Route 44: A Short Story
On a dark and stormy night Shelby is traveling down Route 44, and then taking Route 40 heading home. Shelby has been in college, she finally gets the summer to go home and be with her family for a few months till college starts up again. Shelby hasn’t been home in almost a year, she hasn’t seen her brother either. Shelby is bringing home her boyfriend, to stay with her till they leave again. Shelby’s boyfriends name is Jeff. Shelby is traveling down Route 44, as she is driving this bizarre driver is speeding, going as fast as he can. This crazy driver is driving carelessly down the road. Shelby and Jeff are freaking out and don’t know what to do. He is driving all over the road, honking his horn and trying to hit them. He is getting right on their bumper honking his horn as loud as it will go. She
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is screaming at Jeff what do I do? He is yelling I don’t know, wave at him to go around you. She slows down and he goes around her, he is flying around her as fast as he can, like he’s in a hurry. She stops the car and they both get out and look at each other they can’t figure out what just happened. They switch seats, Jeff starts to drive. They get some water out from the back and they get back into the car and drive off. As they are going down the road, Shelby is trying to figure out what just happened. She think’s people down south are just crazy. Shelby is trying to get to her mom’s house soon. They keep driving trying to ignoring the thing they just ran into. They see the crazy guy, at an abandoned church; he is going from his truck to a huge pipe. Jeff slows down, he is driving slowly. It sees that someone is driving slowly and he steps of to the side of his truck and stares at them. Shelby say’s “what in god’s name is he throwing in that pipe? Jeff steps on to the gas pedal and floors it, to get the heck out of there. He said bodies? It was wrapped in a sheet. Shelby said yes, wrapped in a sheet and looks like a body. Jeff says yeah, a body wrapped in a sheet with red stains? What in the world would he be doing with bodies”! “I don’t know” says Jeff! As they take off that guy that is dumping the bodies gets into his truck and starts to chase them. He is flying down the road; he is driving as fast as he can. The guy hits the car, making them hit their heads off the dash board. Jeff is screaming, telling him to go around them. Jeff says hold on; Shelby says do whatever don’t kill us. Jeff try’s to speed up and he hits get the fence to see if they can get away from this creep. When they get stopped, Jeff and Shelby get out. They are in shock, Jeff gets a shirt and tries to tie the back down so the truck won’t fly open anymore. Jeff stops and looks at Shelby and says what if they were still alive. Jeff shut up we are not going back there, he would kill us if he catches us looking into the pipe. Sis what if you were down there, wouldn't you want someone to come and help you. I think they could be alive, you know this is the right thing to do. No Jeff I am not going back there, this thing could be hiding and come back and kill us. Shelby this is the thing to do. Please, go back there with me. Fine but I am not getting out of the truck. When Jeff and Shelby arrive at the church, they shut the car off and Jeff hesitates to get out of the car. He steps out of the car and Shelby gets out and stands with him. They walk over to the pipe, and they look down the pipe. Jeff tells Shelby to get a flash light, hurry Shelby. Jeff walks to the side and hears a help me cry from the pipe, he screams hello. Hello is someone there. Shelby hurry up I hear something. I’m going down there too see what’s down there. No you’re not Jeff stop, they hear a Help me, please help me. Shelby just hold my feet I’m going to just go half way down, hold my feet shelby please. Jeff I’m going to count to ten, then I am going to let go and go back to the car. Shut up Shelby I hear something. Hello is anyone down there, Shelby I see something. It’s moving, it’s it’s RATS, rats, rats, rats, ewwwww rats. shelby lets go and falls backwards, jeff falls down the pipe and cuts his hand and stomach. shelby is screaming, jeff, jeff answer me are you okay, jeff!! jeff answer me. I told you not to go down there, jeff whispers yeah right shut up shelby. Yes I am find shut up, I need to find a way outta here, it’s a basement to a church right! Shelby go to the road and fine someone that can help us please, go. shelby runs to the road, and tries to get someone’s attention. jeff gets the flash light and looks around, he see’s bodies, wrapped and roped, with blood stains on it. He sees one moving, he say’s hello. The body grabs jeff’s leg, jeff screams his head off. shelby runs to the pipe saying jeff what is wrong, jeff