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"Sir, I stay in slums inside the Wireless Gate. I am here to seek advice from you. If you see someone who goes to a particular place, every night with the same clothes, dressed as a strip dancer but in the morning you see her in the innocent cloth covered with everything".

The boy's explanation was quite vague. His colorful shirt and dirty jeans was such that he looked like a middle class family than a slum boy. Jehangir's gave a confused look at the boy.

"Son, could you explain me a little more, clearly?" requested Jehangir.

"Sir, I work in a garage but at the same time, I study in a school for street adolescence. Whenever my mates and I do classes, I see the girl who usually come to our place to sit and take photographs of our classes and the school as well. Until then, I followed her home. She had lots of street photographs but some broken glasses of wines as well as burnt cigarettes on her living room but on her room, it was the neatest one till date. Without her consent, I entered her home. Until she entered, she just threw me out of the house with a voice of a drunken lady. On the contrary to it, in the morning, she continued to take our street photographs but whenever I tried to ask her, she could not remember anything or you could say, a slightly different character. As I talked to my teacher about it, he recommended you, as a psychiatrist friend" explained the street kid.

"Well dear, that's a serious one. Who is your teacher?" asked Jehangir.

"Sadek Rahman, sir" said the street kid.

"Sadek? What is he doing here? He's supposed to be in USA, doing his job" exclaimed Jehangir.

"Yes, I am one of his closest students, Kamal" the street kid introduced himself.

Sadek and Jehangir were high-school mates where their pranks became legends. One of the famous pranks was before the graduation time where he convinced one of their classmates, Rohit whose lover, Catherina was about to get married. Rohit was so devastated that he rushed into the cafeteria.

"Hey" sighed Rohit.

"Hi" embarrassed Catherina who was sitting in the cafeteria beside her friends.

"I heard that you are getting married?" asked Rohit with embarrassment.

"What do you mean?" inquired Catherina.

Rohit apologized and quickly turned away until Catherina called "stop right here, Mr. Rohit!"

She walked near him.

"I know you love someone" interrogated Catherina.

"E-excuse me?" stammered Rohit.

Catherina silenced him. She widened her mouth sensuously and kissed him in front of the whole cafeteria. Kamal and Jehangir smiled and their pranks became successful. In which means they were trying to reveal their true feelings.

In the present, Jehangir commented "a lame prank but at the same time, it was the good ol'days"

"You guys had been a lot of fun" chuckled Kamal.

Jehangir smiled.

They got out of the hospital and went to the grocery store. The shopkeeper looked jolly than his usual 'tired' self. He flipped his back hair as the full moon spectacle started to sprinkle as the fireworks because of the reflection of the tube light.

"Hey, you are looking radiant today? What's new?" asked Jehangir.

"My boy, I became a grandfather to the beautiful granddaughter" cheerfully jumped out the shopkeeper.

"Congratulations, Uncle!" said Jehangir cheerfully.

A girl rushed into the store and accidentally kicked the multi-colored volleyball in the store. Her child-like expressions made both the old shopkeeper and Jehangir looked awkward. She was wet and dressed as a toddler: a skirt, a lollypop in hand and a pink ballerina t-shirt.

"Sorry uncle, I will never do that again" apologized the girl with the childlike innocence.

"It is okay, my dear Amelia" softly accepted by the shopkeeper.

By the time, Kamal arrived from the corner of the shop, he saw the girl who was smiling as of the toddler.

"That's Aminah" whispered Kamal to Jehangir.

The girl slowly opened the door and ran away. In that time, the raindrops continuously flowed down. The antics of her made Jehangir's mouth wide open.

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