Read the Prologue to "Curse of the Possessed Bus: Part Two"
- Shannon Cook
- Aug 7, 2022
- 5 min read
Updated: Oct 17, 2022
What is this sensation that has drenched my soul? A feeling of vengeance and sorrow!
I used to be a kind, faithful man. An educated man with a passion for family. I took my job seriously, and my romantic life even more seriously. Until I got the taste of blood in my mouth. Like a wolf, I wanted more!
My name is Dr. Irwin Eli Gibbs, and I made a mistake. I have harmed the woman I loved so dearly. For my jealousy and anger had gotten the upper hand on me. Oh how I loved Eva deeply! She was the love of my life…until I found out she was married and had a child on that fateful morning!
Her husband, Casey, was handsome, kind, and full of spunk! How could I compete with him? I thought. I couldn't. I knew the only way I was ever going to be able to have Eva all to myself was to get rid of Casey.
Casey was our bus driver on that fateful morning. He was transporting the remaining four mental patients from the old mental hospital over to the new one, a few hours away. Eva and myself rode along to keep an eye on our patients.
When Casey pulled in to pick us up, my heart broke when I watched him kiss Eva on the lips in front of me! For Eva and I had been romantically involved for a few years by then.
I thought to myself, how am I going to get rid of this man? Yet, make it appear to be an accident? Ah-Ha! I thought, as a light went off in my head! I'll tamper with the bus's brakes! Not much, just enough to cause them to fail in the next week or so. NOT when myself, Eva, or our patients were on board!
I crawled under the bus, found the brake lines and managed to slice them. Not entirely, just a little!
I got on board, and felt confident. I glanced over to Eva who was sitting across from me. Her light brown hair pulled back in a tight ponytail. Eyes sparkled blue as the interior lights of the bus hit them. She smelled of roses. I smiled as I thought, soon this delightful woman will belong to me.
Feeling confident that it'll take a few days for the brakes to fail, I took a nap. However, I was awoken by the sound of thunder, and large rain droplets battering the bus's fiberglass shell! I glanced out my window and was horrified to discover we were taking the short cut through the mountains!
Panic consumed me as I tightened up my seatbelt. I nervously glanced around the bus. I couldn't bear to look anyone in the eye, either Eva or my patients. For I knew, the brakes would fail while traveling down that mountain!
Eva suspected I had done something because she asked me what I had done. I guess my fear was showing, even though I tried my hardest to hide it! I didn't tell her why I was scared in that moment. I didn't want her to despise me!
Maybe we will make it down this mountain! I tried to keep my hopes up. Then, as we approached a hairpin turn on the downgrade, the brakes on the bus FAILED!
Casey tried his darnedest to maintain control of the bus. The poor man was sweating bullets, his hands gripping the steering wheel so tightly, I could see the muscles in his arms about to burst! His face was as white as a ghost! His eyes never blinked as he focused on the road ahead.
We ended up busting though the road's guardrail and rolling multiple times down the mountainside. My head slammed against the window by my seat a couple times. Giving me a splitting headache! I heard the screaming coming from everyone! On the fourth time the bus rolled, the handrail pierced through my flesh and into my heart. That was my fatal moment.
The bus landed upright midway down the mountainside. My spirit separated itself from my body. I glanced down at my bruised and battered self. I glanced around the bus, and watched as everyone else's souls lifted from their lifeless bodies. It was a gruesome site to see!
Our spirits all attempted to leave the bus, but a spirit of a young man stopped us. He was about 18 or 19. Something like that. He had served in the American Revolution. He died on that mountainside, and the bus had landed on his grave.
The man, Eli, seemed to know right away that the crash wasn't an accident! Ironically, this man was my ancestor! So, was it fate we crashed there? Who knows!
Eli placed us under a curse. A curse where none of us could depart the bus until we completed our unfinished business. However, most of the victims of that bus crash needed to get off the bus to do so. Needless to say, most needed help from a living person to complete the unfinished business.
Me, all I had to do was confess to causing the crash. I sure as hell wasn't about to do an idiotic thing like that! Also, nobody is going to be able to help us, the bus was TOTALED! All that's left is a big pile of scrap!
The bus was taken to a nearby junk yard. However, the owner of that junkyard decided to repair the bus, and sell it for a profit.
A few months after the crash, a man bought the newly repaired bus, and added it to his fleet. The bus got assigned to a driver named Jayme, who just happened to be the daughter-in-law of Casey and Eva!
One day, Jayme brought her wife, Robin, to the bus. They agreed to help us bus crash victims with our unfinished business!
I did my best to prevent Jayme and Robin from completing the task at hand. I even took it as far as to raise my corpse up from its grave! … He's still roaming around someplace to this day. I try keeping track of my corpse, but sometimes I get distracted…Eli can be so annoying at times!
Eventually, it came down to only three of us remaining. Casey, Eva and myself. I wasn't going to admit to my role in causing the crash that killed us. I was more than content with my soul remaining on the bus for all eternity.
Then I was forced against my will to admit to tampering with the brake lines! Casey already knew, but I had to admit it myself! Oh how I will never forget the pain in Eva's eyes. The look of betrayal.
As a punishment, Casey placed me under a new curse. One that I am currently under. So here I am, my soul has become a prisoner of the site where I died a tragic death!
If that wasn't bad enough, Eva wants nothing to do with me. My jealousy got the best of me. I want so badly for Eva to forgive me, but I know she won't. Not only had I lost my life and freedom, I also lost the woman I loved. My heart is forever damaged. I have no love or compassion left within my soul. For my heart has been consumed of hatred!
I had been filled with anger, sadness, and vengeance. Now I am out for blood! For I have discovered that the only way I can break this curse, is to get rid of Jayme and Robin. Oh how I despise those two! If it wasn't for them, I wouldn't be a prisoner on this mountain side!
I hate being here with my six-time great-grandfather! He always seems to get the way of my plans! Such a show off too. I can't stand him! Always rubbing it in that he can come and go from this spot as he pleases!
I need to break this curse! Otherwise I will become more insane! I shall use my corpse to do my dirty work! I just hope I can complete my evil task before my corpse gets placed back into its grave. Otherwise, I will never be able to leave this dreadful spot for all eternity!
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