Chapter 8: Flight of butterfly


We kept on pushing the precious moment of voicing the words of ardour. We both were relishing the excitement of the game of attraction. The time approached for the semester to end. The summer poured its burning amber from the sky, yet those harsh sunrays was unable to subdue our meetings.

On the last day of the semester when I dropped Titli at her place, I told her that I would take her out. She was very excited, I did not confide as where I would take her.

“When we will be going?” she asked me.

I was also not sure as where I would take her so I told, “I am not sure as of now.”

She threw her arms in the air and jumped, “I would love to ride with you for eternity. I would love to feel the breeze caressing my hair and face.”

I said to her, “You need to have some plan for that. Tell your parents that you will be going somewhere after college and you might come late.”

“So are we planning for some long drive?” excitement was dripping from all over her frame.

“I don’t know, let us ride and see where the road ends. I promised you that I would spend an entire day with you. The day has come, Titli.” I said to her.

“Uff... I am having goose bumps.” She took my hand and placed on her cheek, “Are you trying to elope with me?” she gave me a teasing look, “I am not going to run away with such a boring person.”

“Naughty siren.” I gently patted on her cheek, “On Friday I will take an off from office and pick you sharp at nine o’clock from the college. And don’t wear such sophisticated dress in this scorching humid summer.”

She nodded, “Ok, ok. I will obey every word of yours.”

On the designated date, I arrived at Titli’s college at college street. She was waiting there for me alone; I tiptoed behind her and waited. She was anxiously waiting for me, looking at her watch repeatedly and looking at the road. Her slender frame was wrapped well in a light pink sari, her smooth arms glowing in the summer sun. Her face was red and there were sweat beads all over her forehead. She tied her long tresses in a bun. Repeatedly she was removing the lock dancing on her right cheek. I devoured her beauty and enjoyed her anxiety for some time.

I gently knocked her shoulder and whispered in her ears “Waiting for someone?”

She got startled and then started beating me, “Why you kept me waiting for so long, you scoundrel? I am sweating badly.”

I put my left arm on the small of her back and said that I was waiting behind her devouring her charms to my heart content. Her face was already red due to the sun, upon hearing my words she blushed very sweetly. I wiped a drop of sweat from her nose and asked her to sit on the bike. She held my left arm and came close to my chest, her face expressed that she was sailing in an ocean of bliss.

“Where are we going?” she asked me as we hit the road towards the Victoria Memorial.

She embraced my waist tightly and glued on my back. I felt her soft bosom melting on my back. She pressed her cheek on my nape. Those sensations took me to the seventh heaven of ecstasy.

I said to her, “We will take the Diamond Harbour Road and then let us see where the road takes.”

She expressed bit angst on hearing the name of the place, “I am not going to Diamond Harbour.”

I asked her, “Why?”

She answered, “Don’t you know the reason?” I shook my head. She said, “Couples go to Diamond Harbour, book hotel rooms for doing all kind of nasty acts.”

I laughed at her, “Titli, you mean young couples go there to have sex.”

She shouted at me and gently slapped on my chest, “You rascal you knew all these. I am not going with you. Stop the bike.”

I teased her, “Come on, Titli, sometime you will experience that also.” I was enjoying her butterfly-feelings. I knew very well that she does not love discuss about sex in open, actually before that we never discussed anything regarding that subject. I teased her again, “Titli, I am sure that you have some fantasies deep down your heart, waiting to get unfolded.”

She bit my nape and screamed, “Adi, will you stop. I won’t talk to you.” She began tickling me on my chest. I felt difficulty in driving my bike but I kept of teasing her as her soft fingers were igniting a passionate sensation all over my frame.

She rubbed her nose on my nape and then whispered, “I love to be cuddled and caressed. I want you to hold me in your arms and just caress me all over. I want to feel your fingers tracing every corners and curves of my body.” After saying that she hid her face on the curve of my right shoulder. I was unable to see her facial expression but I imagined that her face might have turned pink by then. She was breathing heavily on my shoulder and I was enjoying those moment of her demureness.

We both kept silent floating in the winds as I raced the bike towards an unknown destination. Her palms were grazing on my chest, caressing my muscle over my shirt.

