Hello Shello,
First things first, it feels great to be back on the forum.
This is based on the Holi track. It was supposed to go live last weekend but things happened. I got untimely flu and then was busy in a rural camp. It was a crazy week to say the least. Anyway, better late than never.
I hope you'll enjoy this one.
This particular one is jumping in and out of the past so be watchful while reading.
MaAn OS : The Aftermath
A rough prickling sensation against the soft skin of the grove between her neck and shoulder caused Anu to wriggle in sleep. As a result, the constant source of warmth sprawled beside her squirmed in deep slumber, pulling her body closer to the heat. Incoherent mumbles of a deep gruff voice tantalised her ears.
Anu was somewhere in a state of transposing between semiconsciousness and wakefulness. Each of the sensations fired more of her neurons to life and chipped off her stupor slowly.
A single trail of soft graze over her bare stomach soon flattened around her belly button, enclasping in a tenacious grip and dragging her frame closer. Anu was pushed more into the lane of consciousness, step by step.
Her eyes fluttered in a weak protest before she assumed a more comfortable position against a hard body and tried to drift back to the comforting daze. Little did she know what was to follow.
A mushy caress of a firm skin-like something around her toes and the inner border of her foot snapped her eyes open, dissipating any remnant of drowse from them. Not allowing her the time to prevail the sense of reality, the stroking grew firm, persistent, sensual and, traced upwards along her foot and leg, inching painfully slow towards her bare knee.
Multiple erratic breaths later, Anu realised it was Anuj's toe; the culprit to her turbulent emotions. Her limbs were leisurely entangled in between another set. Her pristine white lehenga - now resembling a badly smeared abstract painting board- conveniently rode higher on her legs.
As Anu was struggling to contain a moan on her lips, her senses received another sharp blow. Amidst the process of shedding his own dope, Anuj squirmed half asleep, letting his nose nuzzle behind her ear. His eyes un-shuttered languidly, only to meet their favourite counterpart, puzzled beyond their wits.
Multiple furious blinks later, as his gaze got accustomed to the sparkling color-smeared Anu's face against the splashes of the setting dusk, the realisation dawned. His dopey eyes frantically ran over their tangled forms, took a hesitant peek at Anu's gaze to find them on their own journey of discovery of their condition.
After playing Holi with the colors of their love, they had slept off the afternoon, in each other's arms. Spooning.
His one extended arm rested as a pillow below her neck while the other slipped slightly inside her choli to hold on to her bare belly. His flexed knees held her limbs captive beneath them, in a convoluted tango of their own. His clothes were devoid of the tidiness and the original white color.
As their wandering gazes collided, their pupils dilated to the size of an olive. Right in an instant, Anuj withdrew all his body parts to himself and they both sprang up, simultaneously. Avoiding any further eye contact, Anu and Anuj sat at the opposite edges of the bed with their backs to each other, wondering what did just happen. And how?
Massaging his forehead to subside the throbbing headache, Anuj remembered Anu coloring his face with pink gulal. He could never forget her touch. It was different, intimate, and a bit more torrid.
Collecting her brows in the center of her forehead, all Anu could remember was Anuj's gaze that followed her like her shadow. All the while she played Holi with her people, she danced, she ate, she was accompanied by his unrelenting gaze. It was unusual, stubborn, and a bit more intense.
After the healthy banter of girls vs boys, their parched throats found solace in the effing cool Thandai and they were back to the celebration. It became a little difficult for them to remember the further events.
Anuj had a patchy recollection of how he couldn't look away from Anu, ruffling her nerves so much so that she whisked him away from the crowd. An unsaid agreement passed between them and they walked hand-in-hand towards their apartments, not knowing which one exactly.
Anu's eyes danced around the room and a speckled image resurfaced in her mind of them arguing in front of her apartment regarding keys. She might have left it at Shah house but thankfully Anuj had his. Consequently, they were here, sitting on Anuj's bed in a state her sane mind could never fathom.
Both of their heads stormed with one question, how?
And as if a lightning bolt strikes, they discerned. Bhaang!! The spiked Thandai!
After a few moments of soaking in his individual moment of embarrassment, Anuj stood up to switch on the lights. It was futile to avoid each other. They couldn't change the past and in all honesty, he doesn't even want to.
When he turned around in an attempt to strike a conversation, Anu was already facing him. All his words died on his tongue when he had an unobstructed view of his Anu. Her rumpled lehenga was dusted, her choli slid and hung a little low on her ample chest with no sign of her duppatta. One of her earpieces was missing. Her hair parting was smudged in abundant red gulal and the same color traced a few streaks from her ear towards her neck.
