The screeching sound of the train’s brakes filled Rainsville East Trainstation. A door from the train swung open while the train was still slowing down. To the amazement of the small crowed a slim shape jumped out. After regaining balance from the difference in speed Gabriel started running again towards the exit of the train station. Arriving in front of the trainstation he desperatly searched for a Taxi. Quite a couple of hundreds of meters away there was a Taxi. It was a old car, it looked as if the doors we’re glued together and the wheeles looked like they’ve met the bear quite a couple of times… No normal man would take that cab, unless it was the only one… and it was the ONLY one… (I wondered for quite a while who would drive something like that too)
The driver looked old… probably in his 70s… had a pair of glasses on. He was very surprized to see the young man hurring up to his taxi… With a dead serious face Gabriel looked the driver in the eyes while he was getting in the car and told him: “Get me to the West Trainstation in less then 4 minutes and i’ll pay you ten times the ride”. The driver seeing the dead serious expression and understanding the urgency of his ride said only 3 words: “Hold On Tight”.
The sound of old tires suddenly accelerating can’t be described easily… but the closest description would be that of two cats fighting, amplified a lot of times… Yet due to the inconvinient sound, that would make one at least cover his ears, Gabriel took out his mobile phone, then turned to the driver and shouted over the dreadful sound of the speeding car “I’m going to time you” and then started the timer on his phone.
The road was fine at first, but then it got bumpy… the road was full of holes some were small but enough to make you feel that they are there… others were so big that it actually would scare anybody who was driving towards them… the bumpy road was only half the problem… this old man either needed newer glasses or he was a stunt driver… hes speed was too fast and he was driving straight forward through every hole in his path… People wouldn’t have time to get sick in this car… they would rather use that time to worry if they would survive…
The road seemed to turn into a old farm road that was going around the city… this wasn’t very pleasnt… the doors seemed to fall off any second… yet somehow they sticked together… might have been magic, or just pure luck… yet it was a miracle…
Barely arriving at the trainstation in one piece and acording to schedual, Gabriel just dropped a sum of money which was obviously more then he should have paid and ran off…
This Trainstation was full of people… Gabriel noticed a gap in the crowd and rushed to go through… but the people were moving slow … right next to him he spotted a crack in the fence… with no second to spare he took his backpack off and flipped it over the fence while he was passing the crack. Taking his backpack on again while he turned he noticed there was no train…
Looking towards the end of the tracks he saw his train just leaving the station… too tired to even try to catch it again, Gabriel sighed. He turned slowly… “well might as well get another ticket for the next train…” he said to himself…
He couldn’t believe his eyes… the next train was 13 hours later… this was bad… He was in another city, a huge distance away from home… and being young and having a lot of money on him also made him a great target for any thief… and worst of all… he was going to miss dinner…
