The Unventured Passions

Heart Undone

Satarupa was giggling again, uncontrollably, tucking her loose hair behind her ears and fluttering her kohl dabbed small eyes at him. A constant flirtatious smile plastered over her lips and her eyes oogling at the seated man made Bondita furious.
'How unwomanly of her! Pathetic!', Bondita thought, as she passed by the common room beside the library, stealing a glance of all the women, and men too, that had surrounded Anirudh. Their muscles were shaking, and tears streamed from their half closed eyes. Bondita had held her breath behind her pursed lips to steel herself against the gales of laughter to come. They always do. She knew very well what might had happened. Someone must have just asked a lame question and Anirudh must have answered it in his own quirky humour, and now they all are bonding over it, rolling over each other's shoulders. Anirudh wasn't really looking at them, none of them, but that didn't mean he wasn't a party to it, Bondita told herself.
The bell rang, making Bondita sigh silently. She made her way to the library, alone, a feeling of cloaked insecurity creeping up her chest.
Anirudh had looked up at her, just a glance, while she was passing by, his teeth shining like some stupid toothpaste commercial, Bondita thought.

"Hey, where were you? What did he say?" Beena had hugged her suddenly from behind, overenthusiasm evident in her tone.

"Nothing noteworthy." Bondita breathed the words.

"Hm... He is giving an off-class lecture, apparently, on ethics and values, in the common room." Beena chuckled.

"Good for him." Bondita pursed her lips.
"And good for them, those vultures." She murmured under a breath.

"What?"

"Nevermind." She closed her eyes and calm herself down. "Beena, I'm going to the library. Would you come along?" She asked her politely.

"Um... Well... I think I'll pass this time. Ethics had never sounded this fun before." She winked at Bondita meaningfully, a hint of tease in her tone.
"Come, join us."

"Never!" Bondita let out a suppressed growl.

"Ya. Whatever... See you later then." Beena rolled her eyes at her strangely behaving friend as she too, made her way towards the common room to join the rest of the party.

"To damn with ethics and values." Bondita murmured inaudibly, as she briskly walked inside the library with two books in hand.

"I'd like to return these books please." She almost slammed the books on the librarian's table before walking towards the law section. ' That's very unlikely of her", the old librarian frowned.
The portion of the grand library with shelved law books lay in the furthest corner. On her way her eyes had skimmed through the literature section once, fiction, as the thought of romantic tales made her blood boil.

'All are same... all women...' she thought, 'nobody would ever let her husband be.' she stopped at her desired destination and skimmed through the shelves. 'But, how can Anirudh... her Anirudh be a party to this? Surrounded by women all around... what does he think of himself!' Her long flowing traces tickling her cheeks suddenly became unbearable to her, her hands moved up in a hurry tying the locks up on her head into a messy bun. She pulled out a pin from her hair and secured it. The fresh air of the library suddenly tickled the exposed skin on her back.
'Why should she think about him while he's having fun', she let out a gasp of hot fumed breath as her hands roughly pulled out a book from a high shelf unmindfuly.
'She would teach him a lesson.' her mind told her, while her hands flipped through the pages of the big fat book.
It was a copy of 'The Prince' by Machiavelli. Uninhibited, Bondita skimmed through the first few pages of the masterpiece on politics, before her narrowed eyes turned the book around to check the content at the back.

"Interesting." She murmured inaudibly.

"I agree!"
A tingle of cold air caressed the nape of her bare neck, as she felt the sensation trailing down her exposed spine, fading into the lining of her blouse. Anirudh had blown air on her creamy white skin, before his mouth moved dangerously close to her left ear.
"Where the willingness is great, difficulties can't be greater... " Anirudh paused, his warm breath caressing her left cheek, tickling her earlobe into budding rhapsodies. Bondita shivered.
"Machiavelli was an amazing man... In this book he said how you can be a lion and learn to play with a fox." He hushed the words into her neck, as she felt her entire body stiffening at this sudden stir of ecstasy.