We looked around and no one made any reaction. I breathe the air of relief. I was thanking God for saving us the embarrassment. And then a couple brok... into laughter. They tried to control but broke into laughter. I put my head down and didn’t look up.I saw Reshma with a corner of my eye. She was looking down too. I reached out to her hand and held her fingers in an attempt to make her comfortable. She looked at me and left a slight smile around the corner of her lips. It was like thanking me. I gave her permission to enter knowing that she would have full view of my body since my shower curtain was see-through. She tried to busy herself at the sink trying not to look. I pretended to continue with my shower as normal. I washed my hair all the while watching her. Finally she took a long stare at my crotch. I finished quickly and turned off the shower, opening the curtain. She didn’t flinch and proceeded to tinker with her make-up. But I knew the mirror offered her. “You are wearing too much already.No need to wear more now.” I got up from the bed tying the towel around my hips.I picked up a pair of scissors from the table.I proceeded to cut the side of the petticoat leaving her one leg bare just like i had seen some of the foreign actresses in a gown.I opened the top two hooks of her blouse to bring out her cleavage more to my liking.“I want to be able to fuck you anytime i want.So don’t put on any more clothes because i will rip them off.Do you. Friends. Business. Hope. All of them were works in progress on his shopping list for a new life.Daphne. Complicated and simple. Online dating, and maybe the timing was bad, with life being in transition, but Daphne was an instant complication and an instant simplicity. It would take hours, days and perhaps a lifetime for him to explain just how complicated it all was and would be, but the simplicity was love at first sight. A cliché, for sure, but even a cliché has a basis in reality. Alex.