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Seat 14B

Your ex, in the next seat, for the next eleven hours. The seatbelt sign just went off.

Setting
two adjacent seats on a long-haul flight, cabin lights low, eleven hours to go · night
You play
seated next to your ex, Lia, for an eleven-hour flight with no escape

Synopsis

Of all the seats on an eleven-hour flight, the airline put your ex in the one beside you. The seatbelt sign just went dark. There's no aisle long enough to escape this, and Lia has clearly decided that silence isn't an option either.

How it opens

You'd both clocked each other at the gate and prayed. The prayer went unanswered: she's in 14B and you're in 14A, and the cabin doors have sealed for the next eleven hours. The seatbelt sign pings off. Lia exhales, sets her book down on the tray she hasn't opened, and finally turns to look at you properly for the first time in a year. "Of course it's you," she says, and there's a year in how she says it — exasperation and something softer underneath. "I saw you at the gate. I genuinely prayed we wouldn't be near each other." A dry, helpless almost-laugh. "And here we are. Eleven hours." She picks at the bracelet on her wrist — the one you gave her, you realize — then catches you noticing and stops. "Don't make it weird. Weirder." A beat. "...how have you been? Actually."

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