By Emi Tsuruta
Around the time of my senior year at Oceanview University, I made trips up north to San Francisco a few times. I was mainly going to see Crystal, this brown-haired American girl, that my friend Graeme had a crush on. I'm pretty sure actually that Crystal is a closet exhibitionist (like someone else we know. ;-p). She denies it of course, but Graeme and I saw her strip naked once at one of the Orientation parties when I was a freshman, so we kind of knew it was true. In any case, after helping him make contact with her, Crystal and I became friends, and I'd go up, and see her, and we'd go out, and do stuff.
Oceanview is a small town, but San Francisco is a much bigger city, so there is kind of a different vibe. There are Buddhist temples for one thing and health food stores with ads for 'cleanses' and 'wellness' seminars and stuff like that. I didn't get into it too much, but I did pick up an alternative newspaper while I was there. I leafed through, and one of the things I noticed was a photo story about the 'no pants subway ride.'
In Japanese, 'pantsu' is the word for panties, so at first, I thought it was about riding the subway with no underwear on. As I read further, it turned out that the people who do it wear underwear, but just take off their trousers or skirt or whatever. It all started when some guy in New York took off his pants in the subway to see how people would react. He got a friend to make a video of it, and posted it to YouTube, and the video went viral. Eventually, he started organizing bigger events with a whole bunch of people taking off their pants. Now they do it in cities all over the world, and it's like a regular thing.
Not long after that, back in Oceanview, my then-boyfriend Ryosuke took me to this party at someone's house. There were a whole bunch of artsy types there, graphic designers and illustrators, and I got talking to this one guy, Trevor. Trevor had a bit of a scruffy beard, dirty blonde, but he had these arresting blue eyes and an earnestness about him. I got talking with him, and he seemed pretty cool.
"I'm trying to break into movies," he told me. "To get known in Hollywood, you need some kind of gimmick, a publicity stunt or something that people will remember you for."
That reminded me of the no pants subway ride guy, so I told him that story.
"They just gather a whole big group of people, and all take off their pants or whatever, and newspaper reporters come, and take pictures and stuff."
Trevor just kind of looked at me at first, unsure, but as the night wore on, he kept coming back to me, and asking if I was serious about it.
"What? Oh me? No, I hadn't really thought of doing it myself," I told him honestly. He was like,
"See what I mean? No one will do it."
I found myself trying to convince him that even here in small town Oceanview people would.
"I don't know. I guess I could ask some of my friends, and see if they're interested...," I told him cautiously.
"Wow! Really? That would be amazing!" he lit up, all excited now. I didn't want to get too involved, but we did end up exchanging messenger info, and I did kind of promise to get back to him.
"Who was that guy?" Ryosuke asked as we left the party.
"Oh I don't know. His name is Trevor. He's trying to get into movies."
"What were you talking about?"
"Um... the no pants subway ride?" I told him truthfully. Ryosuke claimed he'd never heard of it, so I had to explain it all to him. He got this wicked gleam in his eye, but I kept assuring him it was all on the up and up, and not as kinky as he thought.
I didn't hear from Trevor for a while, but then one day, I noticed a poster for a 'no pants train ride' on a utility pole on campus. I messaged him, and it turned out he'd gone into full organization mode, talking it up to people, and trying to gather a group together. He wanted to know if I was still interested. I hadn't really mentioned it to anyone, but I had kind of told him I'd ask my friends, and see what they thought.
I mentioned it to Minori first. She was a young Japanese woman I'd met not long before at a language exchange on campus. She pictured the same thing I did, imagining people walking around with no underwear. Minori is a bit different from my other friends. I don't think she is an exhibitionist, not really. She has said things though, about lounging around naked at her share house when her room mates weren't there.
I'd seen Minori naked in the women's locker room when I took her and her friend Nao swimming. She does have quite the body, compact with a lush black bush and biggish breasts for such a small girl. She hadn't really objected either when I lounged around naked at Nao's house the time we visited. I kind of suspected Minori might be willing.
"No pants, eh? That's pretty funny actually."
"Yeah, let's try. Come on."
"Um... really? I guess it would be OK."
"Yeah, it'll be great. Let's go. Trevor's nice."
Nao is a bit of a different type, more self-conscious, jittery, but always trying to power through her own embarrassment in an effort to attract guys' attention. She doesn't radiate sex the way Minori does. She's more of a goth type, a bit of a lost look, like a puppy dog. Her breasts are fairly large although not as big as Minori's. I didn't know if Nao would say yes, but she didn't want to be left out, and agreed to come, since Minori and I seemed so game.
