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Chapter 71: Tailored Temptations
Scene 1
Vanitha and Summer were still on the bench. Still topless. Breasts wide open. The bras in a soft heap next to Summer’s thigh. Vanitha’s phone face down on the wood between them, the screen dark, the folder closed.
Summer breathed out, slow.
“Vanitha.”
“Mm.”
“I am not going to talk about the photos, his photos.”
“Okay, Summer.”
“I heard you.” Summer’s voice was soft. “What you said. About letting it unfold on its own. Not because of the pictures we saw. Not because of you. Because it is real. Or not.”
“I heard you hear me.”
“I wanted you to know I heard you.”
Vanitha looked at her. Summer’s eyes were on her own hands in her lap. The small pink of her nipples had gone soft again.
“Summer.” Vanitha put her hand on Summer’s knee again. “We cannot sit here topless all day.”
Summer laughed. One soft breath.
“No.”
“He is going to think we slept off up here.”
Summer laughed again. She pressed her palm to her own chest, flat, a gesture that did not cover anything and did not try to. The pink of her breast moved under the pink of her palm.
“Okay, Vanitha.”
“Okay.”
“The choli, then.”
“The choli.”
Vanitha stood up. She crossed to the fitting stand at the end of the closet. The two cholis hung there in the morning light. The red choli. The cream.
She lifted the red choli off the stand.
“Yours, dear.”
“Mine.”
Summer stood up off the bench. The white ruffle skirt fell back over her thigh when she stood. She lifted her arms for the second time this morning. Vanitha came behind her. The back of Summer’s neck was warm under the damp of her hair. Vanitha slid the choli down over the lifted arms and brought the panels around the front.
Her breasts framed by the red choli the way the tailor had drawn on the small graph paper in Chennai, the low scoop promising to sit a clean inch below the top of each breast, the hem promising to cut a hand‘s width above the waistband of the skirt.
Vanitha worked the first hook.
“Dear.”
“Mm.”
“I want to say one thing. I will say it once. I will not say it again.”
“Okay, Vanitha.”
“You have been my friend for six days.”
“Six days.”
“I have had friends for six years who would have taken that phone to Ashok.” Vanitha worked the second hook. The silk pulled across Summer’s chest. “I have had friends for six years who would have taken it to my mother.”
“Vanitha.”
“Six days. And you put the phone face down.” Vanitha’s voice had gone soft. She did not trust it. She kept her eyes on the small brass of the hook in her fingers. “I will not forget it, dear.”
“Vanitha.”
“Do not cry. Your mascara.”
“I am not crying.”
“You are a little.”
Summer laughed. One breath. Her shoulders shook, soft, and Vanitha worked the third hook through the laugh and the silk sat clean across the full of Summer’s breasts and the small pink underneath was gone behind the red choli and the gold leaf.
“Vanitha.”
“Mm.”
“Six days and you showed me the pictures.”
“I did not mean to show you.”
“You did not stop me.”
“I did not stop you, dear.”
“No.”
“I think I wanted to tell someone.”
“I know you did.”
Vanitha stepped back a half step after fixing all the 5 front hooks of her red choli.
“Dear.”
“What, Vanitha.”
“My father-in-law will be happy to see his creation is helping me.. look at your flawless breasts looks so good in this perfectly fit choli.”
Summer laughed. She turned to the mirror. She put her hands on her own waist above the skirt and she did the small half turn she had done in the entry, and the red choli moved with her, and the gold chain caught the light on the turn.
“Your turn, Vanitha.”
“Yes, dear.”
Summer lifted the cream choli off the stand and helped Vanitha cover her exposed breasts.
“Vanitha.”
“Mm.”
“I am going to try to look at him like a normal person.”
“Dear, I do not think you can anymore.”
“I am going to try.”
“You are going to fail.”
“I know.”
