Surely the bus would be there soon. It had to be. It was already ten minutes late, stretching what should have been a twenty-minute journey home into a half hour if the bus arrived right now.
And for a husky with a full bladder, every last one of those minutes was absolutely critical. It was of the utmost importance that Riri get herself home and onto her own toilet as fast as possible, and each extra second she had to wait only made it more important.
She could tolerate the wait at first, since a few minutes of delay for public transportation was hardly anything out of the ordinary, but as the minutes passed with still no bus - no chance of relief - in sight, sitting there on that bench in the evening chill only got more and more uncomfortable. And yet she had no choice but to squirm and hope.
Sure, there were shops close at hand, promising readily-available toilets that could ease Riri's burden, but as she gazed longingly at the nearby storefronts she knew that wasn't an option. After all, the bus was fifteen minutes late already, and it would surely be arriving any moment now. A little bit of discomfort and a tight waistband were a small price to pay for ensuring she would be there when it did.
For as much as she would have liked to empty her bladder right away, she knew she would only have to wait a little while longer. Just a few minutes from now, she'd be on the bus, and a mere twenty minutes after that, she'd be at home, pulling her pants down and dropping herself onto that lovely porcelain seat, letting all of the stress of the day flow blissfully away.
But she couldn't think too much about that right now. Right now, she had to keep an eye out for the bus that would certainly be pulling up momentarily. Certainly. Yes, any second now. Any. Moment.
...
The bus was coming, right? Yes, of course it was. It would be horribly late, but it would be there. Riri had already been waiting for more than half an hour by now, but surely she would only need to wait a few moments longer. She should have been at her front door ten minutes ago; she should have been taking a seat on her toilet nine minutes ago. And that was all still twenty minutes away if the bus arrived right now.
Surely it would. It had to. It was already a half hour late, there was no way it wouldn't be there in the next couple of minutes at the latest.
And so, despite her labored breathing, despite her hands working to squeeze herself shut, despite the pain of her swollen bladder fighting against her jeans, she had to wait. She could feel the burn of her searing pent-up piss bearing down on the only escape, straining her taxed and aching muscles, but she had to wait.
She didn't know how much longer she could, but she had to wait. The stores around her, and their bathrooms, were still there, still available, but still she couldn't use them. She should have, twenty minutes ago, and she would have had she known the bus would take so long to come for her, but now it really wasn't an option.
After all, the bus was thirty-five minutes late by now. If she got up from that bench, if she waddled into a store to use their bathroom, she would come back with an empty bladder, yes, but only to find out that the bus had come and gone.
For as much as her situation was clearly escalating into a dire emergency, she had to keep waiting. It was really her only option; she could use a toilet right now and have one less thing to worry about, but doing so would add a million more problems when she'd be left without a means to get home. She could use a toilet right now and be stranded, or she could wait for the bus and use her own toilet twenty minutes from now.
Neither of those options were particularly appealing, but clearly the second option was the only realistic one. It wouldn't be pleasant - far from it, considering it meant she'd have to endure twenty agonizing minutes of riding a bus with a bladder on the verge of bursting, but she would have to suffer through that to get herself home.
So, whimpering and whining, eyes watering, she tensed up every muscle she could, and she kept waiting. She kept waiting, and waiting... Until at last she felt the dreaded warmth spread through her jeans, and she could wait no more. --------------------------------------------------------
Too bad for her, the bus finally arrived about two minutes later.