-Tracy POV- Ted x Tracy!
So this is kind of a longer, slower read I tried to make up some more background for Tracy because you know she did have a life and friends before Ted… So OC Warning! But they finally meet! So I hope it's okay…
The cab pulled up to the Farhampton train station, and the cab driver reminded, "Don't forget your guitar." Feeling no need to correct him for just being helpful, I did as I was told. I walked over to a pillar to wait, and the train appeared almost instantly. I closed my umbrella and walked towards the opening train door, paying more attention to my umbrella than where or should I say whom I walking into.
"I'm so sorry!" "Sorry!" we both said together. I looked up into his deep brown eyes, noticing his dark disarrayed hair dripping from the rain onto his cheeks, his nose, and then running down to his mouth. I felt my entire body internally jolt, with goose bumps now rising on my arms.
"You go in first…" we stammered again together.
"No you can go." We both started miming each other. I smiled, and I noticed he was too, another internal jolt. Both still staring at each other with silly grins I said, "Well I guess we'll both just have to in at the same time then."
"How? That's how we got to this point in the first place." He questioned.
"Simple. We just have to get closer." I said stepping forward leaving just a few centimeters between us.
"Of course." He said slowly, I realized how relived I was for his agreement to my intimate forwardness.
"Here we go then." I proclaimed, and then we stepped into the train together. Still close standing in front of one another he was the first to speak, "I guess we should get to our seats."
"Right." My body hesitantly turning around, this train compartment was practically empty. I walked to the middle and took a seat on the right side next to the window. He took a seat in the middle section in the same row as me. The conductor announced our departure, and except for the noise of the train itself it became silent. Every few seconds I took a peek over at him trying to think of something to say, his face seemed to express some sort of internal battle he was having with himself. I wondered what he's thinking of? I thought now looking down to my lap. What can I say now that will top, 'We just have to get closer?' should have just had my way with him up there! I thought shaking my head laughing as myself. Then I looked back to him, and caught him looking over at me! He jerked his cute face down into the book he had open. Ooh what book is, my handsome fellow train-rider reading? Love in the Time of Cholera!
"I love that book." I blurt out.
"Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez?" he looked up at me again to ask.
"It's my favorite book actually." I remark, and notice him lean forward towards me, and said, "My name is Ted."
In which started a lengthy dicussion, which lead to other books we had read.
"Have you read World's End by T.C. Boyle?" I asked.
"Oh my gosh, yes! How are we reading almost all the same books?" Ted wondered aloud.
"Well I don't know about you but my best friend and I started this little book club thing to video chat about when she moved. Only one of would read the book and the try to explain the whole thing to the other." I laughed, thinking of Kelly's rambling descriptions always having to back track when she for get something, and me actually taking the time to write her like full length essays and going over them with her.
"And how did that go?" he asked as if reading my thoughts.
"Differently." I said.
Which lead to me describing each memorable video chat I had with Kelly over our books, and what she was like. How she can be kind of awkward sort of puts her foot in her mouth especially when she's nervous, but her heart's always in the right place. And all the crazy jobs she did over the years until she realized her dream job. Engineering. Which lead to how she moved to anyway to help invent/bulid some top secret government device. Which then lead to me talking about how Kelly and I met in the first place.
"Well I'm from Maryland, a really small city called Odenton… And I had just moved to New York kind of young and naïve had all my belongings in a big moving van, and didn't really think far enough ahead to get settled into an apartment before actually moving to New York… And these two guys clearly saw the red target painted across my forehead and decided to 'help me move in.'" I explained.
"Oh no…" he added.
"But luckily to my rescue came Kelly, told them to get lost, I thanked her repeatedly, and then she asked me to move in with her." I finished.
"So you're from Odenton, Maryland, your previous roommate Kelly is your best friend, your favorite book isLove in the Time of Cholera… What else have I learned about you?" Ted listed.
"I think the real question here is: What have I learned about you? Except that you have excellent taste in reading material and that you're a good listener." I remarked.
"And that my favorite book is also Love in the Time of Cholera…" he smiled.
"Okay and that your favorite book is also Love in the Time of Cholera there's where we started…" I replied.
"I thought we started before we even got on the train?" Ted asked.
"Talking about our interests? No we bumped into each other, then started miming each other… Unless that was your indirect way of telling me you are a mime or you mime as a hobby?" I suggested.
"Do you think I'm a mimer?" he asked.
"Well since you just said mimer, instead of mime it seems less likely…" I said.
"Right, man can't believe I made that rookie mistake." He replied, "How do I know you weren't trying to indirectly tell me you mime?"
"Let's just agree that what happened earlier was just one of those classic miming coincidences." I joked.
"Classic miming coincidences." He repeated, and nodded.
"Although I was a mime." I stated.
"You were?!" he questioned.
"For a day. Lost a bet." I grimaced, "I had this bet I had with another one of my best friends, Jay. This stupid bet that we could find out what Carla's real last name was. Carla being another best friend, who was Kelly's previous roommate before me, where they met at a fashion magazine they both worked at in like the 90s.' And then Carla started her own magazine where none of us had ever been to or heard of at all. She said it was her family's last name. She had always gone by the last name Red, but then we found that was a fake name. Her family is very wealthy and their name isn't related with fashion… so she used a fake name to separate from them and to build her own credibility."
"So what's her last name then?" Ted asked.
"I still don't know and I even worked at the magazine! He wouldn't tell for her privacy." I answered.
"But then how do you know he won?" he laughed.
"Well technically he didn't we both lost." I smiled.
"So why did you both choose to the loser to mime?" he asked.
Which lead the rest of the train ride of me telling him about how Kelly swore she saw a Jay mime doppelganger! Where we absentmindedly started walking together back from the New York train station and thru the city. And he told me that he and his friends had seen doppelgangers of themselves too!
"Well yours is defiantly the best." I stated.
"Really not the stripper?" he laughed.
"Nope Mexican wrestler Mosby all the way!" I declare.
"I wonder if I have a doppelganger out there? Maybe she's like a spy or something?!" I wondered aloud.
"I could defiantly see you in a black cat suit…" Ted looked me over, and I raised my eyebrows catching his glance, "Not that I'm imaging that or anything…" he nervously added.
"Well that would be my doppelganger you're thinking of. The only 'can barely breathe in' thing I ever wear is my chain-mail corset… Which isn't like a kinky sex thing! I mean guess it could be if I did wear it… but the point is I don't and it's not!" I exclaim.
"Wasn't thinking that at all." He replied.
"So I just put in your head just now then… Great." I reply, "Well it is for a Renaissance costume, that I have wore to Renaissance fairs. Which before you say anything the Renaissance era was super cool like the tourneys you know without all the manslaughter… and oh! The feasts, you know if they knew how to cook everything properly and didn't eat so richly all the time that caused them to die so young, but also the fashion which I wouldn't necessarily want to wear all the time obviously because the whale boned corsets caused actual fainting, deformed bones, and probably resulted in a lot of those miscarriages but even with all the bad things it's still cool!" I defend.
"You had me at Renaissance costume." Ted replied, and I smiled.
Lol… So basically this like my little adding to Tracy I have a bunch of headcanons of her but who knows if I'll ever compile them all together… anyways one more chapter I think…