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Cheating With My Friend’s Wife in a Chandigarh Society Basement

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Anika knotted another marigold onto the garland while I kept the growing rope from sliding off the steel table. Rajat had put his wife and his oldest friend on the same basement duty after the Sector 22 florist cancelled, as if our cheating would stay quiet if we kept our hands busy.

The housing society basement in Chandigarh smelled of wet concrete, genda, and leftover incense. In India, a weekday mandap chore looks respectable enough. Anyone on the stairwell would see two adults doing society work, not secret lovers stealing an hour from a marriage.

Her cream kameez had a turmeric stain near the hem. The thin gold chain I bought in March sat against her collarbone under the tube light. The dupatta stayed pinned at her left shoulder. The salwar still looked neat enough for a neighbor to praise her.

Sleeves of my grey shirt were rolled to the elbow. The phone lay face down beside a heap of stems so Rajat’s name would not flash between us. He was in Mohali until evening, arguing with a client who would not sign.

Last night, on the group video call, he had laughed that Anika never wore jewelry he had not chosen. She had smiled at the camera and touched an empty throat. This afternoon the chain was back, bright and obvious.

“Hold it tighter,” she said, not looking up. “It keeps slipping.”

A petal stuck to her wrist. Three months of this extramarital mess had taught me her tells. When she wanted to talk, she talked about flowers. When she wanted me, she went quiet and let the work fill the room.

Why The Chain Stayed On Her

“If Rajat thinks you only wear what he buys, why is my chain still on your neck?”

The knot she was tying went crooked. She set the clip on the table and finally looked at me. Thirty-two, married eight years, and still choosing a friend’s mouth over the story she told her husband.

“Because I did not take it off,” Anika said. “That is the whole answer.”

“That is not an answer. That is you daring him to notice.”

“He will not notice. He notices invoices.” She wiped marigold stain on a rag. “You drove here to help with garlands, Nikhil. Do not turn a society job into a cross-examination.”

“I drove here because you texted that the florist backed out and you could not do the length alone. I did not cross Chandigarh to pretend we are only friends.”

She breathed out through her nose, the way she did when Rajat interrupted her at dinner. Then she hooked a finger under the chain and lifted it so the small sun pendant showed. Cheap metal. Mine.

“I put it on after he left. I wanted it on my skin while we did this boring work. That is the affair. It is not noble.”

The garland sagged when she stepped around the table. I caught the rope and let it pool on the steel so the knots would not tear. Her palm landed on my chest, not pushing.

“If you are going to ask ugly questions, come closer and ask them.”

I kissed her. She kissed back with the same hungry impatience as March, tasting of fennel. Her other hand found my belt and stayed there, not fumbling, not performing shyness she did not feel.

“Yes,” she said against my mouth. “Now. Before I talk myself out of it.”

That was enough. The basement’s far door to the stairwell stayed shut. A faint thump sounded on an upper floor, then nothing. Her kameez came up in my hands as far as her ribs. Beige bra, warm skin, the chain sliding as she arched.

She pulled my shirt free of the jeans and got her palms on my stomach. The table edge pressed the back of her thighs. Marigold dust marked her wrist like a cheap bangle. I kissed the place under the pendant because that was the contradiction I could not leave alone.

“He thinks this throat is only his,” she whispered, not sounding sorry. “I am tired of performing that.”

Buttons on my shirt opened under her fingers, not all of them. She left the garment hanging and dragged me in by the open placket. The salwar’s drawstring loosened when I tugged. She helped, impatient, kicking one sandal aside so she could brace a heel on the table’s lower rim.

Cotton bunched at her knees. I slid my hand between her legs and found her already wet, no performance in it. She made a small sound and bit it back, then decided not to, because the stairwell had gone quiet again.

“Don’t make this tender,” Anika said. “I did not keep the chain on for tender.”

Two fingers inside her made her forehead drop to my shoulder. She rocked on her own, chasing the angle she wanted, while the unused garland shed petals onto the floor. My thumb found the spot that made her swear in Punjabi under her breath, the only time her respectable society voice cracked.

She opened my belt. The zipper followed. Her fist around me was sure, the same surety she used when she lied easily on that video call. I reached for my wallet because last time she had asked me not to be stupid, and the folded packet was still there.

“Good,” she said, watching me tear it. “I am not ruining my life for a romantic accident.”

The condom rolled on while she held the table and watched my face like she was daring me to slow down. I did not. When I pushed into her she hissed and then laughed once, short, because the cream kameez was still mostly on and we looked like people who had only meant to tie flowers.

