Strangers on a train

medium-large Ben had just struck midnight when Helen and her friends joyfull burst by the doors of the Westminster Academy.What an amazing concert, she cried.We should distinguishablely go and watch another one soon replied Tom.Guys, I count on back we should just forget about the concert for one split arcminute and actu altogethery suppose about our journey home at such(prenominal) a ridiculous hour said Sarah.True, date Ill go with you Helen and Jim, you go with Sarah said Tom.As the couple waited anxiously for the last condition to approach, they silently reminisced over what had re completelyy been a fountainhead and truly, unforgettable night.After a long wait of what felt like an hour, the last train clumsily slid along the rail tracks and hesitantly pulled up to a halt at Westminster station. Its rickety doors, lethargically slid open and wickedly beckoned the two friends into its carriage of mystery.As Helen looked directly in front of her to look through the pane of scum on the other align of the carriage, she caught a glimpse of a rummy looking daughter sitting in between two puny barely psychotic looking boys. Helen always felt uncomfortable devising any form of mall contact with strangers as she had heard of miscellaneous incidents concerning passel in the same situation as her. However, it was as if both(prenominal) strong wave of curiosity was encouraging her face to honor on studying these characters and as she did this, she noticed the vibrant blue veins ridged into the girls fight and the trembling hands of the boys. All through this, the girl stayed unmoving.Tom look over to the other side hardly try to make it as discreet as possible, Helen said to her friend.You mean that dodgy looking wad opposite us yeah? he replied.Yeah, theyre really starting to hook me out please do somethingOk, salutary Ive got a plan. he said, Now, Helen listen to me very(prenominal) carefully, when I get off at my stop, come with me and pr etend that its to a fault your stop and just try and cleverly change carriages ok?When the train ground to a halt at Paddington station, the two got off and therefore executed the plan of action.Are you sure youre going to be all by rights Helen? Tom worriedly gasped, you can always come back to mine and then Ill drive you back home instead.Oh come on Tom, when scarcely are you going to stop treating me like a baby and visit that Im a 25 year old grown woman she proclaimed, Look, I think I can deal with a couple of freaks who have cryptograph better to do than put fear into the hearts of innocent peopleHowever, as she settled into her new adorn, three familiar faces could be do out from the far seats of the carriage and by now it was to a fault late as the sliding doors banged shut.Just keep smooth, she thought but in reality she was extremely hysterical. As she subtly tried to scan over to the far side of the carriage, the boys suddenly began to shift uncomfortably in the ir seats and almost seemed nervous.The boys with their eyes bloodshot and their faces flushed gave the impression that they were under the influence of drugs, alcohol or perhaps both. The boy on the right of the girl had on a crumpled white t- garb that was stain with heavy blotches of brown. A bruise lay on his left eye and his lip had a small cut in it. He seemed the more than nervous of the two and was literally trembling. However, the boy on the left of the girl seemed to be quite serene and composed in comparison to his assort who was quite the opposite. He had a severe expression and wore a loggerheaded jacket of fur. He had a heavy gash on his right arm and his nose was bleeding.Still. The girl stayed still, unmoving as a statue in a garden. Her face almost death like and as color as a white sheet of paper. Her bright, vast, ginger bob of curls heavy contrasted with this strange and ghostly complexion. Her eyes, piercing like the rays of a bright sun. Her jaw, fully ag ape as though it were an opening into a mysterious cavern. Her shirt was slashed across the torso and her underwear lay exposed payable to this. Great slashes lay from her upper arm right down to her wrist.The boys had entwined their armor around that of the girls and seemed to be making a great effort to live on her in a sedentary position.At this moment in time, Helen decided to turn her face outside from this ghastly, frightening sight towards the other side of the carriage. She really didnt understand why these strange beings that she was trying to get away from had followed her into the new carriage.However, she then spotted a man that looked officious but overpowering at the same time moving over towards the seat next to her. By now Helen was really starting to lose her calm and collected aura.Suddenly,he started mumbling something but Helen felt that this was just another unacquainted with(predicate) being that was just trying to get her attention.Nevertheless, he persist ed and finally got through to Helen by writing something on the newspaper he was reading and showed it to Helen. find out OFF AT THE NEXT STOP it read, YOURE IN SERIOUS DANGER-THAT young lady YOU SEE IS DEAD-THIS IS NO JOKE-I AM A DOCTOR AND I hunch over THIS FOR SURE, SO HELP YOURSELF WHILE THERES STILL TIMEBy this time, Helen was well and truly in a hysterical state and it was almost as if her heart was about to leap out of her body. However she still managed to keep a cool cover as the train approached Hammersmith station. She then got up, stood, walked through the sliding doors and made her final exit off the train. As she did all these actions, she made sure that she acted as if she were the most innocent and unsuspecting fauna in the whole world.When the train moved slowly away, she first of all turned around to see whether she could spot the man that saved her and tip over her his thanks, but the station lay empty. Lifeless. Dead.Before she even had time to think her legs had turned into that of a professional sprinter and carried her out of the station at the renovate of lightning. Never again would she be so reckless and try to promote herself tough, by encountering such a life threatening ordeal at such a perilous hour.