The Jay Train
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- Parts 13
MatureOngoing5h 23m
Last published Sun, Oct 6, 2024
The streets of New York are littered with people from all over the world, each person the main character of their own lifelong story that never ends. You never know what the person sitting across from you on the C train may be going through. They'll get off at their stop, and you'll probably never see them again.
Jay Simon thinks about this often as he scans the train cars absently. What is that woman thinking? Where is that guy going? Or what's he coming from? Is he happy? Scared? Angry? Crazy? Obviously he won't go up them and ask, but he can't help but wonder what a life outside of his disordered brain would feel like.
Lulu Dawson has so much untapped potential and she doesn't even realize it. She is floating through life, petrified to lose anything and everyone, as she has already lost so much. She has a beautiful heart, but it's been damaged so fiercely that it feels impossible to trust anyone with it ever again.
What happens when Jay locks eyes with this gorgeous, electric blue eyed blonde on a late night train to Manhattan? Do they look away and remain strangers? Or is it the beginning of something that neither of them could prepare for?
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