Guilty Pleasures

“Akki Bearrrr” Ameya crooned as she sauntered into Akshay’s room early evening. Akshay groaned internally and looked up from the comic book he was reading. He knew that tone of Amy’s very well. She only used it when she wanted to pamper him into doing something for her. 

“No Amy, I am not shooting another one of your stupid reel videos. ” Akki said flatly.

 “Don’t you have a tripod? Do it yourself !!”

Amy scowled. “It’s not that… although I was hoping you will help me shoot one later on. But now I just came here to see my Akki bear.” she said coyly in a childish voice sitting beside him on his bed and wrapping her hands around his neck in a hug.

Akki rolled his eyes and closed the book he was reading. “Right!!!!. You can stop with the caring sister act now.  I know you want something from me. Spill it.”  

“Ummm..” She made a pouty face and started pulling on some loose threads on his cargo shorts anxiously as she decided how best to ask him what she wanted to ask. “The thing is I really want to get my navel pierced Akki. You know I am participating in the ongoing intercollege beauty pageant competition. The finale is approaching and I have made it to the top 10. Having that piercing would greatly increase my appeal and chances of me reaching the Top 3. So please yaar, can you take my side when I ask Shalumma this again when she returns from the office? I can easily convince her if I have you by my side. And you know my Dad. He will listen to anything Shalumma says.”

Akki was taken aback at her request. He was momentarily lost for words. “But Amy. Piercing would leave a permanent scar on your skin. Isn’t it foolish to do that just for a competition? Also if you ask me….you have a…” he abruptly stopped speaking realizing what he was about to say. 

“I have a … ?” Amy prompted him with a smile. 

“Ummm a very beautiful navel. It needs no decorations to look appealing” he said a little grudgingly. It was the first time he was openly admitting what he thought of her navel.

Amy was both surprised and delighted to hear that from him. She has heard him complimenting Shalu’s belly and navel before and it always left her feeling envious and jealous as he never did the same for her even though he liked to play and tease her navel every chance he got. 

“Ha! So you think my navel is beautiful huh? Is that why you keep bothering my navel every chance you get?” She asked teasingly.

“That’s not the point…” Akki grumbled trying to change the subject.

“Oh yes. Admit it !! You LOVEEEE my navel.” She goaded.

“That is not…” he scrambled for words embarrassed. Akki and Amy always had a love-hate siblings kind of relationship where they mostly expressed their love and care for each other by pranking and irritating the hell out of each other. So somehow complimenting Amy to her face felt very odd to him. Amy on the other hand always craved to hear such compliments from Akki as she always witnessed him giving it in abundance to Shalu. When it came to Shalu he only had praises to sing about her beauty and he would never miss a chance to pamper her satin belly with affectionate caresses and kisses while on the other hand all he wanted to do with Amy’s belly was to irritate her by poking, proding and tickling. Not that she minded all that as she secretly enjoyed those too. But seeing him do all those nice things to Shalu’s belly would often fill her with longing and she secretly wished Akki would treat her own belly that way too. 

“What I am trying to say is, you don’t need a piercing at all..” he said blushing.

Amy sniggered “Unfortunately you are not the judge Akki Bear. And you make a piercing sound like something that will grotesquely disfigure my navel. It’s just going to be a tiny incision just above my navel. You will barely notice it.” She cupped his chin with one palm and shook his face to and fro in a pampering manner. “So Please Akki Bear. Help me convince Shalumma na.”  

Akki didn’t say anything. He really liked her navel the way it is. But he didn’t feel like denying her request either when she was seeking his help so earnestly.

“Please….” Amy begged. She pulled his face close to hers and whispered in his ear. “Tell you what!  Help me do this and I will let you play with my piercing whenever and however you want.” 

Akki’s eyes bulged. Perhaps it is not a bad idea after all. He thought as a small grin began to stretch across his face. “Deal !!”.

“Awieeeee……Thanks a lot Akki Bear.” she said happily hugging him close again. Akki grinned and returned a half hug wrapping a hand around her waist.

“Still I am not sure Mumma would listen just because I take your side. What if you get pierced first and then tell Mumma about it afterwards? She may get a bit angry at first but I am sure we can calm her down. Besides, you forget that you are an adult now. You don’t really need her permission or Vasuppa’s.”

“That maybe. But I am still living under Shalumma’s roof and with Pappa’s money. I need to follow their rules as long as I am doing that.” 

