Late in the boarding process of Flight 5608 from Phoenix to Chicago, and my husband and I were getting tense. "Come on..." he whispered under his breath, jammed into the space beside the window on my left; I, so much smaller than him, had the middle. The aisle seat on my right was still open, and with each passing boarder we crossed our fingers more tightly and hoped we'd have a whole row to ourselves.
A fat woman waddled down toward us, her pig eyes scanning the row numbers. Thank God! She creaked into a middle seat two rows ahead. A very tall man, stooping to avoid hitting the overhead lights, shuffled blessedly past, though not without a glance at my legs. And then...
...nothing. No more people clogged the aisle. I looked at my husband; he looked back with a bright smile, and just as I was unbuckling my seatbelt and preparing to slide my skinny butt over to the aisle seat, the man came aboard.
I looked instinctively up at him, sizing him up the way all women do to all men... even the married ones. He was about 5'10", built lean and strong, a pair of nicely shaped legs emerging from sensible shorts. The tight t-shirt showed no real flab around the middle, his pecs straining with a bag. His eyes were blue steel, dark and bottomless, his mouth a strong line as he glanced down to check his ticket.
A fat arm came around his shoulder, pointing at something on the ticket; soon I became aware of the man's short wife, shorter even than me, trailing him like a cranky terrier. "See?" she squealed, jabbing at the ticket, "I told you we're separate."
"It's okay." His voice, carrying through the bustle of boarding, was deep and measured, with a twinkle of amusement. "Means I won't be bothering you."
She made a dismissive noise as they came stomping down the aisle, his wife peeling off into a row well ahead. The man, though, kept coming. His eyes looked at the row numbers, then the seat letters, then at my very own brown eyes, set in my freckled face above a pointy little nose. He smiled, and it seemed like his entire face lit up; I could see now that he spent a lot of time in the sun, the skin damaged and brittle. A runner.
"Looks like that's my seat," he told me, the amused note still there. "Sorry about that; guess it's your unlucky day. We just barely made our connection from Dallas."
Beside me my husband sighed in disappointment, but I was surprised to find I didn't mind. Those blue eyes were flickering along my tiny body now, taking in the cutoff sweatpants I wore to fly, the white tanktop, the goosebumps standing out on my exposed shoulders. He lingered at my breasts, I was proud to see, and why wouldn't he? They were tempting and firm, perfectly proportioned ever since puberty, and I worked hard to keep the rest of myself in shape. I preened just a little bit for him, and smiled back. "Or your unlucky day," I said. "Take a seat."
My husband just gazed out the window at the techs, scurrying around loading fuel and bags. He knew now that he'd be crammed into the narrow seat, his overweight bulk stuck there, and he sighed again as he reached down for a sleeping pill. On the other side of me, my new seatmate watched with interest; as he looked across at my husband, though, I realized he was really just checking me out, his eyes raking across my boobs. "'Scuse me," he said softly, reaching down to find his seatbelt where it had flopped over onto my seat. As he did so, his searching fingers grazed my ass. He gave no sign that he'd meant it, but my mind told me it hadn't been an accident.
It had been many, many years since I'd been actively flirted with, but I am a pretty girl and you get to know the signs after awhile. And I had never, ever minded returning the flirt. So now I looked straight into his rugged blue eyes. "I don't think you got the whole seatbelt out," I said, my voice low so that he had to lean toward me.
He smiled again, that radiant grin, and did not lean back away from me. "Well, let's just make sure I do a thorough job," he replied, arching an eyebrow as he shot his hand straight down along my hip, trailing his hand along the ratty sweatpants as he curved his fingers around, now more gently, to cup my ass. I helped him a bit by raising up in my seat, my eyes still looking straight into his. He squeezed my right cheek once, twice, and then slowly dragged his fingers back along my body. "Nope. Looks like I got it all."
"Great," I said evenly, going back to my book; it was a long flight, and nothing said I had to do all my flirting before we even pushed back from the gate. Beside me, my new friend looked thoughtfully at me for a few more seconds, then he bent down to dig out a laptop.
