Samir has been a very dear friend. We had been to school and college together and we liked each other very much, though we were completely different. Samir was bulging all around, had a pleasant face and was about 5'6". I was much taller at 5'11", muscular and had a rugged look. I would go for workout in the evening and Samir would look for girls – his interest for variety never ceased. I was a permanent fixture at my company and Samir used to do a job for a maximum three months, would quit, sit at home for a month and a half and start a new job again.
About 10 days back, he came to my house and asked for some money. He said that he was tired of doing a job and had rented a place and wanted to start a restaurant of his own. Looking at his mentality, I could very well say that if I gave him the money, he would spend it on trying to build a restaurant, get bored after a few months and my money would be lost forever. Still, I could not deny him and gave him what he wanted. He wanted me to be a partner in his business but I did not take his offer, instead, I told him it was a loan and he could repay when he was able. Bringing money in a friendship can have disastrous consequences.
After I gave him the money, my wife Ananya said that she did not like my decision. After all, it was hard-earned. I told her I could not have refused him, but she kept sulking. I looked at her face and I smiled and hugged her and, kissed her on the lips. She tried to turn her face away but I held her tight and rubbed my hands over her big breasts. My wife twisted and turned herself away from my grip and went towards the kitchen. I loved her 5'7" slim frame with surprisingly big breasts on her and an enviable figure and complexion.
I lost touch with Samir completely after this for a good six to eight months.
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He got in touch with me suddenly and invited me to his restaurant. I said I would be there some time but owing to my busy work schedule, I could not tell him when. I was struggling with my work pressure on one side and with Ananya on the other, as she was pregnant and was due any time later this month.
Her pregnancy was unplanned and we never thought she would get pregnant. We were plain stupid in thinking like that when we would make love at least twice a day and even more on holidays, all without any protection.
Ananya was very careful in how she dressed outside and I was proud of her for that. She used to wear a sari but it was tucked in a way that even if she bent to pick something up from the floor, not even an inch of her cleavage would be visible. She did not think good of the women that showed skin, especially the married ones and was very vocal in criticizing them. She was extremely conservative in her upbringing and she maintained that even after our marriage.
Around her due date, she delivered a healthy boy. She had massive labor pain but it lasted just for about half an hour before she delivered. I was in her cabin when she was wheeled back from the labor room and the immediate thing I noticed apart from the fact that she was very exhausted, was the size of her breasts, which had swelled to at least two sizes bigger.
My colleagues got to know of the birth and some of them came to the hospital to see the baby and to congratulate us. I went off to see two of my colleagues and when I came back, I saw a woman colleague of mine talking with Ananya and she breastfeeding the baby. I was surprised as she was very conservative, even in front of women. However, I didn't say anything.
After everyone left, I asked her the reason of her suddenly being so modern as to expose her breasts in front of complete strangers and that's probably when she suddenly realized what she had done. She went completely red-faced and started blaming herself so much that I had to tell her that I thought it was okay as she was a mother but only thought it a bit surprising that she, of all the persons, would ever do it. From that time on, she insisted that I lock the door to her room before she fed the baby, just in case somebody turned up at that time.
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In a couple of days, we were back home. Something about Ananya surprised me when we were back. Her frequent love and caressing me had completely stopped and even when we were talking to each other, she preferred to sit quite some distance away from me. Maybe she was feeling tired and wanted a space of her own, I thought.
Our life resumed completely unlike how it had been before. The addition of the baby was a big change in any case but apart from that, the physical and emotional distance between me and her just kept increasing. When I came back from office after a long day, she would see me and speak instructions from wherever she was, "Are you back? Just go and change and have your dinner. I was hungry and so, I already had dinner. The dinner is in the fridge, you need to heat it before eating..." She did not even sit at the dinner table while I was having dinner. I really didn't know how everything could change just within a few days. I was in any case getting frustrated of having no sex for the last five months or so and this new behavior was not doing any good for my temper.
That Sunday, I confronted her straight and asked her the reason for her behaving like this. She said that it's just that she is so busy the whole day with all the housework plus managing the baby, by the end of the day she's exhausted and feels like sitting at one place and not moving at all. Also, breastfeeding continuously day and night ensured that she was not getting rest at all. I realized that and tried to control my temper for the time being.
The situation did not improve in the next few days and I felt irritated all the time. Ananya now slept in a different room with the baby as she felt that I was getting disturbed by the baby crying intermittently throughout the night. I was, which was taking a toll on my mental and physical health, but me sleeping alone was no consolation. I did not want to make it more difficult for her and so, never objected. But this saw further friction between us.
She might have spoken to her mother regarding all this because after a few days, I heard that her mother was coming to stay with us for a few days. She was a very intelligent woman and within a few hours of her arrival, she could see the tension in the house and suggested remedies. She replaced the baby's nighttime feeds with expressed milk.
Ananya had plenty of breast milk to spare and she suggested that she fill bottles with her expressed milk throughout the day so that by evening, she would have nearly three to spare. She told Ananya to sleep with me, with she attending to the baby and whenever the baby would get up at night, she would feed him with the expressed milk. This ensured that Ananya would get plenty of rest throughout the night and thus could attend to me during whatever time I was there in the house.
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Our life started crawling back to normalcy, thanks to the efforts put in by her mother. Whenever I was home during weekdays or even on Sundays when I had my weekly offs, her mother would ensure that Ananya spend time with me only and not bother about the baby. She even suggested that Ananya should start weaning the baby so that we could go out and have uninterrupted time for ourselves.
Our anniversary was coming up and Ananya suggested that we should go out for a quiet dinner. It was this Friday but I was generally very tied up with office work on Fridays and Mondays. But Ananya was adamant on celebrating as she said that this would work as an icebreaker between us after all these months of friction.
When Samir heard about our anniversary and our plan to dine out, he suggested that we have it at his restaurant only and nowhere else. I have not been to his restaurant even once and this time, he convinced Ananya to force me to come there only.
