Knowing Deming"s objective of coming to the restaurant and after cursing him in his heart, he reluctantly went to call his friend who owns this restaurant.
All this time, Deming was beautifully sipping his bubble tea with all ease as if all his objectives will soon be fulfilled. Little did he know that his actions are all monitored from the moment he stepped down on the ground of London.
Sometime he do felt that someone was following him, but he didn"t paid any heed to it.
After Rick ended the call, a staff soon came to them and led them to the surveillance room of the restaurant.
"Show us the footage of Thursday afternoon, from the camera that focuses table number 15 and the ones that are around it", Rick ordered.
Deming took a seat a little far from the operator but he can still see the screen clearly from the place he sat.
The operator gave a quick nod to them and began to swipe his hand professionally on the keyboard.
The CCTV footage of the Thursday afternoon began playing and soon Rick can be seen on the screen, coming in the restaurant wrapping his hand around a Caucasian young girl.
At this moment, Rick turned his head to see the expression on Deming"s face who was watching the footage with a great focus. He thought he would ultimately detect any wrong feelings of Deming if his expression or the colour of his eyes get changed looking at his girl. But it remained all still as before. He didn"t find any change in his expression or eyes, when the screen displayed his girlfriend. It seemed like, he really wasn"t talking about his girlfriend the other day. He sighed in deep relief.
They took the seats on table number 15 and ordered their lunch and as the video was playing, the screen went black and thin white line came in between the screen.
"What went wrong?" Rick asked furiously. It made him puzzled.
"Sorry Sir. I don"t know. Let me check", the operator shook his head and went to check what went wrong with the video.
After few trials, the operator said with a little disappointed voice, "Sorry Sir, I think that day something wrong happened with that very camera that made it lose to record the footage after 12:45 ."
"How can your restaurant be so irresponsible? I will ..."Rick was in the mid of interrogating the operation when an insane chilling laughter rang in his ears.
He instantly turned to look at Deming who was laughing but his face has turned all cold and eyes into dark clouds.
"Bro, don"t scare me like that. It was just a CCTV footage. What"s wrong with you? Have you turned insane just like that?" Rick gulped down his own saliva which has come out in fear. Deming"s icy demeanor has scared him.
"So I was right. My actions and my actions here are getting monitored. Someone is hiding her from me. Preventing me from reaching her. Such a dangerous audacity is only his cake", he said without giving any attention to Rick"s previous words.
The operator was s.h.i.+vering seeing the person in from of him with a high domineering aura. For him, Deming had become someone who had come to slaughter the whole world. His air around him was so ice cold that he can"t help but s.h.i.+ver.
"Bro, I really don"t understand what are you saying? Can you be a little more clear?" Tick said out being a little impatient.
"Is there any camera that can reveal the way to ladies washroom?" Deming asked in a cold voice.
The operator took a whole minute to get the words of Deming and that too after he felt a nudge of Rick. It was all because, the fear has blocked the working of his brain.
"Ye...Yes S-Sir. There is one...one camera on the corridor that can feature the people entering and exiting the washro...om", the operator said in a stuttering voice.
Deming gave him a look that again scared him to death. Rick hurriedly translated his scary look, "Hey, what are you waiting for? Your death will arrive if you don"t move forward. Just go quickly and play it. Go...go...fast".
The operator hastily sat on the chair and pressed some b.u.t.tons on the keyboard with s.h.i.+vering fingers and soon the footage was being played.
The footage was clean and clear. Soon a young girl with a slim and slender figure was seen. She was wearing a white ruffle blouse teamed up with a pair of grey flare pants. Her back was facing the camera. But he was sure, this was her. No one else but her.
The ice around him soon melted and his eyes got a lot better. His lips alse lifted a little curvier into a small yet beautiful contented smile. He wasn"t that fierce as before. Seeing him at ease, Rick and the operator too relaxed a bit.
Feeling the changes in his demeanor, Rick too averted his gaze back to the screen to look what"s so special has come up to make him melt like that.
"Wow wow!! so you were asking about this girl. Let me see her face, I want to know what"s so special about her?" Rick said while looking amusedly at the screen.
On the screen, the silhouette of the girl went inside the washroom. Deming came forward impatiently and quickly made a fast forward with a speed of 0.75X speed and soon the door of washroom reopened and out came the same girl in white and grey outfit, which brought a big smile satisfying smile on his lips.
He closed his eyes after pausing her beautiful face on the screen.
So beautiful!! It was her. It was not his another void dream which he was fantasizing but her real bone and flesh. She was here all the time, in London. At last he found her. Yes, he found her.