The carriage doors slid shut. There were just the four of them inside now. Further up on the same side as herself was a couple, radiating the obsessiveness of new love. Next to her, on her right, the man. She hadn’t chosen him particularly; on the contrary, he’d sat down next to her because it was one of few seats left. But that was seven stations ago. Now, as the train left the station and accelerated into the tunnel, Becky felt the surge in her stomach.
She glanced across to check on the couple reflected in the window. They weren’t likely to notice anything, seeing how they were exclusively preoccupied with each other. Slowly she slid her eyes across, viewing herself in the glass; flaming red hair out of a bottle, prickly features daubed with war paint. She wouldn’t call herself pretty and she doubted anyone else would, but looks were superficial, weren’t they?
She turned her attention to the man. He looked bored, or perhaps the booze was wearing off, possibly both. There was definitely a smell of alcohol about him. His hair was dark and slightly ruffled. His mouth was thin, his shirt was open at the collar beneath the jacket. She imagined he’d been wearing a tie earlier and taken it off. Would she have chosen him if she’d a choice? It hardly mattered. In the game she played, you took what you could get.
Becky knew she had time. She’d done this so many times she’d learned to read body language perfectly. An intuition told her the man had a good few stations ahead of him. There was no need to get ahead of herself. She let the train pull into the next station, hoping fervently that no-one would embark. No-one did.
As the train accelerated into the tunnel, Becky checked quickly on the couple, then turned her attention back to the man. He seemed half asleep, but he was what she had. She pulled her right sleeve up. There was no reaction. She placed her hand just above her knee and moved it up and down the black nylon stretched across her leg, half stroking, half scratching. That got his attention. It was a manoeuvre that never failed.
She studied his reflection intently in the glass opposite. He was glancing down at her hand, her leg, her arm. He couldn’t fail to see the tattoo. She could tell that he saw it, there was that flicker in his eyes that she’d seen many times before as he became aware of the two words tattooed on her arm: “GROPE ME”.
Did he think it was a real tattoo, or just a temporary thing, a transfer, or henna? It didn’t matter. Not in the grand scheme of things, even though she was proud of herself for getting the real deal done. She felt the surge in her stomach again as she watched his mouth curve. He was thinking, perhaps weighing her up. She could see him looking at her reflection as she looked at his.
She could guess what he was thinking. One of those goth type girls, the tattoo a provocation rather than an invitation. To actually do the deed, well you just didn’t, you couldn’t. By the look of her she’d probably crush your nuts if you took the words seriously.
The men never took it as the invitation it was. Well, once, it had happened once, and she’d craved the thrill ever since. Perhaps she could make him understand. It wouldn’t be difficult. He could see she was looking at him, just as he was looking at her, in the reflection in the window.
The train slowed, pulling in to the next station. There was still no change. The couple further up the carriage stayed put, keeping their voices down, when they weren’t kissing of course. No-one embarked. The doors slid shut. Soon the train would emerge from its netherworld to an artificially illuminated overground, but that would make no difference to her, to the game. Becky ran purple nails lightly over black nylon. There must be a way to make the man understand.
Then the surge in her stomach was there with renewed force. The man’s hand was touching her, just grazing the side of her leg lightly, as if by accident, but she knew it was intentional; she could tell from the way he was appraising her, watching her reaction.
Her reaction. Yes, react. She fixed her stare on the man’s reflection in the window and nodded, almost imperceptibly, but enough. She watched as the man’s lips curved some more, a certain kind of hunger beating the lethargy of fading inebriation from his eyes. She moved her own arm, making space for him.
Just as the train emerged from the tunnel into murky, sodium-flecked townscape, it happened. For a split second Becky thought she was going to pass out from the thrill as the man moved his hand up and across to squeeze her thigh. She took a deep breath, and another, closing and opening her eyes. The man continued to squeeze. The surge to her stomach rippled downwards and she caught her breath as a familiar sensation made itself felt.
The train decelerated into the next station. Once again the welcoming doors admitted no-one, and the young couple remained within their own bubble of bliss. She could see the man look at her. Not directly, the reflection in the window adulterated by the outside lights. She could even make out what he was looking at: her tits.
Of course he was. All the guys did. Every boy in her school had wanted to touch Becky’s tits. She’d never allowed any of them to. She’d always known what she wanted. This, a stranger, someone she’d never see again. A random act on a random day on a random train. She’d experienced it before. Not many times, but enough to have become addicted.
The man went for it. As the train left the station, his hand left her thigh and went straight for her boobs. It was an awkward angle, but that wasn’t her problem. His fingers grabbed, clasped. Excitement surged through her as this stranger groped her, squeezed her breast hard. She could see him leer in the window. Lecherous sod. Please don’t let him stop now.
