It Haunts Me to this Day
I was 15 and my mom dropped me off at McDonald’s to get breakfast while she went across the street to get Starbucks. It was a shopping mall in suburbia and we were on the way to pick up a new kitten a few hours away.
Instead of walking the 100 yards to my mom, I sat outside waiting for her to pick me up. Teenagers, I guess. As I’m standing there a guy in an old station wagon with two kids in the back starts talking to me.
He asks me where I’m going and I say whatever town it was. He says he’s going there too with his kids and asks if I want to come.
I tell him no, that my mom is across the street and he comes closer. My gut is saying something is off so I see a random woman walk out of Starbucks and I point to her and say that’s my mom right there.
He freaked out and left really quick. I still remember those two kids in the backseat. They looked so off. I wonder to this day if they are okay.