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It had been just two weeks since I received Carrie's first email. She said nothing more than a few good words about my stories and how she shared similar interests as me. Of course, my interest was to give and hers was to receive. We started exchanging emails on a daily basis and got pretty close. We weren't really "friends". We were probably two strangers polite enough to respond to each other's emails. Carrie lived in the United States and I lived in India. Nothing was ever going to happen. Or so we thought at the time.
As luck would have it, one of the departments at Carrie's job got outsourced to India. Carrie was among the chosen few to travel to India to train the new team. When Carrie sent me this news over email, we both knew what was in store for us. Maybe we were suddenly shy, or too excited to express feelings, or maybe it was something else, but we never discussed the possibility of anything sexual between us. We did plan to meet up of course. I even offered to pick her up from the airport, but she said she would be with colleagues and that some guy from work was going to pick them all up. I was disappointed that I would lose out on precious time with her. I was supposed to meet her the next morning at her hotel, while her colleagues were going to go do touristy stuff. She was going to pretend to have a massive headache and an extreme case of jetlag. Obviously, no one would doubt that, nor force her to go out with them either.
I rang her doorbell at 12:58 am, 2 minutes before our decided time. Early as usual I thought to myself. Thoughts were racing through my head. I had seen pictures of course, if you have read my stories; you know that's a rule. I had no doubts that this 27 year old girl was a looker, but was she just a fan of my writing? And nothing more than that? I mean, I am a big fan of some not so good looking female singers. I love their songs and have written them fan mails, but haven't meant or expected anything more than a "Thank you".
I had decided on the way that it would all depend on the way she dressed. If she wore something sexy, a short skirt, a skimpy dress, just a bath robe pretending to be out of the shower? I told myself that any of these would mean that she's giving me the green light. So maybe I was a little disappointed when Carrie opened the door wearing a tight pair of blue jeans matched with a grey tank top. Wait, I think I made that sound bad. Not what I meant. She still looked like a freaking goddess with her perfect boobs and shapely legs. A good amount of cleavage escaped the top of her tank. I could push my face down that opening if manners didn't exist. So I went in for a hug and welcomed her to India. She led me in and asked me to take a seat on the couch. She asked me if I would like a beer and she pulled out 2 beer cans from the mini bar. After handing me my can, she sat down right next to me on the couch. It was hardly a 2-seater. There were two other couch chairs facing us and the whole bed, any of which would be an ideal spot to face me to have a normal conversation. But she chose to sit right next to me. That was a good start I told myself. Like a girl who takes the first step. "Message received", I told myself.
We talked about all sorts of things. Mainly things she needs to be careful of while in India. Diseases, crimes, etc etc. Eventually we got back to the source of our friendship and she asked me if I was writing anything new. I said I was taking a break as I was out of fresh ideas.
"Come on, you must have something?" she urged me.
"Well, I could write about us," I said.
"But we haven't done anything," she said with a naught wink.
"Yet," I replied.
I don't know who started the kiss, but we kissed for a good twenty minutes before I realized we needed more space than this couch offered. I didn't even break the kiss. We continued kissing as I pulled her up, walked to the bed and fell down with her onto the bed. The kiss never broke. I let my hand up her tank top and held on to one of the most perfectly shaped boob I have ever felt in my life. I massaged it for a while before I switched to the other.
"Oh my god, you're killing me," she said breaking the kiss.