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Submitted to Contest #61
The familiar smell of teenagers and dust hit me as I flashed my bus pass at the driver and made my way to my usual seat at the front of the bottom deck. I put in my headphones and closed my eyes as a Haydn string quartet drowned out the excited chatter around me. I could picture myself sat in the audience, the boned corset I wore under my school uniform holding me bolt upright. “Hey!” My eyes flew open to find the usually empty seat beside me occupied by a girl from the year above whose name I didn’t know. Cautiously I removed one headphone....
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