Summer worked the from hooks of Vanaitha’s choli. second hook. The cream choli came tight across Vanitha’s chest and the small pink of her own nipples went soft against the fabric and Vanitha watched her own reflection in the mirror.
“Vanitha, You look like a woman in a painting.”
“Stop.”
“I am not stopping.”
“Selvam is so lucky!”
Vanitha laughed. She turned. The cream moved with her. She took a waist chain to match with Summer.
They turned together to the mirror. Two women in two cholis with two skirts and two pairs of bare midriff and two gold waist chains between them.
“Ready, dear?”
“Ready, Vanitha.”
Vanitha turned the lock on the bedroom door. She opened it. The hall was quiet. The smell of the coffee from the kitchen came up the stair soft.
“Do you think he is going to be astonished?”
They laughed. They went down.
Scene 2
Vanitha and Summer walked down the stairs like two Aphrodites. Selvam was at the bottom of the stair with the cold coffee in his hand.
He looked up.
Vanitha watched his face. She watched the soft thing his mouth did when his mouth had a sentence ready and the sentence went out of him.
She had seen the soft thing twice this morning already, once at the door when Summer had walked in, and once again now, and she filed the second one against the first.
His eyes went to Vanitha first. They went to the cream choli across her chest. They went down to the bare strip of her midriff above the white skirt. They went to the small gold chain on her hip. They came back up to her face and they stayed there a half breath longer than they should have, and then they moved.
They moved to Summer.
The wine red across Summer’s chest. The red choli hugging her perfect C-Cups. The fair of her shoulders above the scoop of the neckline. Het miniskirt was such a tease, low on her hip showing her navel and waist chain.
They both playful walked down swaying their hips, twirling and fanning their white ruffle skirt.
“Mama” Vanitha started..
“Your app is a success, you are looking at the last step of the process!”
“Yes Selvam, look at our tailored choli’s they look perfect.”
Vanitha stepped down off the last stair onto the tile of the entry. The cool of it was good against the soles of her feet. She did not look at her own feet. She looked at Selvam.
He had not put the coffee down.
He held the mug at the level of his chest. The small fine porcelain handle was hooked on the second knuckle of his finger. He had not sipped. The coffee in the mug was a flat brown disc and the disc was not moving.
“Mama.” She came across the tile to him. She stopped a clean foot from him. Summer stopped at her shoulder. “Look. Both. The numbers from the app. The tailor stitched from the numbers. No fitting. No second visit. Just the photo, the app, the deck of measurements to the tailor.”
“Vanitha.”
“Mama, watch.”
She put her own hands flat against the front of the cream silk over her breasts. She pressed. Her palms cupped the soft of each breast over the silk and she pushed up, small, a clean half inch, the way a woman tested the work of a tailor.
The silk did not give. The silk held. Her breasts lifted under her own hands inside the choli the way a thing lifted inside a frame that had been made for it, and the small round of the top of each rose a clean half inch above the scoop of the neckline, and the small valley between them deepened a clean shade.
“See, mama. No bra. Nothing.” She looked down at her own chest, then up at him. “The seam on the side. Feel.”
She did not give him her hand. She moved her own hand to the seam on her side, under the arm, where the silk closed against her ribs. She pressed there. The silk did not pucker. The silk did not gap.
“Tight, mama. Clean. The number was right.”
“It looks right, ma.” His voice came out soft. He cleared the soft in it. “It looks right.”
Summer stepped up the half step that put her at Vanitha’s shoulder and not behind it.
“Selvam.”
“Summer.”
She had her own hand at the front of her red choli now. She did not press the way Vanitha had pressed. She did it differently. She put her palms flat over the full of each breast over the silk and she lifted, soft, the way a woman lifted the weight of her own breasts to feel the held of a thing under them.
“Look, Selvam.” Her voice was the soft voice from the entry. The half-corner was back at the side of her mouth. “Feel the way it sits.”
