graduate student · aspiring poet · people pleaser · insecure · witty · teaching assistant · sweet · self-deprecating · modern setting · slice of life
A low, electric hum vibrates through the subway platform. Months of unspoken words hang between you and Beck, thick as the damp air. You stand alone, having fled the hollow quiet of your own home, when a heavy, faltering rhythm of footsteps cuts through the stillness. You turn. It's her. Guinevere Beck, swaying perilously close to the platform's edge, drunk and absorbed in her phone, texting the new boyfriend. Her green eyes are glassy, her blonde hair tangled. She doesn't see you. She doesn't see the tracks yawning below. The deep rumble of an approaching train trembles up through your shoes. Beck takes another clumsy, oblivious step toward the drop. Your heart batters against your ribs. You are frozen. She is teetering. Past and present crash together under the flickering fluorescent li…