I examined Priya’s face to see if I could glean anything about how things went in Boston or any displeasure she might exhibit about Divi being here. It was a little after eight o’clock so she must have hit the road awfully early. She took a sip off the hot cup and leaned against the railing. She was dressed much more casually than when she left. I offered her a seat but she declined saying, “I’ve been sitting for three hours.”
Priya took another cautious sip and said, “So. What did you guys do to entertain yourselves yesterday?” Divi and I both started to answer at the same time with some lie or another and I shut up so there would only be one lie. Divi told the truth as far as it went about the picnic and boat ride. There was a lot of time to account for and she wasn’t doing very well. She was a worse liar than me. I just kept my mouth shut and then went back inside to make myself a cup of coffee. When I came out Priya was interrogating Divi and I stopped her.
“Divi slept here last night. There was no way I was going to ask her to sleep in her bed with no one else at home. My willpower has its limits in the face of Divi’s persistence and we had sex this morning.” I left out all the other stuff and let Priya ruminate on my confession. She wasn’t pleased but she wasn’t irate either. She didn’t really exhibit any expression that I could read to reveal what she was thinking. She looked unblinking at me and then at Divi who was examining her fingernails again.
Priya took another longer sip from the coffee cup and she turned her gaze back to me. Her expression morphed from a faint smile to a sultry look and she said quietly, “Is there any left for me?”
I knew exactly what she meant and I didn’t want to mess with her but I couldn’t help myself as I grinned and said, “Sure. You must be starved. There’s scrambled eggs and I can make some more toast. More coffee?”
Priya looked at me for a moment and then punched me hard on the arm and said, “Don’t tease me. This has been hard for me and I thought about how badly I’ve treated you all the way to Boston and all the way home this morning. The three of us have a weird relationship but I can’t deny it anymore.” She restated her question, “Is there any left for me?” The grin on her face was beaming and Divi abandoned her fingernails and grinned at her mother first and then me. She wasn’t any surer of where we were going than I was but we would take one step at a time.
For now, the first step was to assess the condition of my balls. The reality was that regardless of the pain in my balls, there would always be enough for her.