A pale teenage girl is the first one to board at the station. A bulging piece of luggage and two adults (parents?) trail behind her. The luggage is about three feet tall, sporting blue-and-green polka dots on a stained white canvas, and looks like it weighs about as much as she does. The copper zippers at the top of the bag are visibly strained.
She shoves the luggage beside an elderly Asian man sitting in the first row of seats and flops herself down in the row behind him. She shakes curly brown hair out of her eyes and glares at the back of the old man's head. Her parents sit in the aisle across from her.
Someone in the train sneezes, and her mother offers a loud "bless you." A voice from the back calls out thanks, but the brown-haired girl rolls her eyes. Her father puts his arm around her mother. They both look very tired.
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