Misjudging An Act.

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Misjudging An Act

It was a cold bitter murky night, the lights of the tall, dull, characterless lamp posts was reflecting off of my front windscreen infiltrating a distraction creating an inconspicuous vision of the road in front of me.

It was the time of Micheal Jackson’s first single hit (Thriller) 1986. I had Thriller playing loud and clear in my car causing a rumbling effect beneath my seat, as the vibrations of the speakers were extremely loud.

I was approximately 25 minutes from home, I wanted to reach home before Eastenders started rumour has it that in today’s episode Phil is going to be shot by an anonymous murderer.

I sustained my drive along highway D34, rush hour had just past so I had a steady drive home.

Suddenly thunder had struck, people closed their windows and curtains, there was a roar of tongues from the people who were outside facing the thunderous weather searching for victory against nature, the rain hit my car like silver crashing to the ground.

I came off the highway and approached a narrow road, I opened my window and I could smell a unsatisfying smell elevating from the gutters, as I closed my window I caught a glimpse of a stray car in my rear view mirror with its head lights on full beam. I continued driving admiring the pleasure of Micheal Jackson’s sympathetic voice until I realised the car that was behind me was drastically increasing its speed. I looked around like a quarantined gargoyle, I noticed nothing as if nature used transparency to conceal the dangers of monstrosity.

I had no apparent idea of why the car behind me was speeding up rapidly causing the engine to rev up to approximately 6000 rpm. I spotted the car gaining on me as if it was attempting to drive me off of the road.

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I gradually felt a shadow of dimness looming over the right hand side of my car. I momentarily looked to my right curious and concerned of what maybe occurring and I saw that identical car that was behind me speeding past me adjacent to my car on the other lane, scrapping it’s tyre’s against the refurbished tarmac roads generating a group of stones to flicker on my window because of the pressure of the friction between the tyres and the road.

My skin cracked like a pod, my feet trembled like a simulator and I sat in trepidation. I ...

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