Edwin's plan

Frustration gripped through Edwin, as soon as he saw Ace. He wanted to talk to Kate peacefully, but the entry of Ace from nowhere, made him irritated.

“Ace, please leave.” Edwin said glaring at him.

Ace dragged the chair that was beside him and sat on it asking “Oh Edwin, are we disturbing your privacy?”

Jacob sat beside Kate, smiling at her genuinely. He saw Kate in the inter college competition, in which they lost. From then, he had been roaming around her, asking her out but she didn’t accept him as she had been loving Edwin. Jacob's crush on Kate was a secret, no one knew except Ace. Jacob didn't tell anyone as he didn't want his teammates to misunderstand him and Kate also didn't tell anyone as she didn't want to create more problems. 

Kate held her forehead with her palms when she noticed Jacob staring at her. He kept looking at her without even blinking that was irritating her more.

Edwin asked looking at Ace “Why won’t you leave me alone?”

Ace made a pouty face ruffling Edwin’s hair sarcastically. He said “Because you are so adorable.” He then started to pinch Edwin’s cheeks saying “Your dirty brown eyes, ugly irritating face is so adorable.”

“Ace, stop it.” Shouting that Edwin pushed Ace’s hand from his cheek.

Ace looked at him angrily and asked in his low dangerous tone “Or what?”

Kate slammed the table with her palms shouting “Guys please.”

Ace and Edwin’s gaze fell on Kate, who had been staring at them seriously. She shouted, looking at Ace “Ace, we didn’t do anything to you. Just leave us alone.”

Ace's eyes turned red with her shout. He never liked anyone talking back to him in a rough tone. He moved his chair closer to Kate saying “Here shouts, the cute little girl. You really have the guts to talk back to me, Katie.” He started to stroke her cheek with his finger to scare her.

Kate moved a little back scared when he started to move closer to her. She said “I’m Kate. Not Katie.”

“Oh whoever the fuck you are.” He pointed his finger at her speaking “Remember, I hate when someone shouts at me. I hope you won’t repeat the same mistake again.”

Edwin pulled Ace’s hand back shouting “Leave her.”

Ace then looked at Edwin saying “Yeah, wait I’ll come to you.”

He then looked at Kate again scaring her with his looks. Jacob noticed Kate’s inconvenience so he said looking at Ace “Ace, let’s leave.”

Before Ace spoke anything, Jacob stood from there and dragged Ace along with him. They then sat at the other table staring at Edwin.

Edwin and Kate felt relaxed when they left them. They decided to leave and waited for the bill to pay.

Ace kept staring at Jacob with his raised eyebrow, crossing his arms over his chest.

“What?” Jacob asked when he noticed Ace giving him the questioning look.

“You dragged me because I was scaring her. Am I right?”

Jacob rolled his eyes with his question but immediately his lips curved into a small smile looking at Kate. He replied “Yes. She was not feeling comfortable, Ace.”

“Are you sure about this, Jacob? She is our enemy, man. What if any of our teammates get to know this?” Ace said.

“Enmity is on her college and on few bastards. Not on her, Ace. Besides, no one knows this, right? Except you.”

Ace shook his head annoyed with Jacob’s sentence. He then said “Whatever you say. I hate everyone, who is related to Edwin.”

“I too hate him, Ace. I loathe him. Kate is always with him and their closeness makes me furious. I wish I could break his bones.” Jacob said spitting venom in his words.

Ace saw Edwin for a moment then an evil smile appeared on his lips. He stood from there and walked to the counter while staring at Edwin. He took the ice cream cup then walked to return to his place. When he crossed Edwin’s table, he deliberately spilled his ice cream on Edwin’s head. As soon as Ace did that, Jacob started to laugh looking at Edwin.

“What the-” Edwin gritted his teeth standing from there.

Ace raised his hands in surrender saying “Oops, It’s a mistake.”

Edwin pushed Ace shouting “It’s not a mistake. You did it deliberately.”

Everyone began looking at him with Edwin’s shouts. He pushed Ace angrily shouting “Confess it. You did it deliberately.”

Kate tried to stop Edwin but he was raging with Ace’s behaviour. Ace then pushed Edwin back and spat the remaining ice cream on Edwin’s face shouting “Yes. What can you do?”

Edwin and Ace started to fight holding each other’s collars. Their fight started to intensify, but the staff of the parlour stopped them shouting at them to leave.

Pushing Edwin to the floor angrily, Ace left the place along with Jacob. Edwin felt humiliated after noticing everyone staring and laughing at him. He stood straight clenching his fist. Then he left the place after cleaning himself.

He couldn’t forget that happened in the ice cream parlour. Recalling it, Edwin’s rage started to grow high. He muttered “Bloody immature bastard.”

He called Liam to share his anger but he didn’t lift his call. Angrily, he pushed the bedside table and it fell down making a loud thud. He then called Ralph and kept shouting, pouring all his anger in his words.