are you there. Go get help shelby. shelby goes back to the body and sees that it’s moving and screaming, and opens the sheet. He sees a young boy who has been stitched up, his whole chest has been cut open. His lips are blue, he isn’t getting any oxygen to his body. The boy is whispering, hide, hide, go hide. The boy then dies right there on the spot. jeff is in shock, he gets up and uses the flash light to look around the basement, he sees bodies everywhere, and they are all wrapped in a sheet with a rope around them, with blood stains. Jeff goes up the stairs to the church and see’s the body that has been gone for 20 years now. Police found the car all smashed up and they never found the heads to the young boy and girl, which died on that road. Jeff goes up the stairs into a small room, he sees a sewing machine, and he also finds the bodies to the kids that died. It was said that they never found the heads to that boy and girl. jeff finds the heads and the bodies. The bodies were sewed together and their heads were sewed on their bodies. After 20 years you would assume that the bodies would be bones by now. jeff keeps looking around, trying to find out why this guy is doing what he is doing. shelby is sitting on the hood of her car, she sees someone coming down the road and she panics, she gets into her car and she tries to start it, she is grinding gears to get it into reverse, she can’t get it into the right gear, she thinks it’s the guys coming back after them. She is trying to get out of there. The truck passes and she realizes it isn’t that guy. She sits back and takes a deep breath and starts to calm down. She is wondering where jeff is at, she looks around doesn’t see him. jeff runs out of the church, and runs into the car; he is in shook because of what he saw. He scares the crap out of shelby when he hits the car, she jumps back and screams, god jeff what is wrong with you. Jeff gets in the car, Shelby offers to drive, and they get going down the road. Shelby tries to get jeff to talk but he won’t budge or say a word to her, he just keeps looking out the window. jeff answer me what did you see, jeff please answer me, are you okay? Do you know what he did to those kids, shelby do you know what he did to them? No jeff what happened please tell me! He sewed their heads back on and sewed their bodies together he had them holding hands, he had a class ring on too, his God Damn name was Jeff!! That’s my name. Jeff are you are going to be okay! jeff you need to eat something, go to the bathroom and clean up you smell and look like you just came out of a sewer pipe, I am going to go find a phone and call the police. Jeff and shelby get out of the car and go into the gas station/ dinner. Help us, please help us, can someone call the cops, please something has happened and needs to be taken care of. Everyone looks at them, like they are crazy. They talk to the waitress, and she goes into the kitchen. The phone rings, and everyone keeps looking at them, a guy speaks up and asks are you going to answer that. Shelby answers it saying hello? Jeff , Shelby is that you? Who is this? Don’t worry about that, are you guys okay is something wrong with you? You guys need to get out of there. Who is this and how do you know us. Can I tell you something, you guys are in danger you need to get out of there! We don’t know you so how do you know what we need; he is coming for you guys, jeff you have a ripped shirt where it shows your rose by your belly button, and you have a cut hand, shelby is fine, but you are the one who is hurt. Lady you don’t even know us, leave us alone. Who was that asks shelby? One of the waitresses’ calls the cops. Jeff and shelby wait for them; they are sitting at a table, jef changes his shirt shelby puts a coat over her top. The cops arrive and talk with the waitress and consult with jeff and shelby. Jeff and shelby tell the cop everything that they saw. jeff is screaming at the cop trying to tell him, he saw the kids that died on that road along time ago. The cops said “after 20 years they would be nothing but bones”. No not necessarily officer. Hey hey is that your clothes out there, and your car? What you mean my clothes; someone saw that thing in your car smelling your laundry, like enjoy sniffing your laundry. It looked like he liked it. He saw it going through your car, are you kidding me, what in the hell does it want, jeff don’t you see it wants us for some reason we don’t know why. Oh great it even knows my name, now what do I do. Hey do you guys want a hand print? The cops and jeff look at the hand print they take the handle off the door and take off, the cops are following them. The cops get a report on the handle. They said it had dead skin on it, it’s not from an human, hmmm that is really strange alright 10-4 over. What