[She nods.] Since birth. I've...heard a lot of conflicting stories about my birth mom. That she died when I was born, she died when I was a few months old, she couldn't take care of me and left me at a fire station- and no one ever knew who my dad was.
[She goes quiet for a moment, twisting the pendant of her necklace.] When I left I said goodbye to the few friends I had after graduation and my latest foster family and got on a train out of town. I remember was...by myself in the dining car. It was late and then this man walked in. He bought a soda and sat down a few seats away from me. [Hester's brows furrows, digging through her memories for every detail she can recall, no matter how unnecessary.]
I was lonely and I know, I know, "stranger danger" but I turned around and started talking to him. He was nice and polite and kept his distance until I invited him over to sit with me. We talked through that whole night about...a lot of things. What I wanted to do with my life, our interests, traveling. He showed me some silly magic tricks- at least I thought at the time they were silly magic tricks- and then the train had to make a stop.
He said this was where he got off but since the train was going to be here for a few hours, did I want to get some real food before I kept going to the city? There were other people getting off to stretch their legs so I figured okay, I would walk around the train station a little and get something that wasn't train trail mix. But when we got off it wasn't a train station.
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Date: 2021-06-27 09:43 pm (UTC)[She goes quiet for a moment, twisting the pendant of her necklace.] When I left I said goodbye to the few friends I had after graduation and my latest foster family and got on a train out of town. I remember was...by myself in the dining car. It was late and then this man walked in. He bought a soda and sat down a few seats away from me. [Hester's brows furrows, digging through her memories for every detail she can recall, no matter how unnecessary.]
I was lonely and I know, I know, "stranger danger" but I turned around and started talking to him. He was nice and polite and kept his distance until I invited him over to sit with me. We talked through that whole night about...a lot of things. What I wanted to do with my life, our interests, traveling. He showed me some silly magic tricks- at least I thought at the time they were silly magic tricks- and then the train had to make a stop.
He said this was where he got off but since the train was going to be here for a few hours, did I want to get some real food before I kept going to the city? There were other people getting off to stretch their legs so I figured okay, I would walk around the train station a little and get something that wasn't train trail mix. But when we got off it wasn't a train station.
It was a Denny's, in the middle of nowhere.