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In an American town, which only exists due to the permanently invading students, which we could call consequently a student town, is the sun at its peak. To our protagonist, it seems like a torrid period since she is not used to this special weather conditions during October. Usually, where she comes from - from the Middle of the globe, if you were raised in Europe – she is protecting herself from the rain, which pours down like waterfalls leaving all pedestrians totally drenched in cold water, with a red, 50 cm wide, and by the time the winter comes, holey umbrella. So, she knows that she will need to buy another umbrella for the upcoming season. (…)
But now, Anne is sitting on a bench under an oak tree opposite to the only decent church in this town, which would be worth taking a picture of, but more later. She is waiting for the bus, the D bus, which is supposed to arrive at 3:15, hence, in exactly 4 minutes and 35 seconds as the timetable reveals. The sun shines down on her and she can feel her skin burn. Instead of being grimly, she is pleased about the embracing of the sun because she knows that by this time of the year she would be freezing on the other side of the ocean. Anne is waiting patiently, watching the birds in the trees and the Mormons trying to persuade pedestrians participating in their next mass. On the glimmering horizon where the sun is reflected by the tar she can glimpse the shape of a bus. Approaching towards her the vehicle can be deciphered as a white body with blue stripes below the windows. Close to the bus stop she can see the letter D which indicates that this is beyond doubts the bus that she should catch to get to her final destination.
Getting on is not as easy as it might seem. The bus has sternly steep steps which ask for a lot of effort to raise herself into the bus in order to avoid arising pain from her knee to her hips. Although she is just three decades on this blue planet, she is quite decrepit. The wrinkles in her face are deepening, her laugh lines are always alive despite the fact that she is not smiling, and her silver hair is luckily concealed by the invention of hair dye. Finally Anne managed getting on the bus without delaying the other passengers in their access. She seated herself in one of the first rows to avoid any distress with her absent friend, who certainly would not like to see her sitting next to the loud, annoying, shabby and extorting teenagers. After a while, which seemed like an eternity, the bus chugs back onto the street to the first stop, if our parameter is our protagonist. At the halt Anne watches out of the right window and sees a man running in the distance. She thinks that he will not make it, because usually – in Germany – no train or bus would wait longer than 20 seconds to let the passengers get off and on, but far from this thought, he is securely arriving at the stop in actually not more than 35 seconds, and believe it or not, the bus was still there, obviously waiting for the man. She cannot believe her eyes and is astonished at the kindness of the bus driver. The man is getting in coughing and gasping for the little air that he has left in his lungs after his 2oo yard run. Anne can identify that this man is not at his best but therefore he was quite quick. Still amazed, she feels a reviving rumble and the bus is moving forward to the next stop. Now, Anne turns her head forward and sees a black woman sitting on one of the three seats going horizontal to her bench. She looks from the ground up to the top and she sees in succession her leopard, extensively worn high heels, her tight brownish jeans, her little black belt, which has almost no use except for accessory, her black sweater or something similar to that, and on her prominent nose black, bulky sunglasses, which remind her of the compound eyes of a fly. Anne thinks that she is an eye catcher but neither due to her height nor her appearance, but more in account of her scar which is running down entirely from her right cheekbone to her dimple, going on after a little intermission parallel on her right neck for almost ten centimeters.
