This road trip had been peculiar from the get go. Ashley had no desire to drive in the first place, but Derrick insisted. He said it would be a fun mini vacation before their actual getaway. If Ashley wasn't so freaked out right now, she would be singing 'I told you so' right in his ear.

It started, oddly enough, with the animals. Now Ashley loved animals. It was animals darting in front of their car and looking at them with beady yellow eyes on a long stretch of country road. Ashley was familiar with most animals, but not these ones. She had never seen these animals before and she hoped to never see them again.

Then the weather became eerie. Swirling winds and darks clouds produced green lightening. Ashley almost could have been convinced it was a trick of the light if not for the way Derek's eye's widened as he audibly gulped.

After that it had been the people. Ashley had nothing against hitchhiking in and of itself. It wasn't a choice she would ever personally make, but she could understand how someone might find themselves in the situation. What she couldn't understand was how 50 people in a 2 mile radius required the services of hitchhiking or where they were trying to get in the first place. The long country roads that had traveled on were flat, giving Ashley and Derek the ability to see for miles in every direction. They didn't see much once they got past the whole animal situation, and they certainly didn't see any structures that would indicate where on earth the hitchhikers could possibly be traveling to.

All of this to say, a figure appearing on the bridge right in front of their car was Ashley's last straw. She looked to her left to be met with the sight of Derek as white as a ghost with clenched hands gripping the steering wheel. It was when the figure started to approach the car in an uneven yet intimidating gait that they both spoke at the same time, finally coming together in agreement for the first time on this cursed trip.

"Yeah no, I'm done. You win, let's go home."

"Forget it, absolutely not, turn this car right back around and drive."