Kate's POV

I was in a taxi approaching Oberlaa U Bahn station where me and Rachel would begin our race

It felt unreal that I was finally doing this, but the first thing I had to do was ditch my Dad

'Please don't come in the station' I begged 'She'll be there'

'Send me a text when she does' Dad said to me. I tried not to roll my eyes and left the taxi

Rachel came along a minute or so later. I hugged her tightly tears running down my cheeks.

'Thank you for letting me do this' I said. Rachel tenderly wiped my tears with her fingers

'Your welcome' she said. She handed me the logbook and pen and said she was going to buy and validate our tickets

Wiping away another stray tear that ran down my cheek, I synchronised by digital watch with the station clock and prepped the log book not forgetting to send my Dad the promised text so he could leave

Once we were both ready we went down onto the platform and got onto the train

Rachel got her phone ready and after taking a picture of the station sign switched over to the stopwatch.

I focused on my digital watch as the doors closed. Rachel pressed the button and I put the time in the logbook; 06:05:14

We were underway

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Rachel's POV

It was a new experience to take someone on one of my runs, but it was a lovely one nevertheless. My fellow transit racer Laura had done Chicago with her girlfriend Robyn and loved it, so she suggested I take my partner too

It was funny though. Kate had previously said she was just doing it for fun, not taking it seriously but that changed very quickly!

At rush hour we had our first panic.

'Rochusgrasse we just sat there for two minutes not going anywhere' Kate grumbled. 'And now we had to let a train go'

'Look at you, getting all competitive' I said fondly. Kate gave me a friendly punch on the shoulder

'Next one approaching' I said looking at the board. 'We have to change back onto the U Bahn at Praterstern, so we need to be in the front carriage'

Kate gave me a mock salute and we travelled the one stop and got off weaving through the crowds to get to the red line platform

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Kate's POV

The doors closed on Volkstheater Station as we continued our journey to our next changeover point at Westbahnhof.

'Do you need to stop for a break' Rachel asked me. 'We'll have a long run after the next changeover'

I was having too much fun to stop so I declined her offer. We didn't need to run when we got off our latest train just walk up an escalator to change lines from U3 to U6 and get onto our next train that would take us down to Siebenhirten

Anna's pov:

As soon as we lay down in bed William cups my face in his hands and tells me I am the most beautiful woman in the world. He then begins to look me up and down saying  he was having a hard time seing my tears, their streaks and now my thighs and not wanting to "have me" in bed. He asked me if I was interested.

"Just the thought of you being so turned on is an immediate turn on for me. I'd love nothing more than to "have you" in such an intimate manner." I began excitedly "But I'm afraid if I do spend the last of my fading energy to satisfy our ever growing desires I may very well bed too tired to go in to work tomorrow; probably... No most likely I'd be calling in sick tomorrow. Which I rarely ever do so I'd be fine." I finished eagerly waiting for his response.

Melissa's pov:

I managed to order and eat my meal without any more tears spilling over, but I could hardly enjoy myself as I could see Shawn and Sophie sitting at their table across the room throughout my entire meal.  As soon as I finished I quickly paid and went to my car. As soon as I sat down in the driver's seat that's when I felt a lump finally forming in my throat.

I quickly took out my phone and with shaking hands finally texted my brother. "I know it's Valentine's and you are probably enjoying yourself with Enid so I won't expect a quick response...if one at all, but I just needed someone. I finally decided to stop sulking about being alone today and treat myself so I slept in and binge watched one of my tv shows. I even decided to treat myself to this nice Italian restaurant that was way out of my price range; but almost as soon as I got there my ex and his new girlfriend (the one he left me for) walked in. I tried to ignore them and continue my dinner, but they came over and he said hi and asked how I was doing. I nearly lost it. Luckily I managed to hold myself mostly together during my meal with only one rogue tear. But I'm in my car now feeling like I'm about to completely break down." I pushed send realizing I couldn't type anymore.

That's when I finally lost it. Tears began to spill from my eyes flowing from the outer, middle and inner parts of both my eyes. As the thick, hot tears burned my already flushed cheeks as they slid down the lump in my throat finally made it's way up to and out of my mouth in a very loud sob. I couldn't believe I was so loudly ugly crying in my car over a man who dumped me over a yr ago, that just this morning I swore I was completely over.

I just continued to sit there staring at my phone praying that my brother would reply with some words of comfort while still loudly ugly crying. I guess somewhere in the back of my mind I knew I had never truely and properly grieved the end of our relationship and now I finally was. It just hurt so bad that I was alone when it finally happened.

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