Green

1. The Idea of Sex

Her email id was green and his email id was blue. They at first met online in a Yahoo chat room and then switched to gtalk since they really liked each other. Green belonged to Kolkata and Blue used to chat from Mathabhanga - an idyllic river-bound town of northern Bengal. Both of them were quite different from each other. That's the reason they used to like each other so much. But after all, it was a kind of distant friendship in the beginning. So, both of them were worried about losing contact one fine morning. Blue expressed this concern time and again and asked for a contact number from Green. But every time Green used to avoid this idea of exchanging phone numbers since she knew she could either fall into a trap or really lose control. As ill luck would always have it for her it was raining on the campus of SRFTI, a national film school of India. Though Green used to claim in the chat room that she was from Kolkata, actually she came from Mumbai and used to stay next to the attached room of a young student, Rahul, from Delhi at the G Block in the hostel of SRFTI. She always wanted to see Kolkata since her father was a Bengali and her mother was of European origin. Green liked Rahul because he was gentle and never poked into her individual personal life. Rahul and Green did not know whether they were going to settle in the near future conventionally or if this was going to be another hit-and-run story for a little bit of new experience in her fast post-modern life. After coming to Kolkata she heard that North Bengal was really a beautiful, green, poetic land of mountains, jungle, small towns and simple people. This really attracted her to know more about this land. Blue appeared to be a knowledgeable guy and he used to talk a lot about a place called Coochbehar at times. Though she was never so bothered about these stories of a particular place, she slowly started liking him because he never failed to motivate her whenever she used to feel stressed due to the departmental pressure and tension for a future life. Though the campus of SRFTI was really cool, a-bit-humid and green, she sometimes used to feel like going away to get rid of the rat race. In those moments Blue, in the chat room, was really a relief. Yes, it was raining that evening and she lost control when Blue again asked for her phone number. Blue called her up and they started chatting over the phone. Although she suffered a lot before from sex-starved men, who always wanted to be boringly close to her for nothing, she did not feel that way with Blue since Blue always had a futuristic view on almost everything. She really liked that. Even when Blue tended to shift to phone-sex, he always maintained a tone of respect towards human dignity. She liked that. Blue told her about the resorts in the jungle of Dooars and she planned a visit to this land after the Durga Pujo, probably the biggest spontaneous public installation art of the world, though she knew that she might lose control in the green forest.

 

As it was her first experience of Durga Pujo in her parental land, she did not take any risks. She followed Blue's instruction not to travel too much by walking, though, as he said, it felt really great for Bengali people and they just could never hold themselves back at their homes during this time, it could be quite troublesome for her because of the extraordinary condensed crowd of Kolkata for Durga Pujo. So, as Blue suggested during the time of Eid festival, she went directly to Kumartuli, the place, where the lion's share of Durga idols, which would sell all across the world, were being made. She read in a book that all these festivals and carnivals including Christmas that were going to come after Durga Pujo basically resulted out of WKE, WKM and WWKM culture. However, Blue suggested her to go to that place to see all the idols beforehand that were going to be installed across Bengal, India and other parts of the world. This advice was really helpful to Green. Since she could see how all the artists created it for selling it to the world.

 

After this one day Green called up Blue and asked him if there was any good place, where they could stay and enjoy the place. Green expected that Blue would invite her to his house. But it did not happen so. Blue guessed a bit. Green could understand the reason for his hesitation and liked it in the beginning. Blue told her that he could have suggested her to come to their home in case his sister was there. But unfortunately, his sister had already left for Midnapore, where she was studying and since Blue's hometown was very small and almost everyone knew everyone, he would have had to explain everything to everyone. Of course, it seemed a bit irritating to both of them. Then Green asked whether there was any good resort, where they could stay to experience mountains or jungle for one or two days. The idea seemed quite okay with both of them. But Blue said that since he was unemployed now, she could not ask for this amount of money from his parents. Green smiled and told him to start a business as a tourist guide and she would be his first client. Blue thought it was not a bad idea. After all, it was going to be a friendly deal. So, Blue arranged a beautiful lodge and told her parents that one of his close friend's relatives wanted to see the dense moist green forest of Dooars. So, he was going to stay outside home for one or two days without spending any big amount of money from his pocket and he also added that he was planning to launch a new business as a tour guide very soon if this tour became successful. So, her parents did not mind at all. On a beautiful rainy day, Blue guided Green to the desolate peaceful romantic land of Jaldapara Sanctuary. Blue had already liked her, seen her photographs online and now liked her way of talking. Green wanted to take a rest for the first day. So, after having lunch they sat down by a hilly stream just before the forest bungalow. On the other side of the narrow river, a pair of rhinoceroses came to taste the mounds of salt that were specially kept for them. They talked until the dusk broke and a caretaker asked them to go back to the lodge for safety. They entered the room. Green went to the bathroom and took a shower in the hot water. Then she asked Blue to do the same. They ordered two cups of tea. When the caretaker brought the tea Blue came out of the bathroom and found Green cozying up underneath a blanket. She was looking so beautiful that Blue said 'You look great!' Green got pampered and said 'Have tea. It's getting cold.' Blue served a cup to her and took his cup and stood by the window and looked outside at the moonlit suave soft and wet face of the jungle and exclaimed, 'Wow! See, it's so beautiful.'

-'What?'

-'The jungle, moonbeam and everything.'

-'Really?'

-'Yes.'

-'Hmm! You have already forgotten me.'

Blue turned to her. She looked really attractive. He could feel it inside his heart. He said, 'Not really. I meant Green, moonbeam and everything.'

She smiled and asked him to come and sit by her. When he sat by her on the bed she asked 'Would you mind sharing the bed with me? You need rest, dear.' When he kept their cups down on the floor, she insisted and snatched him saying, 'Come on dear, it'll save cost.' Blue let his body get in and as a result, his hand touched her skin under the blanket. He was shocked and asked her, 'What are you wearing?' She said, 'Only perfume.' Blue looked at her dark eyes and kissed her. When the body struggle got over Green said that she wanted to know more about his hometown. Blue said it was nothing new since it was the same boring story of rich and poor and a perpetual struggle of educated people to uphold and reform the place. He added that though he would like to tell these stories to her, he knew she would not like it. She also knew that this was the fact to some extent. But she had already liked Blue and she wanted to keep this friendship alive forever and for this something more was necessary. At least she should have felt the beating of his young heart and there could not be any better place in the whole world to know a person than this lonely jungle. So, she insisted, 'See, I really can't spoil this night this way. We need to talk so that this night becomes a precious memory of our lives. Don't you want that?'

-'Yes. I do. But I know you would not like those stories. I do not want to bore you on this beautiful night.'

- 'Okay. But you have to tell me stories and those have to be brand new and fresh.'

-'You are really a tough client.'

-'That's why you like me. Right?'

 

He kissed her again before telling her a story of his imagination.

To be continued...