The heat waves rushed in through the kitchen window. The cocoa beans grinded with each other, lazily. They looked at each other with desire, but the over-heated machine, and the unpowdered jaggery that he intuitively substituted for sugar, seemed to worry them a tad bit. He scraped off a finger full of grainy chocolate from the spatula and placed it on her ears and brushed them towards her cheeks. She foresaw the heat of the calamity coming and dodged it away with a grin and blew away a handful of cocoa skin flakes at him, they danced around him and then settled on his hairy shoulders.
‘You elate me, Hibiscus”, He whispered in her ears and tucked back a curly strand of hair from above her earlobes back to her face. He saw her smile blooming into another sun kissed hibiscus.
She remembered the first time she laid eyes on him. That night they made love in the sea. She was scared of loosing ground and he held her fears just like he held her wet body. Whenever his hands slipped away in a high tide, he pulled her closer to him with the next.
She sat down to add some more butter to the mix. He dipped the white cloth once again in the water to cover the window. “Is it working?” He asked squishing her against a bag of vegetables, breathing heavily. She plucked another white hair from his beard nodding a no. A mild, less hot breeze caressed them both. They felt it together, like they feel many other things, ever since they ran into each other’s life. They smiled wickedly and drowned in another whirlwind of kisses.
Two summer birds chirped from the balcony for dear water.
