Jeepers Creepers 2(Alternative Version)

Chapter 6: "Ride into Dusk"

The old Chevrolet Impala drove furiously on East 9 into dusk. Trish and Darry were talking, laughing, and playfully bickering like they did before the life changing incident. Darry was talking about his ex-girlfriend Priscilla. "Then she had the nerve to come up to my room with another guy and she said…" he stopped mid-sentence when he noticed Trish silently crying. "Trish", he said very worried, "what's wrong?"

She sighed knowing that her secret about her ex-boyfriend had to come out sooner or later. "Brad…".

He glanced at her. "What about Poly-Sci- Track Team Guy?".

She nervously ran her hand on her forehead and had gathered up her courage to tell him about her abuser Brad was. She took a deep breath and began.

"He was hitting me… for 2 months."

He could feel his face immediately tightened just enough for him to yell "What."

"Could you just chill for a minute then you can knock…".

"No I won't just 'chill' Trish. You were getting your ass kicked for 2 months and you didn't bother to tell me", he said angrily cutting off his sister.

She looked at him with a frown on her face. "For your information, I can take care of myself Dare", she replied back.

"The hell you can take care of yourself", he said still angry glancing over at her "did it even register in that brick head of yours that he could've killed you".

"No I didn't think about it then".

"Really? Did you even think about calling the cops about him?"

"No. I thought he would…"

"Stop", Darry said completing the sentence for her. She looked at him and nodded.

"I can't believe that you stayed with him as long as you did Trish".

"Just like I told you Darry I thought he would stop hitting me."

"That's no excuse for him to hit you. I swear to God Trish I will kick his fucking ass".

"Darry", she said firmly, "I broke up with him remember. I don't think he'll be hitting me anymore".

"Yeah, not after I get through beating the shit out of him".

She smirked a little. A few moments later she was glad she had told Darry the truth. She felt she was on the verge of keeping the secret from the rest of the world.

The sun was still bright in the sky with it's rays beaming down on the grass. Out of the smallness of the road, a big yellow school bus with kids and two coaches were riding a moderate pace on East 9. On the bus, the kids and the coaches were laughing and talking to each other. They had just won a state basketball championship and everything seemed fine. Then suddenly the bus jolted violently with everyone inside of it. Betty, the bus driver tried to control the bus but it was no use. Everyone was in total silence.

"Damn it", Coach Barns exclaimed.

"I'll go check it out", Betty said as she turned on the radio. If they ended up getting stuck out there, she thought it'll be a good idea to get help. The kids started getting loud again and Coach Barns exclaimed loudly,

"OK kids, calm down. We're going outside and keep it quiet."

All three adults left the bus.

Trish and Darry were back to laughing, talking, and playfully bickering like they did before Trish told Darry about Brad. She could still feel his raw anger about Brad hitting her floating around the car. I don't blame him at all, she thought I would've been angry too if someone hurt Darry in a way they shouldn't. I should've told him the first time Brad started hitting me. He would have handled Brad a long time ago.

"Trish", Darry called out to her.

She looked up at him from her spaced out thoughts and answered, "Yeah".

"Are you okay?", he asked.

"Sure". She turned her gaze from him and looked back at the window. A moment later a booming voice from the radio came on. The siblings turned their attention to the radio and he turned on the radio to catch the news. "Hello this is Karla Dantini from South of Pertwilla County."

The kids on the bus were silent so they could listen to the latest update. "I'm here from South of Pertwilla County next to an old burned down church. A male teenager whose 18 years old was lurking around the premises taking some photos for his college project said he accidentally fell down this pipe next to the church. He said underneath the church was a basement filled with bodies stitched next to each other like human tapestry. The body count was well over 300. The teenager also stated that the dead bodies teeth were over 200 years old and every single one of those bodies were petrified wood."

Scotty, Bucky, Minxie, and Rho were shocked of what they were hearing but the rest of the kids were disgusted and petrified. Karla continued. "Before the authorities and the CSI's arrived, the witness also stated that he saw pictures of two other teenagers at a college and he told me that he wanted to give the names of those two kids just in case they were hearing this. The female teenager's name is Patricia aka "Trish" Jenner and the male teenager's name is Darius aka "Darry" Jenner. The witness also saw that Patricia and Darius's clothes were in this mysterious person's lair and in the pictures. The witness theory is that whoever this person is was stalking the two kids and planning on murdering them based on the witness seeing certain body parts cut out of the pictures which the witness doesn't want to exploit. Patricia and Darius, if you're listening, you're very lucky to be alive. From South of Pertwilla County, I'm Karla Dantini, thank you". The bus was quiet and still. Due to the horrifying, shocking, and terrifying news the kids had heard, no one dared to move.

Trish and Darry were deadly silent. Trish's blood ran cold while his blood ran colder. They couldn't believe of what they had just heard but at least that witness had the decency not to tell everyone what it wanted from them. The siblings didn't talk for 5 minutes.