SMILES PART I
SweetNothingsAndBeyond
Author's Note:
'SMILES' is a series of small posting of mostly one page stories (this story is just 3030 words), which would get published in rapid succession for you to read quickly one after another story in quick succession. It is a new attempt by me to feel the pulse of my readers. Thank you.
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"Shall I help you out?" I asked indicating the bulky trolleys.
"No. Thanks." She waved my suggestion away.
"But you know... How much I 'CARE'..."
"I know how much you 'CARE'. Not me but your profession. I really don't 'CARE' your 'CARE' anymore. It always meant more to you than it ever did to me. For you it's always 'I -- ME -- MYSELF'. So, where do I really stand? Between those three ego-centric words?"
We were silent for a while.
"Would you mind some coffee?" I asked, trying to break the ice.
"No, I should get going." She said and got up to the honking of the Ola taxi and started to pull the biggest of the trolleys.
"Let me 'HELP' you... One last time."
"HELP!? And YOU?" There was sarcasm in her voice.
As we got out of the villa, I said, "You still didn't tell me what's next for 'US'?"
"You still didn't tell me if there still is an 'US' left between we two." She wanly replied and looked at me with meaningful glance.
I just stared at her. Blank. Uncertain about what to say. As my eyes were filled with tears and mind hazed.
Before I realized, the taxi had already vanished into the oblivion.
THE END
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MANAV'S VERSION: 'SEDUCTION FIRST PHASE'!
As I stepped into my house heard Dev's mild whisper, "You look even more gorgeous than I ever remembered." He said as he stepped near my wife.
Incidentally Dev is my BIL. My elder sister Disha Didi's husband. They were married for almost sixteen years.
Manisha, my wife of seven years, felt his big Black and hairy arms wrap her in a tight embrace. She had an instinctive reaction to push him away for obvious reasons -- one for being married, and the other what is was about to happen would not only be adultery but also incest.
But she fought it to maintain her cool. And placed her hands on his sides. Then she saw his rugged, chiselled and beard face inched closer, with his lips puckered. She puckered her own lips too instinctively.
And the next moment they were kissing.
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Manisha was getting a master-class in the art of kissing.
With me, the kisses were almost perfunctory. I normally put my lips on her, pressed and rolled a bit, then that was all about it. After our daughter Khyatee's birth and my recent promotion our foreplays including kisses have become more mechanical.
But Dev however was very skilled. He started by slowly brushing his lips against her, sideways, then up and down. He then placed tiny kisses all along the perimeter of her pouty lips a couple of times.
Even in that case, I noticed that Manisha seemed to be completely amateur in the art of kissing. Because we never treated kiss to be a catalyst in the process of our love making. Yet she just kept on trying to participate eagerly with fish-style lips. Though her response was pretty good, yet she seemed to be quite tensed with her amateuristic approach towards the initial foreplay.
Amit placed one hand under her jaw and gently massaged the lower angular portion very soft and delicately to make her relax gradually.
His amorous touches had a magical effect and he felt her exhale and her lips parted invitingly. Then he aligned his lips perpendicular to hers and softly started kissing her. Manisha felt a surge of passionate pleasure as the proper kissing started slowly igniting her long suppressed passion.
She responded, mimicking his movements. He moved his hand from under her jaw to behind her head and pulled her in ever so slowly that she did not even realise the impact he was making and she was pushing into it. With every few seconds he moved her head gradually tilting left and then right, so that he could accommodate her lips as per his requirement.
She felt weird when his tongue started probing her mouth. But soon she got used to it. And her own tongue started responding. She noticed that although his kisses were passionate and lasting such a pretty long time, it wasn't a slobbery saliva-filled experience like she was anticipating.
She then felt Dev's other hand move from behind her back to her exposed side under her blouse. He gently stroked her skin, moving towards the front, stroking her stomach, playing with her dark and deep belly-button.
And then she felt his fingers deftly pull out the folds of her well-tucked saree into her tightly tied petticoat. She was a little surprised with his action and equally impressed with his expertise with the swiftness of his move.
On the odd occasion that I took her sari off before sex, I always did it the conventional way - pulling down her pallu and unwrapping all the folds one by one. Never let her feel forced upon.
But the experience with Dev was totally different -- With a single and simple move had made half of her designer saree unravel.
He dug his fingers into her waist again and pulled out some more of the pure-silk-chiffon-fabric and gave it a real hard tug.
And lo... Within seconds, the saree collapsed in a heap around her ankles, the pallu sliding down between their bodies.
Dev felt Manisha inhale sharply even in the kiss and felt her fingers tightly grip his muscular arms. He broke the kiss and raised his head. Manisha's hands went limp as his hand went down and clasped her waist and thighs as if to confirm that she was really divested of her saree so quietly and quickly.
She looked into his eyes, surprised.
He smiled devilishly.
She smiled back shy-fully.