Chapter 2

Pam:

I hit my head against the seat in front of me a few times to shake off the bore sore disease I got after the 3 hour bus ride mark hit.

"The wipers on the bus go, squeak, squeak, squeak; All through the town!"

Did I mention 3 quarters of the bus was singing? BABY songs?

"Mindy..!" I grumbled.

"Yeah…" She said slowly still focusing on her book and music.

"Save me." I groaned.

"Why don't you read a book or listen to your Ipod?" She waved her book slightly.

"I wish… eyes on a book for 7 hours while on a bumpy ride, seems like a hurricane in my head. And… My Ipod battery's almost dead. I'm saving it for when we're driving on boring farmlands." We were currently on the highway right now, another hour and we would be passing through miles of farmland. Boring.

"Take an ear." She replied scanning through her book.

"Yay!" I took out her farther earplug and stuck it in my ear. I've always like comedy, so… maybe some singing wouldn't hurt… to me.

"Good choice" I told Mindy. She looked at me weirdly, and went back to her book.

". AND I WAS LIKE BAB—." I was interrupted when a hand went over my mouth. I looked at Mindy.

"No. Not when I'm a toothpick away from you. I'll come out deaf." She told me.

"Aww man… could I at least listen to a better song?" I asked. She turned back to her book."Is that a No?" She dug into her Capris Pocket and pulled out her Purple Ipod. She did this all without a blink away from the book. That book must be interesting. I took the Ipod and scrolled through the songs. "Justin Bieber… Selena Gomez… Katy Perry… La—. Katy Perry!" I clicked Firework by Katy Perry and glanced at Mindy from the corner of my eye to make sure she was deep into reading her book. She was in deep alright. Then, My magic took over; I started lip-syncing wildly and dancing on the seat.

I opened my eyes. Woah. What time is it? I Glanced over at Mindy; She was asleep. Did I fall asleep? There's no way I could have! I was dancing in my seat and Lip syncing! Oh well, I guess this happens sometimes. I looked around. Everyone was sleeping as well. They probably got tired of the bus song. I looked at the front and saw Mr. Camble. I decided to talk to him.

"?" I asked softly but loud enough for him to hear.

"Yes?" He looked up in the huge rear-view mirror.

"Woah!-Woah!-Wait, Eyes. On. The. Road. Eyes. On. The. Road." I blurted closing my eyes. I am terrified of car crashes. I freak out whenever the car behind comes too close, or is going too fast, I'm trying to be a safe person!

laughed slightly. "Alright. What's up?" He said, this time eyes on the road.

"Just making sure you weren't sleeping like everyone else."

"Hah, I would be fired."

"What time is it?"

"About 11 'o' clock. We're going to be stopping at the lunch restaurant in about an hour."

"Oh, okay. Why did everyone sleep"

"It's a long bus ride, my dear. Especially when it started at 7 am. If I were them, I would take my ability to sleep for granted, it isn't that easy to sleep on a bus, you know."

"Oh."

"Y'all sleeping made me kind of sleepy too, but I had a good rest in the night, so I'll be fine, but you should get some more sleep." I was surprised at when he said "Y'all" I didn't know he was from the country side.

"Are you from Texas?" I asked curiously."

"No, No. Kentucky. Great livings. Why do you ask?"

"Oh, I was just curious at how you said Y'all instead of you all."

"does it bother you?"

"No, Not at all."

"Alright."

"I—."

"trying to get some sleep here!" A guy yelled from the back. Then I heard snoring. He's got a very expressive side of dream…

"Where are we going for lunch this year?"

"Red lobster."

"Are you serious?"

"Kid type though. Not that fancy, but still good."

"And expensive." I laughed.

"Yeah. So what do you like about camp?"

"Um, well I guess I like the arts and crafts centre, and the swimming. And… the sports, and the pranks, and the good weather."

"I see" then I heard a yawn beside me, Mindy was waking up.

"oh hey pam. Why.. how did I get to sleep." She asked scanning herself.

"What? You mean, you don't know either?"

"Know what?"

"How you fell asleep?"

"No. I was reading, and then ka—boom. I'm here"

"oh my god! The same thing happened to me! Are you sure?"

"Uh, yeah." She looked around. "Woah, whats with the sudden sleep

I stared at . There was something weird about him. Why had everyone fallen asleep except for him. I mean he couldn't because he's driving. He looked up and saw me staring, he looked down immediately. My senses were tingling.

"." I asked, dead serious.

