PRIVATE LIMITED

Bombay, Yesterday, 4:15 pm
She touches her lips, where his kiss had briefly resided
She doesn't know his name
And neither do we
They had agreed, four weeks ago
That the sex would always be
Anonymous
Although she has, by now, begun to recognize
The two moles in a straight line on his chest
The vaccination mark on his left upper arm
That he hums, rather tunelessly, Coldplay when he dresses
That he's not like a 1-800 number
“Because last Wednesday, he'd brought me a box of Sandesh
Because every time he touches me, he makes me feel sexy
Because he reads Stanislavski while waiting to pick me up”
She watches him dress
Fuchsia Pink suits him, oddly
The doctor's apron, is however, grossly out of place
Only four hours ago, he'd performed a striptease in them
Just for her
She's mad at him
Not because she knows that he's going to Mrs Krishnan's house from there
But because he told her so
She knows she can't accuse him
They had agreed on the rules
But it is hard not to resent his freedom
As always, she would leave ten minutes after him
Maybe that's why
Even after eleven 'dates'
They've never slept together
That was her idea
Because somehow she felt
That would be
Too intimate
That if she woke up with someone else's eyes
She'd never be able to face anyone again
“I hate you
For it's you I'm falling in love with
But I won't tell you
And you'll never know”
But her silence says-
Don't you know me?
Don't you know me by now?
Don't look away
Don't stand aside
Don't let me fall in love with you....
…...
To him, she's just another customer
'Do I know you?',
He had said when they had first met
He had known at once that she had never done anything like this before
He knows now her erogenous zones
He knows she likes to be spanked like a nine year old
He knows how she looks, naked
He knows how she kisses
The Sandesh thing he had found out from facebook
Yes, he is beginning to get fond of her
But he will not get involved
Maybe in the next meeting
He would throw in a lap dance for a discount
Because when he was just nineteen and a half,
He had learned that
Love hurts
But
Sex sells