A FOOT CRANK’S CONFESSION - Part 36 of 37

CHAPTER THIRTY FIVE:

Amanda and I celebrated our 22nd wedding anniversary on the 5^th of May this year; 2022. We still have a rather active sex life with rhythmic ups and downs. I believe in nature’s cycles and that everything happens in a rotational order. Some cycles are so short that it takes only a few mille-seconds; like breathing. Other cycles may take minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years or centuries to complete one lap. One’s lifetime is also said to be a lap of a cycle. Some natural cycles may take hundreds or thousands of years to complete a single lap. Osho says that the best way to secure a relationship is to understand each other’s physical and mental cycles and respond to them with understanding.

Amanda usually becomes uneasy about three days before her monthly menstruation starts and that uneasiness lasts for about a week. She becomes more tired and gets easily angry during that week. She likes to be cuddled but does not like to have sex during that week.  Now that she has come to the age of ending her period’s this uneasiness has worsened. I keep track of it, and I am extra patient towards her during such times.

We travel a lot especially on hikes and safaris. When the kids were too small to be taken with us we kept them with our mothers while we travelled. Even at such times, we went on trips that were not that rough and tough, taking all of them; just to spend some time in a hotel and come back. As soon as the kids were old enough to manage themselves, we took them along with us even on hikes.

The annual Katharagama Paadayathra is one of our favorite hikes we go on once in every two or three years. It is a pilgrimage made by mainly Hindu devotees, where some start from as far as Jaffna and travel to Katharagama on foot. The entire journey is said to take about forty days from Jaffna to Katharagama, which takes place aroubd mid-July. The most dangerous and adventurous part of the journey is its final few days, where the pilgrims have to cross about hundred kilometers through the jungles that belong to the Kumana to Yala National wildlife parks.

Kumana and Yala are two parks where Leopards, Elephants and other wild beasts roam frequently. This forested area is believed to be an area that Lord Katharagama inhabits and the devotees believe that they are protected by the Gods while they are on the pilgrimage. Most non-Hindus too join the pilgrims in this final phase of the journey like us; to experience the walk through the shrub forests, sleeping under the open skies at selected gathering points.

Both our kids got their primary education from a nearby school at Pussellawa and went to schools in Kandy for their secondary education. They both travelled from home, taking the school bus from Gampola. We arranged a trishaw to drop them to the bus every morning.

 The eldest of the two; our daughter Hiruni which we call Hiru is twenty years old now and is an under-graduate at the University of Colombo. She studies Political Science, Sociology and communication. Belonging to the ‘Z’ generation of today, she is often seen on Facebook with her face painted, either at a protest rally or at a cricket match; keeping the same enthusiasm at both.

Our son Chandra also called as Cha is now eighteen and is awaiting his Advance level exam results. He is a rather quiet guy and a good swimmer. He has won medals at inter-school competitions and participated at National level competitions too.

We brought-up our children giving them exposure to all fields of knowledge as much as possible. Taking Aunt Hillary as an example, we didn’t deliberately hide topics related to sex from our kids.

We also created an environment that they were not unnecessarily shy or concerned about their bodies or about each-other’s nudism. As our house is designed introverted; a box type form with spaces focused to internal courtyards, Amanda always wears a bralette or skinny-crop-top with a pair of hot-shorts while at home. She always keeps a loose-fit overcoat gown standby in case a visitor drops in unexpectedly. I mostly wear a pair of shorts or a sarong and prefer to stay shirt-less as much as possible. The kids just seem to follow our dress codes and also have developed a good sense of what to wear and when to wear depending on different situations, without any instructions or restrictions imposed on them by us.

Hiru was always a ‘father’s little girl’ while Cha is a ‘mother’s boy’.

Cha is more close to his mother than me. We do have man-to man chats once in a way, but my son always turns to his mother when he needs moral support. Though he is very attached to his mother and seeks her attention often, he never has shown any signs considering me as an opponent. We have had no competition in getting Amanda’s attention.

Amanda is always the parent who was behind cha who looks after his needs. She took him for swimming classes on Saturdays and helped him to practice the lessons at home; either in the dip-pool inside the house or at the natural pool built across the stream nearby. Amanda wore two-piece bikinis when she helped him out with his swimming.

Often when we went on vacations to spend time at beach-side resorts I have seen our son helping his mother to apply sun-cream on her back or giving her back oil massages. It was never a secret to our kids that I gave Amanda foot massages regularly. Sometimes I have done it on the family room sofa while all of us were watching a movie. I have seen Cha too rubbing Amanda’s feet while giving her oil massages but don’t think he has any special interest with her feet.

