#thingsthatgobumpinthenight

“Did you hear about those kids?” Samuel heard the old lady next to him talking to the pregnant woman next to her.

“I saw it on social media, it was tragic what those kids did.”

“Everyone is talking about what happened to those kids.” his inside voice was working. Everyone was on edge about the incident that happened yesterday, it was all over social media. Influencers were having a field day with it, using the video to get attention.

“What is happening to this world?” the pregnant lady stared at the woman shaking her head shocked by what she saw in the video. They were all waiting for the last bus, Samuel just decided to stay late at work, and that made him catch the midnight bus.

“During my time something like this wouldn’t have happened, kids nowadays don’t have any conscience.” she shook her head disappointed with what the world was turning into today.

“How could those kids do something like that? It’s hard to even think about it.” he could see the pregnant lady getting emotional. She had every right to be emotional especially when she was about to bring life to this cruel world.

“I don’t know what is to become of the world now, good thing my time is already over.” She stared patiently at the pregnant lady with a smile on her face.

“But they met their end pretty quickly too.” she nodded.

“Yes.” she looked up into the night sky as the rain started to come down, the smell of rain hitting tar was all around them. The kids met their end pretty quickly, the video that was circling around social media, a group of young drunk teenagers were driving and managed to hit a lady crossing the road. After hitting her they just fled the scene, and it was clear that they were the ones at fault, the camera caught the cry of a baby in the stroller which turned out to be the woman’s daughter. She managed to push the stroller out of danger in time, and the kid managed to survive but the mother didn’t make it, leaving her little girl without a mother because of some drunk stupid kids.

In the video, the car was seen fleeing the scene but they immediately got what they deserved when they ran straight into a truck, they all died.

Hearing the baby in the stroller crying made everyone who watched the video cry, and everyone who was at the scene just got their phones out to take pictures only a homeless lady helped the child and got it to stop crying. The incident was stunning, the police and other authorities were shocked by all of this. They promised to enforce the law even harder to prevent what happened to the lady from happening to anyone.

The smell of rain was all over them, it started small but he could tell that it was brewing up a storm. It was almost time for the bus to arrive. The lights started to flicker all around them, he turned to look around, and every light was flickering around the bus stop. After a few seconds it stopped and he could see the bus coming from a distance, he was getting a little bit shaken but to see the bus put his heart at ease.

It slowly approached with it lights shining bright on the road, he could feel his body getting chills by seeing the bus. He looked around and the old lady that was standing beside him was gone, it was only him and the pregnant lady. He was shocked and confused by this.

“Where did the old lady go?” he asked the pregnant lady, she turned and stared at him, and as soon as she realized that she was gone shock was all over her face.

“What? She was right here.” she looked around and couldn’t find any sign of her, the bus stopped right in front of them, and they got in still shocked about where the old lady vanished to. They got on the bus and the bus was full, it was unusual for the bus to be full at night.

“I’ve seen that guy before.” they guy at the front of the bus looked familiar, he couldn’t see his full face but he looked familiar to him. The driver’s face was covered by a black cloth, he didn’t take much into it but the smell of the bus troubled him, it smelled like death.

There was only one seat left, he gave it up to the pregnant lady.

After a couple of minutes of driving he was already sweating, he didn’t realize how hot it was in the bus until it started moving. He unbuttoned his shirt from the heat, and the guy who he recognized slowly turned and was staring right at him. He tried looking away but he could feel his eyes drilling holes into his skull.

They were both staring at each other now and finally, he realized who he was, he was shocked to see him on the bus.

“That’s one of the guys who killed that woman,” he whispered to himself, the guy’s picture was all over the news. The bus came to a stop a moment after saying that, the driver got up and looked back, he looked around the bus.

He stood at the front as his clothes started to change, he was wearing a black robe with a scythe in his hand. Samuel was shocked to see this, he thought it was some kind of prank.

He walked slowly towards Samuel, he looked around and all the other passengers seemed like they couldn’t see what was happening, only he and the lady next to him could see this. His eyes burning red, piercing deep within his soul, he looked around as a cloud of fire surrounded him with each step he took it became hotter and hotter in the bus, he could tell that this heat was from hell, it felt like they were right in the bowels of hell.

The only part of his face he could see were the eyes. He walked towards him and stood in front of him, he could see his face clear now, one half of his face was a skull and the other half was made of decomposing skin.

“You two don’t belong here.” he could see the fire in every word that came out of his mouth, the smell of death surrounded him.

He looked at the woman he came in with and she was scared seeing this, she couldn’t even speak.

“Time to send you back.” he grabbed his scythe and stared at him, Samuel just grabbed the lady and retreated to the back of the bus. He understood that the monster standing in front of them was death itself, he could see his life flashing right in front of his eyes.

Death slowly walked towards them with the woman behind him, he didn’t know how to fight and even if he did this wasn’t a fight he could win.

He raised his scythe ready to attack, Samuel didn’t take his eyes off the scythe for a single second, he could see it coming and he dodged. He was happy he dodged it but when he looked back at the woman she was caught right in the scythe.

He didn’t know what to do, the woman was staring at him with blood coming out of her throat, and after a couple of seconds, she vanished leaving the scythe dripping with blood.

“Your turn.” he walked slowly towards him. He raised it high and before he could blink the scythe had already cut him down, he could feel the pain of the scythe cutting right into him like butter.

Death looked right at him and smiled.

“It’s not your time, now that I’ve marked you I’ll come for you one day.” he disappeared the same way the woman did.

He was shocked to open his eyes with the woman shaking him, he looked around and they were both at the bus stop. He looked at the woman and the look on her face told her everything, she was also confused by all of this. He could see a scar on the lady’s neck, it looked like a tattoo of some sort but he knew that they were both marked by death.

“We’re back.” he stood up glad to be back, what just happened to them was something they were gonna remember for the rest of their lives.

They looked at each other and couldn’t believe what they had just gone through.

“I’m never riding on a bus again.” he took out his phone and called an Uber home, and the lady did the same.