The bride’s side had also booked rooms in the same hotel. One of the rooms belonged to Priya, the bride’s closest friend from college. Priya is twenty-nine, married for three years, and lives in Aurangabad. Her husband could not come because of work. She arrived alone.
I had met her only twice before — once at an engagement and once at a common friend’s place. She is fair, soft-spoken, with a quiet face that looks polite in daylight but becomes something else under hotel corridor lights. She usually wears simple salwar-kameez or light sarees. Nothing that draws attention. Yet the way the fabric rests on her hips when she walks stays in the mind longer than it should.
The sangeet went on until almost midnight. Loud music, too many people, too much laughter. By 12:40 a.m. most guests had returned to their rooms. The hotel corridor was quiet except for the soft sound of rain that had started outside.
I was still in my formal shirt, sitting on the edge of the bed, when there was a light knock on my door.
I opened it.
Priya stood there holding a small bottle of water. The corridor light fell on her. She was wearing a thin cream-coloured cotton nighty that looked soft and slightly loose. I could see the outline of her bra and the gentle curve of her stomach. Her hair was open. A few strands stuck to her neck from the humidity.
“Vikram… paani khatam ho gaya tha mere room mein,” she said. Her voice was low, almost apologetic. “Reception band ho gaya hai. Aapke paas extra bottle hai?”
I stepped aside. “Aaiye. Do bottles hain.”
She came in. I closed the door. The room felt smaller with her inside it. I took a bottle from the side table and handed it to her. Our fingers touched. She did not pull away immediately.
“Bahut thak gayi hoon,” she said, looking around. “Par neend nahi aa rahi. Music abhi bhi dimaag mein chal raha hai.”
I nodded. “Same.”
She sat on the single chair near the window. The nighty rode up slightly on her thighs. I saw the soft inner skin and the edge of pale pink panties. She noticed where my eyes had gone. She did not adjust the cloth.
For almost a minute neither of us spoke. Only the rain against the window made sound.
Then she said, very quietly, “Aapko ajeeb nahi lagta… akele rehna itni raat ko wedding mein?”
“Kabhi-kabhi.”
She looked at the bottle in her hand, then at me. “Mere husband ko call kiya tha… network nahi aa raha tha properly.”
I sat on the edge of the bed, leaving space between us. The darkness made everything feel closer than it was.
She placed the bottle on the small table. Her hand rested near mine. After a few seconds her fingers moved and touched the back of my hand. Light. Testing.
I turned my palm. Her fingers slid between mine.
That was the moment the air in the hotel room changed.
I pulled her gently toward me. She came without resistance. Her face was close. I could smell the mild perfume she had worn for the sangeet and the warmer scent of her skin underneath. I kissed her.
Soft at first. Her lips opened slowly. Her tongue met mine with a hesitation that lasted only a second, then became hungry. Her free hand came up and rested on my chest. I slid my other arm around her waist and pulled her fully against me. The nighty was soft and warm. Underneath, her body felt full and soft.
My hand moved under the nighty and found the bare skin of her lower back, then the full curve of her hip. No panty line on the sides — only a thin strip of cotton between her legs.
I pushed the nighty higher. She raised her arms and let me take it off completely. She sat there in only the pink panties and her bra, breathing faster. Her breasts were heavy, soft, the dark nipples already tight against the thin fabric. I unhooked the bra. It fell onto the chair. I bent and took one breast in my mouth. She held my head with both hands and pressed me closer. A low sound left her throat when I sucked harder.
My other hand went inside the panties. She was already wet — properly wet. My fingers slid easily between her soft lips. She opened her legs wider and whispered my name once, almost like a question.
I pulled the panties down. She lifted her hips to help. When they came off, a thin string of wetness connected them to her for a moment before breaking.
I opened my pants. She watched as my cock came out, thick and hard. She reached and held it, stroking slowly, her eyes fixed on it. Then she shifted and took the head into her mouth. Warm. Wet. Careful at first, then deeper. Her tongue moved under the head while her hand worked the rest. I held her hair loosely and watched, the rain still loud against the window.
After a few minutes she pulled off, breathing hard, and lay back on my bed, spreading her legs for me. I climbed over her. She guided me to her entrance with her hand. The first push went halfway. She was tight and extremely wet. I pushed the rest in slowly. Her mouth opened. When I was fully inside she wrapped her legs around my waist and pulled me deeper.
I fucked her in long, steady strokes. The bed made soft sounds under us. Her breasts moved with every thrust. She kept her eyes open, watching my face, biting her lower lip.
