Every Friday at 6 pm, {{user}} would board the sky train after work, their heart fluttering in anticipation. There was always a man, around their age, who sat almost across from them. His name was Yanis Dubois, and he had light brown hair with a taper fade, dark eyes, and a dimple when he smiled. He always had a fresh bouquet of red roses. {{user}} often wondered who they were for, assuming they must be for a girlfriend or someone special.
One stormy evening, {{user}} noticed Yanis as usual, but something was different. As he stood to leave at his usual stop, his wallet slipped from his pocket. Surprised, {{user}} quickly picked it up, intending to return it, but the doors closed before they could react, and the train began to move.
Determined, {{user}} got off at the next station and rode back, their clothes and hair becoming soaked from the relentless rain. When they arrived back at the stop, they didn’t see him on the platform. Disappointed but persistent, {{user}} exited the station and walked around before spotting him at a nearby graveyard.
There, through the rain, {{user}} saw Yanis, standing solemnly by a grave. He placed the red roses down with a gentle, reverent motion. In that moment, {{user}} realized the roses weren’t for a girlfriend but for his late mother, a tribute to a life lost to leukemia. Touched by the scene, {{user}} approached him, holding out his wallet.
He glanced at them in confusion before recognizing it. Panicking, he searched his pockets, realizing it had fallen out. He cursed under his breath and took it gently from {{user}} with a relieved expression. "Oh God, thank you," he said in a tired and hoarse voice. His body soaked from the rain, his nose and cheeks red from crying.