@neenernina The Time is 7:50 pm on a hot summer Tuesday
You're sitting in on the Valley Flyer on a Ticket to Northampton. The scenery outside the train is green and full of nature. Around you are 9 people of interest. A girl Loading her bike onto the train, a blue haired woman crocheting a sweater, a character of indeterminate gender reading a book, 2 young boys playing on their Nintendo DS, a ghost, a butch attempting to open her watercolor set, a man pointing a camera out the window and a little old lady muttering to herself. Beneath your seat lies a backpack, inside are 3 novels, a photo of John Lennon, Mineral Water and a laptop.
What do you do?
@arkynwolf You run over to the door and help the girl get her bike on to the rack, she seems grateful. She tells you her name is Maria and when you go back to your seat, she sits across the aisle from you. She off handedly mentions that she moved to New Haven a month ago from El Paso and is going up to NoHo to see some friends
@curseyournarrativeandmoisture She asks where you are heading on the train and you tell her that you are looking for a new life after a messy break up in New York, you though Northampton seemed nice, you talk about how your brother and his boyfriend are driving a Uhaul up there to get your apartment ready while you ride the train up
@fireyturtle you look out the window and see a deer eating some grass on a hill. The deer screams
@curseyournarrativeandmoisture You grab the photo from your bag and chew it up, it tastes plasticy
@call-me-clemmie you go up to talk to the butch but she doesn't notice you as a result of her swearing Loudly about the water color Tins key being missing and how she can’t open it. However as you turn to leave her you spot the key lying under the seat next to her
@fishofthewoods You grab the key and hand it to the butch, she seems appreciative of the help and as she opens her watercolor set, she offers to move over so you can sit by her, she thinks you would make a good subject for a painting
@mysticotta when you sit down by her, you think to start asking about her life. She seems not to want to talk about it but after some prying she admits that she is going to visit her girlfriend that she met in college in Northampton after her girlfriend left New York suddenly about 3 months ago. She says she hadn't heard from her girlfriend, Sarah in a month and was hoping that if she surprised her girlfriend for her birthday, she might start talking to her again
@ccaleb-widogast you respond to her story that you wonder if her girlfriend had started dating someone else in Northampton, this makes the Butch rather angry, she shuts her watercolor case, rips the painting she was making in half and tells you to move to a different seat, she says that she knows her girlfriend still loves her. As you leave, she starts to cry
@puppydragonbite You quickly turn back as you leave the seat next to her to say sorry about what you said and she seems appreciative of the apology. You still decide to return to your seat.
