Chapter 5 A Secret

 Anika came from a very traditional Indian family. It wasn’t a rich family with Anika’s five sisters and two brothers, but parents were very strict about any contact with the opposite sex. Anika wasn’t allowed to have a boyfriend. Her marriage was to be arranged with a boy her parents agreed on and she didn’t have much to discuss against it. And Anika was quite an obedient daughter. She didn’t cause trouble. She didn’t want to disturb anyone with her improper behavior. She dreamed about a family of her own, a reliable husband, and a good life for herself. 

Her first step into adulthood was finding a job. Because she was young and inexperienced, she didn’t have much choice. There was also no family business she could enter into. She was stressed and asked around if there were any vacancies but with no success. Finally, her brother helped her out. He knew someone from one of the corporations. He was friends with Yash, who was recently promoted, and Yash said that he could recommend Anika for one of the roles in the factory. They paid regularly and, for the Indian circumstances, they paid pretty well. And Anika was grateful to have her own money and be able to help her parents. It was prestigious and her parents looked at her with respect. 

‘Anika now works and brings a good salary home. Anika will be a good mother and a good wife.’

‘Don’t tell anyone what you do there.’ her brother advised her ‘No one needs to know.’

Anika nodded. Her transition to a new profession was a strange one.

Her manager left her at the production line. 

‘You have to look at them and identify the faulty one. Today you will replace Ishaan. From tomorrow I will assign you more girly tasks. Understood?’

Anika nodded.

On the first day, she was looking at life-like silicone penises, which moved over the production line, one after the other in an endless sequence. She had never seen such a thing in her life, she had never even seen the real thing, be it on TV or in reality. It wasn’t decent. How could women buy these things? Didn’t they have husbands? Wasn’t it an insult to their men? What were they doing with them? Did they hide them in their bags or under their beds? Did they put them there?

Anika entered an entirely new world. She had so many questions but no answers. 

‘How was your first day at work?’ her mother asked her.

‘Tiring,’ she said honestly after her twelve-hour shift, ‘I had a lot of work.’

The next day Ishaan was back and took over the penis line. Anika was transferred to a pussy spot where she inspected the quality of a rubber pipe with an imitation of the vagina at one end. 

‘You can have it,’ she took a package from her bag and gave it to her brother, ‘My manager said that the faulty ones we can give to some friends for free. They won’t be sold. And we have at least a dozen every day.’

‘And what is wrong with this one?’

‘Look! The rubber is discolored. It’s too pink all over. As if she had a mark. But it works as any proper one, I was told.’

Anika and her brother laughed.

‘Don’t tell anyone though. No one can know what I do there, especially parents.’

Her brother took the fake pussy and hid it under his bed. The discoloration didn’t bother him at all as he was using it in the middle of the night when he could see no colors.