‘It’s just love,’ said Sandhya, as her man and her mate were at work on her ears.
‘Are you not our love,’ they said, biting the respective ear.
‘Oh, you look wonderful,’ said Roopa to Sandhya, ‘look into the mirror.’
‘Don’t I know that from the glow on your faces,’ said Sandhya, embracing them both.
When he invited Sandhya for a repeat performance on their lover, Roopa said mischievously to Raja Rao. ‘You leave the right one to her, as she has the first right on me.’
Seeing her adorned, Raja Rao said, ‘Oh Roopa, how your face glows in the diamond triangle!’
‘Can’t I guess that from the glint in your eyes,’ said Roopa, ‘
‘You are a rare gem,’ said Sandhya, kissing Roopa.
‘Spotted by your taste,’ responded Roopa, even as Sandhya sucked Raja Rao into a grander kiss, she added, ‘polished by his passion, and embedded in our love triangle.’
‘I too love to wear a nose-stud,’ said Sandhya, fondling Roopa’s.
‘Don’t we think alike, darling?’ he said, pulling one from his pocket.
‘But then, won’t she need a poke,’ said Roopa, laughing, ‘on her nose for that.’
‘For that,’ smiled Raja Rao, ‘I don’t mind sending her to any doctor.’
‘And for that,’ said Sandhya naughtily, ‘would I need any other needle?’
‘It’s time we chained him,’ Roopa winked at Sandhya.
‘Can I ask for a lovelier punishment,’ said Raja Rao, all eager.
Pressing herself to him at his back, as Roopa blindfolded Raja Rao with her palms, having removed his shirt thereafter, Sandhya slipped a gold chain onto his chest, and as her grateful man opened his arms, Sandhya sank into his embrace in mirth. But when she moved her hands to his navel, Roopa shifted her hands onto the chain, as though to rein him in.
‘Won’t our womanly togetherness adorn your manly chest?’ Roopa whispered to him, showing him the locket.
‘It’s amazing in its alphabetical reversal,’ he said, hugely pleased.
‘Let’s go by the precedent,’ said Sandhya, stripping him naked.
‘First lovers first,’ he said, holding them together, ‘that’s the right order.’
‘Won’t we take that as your order,’ said the mates, and began to show an unusual zeal in their lesbian togetherness.
Watching them in wonderment, he took out two waist-chains to adorn their nudity with those but as they reached for them randomly, he suggested they guess the respective destination of the gold and the platinum ornaments.
‘Who knows, you might bluff,’ said Sandhya, seconded by Roopa, ‘even if we guess it right.’
‘No way, as each of them’ he said in all smiles, ‘has a name of its own.’