Train Chasers (original) (raw)

Oi. I have an exciting story to tell.

It was from a few weeks ago.

X-posted in my lj.

11.9.05

I hung out in the band room with Ryan and Steven because Steven had to get something from his locker.

So I was sort of--not talking to Ryan, but communicating with him anyway, with facial expressions and strange odd noises. Ryan's good at that. That's what Ryan does. And I do it too, when I'm with him.

Steven had come out of the locker room then, he'd got the thing he needed to get, and we stood there, talking for a few minutes.

I said, "Why are we standing here?" We can talk whilst walking to the train station. We don't need to stand in the band room and talk. The longer we wait, the more likely we are to miss the train.

They heard me when I said it a second time three minutes later, and we looked at eachother communicating expressions of confusion which can only be a result of lack of communication, and we started leaving.
But then Billy started talking to Steven and Ryan about this Tuba quartet and they stood for another few minutesn about music, and I started thinking, "'Kay, we're going to miss the train." But I wasn't going to leave without them, else I'd have had no one to walk to the train station with.
So we dawdled with Billy for a while. I love Billy, really, but they were talking about tubas, which is an instrument I don't play. I did find it interesting, but I was getting nervous, you know, about missing the train.

When we came to the point where we cross the street, we realized no one else was waiting to cross, and we had dawdled longer than everyone else. Ryan and Steven, I swear, have even less of a sense of time than I do.

When we got to the station and saw no one, and the train there, still waiting, Steven started "trotting," Ryan started "skipping," and I just ran, because I couldn't trot or skip fast enough to keep up with them.
But then they started running too. (I kept up.)
I was trying not to laugh the whole time I was running, so my breathing must have sounded pretty funny.

We heard the beeping sound on the way down the stairs, the one the train makes when the doors are about to close. "OH WE'RE NOT GONNA MAKE IT!"

Well, we did.

And what's more, the train stayed in the station with the doors wide open for at least ten more minutes.