去年，那是一个雨夜，我在国道上拦了一辆车回重庆，现在回想一下，那应该是辆很破的老式客车，车子很空，在车子的最后一排坐着一位少女，她旁边有一排空座。 我走过去问她：“这个位子我可以坐吗?” 她微笑的点了点头，她很美，美得有点让人惊讶，她穿着一条素色的长裙，出于一种男人的本性，于是我便和她聊了起来。我和她聊了一些我的往事。

她听的很入神，讲到情深之处她还有一些感触。接着，她的话匣子也打开了。她说：“我今年22岁，小时候很苦，在我五岁生日那天，爸爸突然走到我面前对我说，明天妈妈就会离开我们，请千万不要伤心。那时我还小，并没有在意。第二天早上醒来，我听到妈妈过世的噩耗，我用一种诧异的神看着爸爸，他只是对我苦苦地笑。就这样爸爸、我和弟弟三人又过了几年，在我十岁生日那天晚上爸爸泪流满面的对我说：明天弟弟也要离开我们了。”I ask, “Where is my brother going?” Dad said: "Brother to mom." That time I also didn't understand. And then over a year, my brother mysteriously left this world, I felt fear, went to find dad, dad looked at me with a cold expression without saying a word. After that few years, I lived well but on my 15th birthday morning dad prepared everything in the house for me and had a birthday party for me in the evening he suddenly said: "Tomorrow father will leave you too." He handed me a letter and said: "Wait until you are 20 years old to open it. Everything will be clear."

I was afraid; I feared that everything dad said was true. The next day, indeed father left me; they found his body by the river.

She continued her story while she choked back tears. She told us about how after three more years of loneliness she met someone named Arkan who became her love and they lived together for another year before he disappeared one day and could not be found anywhere. Eventually she made it through her 20th birthday when she opened the letter from her father which read: "Lian'er (her name), I know these past few years have been tough but when you turn 18 you'll meet a man but after one year he'll leave too don't go looking for him because you can't find him tomorrow we'll all be reunited."

As she finished telling this chilling tale I asked again “How old are you now?” She replied “22” now everyone at home treats me very well.

Suddenly shivers ran down my spine as it dawned on me why no one had come to buy tickets yet; gazing around at the passengers' blank faces reminded me of something odd - none of them seemed affected by our conversation or even noticed what was happening around them.

I tried looking out into the rain-soaked night outside only to see an impenetrable veil of water obscuring any view beyond mere shapes shifting under its relentless onslaught.

"Driver! Stop!" My voice boomed in protest as if trying to shake off an impending doom only to hear nothing back from behind those darkened windows where eyes once twinkled with life's rhythm now lay still like empty caves devoid of reflection or reaction

The car screeched halt forcing every passenger including myself towards an abrupt awakening...