Young Writers Society

Chapter One

Douglas Macintyre was driving through the state of Arizona. He was searching for something that a lot of other people wouldn’t be searching. What he was searching for was going to lead him into another cycle in his life.

“Take, torture, and kill.” Douglas thought to himself.

The words repeated in his head psychologically over and over again. Douglas was driving on the path where most serial killers would drive, America’s highways. Highways in the areas where sheriffs did not exist. Douglas was a trucker who would have one common objective besides his standard way of his occupation. It was to find vulnerable people that needed rides, and to victimize them to their death. Now these days’ people were hitchhiking all over America. Douglas looked over to his left window of his truck as he saw a view of Arizona, practically in the middle of nowhere. The area felt like a desert with abandoned roads. In the distance, Douglas could see tall mountains with roads that went along the strides of the mountains. He felt like this was the perfect place to kill and brutally torture someone, and it is.

Nate Cornwell and his lovely fiancé Audrey Byers were in the back seat of a stranger’s car. They were in Arizona hitch hiking and trying to reach their home state, Idaho. The driver was a man willing to give them a lift and was planning to drop them off to the nearest driveway. They were riding on the highways of Arizona, the heaven of serial killers. Something then caught the driver’s eye. There was a tall silver pole with a sign over it saying gas.

“I think I’m going to have to drop you folks off to this gas station,” the mysterious man said.

“That’s fine, thank you sir for the ride,” replied Nate.

He pulled over to the gas station Nate and Audrey opened the doors of the car and closed them. They both had backpacks with lunches in them; however they did not have much money with them. That was the only reason why they needed to get rides that led them to Idaho.

“Were so grateful for your kindness sir, we thank you for the ride.” Nate said in a polite tone.

“No problem, good luck getting to your home state,” the man replied.

“Thank you very much and god bless you sir,” Audrey said.

They went over to the gas station and found an old wooden bench near it. They sat on it and held hands romantically. The view they had was not as romantic, it was basically a view of Arizona with dust and highways to look at. He suddenly grabbed his red backpack and unzipped it. In there was some water bottles and some peanut butter and banana sandwiches. Both, Audrey and Nate preferred the taste of creamy peanut butter with bananas in sandwiches rather than peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.

“I have lunch for us darling,” said Nate.

“What are we having for lunch sweetheart?” Audrey replied with a bright smile.

“Peanut butter and banana sandwiches,” Nate smiled.

“Aw, you knew that was my favorite sandwich wasn’t it?” She lightly tapped Nate’s nose.

“Bet I did,” he smoothly kissed her swiftly on the cheek.

Before the wonderful couple took a bite of their sandwiches they were going to say their blessings for the food.

“We thank the lord for the food we have in our hands, god bless,” they both said the words with their passion for religion.

They started to take small bites of their sandwiches. When the romantic couples were nearly finished, Nate took out the bible out of his backpack. He flipped through the pages and chose a page to admire religiously along with Audrey. Nate looked over to see a man driving a truck. An instant thought came to Nate’s mind.

“Maybe this man could give us a lift,” Nate thought.

The truck went to slowly park and took up two spaces of the parking lot. One of the doors of the truck opened and a man cautiously jumped out of his seat and slammed the door to his truck shut. Nate watched as the man walked in a confident way with a fast stride of constancy. The man had blonde hair with green charming eyes. He looked like the type of man that most people can respect fully and trust. Nate then looked down at the bible again. The man seemed to notice and looked over to the couple sitting on a bench. The man could also observe and make an inference that the young and wonderful looking couple was admiring the bible. The man slowly approached the young couple in a friendly matter.

“What lovely and wonderful looking couple could be doing in a dump like this?” The man asked.

“Were actually looking for a ride because we are low on money,” Audrey replied and gave the man a warm and friendly smile.

“Where are you folks headed to then?” The man replied with curiosity.

“My lovely fiancé and I are heading to our home state, Idaho.” Nate said happily.

“Ah, Idaho, I think I’ve been there twice already,” The man smiled.

“Is that state in the direction to where you’re heading by any chance? Nate asked with an innocent look on his face.

The man paused for a moment, he seemed to be thinking about whether he should give them a ride or not.

Well, they seem to be a nice couple, the man thought.

“Tell you what,” the man said as Nate looked up.

“I will give you folks a ride to Idaho,” the man said as he smiled.

“Thank you sir, that’s very kind and generous of you,” smiled Audrey.

“You guys can come along for a ride on my truck after I go to the bathroom and get some coffee, don’t worry it will be quick,” the man explained.

“Okay then, thank you sir,” replied Nate.

During the very few minutes when the man was gone, Nate and Audrey putted back their bible back in their backpack and stood up from the old wooden bench. They slowly walked to the door outside the shop of the gas station and held hands while they waited for the man to return. A couple minutes later the man returned from the shop.

“You guys ready to go?” He asked.

“Yep, were ready whenever you are,” Nate replied.

They walked to the truck together and all three of them got in.

“Again, thank you for the ride,” Audrey said.

“No problem guys,” the man replied.

“What’s your name sir?” Nate said.

The man paused and suddenly looked at Nate.

“My name is John,” said the man as he gave them a smile.

“It’s a pleasure to meet you, John.” Audrey said as he shook hands with the man.

Nate did the same with John.

“Well I guess we better be hitting the road,” John said.

John drove the truck out of the area of the gas station and drove onto the highway.

“The lamb has gone into the cattle, they just have no idea,” Douglas thought as he smiled.