Disclaimer:
All the characters in the story are above 18 years of age.
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Nirav looked at Kavya walking by his side, holding her small purse. He couldn't believe his luck in finding a girl like her, effortlessly beautiful and sexy. Kavya too seemed to like him, as she was always cheerful with him. He wasn't really sure if he should hold her hands. The sides of their arms occasionally touched each other, as they were forced to walk close together, owing to the large crowd in the mall on a Saturday afternoon.
"We can do some shopping here," said Kavya pointing to the line of clothing storefronts.
"Sure," said Nirav.
He was gonna say 'sure' to anything that Kavya would ask. He had had flings in the past. But Kavya was different. Something about Kavya intrigued him. She was beautiful and hot and lovely, but it always seemed like she was hiding some wild part of herself and her general demeanour was just to cover her wild side.
It had been only a week since they had both started seeing each other. Nirav was a freelance software developer while Kavya worked in an advertisement firm. Nirav had developed a software especially for Kavya's team. He was invited to give some demo and training to the team for three days. There was an extra pay for that, so Nirav took the labour of physically going to an office. Apart from the extra pay, he got to meet Kavya.
Kavya, on the pretext of asking some doubts regarding the software, had met Nirav alone after his training session on the first day. They hit it off quite naturally. Kavya was the only young and single person in the team. Nirav naturally felt attracted to her. It didn't take long for them to start seeing each other. Nirav would meet her at her office cafeteria every evening for few days, till his office visitor's pass expired.
"Which store should we go to?" asked Kavya.
"I must tell you that I'm not buying anything for myself," said Nirav.
"It's okay," said Kavya with a smile.
Nirav then looked at Kavya properly from head to toe. He noticed that he and Kavya were wearing similar clothes. They both were in dark blue jeans and white sneakers and hoodies over their T-shirts. The only exception was that Nirav was wearing a cap. He didn't wanna comb his long unkempt hair.
"I realised something, we're twinning," said Nirav with a chuckle.
"What?" said Kavya looking down at her hoodie and jeans and then staring at Nirav, "It's so embarrassing, isn't it?"
"I guess people might mistake us for twins," said Nirav looking around at the crowd of people passing by them at different directions.
"Well, anyhow, I thought of getting rid of these clothes today. They're colourless and withered out," said Kavya.
"Yeah, let's buy some clothes for you."
"Let me dump this hoodie first."
"What? Where?"
She spun around slowly, looking for something. Her eyes then stopped at one college girl standing by a large column of the floor with a large bucket beside her. There was a placard beside her with words: 'DONATE YOUR CLOTHES FOR CHARITY.'
"Exactly what I was looking for!"
"What?" said Nirav confused and looked at Kavya's direction of sight.
"That bucket looks like a dust bin. They should have kept something decent instead," he commented.
"I'm gonna donate this hoodie now," said Kavya, swiftly unzipping her hoodie and then taking it off.
She and Nirav walked towards the college girl, who was quite bored and was staring at her phone.
"Hey, I wanna donate my hoodie," said Kavya, raising her voice to get the girl's attention.
The bored girl looked up.
"Oh! Sure ma'am. We are quite obliged ma'am," said the girl quickly turning attentive and then extending both her hands to receive the hoodie.
Kavya too handed the hoodie with both her hands. The girl slowly dumped the hoodie in the bucket and then looked eagerly at Nirav.
"Oh no, only she had to donate," said Nirav with a toothy grin.
"It's okay, thank you for your donation ma'am," said the girl and gave her a small piece of paper, like a receipt.
"It's to show that they are genuine," said Kavya looking at Nirav waving the small receipt which had the name and logo of the organisation.
"It seems like you know about such things."
"Yeah, every time it's a different college student," said Kavya thrusting the receipt on Nirav's palms, "Let's go to Lifestyle."
Kavya headed to the Lifestyle clothing store with quick steps and Nirav followed her. Nirav couldn't help looking at Kavya's curved ass which was accentuated by her tight jeans. Her body looked completely different after she got rid of the baggy hoodie. The red T-shirt that she was wearing barely reached the waistline of her jeans and the sleeves just barely covered her shoulders. He also just noticed that Kavya was wearing a black fabric choker around her neck.
He quickened his steps to walk beside her and stop ogling at her beautiful ass. They hadn't even held each other's hands properly yet, and he was hoping that he would at least get a kiss from her by the end of the day.
They walked past different shelves, stands and displays of clothes in Lifestyle. But Kavya walked to the section of clothes with budget prices and brands, aware of her modest income.
"What if I wear a skirt? Will it match the shirt that I'm wearing?" asked Kavya, taking out a white skirt and holding it against her waist.
Nirav had assumed that Kavya would be shopping for the midi-type, ankle-length skirts, that he had normally seen her wear in her office. But Kavya was holding a medium-length skirt which reached just above her knees. He thought Kavya would look pretty in a skirt like that.
"But I don't think white would go with the red T-shirt," said Nirav.
"Yeah, I was thinking about choosing a different colour."
"How about wearing a black skirt?" said Nirav. He thought that a black skirt would look sexy on her.
"Why?"
"It might look good on you," said Nirav, not finding a good enough reason for her query, "With your black hair."
"Yeah, my hair is unique. It's black," said Kavya rolling her eyes with a giggle.
But to their surprise, there weren't many options for black skirts. The ones that she liked were quite expensive.
"It's okay, you can spend your money," said Nirav, "I mean, you don't shop quite often I guess."
"Okay then, I guess the skirt finally found me," said Kavya as she pulled out a skirt hidden deep in the middle of the rest of the skirts in the stand.