How to Overcome a Fear of Flying.
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He breathed out. There was nothing else in the universe. It was his whole world. Two smooth bulbous lumps were all that he focused on. Nothing but a nice big round ass. Black stretchy fabric supported the contours of the woman's wide hips and thighs.
Thank God for yoga pants
, he thought.
A twinge of mild shame came, but quickly went from his mind, for his creeping on this woman.
What was the harm it?
He told himself. There was nothing else to do right now other than stare at his phone, as they waited in the airplane aisle for some idiot to finally accept that their luggage was too big to fit overhead.
A minute ago he had let his downward vision slip past his phone to the ass of the woman standing in front of him in line, and actually found that it was a far better distraction to quell his nervousness. His heart was beating slower, his palms were drier. It was almost as if he wasn't about to sit down in this insane flying contraption. All that existed was just him and the simple round, technically fat, but surprisingly perky shape of this bitchy mom's backside.
Maybe that was unfair. He'd only heard her say a few words, but so far it was entirely nagging at her son in front of her to stay still when the kid was barely fidgeting. The tone and demeanour gave him the sense that it was her usual setting. He felt sorry for the boy. It was boring as hell, not that a kid at 6 or 7ish should be looking at a phone all the time, but at least his mom had that,...and he had her ass. He noticed his phone's screen go to sleep and opened it again to maintain the illusion.
The boy pointed at the window, "Hey that's the wing! Mom, what are those things on the wings? They look cool!"
"Shush I don't know," she replied in irritation. The messy bun of her blonde-highlighted hair didn't move and he was sure she hadn't taken her eyes off her phone.
"You're not looking! They look like big barrels. Is that where the splody gas is?"
"Shush! Don't say that you'll upset people," she said, seeming the most upset of anyone by far.
An initial jolt of shock in his mind at the thought of an explosion actually quickly gave way to chuckling to himself, and
at
himself at the absurdity of it, and he figured what the hell, he'd speak up and help the kid out.
"Hey bud, those are the engines, like huge fans that blow the air and make the plane move," he said.
The woman turned her head half sideways and they made eye contact for the first time. He only saw half her face but a sleek eyebrow raised above well-defined mascara gave him a quick appraising look and then turned back to her phone without a response.
"Really!?" the boy exclaimed, "The motors are on the wings, and there's TWO!?"
He nodded and raised his eyebrows to encourage the boy's excitement with a smile.
"Where's the gas tank then?"
"That depends on the plane, sometimes it's hidden in the wing too."
"Awesome! So if it went kaboom the wings would fall off!!"
"Stop it!" the woman chastised her son, "I told you not to talk about that, you'll scare people," she said urgently.
He was surprised again that actually hearing his worst fears stated out loud almost did the opposite.
He blurted out, "Actually dude that's basically never happened on a commercial airline, super rare like, less than one in a million chance. The odds of an explosion, let alone a crash are far lower than with cars, you'd almost have a better chance of getting struck by lightning, er..." he realized he was rambling, reciting the stats he had studied almost obsessively to try and overcome what he kept telling himself was an irrational fear.
His words faded as the woman turned again and gave him a longer considering glance up and down with another smoothly raised eyebrow. He met her eye, which was striking for more reason than her makeup, he thought, and wasn't sure if she was about to tell him off or introduce herself, but then she turned away as her son spoke up again.
"Hey what if lightning struck the plane!?"
"Shush! For the last time stop talking about stuff like that," she demanded with a scolding finger, then turned back to her phone without looking back at him.
He gulped and looked back down at his phone as well, deciding not to tell the kid that planes had fail-safes in place in the case of lightning strikes. He thought back to all the facts and stats he'd pored over online in preparation for this flight. None of it seemed to help. He was still fucking scared.
He'd taken two flights on a plane in his life before. Once when he was eleven and he'd held his mom's hand and cried like he was five again when there was apparently only mild turbulence and a normal landing, though at the time it felt like they were crashing and dying for sure.
The other time, with his travel club in senior year of highschool, and he'd almost pissed himself but made it through, still soaking his clothes in sweat and not saying a word, pretending he was sleeping through the longest panic attack he'd ever experienced, as his friends partied away.
Now, he was 24, a year out of college, still trying to pin down a decent job in his career and finally admitting to himself that he needed to travel to do it. Not that there were no jobs where he lived, but the few decent ones he'd found hadn't panned out. He had the credentials but he knew he didn't interview well. Now he had to branch out. He'd finally bit the bullet and applied out of town, and this potential dream-job had popped up and he knew he'd regret it for the rest of his life if he didn't accept their interview. He just needed to survive this flight. He could do it. He had to.
His eyes drifted away from the time-wasting stories and memes on his phone and back to the woman's posterior. He remembered the piercing intimidating look of her eyes and watched her buttocks flex as they finally took one single slow step forward. His cock started to swell.
For fucks sake
. He thought to himself.
She ' s not THAT good looking
. Sure he knew all the words to Baby Got Back and had fun singing it with his friends on the dance floor in college, but he wasn't really that into large asses the way some guys were. He didn't think... He knew the yoga pants could make a lot of women, especially older ones, look better than they did naked.
Probably hiding some sag and cellulite
, he told himself. His cock wasn't buying it. His half-chub swelled against his pants while his eyes drifted up the curve of her lower back as the yoga pants gave way to a thin pink sweater. He detected a hint of love-handles underneath, and told himself it totally wasn't an 'hourglass' figure. Even if the curves technically followed that shape. The sweater's wide neck fell slightly off her shoulders to expose pudgy skin than shimmered smoothly under her wavy locks. Her red bra-strap pressed into the flesh to accentuate the softness of it. He looked back down her body and decided to make himself look at his phone instead as his cock pulsed again.
Quit it
. He told himself.
She's a nagging 30-something with a mom bod. Fuck it's been too long if this is what ' s doing it
. He should get back on tinder again, he decided. Maybe he'd have better luck this time.
She stopped with the line in front of them and so did he, but the person behind him kept pushing, seeming to be pushed by the people behind him. He tried to push back but the momentum of the line behind him was too much. Suddenly they stumbled forward and his loins pressed up against the warm softness of her ass, knocking her forward.
She let out a startled scoff and started to fall, with nothing other than her luggage and her short son in front of her to brace against. He instinctively reached out and wrapped his arm around her torso to save her. The soft flesh of her belly spilled between his fingers as he held her weight against him. Her ass pressed harder against his cock and it swelled in delight. He prayed she didn't notice. Finally the crowded aisle relaxed and everyone muttered angrily.
"Please don't push!" the stewardess called out to the crowded plane from a few rows ahead, "I know it's taking a while but we'll all get to our seats faster if we settle down."
The woman in front of him had found her feet and he let go of her. Her ass finally came away from the hard bulge of his cock.