Vanitha watched Summer’s hands on her own chest. She watched the soft round of the top of each breast push up out of the scoop of the neckline as Summer lifted, the cleavage going from clean to deep in the soft space of a breath.
Summer’s hands stayed at her chest. She moved them, gently. The right hand lifted the right breast a half inch and the left hand pushed the left a half inch toward the middle, and the cleavage went a clean shade deeper between them. “This choli feels so comfortable, it’s like I am not even wearing anything.”
Vanitha let her eyes go to Selvam’s face.
Selvam’s mouth was not doing the quiet thing now. His mouth was a open. His eyes were on Summer’s chest. They were not moving. They were on the place where Summer’s palms were, where the soft round was rising out of the scoop the way a thing rose out of a frame.
Summer promised herself not to look Selvam differently, now that she has seen his cock pictures. But she was failing.
Summer let her eyes go down. She did not mean to let them go down. They went down on their own.
His grey shorts. The soft cotton of them. The gentle move under the cotton. The hard thing where there had been a soft thing a breath ago. The cotton was not flat on the front of him anymore.
She brought her eyes back up.
Selvam was looking at Summer’s hands.
“It is a good fit, Summer.” His voice came out the soft voice. He cleared the soft. “The app... the app worked.”
“It worked, Selvam.” Summer moved her hands. She lifted again. She let the breast meat settle a gentle amount and lift again, and the silk did the silk thing it did, holding the soft, framing the round, the soft pink breast underneath gone to a shadow under the red choli.
“I am not wearing a bra, Selvam. Not a thing under it. And it does not move so comfy.”
“It does not move.” He said the words the way a man said words a woman had just said, because there were no other words.
“Feel the hold, Selvam.” She did not give him her hand either. She moved her own hand to the side seam under her arm, the way Vanitha had done it. She pressed. “Clean. No gap. No pull.”
His eyes went to her side seam. They did not stay there. They came back to the front. They came back to the place her palms were.
Vanitha watched Summer’s eyes drop again. Half a second. To the grey shorts. To the soft not-flat the cotton was doing across the front of him. Summer’s eyes came back up and the half-corner at her mouth was gone and a different thing was there in its place, a soft held thing the eye showed when the eye had seen and the mouth had decided not to say.
Summer began to get nervous realizing that cock, the epitome of manhood she saw in the picture is right in front of her. She felt the small heat come up her chest under the red silk. She did not look down at the choli. She kept her eyes on Selvam’s face and she kept her hands at the front of her choli and she did the soft lift one more time because she had started doing it and she could not figure out how to stop.
“And the weight of it, Selvam.” Her own voice came out a half shade lower than she had meant. “It holds. It does not press. It is the strangest thing. Like the silk knows where to be.”
“The silk knows where to be.” He said it after her.
“Yes.”
Vanitha was beside her at the shoulder. Vanitha had taken her hands off her own chest and put them on her hips, the small thumbs hooked at the waistband of the white skirt above the gold chain, the way a woman stood when she was waiting for a thing to be said.
Summer felt Vanitha’s eyes on the side of her face.
She did not turn to meet them.
“Mama.” Vanitha’s voice cut clean across the small held space between them. “Guess what.”
“What, ma.”
“Our breasts are the same.”
Summer’s stomach did a small drop.
“The same?”
“The same, mama.” Vanitha turned her head a small quarter to Summer at her shoulder. The soft smile at the corner of her mouth was the smile she had been doing all morning, the one that did not know it was a problem. “We weighed them upstairs. Same size. Same weight. To the gram, mama. Bust. Underbust. Cup. The app had to look at the photos twice.”
“Vanitha.” Summer said it shyly.
“It is true, dear.”
“It is true.” Summer looked down at her own hands at her chest. She felt her own tongue go against the back of her teeth. She felt the word that was about to come out of her mouth. She bit the soft of her tongue to stop the word and the bite was a half second too late.
