Lightning striked, quickly followed my a loud booming thunder that vibrated the walls. Roman sat in his desk waiting for the bell to ring. Football practice was canceled due to the weather and Roman was ready to go home after a long gloomy day at school.
The bell finally rung and the bus riders flooded into the hallways, including Roman, to get on the bus and go home. Roman made his way outside and saw that it was still raining pretty hard. He quickley ran to his bus and stepped on.
Roman thought he was on the wrong bus at first because Mr. Woods wasn't in the drivers seat. Instead, it was a chubby, long bearded man with a fedora looking hat. The two made eye contact. The man had a look in his eyes that he has never seen before. It was stone cold, as if he was lifeless somehow.
Roman was pushed forward by Dean. "Come on man, It's wet." Dean said still pushing him forward. Roman quickly went to his and Dean's usual seat. Thunder bombed loudly again. "Wow, it's really bad out there." Dean said reaching over Roman to wipe the fogged window. "It's supposed to clear up soon, hopefully no power goes out." Roman said. The rest of the student quickly jumped on the bus. Roman looked around at the people on the bus. It's was only about 10 students including him and Dean. The others might have been checked out earlier due to the terrible weather. After a few moments, the bus finally pulled out of the school parking lot.
"Hey, can I kick it at your house, my dad just texted me that the powers out at our house." Dean asked.
"Sure. We can go in my dad wrestling ring again, maybe he'll show you some stuff." Roman said.
"I don't understand how you don't always play around in there everyday. Do you have any idea how cool that is to have your own personal wrestling ring?" Dean said.
"I don't really think wrestling is my calling, I'm a better football players." Roman said
"Well I wish I had your life, easy access to anything." Dean said
"Trust me, you don't want my life. Do you know how many cousins I have?" Roman asked. "They can get very annoying real quick."
"I think their cool. It's boring being the only child." Dean said
Suddenly, a paper ball hits the back of Dean's head. He turned around to see Seth and Antonio smirking. Dean stood up from his seat.
"Throw some shit at me again and I'll knock your teeth down your throat." Dean said.
"I'll like to see you try." Seth said.
Dean went to walk over to the two, but was stopped by Roman hand on his arm. "Fuck them." Roman said.
Dean gave the two a glare and sat back down in his seat. "How can you deal with that dick?" Dean asked.
Roman shrugged. "I don't really. We only interact at practice." He said.
"Excuse me, but do you know where you're going?" Nia asked the bus driver.
The bus driver looked at her throught the mirror above his head with the same sinister gloom in his eye that Roman saw when he first got on the bus.
"Yes, I do. I took a different route due to possible flooding." He said in a low, baritone voice.
"Okay." Nia said then put her headphones back on.
The bus was quiet besides the thunder and rain plopping down on the bus. Roman looked around the bus once again and saw everyone with headphones in looking down at their phones. He turned back forward and saw the driver looking at him throught the mirror. The driver fixed his eyes back on the road before they could make eye contact. Roman looked to his left at Dean who was nodding his head to his music. 'Something didn't feel right.' Roman thought to himself.