We were seeing them after almost 3 years now. A telephone really was a poor stand in for the close friendship we shared with Rehan & Sunitha when they stayed in Jamshedpur.
Getting to Bangalore together with my wife had taken some planning and we eagerly looked forward to catch up on all the missing years.
Oh! The joy on seeing Sunitha when she opened the door!
The instant flash of that wide smile was enough to warm the cockles of my heart. We'd had some swell times with the pair of them.
Sunitha looked different though...she really glowed; a direct outcome no doubt of the fact that she was carrying a child – now finally after 8 years of serious attempts. At eight months, she was really bulged out and her ample frame did little to hide the fact. Al almost 65 kilograms, she was a well rounded woman of 34. Standing quite tall at 5'6", she had an ample bosom and really wide hips.
Standing behind her with an almost silly grin on his face was Rehan; at 5'11 inches, he stood almost 2 inches taller than me. Fair like his wife, he seemed to have put on some weight compared to the slim guy I had seen off from Jamshedpur.
There we shrieks of delight immediately as Preeti held out her hands to clasp Sunitha's. The usual hugs ensued and it took us some time to settle down in the drawing room.
"Yaar! Amit, it's really great to see you guys," said Rehan, "It's a shame we stay so far apart now."
"Well, let's make the most of this then!" I said. This was going to be one hell of a night. It was great to repeat a pattern that I so badly missed. Great conversation – drinks – even better conversation – deteriorating to a blast as we went through dinner and stayed up messing around till the wee morning hours.
The gals would catch up on all the gossip as we retired to a balcony to polish off peg after peg of drinks and packs of cigarettes over long conversations.
Rehan and I almost always ended up drunk by the time we were ready to have dinner and stayed that way long after, sitting cozily under muted lights with our wives. We just never seemed to run out of things to talk about as the drinks wore off towards the morning.
This time was just no different and after a scrumptious meal, we were back together, this time in their bed-room as that was the only room with an air-conditioner.
Sunitha was cuddled into a blanket sitting up against the bed-rest with Preeti sitting beside her sharing the blanket. Rehan and I were sitting beside the bed in low chairs with our feet up on the bed.
As the conversation flowed from topic to topic, my mind drifted as gazed at the two women contentedly chatting away. Preeti was a complete contrast to Sunitha. She was dark-skinned like me and of a smaller build. Just 4'11" in height, she was a small dynamo- a very shapely body with good boobs and flaring hips. Sunitha was very fair and had much more ample breasts that seemed to have grown with the pregnancy.
Its not that I had never thought about her in a sexual context; in fact, many of my fantasies hinged around my having access to that luscious body and I spent many a great moment contemplating how she would look naked. All in a fairly innocent way of course; she never had any reason to suspect anything as all such thoughts usually were the farthest in my mind when I was in their presence.
But just now, my drink muddled mind was teasing me into that realm again. I hoped that it didn't show on my face.
I don't know if it had appeared on my face just then, and was the reason for the turn of events immediately after that. Did Sunitha see the expression on my face and get nudged to starting it all off? I'll never know. But what happened that night, I'll never forget.
The conversation had generally drifted towards the personal and we were discussing how she had finally managed to conceive and the effect being pregnant had on Rehan's and Sunitha's life.
There was a lull in the conversation and Rehan was reclined into the chair and had a contented look on his face. That he was quite drunk did show on his face and must have done on mine too.
Sunitha was looking at me and I don't know if she really planned it out, but what she said suddenly had all three of our minds sit up on the alert!
"You know, we have a queer problem," Sunitha said, "having conceived after trying so hard, we are really scared to have sex now..." There was a pause as we looked up, "poor fellow, Rehan is living the life of a forced bachelor!"
I looked at Rehan and even in that state, he seemed to blush! It was a regular happening - us putting one person on the spot and enjoying their discomfiture. Preeti and I discounted the boldness of the statement and enjoyed his squirming.
But it seems Sunitha had more on her mind. "The fellow is really getting grumpy now after almost eight months! Doctors have advised us that there is just no problem in having sex, we have even watched these Preggo videos, but just cannot bring ourselves to try."
Rehan glared at Sunitha, but she wouldn't relent. "For some reason, Rehan just will not get off any other way...."
Preeti & I burst out into laughter.But Sunitha was not finished.
"Ok so he cannot enter me, I myself am scared, but other things also just wont' work!"
"Come on Sumi!" Rehan said, afraid she would continue... Preeti and I looked at each other...we never had gone this place before! But continue she did.
"You know you guys are our closest friends and I must talk to someone about this. I'm actually scared now."
"He's been getting irritated at every small issue and goes off into a limbo ever so often."
Both Preeti and I now appropriately adopted a serious look trying to look as though we were seriously discussing an issue.
Rehan seemed to be reconciled to the fact that Sunitha would have no stopping now.
