FoxBoom!

Wow, this one’s been sitting in draft for months…

You find yourself sitting on a train, waiting to leave at the station platform.

In one hand, you have a ticket home which can only be used today. In the other, a ticket home which can be used only tomorrow.

The train won’t leave for a couple of minutes. You have time to make the decision. And what a decision.

I get could off the train, quick. I could stay another day… I could get hurt, or it could all be okay.

I could stay on the train. I could go home, lick my wounds and spend my week’s food budget on alcohol, and try again another day.

Risk it all; I could win and life would never be the same again, or I could lose and be found floating face-down in Cardiff Bay. Or play it safe and just carry another scar.

The moment was electric. I knew that whatever I decided, it would affect me for months afterwards.

I already had both tickets. There was no financial cost to worry about. Which ever way I went, I had food and water and a place to stay.

…and just as I stood up, the doors locked.