“So you can imagine, Selvam, how the choli that fits me would fit Vanitha if we swapped.”
She said it.
She heard her own word land in the quiet of the entry. Swap. The small clean syllable of it. She felt her tongue still pressed against the back of her teeth where she had bitten it a half second too late.
Selvam did not say anything for a breath.
She watched his face.
“Swap.” He said the word back to her. He said it quietly.
Summer felt the word land. She felt it land in her own chest before it landed in the room. The soft clean syllable she had let out of her mouth a half second too late. The half second she had bitten her tongue and missed.
Swap.
She felt the heat go up the side of her neck under the red choli silk. She felt the small hard thing in her belly that was not the pull from the morning and was not the pull from the gas station. It was a different thing. It was the thing a woman felt when a word had gone out of her mouth and the word had a man’s eyes on it.
He was looking at her.
His eyes were on her face. Not on the choli. Not on her hands. On her face. The brown of them steady. The mouth still soft-open from the word he had said back to her.
She had to do something with her hands.
She did the thing her hands wanted to do.
She turned a quarter on the tile. She brought her hands off her own chest and she put them on Vanitha’s chest, on the cream silk over the soft of Vanitha’s breasts, the way Vanitha had put her hands on her in the bedroom upstairs. Her palms went flat against the cream. The silk was warm under her hand from the warm of Vanitha under the silk.
“Yes,” she said. She said it a small amount too fast. She did not slow it.
“Yes, Selvam. We weighed each other. Up there. In the bedroom. We weighed each other in the mirror. Same size. Same weight. Even if we swapped, you would not be able to tell.”
She lifted, gentle, the way she had lifted her own a breath ago. Her palms went up under the soft of Vanitha’s breasts through the cream and the cream lifted with them and the small round of the top of each rose a clean half inch over the scoop of Vanitha’s neckline.
“See, Selvam. The same. The exact same.”
Vanitha did not move under her hands. Vanitha stood. Vanitha let her hands stay there.
Summer realized if she stayed there any longer, she’s going to drop on her knees and beg Selvam to show his bulging cock.
“Selvam.” Summer turned back to him. The half corner of her mouth was up again but it was a different half corner. “I should go. I told Vanitha I would stay. I have to go. I have a. I have a Zoom. A client. Tomorrow. I have to prep for it.”
“Summer.”
“I am sorry. I am a bad guest.”
“You are not a bad guest, dear.” Vanitha had her hand on Summer’s arm. “Go. Go prep. Come Sunday next week.”
“Sunday next week.”
“Sunday next week.”
Summer went up the stairs. Fast. The small heels clicking on the wood edge of the runner. Selvam watched her go. He looked at the back of the red choli choli as she went and he looked at the small gold chain on the curve of her hip and he looked away.
Vanitha came to the armchair. She bent. She put her mouth near his ear.
“Mama.”
“Vanitha.”
“You are a genius, mama.”
“Summer is the genius, ma.”
“You are both the genius.”
She kissed his temple. Small. The briefest press of her mouth on his skin. She stood up. Selvam did not move. His cock did.
Summer came back down in three minutes. The red choli was over her arm on a hanger. She had her crop top back on. The plain white cotton. The small gold chain still at her hip. She went to the door.
“Vanitha.”
“Dear.”
“I’ll take the choli home. I’ll steam it. I’ll wear it next time.”
“Take it, dear.”
Summer’s eyes went to Selvam at the armchair.
“Selvam. Ashok and Latha are at the office until seven. Vanitha mentioned it earlier.”
“Summer.”
“Seven, Selvam. It is a long day for them.”
“It is.”
“Enjoy the quiet.” Summer looked at Vanitha as she now know what they will be doing until 7pm.
She went out the door. The door closed soft behind her.
Selvam sat in the armchair with the tablet face down on the arm and the empty mug on the side table and the word seven sat in the room where Summer had left it.
Vanitha turned from the door.
She looked at him.
