How about you start at the beginning Miss Warren... What do you remember?
I remember sitting on the eight thirty-two across town express, the constant familiar sound of the wheels rocketing along the metal tracks with the world speeding by. I remember thinking... I wonder who lives in all these pretty houses? The ones close by the tracks, who are they? What do they do? What sort of lives do they live? I brought my shivering hands closer to myself picking up the coffee on the table taking a sip, letting the boiling heat rushed down my body warming my insides a little before putting the little travel mug down on the table again as I return my attention to the window as we went past a few fields they looked like they went on forever and ever.
A man sat on the other side of the table looking out the same window as me I remember every detail about that man, his skin was pale but had some colour to it as he had recently been somewhere with some sun, his hair was brown at its root but blonder the more it has grown out. It was now at a shaggy kind of style messy but organized messy if that makes any sense to you?
it does, Continue...
He had brown eyes like chocolate but not like old musty cheap chocolate in bars more like melted chocolate mixed with honey or something else silky and sweet. His arms were skinny so much so even I thought I could wrap my finger around his arm completely. He had a smile that seemed so sweet almost innocent I would say, there was a tiny cut in his face close to his mouth it was recent it looked as if he had caught himself while shaving not today it wasn't that fresh maybe yesterday or the day before? His clothes hung loosely off him tightly, blue jeans and a yellow shirt for some show or movie I don't really know too well enough to name. And a jacket leather but it had that snuggly fabric on the inside the sort that you just want to curl up in forever. He had a bag over his shoulder a big bag likely had a laptop in it I could see he had a travel mug in there it was spurting out the top of the black bag. I saw some papers in these two but I was too far away to read what they said he looked from the window and he saw me I kept my eyes on the window almost watching his reflection as he smiled at me
"Hello" he bleemed his voice soft and kind he leaned closer putting his hands on the desk
"Hi" I answer not really wanting to talk much
"How are you this morning?" he asks
"Fine" I answer
"Something the matter?" He asks sounding and looking a little worried
"Sorry, I'm not much in the habit of talking with random train strangers" I explain
"Ohh...." He says looking down to the table before his eyes flicked back to me "Well I'm Arthur" he smiles sticking out his hand across the table I sighed a little not wanting to be rude to him as he seemed sweet enough
"Felicity" I smile holding my hand out to him and he took my hand shaking it nicely and giving m hand a kiss
"There, Arthur" he smiles pointing to himself "Felicity" he smiles pointing to me a little "Now we're not strangers no more" he laughed cheerfully "Sorry, I didn't mean to come off strange, I only just moved here you see and I don't really know anyone yet I have seen you on the train a few times, You live down Cherry street don't you?" he asks and I nod "I just moved close by, 34 on westwalk" he smiles
"Ohh, you moved in there? I saw the moving van the other week" I smile
"yeah that was me" He smiles "what train do you get back tonight?" he asks
"The five twenty-one" I answer
"Ohh... alright, maybe I'll meet up with you again and I could walk you home?" he suggested
"maybe" I answer as the tanoy went off "Sorry I have to go," I tell him getting up to gather my things
"Of course, have a nice day miss felicity" he smiles getting up and helping me out a little
"Thank you" I smile as the train pulled to a clunky stop causing me to lose my balance
"Ouu! Lucky I was here for you" he laughed as he caught me to stop me falling to the ground
"Yeah lucky, well nice meeting you" I smile rushing off onto the platform I was last off as within seconds the doors shut and the train began moving away again I heard a knock on plastic making me turn to the train and I saw the guy again he waved at me so I waved to and went off to get to work.
and then what happened?
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