is your location hold on officer the sky is falling, 10-4. What the crap was that Doug? I don’t know I’ll look, okay. Holy S*** ahhhh Doug, what the hell, the creature sticks its hand thru the car roof, and grabbed the police officers head and cut it off. He then throws the head onto jeff’s car and shelby is driving she screams and slides the car sideways, to avoid wrecking. They stop the car and shelby gets out and start to scream Officer Frank, Hello Officer Frank are you okay? Officer Frank answer me! shelby get back in the car, Shelby don’t. shelby get back into the car, for god sakes get back in the car. I see Blood. shelby looks in front of the Officer’s car and sees Frank’s head, she runs back to the car and takes off! They keep driving till they find a lady’s house, they get out the car and slowly creep up to the door and hear a lady say, who it is. My name is Jeff and this is my girlfriend Shelby, we need to call the cops, someone was been murdered. Murdered, who? A police officer ma’am please call the cops. Sweetie no one calls the cops on a murder especially out here in the middle of nowhere. They hear a meow, now look what you did, you woke my babies! How could you wake my babies, you woke them up, now they can’t sleep how dare you. Ma’am please call the cops, now sweetie we don’t use the cops we use guns. After we shoot them we burry them and it’s said and done! Hun you’re almost in Texas territory, the cops are too afraid to come out to a call like this. Ma’am please, you have to help us. They hear a noise, the lady goes inside and gets a huge gun, and she screams you better get out of my garden before I kill you.
She fires and hits the scarecrow the creature goes inside her house she chases it, Jeff and Shelby are walking backwards towards the car. The lady is in side and we hear 2 bangs, the lady shot him twice. She comes walking out, but she’s not walking the creature is holding her walking her to the front door and Jeff whispers let’s leave now, she says hello children want to come in. Jeff and Shelby run to the car and throw it in reverse after the car being stuck in reverse, Jeff says just back up. Shelby floors it, then takes off and runs him over, she backs up and hits him again. She does this 4 more times trying to get it to die. Stop Trish says Darry, they put it in gear and notice that it is has wings, it starts to flap its wings, jeff is in shock, and says let’s get out if here please. Trish takes off running it over one more time. They enter Texas around 3 am. They find a police station and go in and talk with them, they call their parents and tell them where they are at, and told them what has happened. A strange portly women walks in the door and screams Jeff, Shelby you made it how are you. They look at the women and say who are you? I called you at the
restaurant! How do you know us? I had a dream you guys were in trouble. How did you know? The police officer screams, Lisa leave these two alone they have been through enough today. She is screaming saying how she knows what is going to happen next. We hear a mayday mayday, code 199 code 199. There is something in a cell, he is eating the guy, he is taking something from his insides. What are you talking about? There is a creature he is eating this thing. It’s eating hearts. Human’s hearts! Are you serious human hearts? The police officer walks over to the creature and shines the flash light on it and it turns around and smiles at him and grabs him and pulls his heart out and eats it. Jeff and Shelby are in an interview room waiting and Jeff is screaming at Shelby saying we should have just waited and kept going. It’s here now and we could die, because we listed to a lady who had a dream. The creature bust through the double sided mirror and grabs Jeff and Shelby. It sniffs both of them, it has a certain scent it likes. It throws Shelby and looks at Jeff and smiles. The cops are right behind the glass holding their guns going shoot. Shelby says wait, you don’t want him you want me, please take me I won’t fight you I will let you have me, I’m much stronger take me. Please don’t take him you want me. He starts to let go of Jeff and fly’s out the window and Shelby starts to scream Jeff, no Jeff. She takes off following where it’s flying and it disappears in the moonlight. The police man follows her and brings her inside and calms her down and tells her he is going to call her parents. Shelby spends the night at the police station, guards are by her side 24/7 so she doesn’t leave or get attacked. Lisa walks in and says Shelby your parents are here to get you. She keep rambling on how she is sorry, Shelby doesn’t listen to her she just keeps walking and stops at the stairs and looks up in the sky where she saw Jeff get taken away from that ugly creature. The end!
