Goodbye bus driver

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  Everyday after school I got on the bus as usual. The bus ride was really annoying because the bus driver would take the longest routes that didn't make any sense. After an exhausting day of school, all I wanted to do was get home and relax. What should be a 15 minute bus ride was instead a bus ride that usually lasted around an hour and fifteen minutes. It was very irritating to me and everyone else on the bus.
  Our bus driver was a creepy old man who was always smiling. I would peer over my seat and see him in the mirror smiling. I seriously never saw that man frown, he just wore that extremely creepy smile. I was always the last one on the bus and I hated it, especially since I lived literally only a couple minutes away from the school.
  Having a creepy bus driver and an extremely long bus ride was very irritating. There was never even that many people on the bus in the first place and the routes were just plan ridiculous.
  Every time someone got off the bus he would tell them "goodnight", still having that creepy smile. I don't know why, but I found it pretty creepy when he said it. I know bus drivers usually say something like "see ya" or "have a good day" but I just thought that saying "goodnight" I was kind of strange. I thought that maybe I was overthinking it, but it just creeped me out.
  It was even more strange because I wasn't only the last one on the bus, but I was the only one on that bus for fifteen minutes. I would just put in my earbud and listen to music, but I just didn't like the vibe I was getting from the bus driver's smile. I could've worn that he was staring straight at me many of the times it was just me on the bus.
  One day when I went to school I noticed that the bus driver was different. I asked the new bus driver if she was just a substitute, but she explained to me that she was in fact our new bus driver.
  I was told that he was arrested for multiple rapes and murders over the years. Apparently, every time he saw a student he wanted to himself, he would drive around and drop off all the other students until it was just the two of them. Then, he would drive them out to the woods where he would rape and then kill him. It haunts me everyday that if he wasn't arrested then I would've been next.

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