The lady was an older lady, she must be the wife of the owner of this place. Audry seemed like the name of a man, I had not met many people with the name before but the ones I had met were all men. I shook my head and nodded to her, she smiled back at me.
She showed her teeth as well, it was probably not something that I even wanted to see either. Her teeth were stained black, I blinked a few times trying to get it out of my head and then I nodded to the lady, I could see some stuff behind her, a couple of coca cola drinks and then some snacks.
I didn't really want to have a snack as my dinner, but I suppose I had no other choice. I really hated being on this side of the country, that was one thing that I knew for sure. I looked at the lady one last time, and then I nodded to her letting her know that I was ready.
"Can I get a Dr. Pepper, and can you give me a bag of doritos?" I asked the lady. The lady looked at me for a few moments, and then she smiled and nodded. She began looking around for what I had asked for.
Dr. Pepper was my favorite drink, it was always the first drink that I would look for when I came to places like these. The lady was taking her sweet time, looking around the small little area as if she could not find what I was asking for.
I rolled my eyes, I could see both the Dr. Pepper and the Doritos... She was the one that actually worked here, she should know where everything was. I sat there for a few moments, almost thinking about walking away, but I was so hungry and thirsty at the same time.
Eventually she found her way to the Doritos, and she easily found the Dr. Pepper because it was in the only fridge that she even had. The lady then turned around and handed the things to me. I nodded to her and then she read out the price to me.
"That is going to be 14 dollars and 27 cents..." She said to me. I looked at her a bit surprised, she was beginning to get a little bit frustrated now. As if I was the one being stupid. There was no way that a small thing of Doritos and a Dr. Pepper should cost me nearly that much.
"How much is it if you remove the Dr. Pepper." I asked the lady, she looked at me for a few moments and then she began typing through her little register, which was slightly better quality than the one that the guy at the gas station had. I was just hungry if I was going to be completely honest with myself I could also saw a working card reader as well.
"Its going to cost you 12.39." She said to me. I looked at her still confused for a few more moments, I was not sure how one thing of Doritos could cost me that much money, even after tax. She rolled her eyes at me and then she began looking at her nails as if she was a young girl.
"So the Doritos are over 12 dollars?" I asked the lady. She looked at me for a few moments, and then she began laughing at me. I looked down at the ground, a bit confused as to why she was laughing at me like that, I just wanted to get a snack and then go to sleep right now.
"No... It cost you 10 dollars to stay the night..." She said to me. I looked at her now a bit more understanding. Most truck stops did not pay you to stay there for the night, I suppose this would make sense. This seemed like more of a private truck stop.
I hoped that my manager would not get upset at me for it, when he saw it on his balance. But to be fair I did have to pay for the gas money, so this would make up for it for sure. I handed the lady the card and then waited for her to put it in and give it back to me.
A part of me thought she was about to say the card reader was not working, just based off of the look on her face, she looked a bit upset like the guy at the gas station did. But she took the card luckily and slid it into the small little machine.
The look that the people had in this state I did not like, the middle part of the country was one of my least favorite parts to go through, it seemed like everyone just hated each other and there was nothing to do around here, I would never want to live out here.
She then handed me the Dr. Pepper and Doritos, this time smiling once again as she nodded for me to head off. I looked back at the lady and then nodded back to her. But I felt like I should say something at least to warm up her day, because no one around here looked happy at all.
"Thank you... Sorry about that, hope that you have a good night." I said to her. She looked at me for a few moments, showing almost no emotions at all. But she did respond however, which was good enough in my eyes I suppose.
"Thanks... You too." She said to me. I looked back at her and then nodded, she then went back into her little stand and she was nowhere to be seen. Much like the guy at the gas station, she did not hand me a bag. I did not say anything about it however and I just began walking back to my truck.
I looked back at one of the other trucks that were with me, once again, I saw the guy at the front seat looking at me with almost a bit of a scared look on his face. I closed my eyes and kept on walking, I almost felt like telling the guy to just go to sleep.
But I did not know if I could even get myself to sleep, today had been a bit of a rough day for sure. The guy that I saw though, he looked a bit afraid, not as if he was more upset at anything. I just kept on walking however, trying not to think back on it too much.
I was insanely tired as I walked to the front of my truck and I opened the door however, when I stepped in, the tired part of me began to settle in. I opened up my Dr. Pepper and began to take a few sips. Everyone always told me the caffeine woke you up, but it seemed like the opposite happened when it came to sodas.
I then opened my bag of my Doritos, eating into it. It did not take me long to finish it, I was so hungry to be fair. I looked ahead of me at the concession stand, the lady I could no longer see there anymore, but the guy in the truck in front of me had his back lights turned on.
It was hard to go to sleep with the lights turned on, so I turned my truck on, and turned on the headlights to my truck so that the guy would understand and he would turn the lights to his truck off. After a few moments, I saw the guy of the front truck poke his head out and give me the finger.
Then he turned the lights out to his truck, I did the same as well, just happy that the guy got the gest. I then turned off my truck and locked the doors. Then I lowered my head and began to lay my head to rest for the night.
