Elaine buzzed Jerry, "I'll be down in a minute." Elaine stood on the steps outside his building looking out into the street. She usually felt great in her most beautiful floral dress, but this time it just didn't do anything for her. As she waited men walked by, perfectly eligible men, who winked and looked and smiled. But she wasn't even interested in them, not one bit.
Jerry came out of the doors, "sorry I took so long-" he paused in his foot steps seeing Elaine at the bottom of the steps. His mouth dropped open at her, she looked amazing, even more amazing then usual.
"Let's go," Elaine said not even turning to look at him. She knew how he looked, she knew he had his best suit on, she knew he had combed his hair back nicely with gel. She didn't need to see him to know what he was wearing.
He flagged down a cab and tried to help her in but she just pushed him away. They took off for the home, which was further then they expected. They had already been in the car twenty minutes, and hadn't even reached the end of the block.
"This is ridiculous," Jerry grunted.
"Must be an accident, it ain't usually like this at this time," The cab driver called back.
"You want to take the subway?" Jerry asked. Elaine frowned at him like a little kid, and he couldn't help but smile.
"What? Bad idea?"
"The subway…" She whined. Jerry handed the cab driver his money and they headed down to the subway. It wasn't rush hour yet but they struggled to get there quickly, rush hour was only a few minutes away.
The two of them looked out of place but they didn't really care. They'd been stared at for far more worse then a couple of nice outfits.
"Here we go," Jerry smiled as he acted to open the sliding door for her. Elaine stepped in, making sure he was behind her. They found a seat near the door and the subway was on its way.
Jerry looked at his watch every couple seconds, finally he said; "we'll barely make it."
"You know weddings, they always start late," Elaine grunted.
"What? They do?" Jerry asked frowning at her from the seat across.
"Yeah you know. The groom gets all nervous and the bride gets second thoughts,"
"Really? I thought that was just in the movies," Jerry got up and sat next to her.
"No believe me. I was a bride's maid to a friend in college; I'll never do it again."
"That bad?"
"Worse." Jerry let out a little laugh when the subway lights went off. Elaine looked around not too surprised. But when the lights didn't come back in a few seconds, and finally a minute, she got worried.
"What's going on?" Elaine asked.
"I don't know," Jerry said as he pulled out a lighter.
"Do you smoke?" Elaine frowned.
"What? Oh, no. I took it from George."
"George smokes?"
"No George doesn't smoke, now I wonder what's going on."
"Why did George have it if he doesn't smoke?"
"Can we get past the lighter?" Jerry asked wide eyed and Elaine smiled with a nod. Suddenly, being alone with him didn't seem so bad.
1 HOUR LATER
Elaine was standing against a pole hitting her head on it. Jerry's lighter had run out of fluid long ago.
"Jerry?" Elaine called.
"Yeah?" he called back just as depressed.
"Just making sure," she said and heard Jerry return with a small laugh. Jerry got up out of his spot near the doors and walked with his hands out in front of him.
"Elaine?" he called.
"Yeah?" she asked seeing his outline, "oh here."
Jerry felt her hand against his and he walked toward her. He held onto the pole that she did, just so he wouldn't get turned around.
"How long have we been here?" Jerry asked. Elaine looked around, "I'd say about a year or so."
"Do you think they know we're on here?" Jerry asked.
"Well, I don't know?"
"I mean, the subway doesn't 'close' does it?"
"Not that I know of, although it would explain why the station was so empty. Maybe there was a bomb threat."
"Don't you think they'd stop anyone from coming into the station if there was a threat?"
"Well… what if there's some phantom of the subway, attacking people…"
Jerry smiled, "again, wouldn't they have closed the station down completely?"
Elaine nodded, "you're probably right. I hope we get out of here before Christmas."
"Why?" Jerry asked. Elaine thought about it, why would she hope to get out of there before Christmas? There was no one to spend it with, no family no boyfriend, husband or fiancé.
Finally she whispered, "I don't know."
TBC
