My university library was always pretty quiet on the top floor. It was unlikely that someone would come round the shelves to the back corner where I was sitting. Although I knew that if they did, I wouldn't be able to hear them before I saw them. Or before they saw me.
Still, I felt safe leaving my bag open beside me, making it possible for me to glance in periodically and see my pink, six-inch rubber dildo sitting at the top. Where the bag was on the floor beside my table, any potential intruder probably wouldn't be able to see inside it until they got close, so if I stayed vigilant I would have a few seconds to lean down and casually close the bag.
Over the past few months, I had started to take the dildo out with me more and more often. It wasn't that I actually dared use it anywhere except in my private dorm room, but it gave me a thrill all day when I decided to carry it around.
At the beginning I would keep it safely at the bottom of my shoulder bag, and wrapped in a T-shirt. But over the last two or three weeks I found the need to push this boundary, and had been rewarded greatly during my nightly orgasms. It had started on my commute to university. On my walk to the train, I would slip a hand into my bag, dig down to find it, and hold it tight in my hand through its T-shirt covering.
After a week of this I was bringing it unwrapped, and was holding it basically through my entire train journey, looking around at the other passengers. I would squeeze the thick rubber shaft, and let my fingers explore the rubber head surrounded by strangers.
The following week I had started to do this on the walk from the train station to the university as well, although with a lot more caution. And a breakthrough had been when I had run into several classmates and after initially removing my hand, I couldn't resist returning it while we walked to class together, fingering the bump where the shaft met the head.
Over the last week I had started bringing it to classes without a shirt protecting it, so that when I rummaged around, getting out my books and pens, I could feel the rubber touching my hand or even give it a quick, sneaky squeeze.
By the end of the week, I was taking tables at the back of my classes, so that I could slip a hand in and feel it. I even left my bag unattended a couple of times to go to the toilet.
But today was the first time I had dared to have it visible. Even though I could almost definitely hide it in time if I saw someone coming, it made my knees weak to be able to see it so blatantly at the top of my bag in public.
Coming into the library at the turnstiles next to security my stomach had started to squirm at the idea of leaving later and the alarm going off, as it sometimes randomly did. The security guys always just waved you through or asked to see your books. But I couldn't help imagining them demanding that they search my bag.
I tried to continue writing my essay, but obviously couldn't really concentrate. I had grown up in an environment where masturbation was never mentioned and even nudity between women viewed as something shameful. And all this had done was create a strong illicit attraction to my own body, and a desire to be exposed.
I couldn't help it; I leaned over and pushed the sides of the bag down so that the dildo sat completely visible. Then, smiling, I went back to my essay, knowing that now there was no way I could close the bag in time if someone came round the shelves.
It was only a few more minutes before I had reached over and had my fist wrapped tight around it, in plain view of anyone who might stumble across me. I shook it a bit, so it wobbled. And raising it in front of me, used my other hand to run my fingers over the head, feeling the curves and grooves.
Fuck it, I thought, I have to do it. I pushed the chair out so that I had enough room, and crouched on my haunches. Bending my head down so that I was hidden by the table, I licked the tip of the rubber and then put my lips over the head.
Putting a little more in, I could use my tongue to explore where the shaft ended. And bit by bit, as I had practiced, I took more of the dildo into my mouth, squeezing it with my lips, tongue roaming eagerly.
I got to my maximum of about four inches, and held it there, mouth stuffed and lips stretched. And with my ears pricked for the slightest movement, started to bring the wet rubber slowly in and out of my mouth, trying to make as little sound as possible.
I knew what I wanted to do, but did I have the nerve? This was already so much further than I had ever pushed myself. However, the quiet of library was, perhaps falsely, reassuring. And so with the dildo as deep as it would go in my mouth, I stood up.
My legs were so shaky as I stood there, degrading myself in public for any stranger to see. I pulled it out and held the soaked pink rubber in front of my face. And then it was back in. I was facing right where someone would come if they did, pushing the dildo in and out of my mouth, squeezing it with my wet lips.
Okay, okay, I told myself, enough. And I forced myself to sit down. But instead of putting it back in my bag, I laid it on the table, just to the left of my laptop, as visible as it could possibly be. It was still shiny with saliva. I wiped my mouth and started to reread my last paragraph.
Between staring at the flagrant six-inch dildo beside me, and my hand finding its way up my dress and pushing and squeezing my plump lips, I was not getting any work done. As I felt my soft bulge through my panties, investigating the line of my lips and the wet patch near my hole, my mind wandered.
I was dying to use my dildo and to be naked, and I couldn't help but think back on the times I had been naked or partially naked in public before.
There had been the times in my dorm that, after nervously checking the corridor was deserted, I gradually eased the door wide open until I was standing there naked. And twice even tentatively taking a couple of steps out of the of my room before darting back to safety.
And when I had been trying on bikinis in a clothes shop last year, there had been no one around, I picked the furthest stall in the changing area, and I had left the curtain more than half open as I changed between suits.