The one good thing about my truck was that it was sort of comfortable, so I could fall asleep if I needed to, and when I was driving it was always good to be sitting on. I closed my eyes, and the sleep finally caught up to me fairly fast.
I woke up, but I was not in my truck, and it was not bright outside either. In fact it was not dark, none the less. I looked around a bit confused, I could see no sunlight anywhere, but there was a bright brim in the air to where I could see just about everything around me.
I looked around myself, I was in a field for whatever reason. Had I been sleep walking again? There was no way I could have gone this far, I did not see any trucks anywhere near me... Not only that, I had locked the doors to my truck, so there was no way I could unlock it and then walk out of the truck.
I did not see any trucks in any direction however, and it was beginning to scare me. I put my hand into my pocket to see if I had any connection on my phone and if I could track down my truck. But I then realized that I did not have a pocket, nor did I have hands or legs.
I was in a dream, I was beginning to realize that, I just closed my eyes, that was always the best thing for me to do when I wanted to get out of a dream. Every time I closed my eyes, I would wake up and it would be the morning for me.
This time it did not seem to do that sort of luck on me. I began to hear drums... Maybe I was not in a dream, I opened my eyes and I was in a completely different area, I was in a small little wooded area, next to a cabin. I could hear the drums from inside the cabin.
Did I dare even go into the cabin? The drums sounded kind of scary, I was not going to lie, and I was usually not one to get scared either. I did not walk anywhere near the cabin however, but all of the sudden my eyes started freaking out on me and my body began randomly moving towards the cabin.
Now I was at the front door to the cabin, and the door was laying wide open. All I could see in the cabin was nothing back darkness, and the drum was continuing to beat over and over again. After a few moments, I then blinked, a longer blink than I had ever done before.
When I reopened my eyes after the blink the cabin was now lit up and I could see all around it. I noticed that there were people in the cabin, and they were all staring at me with evil little smiled on their face. Now I could see the guy that was banging on the drums.
He was the guy in the front, and he was smiling at me. He had on a robe, the robe was straight black, and on the side of robes there were smaller red things. I could see fire also in the background of the cabin, however it was no normal sort of fire, the fire was straight red and purple.
I shivered and then I looked back at the guy that was banging the drum, once again my body for some reason was pulling me in towards the guy. I looked at the guy, there was no other place to look, I tried closing my eyes and drowning all of it out, but it did no such sort of luck this time.
The guy then stopped banging on the drum, he put the drumstick beside him on one of the other drums, and then he looked at me for a few moments. He then began to nod, smiling at me now. He lowered his head and then began to bow at me for some reason.
"Christian! Welcome to our gathering, would you like to do the sacrifice?" He began saying to me. I looked at him a bit confused as to what he was talking about. Was this some sort of satanic gathering? I had seen a freemason sticker on one of the guys cars earlier, this was really beginning to scare me.
I cursed my father for telling me all about those satanic illuminati theories, I knew that must be the reason for me having this dream. It was because of the sticker of the freemasons that I had seen on the car earlier. I tried my best to close my eyes once again, but no such luck. Then for some reason my voice began to speak, even though I was not trying.
"Yes, give me the blade!" I said to the guy. The guy looked at me and then smiled, then he began giving me a very large knife, almost to the point to where I could call it a sword or a machete. For some reason my hand took it, I was not trying to.
At this point, I kind of gave up, I would just let the dream play through. I hated dreams like this, when there was nothing I could do at all. I looked down and saw a large bowl, I saw something inside it, there was a rabbit and people around me where holding on to it for me so that it did not get away.
Suddenly I picked up my hand and stabbed my knife deep into the throat of the rabbit, the rabbit was gone now. The people that were with my began cheering, and for some weird reason I began to feel a sort of sense of joy. This time I was able to close my eyes however...
I woke up, almost bumping my head into the steering wheel. I looked around almost thinking that I was going to see the freemasons just around the corner, but luckily I was alone and I was safe. It was early in the morning, I saw one of the trucks leaving the place that I was in.
I figured that I should do so as well, I just wanted to get the hell out of this place as soon as possible. But first I did badly need to use the bathroom at the same time. I opened the door to my truck, I saw a small little porta potty, and then I began walking towards it.
I knew that it was going to be nasty, but I was not too worried about it, I was just going to take a piss and not a shit. Once I was over to it, I noticed that the door was marked read, saying that there was someone inside, and that it was locked. I cursed myself, I really needed to take a piss.
What were the odds that out of 4 trucks being here still, someone would be in there this early in the morning? I closed my eyes trying to not get too upset about it, I just wanted to get out of Kansas as soon as possible, I should be out of here at the halfway point of the day.
The door began to open, and I saw the guy that had given me the finger last night. He looked to have a bit of a scared look on his face still, I did my best to try not to think about it. But the guy began talking to me, so I had no reason to not listen.
"Man... Get the hell out of this state as soon as possible! There's some evil shit going on here!" He said to me. I looked at him a bit surprised, it was really starting to scare. I just looked at the guy and then nodded trying not to think about it. "Im telling you man! Hit the road!"