is screaming at Jeff what do I do? He is yelling I don’t know, wave at him to go around you. She slows down and he goes around her, he is flying around her as fast as he can, like he’s in a hurry. She stops the car and they both get out and look at each other they can’t figure out what just happened. They switch seats, Jeff starts to drive. They get some water out from the back and they get back into the car and drive off. As they are going down the road, Shelby is trying to figure out what just happened. She think’s people down south are just crazy. Shelby is trying to get to her mom’s house soon. They keep driving trying to ignoring the thing they just ran into. They see the crazy guy, at an abandoned church; he is going from his truck to a huge pipe. Jeff slows down, he is driving slowly. It sees that someone is driving slowly and he steps of to the side of his truck and stares at them. Shelby say’s “what in god’s name is he throwing in that pipe? Jeff steps on to the gas pedal and floors it, to get the heck out of there. He said bodies? It was wrapped in a sheet. Shelby said yes, wrapped in a sheet and looks like a body. Jeff says yeah, a body wrapped in a sheet with red stains? What in the world would he be doing with bodies”! “I don’t know” says Jeff! As they take off that guy that is dumping the bodies gets into his truck and starts to chase them. He is flying down the road; he is driving as fast as he can. The guy hits the car, making them hit their heads off the dash board. Jeff is screaming, telling him to go around them. Jeff says hold on; Shelby says do whatever don’t kill us. Jeff try’s to speed up and he hits get the fence to see if they can get away from this creep. When they get stopped, Jeff and Shelby get out. They are in shock, Jeff gets a shirt and tries to tie the back down so the truck won’t fly open anymore. Jeff stops and looks at Shelby and says what if they were still alive. Jeff shut up we are not going back there, he would kill us if he catches us looking into the pipe. Sis what if you were down there, wouldn't you want someone to come and help you. I think they could be alive, you know this is the right thing to do. No Jeff I am not going back there, this thing could be hiding and come back and kill us. Shelby this is the thing to do. Please, go back there with me. Fine but I am not getting out of the truck. When Jeff and Shelby arrive at the church, they shut the car off and Jeff hesitates to get out of the car. He steps out of the car and Shelby gets out and stands with him. They walk over to the pipe, and they look down the pipe. Jeff tells Shelby to get a flash light, hurry Shelby. Jeff walks to the side and hears a help me cry from the pipe, he screams hello. Hello is someone there. Shelby hurry up I hear something. I’m going down there too see what’s down there. No you’re not Jeff stop, they hear a Help me, please help me. Shelby just hold my feet I’m going to just go half way down, hold my feet shelby please. Jeff I’m going to count to ten, then I am going to let go and go back to the car. Shut up Shelby I hear something. Hello is anyone down there, Shelby I see something. It’s moving, it’s it’s RATS, rats, rats, rats, ewwwww rats. shelby lets go and falls backwards, jeff falls down the pipe and cuts his hand and stomach. shelby is screaming, jeff, jeff answer me are you okay, jeff!! jeff answer me. I told you not to go down there, jeff whispers yeah right shut up shelby. Yes I am find shut up, I need to find a way outta here, it’s a basement to a church right! Shelby go to the road and fine someone that can help us please, go. shelby runs to the road, and tries to get someone’s attention. jeff gets the flash light and looks around, he see’s bodies, wrapped and roped, with blood stains on it. He sees one moving, he say’s hello. The body grabs jeff’s leg, jeff screams his head off. shelby runs to the pipe saying jeff what is wrong, jeff are you there. Go get help shelby. shelby goes back to the body and sees that it’s moving and screaming, and opens the sheet. He sees a young boy who has been stitched up, his whole chest has been cut open. His lips are blue, he isn’t getting any oxygen to his body. The boy is whispering, hide, hide, go hide. The boy then dies right there on the spot. jeff is in shock, he gets up and uses the flash light to look around the basement, he sees bodies everywhere, and they are all wrapped in a sheet with a rope around them, with blood stains. Jeff goes up the stairs to the church and see’s