The last free seat
A young woman was seated next to the empty spot. Jessica looked around, a bit confused, but still decided to make her way over to the seat. She wondered why none of the passengers standing around had taken the seat. Then she realized that the spot wasn’t as empty as it looked.
There was a purse in the seat. This was surely the young woman’s bag. Jessica went up to the seat and spoke to the woman. She asked if she could sit there and started to sit down. Nobody was sitting there, so it was more of a rhetorical question.
Jessica had no idea what would happen next…