25. SLEEPLESS NIGHT

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Night dawned upon,
Brett and Eddy were decoding with the help of the photo Sid sent to them about an hour ago.

"I'll get another cup of coffee." Eddy said.
"Me too." Brett said.
"Sure."

After Eddy got two cups of coffee, that's when the cafe staff approached him.
"Sorry to disturb you, we are actually going to close down in the next 10 minutes."
"Oh ok."
"The cafe is recently opened and in the closed hours we try to finish setting the cafe."
"No problem. Thank you for informing." Eddy said.
"Thank you."

Eddy went back to the table,
"Hey, we have to leave. They are closing in 10 minutes."
"Oh! Isn't a cyber cafe be running for 24 hours?" Brett asked.
"Even I thought so, but the staff said that this place was recently opened so it hasn't fully been setted yet."
"Ok. I am sure the network range must been up at the hotel."
"Yeah." Eddy replied.

They packed the bag and left the cyber cafe.
"Ah....it's going to be a long tiring night, decoding this." Brett sighed.
"Yep. Oh! We forgot to practice today." Eddy laughed.
"True!!!!" Brett also laughed.

They reached the hotel and checked into the room.
Luckily the network was working.

Before they could even relax for a second, Bella called.
"Hey! Any progress?"
"Hi Bella, we have actually. Thanks to the sheet of binary codes Sid sent we got the letter 'V' and-"

That's when Sid and Vaishnavi got on the line.
"It was Vacy!" Vaishnavi shouted.
"What?" Bella said.
"We know Vaishnavi, we also know it was Vacy." Brett said.
"How?" Vaishnavi asked.
"We checked the email and found your fanart with the code, and only you and Sid knew about Vacy's code." Eddy said
"I accidentally sent the email with the code. I am so sorry." Sid said.
"Sid, don't be sorry. You helped in decoding this binary digits." Brett said.
"So did you get any more letters from what I assume the code to be?" Sid questioned.
"Yeah! We got the letters 'V' and 'S' after 'K' and 'O' in order." Eddy said.
"Oh that's great!" Bella said.

While Eddy was on the phone, Brett went to remove the system from the bag.
"Ok. The next code-" Brett said.
"Wait. This code could be a name." Bella said.
"Like in what sense, Bella?" Eddy asked.
"These codes are all letters, right? It could be a name of something."
"Hmmm. It makes sense." Brett said.
"We have the letters K-O-V-S" Eddy said.
"Maybe it could be a person's name!" Vaishnavi exclaimed.
"From what I could think K-O-V-S could either Tchaikovsky..." Eddy said.
"Or Shostakovich." Brett continued.
"Hmmmmm.." Vaishnavi was thinking.

Vaishnavi trailed off to make herself a cup of her favourite coffee as she was starting to sleep off.
"Sid, you want coffee?"
"Yeah. I'll get some coffee."
"No. I am making. I don't like the uni's coffee. I love this South Indian coffee called 'Bru'. It's heaven..."
"Uh.....I think you mean 'brew'?"
"No! It's 'bru'!" Vaishnavi said.
"Brew!"
"Bru!"
"Brew!"
"Bru!"
They kept on quarreling. Bella, Eddy and Brett couldn't help but laugh a bit.
"It's good to have a little laugh after a while." Brett said.
"Yeah." Eddy and Bella said.
Sid and Vaishnavi also laughed.

After Vaishnavi made coffee for herself and Sid,
"So what do you think it is? Shostakovich or Tchaikovsky?"
"I think Shostakovich." Eddy said.
"Me too." Brett said.
"Same!" Bella said.

So, Eddy typed Shostakovich on the password box and was nervous to click the submit button.
He sighed and when he clicked the button, Sid shouted
"WAIT!"

But it was too late to turn back.

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