The ice cold water in the shower jolted me awake. Then I put on a hoodie, track pants, my mud caked worn out sneakers and stepped onto the pavement outside my building. It was still early in the morning and the air was barmy, but the sun wasn't out yet. I began at a steady pace, letting my muscles and body warm up. I thought about the events of last night.
My girlfriend and I had a long, loud fight last night. We had yelled and screamed and cursed. I had slept on the couch. I needed to run today, to clear my head. I ran my usual circuit, pushing myself for a couple of minutes more to avoid going home. Today I was being extra friendly with all the other women in the park, I had fantasised about some of them, especially the slightly older ones that kept in shape.
When I was kicking off my sneakers at home, I realised my girlfriend, Radhika, had already left for yoga. We had been fighting for months. I showered with hot water this time, changed into my lounging shorts and spread myself out on my couch while I started surfing for shows I could watch. It was Sunday, and I was hoping we didn't fight today. We had fought over minor things initially, but all of that had ballooned into major fights. My girlfriend had been brought up in a conservative family. I was realising that she was more like them than I had initially understood. For one, she had begun dressing more conservatively - the shorts and mini skirts from college had been replaced by plain trousers and long dresses. She barely wore heels now. She had grown out her hair, and didnt colour them like she used to, which I did not mind initially, but now she kept them in an austere, tight braid, only opening them before sleeping at night, or when she was supposed to wash them.
Her sessions in the gym had been replaced by yoga, and she would barely make plans to go out. Understandably, our sex life had become more mundane, and was in the danger of becoming non-existent because of my girlfriend's warped perception of what it meant to be a wife. Atleast that's how I saw it. All of this had begun sometime after we had discussed our futures and a prospective marriage.
I had picked out a show, and was halfway through an episode. I wanted to order breakfast and was looking forward to eating a pancakes with a well made cappuccino. Just then the bell rang. I assumed it would be Radhika, back from yoga. It was Harneet, a friend of ours from college. Harneet had also grown up in a conservative household, but she had rebelled. Harneet was curvy, with breasts that your eyes would be drawn to by their sheer size. They were prominent on her small frame. She had a round face, and wore spects, which made her eyes look bigger. Harneet's hair were in a bun, and they looked greasy. She was wearing a brightly coloured top on jean shorts.
I was confused, we hadn't made any plans. Plus Radhika didn't particularly like her - Harneet had a reputation for being too "easy". Harneet was sexually expressive. She was always successful in the dating game, and had no shortage of sexual partners. She would leave relationships the moment she got bored. She had broken the hearts of many men, and a few women. In college, she had borne the brunt of smear campaigns orchestrated by a few of them. She had been branded a slut unfortunately. That was years ago, and Harneet had feigned indifference, but some of us knew it had bothered her. Lately, with my own sex life and relationship in the dumps, I had been fantasising about Harneet.
Radhika's petite body and her small breasts, in it's full sleeved tshirts and boring trousers seemed further away from me then Harneet's round breasts and juicy thighs, visible in her minimal clothing on her Instagram posts and in real life. In contrast, I had only seen Radhika's underwear when I did the laundry.
Now she had turned up when Radhika wasn't home. I was worried this would lead to a fight.
"I'm sorry I've showed up unannounced!", Harneet announced as she bent over to take off her sneakers.
"Yeah I was confused for a second. I didn't know we had plans and I didn't think you'd make a plan with her", I said in response.
"No, I was bored. I broke up with Rajeev yesterday," she told me.
Rajeev was her latest flame. He was rich, extremely good looking, extremely infatuated with her and extremely married. She continued, "I wasn't feeling too good in the morning, so I thought I'd come hang out with you guys. Where's Radhika?"
"Oh you know, yoga. She doesn't do much else," I told her. "Anyway, I was about to get breakfast, pancakes and coffee work for you?" I asked her.
"Ooh doesn't even do you?", she asked mockingly. "But yeah pancakes work. Black coffee for me though".
"Nope, she doesn't. I don't remember the last time we saw each other naked. I don't know, seems like I'm gonna be moving out of here soon"
"You guys, really? I thought her whole thing was some kinky fetish shit you were doing. With her braids and her yoga and her long hair...", Harneet seemed surprised, I felt hurt.
Radhika and I hadn't been on a dry spell this long. For a second I was jealous of Harneet. She would have moved on from Rajeev before the weekend ended. She most probably fucked him after they broke up too.
I thought of Rajeev squeezing those big, soft tits. I felt a slight pain in my cock. it was the pain of being too full, unused for too long. Harneet's long black hair looked thick even in the greasy bun. I put a hand on her shoulders, and pulled her towards me to hug her, then I sniffed her hair. They smelt musky and sweaty.
"You're okay though? Rajeev isn't being weird?" I asked her.
"Yeah I am. He looked like he was going to cry, so I gave him a blowjob before I left. Then I blocked him everywhere," she laughed as she told me.