He looked at her.
Scene 1
Vanitha and Summer were still on the bench. Still topless. Breasts wide open. The bras in a soft heap next to Summer’s thigh. Vanitha’s phone face down on the wood between them, the screen dark, the folder closed.
Summer breathed out, slow.
“Vanitha.”
“Mm.”
“I am not going to talk about the photos, his photos.”
“Okay, Summer.”
“I heard you.” Summer’s voice was soft. “What you said. About letting it unfold on its own. Not because of the pictures we saw. Not because of you. Because it is real. Or not.”
“I heard you hear me.”
“I wanted you to know I heard you.”
Vanitha looked at her. Summer’s eyes were on her own hands in her lap. The small pink of her nipples had gone soft again.
“Summer.” Vanitha put her hand on Summer’s knee again. “We cannot sit here topless all day.”
Summer laughed. One soft breath.
“No.”
“He is going to think we slept off up here.”
Summer laughed again. She pressed her palm to her own chest, flat, a gesture that did not cover anything and did not try to. The pink of her breast moved under the pink of her palm.
“Okay, Vanitha.”
“Okay.”
“The choli, then.”
“The choli.”
Vanitha stood up. She crossed to the fitting stand at the end of the closet. The two cholis hung there in the morning light. The red choli. The cream.
She lifted the red choli off the stand.
“Yours, dear.”
“Mine.”
Summer stood up off the bench. The white ruffle skirt fell back over her thigh when she stood. She lifted her arms for the second time this morning. Vanitha came behind her. The back of Summer’s neck was warm under the damp of her hair. Vanitha slid the choli down over the lifted arms and brought the panels around the front.
Her breasts framed by the red choli the way the tailor had drawn on the small graph paper in Chennai, the low scoop promising to sit a clean inch below the top of each breast, the hem promising to cut a hand‘s width above the waistband of the skirt.
Vanitha worked the first hook.
“Dear.”
“Mm.”
“I want to say one thing. I will say it once. I will not say it again.”
“Okay, Vanitha.”
“You have been my friend for six days.”
“Six days.”
“I have had friends for six years who would have taken that phone to Ashok.” Vanitha worked the second hook. The silk pulled across Summer’s chest. “I have had friends for six years who would have taken it to my mother.”
“Vanitha.”
“Six days. And you put the phone face down.” Vanitha’s voice had gone soft. She did not trust it. She kept her eyes on the small brass of the hook in her fingers. “I will not forget it, dear.”
“Vanitha.”
“Do not cry. Your mascara.”
“I am not crying.”
“You are a little.”
Summer laughed. One breath. Her shoulders shook, soft, and Vanitha worked the third hook through the laugh and the silk sat clean across the full of Summer’s breasts and the small pink underneath was gone behind the red choli and the gold leaf.
“Vanitha.”
“Mm.”
“Six days and you showed me the pictures.”
“I did not mean to show you.”
“You did not stop me.”
“I did not stop you, dear.”
“No.”
“I think I wanted to tell someone.”
“I know you did.”
Vanitha stepped back a half step after fixing all the 5 front hooks of her red choli.
“Dear.”
“What, Vanitha.”
“My father-in-law will be happy to see his creation is helping me.. look at your flawless breasts looks so good in this perfectly fit choli.”
Summer laughed. She turned to the mirror. She put her hands on her own waist above the skirt and she did the small half turn she had done in the entry, and the red choli moved with her, and the gold chain caught the light on the turn.
“Your turn, Vanitha.”
“Yes, dear.”
Summer lifted the cream choli off the stand and helped Vanitha cover her exposed breasts.
“Vanitha.”
“Mm.”
“I am going to try to look at him like a normal person.”
“Dear, I do not think you can anymore.”
“I am going to try.”
“You are going to fail.”
“I know.”
