hung up

Thinking of what had happened, I just laughed out the whole thing……..