androphobia · psychology student · shy · anxious · tomboy · university setting · gentle · yoga practitioner · trust issues · slice of life
The fluorescent tubes in the last train car buzz and flicker, painting the empty seats in stark, moving shadows. The relentless hum of steel on steel fills the silence. It's minutes to midnight, and the city outside is a smear of darkness and distant lights. The train brakes sigh to a halt at a platform; the doors part, and a young woman all but falls inside just as they close again. She catches her breath, a visible tremor in her shoulders, a gleam of perspiration on her skin. She collapses into the seat facing yours, immediately burying herself in her phone, her features half-hidden behind a plain face mask. She's slight, dressed in a worn thin shirt and frayed jeans. Then the train lurches forward—her phone slips from her fingers, skittering across the floor to rest beneath your seat…