Summer worked the from hooks of Vanaitha’s choli. second hook. The cream choli came tight across Vanitha’s chest and the small pink of her own nipples went soft against the fabric and Vanitha watched her own reflection in the mirror.
“Vanitha, You look like a woman in a painting.”
“Stop.”
“I am not stopping.”
“Selvam is so lucky!”
Vanitha laughed. She turned. The cream moved with her. She took a waist chain to match with Summer.
They turned together to the mirror. Two women in two cholis with two skirts and two pairs of bare midriff and two gold waist chains between them.
“Ready, dear?”
“Ready, Vanitha.”
Vanitha turned the lock on the bedroom door. She opened it. The hall was quiet. The smell of the coffee from the kitchen came up the stair soft.
“Do you think he is going to be astonished?”
They laughed. They went down.
Scene 2
Vanitha and Summer walked down the stairs like two Aphrodites. Selvam was at the bottom of the stair with the cold coffee in his hand.
He looked up.
Vanitha watched his face. She watched the soft thing his mouth did when his mouth had a sentence ready and the sentence went out of him.
She had seen the soft thing twice this morning already, once at the door when Summer had walked in, and once again now, and she filed the second one against the first.
His eyes went to Vanitha first. They went to the cream choli across her chest. They went down to the bare strip of her midriff above the white skirt. They went to the small gold chain on her hip. They came back up to her face and they stayed there a half breath longer than they should have, and then they moved.
They moved to Summer.
The wine red across Summer’s chest. The red choli hugging her perfect C-Cups. The fair of her shoulders above the scoop of the neckline. Het miniskirt was such a tease, low on her hip showing her navel and waist chain.
They both playful walked down swaying their hips, twirling and fanning their white ruffle skirt.
“Mama” Vanitha started..
“Your app is a success, you are looking at the last step of the process!”
“Yes Selvam, look at our tailored choli’s they look perfect.”
Vanitha stepped down off the last stair onto the tile of the entry. The cool of it was good against the soles of her feet. She did not look at her own feet. She looked at Selvam.
He had not put the coffee down.
He held the mug at the level of his chest. The small fine porcelain handle was hooked on the second knuckle of his finger. He had not sipped. The coffee in the mug was a flat brown disc and the disc was not moving.
“Mama.” She came across the tile to him. She stopped a clean foot from him. Summer stopped at her shoulder. “Look. Both. The numbers from the app. The tailor stitched from the numbers. No fitting. No second visit. Just the photo, the app, the deck of measurements to the tailor.”
“Vanitha.”
“Mama, watch.”
She put her own hands flat against the front of the cream silk over her breasts. She pressed. Her palms cupped the soft of each breast over the silk and she pushed up, small, a clean half inch, the way a woman tested the work of a tailor.
The silk did not give. The silk held. Her breasts lifted under her own hands inside the choli the way a thing lifted inside a frame that had been made for it, and the small round of the top of each rose a clean half inch above the scoop of the neckline, and the small valley between them deepened a clean shade.
“See, mama. No bra. Nothing.” She looked down at her own chest, then up at him. “The seam on the side. Feel.”
She did not give him her hand. She moved her own hand to the seam on her side, under the arm, where the silk closed against her ribs. She pressed there. The silk did not pucker. The silk did not gap.
“Tight, mama. Clean. The number was right.”
“It looks right, ma.” His voice came out soft. He cleared the soft in it. “It looks right.”
Summer stepped up the half step that put her at Vanitha’s shoulder and not behind it.
“Selvam.”
“Summer.”
She had her own hand at the front of her red choli now. She did not press the way Vanitha had pressed. She did it differently. She put her palms flat over the full of each breast over the silk and she lifted, soft, the way a woman lifted the weight of her own breasts to feel the held of a thing under them.
“Look, Selvam.” Her voice was the soft voice from the entry. The half-corner was back at the side of her mouth. “Feel the way it sits.”
