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the heat and the dark were beginning to get to the boy and, as he looked around with eyes opened wide and ears at alert, so was the oppressive silence. there was not one cricket chirping...no hum of electricity from the streetlight, being of the old incandescent variety, by now yellowed and fading fast. his ears pricked up to the sudden arrival of the bat earlier that evening-well, not that much earlier since it was pitch black a night then too. in reality, he had no idea what time it was, thinking that time just seemed to be going slowly, since the bus had not yet come by, as expected. tricks were starting to play in his eyes now, to go along with his heightened sense of apprehension and dread. he imagined some movement just beyond the light's reach, heading into the thicket of shrubbery. there was an almost shape that "appeared" over there, maybe, since he couldn't really be sure of that anymore. what was he doing out here anyway? he'd every intention of being back hours ago, before anyone would realise he'd been gone, but it just wasn't to be. getting lost while looking for the address he'd gotten didn't help, and neither did that run-in with that gang of jerks who thought it great fun to chase him down with the hope of beatng him up-just because. what a strange place this was too, where everyone seemed to look like they are all related, except that they seemed weird physically. inbreeding is what he'd heard it called, and this place seemed to be crawling with these inbreds. they looked at him funny, even the 'normal' ones when he finally did find the home. those running it seemed to be very interested in him, more than why he showed up in the first place, that being to find out what he could about his parents. a motion just beyond his area of vision. he spun around, whole body on alert, skin all prickly and alive. nothing. and yet, suddenly the dark seemed just that much closer to him. where is the bus he cried out inside...so scared now he was almost panicking. escaping those jerks, he fled through the woods so many hours ago now, eventually stumbling out and onto this old road. it was an old country road, formerly a main artery, according to the one person he saw along it, whoalso told him of the bus stop a mile ahead, where he now stood. yeah, apparently the old saw, of a town fading into oblivion after the new interstate was built, applied here. the town that civilisation forgot, and now he too would become one of the forgotten. unless he could get the hell out of here.
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