My parents doing it secretly.
Back in 2010 I used to play cricket every evening at the park 50m from home. Dad would be back from office by 4, and for some reason he got furious whenever I came home for water during innings breaks. I never understood why opening a gate was such a crime. Maa stayed silent through every scolding. Our front door had an interlock system—massive mechanism, big steel key, big keyhole. Big enough to see through. One evening I showed up silent. No doorbell. Aaj Tak blasting at full volume. Through that keyhole I had a direct line to their bed—sagging mattress, white sheet twisted. Maa was on her back. Clothes thrown aside. Face half-buried in a pillow, making sounds half Hindi, half something else entirely. Papa's face was tight, focused between her legs. He moved in a rhythm that knocked the bed against the wall. His pace was raw, animalistic—and Maa wasn't resisting. "Ahh—dheere—nahi—ahhmm—" Her lip caught between her teeth. Every thrust punched a sound from her chest she tried to swallow and couldn't. "Haan—uff—ruko na—" Her belly rippled each time. The mangalsutra bounced near her collarbone. Her face turned left, then right, braid crushed underneath. Then Papa flipped her like a roti—on all fours now. He walked to the fridge, came back with a cold lauki, and pushed it inside her. She lurched forward from the size and the cold. "Mat karo—dheere daalo—ahhhh—" The session lasted a good twenty minutes. Later Maa would make awkward small talk about my cricket game—voice too casual, eyes avoiding mine,not knowing that i know she has been fucked like a whore , like she was guilty of something. I'd just say it was alright. That memory never left. I've replayed it so many times in my head it's practically HD now—I even remember which headline Aaj Tak was running that evening.