Chapter 8

After our excursion visit of Shweta increased to my business place, she used to pull a chair and sit beside me. She spoke girly talks or we talked regarding business how we do purchasing and the account maintenance, whenever there was important customer was present during her visit I used to show the sales are made and even negotiation she was learning fast and with keen interest. Other staff used to tease Suresh her father that she is going to replace him, so be ready to search for a new job, then Shweta used to smile with pride. One day while she was sitting near me companion of some customer was smoking cigarette, he was lazily smoking waiting for his friend to complete his shopping and was making rings of smoke,. I was busy in my work. Shweta was looking constantly at him, when she saw me her looking him smoke she commented, see how nicely he is making smoke rings. I didn't comment for this, but she continued do you smoke?

I said no.

She – not at all or smoke occasionally.

Me – why do you ask?

She – I am fascinated by such smokers and I like aroma of cigarette. (it was very strange, generally women hate the name it's elf where as she likes even smell of it)

Me – I do smoke occasionally, and I can make better rings than he can.

She – then show me

Me – it's not possible any where here, if I have to smoke we will have to go to some secluded place where no one recognizes me.

She- ok we will go somewhere tomorrow. I wondered seeing her enthusiasm. It was fixed next day afternoon she was to give a missed call and I had to pick up from her college. I too was waiting eagerly for some reason where as she for some other reason. As scheduled, I picked up and proceeded to outskirts of the city, she enquired where are you taking me?

Me – if you have faith keep quiet, she didn't reply. I took her to the guesthouse where jiju and me used to go. While going I brought a pack of cigarettes, matches and mouth freshener. The moment we entered room I took off my shirt, she was afraid as why I was disrobing myself. Assured her, don't worry my girl I am removing shirt because after smoking our clothes will have stinking smell. So, it's better if you remove yours also. If your mom finds the odor she will not only kick you, me also. After some hesitation, she removed her kameez. She was wearing slip inside and no bra. The slip was thin enough to reveal whatever it had to conceal. I settled on sofa she too took seat beside me. I lit a cigarette and started smoking, I made a big ring of smoke and sent it to ceiling and few rings one after another. I was expert in this art as I started smoking only to try this. Whenever my friends had offered me smoke, I used to refuse and never objected them to smoke. I was not interested in smoking as it's hazardous to health and I didn't like the odor. One new friend entered in our group, he was master in smoking and had art of lighting something like Rajnikant cine actor. He used to make so many different types of rings and he used to light cig with single hand and even against high wind without wasting a single matchstick. He could rotate the cig like cowboy cine actors.

I was fascinated by his styles and many of my friends tried to copy him, success was very low. I took it as challenge, started smoking to copy him, and mastered very fast. But I didn't continue smoking but occasionally I used to smoke in parties etc. Here it was of some use to impress Shweta, as she liked it. She was very much pleased by this art every time she used to clap. After completing a cig, I asked satisfied. and shall we go. She said let's sit for some more time, I wanted same thing.