MARIA
Maria sighed in disappointment. Her husband rolled off of her and lay staring at the ceiling. "I think this is the night, Maria," he said, out of breath, even though he had only lasted a minute inside her. "We have conceived our first child."
The cold was biting her erect nipples. Pulling the bedsheets over her bare breasts, she looked at her husband. "Did the Holy Christ school call you back, ichaya?"
"No. Not yet," he said. "But I think they will... soon."
Maria wasn't happy with that answer. Even though she didn't say a word, her ichayan (husband) still sensed it.
"Don't worry unnecessarily, Maria," he said, sounding a little irritated. "So what if I didn't get that job? We're doing fine."
"It's a good thing then that our first tenant is coming tomorrow," she said, turning. "We need the money."
The next day...
A dark, burly man, carrying a duffel bag, lifted the latch and pushed the gate open. Maria waited by the threshold of her house, fiddling with a bunch of keys. Her husband Jude stood beside her with a welcoming smile on his face. They had last talked to the man a week before, discussing the terms of his tenancy.
Maria and her husband were both school teachers at a Christian private school. They had been teaching there for the last eleven years, and in eight of those they were married. Their life would have been swell if it went on that way. But alas, it was not so. Her husband was fired for using 'bad language' in the classroom. Allegedly, he called some boy a faggot. That was the first one. After that, the complaints started piling up. After the firing, things became tight. Carefully assessing their situation at length, they decided to rent out their first floor.
Shekar placed the duffel bag on the steps leading to the porch and took something out of his shirt pocket. "The first month's rent, as promised," he said. After her husband collected the cash, Maria handed over the keys.
In the coming days, they realized what a model tenant Shekar was. He made himself inconspicuous and never inferred in their affairs. He would leave for the hotel, where he worked as a security guard early in the morning, and would return in the evening. That was when he had the day shifts. At her husband's behest, he used the staircase outside the house leading to the first floor when coming and going. So they never saw him.
So all appeared to be well... until.
Shekar came out of his nest one evening. Maria had just returned from school. His large frame filled up the kitchen door when he stood there expressing his grievances. "The tap in the bathroom isn't working," he said in his gruff voice. Maria headed upstairs and found that it was true. The only tap on the first floor was not working.
"What do I do for water now, madam?" he spread his arms.
"Take the water you need from the ground stairs bathroom," she said. "I'll have this fixed soon."
Shekar nodded and smiled wide.
It was 7:35 a.m. the next day. Jude had left for his early morning coaching classes.
Maria dried her hair after her bath and came out of the bathroom, wrapped in a red towel. To her shock, she found Shekar standing there with a bucket in hand and a repulsive grin on his face. He was in his underwear, a nice bulge forming there as he stared at Maria's chest without even a hint of shame.
"Good morning, madam. I'm here for my bath," he said, scratching the hairiest belly she had ever seen in her life.
"Good morning," she said curtly, her lips a thin line. He kept on staring.
Maria looked away and hastily walked to her room. She had goosebumps all over. The way Shekar's mouth salivated on seeing her, she thought that something might happen right there. Maria shut her bedroom door and stood with her back against it, her heart in her throat, pounding. "Good thing that I didn't come out naked like I usually do."
Forty minutes later...
Maria was in the kitchen now, her body stuffed tightly inside a nightie. The bathroom door opened, and she heard Shekar step out, humming a tune. His slippers made a squishing sound as he walked up the tiled steps. Maria remained in the kitchen until the sound died out.
Munching on an apple, she walked to the bathroom to pick up some of her dirty clothes which she had to leave there because of Shekar's sudden appearance.
When she entered the bathroom, Maria noticed something strange. The nightie she wore yesterday was still on the cloth hanger. But her panty was lying on the floor, balled up, and at a distance from the hanger that suggested that it didn't fall on its own accord.
Maria picked up her panty and immediately dropped it. Her hand was wet with a mucous-like substance. There was no mistaking what it was. Maria's heart pounded like a drum. She picked it up once more, sniffed a little, and dropped it again. 'He masturbated all over my clothes.'
She told her husband about the incident that night, like a good wife, so that it wouldn't happen again. "It couldn't have been what you thought it was," he told her.
"I'm telling you, ichaya. It was all over my hands. So sticky and so... thick," she said, irritated at her husband's refusal to believe her.
"Okay. Let's say that what you say is true," he said. "Whose fault is it then? You are the one who walked out naked. Any man would have masturbated or done something worse after seeing something like that. Now let's forget about this." He kissed her. "Go to sleep, sweetie."
Maria was appalled. Was her husband defending Shekar, or was he just scared to confront him?
Maria didn't shower at her usual time the next day. She decided to wait until Shekar was done with his bath. She watched him from the kitchen coming out of the bathroom. He only had underwear on, hair thick on his chest, belly and thighs. He gave her a smile and walked upstairs.
After he left, Maria entered the bathroom. Placing the bucket under the tap, she opened it and began undressing. Because of her caution, in regards to Shekar, she was late for school today. All because of that pervert, she thought. Just as she was pulling down her panties, something caught her attention and she sighed. "I need to find a plumber and fix that tap of his." Maria decided. The shower drain was clogged up with hair, dirt, and cum. Lots and lots of cum.