Malini gets to know her Navel

It was the 1990s. Malini was a small-town girl with big dreams. She was born in the small village of Thenipattinam in Tamil Nadu. With no parents at a small age, she was raised by her aunt Vanitha and her uncle Chinnasamy Gounder. They had a 3-year-old child whom they had lost to an accident when Malini was 5 years old. So they became more attached to Malini.

Malini was always bubbly with full of energy, curious to learn new things, and famous in her village for her mischievousness. At the same time, she was a very bold and strong girl. Even at the age of 8, she used to climb trees, and lift heavy objects almost equivalent to adults in the village. This boldness too made her popular. Her aunt Vanitha was a homemaker but ensured Malini got the best in everything. Her uncle Chinnasamy Gounder worked in the town’s post office. Malini was very close to her aunt, such that she started incorporating some of her traits. One such trait was the unusual importance Vanitha gave to her navel.

Vanitha was a very attractive woman in her early 30s with a voluptuous belly and a deep navel. She draped her saris in a way that exposes her favorite asset. Her husband never objected to it too. However, she will maintain her dignity if elders are around or if she is in a temple etc., Malini got to see Vanitha’s navel show every day and was curious about it. Malini has even saw her uncle play with her aunt’s navel casually. Sometimes he used to poke and tickle it with his fingers.

Otherwise, he used to pinch her hip and navel region when she is cleaning and doing any chores inside the home.

She noticed that every time he does that, Vanitha closes her eyes and bites her lower lip as well. She was very curious. Malini was around 10 years when she finally asked her.

“Aunt Vanitha…I want to ask you something…” Malini started in a soft voice.

“Yes Malu maa..tell me?”, replied Vanitha.

“You have a round hole in your stomach…what is it?” Malini asked innocently.

“Hahaha…Malu ma…you cutie…It is called navel. What about it?”, she replied.

“Naavell…it is easy to say.. you show it while wearing a sari…but I have not seen others show it that much”, Malini asked.

“Hmm.. Malu ma…isn’t this a village…not everyone likes that …If you take me, I will show it only at home and not when I go outside.”

“Why don’t you show it and go outside the house?…why doesn’t everyone like it?…Why does uncle play with it?”, Malini, the curious girl started stacking her questions one after other.

“Malu ma…you have started your quiz is it?….you little cutie…if I tell you everything you will not understand…But I will tell you one thing…I like my navel very much…If you ask me why, I don’t know…for now that’s the way it is,” explained Vanitha in a humble voice.

“Ok aunt Vanitha…can I touch your navel once, please?” Malini asked with curiosity.

After Vanitha nodded her head positively, Malini took the palm of her right hand and touched her soft and tender navel region.

Her little fingers and small nails mildly scratched her tender belly as they touched it and Vanitha gave a slight SSSSS sound. Malini stuttered and asked, “What happened?”.

Vanitha replied, “I am very sensitive there…your nails slightly scratched…that’s it.”

Eventually, from that day onwards, Malini too became close to Vanitha’s navel and used to touch it casually at times. Malini also began exploring her own navel while bathing or dressing herself. She always wears frock and school uniform dresses and wanted some day to know how it feels to wear a half sari or a sari exposing her navel.

She also started noticing other peoples’ navels whenever it is exposed. Ironically, the most navels she saw were that of men than women, since it is a common site to see men half-naked in the fields, temples or anywhere for that matter in a village. But she noticed that most navels that she saw were big and deep whether men or women, while her own navel was small and shallow. She had once asked Vanitha too about it for it, for which she playfully said that when she reaches puberty it will become deep. Malini was amazed and was expecting her puberty to happen for the sole purpose of her navel becoming big. She was counting the years for it to happen.

