01-01-2021(03)

Entering the precinct, Tom walks straightly to give biometric attendance but can't find the machine. 

"Hey, where the fuck is that sensor thingy! I can't find it anywhere!" Tom asks Ruby. 

"Oh, right! You weren't here yesterday! Apparently the new captain makes a few changes to the precinct. She hired an attendant and from now on, everyone should give their attendance to her at her desk. Look there." Ruby says pointing at the newly placed desk in the right corner of the main hall. 

"What the fuck is she doing to our precinct? To hell with her!" Tom is about to dash to the captain's office when he sees a beautiful lady at the attendance desk and changes his direction toward her. 

"Hey there! I'm Thomas! Thomas Matthew! Nice to meet you!" Thomas greets the new attendant. 

"This is where I have to give my attendance right?" Tom asks innocently. 

"Yes, but only for those on time!" she replies. "This is the new captain's rule and she hates those who are not punctual!"

"Come on, miss..." Tom peeks at her nameplate and says, "...Lisa! It's just ten minutes!" 

"Sorry. Rules are rules." Lisa says to Tom. 

"You should try to break some rules every once in a while or else rules will break you real bad!" Tom uses his charms on Lisa. 

"But ma'am doesn't like such things!" Lisa replies without realizing that she's slowly giving in to his charms. 

"Your life is yours not hers! It only matters what you want, not what she wants! Do you know that everything in life needs to be balanced? If you keep saying yes to your ma'am your whole life, when will you get a chance to say no to her?" Tom continues to trap her. "This here right now is your moment! Your life is giving you a chance to become a change and do something else for a change in your life! What do you say, Lisa? Tell me"

Lisa can't control herself anymore and gives in to his charm, falling right into his flirtatious trap and changes his attendance, from absent to present immediately. 

Then the phone on the desk starts ringing. 

"Ma'am?" Lisa answers it. 

"Send Sergeant Thomas to my cabin at once." The new captain on the call orders Lisa. 

"Yes, ma'am! He's here, ma'am! In fact he came here way before the roll call time, maam! His punctuality is flawless, ma'am!" Lisa starts blabbering in excitement. 

"Cut it out, you idiot!" Tom mouths Lisa tensely. 

"Who asked you all that? Now send him in." The new captain on the call scolds Lisa and hangs up. 

Eating a chocolate, Tom folds it's rapper into a doll and presents it to Lisa, saying, "a rapper doll for a real barbie doll." and makes his way to the captain's office while Lisa happily accepts it and gently puts it at her nameplate. 

On the other hand, after giving her attendance way before Tom, she takes the lieutenant's permission and leaves to Piper and Baker.

Piper and Baker is a big law firm owned by Shannon G. Rhodes,  one of the famous lawyers in the city. Apparently, Messy passed the bar and is practicing law as a member of Piper and Baker law firm. She became a police officer to fulfill her dad's wish when to become a lawyer was her wish all along and so, her dad, the chief of police now sees to it that she fulfills her wish by using his influence and power. 

Back at the precinct, Tom rushes to the captain's office to see the new captain instead he finds the woman he messed with at the parking lot sitting in the captain's chair. 

"What the hell! You are Sergeant Thomas!?" she gets shocked seeing him. 

"That's my line, you strong willed woman! What the fuck are you doing here? And why the fuck are you sitting in the captain's chair!?" Tom shouts at her. 

"Because I am the new captain, you knucklehead!" she shouts back. 

"What!?" Tom gets a sharp blow with the revelation.

"Damn universe sure loves playing sick games with me!" Tom laughs in despair taking a seat. 

"I didn't tell you to sit!" she says angrily. 

"You were about to tell me to sit anyway." Tom says to her. 

"Why, you!?" she gets furious. 

"Well… Sorry for earlier at the parking lot. Haha. I had no idea." Thomas humbly apologizes to her. 

"I was told that the kidnappers showed a video evidence of my capture to you. Didn't you see my face in that?" she asks, surprised.

"Now that I think about it, that was your natural face without makeup, wasn't it!? No wonder I didn't recognize you with all your makeup this morning at the parking lot. Haha." Tom says, scratching his head. 

"Why you!?" She controls her anger to maintain dignity. 

