I boarded the train and the train did not appear to be very full so I walked back a few cars until I could find a seat that had seats facing it so I c...uld stretch my legs out and rest them during the ride. The train left DC and I was lucky enough to have the entire row to myself. When the train made a stop in Baltimore and few people got on and entered my car. A few of them glanced over and eyed my great seating choice but kept going. Just before the train left the station a woman about 40 with. After she waited until the last Guard had made his Round she slipped into the Section with the Transylvanian Artefacts. The first thing she saw was a soldier who was impaled. The Information Box informed her that Vlad Tepes had impaled thousands of Soldiers of the Turkey Empire to protect his country. Nothing she was after. She hurried form Artefact to Artefact to find what she was searching but it was a big Selection of them. Finally she found the Gem. It was crafted into a big Stone. He likes his strong and black. As I wait for the drip, drip, drip of the machine, my head begins to race. I feel so full of stories, they leech out of my skin and run onto the page themselves. I pick up the notes from the kitchen table and remind myself where we are, today we will write but not for an hour or so yet. He is still sleeping when I enter the shadows of the bedroom, his long frame thrown across the bed, his face creased into the pillow. I smile. I cannot help it. He’s finally mine. Oh, we talked some and we hung out a little. But she always had boys interested in her and I was always afraid to ask. But I worshipped her from afar. Her brown eyes and soft, angelic voice never ceased to arouse me. To me, she was perfect.After high school, we went our separate ways. That was the way it was before email and Facebook. You tended to lose track of people. We both went to college, got jobs and had our hearts broken more than once. But I never forgot about the beautiful,.