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    Shortcut

    Shortcut, horror movie.

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    It’s an average routine drive through the countryside. In the red bus is the driver Joe, The punk kid in the back which is Reggie, the quiet kid which is Nolan, the artsy kid which is Bess, the smarter one which is Queenie, and the fat kid next to her which is Karl. You’re along with these passengers. You entered a forest. The trees cast a shadow over everything beneath.

    In the very back, sitting in the middle, was Reggie. He crunches up his soda can and throws it at Nolan’s head, which hits the mark. Once Nolan looked back, Reggie mocked a bow and arrow with his hands, and once he “let go”, his hands formed middle finger at Nolan with a grin. Nolan flips him off too. He shares eye contact with Bess again, and when he turns to the front, Karl has fake eyelashes really badly made on his face, mocking him for being glancing with Bess. Nolan just scoffs and throws the can at him. . . . they encounter large logs in the middle of the road. Joe decides to take a different route, and as they went that way, fog surrounded them, the sunlight gone. They encounter another obstacle. A dead deer. As Joe went out and moved it into the woods, the group inside the bus had a collective reaction of disgust. When Joe came back, he was held at gun point by a serial killer.

    “Well, well, well, good evening.”

    everyone paused in their conversations.

    “Sit down.”

    they all sat down.

    “Just stay calm, guys, okay? He's not going to hurt us.”

    Joe says, trying to keep the bus calm. But he was proved wrong.

    “Wrong answer. From now on, you just sit down and you drive. I should be doing the talking from now on. Got that kids?”

    they muttered an agreement in response. They don’t like it, but they had to obey. Because the man had a gun.

    “Good.”

    but Reggie didn’t listen. He glared at the man. But the man waved his gun at him so he sat down.

    “Obedient, too.”

    He ordered Joe to drive and he did. He ordered everyone to throw their phones out the window, and they did… again, except Reggie. He came over and threatened him, putting the gun in his face. Reggie avoided eye contact and begrudgingly gave the man his phone, and the man threw it out the window like everyone else’s.