She pressed her soft lips on my nape, lashed out her tongue and traced on the salty skin. I trembled on the touch of her wet tongue-tip. I was getting restless by her sensuous touches. I helplessly writhed and tried to concentrate on the road. She started biting my nape gently, leaving teeth marks all over. She whispered in my ears, “You were being naughty, now how is this?”

I was unable to take more; I screamed softly, “Please don’t do this, Titli. I am unable to drive.”

She mocked me, “When I asked you to stop asking me all those, then did you stop? Now it is my turn to tease you.”

“Ok do you want to hear my fantasies?” I asked her.

She screamed, “No Adi, no.”

I scolded her softly, “Then sit quietly, else I will be vocal in my wild fantasies.”

She embraced me tightly in her arms and whispered, “Ok, dear. I will be a good girl as of now.”

I asked her, “Tell me, how you managed to steal time?”

She giggled, “Meticulous planning my dear. I told my mom that I would be staying at Parineeta’s house at night. So don’t worry about being late, but you should drop me at her place by ten o’clock. Sunday is her birthday; she has invited both of us.”

“Brilliant lady.” I said to her “And Parineeta knows that you are going out with me.”

She said, “Yes she knows.”

“What was her reaction? What did she said to you?” I asked her.

She teased me, “She gave me a devilish smile and warned me from you. Probably she knew that you are a devil in a sheepskin. Only I was unaware of that fact.”

We reached Diamond Harbour by noon. The burning sun was pouring scorching rays over us.

I looked at Titli; her face was red, partially due to sun and partially due to the conversation. She slapped me without looking into my eyes. I put my arm around her shoulder to pacify her.

I asked a passerby as where the road leads. The person answered that the roads leads to Kakdwip a place far away from Diamond Harbour. I looked at Titli over my shoulder and gestured her whether she would like to stop there or move along the unknown road. She expressed that she would love to sit on my pillion until the sun goes down the west horizon.

“Ok as my milady commands.” I started the bike along the road.

After a long drive we reached the place. I looked around; there were only few dingy shops and nothing else. The road ended on the bank of River Ganges.

I pointed to the road and said to Titli, “The road ends here, Titli.” She was astonished to find the truth. I asked her, “What now?”

She got down and looked around, there was a small island due to the sediments, and she pointed to that island and said, “Can we go there?”

I nodded my head, “Probably we can. I have to ask the boat for that.”

“Adi, I am hungry and thirsty.” She pleaded. I could fathom her tiredness due to long four-hour drive, I felt sorry for her. Her face was red and the due to drive under the scorching sun, we both were sweating profusely.

We entered a dingy eatery. I said to her, “Madam, there is no star hotels or restaurants here. You have to eat in these road side shops.”

She gave me a sweet smile in spite of fatigue, “I am ready to stay wherever you are going to keep me. Don’t worry about me rather I am worried about you.”

After sometime, we rented a boat to take us tom the other side of the bank. She held me tightly as the boat was undulating very much.

I asked her, “Do you want to do a titanic scene here? See the wide river and a small boat, perfect ambience for a Caprio and Winslet scene.”

She screamed at me, “Have you gone mad? I don’t know swimming, do you?”

I shook my head, as I was also not a good swimmer. She scolded me as how irresponsible I can be to take her on a small boat, she expressed her fear that if the boat capsize then what would happen. I embraced her tightly and assured her that nothing like that would ever happen.

We walked to the bank of the river; the river was so wide that we were unable to see the other bank properly. There were some huge container ships floating. She asked me as where they were going. I said, probably there was some port nearby to which they were sailing.

We sat on the bank on the green grass. She rested her head on my left shoulder looked out to the infinite horizon. The sky kissing the sea and it was difficult to demarcate as where the sky ended.

She pointed out to some seagulls flying overhead and said, “They are very happy, they can go from any place to another without having any restriction.”
I asked her, “Are you not happy?”

“Yes I am, Adi, but there is still a long way to go.” She sounded bit distressful. She looked at me and said, “My dad, you have to talk to my dad. I respect him very much and don’t break my heart, Adi.”

I pressed my lips on her forehead and said, “Hey silly girl, I will definitely talk to Mr.