NOTE:
This story features dark themes of public creepiness and questionable consent, and also indulges in some of what we might call "porn logic" around these unwholesome topics. Be warned!
All characters are over 18, fictional, and awful. No real life person should behave like them.
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Niya leaned on the bathroom sink and heaved a great big melodramatic sigh.
Her own face stared back at her, as if from the --
ha
-- mirror universe.
Who's this weird version of me in the winged eyeliner and the cleavagey top?
She was supposed to get laid tonight. Her friends-slash-roommates (and where did you draw
that
line?) had taken Niya out to the club and under their collective wing for just such a purpose. They'd done her makeup and hair, and Hailey had even hooked her up with a fake ID.
Niya had made clear she wasn't interested in romance right now. This was to be strictly a get-it-over-with mission.
"With a rack like yours," Krista had told her to a chorus of giggles, "You can have
any
straight guy in the place eating out of your hand."
The plan was to pick out her guy on the dancefloor, bring him home by cab (with friend backup, for safety) and, if the vibe was right, invite him back to her room for the main event.
You were supposed to experiment in college, right?
Some girl was barfing in a nearby stall. Niya hated the club, the loud music, the high heels, the expensive drinks, the douchey guys. She'd begun the night nervous but excited. Now she couldn't remember why she'd agreed to this stupid idea in the first place.
She apologized to her friends, if they even heard her, and hurried out into the blessedly crisp, quiet evening, searching her phone for the quickest way to transfer to the F train from here.
Surprisingly, the subway app showed, not just a transfer, but an actual F train stopping at a station just a block away. Niya was sure the F didn't normally come through this neighborhood.
Stupid weekend construction is on my side for once
, she thought.
Inside the station, a temporary paper sign pointed her to the F platform, past a steel gate that was normally closed. The area beyond was dark and a little creepy.
She waved her phone over the turnstile. Nothing happened.
Duh. No scanners here. This platform must have been mostly out of service for years.
But there was a station agent in the kiosk nearby. A middle-aged woman peered down at her from beneath a tall wig, pursing her lips.
"I'm sorry," Niya said, looking all around, "Is there a reader I can use?"
"Hmm. Let me see you..." said the woman. "Cute nose. Amazing rack. Oh, love that skirt on you, honey... the way it hugs the curve of your belly and ass. Oh yeah. You'll do."
The security gate lock buzzed, and the station agent waved her towards it. Niya's eyes widened.
What the fuck was that about?
But a free ride was a free ride. Niya hustled through the gate and down the stairs.
The platform was empty.
Damn.
She must have just missed one.
But before she could even start looking for a bench, a light appeared in the tunnel. The distant sound of shrieking brakes approached, resolved iself into a train crawling onto the platform. The conductor's head poked out of a side window.
"This is a Queens-bound, right?" Niya called out.
"It'll take you wherever you most desire, honey."
"Queens," she repeated.
"Sure thing."
Relief washed over her. She'd be home soon, and out of these damn shoes.
"STAND CLEAR OF THE CLOSING DOORS, PLEASE."
It was a few minutes before Niya noticed an unusual statistical distribution among her fellow passengers.
They were all men.
Hotter than average, too. And better dressed. A few of them were brazenly checking her out, she was sure. That was nothing new. Her chest attracted plenty of attention from obnoxious dudes even in her typical less-than-revealing outfits.
In what she was wearing tonight, Niya felt uncomfortably like she was on display. Now that feeling only sharpened. Several pairs of eyes leered down at her -- dark and fathomless, blue and glittering, all with an intensity that made her shrink back.
Niya tried to ignore the way her clit warmed to the creepy attention. Just because these guys were weirdly attractive didn't mean they weren't bad news. She set a scowl on her face and stared at an ad for some sufficiently un-sexy lawyer.
The train groaned to a stop at the next station. The doors opened, and more men piled inside. And more.
Suddenly, Niya was pressed in on all sides by a wall of dude. She wound up with her boobs pushed up against the abs of a tall man in a blazer and dress shirt. From the look of his eyeline, he had an excellent view down her shirt.
"First time, is it?" he said, his eyes finally flicking up to hers.
Jesus, was that a guy's erection brushing her ass?
It should have been frightening and repellant. And maybe it was. But that feeling was duelling with something else. The one Niya had felt when she'd agreed to this night out. Nervous but excited. And, dammit, horny.
Apparently she
did
need to get laid, if being stuck in a weird train car full of creeps rubbing against her could get her soaked like this.
There was a charge in the air. And a scent. Not the usual musty odor of too many tired and unshowered people on a subway car, but something cleaner, purer, more masculine, shooting straight through her hindbrain and down her spine.