"I heard you played a big role in rescuing me from those kidnappers yesterday. I thought I would thank you in person but not anymore. You can go now." she says to Tom. 

"Can't we both just forget what happened and make up and start a new friendship?" Tom appeals to her. 

"You flirted with me, for Christ's sake!" she yells at him. 

"That was my nature getting the best of me. I can't help it. Neither before nor ever." Tom says to her. 

"I hate hyperactive flirts. That is my nature. And I can't help it either." she gets back at him. 

"Flirting isn't my only talent. Please say yes. You won't regret being friends with me." Tom says, taking his mobile out and showing her the photos he captured with his mobile. 

"See! See! I am a talented photographer too! What do you think? They are good, aren't they?" Tom scrolls the photos on his mobile.

While he's scrolling through the pictures, she sees the photo he took the other night and snatches his mobile. 

"What are you doing? Don't tell me I got you with that one out of all the photos I took! You really are weird!" Tom gets startled by her sudden action. 

"You like it? I took it the other night. You know? Every photograph tells us a story. That story cannot be viewed through good clothes or makeup. It is viewed through that photographer's view. And in my view that woman is kinda sad." Tom explains to her. 

"Sad! Why?" she asks Tom. 

"You See now, she's standing all alone in that rich apartment's balcony. Her dreams must be really scaring her by devouring her sleep." Tom says to her. 

Hearing his words, she gets up from her chair and leaves the room without saying anything and leaving his mobile behind on her table. 

"Hey! Miss…! What's her name!" Tom tries to stop her but she doesn't listen to him and leaves. 

"There goes my friendship tactic down the drain! What a pain in the ass! Fuck! I don't even know that woman's name yet!" Tom says to himself before he turns back and takes her nameplate to know her name. 

"Ms. Kate Fox." he reads it out loud. 

"Kate, eh? Her name is as sexy as her. Haha." Tom laughs, talking to himself. 

Kate rushes to her attendant and says, "Lisa, you are fired! Get out of the precinct!"

"Ma'am!? Why? What did I do wrong, ma'am?" Lisa asks Kate in a shock. 

"Officer Thomas's punctuality is flawless, you said when in fact he arrived after me." Kate explains Lisa and walks back to her office. 

Kate comes back and sits in her chair.

"Fine! I'll consider being friends with you! But only when you pass my tests first!" Kate says to Tom. 

"What tests!?" Tom asks Kate. 

"Your first test starts now! I relocated your desk along with the desks of all the other sergeants to the cabin in front of mine. From here, I can watch you 24/7. To pass the first test, you must not leave your desk even for a second until evening, starting right now. And one more thing, leave your mobile with me." Kate says to Tom. 

"What!? That's it! Haha! You scared me there for a second! It's just a piece of cake to me! Alright, I accept your challenge and I swear that I'll make you accept my friendship!" Tom challenges Kate and leaves her office. 

Tom walks into the opposite cabin and settles down at his desk which is facing the captain's office. 

An hour passes and Tom starts getting the urge to use the bathroom. Only then he finally understands the difficulty of the test that he can't go to the bathroom until evening and it's still noon. 

Time passes. 

In the evening, Messy comes to Tom's place directly from Piper and Baker in her scooter. 

Sometime passes and Mary makes a friendly visit to Tom's place. 

"Hey, Mary!" Jack opens the door and greets, eating potato chips. 

"Mary? Call her aunty, Jack!" his mom scolds her to respect the guest. 

"Charlotte! Kids these days are friendly and moreover hearing him say my name feels good! It's alright!" Mary supports Jack. 

When the three are chatting in the kitchen, Messy walks over there and grabs some of the potato chips from the packet Jack's holding in his hand, saying, "hey, mom. Hey, aunty." without even looking at them, busy with her mobile, repeatedly trying to call someone. 

"If you ask me, I'll say adopt her if you want but let her live here already! She spends more time here than at our home as it is!" Mary jokes with Charlotte. 

"Adoption? Then Tom and Messy will be brother and sister!" Jack taunts Messy and she gets back at him by suddenly moving her leg as if to strike his balls with her knee, startling him. 

"What happened, Messy?" Charlotte asks. 

"Tom happened, aunty!" Messy replies tensely, calling Tom again and again. 

