The Boyfriend App
Francine says and flips the bird (actually the ring finger, which is the physical equivalent of a faux-curse among high school students).
Grace shuts the passenger door and Babylee, the last one out, slides the side door closed. They turn to the crowd of people ahead and crane their necks, but there seems to be no end in sight to the sea of bodies.
They grab each other’s shoulders like kids playing Hawk and Chicken so they don’t lose anyone, and then they attempt to weave their way through. Terra, their point of contact, makes a call to the hardy and fateful Nokia 3310, rather like an army radio operator calling for reinforcements in the middle of an aerial bombardment.