Uhm, yes?" He stuttered.

"Why are you stuttering all of the sudden? Why is there the sudden sleep? Why aren't you asleep?"

"Calm down, Pam!" He said.

"How do you know my name?" I quickly said back.

"Um, your sister's a loud talker, plus, your camp director told me all of the names."

"Excuse me? I was barley talking the whole time, and there was no way that you could have heard me over the bus song." Mindy said, getting to where my point is.

I stood up to see the view of his face.

"NO STANDING UP WHILE THE BUS IS ON THE ROAD!" yelled in a deep, hard, mad, tone. I shot down to my seat. Mindy looked at me, I looked back.

"what's up with him?" She lipped.

"I don't know, but you're going to find out." I lipped back, slowly.

"Why me?" I gave her a stare. "fine."

"WHAT IS ALL THAT RACKET!" A few people yelled from waking up after 's scare. I looked around, there was one person that wasn't asleep now, and she was sitting by herself on the bus.

" put us to sleep!" Mindy yelled out.

"What?"

"That's Crazy!"

"Are you out our your mind?"

"Wow, Mindy, wow" the bus filled with.

"It's true! If you don't believe me, think about it. Do you really know how you fell asleep? You were singing the bus song, and all of the sudden you're sleeping, everyone went to sleep, everyone but him." She said. We all directed our direction to him. He quickly pulled off the highway. I noticed that we were supposed to be in the country side now, but we were still on the road. A few minutes later he parked in front of a red lobsters restaurant.

"Red lobster!" A girl shouted

"Lunchtime!" exclaimed. Kids got ready to stand up. Mindy shot to the front of the bus.

"NO! No one is leaving. He's lying. He's not who we think he is. We're supposed to be in farmland, and yet a few minutes and we're in front of a grand red lobster. Do you think that's really true? Look, I don't know about you, but this place does not look right." People nodded. "Who are you? What do you want?" She asked him.

"Well, according to my last hour, I'm a murderer."

*Gasp!*

"Excuse me?"

"See that lonely girl? She's not sleeping. She's—."

*Slaaaap*

Half of his face was tomato red from Mindy's slap. People rushed to the new girl in the corner, who was half under a blanket. I watched as they took the blanket off and turned her over. Oh my goodness. There was blood everywhere, and a knife stabbed in her right where her heart would be.

"CALL THE AMBULANCE" A group alarmed. I just sat there, watching, just in shock, and in pain from seeing this. How could such an innocent girl be treated like this? This is just cheated death!

"Now you see. Your next!" He jumped off from his seat and strangled Mindy. I sprinted towards him. Not being able to stop in time, I banged right onto him, that was good. He fell over, and I jumped on him.

"Are you okay?" I yelled at Mindy after jumping on his legs.

"Better than the victim." I nodded. He was getting back up.

"GO! Go get help from the restaurant, NOW!" I took her advice and sprinted out the door, kicking it open, instead of using the door opener. The restaurant had no one inside. Nothing. Just empty tables, I found behind one of the window curtains there was a sign that said FOR LEASE. I ran back outside.

"YAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!" I heard Mindy scream. I sprinted towards the bus. I went inside, and saw Mindy strangling to get him dead. I looked around the bus, group of people at the dead girl, Mindy and murderer, radio. The radio will do. I ran to it, picked it up and yelled.

"HELLO? I NEED HELP STAT!"

"Roger that." A voice called. "could you explain the situation?"

"GIRL MURDERED BY THE DRIVER, COME NOW. I DON'T HAVE AN ADDRESS OR ANYTHING, BUT THE CLOSEST THING AROUND IS AN ABANDONED RED LOBSTER RESTAURANT."

"emergency services are on the way." I was relieved. I dropped the radio. I grabbed the First aid kit and threw it to Isabella. She luckily, caught it. Her face was pale.

"JUST TRY IT" I yelled. She turned around and ruffled through the box.

"HELP!" Mindy yelled. I grabbed part of the stick shift, I struggled to get it, but I eventually did get it. It broke off ruined. I took it and started hitting the man who was on his knees, Mindy grabbed in from me and ran. She turned around and sprinted, with the hand shift high in the air. She landed on top of the man, and stabbed him in the chest. He didn't move after that.

"Mindy… you…"

"That felt great!"

"Are you kidding me? You killed him!"

"I killed a murderer, and it stopped him from hurting anyone else."

"you were brave" I heard sirens coming closer and closer, and then, It was all black.