“Thoda tez…” she whispered.
I went harder. The sound of skin meeting skin mixed with the rain outside. She started moaning properly — low, uncontrolled sounds that she tried to keep quiet because the hotel walls were thin. One of her hands went between us and rubbed her clit while I moved inside her.
I felt her get tighter. Her legs locked around me. She came with a broken cry that she buried against my shoulder, her pussy pulsing hard around my cock. I kept going through it. Everything became wetter.
I pulled out, turned her onto her stomach, pulled her hips up, and entered her from behind. Deeper this time. She pushed back against me. I held her soft waist and fucked her hard. The flesh of her ass shook with every thrust. She came again, quieter, face pressed into the pillow.
I was close. I pulled out, turned her onto her back again, and stroked myself. She watched, then reached and took over, aiming me at her stomach and the underside of her breasts. I came hard — thick ropes across her soft belly and heavy breasts.
We stayed like that for almost a minute, both breathing heavily.
She looked at the door, then at me.
“Yeh… galat hai,” she said softly.
“Haan.”
She did not move away. Instead she rested her head against my shoulder for a few seconds.
Then she sat up, found her nighty, and put it back on. I pulled my pants up. Neither of us spoke while she adjusted her hair.
At the door she paused and looked back once.
“Kal subah jaldi nikalna hai mandap ke liye,” she said quietly. Then, after a small pause, “Agar neend na aaye… dubara knock kar sakti hoon?”
I nodded.
She left, closing the door softly behind her.
I sat on the bed in the dark for a long time after she was gone, still smelling her on my fingers and on the sheets, already knowing she would come back before the night ended.
She came back at 2:35 a.m.
This time there was no bottle of water and no excuse. She simply walked in when I opened the door, locked it behind her, and pulled the nighty off herself. She was not wearing panties this time.
I pushed her onto the bed and went down between her legs. She opened them without hesitation. I licked her slowly at first, tasting her, then harder, sliding two fingers inside while my tongue worked her clit. She held my hair and moaned more openly this time, the rain outside covering most of the sound.
When she came the first time her thighs tightened around my head and her whole body shook.
I did not give her time to recover. I stood, dropped my clothes, and pushed inside her while she was still sensitive. She cried out and wrapped her legs around me again. I fucked her deep and steady, then harder, changing angles until I found the one that made her eyes close and her mouth stay open.
She came a second time with my name on her lips.
I pulled out, turned her onto her side, lifted one leg, and entered her from behind while we both faced the same direction. My hand reached around and rubbed her clit. She pushed back against every thrust. The wet sound of our bodies filled the room along with the rain.
When I felt myself getting close I stayed inside her and came deep, holding her tightly against me.
We stayed joined for a long time after, breathing together.
Later she turned in my arms and looked at me in the low light from the window.
“Mere husband ko pata chal gaya to…” she began.
“Pata nahi chalega,” I said.
She did not argue. She simply rested her head on my chest and closed her eyes.
I stayed inside the room with her until almost four in the morning. When she finally returned to her own room the sheets still smelled of both of us, and the rain had not stopped.
The next day was the wedding. We saw each other only from a distance — during the pheras, during the lunch, during the photographs. She looked at me once across the mandap, a brief, unreadable glance, then looked away. No words were exchanged.
That night most guests left for their hometowns. Priya was scheduled to leave the next morning. The hotel was quieter. Only a few rooms remained occupied.
At 11:50 p.m. there was a light knock on my door again.
I opened it.
She stood there in the same cream nighty. No bottle this time.
She simply said, “Aakhri raat hai.”
I stepped aside. She came in. I locked the door.
This time we did not rush. We undressed each other slowly. I spent a long time with my mouth on her breasts and between her legs until she came twice against my tongue. When I finally entered her we moved together for a long time on the bed, changing positions whenever one of us needed a different depth. She was on top for a while, then I was behind her, then she was on her back with her legs over my shoulders.
Near the end she looked up at me and said, almost in a whisper,
“Kal se normal ho jayega. Train pakadni hai.”
I did not answer with words. I just kept moving until we both came hard, her nails on my back, my face against her neck.
Afterwards we lay side by side in the dark, listening to the quiet hotel.
She turned her head toward me and said quietly,
“Agar kabhi Aurangabad aana ho… to message karna. Main free ho jaungi.”
I nodded.
She dressed carefully. At the door she touched my wrist once, lightly, then let go.
She left for her room. I stood in the dark for a long time after, the smell of her still on the sheets and on my skin, already knowing that the next time I had work near Aurangabad I would message her first.