Great thanks for editing the story to GAhornynurse1976 and EloquentTemptress.
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There were only two of us, on a small platform in the proverbial middle of nowhere, waiting for the late night sleeper train: myself and a girl with curly hair wearing a black coat. In the dim light of the platform, I couldn't see her face, but she looked slim and youthful. Tired and sleepy, we did not attempt to communicate. We just stood there, several steps from each other, looking nervously at our phones.
When the train arrived, we both headed for the same car. The conductor, as sleepy and tired as we were, hurried us along, offering no assistance as the girl struggled to lift her large suitcase over the gap between the platform and the train. I wordlessly maneuvered the suitcase onto the train's vestibule. In its bright light, I finally got a good look at her face. It was pretty and heart-shaped, with full lips and an open smile. She wore thin glasses. Her demeanor was slightly childlike, yet confident at the same time.
Our train was an old Soviet era sleeper train, still the most popular type here. The cars are divided into a number of sleeping compartments, and no effort is made to divide passengers of different genders into different compartments.
After quickly glancing at our tickets, the conductor gruffly directed us both to the same compartment. I stepped aside to allow my companion to enter first through the narrow compartment door. As I followed her inside, I saw the usual layout -- two bunks on each side of the compartment, one above the other, with about two feet in between. The top bunks on each side were occupied by sleeping travelers, so we left the lights off and tried to make as little noise as possible. As I quietly stowed my luggage and made my bed, I saw my compartment-mate pull a small bag out of her suitcase.
I had had a long day, so sleep was the only thing on my mind. Quickly and with no concern for my audience, I stripped off my shirt and trousers and slipped, clad only in my underwear, between the sheets. As I did so, I saw my fellow passenger slip out the compartment door, carrying her small bag.
As too often happens, my sleepiness disappeared the instant my head hit the pillow. When it failed to return after several long minutes, I began reading a book on my smart phone, hoping it would help me to fall asleep.
When I saw my compartment-mate leave, I assumed she was headed for the restroom to change from her tight jeans and white blouse into something more fitting for sleep. Now she returned, confirming my expectations. She was dressed in something that I assumed was a type of pajamas. Pretending to concentrate on my book, I glanced at her surreptitiously -- and then could not look away. I adore moments like these, seeing the contrast between the competent, polished image a woman projects during the day, and the vulnerability she exposes when her uniform is stripped away for sleep. My compartment-mate wore loose boxers and an equally loose undershirt, both white with some green or blue pattern on them. She stood for a moment in the open door, with the bare skin of her legs and shoulders almost glowing in the dim corridor light.
Finally, she took a step forward. She pulled the door almost shut, leaving a narrow strip of light illuminating her bunk. As she stowed her bag and prepared the bed, I continued pretending to "read" from my smartphone. But I continued to observe her motions, turning the phone this way or that way so that I always had a sight line to where she stood, sat, bent over, etc. By the heaviness of her undershirt as she bent over, I already knew she had nothing on underneath it, and I couldn't help wondering whether she had anything on under the boxers. As she bent toward the furthest end of her bunk, she unwittingly answered this question for me. Her waist was mere inches from my face, and in the light from roadlights outside the train, I saw the dark lace of her panties under the thin white boxers.
(I assumed the show was inadvertent, but sometimes I wonder who we are trying to fool with our "innocent" glances, and maneuvers to see what should remain unseen. Girls are not fools, nor careless. So if something is seen, perhaps she MEANT it to be seen....)
There was nothing indecent in this scene, but it was very erotic. I didn't want anything from her. I was neither aroused nor in love. But as a man in my 30's, it already seemed likes ages since I had felt the smooth skin and lightness of touch of a truly young woman. I was full of tenderness, excitement, and nostalgia for the time when I was her age. Without any greed but with a strange melancholy, I observed as she finally laid on her back, took off her thin glasses (making her face appear even more childlike) and carelessly covered herself with a thin sheet. Presumably because the compartment was warm and stuffy, with no ventilation from outside, she pulled the sheet up only to her stomach.