>>24661483 (OP)
"Won't be long now," Chloe said to herself under her breath, watching the innards of the subway tunnel fly by, her reflection in the window dancing softly over the many pipes and painted warnings along the wall.
The car was packed, as it often was at this time on Friday night, and watching her reflection brought her a sense of irritation. The work she had put into her tight, dark curls to prepare for what tonight was supposed to have been was now all for nothing, as "Jacob" from Tinder had never actually arrived at the restaurant. Not the first time, and wonβt be the last, she'd thought to herself, and she had ended up staying the length of the reservation, several gin and tonics making their way onto the table before being carried back to the bar, depleted and covered in condensation from the melting ice.
This was the last straw. Stood up six times in the last two months, once by a man she knew personally, a mutual friend. "I just don't think we have enough in common," Randy had said, sure to get what he had been after at the end of their first, and last, evening out. Resigned, Chloe had been slowly starting to imagine single life for herself, and was now really coming around to the idea. Work, long walks around town, cooking, and her Warhammer figurines. What more was there to life that she didn't already have?
But before she could finish her thought, she looked just to the right of her reflection. A dull, yet still somewhat pretty girl, sat across from her. A bored, almost contemptuous looking expression upon her face, she lifted her right leg back towards her shoulder, simultaneously slouching down in her seat. A wry smile crept onto her face as she made eye contact with Chloe.
"Watch this shit," the girl mouthed at her, biting her bottom lip while slowly wriggling her hips.
And there it was. A rapturous fart echoed loudly throughout the car, effectively drowning out some safety warning from over the loudspeaker. A full ten seconds and still going, most people didn't acknowledge the girl, her posture too obvious for one to claim any other passenger had been the culprit. Most looked away, pretending it wasn't happening.
Chloe looked to her right at another girl, her head thrown back in laughter, slapping her knee and nearly dropping her cell phone on the battered subway floor. Looking back at the woman across from her, still in that lower body crane stance, pushing out a steady stream of gas nearly a minute later, crotch nearly exposed to the world, Chloe herself started to laugh. Not just at the situation, though that had certainly been the catalyst, but at the absurdity of the evening, the events of her romantic life, and how swept up into it she had been. It would all be okay, and very soon at that. She turned her head toward the ceiling with a grin, the smell now filling the car and too much to ignore. The subway really stank now, but as of this moment, Chloe decided that her life no longer had to.