* * *
We were at 35,000 feet over New Mexico, just twenty minutes off the ground, when I made my next move. This would be great fun, I told myself, and consequence-free: this dude and I would never see each other again, and there was certainly no danger of us fucking here on the plane. Things like that didn't happen in real life. But my husband snored next to me, and I was bored. So I swiveled my head, looking boldly at the side of the man's face. He was busy on his laptop, but glanced at me anyway. "Excuse me," I said, unbuckling my seatbelt, "but I have to pee."
I'd have expected him to get up, stand in the aisle to let me by; my plan had been to brush past him as I got up, maybe stretching my body for him. But no; he just sat there expectantly, and I realized he wanted me to press past his knees to escape. I paused: what should I show off as I wormed past him? Front or back? Tits or ass?
One as I left, the other as I returned.
So I got to my feet, hunching over far more than I needed to to avoid hitting my head on the call button, and put my right hand on the back of my new friend's seat. He looked up at me with a cool smile, the laptop forgotten. Keeping my hand where it was, I swung my leg over his and latched my left hand onto the other side of his seat back.
I was bent over now, right in front of him, my arms spread along the sides of his head, my tanktop pulling free of my boobs while my short legs straddled his. There was no reason to pause now, but I did anyway, letting him get a mental snapshot of the image of my body on top of his; I put a sultry expression on my face, then finally swung out into the aisle and patted him on the shoulder as I headed toward the restroom.
Of course I didn't need to pee; no woman willingly pees in an airplane just twenty minutes in. I killed some time in the rear galley, exchanging a smile and a few words with one of the cuter flight attendants; she glanced appreciatively down at my legs. I made small talk, dropped a couple of bags of peanuts into my cleavage, and then sauntered back down toward my seat. As I got to my row, I gave myself a wedgie.
Now it was my ass' turn. I stood over the man in the aisle seat. I looked down at his strong legs and then dragged my eyes up to his face. "Excuse me," I said softly, sliding my left leg in front of his knees. I bent down to keep from bumping my head, my little ass thrusting back into his face. He'd be staring at it, wondering what I had on underneath, trying to figure out where my underwear ran. He'd be wanting to reach up and grab me, the wedgie letting him know precisely what I looked like naked.
Reluctantly, I brought my right leg across the man's front, dragging it across his hairy knees. It was the first time our skin had touched, and I let it linger. I turned back to look at him, smiling apologetically, and caught his eyes lingering on my butt. I landed in my seat, my husband slumped over from my left; to avoid him, I crowded my new friend's armrest. "I'm sorry about him," I said. "Once he crashes, it's impossible to move him."
"I don't mind." Watching my eyes, the man snaked his arm underneath mine on the armrest, his forearm pressing now against my ribcage while my arm rested on top of his. "Seats are so small these days; you just have to be flexible." His fingers, draped casually across the armrest, trailed down to within an inch of my bare right thigh. I looked at the fingers, letting him see where my attention was, then I looked back at his face. I pulled his arm toward me, then slowly moved up until my lips were right beside his ear.
"I stole some peanuts in the galley," I whispered, making sure my hot breath blew past his cheek. "Want some?"
"Why not?" he replied, and I fixed him with a naughty stare as I reached my left hand into my cleavage. I made sure to let him see what I was doing in there, burrowing around between my boobs, the peanut packages crinkling as I pulled them out. I dropped one in his lap, and he calmly picked it up. "Hmm. Warm." He smiled, and with no shame he looked down my tanktop. "That's a good place to store things."
"Only some things," I replied with a smirk.
"Like nuts."
I laughed hard at the double entendre. "Only some nuts." We sat there and grinned at each other for a moment, our arms intertwined on the armrest. He moved his left leg until it rubbed against my right, and he leaned forward to look over at my husband. "He'll be wiped out until we land," I said scornfully. "It's why I'm talking to you instead of him."
"Ah. And here I thought it was just my shining personality." His eyes roamed my body.