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Sam was lying unconscious and series of past incidences were playing as flashback video in his mind....
... Nancy and John were hiding in a drainage pipe lying beside the road. They tried to squeeze themselves in more as they hear footsteps of somebody running towards them. Now they were completely trapped. They even could not run away. They just kept calm and squeezed closing their eyes like a cat, as they didn’t had any option other than that.

Suddenly Steven came running near the pipe. John and Nancy were silent so they didn’t give themselves away to the people after them. He came still closer, looked around. They could hear his frustrated words, “Where the fucks are they?”
Steven saw the pipe and thought maybe they could be hiding in there.
He went closer to the pipe. He was about to bend down to look into the pipe when....
“ Steve, come here quickly.” Christopher called out him loudly.
Steven looked in that direction and ran off. John and Nancy sighed in relief hearing his departing footsteps.

As Steven left, John removed his mobile phone from his pocket. He had switched it off so that no one should be able to trace him. He switched it on and dialed a number. Nancy quizzically looked at him.
" Anthony, our classmate is from this town. " John said while hearing the ring tone from other side.
" Hello?" John said into phone as the phone was picked up on other side.
" Hey.... Where are you... everybody is looking for you here" Anthony's voice came from other side.
John told him the whole episode in short.
" Nancy and myself are trapped here..." John told him about the real problem.
" Trapped ? Where? " the voice came from other side.
" Some crooks are following us. I don't know where we are and I don't know what they want." John said.
Nancy signaled John at the clock tower which was visible from there.
" ..Yes it's near the clock tower.." John continued.
" Hey, don’t worry... Firstly calm down yourself...... In such a big town those culprits can't harm you in any way..." Anthony said.
" Yeah... you are right..." John felt relieved from his encouraging words.
" Do one thing... Flag a taxi down and tell the taxi driver to take you to the Hilton hotel. It's in that area ." Anthony said from other side.
They saw a taxi coming from opposite side.
" I got a taxi. OK bye I’ll catch you later on." John said and quickly cut the phone.
Both of them came out of the pipe. The taxi stopped in front of them as John hailed it.
They got into the taxi.
" The Hilton hotel." Anthony said and the taxi continued down the road.

... contd..