The Life Of Normal-Taro

With a concerned look on his face, Thankappan slowly headed towards the door. He was hesitant because he felt like the Taro curse was gonna hit them like an earthquake once he opened the door. However, he had no choice but to do so, since the one on the other side was literally destroying the door bell with each passing second.

"What took you so long, dude?" Lonappan asked as he pushed him aside and barged into the room. "Were you hiding something from me or what?" He asked as he continued looking around for some hidden stuff. However, there never was something like that, so his efforts were quite literally meaningless.

"Not really. We were planning something." Thankappan spoke.

"What? Are you planning to break into the MIB HQ or something?" Lonappan asked.

"Ah, someone else's already planning to do—nothing. No one's planning to do anything." Thankappan was quick to recover once he realized that he never told about Scarlet to Lonappan for quite obvious reasons.

"You're acting quite sus, man! I feel like you're hiding something from me." Lonappan stared at his junior for quite a long time. However, being the professional that he is, Thankappan didn't even bulge under such immense pressure. 

Seeing the unwavering look on Thankappan's face, Lonappan quit staring at him and went back to his usual self. Only then could his junior heave a sigh of relief.

"So, why are you here?" Thankappan asked.

"Can't I be here, dude? That's quite rude of you!" Lonappan looked really sad as he spoke.

"You know I didn't mean it that way, right?" Thankappan asked.

"Then what way did you even mean? I haven't stepped a foot inside this room for quite a long time and THIS is the welcome I receive?" Lonappan went aggressive in his tone.

Thankappan sighed. "What do you want me to do now, huh?" He asked to which Lonappan smirked.

"I was kidding, bruv! I didn't mean it! Just take it as a joke." He patted his junior's shoulder and walked towards the company of aliens.

"Ha, you're too good of an actor…" Thankappan sighed yet again as he walked behind him.

"Thanks for the compliment." Lonappan bowed a little before stopping before the troop. "How are you doing, guys?" He asked.

"I was doing fine… Before you showed up. Now I'm all gloomy." Kunjan replied.

"Why? What did I do?" Lonappan asked.

"You did nothing wrong—yet." The plankton replied.

"So what? You consider me as a bearer of bad news now?" Lonappan asked.

"Not really. I think of you as the bearer of the Taro curse. On other note, do you have any bad news? I mean, since you explicitly stated so." Kunjan asked.

"Nah, not today. But it deeply hurt my feelings, by the way." Lonappan pouted.

"I see. I don't care. I'm incapable of comprehending human emotions. Hell, I can't comprehend any sort of emotion, so good luck with your hurt feelings." Kunjan spoke in his monotonous voice, which made his claim even more credible.

"Is that so? Well, no use wasting my efforts on you then." Lonappan sighed. "By the way, what's up with this curse talk?" He asked.

"Well, Taro felt extremely bored today. And when he feels so, usually something unimaginable happens the very next day. We were just thinking of a plan to survive this ordeal." Thankappan replied.

"Ah… Damn! It's gonna be a hard day at the office tomorrow, huh?" Lonappan sighed.

"Guys! The curse is not real! Don't worry." Taro jumped in and assured them.

"Again, I'm not saying that it's something real. However, we gotta consider the scenario and decide. I mean, we should be careful for an off chance of it happening, right?" Thankappan asked. "Dang, it feels like déjà vu for some reason." He spoke.

"That's because we had the same conversation a minute earlier." Kunjan replied.

"Ah, we certainly did that!" Thankappan exclaimed before going back to normal. "So, what do you say?" He looked at Taro and asked.

"As long as you don't treat it as a curse because of me, I'm fine with it. Treat it as a natural disaster or something." Taro shrugged as he spoke.

"Sure. If that's what you want." Thankappan replied before turning his attention to Lonappan. "You never told me the reason for your arrival. And why are you here without John?" He asked.

"John's with Ponnappan right now, so he's safe. And as to why I'm here… Well, I came here with no evil intentions. I just had a lot of free time since John was no longer on my head. And hence, I came!" Lonappan replied.

"Is that so?" Thankappan stared just the way Lonappan did to him earlier. And just like him, Lonappan didn't bulge either. So, Thankappan chose not to question any further and focused on the entire table after quite a good while.

"So, what exactly is our plan?" He asked, looking at each of their faces.

"Well, aren't you the acting head of this meeting of ours? Conjure up a good plan by yourself." Kunjan spoke.

"I wholeheartedly agree with that!" Lonappan seconded it, while the others nodded.

Thankappan sighed. "This is a really odd situation. We know the time period in which some shit is gonna happen. But we don't know exactly what shit is gonna happen, so we can't exactly prepare for something like that-" Before he completed his explanation, Lonappan cut short the conversation.

"Then what's the point of this meeting, if we can't prepare anything in the first place?" He asked, which mildly infuriated Thankappan.

"You do know I was building up to say something, right? Why did you interfere?" He asked.

Lonappan realized the nuisance he just caused. "Apologies. I was insensitive. So, please do tell the rest." Lonappan requested.

"Well, surely we can't prepare for an unknown event thoroughly, but we can prepare more than enough, right? I mean supplies and stuff. We need to treat it like a massive calamity." Thankappan roared.

"Yea, that's the spirit!" Lonappan cheered at him from the sidelines.

However, Taro was quite worried about this. A curse named after him was seemingly bringing horror into everyone, and he didn't like it at all. He was determined to stop this curse at all costs for the sake of his good name!

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