As Pritam tried to contact someone for arranging a reservation, Sanjeev asked me aside, "Can we accommodate him in our coup? It will spoil our privacy and naughty games though."
"Do you think we are going to be naughty onboard the train?" I asked him with awe.
"I had the plan to see how it would be like to make love to my wife on a running train," Sanjeev replied in a naughty tone.
"Keep your naughty plan in your brain," I said emphatically, "No touching and cajoling till we are inside the hotel at Jaipur."
"Very cruel wife," Sanjeev said with a feigned note of frustration.
"Call Pritam and offer him to travel in our coup," I said and added further, "I will be assured that my dear husband will not turn horny in the running train in presence of a third party."
Is this called irony? I was teasing my husband about being safe from him if Pritam was there in the coup without even imagining that my greatest ever threat would be from Pritam.
When Sanjeev offered Pritam to travel with us, he refused saying that he would be intruding our privacy. But as Sanjeev insisted he finally agreed and then jokingly said, "Actually railways should sell a single such berth to the couples and sell the other to distressed passengers like me."
Once in the coup, Pritam said, "I will move to the upper berth."
Then addressing me as the elder brother's wife said, "Bhabiji, I would also like to bring Sanjeev in my berth so that he doesn't disturb your sleep. But I'm afraid you may think of both as gay."
We laughed at his words but he said to my husband, "Sanjeev, sleep like a good boy and don't disturb bhabi. Remember I am on the upper berth keeping constant watch. After all, bachelors like me always like to play the role of self-proclaimed moral guardians of married couples."
We all laughed at his words. Pritam and Sanjeev were then discussing some official matters related to their upcoming project. The train had started in the meantime and after about five minutes the TTE came to check the tickets.
Sanjeev told the TTE that Pritam has his ticket but since he did not get reservation, we accommodated him in our coup. The TTE seemed reluctant to allow Pritam and Sanjeev agreed to pay some extra sum to him. Before leaving, the TTE asked us to lock the door of the coup from inside.
After the TTE left, Sanjeev locked the door and asked Pritam if he would like to have a drink. Pritam said, "There are two conditions. One, if bhabiji doesn't mind about our drinking. Two, you've kindly accommodated me even causing your inconvenience, so it will be from my side."
"Your bhabi won't mind," Sanjeev replied, "I have taught her to take a bit of gin to give me company."
"Oh that's great," Pritam exclaimed, "Presuming that I will have to travel in an unreserved compartment, I had brought canned gin and canned whiskey to make a cocktail. But bhabiji can take the gin we'll do with whiskey."
"You can make a cocktail, if you wish, "I assured Pritam, "I only take a smaller quantity just to give him company and can't consume the full can."
Pritam brought out three cans. Two containing whiskey named something like Stillhouse Moonshine. I never heard such a name. The third one was Mint and Cucumber gin. Despite the fact that Sanjeev requested him not to open all the cans at a time, Pritam opened them all. He gave one can of whiskey to Sanjeev, kept one for himself and gave the gin can to me telling us, "As we don't have glasses so let us have one can each. Bhabiji, you take just as much you are comfortable with. No need to think of the unconsumed leftover."
We began sipping slowly and comfortably. Pritam had also brought five packets of fried cashew nuts and more than the gin I was interested in. Perhaps we gossiped and enjoyed the drink for about an hour when Sanjeev declared that he was feeling sleepy and managed to turn on his side to sleep in the lower berth leaving space for me and Pritam to sit.
The train was running at full speed. After Sanjeev had fallen asleep, our conversation became dull and I too felt sleepy. So I waited for half an hour and talked casually to Pritam as a courtesy and then said, "I'm feeling sleepy too. I am coming from the toilet before I sleep."
I lifted myself from the seat to unlock the door but due to the speed of the train could not keep my balance. Pritam came to my help and opened the door. I had hardly taken two pegs but felt tumultuous as I went out of the coup and was walking along the corridor towards the toilet. I was walking keeping my balance on the train wall and yet my head was so heavy that I stumbled. But I did not fall. Pritam had kept a watch on me and he caught me from falling. His hands surrounded me along my waist.
Pritam said to me, "Don't walk alone. Hold my shoulder and walk along to the toilet."
He took me to the toilet, opened the door for me and as I entered he said from behind, "Catch something or you might fall down."
As I came out of the toilet, Pritam again held me but this time his grip tightened a bit on my body. I thought he was afraid that I would stumble again. As we walked along the corridor, he said, "Sanjeev never does his homework well. See he shouldn't have fallen asleep while you're still awake. He spoiled your honeymoon privacy inviting me in your coup. Now he should have been with you to escort you to the toilet, but the fool is sleeping leaving his lovely wife to my care."