He half turned. A finger roamed her cleavage as his other hand touched her leg. She abandoned looking at the window, looking down instead as the stranger’s hand moved as if at random, grabbing what it would. Fingers were sliding up her thigh. She moved a leg, allowing him every opportunity to move the hand further up her leather skirt. Callous hands squeezed breast and thigh in unison, but callous was good. No feelings, other than the wicked sense of transgression as the train slowed on the approach to the next station.
The doors slid open, and while the couple remained in situ, there was movement from outside. Not that this seemed to bother the man. Perhaps, like Becky herself, he decided that a young man in sweatpants and a baseball cap with a tinny drum loop emitting from a pair of oversized headphones wasn’t going to kick up a fuss.
Quite the contrary, he plonked himself down on the seat opposite and stared at where the stranger’s hands were groping Becky. Perhaps he thought they were an item, perhaps not. It didn’t matter in the least. There was a smirk on Headphone Man’s face. He was enjoying what he was seeing, something that became even more apparent when a big bulge appeared in his sweatpants. Becky cast her eye at the window, checking the reflection of the young couple who were still, amazingly, oblivious to what was going on further down the carriage.
The doors slid shut, the train continued on its way. Her body was aching with want, as well as the effect of Drunk Man being none too particular about how hard he squeezed her boobs. Headphone Man was manspreading, the way men do. He was chewing too, on gum presumably. Without shame he moved a hand down and began kneading the bulge in his sweatpants.
The flames of excitement were all-consuming and she couldn’t help but make the kind of sound that could only be interpreted one way. Drunk Man took that as an invitation to push his hand further up her leg, to where stocking met naked thigh. That was as far as he could go unless she lifted her bum for the skirt to be hitched further up. For a second she imagined herself hitching the thing up to her waist and pulling her panties to one side, giving the man opposite a full frontal show, but she restrained herself. Part of the thrill of the game was seeing how far the man, any man would go.
Suddenly Drunk Man leaned forwards, angling his whole body. His arm found a position to continue up her skirt. A finger was playing in her cleavage again, as his other hand swiftly found her knickers. Fingers rubbed against the fabric, which had grown damp and now grew damper still. Opposite, Headphone Man grinned, his fingers squeezing his erection. Spontaneously, Becky let out a moan. How could she possibly not?
The next station was a quiet one, with no activity when the doors slid open. Becky moaned again. With Drunk Man rubbing his fingers against her knickers and squeezing a breast hard, she looked at Headphone Man, or more exactly at his crotch, where he was more or less pleasuring himself through the sweatpants. The sight made her do an instinctive thing, even though it had been her intention to take no initiative herself. As the doors slid shut, her hand went to Drunk Man’s crotch.
The first squeeze was enough to make him remove his hand from her breasts. Still rubbing fingers across dampening panties, he unzipped himself, fingers wriggling inside his trousers before bringing out his hard cock, exposing himself unashamedly to both Becky and Headphone Man opposite. She coiled her fingers round the shaft and her hand began moving.
The relentless ptsh, ptsh, ptsh from the headphones continued as the man opposite leered, still squeezing the bulge in his sweatpants. Then in one swift motion, he pulled them down beneath his balls. Suddenly he was sitting there in front of Becky and Drunk Man, legs splayed, a long, shaft protruding. Nervously, Becky glanced at the window, at the couple further down the carriage. Incredibly they remained ignorant of what was going on. How could they not notice? How was that possible?
Then her gaze returned to Headphone Man, to his shaft. Instinctively her tongue came out, sliding across her lips. The man leered again, aiming his cock straight at her as his hand moved slowly. Her own hand was moving too, wanking Drunk Man, whose fingers were battling with the hem of her panties.
There was movement, Headphone Man moved, swiftly, across the carriage, stumbling slightly as the train gave a mild lurch. Becky checked on the couple, who still had noticed nothing. The man sat down to her left, his knee pumping in time to the tinny beat as he spread his legs.
This was it, the moment of no return. But it wasn’t as if she had a choice, at least that’s how it felt. She reached out her left hand, Headphone Man grinning as if it was no more than he deserved. Here she was, sandwiched between two men on the underground, holding their stiff cocks in her hands. Her previous experiences had been exciting; this was off the chart. She stared at the blurred reflection in the window, her own wanton face, and the lecherous expressions on either side of her.
She firmed her grip on both of them, moving her hands up and down, up and down. Headphone Man turned slightly. Both his hands were suddenly on her breasts, mauling her through her top. She gave a little moan, which he couldn’t hear, but Drunk Man could. Was that what spurred him to find a way to win the battle with her knickers? His finger was inside them all of a sudden, touching her labia. Where she’d oozed before, she now felt a trickle, one that made her determined to follow this through to the end, whatever happened.