Her legs tightened. The table bumped the wall in a dull rhythm we both heard and ignored. I held her hip and the edge of the dupatta so it would not slide to the dirty floor. She pulled my hair when I went deeper, not as decoration, as instruction.

“Harder. He is in Mohali. Nobody is coming.”

Knock From The Corridor

Somebody came. Three knocks, polite and fatal, hit the basement door from the corridor side.

“Nikhil beta? Anika madam?” Old Sharma’s voice, the caretaker who knew every overdue maintenance chit in the building. “Electrician is coming in twenty minutes for the fuse box. Finish and clear the center table. Extra flowers can go in the inner store. I am leaving the inner latch free.”

Anika froze with her mouth on my collarbone. We were still joined. The table had left a red line on the back of her thigh. For a stupid second I thought of answering like a decent friend of her husband.

“We heard you,” I called, voice rough. “We will clear the table.”

“Twenty minutes,” Sharma repeated. “After that the board comes off and the whole basement smells of burning. Don’t sit on the center table like students.”

His slippers shuffled away. The interruption did not pause us so we could resume the same pose like a paused video. It changed the next choice. The open basement was no longer possible. Twenty minutes was not a full afternoon. The inner store had a latch.

Anika pulled off me with a wince and yanked the salwar up only far enough to walk. She grabbed a crate of leftover marigolds because we needed a reason if Sharma doubled back. I fastened the belt badly, shirt still open, and followed her through the side door into the narrow store where festival cloth and spare tube lights lived.

She shut the door. The latch turned. Dim light came from a high vent. The crate hit the floor. In that smaller room the affair had nowhere to hide behind society work.

“If you want to stop, say it,” I said, and then I shut up, because she was already dragging me in by the open shirt.

“I did not walk in here to stop.”

She turned, palms on a stack of folded stage curtains, kameez rucked to her waist. The salwar came down again. I stepped in behind her this time, because the table was gone and the curtains were what we had. When I entered her she pushed back at once, greedy, the chain swinging.

One of my hands covered hers on the cloth. The other held her hip. The sound we made was quieter here, swallowed by fabric. She reached back and gripped my thigh whenever I slowed, which was her way of refusing the guilt that had been sitting on the garland table with us.

“You asked why the chain stayed,” she said, broken by breath. “Because I wanted you to see it. Because I am cheating and I am not going to pretend it is a friendship errand.”

That sentence undid whatever respectable story I had left. I thrust harder. She came first, shaking, forehead against the curtains, a raw sound she tried to keep inside and failed. I followed with my mouth on her shoulder, the condom still on, the vent light making a cheap stripe across her cream sleeve.

We stayed like that for a few breaths. Marigold smell had followed us in. Somewhere above, a child yelled about a cricket ball. Across ordinary Tuesday work in India, other people were buying milk and arguing about parking. We were in a curtain store with our clothes half on.

She reached back and touched my wrist, not affectionate so much as checking I was still there. Then she eased forward so I slipped out. Practical again, almost instantly.

“Wipe your mouth. You have my lipstick.”

I used the inside of my own sleeve. She pulled the salwar up, tied the string with a double knot, and shook the kameez down until the turmeric stain was the only proof she had been cooking and not doing this. The chain stayed. She did not hide it.

The condom went into a crumpled newspaper from the crate, then into my pocket to throw later, far from this building. I buttoned the grey shirt. One button sat in the wrong hole until she fixed it with an impatient tug, like a wife, which she was not, not mine.

He Left Down The Service Stairs

Anika picked up the crate because Sharma would expect extra flowers to have moved. She opened the latch. Heat from the basement tube lights met us again. The center table still held the unfinished garland, sagging, honest in a way we were not.

“I will finish two strings so the electrician sees work,” she said. “You should not be here when he opens the fuse box. He likes to talk. He likes names.”

“Rajat will call at six.”

“I will answer. I will talk about marigolds.” She looked at my mouth once, then at the stairwell door. “Do not text the group chat from the parking. He reads timestamps like a lawyer.”

I took the service stairs, the ones that smelled of garbage bags and phenyl, because the main lift would put me in front of whoever was coming down for the electrician. My shirt was straight. The wallet was lighter by one packet. On the landing I heard her clip start working again, metal on stems, as if the basement had only ever been a chore.

Outside, Chandigarh afternoon light hit the visitor parking. I started the car and did not look up at her kitchen balcony. The gold chain would still be on her when Rajat came home from Mohali. That was the part of the cheating she had decided to keep, and I drove away from it before Sharma’s electrician could ask why my friend’s wife had marigold dust on her wrists and a too-bright throat.

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