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Women on the road
It was getting dark, and Ethan was coming back home from a beach near his hometown. He had been there for three days with his dad, a friend of his dad and his son, who happened to be Ethan’s friend too. The 4 of them had spent an amazing weekend and were ready to get back home to resume their ordinary activities. The road trip back home was getting boring, no one was talking and they were all in the middle of the dessert with a long plane highway to go through but suddenly Edgar, the friend of Ethan’s father, came up with what seemed a great idea to kill time, and that was to tell horror stories about highways and weird things that were known about the same highway they were going through. Ethan felt a bit nervous because he knew horror stories weren’t for him but he wouldn’t dare to admit he didn’t like the idea because he didn’t want to be the chicken of the group.
Edgar started with a story and everything was going alright; Ethan focused on the view the dessert offered him while there was still some light and that way he wouldn’t focus on what the others were saying. Ethan’s father, Carlos, continued with another story and Ethan kept most of his attention outside the window car. But then, when Carlos was finished, Edgar started with another story that caught Ethan’s attention since the beginning and he couldn’t get back to looking out the window because he wanted to know how the story would end. Edgar told them about this woman who once got stranded in the middle of the road and was asking for help. Hours later, after the woman was about to give up, a men pulled up and offered her a ride, but days later she was found dead. Since then, it was said that same woman appears sometimes on the road asking for help and that if you refused to stop your car you would crash your car and die but if you stopped and offered the woman a ride she would kill you anyways.
The story seemed pretty stupid to Ethan but he couldn’t help being a little scared deep down. After that story, both fathers started talking and changed their conversation into something else and Ethan was starting to feel relieved it was over but some minutes later everyone was scared to death when they saw a woman on the side of the road asking for help. They all looked at each other in terror and slowly kept the car going, but after some meters, Carlos, who was driving turned the car around and told the rest he wouldn’t leave that woman to herself only because of a stupid story they just heard.
When they got to where the woman was asking for help, she explained them her car had two flat tires and was getting nervous because it was almost fully dark and she was alone with her two small children. Carlos offered her a ride to where she was going and she accepted.
When they were back in the road, half hour after they had picked the woman and the children up, another woman appeared suddenly in the middle of the road and Carlos stopped the car as fast as he could. It was totally dark now, the small children started crying and the woman who had suddenly appeared vanished. Carlos, Edgar, Ethan and his friend knew exactly what was happening and were in complete terror, paralyzed. The back door of the car opened itself, and no one was standing outside but they all felt a weird presence. The small children were still crying and unexpectedly, the back door closed itself as if the spirit of the dead woman knew that the men had just picked up a mother and his children to help them and get them somewhere safe.
Everyone was still paralyzed, the car standing still in the middle of the dark dessert road until Ethan decided to break the silence and said looking at the woman they picked up, “She spared our lives for helping you”.
Carlos started the car and slowly started moving. During the rest of the road, no one said a word.
