Midnight Drive

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I tap my hands on the steering wheel, trying to avoid the creepy crawlies I know are on my tail.
Hisssssss
The gigantic python slithers beside my tires, and I go faster. The hissing silences.

Then the laughing starts. The old scraggly woman runs inhumanly towards the bed of the truck. She jumps in. I shriek, and slam on my breaks. Her old body flies backward onto the road behind me, and I punch the gas again.

Tip
Tap
Tip
Tap

The legs of the abnormally large spider move eerily toward me. I grab the pistol in my passenger seat, and glance back quickly, firing, and I hear an awful screech, and a loud crash. It's gone.

I sob as I try to wipe the blood from my skin. Everyone's dead. I'm on the run.

I light signals on the dash. I'm out of gas. I hear the wicked screeches and hisses behind me.

Then it stops.

My brother shakes me,"Elizabeth! What's wrong! You're screaming!" I dart up, looking around. I'm sleeping in the backseat.

"Where, where are we?" I ask. "On our road trip, of course. What was that about?"

Before I can answer, he's pulled away. The creepy crawlies start coming.

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