Hiru was only two years old when Cha was born. The sole attention that Hiru was getting from her mother dropped considerably when Cha was born and Hiru’s care was mostly taken over by her to grand-mothers thereafter. On the other hand Cha was nursed by his mother for a much longer period as he was the youngest.  Though Amanda loved both our kids the same, this later led to Hiru been jealous of Cha and developing anger towards her mother.

The situation worsened when Hiru came of age. There was tension and completion developing between the two; mother and daughter. Quarrels took place between the two often and I had to intervene and settle things down. I made Amanda calm-down and then consoled Hiru. Thus Hiru still considers me as her savior and hero. I am so close to her that now I even keeps track of her biological cycle too. She relies on me to remind her to carry sanitary pads when she goes out and her periods are due.

A few years ago when Hiru was about sixteen or seventeen years old when one such fight broke-out between the two, while we were having dinner. Cha was not at home that night as he had gone for a Scouting camp at school. Hiru went to her room without even finishing her dinner.

After finishing dinner I sent Amanda to our room and went to Hiru’s room. She refused to come back and finish her dinner saying she was ‘no longer hungry’. I let her be and came back to our room. Amanda was sitting on the bed resting her back against the headboard of the bed. She was wearing a see-through black nightie. She still seemed to be angry and also upset about how she reacted earlier. I sat on the lower end of the bed and started to rub her feet.

Soon her rage turned into a sexual urge. She stormed me and toppled me on the bed and rode me like mad. “Fuck me hard Baby” she said; laying sideways with her feet on my face and asking me to fuck her from behind. It wouldn’t have taken more than fifteen minutes, we both climaxed together; which is a very rare happening.

I cuddled her and reminded her of what a lovely person she is. And also told her that we are very unique parents and as the mother she should take the initiation in resolving the tension that was building between her and her daughter.

Amanda got off the bed and headed towards the wash room after a few minutes. She came back out drying herself after the quick wash, wore her see-through nightie again and put on a satin housecoat over it. She sat on the bed beside me.

“You are right. I need to talk things with Hiru. Please do me a favor. Come with me and get her open the door for me. She wouldn’t open it if I call. I promise I want fight with her no matter what her reactions are. Just give me the rest of the night to be with her. I promise I’ll fix things by tomorrow morning. Trust me. I know what I am doing” she said in very joyful tone winking at me. I had no reason to decline her request.

Amanda served a plate of left-over noodles that we had for dinner on the way saying “the poor girl must be starving”. She stood behind me while I knocked at Hiru’s room door and asked her to ‘please open the door’. As soon as Hiru opened the door Amanda pushed me forward and entered the room after me. Hiru was stunned and left open-mouthed. She couldn’t voice her objection to what just happened.

“Uh, Your mother wants to speak to you darling” I tried to explain myself to Hiru. In the meantime Amanda placed the plate of noodles on Hiru’s writing table, took-off her housecoat and hung it on the rack nearby. She stunned both of us presenting herself almost necked only in her see-through nightie.

“Good Night Darling. Don’t wait-up for me. I just need to spend some time with our little girl tonight. You go and get some sleep now. Love you!” she said lovingly kissing me lightly on my lips. I winked at Hiru to assure her that everything would be fine and kissed her forehead wishing her good night.

The next morning when I woke-up and came to the pantry I found the mother and daughter preparing breakfast together, cracking jokes and giggling like best of friends. They both were fresh after a shower and still in their bathrobes with their wet hairs coiled up with towels. They both greeted me as if nothing had happened the last night.

“Wow! What the hell is going on now?” I asked unable to believe my eyes.

“Nothing! We are just being mother-and-daughter. That’s all isn’t it darling?” Amanda first gave a loving smile to Hiru and winked at me. Then she said to Hiru; “Please pour a cup of tea for your father honey”. Hiru too gave me a wink and went on to prepare my tea.

I never asked Amanda about the details of what happened between them that night. All I know is that Amanda and Hiru has had almost no fights between then, and since that day they have been like sisters rather than mother and daughter. This also improved the relationship between Hiru and Cha. They became more friendly and with ease with each other. Hiru started to take care of her brother just as her mother did and Cha became helpful to his sister the same way he was to his mother.

The only self-explanation that Amanda once voluntarily gave me of that night was that after my reasoning out she thought back about her teenage days and thought of reacting accordingly. She told;

“I was also frustrated those days. So many things change during those days both physically and mentally. There is no specific reason for girls to get frustrated at that age. That’s why I told you once that I also wished I’d had a ‘sex-guru’, like you had in Aunt Hillary. So I just thought to become closer to my daughter; to try and be frank and honest with her. It worked. Lucky for me Hiru is not a complicated and spoilt student as her father was to Aunt Hillary” she said with a chuckle. I didn’t ask any more about it as I trust Amanda knows what she’s doing and the results shown are more than satisfying.