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       After waiting about 6 minutes standing, holding Will's hand I informed him that I never really had family, but if he needed to come back for someone he could. He looked down at me and said, "No Oliver. I Haven't any family either. So its gonna be you and I ok?" I nodded, he had a point. Neither of us have anyone else. I knew it was just gonna be Will and I.

       I was completely fine with that. The train arrived and we stepped on. We found two seats. The seats were cold. We looked around, there wasn't too many people on today. We sat, Will put his duffel bag in the seat next to him. I set my suitcase under our seats. We sat there. The train took off again. Will hesitantly reached for my hand, he seemed so nervous but so calm at the same time. An elderly lady gave him a dirty look for grabbing my hand. He shouted at her, "at least if I wanted a boyfriend i could get one!" And held my hand tight. We giggled as she moved from where she was sat to further down, behind a few people. [Ok, we admit that's kinda mean.]

       After about an hour of sitting, crap talking London. Will started to get drowsy, he soon fell asleep on my shoulder. His quiet snores sounded so peaceful. Then his breathing got fast, and he started to twitch a little. So i shook him awake. Once he was woken up he looked me in the eyes and started to cry very fast tears. The ones that reach your chin and almost make it down your neck before you wipe them. i wiped them off his cheeks and said, "you know you can talk to me Will, please do so." Will responded with, "I'm sorry, its nothing. I get nightmares often." I quickly said, "Oh don't apologize, you cant control it. Its ok. If you by any means need something tell me." He nodded.

I looked at the time and it was going on 2 am. We wouldn't be at our next stop till around 2:45-3. Will woke up for good, and that's when my eyes started to get heavy. I had fallen asleep on Will's shoulder. Soon Will woke me up by trying to carry me off the train but failing when my feet didn't fit through the door. I jumped out of his arms and off of the train.

         We made our way to a bench and we set our luggage under it. We both had ended up falling asleep. We were both so unbearably tired. I woke up around 6 to someone shaking me awake. A big man with a badge on his shirt said we might have to move soon. I whispered to the man, "Please let my friend here sleep for another hour maybe? Please, sir he's had a hard day yesterday and he needs a bit of rest." The man kindly agreed and said, "30 more minutes, i don't want you two getting in any trouble." Soon enough, 30 minutes rolled around and i woke Will. Eventually he was awake. He seemed to forget where we were for a second and then recollected after a bit. We both stood up and stretched, then grabbed our bags and headed for breakfast somewhere.

        We found a small shop that had a table where you could make your own tea in it. So Will and i went in. We sat and ate a few of the snacks i packed and drank tea. "How about we go to brighton." Said Will. "I mean we could. If that's what you want to do, by all means lets go! We could go to the beach and everything." Will seemed to be excited, "I want to go to the beach!" Said Will. I could tell there was 1 place in London Will liked. That place would be Brighton. After sitting there and finishing up our tea I felt a wave of cold, as the air conditioning turned on above my seat. Once Will noticed my goosebumps he took off his sweater and draped it over my shoulders. I thanked him. A warm smile spread across his face as i looked at him from my tea after thanking him.

         We finished our tea and a bag of crackers and headed off on our mission to Brighton. We took a small walk, keeping an eye out for hotels. So we could get a proper night sleep. On our walk i noticed Will's shoe had came untied. Once i pointed it out he stopped walking, i decided to tie his shoe for him so i knelt down and tied the shoe. As i went to stand up £20 fell out of a man's pocket. I know it was the wrong thing to do but i pocketed it. If we were gonna make it to Brighton we had to take what we can get.

        We found ourselves walking in a big circle when we ended up back at the train station. We decided to get the tickets to Brighton now. We were only about 13 hours away. After we bought the tickets we had £24.57 left combined. If we weren't screwed then, we probably are now.

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