Chapter twelve

A youth trudged over to the road looking weary, hungry and lost. It was dark all around from a moonless night and he desperately needed a means of transportation back to civilization. 

He had been running in the forest for over an hour haunted by the thoughts of his worst nightmare and now he was tired, dirty and afraid. 

He stood by the deserted road and stretched out his thumb for any vehicle that would possibly pass by. There would at least be one that he could hitchhike off of. 

He stood there for a while, ten minutes, twenty and maybe forty as the night seemed to become darker and darker distorting reality and fiction as he imagined what would happen if he did not get picked. 

As if conjured by his thoughts, a car turned around the corner and started heading towards him fast. 

He jumped into the road trying to make himself as visible as possible. He jumped and waved his hands several times desperate to get away from a