Em was sitting in her car on the Bremerton to Seattle ferry ride. Everything was normal as it always is. Parked on the outer lower car deck watching the homes drift by for the slow, wake free, part of the trip, the narrow channel.
The car to her left was nosed up a couple of feet further forward, a purple Dodge Neon with two doors, started having some activity. The driver got out, a tall fellow. He did have some trouble getting up from such a low car. He looked around somewhat nervously.
He was a taller bearded fellow, a bear, in some circles. All she could see was a coat, a long trench coat. Other than nervous, he seemed a pleasant fellow. As he walked towards the bow of the ship, she could see below his trenchcoat and it was not anything she expected.
She could see black stockings and heels. Stockings with the black seam running up the back. Stiletto heels, the strap around the ankles, heels in the four-inch range, with little tiny padlocks locking the straps to the ankle. Now she understood the reason for his difficulty standing. She did not want to brave standing up in those.
Before she even let what she saw sink in, he disappeared into a side hatchway. Looking around, she is sure no one else even noticed. Those she saw were on their phone, reading, or otherwise not paying attention.
For fifteen minutes, nothing much happened, they exited the main channel and picked up speed across the sound to get to Seattle. Em got up out of her equally low Honda Civic, to get a stretch. She looked down into the Dodge, nothing abnormal, just empty. Walking over to the hatch, it said Mainitatance - Crew Only.
She tried the handle. It was unlocked but she chickened out and walked away. Em wondered to the starboard side to look out over the water, south towards Tacoma. Mt Rainier clear in the distance, seagulls flying around the ship, even another ferry.
Visions of heels, stockings, his face, were flowing through her mind. She has been to Seattle, had seen things, things not unlike this but it was so unexpected and ... enjoyable.
Sitting back in her car, she again got lulled into the beating of the waves, the thrumming of the engines, cries of the gulls, and there was movement again. The maintenance hatch opened.
Turning her head quickly, she then froze to watch him come out and sneak a peek of what was going on. What came out the door was not what she expected, again it was a man, not the same man. Shorter, no beard, but again with a coat. His appearance was not bad but disheveled or disarranged seemed good acronyms for his appearance. A less pleasant face, with a hawk-like nose, turning it like the corvid. Fear in his eyes.
All this giving the appearance he seemed nervous to exit the hatchway but did so quickly once he made up his mind. One hand grasping the coat closed, the other holding keys. Moving into view, he was wearing pink stockings with small black dots and some very none matching blue flats.
The wind blew at the shorter coat, exposing all except where he had a death grip. Below was a black lace garter belt attached to the pink stockings, black satin panties with a pleasant bulge where none should be, and a stuffed matching bra. Some of the stuffing leaking around the edges, you know disheveled.
He jumped into the other man's car, they must know one another. This is so unlikely to be a mistake or some strange tranny carjacking ring. She could see the relief on his face as he exhaled in a long sigh.
There was so much to take in. Em just sat there thinking about it all. Strikes against the bad coloring for the shoes but wow, what is going on here. Seemingly, in no time they docked and she had to disembark. Fastest one-hour ferry ride of her like.
All she knew was she needed to know more, a lot more. Time to investigate. Well, not today. She had a thing to do, but tomorrow. Right away, starting tomorrow.
Following days, Em made sure to get a coffee from the little shop overlooking the waiting lot for the Seattle ferryboat. Finding a seat was easy to watch the cars getting ready for the 12:10 run. After a week, she was becoming disheartened that she might never see purple Neon again. On the seventh day, she saw the car pull up to the booth. After paying, it did something strange, it pulled over to an unused lane, right next to the booth and stopped. The same man was in the car and seemed to be chatting from a distance with the attendant.
She watched intently as more cars came into the booth and found a waiting line, sipping away on her coffee, hardly aware she was even drinking. After seven more cars entered, the Neon pulled into the end of lane one, even though lane two was shorter. Em worked it out that would get it into the starboard side of the ship and must get it onto the lower ramp about where he wanted to be loaded. Interesting.
Now she had plans for next Wednesday. Plans with a boat ride.
When the day did arrive, Em was ready. She had parked, got a coffee, the ticket for the next boat, and was traveling light, very light. In fact, she only had on a trench coat, sunglasses, comfy walking shoes, and lingerie.
Getting on the boat was a challenge, her heart was racing and she was sure everyone could tell she was nearly naked. She knew her coat was long enough. Em had buttoned every button, zippered every zipper, tied the belt. No breeze was going to flash anything but trepidation was gripping her. Walking aboard, she saw a flash of purple on the load deck. Heart and time were spinning, one faster than the other, she could not tell which.
Finally, after the launch, she worked her way down the to correct car deck, undoing zippers, buttons with shaky hands. Exiting the stairwell, she made sure the wind was at her back and she could fully understand the death grip on the coat. It wanted to whip about, not in the good whipping way.
She reached the hatchway with the Neon parked by it. The hawked nose man looking at her with wide eyes, trying to cover himself up again. Em smiled and wave, "Now or never," she thought as she pulled the hatch.
It thudded with a mighty clunk of heavily padded steal on equally heavy insulated steal. Stairs lead down into a workshop. Moans could be heard over the thumping of the motor and waves.
Descending the stairs, her shoes silent.
"Did you forget something St..." came a question as she descended the last step.