Vanitha watched Summer’s hands on her own chest. She watched the soft round of the top of each breast push up out of the scoop of the neckline as Summer lifted, the cleavage going from clean to deep in the soft space of a breath.
Summer’s hands stayed at her chest. She moved them, gently. The right hand lifted the right breast a half inch and the left hand pushed the left a half inch toward the middle, and the cleavage went a clean shade deeper between them. “This choli feels so comfortable, it’s like I am not even wearing anything.”
Vanitha let her eyes go to Selvam’s face.
Selvam’s mouth was not doing the quiet thing now. His mouth was a open. His eyes were on Summer’s chest. They were not moving. They were on the place where Summer’s palms were, where the soft round was rising out of the scoop the way a thing rose out of a frame.
Summer promised herself not to look Selvam differently, now that she has seen his cock pictures. But she was failing.
Summer let her eyes go down. She did not mean to let them go down. They went down on their own.
His grey shorts. The soft cotton of them. The gentle move under the cotton. The hard thing where there had been a soft thing a breath ago. The cotton was not flat on the front of him anymore.
She brought her eyes back up.
Selvam was looking at Summer’s hands.
“It is a good fit, Summer.” His voice came out the soft voice. He cleared the soft. “The app... the app worked.”
“It worked, Selvam.” Summer moved her hands. She lifted again. She let the breast meat settle a gentle amount and lift again, and the silk did the silk thing it did, holding the soft, framing the round, the soft pink breast underneath gone to a shadow under the red choli.
“I am not wearing a bra, Selvam. Not a thing under it. And it does not move so comfy.”
“It does not move.” He said the words the way a man said words a woman had just said, because there were no other words.
“Feel the hold, Selvam.” She did not give him her hand either. She moved her own hand to the side seam under her arm, the way Vanitha had done it. She pressed. “Clean. No gap. No pull.”
His eyes went to her side seam. They did not stay there. They came back to the front. They came back to the place her palms were.
Vanitha watched Summer’s eyes drop again. Half a second. To the grey shorts. To the soft not-flat the cotton was doing across the front of him. Summer’s eyes came back up and the half-corner at her mouth was gone and a different thing was there in its place, a soft held thing the eye showed when the eye had seen and the mouth had decided not to say.
Summer began to get nervous realizing that cock, the epitome of manhood she saw in the picture is right in front of her. She felt the small heat come up her chest under the red silk. She did not look down at the choli. She kept her eyes on Selvam’s face and she kept her hands at the front of her choli and she did the soft lift one more time because she had started doing it and she could not figure out how to stop.
“And the weight of it, Selvam.” Her own voice came out a half shade lower than she had meant. “It holds. It does not press. It is the strangest thing. Like the silk knows where to be.”
“The silk knows where to be.” He said it after her.
“Yes.”
Vanitha was beside her at the shoulder. Vanitha had taken her hands off her own chest and put them on her hips, the small thumbs hooked at the waistband of the white skirt above the gold chain, the way a woman stood when she was waiting for a thing to be said.
Summer felt Vanitha’s eyes on the side of her face.
She did not turn to meet them.
“Mama.” Vanitha’s voice cut clean across the small held space between them. “Guess what.”
“What, ma.”
“Our breasts are the same.”
Summer’s stomach did a small drop.
“The same?”
“The same, mama.” Vanitha turned her head a small quarter to Summer at her shoulder. The soft smile at the corner of her mouth was the smile she had been doing all morning, the one that did not know it was a problem. “We weighed them upstairs. Same size. Same weight. To the gram, mama. Bust. Underbust. Cup. The app had to look at the photos twice.”
“Vanitha.” Summer said it shyly.
“It is true, dear.”
“It is true.” Summer looked down at her own hands at her chest. She felt her own tongue go against the back of her teeth. She felt the word that was about to come out of her mouth. She bit the soft of her tongue to stop the word and the bite was a half second too late.
“So you can imagine, Selvam, how the choli that fits me would fit Vanitha if we swapped.”
