Marble seller

Scene#1:
The all three of them sat around the small expandable table with all that they indented to drink. Frankie’s uncle an ex-sailor who never had a chance to see the shore had lost hope in finding a woman to get married, if Frankie could dig his memory then it was rumored that Fenny, his uncle had some one in south America with whom he lived for 5 years .This was during the time when Fenny had cut all his contacts with his family back in India. Frankie remembers his mom talking with his granny ( Fenny’s mom ) that “if he wants to go back let him go back , but let him confirm things with us , my man spoke with him but Fenny boy did not confirm anything”.

Riaz slowly started removing the bottles off the table , all the while Eddy was talking to himself, and Frankie knew what was happening . Riaz put them all on to the fridge and had a chat with Fenn uncle , he had three bottles of beer in his hands which he extended towards Frankie and Eddy. They slowly started sipping , Every thing was calm as they sipped and sipped one after another bottle, Fenny was just a few chairs away sipping on to his local brandy on his bamboo stick mug .It was Eddy who started it .” So it’s true , the bitch ditched poor shushi boy” . Eddy expected a reply and so gave a gap before his next talk. Eddy once again ”You remember that guy , the junior at our school ahhh ! The teacher’s boy , what’s his name? who had a sister ,,,,.Now Frankie started talking “ Devanika……………… and as he said this name his volume went descending and glanced at Riaz “ What? “ asked Riaz, “ why the hell are you staring at me?” . Eddy had already a buzz in him and his side had four empty beer bottles , “ but it wasn’t a secret man , you did try to …hmmmm what do you say for that , hmmm yhea rape her” .
Eddy now remembered what Shakti whispered in his ears as he left home “ don’t get them to talk serious issues , just keep them occupied , don’t keep the door open, lock it, I have asked Fenn uncle to do what ever possible to keep these guys sane, I shall come back at the earliest”.


Scene#2:

Shakthi did not think , he just acted. Off he went to Kumar’s jute tent .
Paandi was going through one of those debonair,s that Riaz hid below the wooden tool box. On seeing Shakti , Paandi started to act fast, but Shakti did not give a damn, he pulled out a cigarette from the old box they shared with Kumar. Puffing vigorously he rang up appa, “ Shakti were are you?, “Appa am on my way stuck at the traffic , what’s it appa , any thing important?, Vishy answered “ Vasu is here , he needs your help, just come”. Shakti felt a bit ok after the call as this was not the first time Vasudevan uncle needed his help. It’s a usual case where in Vasudevan would go off to nobody knows where asking his good friend’s son to take care of his Marble biz for a few days.

Vasudevan a simple man with loads of money , Vishwanathans good friend from their school days, each time Shakti does him the favor , Shakti gets paid which he always rejects with at most humbleness. This time Shakti was not sure what to do. All important papers were handed over to Shakti, this time it was a week as per Vasudevan but Sakthi knew from previous experience that he would extent it. While closing his cars door vasudevan looked at up Shakti and said “ come home tomorrow by around 11 am there are a few more papers you need to see , some pending payments and stuffs. Did Divya ring you up? I had asked her to , is there any thing wrong with the both of you ?.” Now this struck Shathi………………….his inner voice spoke again “no!!!!!!! not again please for gods sake , am starting to hate her”……