After Jasmine left and went home, I was at a loss. In a way it was ridiculous. What had I expected? She wasn't going to leave her husband and move in with me and at the end of the day, I didn't want her to, but she definitely left a void.
We had only slept together three times and now I was moping about, feeling like my right arm had been torn off. It didn't make any sense. Was I in love? No, but I was definitely in lust.
I tried not to think about her too much and threw myself into my work. I was in the middle of a complex negotiation at the time, which made things a little easier, but I still found myself, during odd moments, wondering what she was doing and whether she was thinking about me.
I thought about getting in touch with her. Maybe I could persuade her to sneak away every so often for a wild session in some hotel? After all, she didn't live that far away and I had no ties. But maybe that would be just a little too close to home for her; literally and figuratively.
And regardless of that, I didn't have her number anyway. I could hardly go round to the shop and ask her sister and brother in law for it, could I? What possible reason could I give them, apart from the truth? I could hardly waltz in and casually drop into the conversation, oh by the way, while you were away, I've been fucking your sister, in every hole; you wouldn't happen to have her number, would you? So I was stuck.
And I have to say that it wasn't just the sex I was missing. Her storytelling had given me just as much pleasure and I was really keen to know what else had happened between her and her filthy old father in law Anjam. I thought about that story a lot and on several nights found myself masturbating to mingled erotic thoughts of Jasmine now and Jasmine then, experiencing her first major sexual experience.
In the end, Jasmine solved the problem for me. Sort of.
I was driving back from the shops one evening, having stocked up on basic supplies; like cigarettes, bourbon and chocolate. But I wasn't shopping at Raj and Sareeta's anymore. It was stupid really, it wasn't as if they were going to chase me off the premises, shouting "Marriage breaker" and pelting me with hard-boiled sweets, but still, somehow I didn't feel comfortable. So I'd not been back for two weeks and I was getting my supplies elsewhere.
My phone beeped once on the seat beside me, but it wasn't till I got back and humped my purchases up to the flat that I looked to see that I had a text from a number I didn't recognise. There was no message as such, just the symbols /\o/\ arranged just like that.
I guess I'm pretty slow, but it took me a good 10 minutes of staring at it, turning it upside down and sideways and even holding it in front of the mirror, before I realised it was meant to be a pair of legs, splayed apart, with knees raised and an opening in the middle.
Instantly, my cock twitched like someone had just pushed their finger into my sphincter and I knew it was from Jasmine. I had no evidence and I wasn't even sure how she had got my number, because we'd never exchanged, but I knew it was her without a shred of doubt.
I found myself grinning like an idiot, pacing around the flat, trying to stop myself calling her straight back and shouting Hallelujah! Something was telling me to play it cool, so I calmed myself down, hit reply, keyed in o-> and pressed send.
Seconds later another text arrived, simply saying -- 'be patient'. So I was.
It nearly drove me crazy, but I waited patiently for three days. Every day I itched to call that number, text a hundred messages or even take a picture of my cock and send it. But I didn't.
In the end my patience was rewarded. I had just climbed into bed on the third day, when my phone started to ring and it was the same number again.
I smiled, took a deep breath and pressed the answer key. "Hello?" I queried. There was silence at the other end; I couldn't even hear her breathe.
"Hello," I repeated. "Jasmine?" there was an audible sigh at the other end. I waited.
"Hi," she said eventually, "how are you?"
"A million times better for hearing from you," I was gushing a bit, I realised, but it was almost as if I could feel her smiling at the other end. "I didn't think I'd hear from you again," I admitted.
"Well you nearly didn't," she said playfully, "but, Hey! A girl has to have some fun now and again."
"Is your husband way," I asked, and kicked myself for probably spoiling the mood.
"No," she said blithely, "he's sitting right next to me. Do you want to say hello?"
I must have gulped audibly at that, because she snorted. "For God's sake, don't be a dick! Do you think I'd be calling you if he was here?" And she laughed loudly.
"Damn you woman!" I cursed at her, amused and embarrassed equally. "You got me."