It was all him. Once they had entered his bedroom inebriated, he had gawked at her quite similarly, uncaring of making her uncomfortable under his staunch scrutiny. Impulsively, he had pushed her against the wardrobe, caging her by his body. Bringing a fistful of blood-red gulal from his kurta's pocket, he had smudged all of it over her parting. A shocked stare soon made way for a coy smile over her lips. He had kissed over her color-filled parting lovingly.
Encouraged, his colored index finger caressed the shell of her ear, removing her dangling silver earpiece that he found distracting. His hand fanned behind her ear and dragged sinfully slow towards the side of her neck, leaving behind a track made of red color by his three fingers. She had responded to each of his touches.
Anu's eyes found the green stole around Anuj's neck missing and more than that what shocked her was the angry red-looking grazes towards the right side of his neck.
It was all her. She couldn't hold onto her ground when Anuj was playing havoc with her senses, in the name of a private holi with the colors of his passion. She had unfastened his stole and threw it carelessly. Clutching onto his Kurta's collar in a deadly grip, she had yanked him closer. In the process, digging her nails around her neck, not knowing it would leave such prominent marks.
In a split second when Anuj tried to glance at Anu, he saw her tongue darting out and unknowingly nursing a bright red swollen spot over her lower lip. Something twitched within his heart at the sight.
When she had yanked him closer, their chest flushed against each other, his nose dug by the side of her nose, her parted lips brushed against the mole on his cheek. It had set every cell of his body on fire with a desire he never knew existed in him. Her half-lidded eyes drunk on this passion didn't help his case either.
Aching excruciatingly with the need to feel the softness of her lips, he did the most beautiful mistake of his life. Angling her face with both his hands fanned around her colored cheeks, he had planted his lips between her parted ones and glided them over her lips. Her surprised gasp ended inside his mouth when he pressed and rubbed on her lips harder.
The coming few moments witnessed the most intimate kind of salsa between their tongues against the background score of their lips smacking against each other. He didn't realise when he had latched onto and bit her lower lip until she hissed with pain and pleasure. The sight was too delectable to ignore and so he continued to suck the swollen part gently.
Anu stealthily took notice of his disheveled hairs.
She could now remember how tenaciously she had held onto his hairs, tugging and kneading them when his lips slid down to pepper her neck with kisses. The pulp of her fingers ran deep in his scalp and she could feel him losing his senses there and then. He would respond by a more fervent kiss on whichever skin area he could find. After all, it wasn't just the bhaang they were high on but a deadly combination of love and desires.
As Anu fidgeted on her heels nervously, Anuj's eyes landed on her gajra that had been immaculately secured around her bun in the morning. Except, it was now tattered in places with withered flowers hanging loosely in between baren areas of the thread. It was his doing as well.
Cautiously throwing looks at Anu, Anuj tried to gauge her reactions. She wore a thoughtful expression. Anuj wondered whether she could remember the past events or not. After a moment of contemplation, he decided to not bring it forth per case Anu couldn't recall anything.
Better said than done.
One look at her beautifully chaotic state and he would find his legs itching to move towards her, pull her in his arms and kiss her senseless. Repeat the moments that happened a few hours ago before they passed out.
Clearing his throat in a weak attempt to gain her attention, Anuj said to no one in particular, "I.. I should leave."
Just when he had taken two steps ahead towards the door, Anu replied in a matter-of-fact tone, "This.. Uhh.. This is your room."
He spun on his heel surprised. His eyes darkened when he saw her wetting her lips oh so casually. His teeth dug onto his lower lip and his gaze oscillated between her eyes and lips, lingering for a beat longer on her lips. She had an inkling of the sudden rising tension in the environment. She knew what her heart wants.
"F*ck it!"
Groaning loudly, Anuj leaped towards her. At the same time, Anu ran as well, meeting him along the way.
Stopping a few inches away, Anuj cupped her face, lovingly. His thumbs ran along her cheeks, tenderly. A village of butterflies danced in her belly as if drunk on certain intensity.
"I'm apologising in advance for crossing some boundaries. But in no way, I'd let such a big moment slip under the state of inebriation. I want to savour it with all my senses intact."
And he crashed his lips on her mouth, possessively, until they ran out of breath only to begin again. He was anyway sure, he couldn't suffice with just one. It was an added advantage that Anu resonated with his thoughts.
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So, how was it?
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Cricket
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