Despite being tipsy and tumultuous, I looked disapprovingly at Pritam at his using the adjectives "fool" and "lovely" for Sanjeev and me respectively. Pritam said, "Don't mind bhabi, he joined this company before me and today I am his superior just for his lackadaisical attitude."
I didn't say anything. We had reached our coup by then. Sanjeev had by then changed his posture of sleeping and lying on his back had almost occupied the entire berth leaving no space for me. I tried to push him to a side but his athletic body was too much to move. I called him by name several times but he was in deep slumber.
Pritam was just looking at my efforts. I said to him a bit roughly, "Can't you join hands to push your friend to one side?"
"No use," said Pritam, "When asleep a man gets heavier. You better climb and occupy the upper berth?"
"And where will you go?" I asked Pritam.
"Don't bother," Pritam replied, "I will adjust with Sanjeev by pushing him to the other side."
"Are you sure?" I asked as I was feeling embarrassed that Sanjeev had occupied the entire berth.
As assured by Pritam, I decided to go to the upper berth. With the speeding train and my own tumultuous condition I had to take the help of Pritam to climb through the wooden stairs kept in the coup for the passenger of the upper berth. I didn't know whether it was intentional or accidental, while helping me to climb, Pritam's hands were firmly on my waist and asses. But I decided to ignore as he was helping me to reach the upper berth.
Wishing Pritam good night I prepared to sleep and took a bedsheet from my bag and covered myself. I was wondering why a slight sipping of gin made me tipsy and tumultuous because I had hardly taken one-sixth of the small can while at home I usually took two pegs. As I laid my body on the upper berth I felt a kind of numbness in my limbs. I raised and moved my hands twice or thrice but there was no difficulty in moving except that they felt heavy.
Pritam saw me moving my hands and asked, "Is anything wrong?"
"Not exactly," I replied, "Has a feeling as if hands and legs have grown heavy."
"Take a long sleep", said Pritam, "I hope you drank gin earlier also."
"Yes," I said, "Not this brand of course."
I turned towards the closed side of the berth and did not know when I fell asleep. Pritam had in the meantime put off the bright light and turned on the dim blue light. I was suddenly awakened when I felt a heavy weight on me and it was a smothering weight.
When I tried to locate, in the half lighted coup, I found Pritam was on me and we were under the same bedsheet. I was so afraid and startled that I screamed but soon Pritam's face descended on my lips and kissed me. I tried to push him away but felt the numbness of my hands. Due to the effect of the drink I could not exactly make out what was happening. Pritam kissed my lips to his heart's content and then disengaged.
Finding my mouth free I immediately reacted, "What nonsense is this? How dare you to do this to your friend's wife?"
I had spoken those words at the top of my voice so that I could draw Sanjeev's attention. But my own voice appeared meek and feeble to my own ears. Pritam laughed like a villain and said, "Scream as much you can. Your husband will not awake in the next seven hours. I have drugged him already and in seven hours you can make love to me several times."
While continuing my efforts to fight and free myself, I reacted, "You beast, trying to violate somebody's wife. How can you give such an indecent proposal to me? Do you think I am as lecherous as you? Just get off my body before I do anything violent and kick you out of the coup."
Smiling like a devil, Pritam said, "You may not be lecherous as me but you have to be if you wish to avoid bruises and marks on your body.
And you wish to kick me out and fight me? Just check your limbs, honey. You are drugged too and will remain so for hours. Don't behave like a prude. Since the day I saw you I longed to be one with you, darling. Your figure has a mesmerizing effect. Even in my dreams I see you nude and making love to me."
Pritam's obscene words shocked me and I was very much alarmed at the numbness of my limbs and my feeble voice. As if not to antagonize him, I said seductively, "I might not have been able to avoid the temptation of enjoying a handsome like you, but the unlucky thing is I am on my periods. Can we plan it while at Jaipur?"
Pritam gave a viperish smile. As Pritam was on me, my limbs were considerably numb, and I was under a terrible shock of unexpected sexual attack, I had not realized my situation. But I shivered when Pritam's hand went straight inside my panty and groping my clean shaved pudenda pushed a finger roughly inside my pussy hole and said, "So you're on your period and without napkins!"
The fact that my lie had been caught had no effect on me as I was more shocked to realize that my salwar was not only unknotted but was pulled to my knees. Pritam was telling me, "You're smart but I am smarter. So leave your lies and enjoy with me without bothering about your hubby. He will not wake up till 7 in the morning."
"You can fuck me," I sharply replied, "But remember the consequences. And for your information, I am not a whore to enjoy with everyone who has an unsatisfied tool."
"I am not afraid of the consequences," replied Pritam, "I just want to enjoy it with you. What did you say? You're not a whore? You better prepare yourself to be my whore so that no mark of violence is there on your tender and beautiful body."