(NOTE: All characters in this story are over eighteen years of age) (NOTE 2: I was saddened to find that my story was copied, word for word, on some other portals. I've re-worded it to make it better, and "spicier" ;-). Hope you enjoy this edited version)
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It was the end of a very long and hard day at work. But on the positive side, it was Friday evening! Bella was looking forward to spending an evening with her girlfriends. Lost in her own thoughts, she waited on the platform for the train to arrive, and when it did, made her way through the crushing crowd into the compartment. Raising her right hand above her head and holding on to the overhead strap, and holding on to her purse (which was strapped to her left shoulder) with her left hand, she managed to somehow steady herself and waited for the nearly-one-hour subway ride to be over.
As usual, the subway was fully packed. There were people pressing against and crushing her from all sides. At times like these, she missed the sylvan tranquility of the small town where she grew up. With so many people packed in the train, the AC was completely ineffective. It was very hot and sticky. She could feel the sweat dripping down her body.
A pair of hands grabbed her waist. The hands squeezed, causing her dress to rise up an inch or two, and then were gone. She wondered whether it was intentional, but since the hands were removed quickly, decided it wasn't. Because of being hiked up a bit, and because of the way her body was stretched out, she could feel her dress fit tightly against her body.
She remembered how Mark had looked her up and down and said "Nice dress". She smiled inwardly at the thought. Should she ask Mark out? She had had a crush on Mark for a while. Her girlfriends knew about it and had opined that she should "just fuck him already". While she told them she had no intention of doing any such thing, she often wondered. She had grown up in a small town, where people didn't have a casual outlook towards sex. She had only had a few awkward sexual encounters with same-age teenage boys, between the age of eighteen and twenty. Before she left for the big city a year ago, her mother had lectured her on how most men only wanted one thing, and that she should "wait for the right guy". Though she had remained true to the promises made to her mother, and not had any boyfriends since moving to the big city a year ago, she often wondered whether her mother's thoughts were outdated in this day and age.
The feeling of a hand touching the small of her back brought her thoughts back to the present. The hand moved up, inching up the bottom of her dress another couple of inches, and then was gone. Her dress was now so hiked up that most of her legs were exposed. However, due to her position and the crowd around her, she was unable to adjust it. She again wondered whether the touch was intentional, but then dismissed the thought, since a bit of touching and jostling was common during rush hour. Probably just some guy trying to maintain his balance. She looked down to ensure she wasn't too exposed, but couldn't see past the V-neck of her dress. Her eyes focused on the cross-shaped pendant her mother had given her, which was resting on her chest.
Her thoughts went back to Mark and the dress. She liked dressing up for her job. She used to wear silk blouses and skirts. However, due to her long subway journey, and being crushed by people, she would sweat a lot, and there would be visible sweat stains in her underarms during the day. So she had started wearing sleeveless dresses. The dark blue dress she was wearing today was one of her favorites. Sleeveless with large arm openings, it had a V-neck which plunged a little but didn't show much cleavage. It didn't hug her curves, but accentuated them nicely, tapering off inwards below her hips. It had a zipper that opened in the back. It was sexy but not slutty; just the way she liked it. Being a little conscious of her bra straps being seen through the arm openings, she had worn a strapless bra. She was also worried about her panty lines being visible through the dress, so she had worn panties with a thong strap. Wearing underwear that crept up the crack of her ass was initially uncomfortable, but she eventually got used to it.
