Samuel holds the two coffee cups while walking towards the ICU. Harry is sitting on the hospital bench feeling tired and sleepy due to the exhaustion. He tried to close his eyes for some time but his backache is not helping him with it. And it is not just backache; he is frustrated with his life. He needs a purpose to lead his life but none was there. He has a wife with whom he is going through a separation. He loved her once and may be still but the feelings are buried so deep now that it feels like ages when he was in a happy relationship. Work is everything he has now to keep his mind diverted but his body is not helping him. He tries to extend his boundaries while working and also to avoid going back home. Home is a place he feels empty within and all the troublesome memories and the pain comes rushing back to him whenever he is at home. And after Sara leaving house there is no point in going back to the place which is filled with the ghost memories. He has no one waiting for him back there; no one needs him there as no one is there. So, the work is the only thing which makes him hold on to the life and to continue with the living.
Samuel cleared his throat making Harry aware that he is approaching towards him. He noticed the cups of coffee in his hands and motioned forward in order to grab one. He is relieved after taking a sip. Nothing works better than a cup of coffee when he is tired.
"You should take a rest. I will be here and we will keep in touch. I will keep informing you, I promise" said Samuel.
"I am not going anywhere" replied Harry firmly.
"But you look tired. I am afraid you will get sick like that."
"Don't acts like my mother, I am fine."
Samuel gave him a look telling him REALLY.
"I am fine…" Harry responded with a little bit more pressure.
"Where would you go with that attitude?"
"Did the woman wake up?"
"No, not yet. I just checked with the Doctors. The lady is in shock. After all, her son was attacked by some lunatic girl."
"Is there someone really escaped from the mental asylum" inquired Harry.
"I asked. It's not the case. Weird, right. Suddenly from somewhere a crazy girl show up on a door attacked the person in front of her and then vanished. I mean practically vanished. We tried all the CCTVs. There is no trace. As if she vanished in the thin year. No camera caught her. According to the neighbors she is not suppose to be so smart to hide herself that well."
"It's lot weirder than that. Something is really fishy. I can smell it."
"What do you mean?"
"While talking to the neighbor across the lane that saw the girl with a weapon told me she was holding a knife but the boy is wounded by the gunshot."
The statement caused Samuel perplexed. "So the girl didn't attack him. But the neighbor said she did."
"No, she never said that. She only said that she saw a crazy girl with a knife who ran away after shouting and all. Maybe she is not the person who committed the crime. Someone else attacked the boy" explained Harry.
"Then who was that crazy girl and the most important question is who attacked that boy and why?" asked Samuel.
"May be the mother has some answers" said Harry in a hope.
"I hope so as there is no lead on the suspect (the girl) and somehow the weapon (the knife) is not found too" sighed Samuel.
"But the knife is not weapon" reminded Harry.
"Mrs. Robinson said it was covered with the blood. Someone was attacked by that knife if not the Parker boy" said Samuel.
"But no such case is registered like that. No violence or attack has been committed yet and if it would had happened then we would have known that"
"That's true only if the attacked person had made some report about it. What if there is no record because none was reported?"
"But why would anyone do that?" wondered Harry.
"The person who knows her, maybe protecting her" assumed Samuel.
"That's one assumption"
"I am sorry Pal right now the assumptions are the only thing we can gather"
"What about the blood spots we found?" asked Harry?
"There are going through analysis, we will get the report about that tomorrow" answered Samuel.
"And there is no trace of that girl?" Harry asked again.
"Not yet" Samuel answered. "We will find her. Surely we will" Samuel said in assurance.
Samuel checked his phone as it was ringing.
"Hello!!" He answered the phone.
"Yes, speaking"
"Oh really now. That's great. Wait for me. I am just coming there"
Harry raised his eyebrow in questioning.
"We are not much out of luck my dear friend" Samuel with a hint of excitement in his voice.
"Got a lead?" wondered Harry.
"Better. Found the girl" Samuel said with a spark.
This makes Harry surprised as it was not something he expected at all.
"Don't get too excited. We just got her on one of the camera" said Samuel.
Harry sighed.
"Apparently when she ran she got herself captured in one of the camera outside the block where attack was committed. Now we have something except a theory of a mysterious lunatic girl escaped from the imaginary nut house. The girl is real at least" Samuel said with some relief.
Harry laughed on the Samuel statement.
"No really. I was beginning to think that she never existed" Samuel said in a very serious tone.
"She does exist" Harry confirmed.
"Now what does that make of us?" Samuel said in wonder.
"Let see…" Harry remarked.
Hold on man!! Where do you think you are going? Samuel asked.
"With you" Harry answered in a straight voice.
"Yeah… I don't think so" Samuel said while gesturing his hands in a no motion. Samuel continued before Harry could utter a single word. "Someone needs to be here just in case".
"I am not going to babysitting here" Harry said with frustration.
"I never said that" Samuel gave Harry the best expression he could for letting him goes alone.
"Okay!!!" Harry said in defeat.