The kettle clicked off while I was still scraping ginger. Pallavi’s name filled the screen before I poured.
“Don’t go to badminton,” she said, skipping hello. “Stay on the phone with me.”
The racket leaned against the shoe rack of my Bengaluru flat, grip tape peeling from last week’s sweat. Saturday meant the indoor court near the inner ring and the same three men arguing line calls until the attendant killed the lights.
“If I stay, Manoj will keep pinging,” I said.
“Then let him. I am asking you to stay.”
The mug went down without a sip. “Alright. I’m not going.”
That answer kept me in the kitchen instead of kicking the scooter off its stand. It also meant the court would fill without me, even for the last twenty minutes.
She laughed, low, as if she had been holding the line in her chest. “I can hear the kettle. You were going to drink and run, the way you always do when a conversation might get honest.”
“I was.”
“Good. Don’t.”
We had met two years ago on a weekend trek outside the city, both of us stubborn about staying in India after college instead of feeding the usual visa conversation over cheap beer. She lived across Bengaluru in a smaller rented place near Jayanagar, plants on a grill, a studio job that kept her late. Until tonight we had kept to filter coffee, book recommendations, and voice notes that ran too long and then stopped at the dangerous line.
Last month, after coffee in a crowded place, I had almost kissed her at the parking lot and then talked about traffic instead. She had let me. Badminton had been a clean excuse ever since.
“What do you want, Pallavi?”
“Your voice. And you not leaving. I sat on this all afternoon and then I called before I could talk myself into another polite week.”
The kitchen tube light felt too public, so the phone came with me into the bedroom. The ceiling fan ticked on a slow setting. A washed grey T-shirt and old shorts were all I had on. The tea still steamed in the other room until habit won and the mug arrived on the side table anyway, a leftover of the evening she had already broken.
She said she was already lying down. Cotton nightdress. Hair still damp from a bucket bath because the geyser had taken too long.
“Say something filthy,” she said.
“You first.”
Her Voice on Speaker
“I have been thinking about your mouth since afternoon. I almost called you from the studio stairwell, which would have been a terrible idea with people walking past.”
The throat went dry in a way tea would not fix. “You can say that while I am still holding a mug?”
“Put the tea down. I want you to listen.”
Steam climbed and got ignored. Speaker mode put her breath into the room as if she had walked in and sat on the other pillow.
“Are you hard?” she asked.
“Getting there.”
“Touch yourself. Slowly. Tell me.”
Shorts pushed down enough to take my cock in hand. The first stroke felt clumsy because the job was listening, not performing.
“I am,” I said. “You?”
“My hand is under the nightdress. I am wet already, which is annoying, because I wanted to pretend this was casual.”
“It isn’t casual.”
“No.”
Two fingers, she said, and her knees opening toward a drawn curtain. The pace matched hers without trying to win. Traffic hummed under the window, a bus horn, a dog. A neighbor’s radio leaked cricket commentary, the same background noise you get on any ordinary evening in India, and the stroking continued because her breath was closer than the score.
“Talk like you would if you were here,” she said.
“I would pull that nightdress up and lick you until you grabbed my hair. I would not be polite about it.”
A small sound, not quite a laugh. “Do that with your voice. Don’t skip.”
The words came plainer after that. How I would suck her clit. How I would hold her thighs when she tried to close them. She answered with the wet sound of her fingers and a curse in Kannada she only used when she was past embarrassment.
“Fuck. Rohan.”
“Keep going.”
“I want you in my mouth first. I keep picturing you standing by this bed while I sit. I would look up. You would not last if I did that.”
“I would last long enough to pull you up and fuck you.”
“Then do it. Tell me.”
Hips shifted on the mattress while the story of pushing into her filled the speaker, the first tight slide, the nightdress bunched at her waist. She moaned and said she had two fingers inside herself and her thumb on her clit. The room still smelled of ginger that had never made it into the cup. The grey T-shirt stuck at the lower back.
“Don’t come yet,” she said. “I want to hear you struggle.”
“You’re enjoying that.”
“Yes. I called you because I was tired of being careful, not because I wanted a polite man on a Saturday.”
Dirty talk shortened into loops. She liked names for her body without poetry. The order to squeeze the head of my cock and wait made the next breath ugly. She described the sheet under her, a damp patch she would have to deal with later, and she did not sound sorry.
“If you were here you would taste it,” she said. “Say you would.”
“I would. I’d put my mouth back on you after I fucked you. I wouldn’t care if you were already shaking.”
Her breathing snagged. “Harder with your hand. I want the sound.”
Skin on skin filled the quiet between her words. The fan kept ticking. Somewhere below, a scooter started and died. None of it pulled me off the bed.
“Pallavi.”
“Still here. Still doing this. Don’t you dare go quiet on me now.”
When Manoj Messaged
A banner crawled over the call. Manoj: Court in twenty. You coming or should I give your slot.
The thumb moved before the brain did.
Pallavi heard the second tone. “What was that?”
“The club.”
“Are you leaving?”
The old Saturday rose up, easy and bloodless. A lie about calling her after the game would have put the shorts back on and sent me into an evening I already knew, sweat and line calls and nothing said out loud.
“If you answer him, I am hanging up,” she said. “I will not wait on speaker while you pretend this was a joke.”
Notifications went silent. The phone flipped face up again so the preview would not sit there like a door. “I’m here. Slot can go.”
“Then stop being careful with me.”
Before the message the pacing had been vanity, breath kept pretty. After it the performance dropped.
“Put another finger in. I want to hear you take it.”
She did, gasping, and said she was dripping on the sheet. Spit went into my palm. The fist tightened. Hips lifted off the mattress without any plan to look graceful.
“Tell me how you would fuck me now, not the polite version,” she said.
“I’d hold your hip and go deep enough that you’d have to brace on the headboard. I’d make you say my name when you came, not some polite sound. I’d keep moving through it.”
“Rohan. Yes. Like that.”
Her voice broke on the next breath. Fingers, she said, curling, thumb slipping. The wet noise got shameless. My own hand followed that rhythm until thought narrowed to heat and her name.
“I’m close,” she warned.
“Come on the phone. I want it.”
She broke first, a raw sound she tried to smother and then didn’t. Breathing went ragged, then thin. The finish hit me right after, spilling over the fist and onto the stomach, the grey T-shirt shoved up. For a few seconds speech was gone.
“Rohan?”
“I’m here.”
“Good.”
We listened to each other come down. The fan kept ticking. A child in the compound shouted about a cricket ball that had gone into the hedge.
She laughed once, wrecked and private. “I can hear that kid. Your building is louder than mine.”
“Yours has the parrot.”
“The parrot is asleep. Unlike me, a minute ago.”
The Racket Stayed Inside
“I need to wash my hands,” she said, practical again. “And I am going to sleep.”
“Pallavi—”
“Don’t make this into a long talk. I got what I asked for. You stayed.”
The call ended before a smarter sentence arrived. The screen went dark on the pillow, sticky at the edge where a hand had been.
Cleanup in the bathroom did not need a mirror. The tea on the side table had gone cold, a skin on top. It stayed there.
The racket still waited by the shoe rack. One step over it, the latch, the stairs. The same T-shirt and shorts, barefoot until the compound tiles.
Manoj would already be giving away the slot. Pallavi would already be rinsing her fingers under a Jayanagar tap. The inner path ran once around the rain trees, no phone in hand, no scooter, no court.
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