LIVING A FANTASY

@Mina reimagines Kumkum Bhagya, on the fanfic website Archive of our Own

Finally, after 31 years on the planet, 16 years of wondering and waiting, and 17 months of secret frustration and escalating attraction to her ridiculously gorgeous husband... finally, she had done it. And it was really, really good.

A part of her was now actually a little glad that Abhi had had so many girlfriends in the past. He had gained experience and skill, and now she got to benefit from it, because now he was all hers… Pragya had always had a healthy curiosity about what went on between men and women, but for most of her life that curiosity had no outlet. In her family such things were not talked about; even on the day before her wedding, her mother and daadi and aunts had only hinted about a husband’s expectations, without discussing any questions or fears she might have had…

So, Pragya was left to feed her curiosity and her fantasies with a secret supply of imported Mills & Boon romance novels and her own very creative imagination. Oh, she knew not to take the romance novels too seriously; they obviously exaggerated and euphemized most of the physical details, and everything always fit the same old formula… She never seriously expected to experience the things she read about, but still the books gave her lots of ideas about what might be possible. And now that she had a willing and ready partner in Abhi, she would finally get to act on those ideas...

Abhi finally recovered his breath enough to talk normally. He reached for her hand and brought it to his lips to kiss her knuckles. “You ok?” he asked, smiling fondly at her.

Pragya smiled back. “I’m splendid,” she said.