“Sometimes you gotta be a little rebellious to get your way Amul Baby. Trust me it’s going to be easier that way.” 

Amy bit her lip nervously. What Akki said did make sense. “Alright fine. But I want you to come with me to the piercing studio when I go to get it done.”

“I would love to..but before that let me see your navel in its untouched natural form one last time.” Akki said with a sly grin before suddenly pushing her to the bed.

“Eeeeeek…..alright! alright!” Amy said giggling as she fell on her back and Akki straddled her. “But no tickling please..”. 

Akki hummed an silent agreement as he raised up her t-shirt and exposed her lean and supple belly. He traced his index finger along the rim of her perfectly round navel with a look of love and wonder. Amy’s breathing inexplicably began to pick up making her belly shudder slightly. She was used to his wild tickles and pokes. But this gentle loving treatment of her navel was getting her strangely turned on. Her navel began to tingle with a strange pull, like a craving that she didn’t know existed. What was happening? She never felt like this before.

“Mmmm….Akki?” She called him tentatively. 

“Hmmm?”

“Can you….umm…..would you like to do …..that thing that you do when you are lying on bed with Shalumma?” she asked in a small uncertain voice. 

Akki looked at her face with a surprised grin. “You mean…” he started as he slowly brought his head towards her expectant belly. “This thing ??” he asked as he gently laid her head on her belly, resting his cheek against her warm skin. 

“Mmm yess. This thing.” She said sighing at the surprisingly pleasant sensations coursing through her at the feeling of his cheeks against her belly. She brought her hands up and gently caressed his head. Was this ok? She thought uncertainly. Akki rubbed his cheek against her supple skin relishing in its warmth. Her belly emanated a pleasant aroma of cherry blossoms, the fragrance of the body lotion she used. That mixed with her own feminine smell was a strangely intoxicating combination. He was used lying atop Shalu’s fleshy pillow-like belly. But lying on Amy’s lean and supple belly was a very different experience for him. More alluring in a way. He could feel the hollow of her navel under his cheeks and felt a strong pull towards it that was just too hard to resist. He couldn’t resist slowly turning his head more face first towards her belly and taking in her essence. He brushed his lips against her navel and pressed a kiss and immediately felt her navel shuddering in reaction.

Amy gasped in surprise both at feeling that kiss and the unexpected surge of pleasure she felt at that kiss. Common sense told her that they were dangerously close to crossing the lines of their platonic relationship. But her navel seemed to have suddenly developed a mind of its own and was tingling madly with a strange hunger that stemmed from its depths. As though sensing that primal pull Akki’s tongue darted out of his mouth and before he knew what he was doing, his tongue scaled all the way into the bottom of her navel and stroked at her pulsating navel knot. He momentarily panicked realizing what he has done. He has crossed a line. Was she going to be mad at him? But next thing he knew he felt Amy’s hands grabbing onto his hair and pushing his head deeper into her belly as she let out an almighty gasp. 

Amy reeled as her navel felt that wet lick and lighted up sensations in her body she never knew existed. And now that her navel got a taste, it screamed for more. Way way more. And before she knew what she was doing she gripped Akky’s head firmly and arrested it in its place so that his lips wouldn’t move away from her navel. Next thing she knew his tongue exploded into action and thrashed around in her navel like a wild rat trapped in a bottle. Her whole body writhed as her navel sang its happiest song ever and lighted up the nerves in her body like fireworks. Waves after waves of pleasure rose from her navel with each stroke of his tongue and exploded out of her head, opening up her being into a plane of infinite pleasure.

DING DONGG

The unwelcome sound of doorbell pierced through their consciousness like a bolt of lightning harshly pulling them back down into reality and they jumped away from each other as though electrocuted. They looked at each other panting hard. Both were lost for words.

DING DONG DING DONGG. The doorbell rang again.

“I will get it.” Akki said quickly and rushed out. 

A distracted-looking Shalini walked in looking pensive-faced as soon as Akki opened the door. She was so distracted that she neither noticed Akki’s guilty-looking face nor the fact that she hasn’t received her customary hug from Akki as she walked in. She didn’t register anything odd about the flushed-looking Amy coming out of Akky’s bedroom either. She walked straight to her bedroom lost in a world of her own and closed the door. 

Instinctively Akki and Amy looked at each other with a look of confusion over Shalu’s odd behavior and immediately felt awkward as their gazes met. Amy turned on her heels like a robot and went straight to her own bedroom locking herself up.