00:47

We watched the bus pull away together which is a stupid way to meet someone. She swore. I didnt say anything because I had been about to swear too and it felt like she had done it for both of us. The next one was 04:50. Four hours. The bus shelter had three sides and one of them was broken so really it had two and a half sides and it was October. She sat on the cold bench and looked at her phone and I stood and looked at mine and we did the phone thing for maybe twenty minutes which is the modern way of pretending youre alone when youre not. Then her phone died. I watched her watch it die. She put it in her pocket really slowly. And then there was just her and me and the half shelter and four hours and she said, well, and I said, yeah, and that was the start of it, the whole night, that tiny stupid exchange. Well. Yeah.