Student's forbidden fantasies indulged on a train
In my mind I see this as set in Japan. It also might be where you live, if your trains run like clockwork and are clean and safe. This is about a train commuter and progresses slowly at first.
A special thanks to RF-Fast for helping to proofread and ensuring the story is in good shape.
End of the Line
Part 1
I'm running again and I know I'm late. Dodging through disgruntled pedestrians and calling out apologies as I shove a few aside. The reason for my haste is I'm going to miss the last train home again. The last time I did that, I was yelled at by my parents for days and finding a hotel room I could afford was hard and a little scary. A number of drunk men offered to pay for a room for the pair of us.
I'm Emi. I'm 20 and attending university in the city studying business. But on Mondays and Thursdays, I work until 9:45 in a coffee shop. Giving me only 15 minutes to get my train. I live way out in the country, in fact in the town at the end of the line. It's 1 hour and 16 minutes exactly to get to my home station.
Hang on, I've got a tricky corner to get around. Oops, I nearly knocked over a little old man with two canes, but he doesn't even notice me. And I'm inside the nearly deserted station and reach into my purse for my pass to swipe at the turnstiles.
I see a guard at the gate and yell out my train number. He glanced at the board, then gestured to me to hurry and opened the gate to let me run through. He saw me nearly every day and knew I had a pass, but I yelled out my thanks, anyway.
At the top of the stairs, I saw the train and rushed down the stairs, taking 2 at a time. As I neared the bottom, I knew I was going too fast. But I managed to hook my arm around a post. Which felt like I'd yanked my arm from the socket, but it was enough to slow me down and swung me towards the still open doors of the train.
But the doors are beeping that they are about to close. I'm 10 feet away when they start to move and with all my strength, I hurl myself forward and make it. Although the door closed on my toes, then opened a little before closing again without my foot in the way, a moment later.
I'm on my knees panting and gasping for breath and the pain hits. I look down to see I've scraped my left knee badly. I pulled myself to my feet and looked around. This late at night, the train only had about a dozen people on it. Everyone was looking at me and I felt both foolish and a little proud that I'd made it, even in such an undignified manner. I looked at the emptier end of the carriage and saw an elderly woman and a mature businessman in a suit with a trilby hat next to him.
He stood and offered me his handkerchief, taking it, I thanked him. Sitting opposite to where he'd been sitting and dabbing at my knee. The handkerchief was a rich thick cotton with OJ embroidered in navy thread in the corner. He knelt in front of me and took the handkerchief back and looked at the wound closely.
It was only then that I realised I was wearing one of my shorter skirts and it almost felt like he was trying to look up it. But I realised I was being foolish. He was just a nice older man. Then the elderly lady took something from her huge purse and handed two sachets to the man. Explaining she carried them as her grandchildren were always falling and cutting themselves.
They were antiseptic wipes, and he tore one open and wiped the wound clean. I winced and clenched my teeth as it stung worse than the fall, but it was better than getting infected. He repeated the move with the other wipe, then pressed the handkerchief back onto the wound. Got me to hold it and put the wipes and their sachets into the bin.
While the journey was a little over an hour long, we never went more than 10 minutes between stops. And as usual at each stop, nobody got on at this time of the night. So, by the time I was half way home, there was only me, and the older man who gave me his handkerchief, and another couple at the other end of the carriage. Most people seemed to congregate at the back of the carriages, as the exits at each station were closer to the back than the front.
My leg had stopped bleeding, and I offered the handkerchief to the man, but he refused. So, I tucked it away, promising I'd clean and iron it and hope to return it another day. I wasn't sure, but I thought I'd often seen him on the train. Usually, I stick my headphones in and zone out, listening to music or an audio book.
Then it was just the two of us with only a few stops left. He asked how my leg was and bent forward to look but gave a pained wince as he leant forward. Saying he had a bad back. Then asked if I could stand so he could inspect it.
I stood and bent the knee to show him, but he smiled like a benevolent grandfather, which he might be. And patted the space between his knees and told me to put my foot there. The pain of bending my leg and worrying about it bleeding again overrode my caution, and I did what he said.
Only as I stood on one foot and holding on to the straps above my head. As we started to slow down for the 3rd station from the end of the line. The bright light of the station shone in through the window. I grabbed the overhead straps tighter to steady myself.
A description of myself is appropriate here. I'm petite for the most part. I'm only 150cm tall [just under 5 feet], and my older brother used to call me toothpick. Until I was 17, I was tiny with no curves at all. When my boobs grew in, he no longer had that option as they ballooned up to a C cup. Which, when you're only a 78cm chest [31 inches] chest, makes them look overly large. And I oscillated between hating them, being too apparently large and loving the attention.
My straight black hair hangs a couple of inches below my shoulders, and I tend to use flower hair grips to hold the hair away from my face. Which makes me look younger, and I got teased for it at work, but I do it for a reason. If I look younger and play innocent at work, I discovered I could get twice the tips compared to the other girls. I know it was wrong, but I needed those tips, and I hoped the others never caught on.