She said it.
She heard her own word land in the quiet of the entry. Swap. The small clean syllable of it. She felt her tongue still pressed against the back of her teeth where she had bitten it a half second too late.
Selvam did not say anything for a breath.
She watched his face.
“Swap.” He said the word back to her. He said it quietly.
Summer felt the word land. She felt it land in her own chest before it landed in the room. The soft clean syllable she had let out of her mouth a half second too late. The half second she had bitten her tongue and missed.
Swap.
She felt the heat go up the side of her neck under the red choli silk. She felt the small hard thing in her belly that was not the pull from the morning and was not the pull from the gas station. It was a different thing. It was the thing a woman felt when a word had gone out of her mouth and the word had a man’s eyes on it.
He was looking at her.
His eyes were on her face. Not on the choli. Not on her hands. On her face. The brown of them steady. The mouth still soft-open from the word he had said back to her.
She had to do something with her hands.
She did the thing her hands wanted to do.
She turned a quarter on the tile. She brought her hands off her own chest and she put them on Vanitha’s chest, on the cream silk over the soft of Vanitha’s breasts, the way Vanitha had put her hands on her in the bedroom upstairs. Her palms went flat against the cream. The silk was warm under her hand from the warm of Vanitha under the silk.
“Yes,” she said. She said it a small amount too fast. She did not slow it.
“Yes, Selvam. We weighed each other. Up there. In the bedroom. We weighed each other in the mirror. Same size. Same weight. Even if we swapped, you would not be able to tell.”
She lifted, gentle, the way she had lifted her own a breath ago. Her palms went up under the soft of Vanitha’s breasts through the cream and the cream lifted with them and the small round of the top of each rose a clean half inch over the scoop of Vanitha’s neckline.
“See, Selvam. The same. The exact same.”
Vanitha did not move under her hands. Vanitha stood. Vanitha let her hands stay there.
Summer realized if she stayed there any longer, she’s going to drop on her knees and beg Selvam to show his bulging cock.
“Selvam.” Summer turned back to him. The half corner of her mouth was up again but it was a different half corner. “I should go. I told Vanitha I would stay. I have to go. I have a. I have a Zoom. A client. Tomorrow. I have to prep for it.”
“Summer.”
“I am sorry. I am a bad guest.”
“You are not a bad guest, dear.” Vanitha had her hand on Summer’s arm. “Go. Go prep. Come Sunday next week.”
“Sunday next week.”
“Sunday next week.”
Summer went up the stairs. Fast. The small heels clicking on the wood edge of the runner. Selvam watched her go. He looked at the back of the red choli choli as she went and he looked at the small gold chain on the curve of her hip and he looked away.
Vanitha came to the armchair. She bent. She put her mouth near his ear.
“Mama.”
“Vanitha.”
“You are a genius, mama.”
“Summer is the genius, ma.”
“You are both the genius.”
She kissed his temple. Small. The briefest press of her mouth on his skin. She stood up. Selvam did not move. His cock did.
Summer came back down in three minutes. The red choli was over her arm on a hanger. She had her crop top back on. The plain white cotton. The small gold chain still at her hip. She went to the door.
“Vanitha.”
“Dear.”
“I’ll take the choli home. I’ll steam it. I’ll wear it next time.”
“Take it, dear.”
Summer’s eyes went to Selvam at the armchair.
“Selvam. Ashok and Latha are at the office until seven. Vanitha mentioned it earlier.”
“Summer.”
“Seven, Selvam. It is a long day for them.”
“It is.”
“Enjoy the quiet.” Summer looked at Vanitha as she now know what they will be doing until 7pm.
She went out the door. The door closed soft behind her.
Selvam sat in the armchair with the tablet face down on the arm and the empty mug on the side table and the word seven sat in the room where Summer had left it.
Vanitha turned from the door.
She looked at him.
He looked at her.
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