"I try calling him many times and messaging him twice as many times but there is absolutely no reply. It's not like him. I thought he would be here. That's why I came directly from Piper and Baker to here instead of going to the precinct. Now he's done it. I'm going back to the precinct." Messy says to them. 

"There's absolutely no need to worry about him. He probably would be flirting with some hot chick as we speak." Mary says to Messy. 

"Mom!?" Messy shouts at her, being annoyed. 

"You just keep holding back and someone else will steal him from you right in front of your eyes! Then it will be too late for you to make him yours!" Mary scolds Messy. 

"Right now, I'm worried more about how his confrontation with the new captain went." Messy says sitting on the sofa. 

"Then you're saying that once this is over, you will propose to him?" Mary asks wickedly. 

"Why, you Mary!?" Messy throws an angry look at her mom. 

"What?! You got something to say? Well, I do!" Mary bursts out, saying, " you're always seen with him roaming the entire city, day and night! People say very awful things about you two! You know that?" 

"What do people say about us!?" Messy asks angrily. 

"That a boy and a girl cannot be friends!" Jack butts in while Charlotte and Mary chuckles. 

"Shut the hell up, you jackass! I didn't ask about your thoughts!" Messy shouts at Jack, grabbing his ear and twisting it. 

"For what it's worth, I don't say he is Mr. Perfect. He has always been full of himself with a bit of an attitude problem. He is quite stupid too. Despite all that, he is a good man deep inside, and also has quite the swag." Charlotte says to Messy about Tom. "If you say yes, I can be rest assured."

"Auntie, please. Tom and I are just friends. I just don't see him that way!" Messy says awkwardly. 

Back at the precinct at the same time, 

Tom is going through hell putting his soul into holding his pee under control. 

"Shit! I can't hold it any longer! I just can't! But it's almost evening! I can do this! I have to! Fuck you, you psychotic bitch! Just you see, I'll make you pay for this tenfold!" Tom curses Kate in his mind. 

Sometime passes and Tom ends up holding both his pee and poop inside and when he is about to give up the challenge and stands, Kate walks to him and says, "you pass the first test! Congrats!"

As soon as Tom hears those words, he rushes out of the cabin and makes a run for the bathroom.

On reaching the bathroom, he sees it's door locked. 

"What the fuck! Why is there a lock on the bathroom door!?" Tom yells out loud before he rushes back to Kate. 

"Wh… Why is the bathroom door locked!?" Tom asks dancing, holding his bathroom tightly. 

"Oh, that! There will be no bathroom breaks in my precinct. That's why I get those locked." Kate answers Tom with a cruel smile on her face. 

"What!?" Tom shouts at her before he rushes out of the precinct and leaves to his home in his jeep. 

Tom drives his jeep like crazy and reaches his home in five when usually it takes half an hour. 

He can't wait for the lift and takes the stairs in that do or die situation of his and reaches his house door at last. 

He barges in through the door and heads straight for the bathroom.

"What the heck, Tom? How many times do I have to call you? Where the hell were you all this time?" Messy shoots Tom with questions. 

"Pee! I have to pee! Out of my way!" Tom ignores her and gets into the bathroom in his room.

While Tom is taking a leak, Messy, Jack, Mary and Charlotte gather in his room. 

"I was afraid this would happen! He must have gone late to the new captain and must've argued with her on top of that, raising a conflict with her!" Messy says.

"That's exactly what might have happened!" Jack supports her fear. 

"Come out already! How much do you plan to pee!?" Messy shouts. 

"I'm surprised and touched by your unwavering confidence in me, you guys!" Tom says, mocking everyone, coming out of the bathroom. 

"You might get surprised to hear this but I didn't quarrel with her nor did I make her my enemy. Instead she agrees to be friends with me." Tom says proudly.

"Wow, that's a first!" Messy mocks Tom. 

"Whatever, I'm going to change my punctured tire." Tom leaves the room. 

"If what he said is true, then why is he that much annoyed?!" Charlotte worries about Tom. 

"Don't worry, aunty! Jack and I will go and find out!" Messy asks her not to worry and leaves with Jack. 

Outside the Heaven's Mist apartment, 

Tom is fixing his jeep's tyre when Messy and Jack walk up to him. 

"Why are you pissed?!" Messy asks Tom. 

