G. and One of The Best Days of The Year

Context:

G. studies in Italy at present and came to briefly visit London…for three weeks. G. loves travelling.

Saturday:

Geeky A. and Nessa (London hosts) decide not to go to Oxford because of schoolwork. They assume they will meet G. back in London on Monday, when he is supposed to return from Oxford where he visits another friend.

They don’t know that:

G. suddenly decides to leave to Bratislava from London.
G. books flight to Bratislava, thinking that a cheap flight is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to visit such a major city. He bases his judgment on the core assumption that some relatives he hasn’t ever seen in his life (relatives that his grandfather mentioned briefly in the past) would welcome him with arms wide open. G. does not think that annoucing his London friends of his departure would be necessary. After all, why would they care?

Saturday night:

London hosts worry about G. They have no idea where he is, or what were the reasons for his sudden departure. They assume he might be dead or robbed. All attemps of reaching G. or anyone else who might have a vague idea of his present situation fail, during the night and early morning.

As a result, A. and Nessa stay up until 5 am. Not necessarily because they’re worried. They need to design the punishment plan for G.’s return. Violence is certain.

Sunday morning:

A. finds out from Oxford friend that G. left to the airport. The destination of his flight is unclear – A. and Nessa assume it’s Italy. Still no sign of G. Anything is still possible, including death or high degree of physical injury.

Sunday afternoon:

G. calls Nessa. From the relatives’ house in Bratislava. He found their phone number and address - IN THE PHONEBOOK.

Nessa and A. do not worry as much anymore – since G. has a charged phone and enough money on him. Worst case scenario: G. could get hit by a car or a bike – but the two of them still decide that’s highly unlikely. Bratislava should not be worse than Italy.

Sunday evening:

G. calls Nessa again, for an update on the situation. The family turns out to have a sick son. They attempt to put drugs in G.’s wine. G. also suspects they want to take one of his kidneys and transplant it to their sick son.

G. makes the first wise decision of the past days and leaves their house, while still in one piece. G. books a flight back to London from an Internet Café. He is to return to London the next day, after one evening, night and afternoon spent in the Bratislava airport.

G. shall return right on time to attend the Christmas Party on Monday that he had bought tickets for…unless he misses his flight, gets robbed in the airport, takes a wrong flight, loses his possesions, misses the bus, gets hit by a bike, a car or other such vehicle.

Sunday late evening:

A. calls Nessa. G. has never left Oxford. It was all a two-day bad joke. Incredibly brilliant bad joke. Violent punishment is a must.