A tailored white blouse over a plaid miniskirt, plain features, but not unattractive, and probably several years my senior, my new traveling companion seemed nice enough. She was vivacious and talkative, bustling into the seat beside me to rob me of the possibility of getting myself dressed, and consigning me to hiding my nakedness under the blanket until I could figure out what to do.
"I get a little queasy right up the back, you know?" she wasn't really asking, and didn't require a reply. "I'm so grateful. I really owe you one. Snake?"
This actually was a question. She produced a large bag of jelly pythons, offering one to me with every expectation I would accept it. It seemed ungracious to refuse, so I took one. They were bigger than any I had seen, thicker than my thumb, and almost a foot long. Just the head alone was a complete mouthful.
"Oh!" she squealed, alarming me a little, because she was looking at my feet. "Your lovely white sweats are on that nasty dirty floor!"
Before I could react, she leaned down between my blanketed legs and grabbed my discarded pants. I was aghast. What if she saw my discarded knickers down there! She would know I'm not wearing shorts or something, but rather, I'm quite nude. There was nothing I could do. I held my breath in dismay, hardly noticing the bus pulling into its allotted bay and stopping.
But she resurfaced with only my half inside-out pants, and I breathed out in relief. The relief was short lived, however, because as she babbled about the unsanitary state of bus floors, and the lovely white cleanliness of my garment, she turned it right way in with bustling efficiency, folded it neatly, and then, to my horror, stood up and wedged my precious pants between two large items in the overhead racks on the opposite side of the bus!
When she reached up just a little further to shove my pants even more securely between suitcases and other stuff, even in my astonishment and dismay at my own predicament, I noticed how her skirt rode up tantalizingly high. I only registered it fleetingly, but her little white briefs did actually make an appearance. A small set of cogs in my head were wondering if a skirt might have been a better choice for my own outfit, because it would make all this business of undressing much less complicated!
My heart sank. How would I ever get those pants back, being naked from the waist down? Even if I were alone once again later in the night in the next leg of the journey, it would be almost dawn by then, and any number of passengers might be awake. What a situation! How was I going to get myself out of this one?
She flopped happily back in her seat, then crossed her legs as she babbled on, showing superbly long legs as the little skirt rode up. Now, as she sat back with her long legs on display, I envied her the freedom of it. I was trapped under my blanket, and would be for who knows how long, and so many posture options were simply denied me in the interim.
"I'm so sorry. Did you want to get out to go the the little girls' room?" she asked, with a look of concern and invitation.
Now that she mentioned it, yes. Yes, I did want that. But I would not be budging, because of my little predicament. Fuck my life, I thought.
"Oh, no. No, that's ok. I don't need to," I lied, waving off the suggestion.
She kept chattering as the bus dropped off a few passengers, and also picked up a couple more. One middle-aged man took her previous seat behind us in the back seat, and took forever to remove coats and scarves and get himself settled.
Eventually, after the longest time, the next leg of the journey began. I was no closer to resolving my problem, and I had a low-key anxiety brewing about it. I was smiling, and trying to be polite to this new friend, but inwardly I was freaking out as she babbled on, consumed with the naked problem under the blanket.
As the bus got moving, the cabin lights dimmed. My companion seemed to take that as a cue to stop talking, and I was relieved. I wanted to think. I needed a plan. I sucked on the jelly python, steadily dissolving it, if only gradually.
For several minutes we rumbled along in silence. It was an odd silence, and it took a little while to figure out why. It was her. She wasn't reading, nor sleeping, nor watching out the windows at the motorway lights and signs. She just sat there with a suppressed smile, seemingly biding her time. Could she keep that up for two hours?
Whether or not she was able, that was not her intention. After a few minutes, she leaned close to me and said in a low voice so that only I would hear, "You'll never guess what I found on the floor back there." She indicated the seat behind, where she had been sitting previously.
Python still in my mouth, I also leaned toward her so that my face was close to hers and replied softly, "What was it?"
She looked over her shoulder as if to check that nobody was looking, and then conspiratorially reached into her little purse and pulled out a small red ball. Holding it out in her thumb and forefinger, she allowed it to unfurl, and my heart stopped in my chest. She was holding my knickers.
Did she know? Had she been watching me? Or did she literally just find them and not know whose they were? Why would she pick them up? Why would she show them to me me?
She was waiting for my reaction. I froze. The python lay flaccid on my tongue. My eyes met hers, and I had no idea what to say.
"Oh!' I managed, as ambiguously as I could.
"You know what I think?" she said softly, still dangling my dainties in front of my face.
I was conscious that, since it was possible that she had been watching me from between the seats, there was every chance the new passenger behind us was now watching the two female passengers in front of him discussing a pair of lacy underpants dangling between them. I blushed, a burning heat rising from my cheeks and forehead.
"Um, n... no?" if she was trying to put me at a disadvantage, she was doing fine.
"I think you're naked under that blanket," she concluded.
A silent clang rang through my brain. I had been discovered. I cursed my stupidity. How had I been so careless and slutty? What had I done? What would happen next?
My mouth fell open. She had me proverbially pinned. I was compelled to keep meeting her eyes, and I waited to see what my doom would entail. I had been very, very naughty. I couldn't deny it, but I wasn't going to confirm it, either.
I came up with a cunning plan. I would wish myself gone from this bus, and out of the situation! I gave it a red-hot go, wishing with all my strength, but unfortunately my plan failed and I was still sitting there, naked, caught, and compromised.
"Show me," she demanded, quietly, simply, in a matter of fact tone. It was the tone of someone who had won. Someone who was incontrovertibly in control. Someone who had planned what she was going to do, and was unhurriedly executing her plan.
I hesitated. Why should I show her? But then I realized why. My fate was in her hands. If I did what she asked, perhaps I would get my pants back. My eyes unconsciously darted to the spot where my pants had been stowed as I contemplated what to do.
"Oh yes, your pants," she knowingly surmised what I was thinking. "You know, I like you. I think we can be good friends," her tone was so sweet as to be menacing. "And if you do everything I ask, who knows? Maybe I'll give you your pants back."
She flashed a winning smile and continued, "But you don't have to. I'll just keep those pants, and these," she was still dangling my underwear in front of me. "But I wouldn't want you to do anything you weren't completely willing to do!"
She slid the half eaten snake from my mouth, turned it around, and put it in her own mouth. She slid it sensuously in and out, in unmistakably sexual fashion, then licked and sucked it in the most suggestively phallic manner imaginable, before returning it to just in front of my mouth, waiting for me to open up.
"So tell me," she challenged me. "Are you completely willing to do anything I say?"
I was skewered. I had no choice. I was going to have to agree to do whatever she wanted, because I needed those pants back. Obediently, submissively, I opened my mouth, nodding. She slid the confectionery in, and I closed my lips gently around it, allowing her to thrust it in and out slowly. It was a tender, yet unmistakably dominating gesture that placed me firmly in her command.
Still sliding it in and out, she repeated, "Show me."
I slid the blanket aside to reveal my shame, still providing my mouth for her continuing thrusts with the sweet lolly. She smiled a wickedly supercilious grin.