I wrote this a while ago and never got around to finishing it. I've run out of steam for this story so I'm going to abandon it. I'm sorry if you liked it, but no one reads it anymore so I'm not going to waste my time with writing the rest.
"Bye Mom! Goodbye Dad! I'll see you in a few days!" Sarah wasn't sure why Diane felt the need to shout out of the car window when she had hugged her parents goodbye just minutes before, but Sarah made no comment. She just shyly waved goodbye to the all-grown-up-little-girl who got caught in her cross hairs and the man who she would meet a few years in his past before finding the beginning of her timeline.
The scenery passes slowly as the train huffs along and Diane soon grows bored of looking out the window. "Sarah when is lunch? I'm hungry."
Sarah breathes out a long suffering sigh before she speaks. "You're not hungry Diane you're bored. Dig through the bag, I put some books and a deck of cards inside." Sarah turns her eyes skyward as Diane brightens up and rummages through their belongings. "Oh how I miss modern electronics. I could have given her the train's wifi password and not heard from her the whole trip."
Diane pulled out the cards and smiled at Sarah. "So what card game do you want to play?"
"Why don't you pick?" Sarah grimaced; she had never really learned how to play anything other than Go Fish.
"Let's play Rummy! That's my favorite card game. My grandmother taught me how to play it when I was little."
Sarah blinked. "Play what? I've never heard of it."
Diane smiled even wider and then proceeded to spew words almost faster than Sarah could follow. "We need some paper and pencils to write down the scores. The objective is to group your cards together by either placing three or more consecutive shapes together or three or four cards with the same face. Jokers aren't allowed and Ace means one." As she speaks Diane looks in the bag for pencils and paper. "We each get 10 cards." Diane starts placing cards on the table. "I can deal and keep score since it's your first time playing."