Scene: Lily's house. Jasmine and Lily talking.Lily: This question made Jasmine's face fall. It was hard for her to speak.Jasmine composed herself a bit and said, "I don't even understand what happened all of a sudden.""Leo had a bakery shop in New York. It was very famous. A lot of people used to come to his shop.That day at noon, I was on my way to his shop. As I got closer, I saw... two men had beaten Leo to death.""I froze. In a place where I hadn't seen blood in ages, suddenly there was blood right there. I panicked.There was a huge crowd there. I pushed through the crowd and went further inside. I couldn't believe my eyes.It was a Bishopston-like situation. The police had already arrived."Jasmine paused for a moment. Then, with a hint of anger, she said, "Out of those two men, the police only managed to catch one!"Lily shifted in her seat and asked, "But why would they attack him out of nowhere?"Jasmine: "Leo went to the pool room two days before he died. He had a fight there. He came home and told me about it.Jasmine wiped her eyes with her sleeve."Lily: "Do you think that's where the fight with them actually happened?"Jasmine: "There was a fight, yeah. But I don't know who it was with. And I don't know them either."Flashback – Jasmine was watching TV. When Leo came home, Jasmine noticed marks and bruises on his face. Someone had hit him.Jasmine asked what happened. At first Leo didn't want to say. But when he saw the anger on Jasmine's face, he told her.Hearing this, Jasmine went to that pool room the next day to beat up whoever had fought with Leo.But everyone there was huge, gangster-type guys. Just looking at them would make your throat go dry.Jasmine thought to herself, "If I even throw one punch at them by mistake, something really bad will happen."She walked up to one of the guys there and started talking about Leo getting beaten up.The guy was sitting there playing cards withothers and didn't pay any attention to Jasmine. He was busy with the game.Jasmine snatched the cards out of his hand. That pissed him off.The guy said they hadn't had any fight with anyone yesterday. Instead, she was the one causing trouble today by picking a fight!Jasmine threatened everyone there and left.Back to the present scene.Lily: in a stunned voice, "So there were two attackers, but only one criminal? But why did you go there that afternoon?"Jasmine: "Leo called me and told me to come. He had something he needed my help with."Jasmine: "I don't know. When I got there, this is what I saw.It's just... I can't accept that Leo is dead. It hurts so much."Saying this, Jasmine started crying again.Just as Lily was about to say something, Lily's mom stopped her.Mom: "Lily, that's enough. Stop questioning Jasmine. Go to your room."Hearing her mom's harsh tone, Lily couldn't sit there anymore. She got up and went to her room.But now that image kept replaying in Lily's head. She was trying to piece it together.Scene cuts. We see outside Lily's hostel.A man in full black outfit is loitering outside where Lily lives.The woman on guard duty notices him. Seeing her watching him, the man leaves after a while.Cut to Lily in her room.Lily is nonstop texting John.Lily:* You told me to tear the photo. Should I really tear it?*Lily:* Didn't I tell you about my father's friend? He's passed away!*Lily:* I heard everything from Jasmine Aunty!*Lily:* The photo I found... the incident matches it.*Lily:* Hey, Jhon..?? Say something??_About 30 minutes later_
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