Months ago weird reports have been given to the police. Every time it rains, men in black suits and umbrellas walk the streets in silence. They stand at 6,6 and have long lanky arms with a hunched back.

A concerning video was uploaded a week ago of a group of teenagers sending out a friend during one of these storms. As the young man approached the figure, giggling at the camera on the window seal its head snapped towards him. The umbrella falling over his body before he dissapeared. Screams erupt from his friend, the only evidence of the incident being that video. Now no one will go outside.

My eyes stung as i squinted at the dark road. The light from my friends screen catching my eye. Checking the rear view mirror to see my passed out friend group.

“We should pull over soon, it’s getting late,” Lily stated from the passenger seat, looking up from her screen. “There’s a gas station coming up, want some coffee?”

I hummed with a nod as she began to add a stop to our long drive. As soon as we pull into a parking spot Lily woke up the three in the back.

They piled out of the car, Jake tapped my window. His brown hair messy from sleep. I rolled it down as he said, “Want some candy to wake you up? I’ll give you five stars for five bucks.”

I let out a tired laugh before handing over the money.Before I shut the window he added jokingly, “Thanks Uber driver.”

I watch as he jogs to the door to follow the others that had already went inside.

I lock the doors and lean my seat back, my car a couple rows from the gas station. My eyes began to flutter close, letting my grogginess win.

I wake up to a phone ringing, I reach for it off the console. My eyes squint at the screen, the big letters spelling out ‘Jaz.’ One of my friends I had just seen sleeping in the back. I answer, her voice ringing out in the quiet car, “Oh thank goodness, are you ok?”

Confusion hits me first as I respond, “Yeah sorry I was asleep in the car,” I pause as I finally realize the sound of rain hitting glass.

I sat up looking out my window, i could barely see the gas station through the heavy mist and rain. The lights from the window illuminating it.

“They’re at the door,” her voice shook slightly as she continued, “I don’t think there’s a lock.”

The phone call cut out, panic swelled in my chest. My voice raised as i called out, “Jaz? You there? Jaz?”

Movement catches my eye as my head snaps up to see two figures running out of the mist. They weren’t coming from the direction of the store, my moving to start the car.

No, they were too small to be the men. As they got closer I recognized them. Lily and Jake sprinting in the rain, soaking wet. I unlocked it letting them in as they piled in the car.

Just two of them. My eyes scanned the empty lot, nothing moved. I felt a hand on my arm as Lily shook her head. Amongst her rain stained face were tears.

The rest of the ride was silent. The rain still hadn’t stopped. Finally breaking it, I hear Josh’s voice ring out in the car, “I checked the weather report I swear. It said there was no chance.”

I shook my head before glancing in the back mirror to look at him. Instead I see a flash of blue sitting in the back window. I squint at it before Jake yells, “Dude, infront of you!”

I instinctively swerve, the car spins on the slick road. My head slamming into something hard before everything goes black.

Water hits my face as my eyes open, a blue butterfly sitting infront of me. My eyes begin to focus, as I see it. It was still, its white body contrasting in the dark night.

Panic sets in as I try to stand, looking around for my friends. I yell out as I stumble backwards,”Jake- Lily! Guys where are you!”keeping my eyes on the man.

Turning to check my shoulder, I see the car. My feet moved in its own towards the flipped vehicle. As I get closer the familiar blue butterflies surround the ground around it. Puddles of blood beneath them, my friends gone.

My body goes still as chills go down my spine. A black umbrella falls over my face.

I’m on the ground, I think. There’s no pain but I feel a deep aching in my joints. I stand up, but where am I? The ground seems farther than before, was I always this tall?

It’s raining, but i don’t feel the raindrops. The only thing that’s clear to me is…that blue butterfly.

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