*This is a work of fiction. Feedback will be greatly appreciated.
In January 2010, I had decided to go backpacking with my friends to West Bengal, to the Sunderbans (A royal Bengal Tiger Reserve) and surrounding areas. Due to certain scheduling problems, all my friends had left before me by train, while I had to catch a flight to meet up with them in Kolkata. Unfortunately, being on a shoestring budget, the only flight I could afford was this horrid thing, at 2 am in the morning, when no sensible person would willingly leave a warm bed and go anywhere. I sat in the terminal, waiting for the flight to commence boarding, while drinking the crappiest and most expensive cup of coffee I'd ever tasted. I sipped some more, when I saw her standing nearby, also sipping some coffee from a cup.
"I can't believe that I'm paying for this crap."
"Believe it. Terminal coffee always tastes bad."
"I've tasted bad coffee. This is exceptional. It tastes like a monkey peed into battery acid."
She laughed, and we introduced ourselves to each other. She was also on my flight. Her name was Mamatha, this pretty young woman, in her mid twenties. She was not very tall, around 5'2", fair, with shoulder length hair. She was a bit chubby, but her body was very curvy, just the way I like it. She wore a simple blue jacket, slacks and shoes, and had sexy bedroom eyes.
"So, why are you headed Kolkata? Business or Pleasure?"
"Oh, business, completely. I'm a market researcher."
"What do you do, exactly?"
"I go and ask people questions about our products. You know, if their reactions, expectations, etc."
"Ok. So what are you researching in Kolkata?"
"Cigarettes. I'm going out, at dawn, meeting people and asking them questions about our clients fags."
"Cool. Never thought you could make a career out of that. Maybe I'll do that."
"What do you do?"
"I'm still in college; Heading for a backpacking trip, across the Sunderbans and the surrounding areas."
"Cool. You feeling sleepy?"
"No, actually. Not at all. This crappy coffee is keeping me awake.."
We sat chatting in the lounge. Our flight, due to its hours was nearly empty, and we eventually sat together, in the plane. By now, our playful chatting had turned into some serious flirting. The flight was supposed to be 90 minutes long, but both of us were too buzzed with coffee to feel sleepy. Besides, who wants to sleep when you are into such heavy flirting!
A few minutes into the flight, they put on the in flight movie, some kiddie film about a mad scientist. However, most of the other passengers (and there were very few) chose to fall asleep, and the lights were dimmed to a minimum.
"Did you see this film in the cinema?" Mamatha asked.