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Everything moves fast here

There’s ame nervous All it would take is a tiny shove or a stiff breeze to see the over

I stay back, but even that space is filling up

It’s five on a Friday Mike finally answers my text

Fuck, should have cocrowd

A train stops, and that’s when I see it’s e beat me to it

It’s so crowded that I hear someone say, “Let’s wait for the next one”

“It’s two ood idea to me, so I wait as well

As soon as it shows up, Mike actually calls

“Hey there, little lady” That was a terrible John Wayne iet on the train toyou?” he asks

“Hi, cuz My hotel is posh as hell, but this city is so da back ho breakers at Padre, but daular weekday here, isn’t it?”

“Yeah, e have a war on payday”

“Well, I’m on the train now, and it’s packed fro to not let on how uncoers

“What stop are you on?”

The train lurches for once then n as we exit the station “Clark and Lake”

Mike releases a chuckle “Awe, Case, you ain’t seen nothing yet Grab a wall or a seat if you can Because shit It’s going to get even more packed, but maybe on Halsted, it’ll ease up”

“Shit, are you for real?” I let out an exaggerated sigh