the body that has been gone for 20 years now. Police found the car all smashed up and they never found the heads to the young boy and girl, which died on that road. Jeff goes up the stairs into a small room, he sees a sewing machine, and he also finds the bodies to the kids that died. It was said that they never found the heads to that boy and girl. jeff finds the heads and the bodies. The bodies were sewed together and their heads were sewed on their bodies. After 20 years you would assume that the bodies would be bones by now. jeff keeps looking around, trying to find out why this guy is doing what he is doing. shelby is sitting on the hood of her car, she sees someone coming down the road and she panics, she gets into her car and she tries to start it, she is grinding gears to get it into reverse, she can’t get it into the right gear, she thinks it’s the guys coming back after them. She is trying to get out of there. The truck passes and she realizes it isn’t that guy. She sits back and takes a deep breath and starts to calm down. She is wondering where jeff is at, she looks around doesn’t see him. jeff runs out of the church, and runs into the car; he is in shook because of what he saw. He scares the crap out of shelby when he hits the car, she jumps back and screams, god jeff what is wrong with you. Jeff gets in the car, Shelby offers to drive, and they get going down the road. Shelby tries to get jeff to talk but he won’t budge or say a word to her, he just keeps looking out the window. jeff answer me what did you see, jeff please answer me, are you okay? Do you know what he did to those kids, shelby do you know what he did to them? No jeff what happened please tell me! He sewed their heads back on and sewed their bodies together he had them holding hands, he had a class ring on too, his God Damn name was Jeff!! That’s my name. Jeff are you are going to be okay! jeff you need to eat something, go to the bathroom and clean up you smell and look like you just came out of a sewer pipe, I am going to go find a phone and call the police. Jeff and shelby get out of the car and go into the gas station/ dinner. Help us, please help us, can someone call the cops, please something has happened and needs to be taken care of. Everyone looks at them, like they are crazy. They talk to the waitress, and she goes into the kitchen. The phone rings, and everyone keeps looking at them, a guy speaks up and asks are you going to answer that. Shelby answers it saying hello? Jeff , Shelby is that you? Who is this? Don’t worry about that, are you guys okay is something wrong with you? You guys need to get out of there. Who is this and how do you know us. Can I tell you something, you guys are in danger you need to get out of there! We don’t know you so how do you know what we need; he is coming for you guys, jeff you have a ripped shirt where it shows your rose by your belly button, and you have a cut hand, shelby is fine, but you are the one who is hurt. Lady you don’t even know us, leave us alone. Who was that asks shelby? One of the waitresses’ calls the cops. Jeff and shelby wait for them; they are sitting at a table, jef changes his shirt shelby puts a coat over her top. The cops arrive and talk with the waitress and consult with jeff and shelby. Jeff and shelby tell the cop everything that they saw. jeff is screaming at the cop trying to tell him, he saw the kids that died on that road along time ago. The cops said “after 20 years they would be nothing but bones”. No not necessarily officer. Hey hey is that your clothes out there, and your car? What you mean my clothes; someone saw that thing in your car smelling your laundry, like enjoy sniffing your laundry. It looked like he liked it. He saw it going through your car, are you kidding me, what in the hell does it want, jeff don’t you see it wants us for some reason we don’t know why. Oh great it even knows my name, now what do I do. Hey do you guys want a hand print? The cops and jeff look at the hand print they take the handle off the door and take off, the cops are following them. The cops get a report on the handle. They said it had dead skin on it, it’s not from an human, hmmm that is really strange alright 10-4 over. What is your location hold on officer the sky is falling, 10-4. What the crap was that Doug? I don’t know I’ll look, okay. Holy S*** ahhhh Doug, what the hell, the creature sticks its hand thru the car roof, and grabbed the police officers head and cut it off. He then throws the head onto jeff’s