Tallulah, Trust issues and Toasties

Tallulah, Trust issues and Toasties

Tallulah’s train was delayed. She sighed and decided to get some dinner before going to the waiting room. She went to the small café near the station and bought a ham and cheese toastie and a cup of tea. When she entered the waiting room, she was glad to see it was empty, with only the sound of the news on a small, plasma screen tv for company. Tallulah smiled contently as she looked at her toastie. She was about to take a bite when a man entered the room. He was on the phone, his voice raised.

‘For fuck sake, will you stop being so insecure?! I can’t keep reassuring you. The fact that you can’t trust me is quite clearly a you problem.’

     He looked as if he was about to say more but the person on the other end had hung up on him. Tallulah watched as the man stared at his phone and shook his head. He turned to her, as if seeing her for the first time.

‘Sorry. Woman troubles.’ He told her, apologetically.

     She gave him a curt nod. An awkward silence ensued. He took on a chair opposite her and looked around the room, his eyes finally settled on the tv screen. Tallulah was about to take a bite when the man started speaking to her again.

‘I hate this advert.’

She glanced over and saw it was the GoCompare advert. She nodded and felt his dark eyes scan her body slowly, before they rested on her face. She shuddered and felt cold all of a sudden.

‘Can’t you speak?’

  She stared at him blankly. He moved and sat one seat away from her. 

‘Nice top.’ He sneered.

       She wrapped her coat around her tighter. A nasty smile formed on his lips and it was only when he moved closer; did she notice he stank of alcohol.  He reached a hand out towards her, when she suddenly stood up and hurried out of the room, without a backwards glance. She saw her train had arrived and got on and found a seat. She finally took bite out of her cheese toastie; it had gone cold.