Rohit was a student of class 10 who lived in a small town .He was a simple and quite boy ,after school he like playing cricket with his friend and watching movies on his phone at night. Life was normal and peaceful....
One evening Rohit had to visit his uncle who lived in a village about 30 km away .Since there were no towns to that village ,he went to the town bus stand to catch a bus ....
The weather that evening felt little strange. Dark clouds covered the sky and cold wind was blowing. The bus stand way unusually quite . Only a few people were waiting there....
After sometime an old bus arrived .The paint on the bus looked faded and the lights flickered slightly. On the front of the bus a board read:
"Night Service"
Rohit quickly got on the bus and took a seat near the window. Inside the bus there were only a few passengers .A quite old man was sitting in the front, a woman was looking down at her bag and a man in the back seat was staring out of the window without moving
The bus Started moving....
At first everything is felt normal.Rohit put on his earphones and started listening to music while watching the road outside.Slowly the bus left the town behind....
Soon there were no houses anymore.....
Only a long empty road surrounded by dark trees .....
The streetlights disappeared and the road become Darker and Darker...
After about an hour, Rohit noticed something Stranged....
The bus had not stopped even once....
Usually buses stopped in a small towns or villages along the way , but this one kept moving without stopping anywhere ....
Rohit looked around the bus.
The old man in front was still sitting in a Same position....
The women had not moved at all...
And the man in the back seat was still staring outside the window ....
It felt strange.....
Rohit checked his phone to see the time..
It was 11:47 PM ...
He felt a little uneasy.....
A few minutes later the bus suddenly slowed down and stopped on a lonely road...
There were no houses....
No lights ....
No bus stop....
Just darkness and trees....
Rohit walked up to the conductor and asked
"Why did the bus stop here,"
The conductor slowly turned his head and said in a calm voice.....
"This is the last bus stop"
Rohit looked outside again....
There was a old broken board near the road.It looked rustly and almost unreadable ....
But under the light of the bus headlights , Rohit could barely reads the words written on it .....
"Last Bus Stop"
Rohit felt confused....
"My village is still far from here,"he said.
The conductor did not reply...
Instead he slowly walked toward the door and opened it ....
The window outside looked become stronger....
The trees were moving and making strange sounds .....
Rohit turned around to look at the other passengers.....
But suddenly something felt wrong...
The old man was gone....
The woman was gone ....
The man in the back seat was gone too....
All the seats were empty...
Rohit's heart started beating fast.....
Just a few minutes ago they were all there....
He looked at the conductor....
But the conductor was no longer inside the bus.....
The bus door was open and the road outside was completely empty.....
Rohit stepped outside slowly.....
The cold wind hit his face.....
He looked around but there was nobody there....
When he turned back toward the Bus....
The Bus disappeared....
There was nothing on the road.....
No lights.....
No engine sound.....
Nothing.....
Just darkness.....
Rohit stood there, confused and shocked.....
Then he noticed something even stranger .....
Next to the broken signboard there was another small metal plate.....
Rohit walked closer wiped the dust from it .....
The plate bad an old newspaper clipped attached on it ...
It said :
"Ten years ago,a night Bus lost control on this road and fell into the forest valley. All the passengers and drivers died in the accident"
Below the article was the bus number....
Rohit looked at the number carefully...
It was the same number as the bus he had just travelled in...
Suddenly the wind become stronger ...
Behind him he heard the faint sound of a bus engine started.....
Slowly.....
Very slowly....
A familiar voice whispered in the voice....
" The last bus had arrived again"
Rohit slowly turned around...
And in the distance....
The headlights of a same bus appeared again in the darkness....
The end