Shravan stood beside the window  and rolled his eyes  to the distant trees disappointed ,after searching the jewellery box inch by inch almost. ..

    Ranjith was checking each jewel with a magnificent lense in hoping to get any cues. ...

They were sitting at ramnath s study. ...

   " uncle must be conveying something really important. ..obviously, he needed this kind of secure. ..let's see. .."

  Sumo said hopefully. ..

Ranjith put the lense down with a negative nod. ..

  Shravan  took his laptop and read the mails. ..

  Probably, he would have read those mails more than hundred times, still didn't get anything strange. ..

   He connected the printer to the laptop, clicked the mail to print. ..

   While the printer was on process, shravan hold his bridge of the nose in thinking something. ...

      " Ranjith. ...I think the mails would be the keys. ..when I saw the printout that day, I see something strange ...let me see. .."

    Shravan pulled the sheet from the printer. ...

" look at this Ranjith. .."

Shravan turned to him as he was not responding. ..He threw the pencil at Ranjith who was leaning at the chair , partially closing his eyes. ..

  " get up man. .."  He shook Ranjith. ..

" arey. ..the battery got down yaar. ..order some pizzas. ..With extra cheese. .."

   Ranjith demanded. ..

Shravan's grey matter sparkled. ..He looked at alarmed. ..

    He read each words of the mail carefully including the space and symbols. ...

  His eyes shone to got something. ...

" Ranjith. ..look at this. .."

Ranjith who already was running out of battery clucked and returned back to sleep. ..

  " what's that shravan. .?"

Sumo asked eagerly. ...

" the morse code. ..."

" Morse code. .?"

While sumo asked baffled, Ranjith reached shravan instantly. ..

  He joined shravan to read them. ..

'Pick those pizzas which I have ordered. ...don't forget to get extra cheese. !.!.!!!'

    Shravan  wrote down the symbols. ..

'.!.!.!!!'

   "Yes. ..morse code. ..."

He leapt in joy. ..and punched Ranjith. ..

" will you tell me what do you mean. .?"  Sumo gave a blank expression. ..

   Shravan made her to sit beside him. ..

" sumo. ..morse code is a kind of sign language we use for secret investigations consists of dots and dashes  (.&-)"

" Papa used exclamation symbol instead of a dash that looks like a normal sentence. ..let's read it. .."

    Shravan leaned close to the paper to decipher the dots, and symbols including the space. ..Ranjith followed him at second hand. ..

    After a while, they both looked each other confused even more. ..

"Ranjith. ?"

  They both said at a time. ..

  Shravan scrutinised his eyes at Ranjith. ..

  " uncle  was great. ..He remembered me at the tight spot ..He must  have ordered pizza for me. ..that too with extra cheese. .."

  Ranjith jerked ,overwhelmed. ..

" I don't think so. .."

Shravan frowned. ..

" pizza. ..cheese. ..Ranjith. .."

Shravan was repeatedly connecting those words. ..

    " Ranjith. ..have ever papa discussed you anything related to pizza. .?or. ..have you ever been to a pizza corner with him. .? Focus. .. Remember and recall "

Shravan encouraged him in expecting a cue that ramnath  had stated with Ranjith. ..

  Ranjith scratched his forehead. ..

   " shravan. ..Once uncle told me to pick the pizza which he had ordered. ..for our boys. ."

    Shravan and sumo didn't wink, listening to him focused. ..

" I remember the same words of him exactly what he had written in the mail. ."

'Pick those pizzas which I have ordered. ..don't forget to get extra cheese. ..'

  Shravan sat straight. ..

" then. .?"  His eagerness soared. .

  "  when I delivered the pizza to him, he scribbled something behind the bill and gave it to me with a word that I should keep it safe until he asks it  return . .."

Shravan stood up in a electrifying speed. ..

  He rubbed his palms together tensed. ..

" where's it. .?"

Ranjith took his wallet and searched the bill. ..

  Shravan grabbed the bill hurriedly. ..His heart pounded hard ...He turned the bill and threw his teary eyes at the scribbled words. ..

'Latitude is Flatitude '

  "Latitude is Flatitude. ..latitude is Flatitude. ..."

Shravan paced the room aimlessly. ..He racked the hair distressed. ...

Sumo and Ranjith looked at shravan unsure of his thoughts. ..

    'Latitude is Flatitude '

  The sentence  was familiar to him yet, he found it difficult to pinpoint what it's. ..

     He clenched his eyes and took a deep breath. ..

His thoughts raced back to his childhood. ..

   " why does my prince look so  sad. .?"

Ramnath raffled kid Shravan's hair fondly. ...

" Papa. ..geography....always I confuse with latitude and longitude. ..."

His face turned down. ...

" is it so. .?now. ..tell me what's confusing you. ..let me see if I could help you. .."

 
" Papa. ..latitude is a imaginary line that's drawn horizontally over the globe. ....longitude is a vertical line same way. .."

" okay. ..what's wrong in it. ..?"

" I always interchange them. ..latitude as vertical and longitude as horizontal. .."

Kid Shravan's face turned to a sad grimace that looked certainly cute. ..

Ramnath laughed at his childishness. ..

" that's all. ?" He raised his brow. .."it's not difficult as I thought. .."

  Kid shravan frowned to his papa. ..

" Papa. ..you don't know how much it's hard to remember. .."

  Ramnath sat beside him. ..

" here you go. ...just remember the word. ..'Latitude is Flatitude '..."

Kid shravan smiled, nodding satisfactorily. ..

" Papa. ..i could remember easily. ..so, latitude is a flat line. .means, a horizontal line. .."

Kid shravan jumped in joy, clapping his hands. ...saying, "my papa is the best pappa. ..."

  
Shravan came back from his memory. ..

  " it's a sentence to remember something that doesn't actually related to it...."

" means. .?"  Sumo looked him puzzled. ..

" the password is. .."

Shravan paused a second and spelled the word. ..

  " MNEMONICS "

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Here we go with the key that accounted the first mail. ...

  Still, a lot to unveil. ..

Boring. ?sorry then. ..

Let me know your views on this clues. ..

Love,

Arulpirai. .