car and shelby is driving she screams and slides the car sideways, to avoid wrecking. They stop the car and shelby gets out and start to scream Officer Frank, Hello Officer Frank are you okay? Officer Frank answer me! shelby get back in the car, Shelby don’t. shelby get back into the car, for god sakes get back in the car. I see Blood. shelby looks in front of the Officer’s car and sees Frank’s head, she runs back to the car and takes off! They keep driving till they find a lady’s house, they get out the car and slowly creep up to the door and hear a lady say, who it is. My name is Jeff and this is my girlfriend Shelby, we need to call the cops, someone was been murdered. Murdered, who? A police officer ma’am please call the cops. Sweetie no one calls the cops on a murder especially out here in the middle of nowhere. They hear a meow, now look what you did, you woke my babies! How could you wake my babies, you woke them up, now they can’t sleep how dare you. Ma’am please call the cops, now sweetie we don’t use the cops we use guns. After we shoot them we burry them and it’s said and done! Hun you’re almost in Texas territory, the cops are too afraid to come out to a call like this. Ma’am please, you have to help us. They hear a noise, the lady goes inside and gets a huge gun, and she screams you better get out of my garden before I kill you.
She fires and hits the scarecrow the creature goes inside her house she chases it, Jeff and Shelby are walking backwards towards the car. The lady is in side and we hear 2 bangs, the lady shot him twice. She comes walking out, but she’s not walking the creature is holding her walking her to the front door and Jeff whispers let’s leave now, she says hello children want to come in. Jeff and Shelby run to the car and throw it in reverse after the car being stuck in reverse, Jeff says just back up. Shelby floors it, then takes off and runs him over, she backs up and hits him again. She does this 4 more times trying to get it to die. Stop Trish says Darry, they put it in gear and notice that it is has wings, it starts to flap its wings, jeff is in shock, and says let’s get out if here please. Trish takes off running it over one more time. They enter Texas around 3 am. They find a police station and go in and talk with them, they call their parents and tell them where they are at, and told them what has happened. A strange portly women walks in the door and screams Jeff, Shelby you made it how are you. They look at the women and say who are you? I called you at the
restaurant! How do you know us? I had a dream you guys were in trouble. How did you know? The police officer screams, Lisa leave these two alone they have been through enough today. She is screaming saying how she knows what is going to happen next. We hear a mayday mayday, code 199 code 199. There is something in a cell, he is eating the guy, he is taking something from his insides. What are you talking about? There is a creature he is eating this thing. It’s eating hearts. Human’s hearts! Are you serious human hearts? The police officer walks over to the creature and shines the flash light on it and it turns around and smiles at him and grabs him and pulls his heart out and eats it. Jeff and Shelby are in an interview room waiting and Jeff is screaming at Shelby saying we should have just waited and kept going. It’s here now and we could die, because we listed to a lady who had a dream. The creature bust through the double sided mirror and grabs Jeff and Shelby. It sniffs both of them, it has a certain scent it likes. It throws Shelby and looks at Jeff and smiles. The cops are right behind the glass holding their guns going shoot. Shelby says wait, you don’t want him you want me, please take me I won’t fight you I will let you have me, I’m much stronger take me. Please don’t take him you want me. He starts to let go of Jeff and fly’s out the window and Shelby starts to scream Jeff, no Jeff. She takes off following where it’s flying and it disappears in the moonlight. The police man follows her and brings her inside and calms her down and tells her he is going to call her parents. Shelby spends the night at the police station, guards are by her side 24/7 so she doesn’t leave or get attacked. Lisa walks in and says Shelby your parents are here to get you. She keep rambling on how she is sorry, Shelby doesn’t listen to her she just keeps walking and stops at the stairs and looks up in the sky where she saw Jeff get taken away from that ugly creature. The end!