She felt her dress rising up once more. It was now so high up that it barely covered her ass. Was someone pulling it up deliberately? But then, she hadn't felt a hand on her hips this time. It was just something that happened due to the crowd and the movement around her. "Stop being so paranoid, Bella," she chided herself. There were two reasons why Bella was paranoid during subway rides. Firstly, at five feet three, she was very petite, and most other passengers towered over her, especially the men, making her feel small and vulnerable. The second reason was the horror stories her girlfriends had told her about being teased and harassed on the subway. She had three girlfriends; Susan with whom she shared a two-bedroom apartment, and Sarah and Bessie who lived across the hall. Sarah had told them how once, on a crowded subway, a bunch of office-going men had surrounded and then touched, fondled and fingered her to their hearts' content, finally removing her bra and panties and taking them as souvenirs. Bessie had recounted how two men had pinned her between them, taken out their penises and come on her, leaving wet, sticky stains on her top. Susan was the tallest of them all. At five feet nine, she was as tall as most men on the subway, a fact that worked to her disadvantage, because men could do a lot more to tall girls than simple groping and squeezing. A man had once fingered and then taken her right in the middle of a crowded subway.
Hearing these stories shocked the hell out of Bella. But her girlfriends told her they had made their peace with it. Having grown up in a big city, they were quite brazen about their sex lives, changing boyfriends quite often. Not that that made it ok for men to molest them, but she figured that, being sexually liberated, they were better equipped to handle these sort of incidents. She herself hadn't experienced anything of such severity yet. Once or twice, someone had "unintentionally" squeezed her ass cheeks or rubbed her breasts. But she had pushed that hand away, and that had been the end of it.
While Bella's shock at her girlfriends' tales had been genuine, she sometimes found herself wondering what it would be like to have someone touch her in a public place like that. She went through a phase, for a few days every month, when she would get horny, especially while riding the subway, and feeling all the men's bodies pressed up against hers. She had once lost her balance, and a man had steadied her by holding her hips. It made her wonder what it'd be like to allow a man to gently carress her hips and waist. Or maybe more... She knew she'd never act on that fantasy, but couldn't help wondering.
A sudden, nagging feeling brought her thoughts back to the present. Every woman has an intuition, almost like a sixth sense, that lets her know when she's being ogled, and Bella was getting that feeling right now. Looking to her right, she saw a man pressed against her. About eight inches taller than her, his head was level with the wrist of her right hand. He was looking down intently at her body. He looked up, made eye contact and smiled at her. Bella blushed, wondering for a second whether he had read her thoughts. Then she wondered what was on his mind. Had he been checking out her exposed legs? Or her taut skirt-covered ass? Or had he looked through the arm opening of her dress and caught a glimpse of side-boob? It was hard to tell. Or, was he just smiling politely, and her paranoia reading too much into it? Looking around her, she found three other men. They had all turned towards her, though not directly looking at her. Was it pure coincidence that they were facing her, or were they checking her out? Bella suddenly got conscious, and lowered her right hand, holding it protectively in front of her breasts. In hindsight, she found out that this was a mistake, because she was now a free-floating entity and, with nothing to hold on to, could be manoeuvred in any direction.
The train stopped at a station and, with some relief, she expected some people to exit, making room for her to move away from the clique of men. To her surprise and shock, more people got in than out. It was unbelievable; she felt like she was being crushed from all sides. Due to the crowd, she felt herself moving a couple of feet to her left, and was standing next to the glass door that separates different subway compartments. She looked through the glass door, and found that the adjoining compartment was equally crowded. Glancing around her, she saw that the same men still surrounded her.
The train went over a curve, tilting her slightly forward and into the arms of the man in front of her. He embraced her, sort-of like an old friend giving her a bear hug. She was surprised at the hug, but honestly, not offended, as it didn't seem threatening or sexual. When the train straightened, he continued to hug her. He was wearing a nice-smelling perfume, a refreshing change from the sweaty, clammy feeling in the compartment around her. So she allowed her guard to drop, and got somewhat cozy and comfortable in his arms.
And then it happened. The man behind her started rubbing her ass. First one cheek, and then slowly moving towards the crack. She wanted to push his hand away, but being caught in the other man's embrace, she couldn't move her hands. Due to her dress being stretched thin across her ass, it felt like the hands were directly on her skin. She suddenly became nervous, and could feel her pulse rate increase and her body start to sweat more. She felt sweat dripping from her armpits down into her dress, and from her back down into her panties.