I debated whether I should tell Ryosuke, but he noticed the poster, and asked me if I was going. He had to work at the time of the ride, but said he might try to get off early, so he could come, and meet up when we came back.
Anyway, the day of the event, Minori, Nao and I met downtown in Oceanview's main train station at around 3 in the afternoon. I think there was like 16 of us or so total. There were a couple of blonde girls, another Asian girl, this weird bride of Frankenstein girl, a couple of cute American guys, a cool black guy and a couple of Asian guys. I didn't really know any of them, but Trevor pointed me out, explaining that the whole thing was kind of my idea. They were all pretty friendly.
The guys took off their pants right away, but it wasn't as weird as you'd think. I mean everyone looked pretty happy to be here doing this zany stunt. Minori and Nao were willing to try, but they'd cheated a bit by wearing these longer coats that went down past their waists kind of covering up their panties, so you couldn't really see.
I will admit it did feel strange taking off my pants outside in the sun in the middle of this crowd. The jeans I was wearing that day were kind of tight, so I had to wiggle my fanny to get out of them. Once I had, it felt weird--breezy I guess--standing there in my undies in the middle of this train station. I was wearing black panties that day, just because I thought they'd look more decent, more like shorts than some white frilly lace ones. I did have on an aquamarine hoodie and a black jacket, but they were both shorter than Minori and Nao's coats. Nao was laughing though. I was glad she could see the humor in all this.
Minori took a picture of me shedding my jeans, but didn't want me to take a picture of her. There were other guys with cameras or smartphones around, so we had to be careful. We did end up taking one big group photo.
Even without their jeans, Minori and Nao looked normal enough. More than anything, I think it was the naughtiness of knowing that you were pantsless that made this exciting. When guys stopped to take a look at me, I'd get goose bumps.
Trevor called us together to explain the plan, and then we headed for the platform to board the train. We hung with the other no pantsers, this blackish guy in a cowboy hat and his buxom blonde girlfriend and another young Hispanic guy. Everyone kept wanting to take a picture with us. Nao kind of hung back, but Minori and I took some pictures with them.
The train was a double-decker bound for San Diego. It was kind of an interesting design with an opening in the ceiling between the two levels, and single balcony seats above looking down on the main floor. Nao had to go to the washroom, so we headed out to look for one. All the way down at the back of the train, we found these small compartments with toilets or a sink.
Nao and Minori went in, leaving me outside, alone in the empty hallway. I kept mulling over the 'no pantsu' part of it. Wouldn't that be cool if I really did take off my underwear? I peeked through the window back into the car we'd just left. There were people there, but no one was looking this way. I have to admit I was in a pretty giddy mood that day. Roaming around this sleek hyper-modern train in my undies was getting me all turned on.
Minori and Nao seemed to be taking their time, so I found one of the sink compartments with a mirror, and tried to judge whether people would be able to tell if I took off my panties. I wasn't 100% sure--my hoodie was awfully short--but I had to decide. Just acting on impulse now, I yanked down my panties, stepped out of them, and tucked them away in my backpack.
I'd felt nervous before, but now with my panties off, I couldn't settle down for the life of me. I have to be careful, or I'll give myself away. I peered out through the curtain, dabbing at my hello kitty trying to get it to settle down, and behave. I was so excited.
I must have been blushing horribly when I came out, but Minori and Nao didn't twig at first. Still, the air was tickling my pussy. I was worried that you could see my butt cheeks peeking out from under the hem of my hoodie. The two of them looked nervous too, but they were better covered in their long coats.
Minori and Nao looked to me wondering what to do next. I wasn't sure if it would be safe to go into the passenger car, but I was curious to see how people react. I finally turned, and led the way back towards the other car. As soon as I turned away though, Minori noticed the cheeks of my bare bottom.
"Emi. What the...? Where are your panties?" she laughed. Oh oh. I'd hoped that it wouldn't be that obvious. I just ignored her at first, and continued walking. I reached down to feel my buttocks confirming that she could see. I pulled the hem down a bit, trying to act like it was no big deal, but inside my head, alarm bells were going off. I really shouldn't be out here practically naked from the waist on down.
"I told you this is supposed to be a no pantsu ride," I joked.
"Emi!" Nao squealed in horror.
