Midnight Ride

AN: This chapter nearly doubled in length after the edit! Really extended the scene with the bus crew. Let me know what you think!

I stomped onto the bus, a salty taste on my tongue, but I was too irritated to savor it properly. The people at the bus stop with me didn't help my mood. One man was waiting for the next bus, the elderly woman sniffed in disdain and cut in front of me, while the last man insisted I go first.

"Ladies first, sweetie." He bowed drunkenly. I suppressed a shudder, forcing myself to smile and nod in thanks.

My hands held down the front of my skirt to keep from flashing the driver. The grungy guy coming up behind me, on the other hand, got a full show.

He whistled. "Now that right there is a beautiful sight..."

Like, I know I just told Ethan twenty minutes ago I was a slutty exhibitionist and a part of me did enjoy the compliment, but a girl has limits! And that limit is smelling the stale beer and rotten teeth on his breath from ten feet away. He had to be almost three times my age!

There were a small group of college-aged kids at the end of the bus making a bit of a ruckus. I scurried over to them and smiled at a curvy redhead with a nose ring and a bit of the dopey look of someone who smoked too much weed.

I sat on the bench next to her. "Hey!" I chirped a little too loudly. "Missed you in class yesterday!" My eyes pleaded with her and the couple on the bench across from her, a lanky black guy with a bunch of braids and a tiny girl with wavy dyed black hair shaved on one side. My grip on my purse strap tightened, out of the corner of my eye I saw the same man staring at me from a few rows up.

The dude was the first to get it. "Yo! We had a concert to be at!" He played on an air guitar for a second. "Six Wings Unbound put on an awesome show."

"Yeah, total madhouse." Tiny girl said. Her eyes flicked from me to the old guy. She nodded at me. "You take any good notes?"

I sighed in relief. They got my hints.

The redhead blinked slowly at me, eyes more red than white. "Who're you?"

The black guy kicked her shoe. "This is our girl..."

"Marissa!" I coughed.

"...Larissa! She's in Bio 101 with us." Oh god, are they teenagers? "In case you forgot, I'm Zeke, and this is my girlfriend Raven. Miss Sky-High there is Claire."

They are teens! No way that girl was born with the name Raven. She had blonde roots and light blue eyes for fucks sake, her parents would not name her that.

It finally seemed to click for Claire. "Ohhhh..." She put her arm around my waist and squeezed me to her breasts. "We're pretending!" She loudly whispered with a giggle.

I sighed and made a face at the smell of skunk. "Thanks guys. Creepy dude following me."

"No prob, you want us to help you home? Our stop is close." Zeke offered.

I glanced out the window and then at the creep, who was still staring. "Can you get off on the next stop with me and walk for a few minutes?"

All three agreed and I relaxed. We soon ended up fast friends, the people you meet on the bus at midnight, eh? Never know what you're gonna get.

When we reached the next stop, Zeke said something under his breath to the creep and pulled up the hem of his sweat shirt. Creepy guy hid in his coat and looked away when I passed. Three guesses on what Zeke has tucked in his waistband and the first two don't count.

Now, did I just scare away a coyote with a wolf or a sheepdog? With the cute way he and Raven held hands I was leaning towards sheepdog.

Claire sobered up a little as she walked. Awed and amazed by street lights and bits of trash in the street.

"—if the whole universe is like that? Like that shredded newspaper. One of many drifting on a cosmic wind through the void..." She intoned as she stumbled into me. Her gaze followed an old tabloid like it was a majestic bird.

"Is she normally like this when high?" I shot a worried look to the others.

Zeke snorted. Raven sighed and said, "She got ahold of some really good shit last month and didn't wanna share the last of it, so she smoked it in one huge blunt hours ago."

Claire slurred. "It was so gooood, you guys!"

"We know!" They said together. I got the impression this exchange has happened a few times now.

"Why is she out here?" I didn't quite accuse them.

The blitzed out redhead was staring at some moths fluttering around a street light, flapping her arms slowly. I grabbed her hand to pull her along. Her other hand kept flapping.

Zeke gave me an exasperated smile. "She was alone when she did it and showed up at a party even worse than this."

Raven snickered. "Another friend called us over to keep Claire from playing in her mom's bird fountain." Her face grew worried. "If she's still weird in the morning, we'll take her to a hospital or something."

Ah. I side-eyed Claire. What the hell did she take?

Claire chose that moment to meet my eyes. "Oh wow! You're super pretty! Like, an elf from those ring movies." She swayed towards me.

My face went as red as her hair. Why was the best compliment I'd received in my twenty-five years of life being called an Elf by a girl so high she thought she was a bird!?

Wet lips met mine in a sloppy kiss. "Mhhrmph!?" I froze in place.

Instead of pulling away, Claire's lips dragged a slime trail across my cheek and to the side of my neck where she started licking me!

Why the fuck did I kinda like it!?

My hands were flailing at my sides in indecision. I didn't want to shove her to the concrete. Especially as she stopped licking and slumped into my shoulder with a squeaky snore.

"Claire! Hey, don't make me get a squirt bottle!" Zeke came to my rescue by picking her up by the waist.

Claire snorted out of her little nap and looked around with blurry eyes. "Wha- Hey! Zeke, I toldya I'm not interested in dudes!" She wiggled in his grip, not doing much to actually escape.

"We can see that." Raven snarked as she dabbed my face clean with a napkin. "I'm sorry about her, are you okay?" She asked me softly.

I started giggling as the absurdity struck me, bending forward I was laughing so hard. Raven hovered her hands over my shoulders worriedly. "Yeah, I'm fine!" I gasped out. "Just— that was the least objectionable kiss I've gotten all night!" I wasn't being fair to Ethan, but his kissing skills did not make up for not fucking me or at least telling me he had a girlfriend!

All the tension drained out of me as I laughed with my back against the brick building we'd stopped at. Raven relaxed and gave me an odd smile. While Zeke carefully wrangled Claire.

Eventually, we got back on track. Claire kept giving me looks and blushing like a schoolgirl after her mortified apology. Maybe it sobered her up?

I did my best to ride the line between encouraging her without actually rejecting her. I wasn't sure what would happen, but I wouldn't mind her kissing me again.

At the corner before my apartment, we stopped. Claire teared up when she hugged me goodbye, Zeke gave me a fist bump and Raven gave me her number.

The tiny girl winked and blew a kiss. "Text us if you ever wanna have a good time! We'll hang out."

Less so than the first trigger, but still very pleasurable, the words created a resonance that filled my mind and commanded my body. I shivered and smirked at Raven, lifting my toned leg to the night sky and showing off my pussy glistening in the gloom.

"Believe me, I'll be the one showing you a good time~" My eyes met each of theirs in turn, lingering on Claire.

Raven's jaw dropped and she blushed prettily before whirling around and dragging her stunned boyfriend away. Claire blinked at me and gave two thumbs up, following them a second later.

Hehehe! That was so much better than that old man staring at me. Almost as good as the crowd at the bar.

It felt like I was floating on a horny cloud on the way home. Did I really not cum yet tonight? Ugh, what a disgrace! This was not how I hoped my night would go. Thinking about Ethan still pissed me off and the situation on the bus could have gone really bad, but I also discovered something fun and met a few cool people. Maybe we'll meet up on the weekend?