Roshni 04 -- Kinks
Roshni refused to let winter affect her mood, or her dress sense. She gave her explanation to me one winter's day.
"I love feminine clothes," she had said in reply to my amazement; the day had been wet with a wind that cut to the bone, but her outfit was a tight black singlet-top with jeans and boots. "Most of all I love clothes that make me feel sexy. If I buy something hot, I wanna wear it now, not next summer."
It was a philosophy that often drew looks of pure envy from other guys. When other women were covered up, Roshni was sleeveless and seemingly indifferent to the weather. I absolutely loved it.
It was a chilly September afternoon, dull and grey, when I called around to Roshni's apartment. She was sitting at the table doing her budgeting in a white camisole with spaghetti straps, and olive shorts; bare feet folded under her chair. She didn't have the heating going; there were goosebumps on her bare skin, and the tiny hairs on her arms bristled out. Her thick black hair was tied in a ponytail, exposing the wheatfield of soft dark down that followed the ravine of her spine. Standing behind her, I bent to kiss the fluffy nape of her neck.
"Hi, Gorgeous," I said. "Damn, you look good."
Roshni automatically lifted her arms up-and-back to me, and I slid my hands into the humid hollows of her armpits. The thick tufts of hair that grew untamed felt wiry but soft; I tugged at her armpit hair, twisted it around my fingers. Roshni sighed with pleasure. I lifted my fingers to my nose, breathing Roshni's natural fragrance. It was musky, incredibly arousing. Never any deodorant or perfume, only her own scent.
"You're so sexy it hurts," I sighed. "You know, I love every little hair on your body."
"I know," Roshni giggled. "Lucky for me!"
"I've never asked you why you keep yourself hairy," I pointed out.
Roshni made no effort to lower her arms, so I combed my fingers down through her hairy armpits again, brushed my face against the downy, goosebump-rough skin of her bare upper arm. "Because," she said softly, "if I start shaving, I'll always have to do it."
Roshni's answer made sense, but I wanted her to elaborate anyway. "What do you mean?"
"I'm so hairy. I'm like my cousin: even if she shaves her armpits, they still look dark -- and if she shaves them in the morning, by the evening they're rough already. If she waxes, she has to do it once a week, and it costs a fortune -- and she gets ingrown hairs and rashes and pimples. When I saw how much trouble it was, even as a teenager, I got scared."
With Roshni's arms raised, I was looking down the graceful landscape of her arm, with its tiny hairs, to the hollow of her underarm and its jet-black bush of hair. It was thick and profuse, and there was no way she could have hidden it as a teenager. "It must have been tough for you," I said.
"Sometimes it was," Roshni admitted. "I was on the netball team -- our uniform was a short sleeveless tunic ... I'd get so embarrassed, but it only made me more determined. To me, it's worse to give in to peer pressure. I'd rather stick to my principles."
"Don't you feel self-conscious, still?" I was amazed.
"Of course I do. But I refuse to shave, and I also refuse to cover up, because it's not my problem. It's other people's problem."
"And that makes you the sexiest woman alive," I told her.
Roshni smiled up at me, those perfect, pure-white teeth. "That's your kink, baby, not mine."
"So why don't you tell me yours?"