Malini had her own gang of girl friends who used to hang out, play and study together. Her best friends were Ramya and Sudha. Ramya is a fair, cute and timid girl who was scared for everything but she excels in her studies. Sudha is a dusky and bold girl more like Malini. It was her high school days and it was that time when the Tamil movie Chinna Gounder movie had released. It was very successful for the acting and the music. However, it had a craze among teenagers for the famous pambaram or spinning top scene. Although such similar scenes were already done in movies like “Maro Charitra” and “Ek Duje Ke Liye”, the rural setup of the film made it for likeable for the rural audience.

Malini watched the film with her friends in the movie tents known as “touring talkies” a few kilometers outside the village. She became obsessed with the spinning top scene that she saw the movie more than 20 times. She went one step ahead and fantasized actress Suganya and actor Vijayakanth characters with her aunt and uncle. Malini, the active girl that she learnt and became very good at the top spinning game.It was her uncle who taught her the game. She wanted to, but never had the courage to ask her uncle if he has ever played with her aunt’s navel by spinning a top on it.

One day while playing with her friends near the lakeside, she got an idea that leaped out due to her obsession.

“Hey Sudhi Ma, I am very bored. can we do something other than usual games we play?” Malini asked.

“You were the one that brought us here to play. What now?” Sudha replied.

“No, I have an idea…”, said Malini.

“Tell me what?” Sudha replied.

“Just like in the film, can we play by spinning a top on a navel ?”

“Wow…you are getting too naughty nowadays?”, Sudha replied.

Ramya said innocently, “Oh no, it’s wrong..it won’t be good.”

Malini asked, “Why are you getting tensed Rami…”

“Just leave her Malu..It’s a great idea…can we try…I am ready” replied Sudha.

Malini teased, “Okay then, whose navel should we try… Let’s use Rami’s…”

“Oh god…No…I’m leaving”, Ramya almost ran away.

Sudha and Malini were thrilled, then Malini said, “Hey Rami…Don’t worry…come back here…Sudhi you spin it on my navel”. Ramya came back. Sudha agreed and started to get the spinning top ready. Malini lied down and asked Ramya to lift and hold her school uniform shirt. Ramya did the same.

As she pulled up the shirt, Malini’s small and cute navel was exposed to the outside world for the first time ever. The scorching sunlight along with the breeze from the nearby lake gave a different feeling in her navel.

But she was not feeling ticklish yet. At the same time, she was feeling nervous too whether the metal tip of the top might hurt her navel. Sudha got the spinning top ready and asked, “Are you ready Malu ma?” Malini replied in a nervous tone, “Ready Sudhi ma..”

Sudha noticed Malini’s navel was kind of vibrating and teasing asked her, “Ohh…Your navel is shivering like hell…Looks like it is craving for the top to be spun on it…hahahaha…”

Malini who was getting tense more on hearing this said, “Sudhi ma…Please stop talking and do it…please…”

She became a bit restless too. Without further delay, Sudha spun the top in hand, brought it near Malini’s navel. Malini almost closed her eyes, waiting for her first-ever navel play. Then Sudha, let it spin on her navel slowly.

Malini finally felt the metal tip of the top, doing circles around her navel. Therefore, she felt tickling and slight pain at the same time. Malini was giggling and kind of crying at the same time. She began to shake to make the top fall off as it was spinning for a long time, but Sudha stopped it by catching her legs while Ramya as told by Sudha caught her hands, she was almost in a hands-and-legs tied position.

Sudha said, “The top is enjoying your navel well…hahaha…”. Finally, the top stopped and fell off. Malini was breathing heavily and almost sweating. She had the most intense sweet feeling ever, that too on her navel. Sudha asked, “How was it Malu?”. Malini was speechless and could not describe her feelings. She was feeling a bit different too. Then she felt sick. Sudha and Ramya panicked and took her home to Vanitha. The village old lady who was like their doctor came and checked. She revealed that Malini has attended puberty. On hearing this, Malini was surprised, confused, excited, etc., all kinds of feelings were running through her mind.

One thing she realized is that her navel has made her feel her sexual side of her which has resulted in this beautiful change in her body. The adolescent Malini has lots more to explore with her navel in the coming days.

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