Hello, fiction friends!
In one of the more recent chapters I uploaded to another story, I mentioned holo-forms. Maybe I'm just crazy, but I started thinking about what it would be like if you met a holoform, and THAT led to me thinking about urban legends/scary stories. I swearthere was a connection in my brain.
Well, without further ado, let the madness begin.
Stop me if you've heard this one.
A man is driving home from a party late one Friday night when he sees something strange. Standing on the side of a lonely road is a young woman dressed in white, hitch-hiking. Curious, the man stops and asks her where she needs to go. She answers, "I just want to go home," and gives him the directions to her house. He offers to take her and she gets into the car. Several times, the man tries to engage her in conversation, but she remains quiet and sad.
Sound familiar yet?
Once he's off the highway, he turns to ask her where to go next, but there is no one in the backseat. The woman has vanished completely, and he is alone in his car. Shaken, the man drives to the address the girl had given him and knocks on the door. A boy answers, and when the man describes his mysterious hitchhiker, the boy asks, "Was she wearing white, on the side of Highway 78?" When the man answers yes, the boy shows him a picture. "That's her!" says the man. "That's my sister, Sadie," is the reply, "She died in an accident three years ago on her way home from the prom."
Bet you know what's coming.
As the frightened man is leaving, he crosses the same highway as before and sees the woman again, still standing on the side of the road. Terrified, he speeds away just as she fades into nothingness.
As the projection disappears, Arcee straightens up from behind the bushes. "You were right, Smokescreen. This is fun!"
Halfway tempted to ruin more urban legends this way. I feel like that meme of the History Channel guy who always explains things by saying "Aliens!"