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Chapter 1: The Departure

Srihari owned many shops. He had

a chocolate shop, a furniture shop and

a book shop. He wasn't much rich,

but the local kids and adults

adored him. He was very funny and

laughed for everything. Like everybody,

he had a Ford Fiesta, and lived in

a normal house in a normal

city. Everything was so normal that

something just had to happen. Sri-

hari had booked a train to Chennai.

He was going on the Trivandrum

central - MGR Chennai central

mail sf exp. Srihari had once been

on that train. It was always on

time and clean. So he decided to

travel by it. It would departure

from here at 3:00pm and

reach there at 7:45am the next

day. He had also invited 3 of his

best friends, Sundar, Abhiram and

Rudradev. Anyway, Raj, Srihari's

favourite customer, came up today. "I

want a Twix Srihari. Do you have one?"

"Yes, I have it for 72₹, but I

will give it you for 60₹ Bhaiya".

"Ok." Srihari gave him the Twix

and he left. Srihari thought about

tomorrow's train to Chennai. He was

going to enjoy it. Srihari loved to travel

by train. He loved to watch the

scenaries and the iconic clack clack-

cluck-clack sound of the train passing

through the tracks.