Kirsten got on the train to ride home feeling already very tired. She was just done with the evening shift at her helpdesk job and was really looking forward to be in bed under her soft, warm blankets.
"Dangit, I didn't start the dishwasher before going out. I'll better write down a reminder or I'll forget again. Now where is my pen?"
Half of the neon lights in the train station were out during that chilly night, and after a minute of fumbling around in her purse she gave up her search and gave in into her sleepiness.
The train was an empty welcoming bed for her until three college freshmen came in. They were three 19 year old girls, loud and mean. They stumbled around screaming, passing to each other a heavy bottle of vodka and being obnoxious.
"Shh! You don't want to wake her, we can't risk her reporting us for drinking while under 21!" said Barbie to the others, with a worried look. Barbie was a mildly spoiled girl of a low-middle class family with just enough disposable income in the suburbs to feel ashamed of having a punk-goth daughter who dyes her hair black along with her nails, wears a spiked collar and is suspected of making use of illicit substances.
"Ooh now, stop being such a buzzkill Barbie. We thought that giving you such a nickname would get the stick out of your ass, but instead your hair didn't get one bit lighte.r"
"Jane, Emma, I love you but if you don't quit this shit I will literally kick your ass."
Jane immediately shut herself up because she knew that it would be a bad bet to take up Barbie on such a threat.
As they reached Kirsten's seat, Emma nudged Jane with her elbow. "Look! With all the noise we made, she still didn't wake up!"
J: "She fell asleep with her hand in her purse! I wonder what's in it..."
Emma didn't let a second go to waste as she sat right in front of her, slowly lifted her hand out of the purse and pulled it away.
Barbie went immediately into "lookout mode" and stood tall, chewing gum and looking left and right, far into the train's corridors. It clearly wasn't their first time.
E: "A printed picture of her boyfriend? P-leeeaβseee, kill me now! Gaaa-aaa-aaag."
B: "Aww, that's so sweet! Haha."
Neither Emma nor Jane could tell if Barbie was being sarcastic, genuinely appreciative or both.
E: "A pen, a notepad, a work pass, tampons, her ID, make-up,-"
B: "BO-RING!"
J: "Look! One condom!"
B: "Wait a minute, I know these! That's not a condom, those come in packs of 6! Where are the others?"
J: "Oh-oh... slut alert!"
E in a bitchy, pretentious girly voice: "My name is Kirsten, I'm Asian, I'm hot, I'm like, ohmygod, you know, totally hot and I fuck my boyfriend five times a day, I love him soo much, like, you know?"
J: "She's a total slut! We should investigate"
Emma took Kirsten's right hand's index finger and used it to unlock her phone. Jane snatched it from Emma's hands, laughing as she got mad and went through the contacts, calls, social media.