Crazy Ideas
She looked soft and beautiful to him.
He thought he was out of his mind to think that
Her expression was of confusion though
"Nobody" she said staidly
"You were smiling!!" he said matter of factly
"Chirag said he was going to bring coffee, so I thought it was him" she said simply
"Coffee? or Chirag?" he asked, what made you smile?
"I dont know" she said startled at the sudden line of questioning
She went into her room and shut the door
She spent the evening on the phone with Mrudula and Lissie.
Crying about what Jayadev must be feeling
She begged for help in locating him on her behalf
They scolded her for not even telling them she was plotting such a ridiculous idea
She asked when the renovation was to begin at yeh & Yang
She told them her father hadnt even touched the binder.
They all agreed it was an overall disaster.
They told her they didnt know of anyone that did something so stupid.
She cried missing her mother, her younger brother Paresh, and then over what she had done to her own life in the space of weeks
Her friends decided to steer the convo of the group call and lightened up a bit
"Are you telling us you guys havent touched each other once?" "Do you want to?"
"How do you know you are safe Trisha, men in big cities are evil and vicious"
"This is just so bizarre. You are not getting anything out of this marriage. Why would you even marry him?"
"Does he have a girlfriend? Is that why he doesnt care about you?"
She told them about the house and what clothes he wears and how he always checks his watch
How he drinks too much sparkling water of some kind or another
She giggled about how many hair cuts he must get a month because everytime she looks up at him (she stresses that its "not very many times") his hair looks like its freshly cropped and combed.
"He shaves all the time too I think" she told her friends
"Have you felt his skin?" they asked
"He is a good 6 inches taller than me, I have to be on my toes to rub my cheek with his" she said primly
"Plus you are a wimp so you would never do what our friend Niru Shetty did that one time to the tourist" Lissie goaded her.
Niru had walked over to a handsome tourist and told him that. The guy then proceeded to ask her out on a date
The girls had fled the scene giggling coyly
"I am not crazy to rub up cheek to cheek on a strange man" claimed Trisha Narang ironically
Her friends laughed hysterically.
He was gone to the pub when she came out to the kitchen to make rice for herself
He must have asked the cook to take the night off, she didnt show up
She made alle losani and feasted on it sitting in the kitchen
He chatted up with as many girls as he could, enjoying the attention and paying it all back generously
The word had spread to some friends that he had done such a thing to spite his grandpa
they all had enough skeletons in the closet to nag him about his
Chirag was being different though there was a animosity in his eyes now
He was a lil standoffish
Not saying anything explicitly but his vibe.. disapproving
Pari the girl he was with now, tapped on his soda glass with her fork
"You better be dreaming about me"
He grinned
"If not?"
"Lets go to my place tonight, my room mate is visiting her parents"
He didnt care for casual sex but wondered if he needed some to get Trisha Shanbag out of his head
"Do you live in town now?" he asked
"No.. I live a good 50 kms away" Pari grimaced, she wore a nose ring and had a lady bug
tattoo behind her ear. he imagined himself tonguing it, but for some strange reason the face was Trisha's
"I dont know how you do it" he said pretending to shudder about her commute instead shuddering about ridding his mind of the luscious lass at home
"To see guys like you I would swim the ocean" she cooed
They sat really close without touching, he talked about his work, she talked about hers
They talked about seeing a concert next month
They danced, they all finally shut the pub down at 3 AM and she was wiped out.
She still insisted though
Something about sex with a sozzled chick... he balked.
He returned home at 3:22 AM
He didnt have the keys
He pounded the door and rang the bell insistently
She opened the two doors worried, his white shirt was left out of his jeans and there was a food spill? or lipstick on his pocket. She lowered her gaze when she had stared at it enough.
He stood there tired, but not drunk or beat.
she was back in her striped satin capri and the yellow tee
Seeing her again brought back feelings of lust...
He followed her inside, staying in the path of her soap. She turned
His breath caught in his throat when she did
She walked back to the door and bolted it, at the two places it had deadbolts, he
noticed the new scar on her wrist bone. It angered him when he realized it must have happened while making uppittu for Chirag
And walked back to her room and shut her own door.
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