“We shouldn’t leave them, Ed. They should pay for the things they did.” Said Ralph.

They talked for few minutes in which they spent most of the time cursing Ace and his gang. Then he cut the call and dozed off while thinking about Ace.

****

Edwin and Ralph were in the store looking at the watches to buy. Edwin thought to take rest, spend the entire day at his house, in the weekend but Ralph spoiled his plan by taking him out and had been making him roam the city along with him.

Irritated with Ralph, Edwin sat on the chair away from the counters, where few of the staff members were chit chatting, while Ralph kept looking at the things to buy. The sudden entry of Ace and Jacob made him shock and more irritated. He muttered “Fuck my life.”

Ace was angry with Jacob as he brought him to the store though they had the option of getting the things at their place, without moving their feet. He sat on the couch, scrolling his cell phone while Jacob was involved in buying the things.

Edwin walked to Ralph, without getting noticed by Ace, as he didn’t want any drama to happen there. He told Ralph about Ace and he asked him to leave the place soon.

“Ed, it’s not his place so that we should leave with his entry. This is a public place. You are such a scared cat.” Ralph said gritting his teeth.

“I’m not scared, Ralph. I’m not in the mood for any dramas now.” Edwin yelled at Ralph. “Fine then. Take your time.”

Edwin then kept quiet and sat on the chair, where he previously sat. He noticed no Ace in his surroundings that relaxed him a bit. But it was vanished when Ace spoke strolling to him “Edwin, what a surprise.”

Ignoring him, Edwin continued scrolling his cell phone. Ace sat beside him and took the cell phone from Edwin’s hands.

“Chatting with girlfriend?” Ace asked laughing.

“Give me my phone.” Edwin tried to take it from Ace's hands but Ace kept irritating Edwin.

Then Ace left throwing Edwin’s cell phone to him, after hearing Jacob calling his name. Edwin clenched his fist and decided that it’s his payback time.

Edwin walked to Ralph telling him the plan that would make Ace gets insulted. Ralph agreed to him chuckling. He asked “What about the cameras? What if they check?”

“Only the camera near the entrance is working. I heard it from the staff. They are still waiting for the person, who can fix it. It’s our time, bro.” Edwin laughed.

“Then proceed.” Ralph smiled.

While Ace was walking, Edwin bumped into him deliberately and dropped a watch in the pocket of Ace’s jacket.  Ace pushed Edwin shouting “Need an eye treatment or what? Can’t you see the person coming in front of you? You piece of shit.”

Edwin raised his hands saying “Sorry. My mistake.”

“Of course, it is.” Shouting at him, Ace and Jacob started to walk away from him. Edwin’s lips curved into a smile while they were leaving. When Ace reached the exit, the security alarm triggered that made everyone run towards Ace.

The security started to check him that made him angry and he started to fight with them shouting “What the fuck! I’ve nothing. Do you know, who I am? I’m the son of Arthur Roberts.”

Edwin and Ralph kept laughing, looking at his shouts. The manager reached the entrance and was petrified after seeing the security quarrelling with Ace.

The manager stopped their quarrel, shouting at the security. He then said looking at Ace “I’m so sorry, sir. They don’t know about you.”

One of the guards said handing the watch to the manager “Sir, we found this in his pocket.”

Ace held the guard’s collar shouting “I fucking don’t know how it is in my pocket.”

The manager stopped him saying “Sir, please leave. I’ll take care of his matter.”

Ace pointed his finger at the guards shouting “I’m not going to leave you.” Then he took out the bundle of cash from his other pocket and threw it on their faces yelling “This bundle is more than this stupid watch's price. This is my range, you bastards.”

“Sir, we are so sorry. Please forgive us.” The manager started to plead him. Then Jacob dragged Ace away from there.

Edwin and Ralph came out of the store and began talking about Ace, while laughing remembering the incident that happened.

Ralph said “It was really fun, Ed. But what if it turned serious to the extent of calling cops?”

“How can you even think that? You know his influence, right? Nothing happens to him.” Edwin rolled his eyes.

“Yeah. Imagine if someone other than Ace, was in that place. The manager might have called cops and resulted in a big scene. But Ace got out of the situation too easily.”

Edwin hummed in response and said “He got insulted in a public place. That’s all I wanted. The plan worked.”

When Ralph was about to say something, they heard Ace’s voice that left them startled.

“So, this is your fucking idea.”  

Edwin and Ralph were rooted to their places when they heard Ace’s voice. Ace stood in front of Edwin, gritting his teeth.

“You bumped into me deliberately so that you can leave that fucking thing inside my pocket.” Ace shouted giving a deadly glare to Edwin.

Edwin too stared at him giving him the same angry look and he said “Yes. Not only you can do the things that troubles people... we also can do that.”

Ace held Edwin’s throat in a tight grip, shouting “You are going to pay a heavy price for this.”

Edwin pushed him back shouting “I’m not scared with your stupid threats. Do whatever you can.” Then Edwin and Ralph left the place ignoring their threats.