Sangitta had been brought up a good Sikh. She had the values and the religious beliefs. She had been allowed to go to school but it was a predominately white college and she had not made many friends. Those friends that she had made she had to keep secret and make sure that her parents did not find out about them. What her parents did not know was that she was beginning to branch out a little in life. With her friends she smoked cigarettes and drank alcohol and just generally became a normal teenager. She still had to wear the sari but as soon as she was out of the house she would go behind a bush and change into pair of jeans and a t-shirt. She hung around the park as she knew that her family members would not go into the park after dark because they thought that they would be attacked. It was one of those nights that she had a discussion with one of her friends that was to change her life.
Her friend came up to her and took her aside.
"I have been thinking Sangitta what do you know about sex?"
"What do you mean?" Sangitta asked.
"Well do you masturbate or have you had sex with one of the boys?"
"I do not know what you mean by masturbate and I have never had sex with one of the boys." Sangitta responded.
"Come with me." the girl said. The girl turned round and shouted at the crowd.
"Sangitta and I are just going for a walk in the wood she wants to talk to me about something."
They acknowledged her and went back to their cans of beer. Sangitta and the girl walked off. They linked arms and lit a cigarette as they went. They smoked and chatted and eventually they got to the edge of the woods. They walked in and found a spot behind a bush where no-one could see them. They needed privacy for this.
They stood for a minute and then the girl said.
"Can I do something?"
"Of course you can." Sangitta replied.
She walked forward and took Sangitta's face in her hands and then she bent in and gave her a kiss. Sangitta did not resist and let the kiss happen and she had to admit that she enjoyed it.
"Sorry I just had to do that. I have wanted to do it for months. I am not a lesbian and I have never kissed another girl before but your skin is so lovely and smooth I just had to kiss and see what it tasted like."
"So how did it taste?" Sangitta asked.
"It was lovely." The girl responded.
"Well perhaps we might have to do it again." Sangitta said.
The girl said nothing but took a step backwards to look at Sangitta.
"Do you know you are a good looking woman Sangitta and one day some man is going to be glad to call you his wife?"
"Thank you." Sangitta said.
"Now what do you know about your body?" the girl asked.
"What do you mean?" Sangitta replied.
"Have you ever looked at your body closely and found your good points and your bad points?" the girl responded.
The girl stood there and thought for a moment. This was no good. She was not going to get through to Sangitta about her body stood in the local wood. She needed to be somewhere a bit more private. Then she remembered that her parents were out for the night.
"Do you remember where my house is?" the girl asked.
"Yes" Sangitta replied.
"Right you go to my house and I will meet you there in ten minutes once I have told the others what is happening. I will make out that you are really upset about something and you need to chat to me in private" the girl said.
Sangitta set off. She lit a cigarette and smoked it as she made her way to the girls house not sure what to expect but she was unexpectedly excited and could not wait to find out. It took her about ten minutes to get to the girls house. She sat on the wall and waited and got hollered by a couple of boys. She flicked them the bird. Her friend arrived about five minutes later and said the group were well on the way to being pissed and did not notice what she was saying.
The girl opened the door to her home and showed Sangitta in. She did a quick look round and was thankful that her parents had left the house reasonably tidy. She went to a coffee table and asked Sangitta to give her a hand. They moved the table to the corner of the room and made a good clear space on the floor in the front room. The girl then invited Sangitta upstairs to her bedroom. In there was a full length mirror. Between the two of them they brought the mirror down stairs and placed it in front of the fire.
"Are you ready for this Sangitta? It is going to be an education. Sometimes it is going to look like I am a lesbian but I am not I am just showing you things." The girl said.
The words of the girl were getting Sangitta excited and she could not wait to begin. The girl went to the front door and double locked it so that they would not be disturbed. She then came back into the room and said.
"Sangitta strip off all your clothes." The girl said. Sangitta looked at her shocked.