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CHAPTER 1

SORAYA

MY RIGHT FOOT STEPPED ONTO THE TRAIN, and I frozeacross from my usual seat I backed up

“Hey, watch where you’re going!” A suit bobbled his coffee, barely keeping it upright as I reversed out of the third car without looking and smashed into him “What the hell?”

“Sorry!” I offered a fleeting apology and kept going, ducking down below the train’sas I ran down the platforan to flash red, and a loud buzzer sounded signaling the train was about to depart I jumped into car seven just as the doors started to slide closed

It took a full th of four train cars My ass definitely needed to get back to the gy in next to someone rather than sit in one of a half dozen vacant interior facing seats The man lowered his paper as I settled in next to hi sideways” The two seats in front of him were empty Proper train etiquette would have been to take one of those, but I figured he preferred cozy seating to vomit

He smiled “Neither can I”

Popping in h of relief and shutA ht tap on er next toin the aisle

I reluctantly pulled out one earbud

“Soraya I thought that was you”

That voice

“Uain? Oh, wait…how could I forget? Mitch High pitch Mitch I still wasn’t speaking to my sister for that disaster Worst Blind Date Ever “How are you, Mitch?”

“Good, actually great now that I ran into you I tried to reach you a few ti number, because you never responded to my texts”

Yeah That’s it

He scratched his crotch through his trousers I had alem It was probably a nervous habit, but every time he did it, my eye followed his hand, and it was all I could do not to crack up High pitch Mitch with the Itch Thanks, Sis

He cleared his throat “Maybe we could get so?”

The suit next to ain and looked at Mitch and then to uy; he was nice enough

“Umm” I put my hand on the shoulder of the suit next to ether a week ago Right, honey?”