She did not like the railway station and cringed her nostrils in disgust. The Nizamuddin railway station was packed with peddlers, beggars nomads and passengers translating the whole stage into pure pandemonium.
'What a madhouse,' she protested as usual.
'This is our country, there is a method in this madness,' her father defended the melee.
The dust, filth, noise, and litter literally unnerved her.
'This time also will come to pass,' she consoled herself stoically and followed her father to the station in suburban Delhi and proceeded to the platform. She was traveling alone to Kerala, her home state, without any support. Having turned eighteen she was matured enough for that adventure.
The train had already pulled in, fresh and washed, braced up for a long haul. It basked in the gentle early April sun. He carried her baggage to the coupe anxious to see her settled. There was nobody in the cabin meant for four high-class passengers.
'Only polished and cultures people will choose first class AC,' he whispered to her. He was indeed worried about characterless brutes the jeer at and pester good looking girls. In fact, she was good looking at eighteen, with a 5' 7'' body developed in perfect proportions. Her sky blue churidar clung close to her nubile body proudly and happily as if an azure and serene peace of heaven were on the move.
'Sorry for leaving you alone, but I have important work in the office at this time. Do not dare to venture out of the compartment until you reach Ernakulam. You may get stranded at strange stations as the train will slide away before you notice it. Do not speak to strangers, I will call you time and again.'
He began his regular sermon and she silently endured it was she was sure that that stage also will come to pass. Then a handsome young Punjabi youth emerged with his newly wedded wife. They were apparently on a honeymoon trip to Kerala, 'God's own country' three thousand kilometers and three days away. When the couple settled father stood there searching for words to caution his daughter. The announcement came that the train was ready to leave. Father patted her in a bout of passion, 'take care we will meet after a week or two. Do not venture into the river as the local brats do, be a good support to your grandmother.'
Then a lady entered, flustered and in a hurry. Hers was an expensive rose saree. Her subtle perfume filled the cabin.
'Are you to Ernakulam?' father asked affably.
'Oh yes, I would have missed the train, the traffic was horrible.'
'Meet my daughter Manna Susan John. Hope you would keep a supportive eye on her. She is going home to stay with her grandparents as the exams are over.'
'Oh sure,' she looked at Manna with a warm curiosity.
The train was already moving, her father darted off saving them from further melodrama. Manna felt relieved as she was at last on her own. It was long due, she had the right to be on her own. If possible she would pursue higher studies in Kerala safely away from her father's shadow.
The train was floating past the dry yellow underbelly of the capital interspersed with wheat fields turned gold and ready for harvest. Manna felt thrilled and electrified not entirely because of her newly gained liberation from an overbearing father, more by the sheer presence of a graceful and charismatic feminine perfection. The lady in translucent rose was settling by the window seat tucking her bags under the seat. Her rose blouse which stuck to her well-designed body like a second skin proudly showed the silhouette of her delicate bra. Her rich silken hair with a shade of coffee was exquisitely coiled up into a braided heap, obviously with professional help. Her ears were adorned with a simple yet graceful set of gold rings and a small locket had settled sweetly just above her enticing cleavage. Altogether she had a pale rose complexion and the saree accentuated her charm. The lady had deep black eyes which were mysteriously thoughtful and yet confident. Her large charming face had a perfectly shaped nose. The black eyelashes contrasted with the gentle wisp of fluttering locks the frilled her temple and forehead. And those lips, Manna felt her mouth go dry. They were the most delectable pair of lips good god had created till date. They were thin oft and deep red naturally.
Manna cleverly strained to get a glimpse of her breasts. They must be a full 36D. It was not the size that thrilled her, the shape, the morphological masterpiece of god. The impeccable symmetric geometric perfection was obvious behind the eloquent saree. A jolt of excruciating excitement streaked past her nether world and her nipples strained against her 34C bra cups. The lady had a thin curvaceous waist followed by an impressive hip area. From the hip, her eyes, on their own gravitated convulsively back to those marvelous twin sisters on her bust. Despite her age, those twin cones of poetry showed no sign of sagging.
'Hi Manna girl, I am Amala from Ernakulam,' she introduced herself offering her delicate hand. With glassy dreamy eyes, Manna came back to her senses in a shock. Amala looked deep into her eyes and smiled. The smile catapulted her again to the garden of stars. Amala's hand remained here like a bunch of fragrant petals. Manna had an urge to lift that hand and kiss it. She just smirked idiotically and her lips quivered. Amala laughed lovingly, almost with a motherly charm. Her cute set of white teeth looked like an array of jasmine buds. Manna thought that she was back in heaven.
Painfully Amala extricated her hand and got up. Her sweet fragrance wafted into the soul of the girl. Now she could get a view of those breasts from below. She would have ceased to be filling her soul with that side view of heaven. Her saree rustled along Manna's thigh and she felt her nipples hardening again. Her new pair of panties were already damp. Amala bent down to collect a set of dress from the bag and her breasts assumed their real shape. The girl thought that she was swooning.
'I was in a hurry after the director board meeting to catch the train and did not get time to change into something comfortable. Let me get out of this bothersome formal dress,' Amala proceeded to the latrine outside. Her sweet lavender perfume enveloped Manna.
When she was gone, Manna was suddenly catapulted to grim reality. She was disenchanted back to her real world, like a bulb that was denied electricity. She gently felt the expensive leather handbag left behind by Amala, the bag that had the prerogative of being caressed by those deft divine hands.
Amala remerged in a fresh cream-colored shirt and a khaki skirt running down below her knee. The shirt exquisitely reinforced the bra and the breasts. Through the slit between the button holes, she got flashes of the creamy bra. The open space above the top button roused the promise of a hidden paradise between the consolidated cones of sheer feminine beauty.
'You are so beautiful,' Manna exclaimed despite herself. She was shocked when she blurted it out.
Amala smiled and sat on her seat. She stooped and stashed in her saree and underskirt into the bag. Her skirt rustled and passed electricity to the girl from that mesmerizing charm.
The honeymooners were straining to melt into each other. They were oblivious of the world around. They kissed hissed petted and whispered sweet nothings. As language perfectly divided them, both groups could stay to themselves with a high degree of privacy.
'I am already forty-five Manna,' Amala confided in.
'Really? You hardly look thirty-five. I have never seen a woman as graceful as you. I guess I have been looking for you all my life.'
Amala looked at the girl with a disarming smile and bathed her in the redeeming warmth of her poetic eyes. Manna basked in the deep ocean of those eyes and purified herself from the blemishes part and parcel to her existence. Amala sat there like a full moon in the Autumn and the girl sat there like a water lily quivering and brimming with nectar secreted by pure love for the goddess she worshipped.
She inched closer to Amala reveling in her heady fragrance.
'Tell me sweet girl, where you are headed,' Amala asked sweetly.
'To my ancestral home in Palai, to cool off after the exams. My father and two brothers are in Delhi. If possible I will continue my studies in Palai.'