Bhavna was lying on her bed, she was dressed for the warm weather in a short flowery dress, bare feet and no bra, Arundhati was in the front room drawing pictures. Bhavna's energy was still high after seeing Daniel off at the airport two days ago when he left for Paris. She had learned so much about her body during the five weeks they had spent together and she was looking forward to seeing him again in Paris as soon as she could work out the logistics, in particular, a babysitter.
She had not heard from Ravi for three weeks, which in reality meant nothing to her other than the fact that Arundhati was obviously missing her Daddy, so she was careful to maintain as stable a home life as she could despite Arundhati clearly noticing the difference in her mother's demeanour.
The young girl was confused, her father had disappeared and she'd only had one 'phone call from him, and her mother did not seem to miss him at all. On the contrary her mummy was happy and joking and wanting to play with her whenever she could.
Bhavna soon dismissed thoughts of Ravi and started to imagine being with Daniel again, she lay on her back and slowly drew her dress up exposing her plain white panties, she drew her finger along the elastic imagining Daniel's finger in place of her own, she slid her hand beneath the waistband and cupped her mons, her middle finger resting on the hood of her clit applying gentle pressure as she concentrated on her breathing, trying to control the sensations slowly building inside her.
She felt no urgency as she explored herself, dipping her finger in between her lips as soon as felt herself moisten but with no real desire to bring herself to climax, she was just happy to revisit some of the experiences since that day when she had so rashly thrown herself at a hot, older, much older in fact, man.
"Mummy, phone' a little voice called out from the next room.
Bhavna covered herself and sat up on the side of her bed just as her young daughter came bounding into the room carrying her mobile.
It was Anita, her best friend since they had met on the first day of school some twenty years ago, they had been through school together, through puberty together and had been bridesmaids at each others weddings.
"Bhav, sis, where have you been? It's been weeks."
Her friends voice brought her back to the present as they made small talk. Bhavna explained that Ravi, her husband, had flown back to India and she did not know when, or even if, he was coming back, news which prompted Anita to declare that she would be at Bhavna's flat in 15 minutes.
Bhavna did not have long to think about it, Anita was her oldest and best friend and she needed someone to talk to about Daniel but before she could work out how to broach the subject the door bell went and Anita was there.
Twenty minutes went by, made up of small talk and Aunty Anita playing with Arundhati before Bhavna was able to suggest that they should have an adult conversation. A DVD was put on and Bhavna and Anita went through to the bedroom. Anita threw herself onto Bhavna's bed and Bhavna, sat down beside her and started to explain about Ravi.
"I don't get it, Bhav, you're hubbie's halfway round the world, you've not heard from him for weeks and you don't seem at all upset, what happened?" Anita reached for her friend's hand to console her.
Bhavna started: "So, he told me he might have to go back to India to sort out some land, which seemed fair enough, but the next day he had his bags packed and a cab was on its way to take him to the airport and he was gone, he didn't tell Arundhati that he was going away, he just kissed her as if he was going to work. That's it, that's all I know. He rang a couple of weeks ago but was so vague about what he was doing or how long he would be away that I just put Dotty on to talk to him and that's it. I don't even know if he's coming back. Honestly mate, I don't think I want him to."
"You're not telling me everything" Anita replied "Did you have a row? And why are you so chilled about it?"
Bhavna hesitated "No, no row, no argument nothing, but, you must promise not to tell anyone, anyone at all" Bhavna paused and lay back on the bed next to her friend, she was looking up at the ceiling rather than face her because she knew the next bit would be hard so she asked her friend whether she remembered a conversation they had had about five weeks previously about this man who was driving them to Leicester.
Anita did. So Bhavna started telling the whole story about this cute man watching her when she picked up Arundhati from school and the tea incident when she knew that she was going to fuck him at some point, that he had then offered to drive her to Leicester and then how she had then persuaded him to take her to the Lake District.