The Night Pursued

It was a cold night, and I was on my way back to my hometown. It took 4 hours of Bus ride from KL to my hometown, and I tried to get myself some sleep, but the street lights and the cold air-conditional kept me awake. I kept my sling bag, below my seat, which is something typical for me to do, while leaving my luggage at the rear side of the bus.

There were only a few passengers, here and there, sitting in the bus. I sat alone, and in front of me was no one, and behind me was no one. I sat at the fourth last row from the the last.

I called my sister to fetch me when I am just 10 minutes afar from my hometown bus station.

I was entirely beat up and tired due to the long waiting and journey. It was around 11pm when I arrived to my hometown, and I got up upright, and walked down to take my luggage, and I thanked the driver for his well done work in driving me safely to the bus station.

As a normal thing to be done, I went to my friend's stall, a burger stand, and waited for my sister to arrive. I exchange a few words with my friends whom were just sitting around there, and I saw the bus leaving the bus station to his next destination.

Out of the blue, I remember that, I forgot to take my bag from below the seat. I got really angst, because I just bought my new HDD for myself. My friends, without any sense to help me, said 'go and chase the bus then'. I was suffocated with their apathy, and I felt quite disappointed with their attitude.

As soon as my sister arrived, I quickly jumped into the car and asked her to chase down the bus. Both of us were rather nervous because it was a quite dark night, and the car wasn't my sister's but rather my brother's. She wasn't that confident in driving fast in that car, so speeding higher than 100km/h was out of question.

I was rather anxious, to whether we would be able to catch the bus or not, but after 30 minutes trying to pursuing the bus, we finally be able to see the bus. However, to ask the bus to stop in the dead night, was rather out of question. Due to the many cases of theft and malicious acts, we found that waiting for the bus at it next bus stop was the best way. So, we speed up until we arrived, and waited there for a few minutes.

After the bus stopped and dropped down the passengers, I went up the bus and took my bag. I was really grateful that the bag was still there. We arrived home at 1am.