• The choking incident in the park
  • Getting questioned by Saad while awaiting the dreaded phonecalL
  • Receiving the call and Saad going down instead - feels guilty
  • Goes to family friend’s house on an excuse just to spy on the situation off the balcony
  • Sees Saad getting stuffed into the minivan
  • Calls the assailant’s mum and tells her to come over for dinner
  • She calls the son and demands he come home
  • Saad calls him from a payphone after he’d been dropped off en route to the lake. He was the second call after his older brother

Branch 2

  • Saad goes downstairs and scares off the gang

It took a long time to get him to come clean.

What happened?

I choked him

You choked him out?

I asked him why he was worried about cops and he told me to fuck off and I grabbed his neck like this.

He held his arms out straight like a blank and pinched his thumb and fingers in a vice.

He couldn’t breathe for a second and then I got freaked out and let go.

He told me he was going to kill me and then he said he was going to get his boys.

Then what.

Then I left.

You walked home? You weren’t afraid of getting jumped?

I’m not afraid of him or them.

His phone rang. It was Sagoo.

He put it to his ear and some auditory mumble, short and sweet, could be percepted.

“Aight,” Ranbir saif

“He asked me to come downstairs”

“You’re not going down there”

Why not im not scared.