"My time is really bad today. First I overslept and reached the precinct late as you already know. But the real problem starts there. You see, I ran into an arrogant woman in the parking lot and it turned out bad but the best part is yet to come. That lady I pissed off was none other than our new captain." Tom breaks out in front of Messy and Jack. 

"Talk about god's sick joke!" Messy laughs. 

"Despite all that, I barely managed to gain her friendship but in one condition. I have to pass all her tests first. And you know what the first test did to me. It made me hold my bathroom from morning till evening. You can understand how difficult it is to hold the urge to take a leak right?!" Tom shares his day's hellish experiences with them.

Hearing him, they both can't control themselves and burst out laughing. 

"What the! Why are you two laughing at me like that? I have to do whatever she tells me to. Does that sound like a joke to you guys?!" Tom yells at them. 

"I heard she is a beauty. I would've gladly done anything she told me to do if I were in your place." Jack says, winking at him. 

"No! You did not just say that! You don't know about her otherwise you wouldn't daydream about her like this. She just looks like a normal sexy woman but she isn't one. She is a tyrant, that woman. When she is around, everyone gets tense like crazy. When she looks at you, it's like she is firing a rocket launcher at you. Fuck her and Fuck those eagle eyes of hers. And when she walks, no one should get in her way. Who does she think she is, president, eh!? She sure is a psychotic bitch, that queen bee!" Tom says to Jack and Messy about Kate. 

"Haha! You heard that, Jack? Your brother sounds afraid of someone for the first time in his life! Guess I should give her some credit for that! That woman seems to be a first in Tom's pervy world!" Messy teases tom.

"Hey, hello! I am not afraid of anyone, alright?! I stayed calm at her, listening to your advice from the morning. That's it!" Tom yells at Messy

"Really!? And that queen bee of yours?" Messy asks Tom. 

"Not even a devil can scare her it seems!" Tom says to Messy. 

"I don't know about you but that woman gives me the creeps for some reason!" Messy says to Tom. 

Back at Kate's rich apartment building at the same time, 

Kate gets out of the lift on her floor and starts walking in the corridor towards her house door when the lights start flickering.

She picks up her pace and reaches her house door and rapidly presses the door bell button in a tensed state, dropping her mobile from her hand in that hurry. 

She crouches down to pick it up and hears someone's footsteps approaching steadily behind her. As that person approaches nearer to her, she cowers, breathing in repeated short gasps and starts sweating profusely, trembling in fear of that person. 

Turning the mobile in her hand, she sees the reflection of a man's face on its blank screen and her shiver magnifies, making the mobile she is holding slips from her grip. 

She slowly turns around toward that man, her eyes red in terror, middle of her forehead wrinkled, her eyebrows raised and pulled together, her lips stretched and tensed and pulled backwards, her back leaning against the wall. 

She slowly manages to stand up against the wall, facing that man and starts pressing the bell button with one hand and tapping the door with the other repeatedly in distress. 

He stands in front of her, enjoying watching her tremble in fear of him. And when he is about to grab her, her mom comes out of her home and pushes him away from her, taking her into her arms and consoling her. 

"What the hell are you doing here, David?!" her mom shouts at that man angrily. 

"What am I doing?! I'm reuniting with my daughter, Melissa! It's been so long!" David says. 

"What? Why are you looking at me like that? Can't I meet with my own daughter? Kate? Don't you say hello to your daddy?!" David says with an evil smile. 

Kate can't take it anymore and so she runs into her home, closes the door and leans against it, listening to her mom and dad's argument outside. 

"Why do you torment her?! She is your own daughter!" Melissa yells at David.

"What manners did you teach to your daughter?! She doesn't even greet her father when he comes from such a far distance to visit her. She thought she can escape from me and live happily ever after with her sweet and caring mother by getting transferred to this city without me knowing! But I knew about her plan and arranged for her kidnap as an unforgettable welcome gift by her loving daddy." David reveals his evil deed to Melissa. 

"What!? It was you?! How could you do that to her? And here I was hoping that you changed at least a bit! I should've known better! It is true that people don't change, then! Leave, David! Just get out of here and don't dare to come back here ever again!" Melissa furiously yells at David to leave.

"Whatever!" David leaves annoyed.