Ok lets us know who these [K]arthi are ….
Raj, karthi and arthi did their schoolings together. It was around 12 years before that they met. Oxford school was very busy then as it was admission day. (This school is no way related to Oxford College in UK). There were lot of young boys and girls who had come that day to attend the entrance exams (!?) for the school admissions.
Needless to say that Raj, karthi and arthi were among them.
Karthi was a son of a middle class father who had big dreams of his son! His father was a middle class government employee who struggled hard to meet both the ends (month start and month end). Month ends are usually had lots of fights between his mother and father over lots of issue. But they had this great desire and dream that his son will study and become a scholar someday.
Karthi grew up under the commanding father and his loving mother. His parents had lots of dreams of him and he understood them. Even at that small age he was more mature than most others.
Arthi …. She was not the most beautiful girl around …… neither is she the most intelligent girl around. But she was beautiful and intelligent. She was the youngest daughter of a police commissioner who looked pretty big and threatening. She grew up pretty close to his father and she had her fathers characters …… commanding and arrogant!
Karthi and Arthi were school mates from the kinder garden days. Karthi hated arthi because he hated her father. Once when he was playing football (which his father bought him after lot of struggle and cries), her father jeep went over the football and crushed it. After that he never liked their family except her mother.
Arthi had everything that karthi dreamt of and obviously he hated her. Arthi had no big feelings for him. Karthi for her is like just another boy ….. Until they met in oxford school.
Raj has never met them before and he was also attending the entrance exams and you know what, they were all sitting on the same desk. Arthi was sitting in the middle with Raj and karthi on either side. Arthi on getting seated looked at karthi and gave him a smile. Karthi just gave her a menacing look than she turned the other way. Karthi thought "Do I look more frightening that your monster father".
Question papers were distributed and they started to answer the questions. After half an hour into the exam karthi began to realize that he has no more ink left in his pen. He though about failing the exam and his father looking at him with his leather belt. Ok no need to panic he said to himself. He looked around the people around. Arthi was the one nearby. He called her in a slow voice.
"Arthi ……. Arthi ……. " She turned back…..
"Hey do you have one more pen with you."
"Mmmmmm ……. No "she gave him the menacing look back.
Karthi became pale. He didn't know what to do. He thought "is it possible to commit suicide with the help of a pen without ink? "
He was hearing in the background his father shouting at him with the belt on his hand. Suddenly he heard a voice which he had heard never before. It was Raj who was watching all this after finishing the exam.
"Hey take my pen Return it after the exam" Raj said to him.
Karthi thought God had sent this boy as a messenger to help him.
"Thank you" he said and got his pen and started to write the exam. This is how Raj and karthi came to knew each other.
So Now we know how close karthi, arthi and Raj are with each other. Let's cut the flashback here and continue with our friend's project!
So Raj after striking upon his plan to get his friends help …… called vinoth. Raj is not mad to call vinoth …… to get karthi and arthi's help. Who is vinoth? What's that he has to do with the [k]arthis?
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