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mouth dropped
with an audible pop.
    Two of the most beautiful people, she had ever seen sat
behind the driver. She didn’t know how she could have missed
them. The couple looked like they were on their way to a red
carpet event. The woman was tall and stick thin like a model.
Even sitting on the bouncy seat of the bus, she looked graceful.
    The man belonged on the big screen or in Calvin Klein
underwear ads. His face looked like a flawlessly, chiseled statue.
They were both dressed in sleek black clothing. However, the
woman wore a deep plum undershirt beneath her V-neck top.
They had a sort of timeless quality and Emily couldn’t help
staring at them open mouthed. They looked young, but nowhere
near her age.
    They couldn’t
be from anywhere near Lakeview, which
would explain why they were on the bus in the first place.
Perhaps they were taking a tour of the city?There wasn’t much
to see but maybe they were investors, scouting new business
locations or something. The mayor did say he wanted to bring in
more businesses. Emily glanced at the other passengers to see if
they noticed the couple too.
    Out of nowhere, her stomach tightened with a jolt and her
hands rolled into clenched fists. She quickly turned around to
stare out the back window, biting her lip against the agony.
Letting her eyes shift slightly, she concluded no one would have
even noticed. She could have danced down the aisle, singing
show tunes at the top of her lungs.
    Every single person on the bus wore a mask, designed in the
same frozen expression of pure and utter terror. The gut
wrenching kind you would expect to see after a plane had just
been hijacked. Emily followed their horrified stares to see what
she had missed. They were all staring at the strange, out of town
couple. Only they didn’t watch with wondering admiration like
she had.
    Looking back at the couple, she saw were not troubled by
everyone staring at them and their faces were absent of
expression. The interesting thing was that their eyes bore holes
into the people focused on them. What was going on? They
looked normal; possibly rich, but normal. Definitely over dressed
for Lakeview, which wasn’t that big of a deal.
    At the next stop, two people got on the bus and no one else
moved. It was a young woman with her young child. She was
pretty in a natural sort of way. Emily couldn’t help but watch
her, as she sat across from the couple to see if she had the same
reaction, as the others.
    The small boy tried wiggling out of her arms, causing the
woman to hold him more firmly to her chest. She held her body
confidently, but eyed the couple with confusion, quickly
transforming into worry. Her brows rose slightly, creasing her
forehead, leaving her eyes were wide and lips pursed.
    If Emily hadn’t have been so engrossed in the scene playing
out in front of her,she wouldn’t have noticed the man's
movement. With the rest of his body completely still, he gave the
newest rider an almost imperceptible nod. His eyes then shifted
to his friend, jutting his chin slightly in the direction of the mom
and her son. The woman noticed too, her body flinched and
tensed. Her motherly embrace on the boy, abruptly turned to that
of iron bars locked around him with no sign of release.
    Why was everyone except for Emily riddled with paralyzing
fear? Even the make out couple sat upright in their seats. Making
out apparently held no importance for them anymore. The knots
in her stomach clenched spasmodically reminding her of their
presence,as if she could forget. If it wasn’t for being scared of
drawing attention, she would have cried out in pain.
    As if reading her mind, the man’s head turned to Emily and
he watched her appraisingly. At first, he gave her a slow, languid
smile, revealing a perfect set of pearly teeth. Soon though, his
smile dissolved into a look that seemed confused and frustrated.
His eyes moved to the teenage boy near her and the kid
immediately