Prodigies: The Dark Phantom

Episode 8

He was able to reach and stepped into the doorway along with the other passengers who also took the lead.

When the driver noticed that the available space inside is getting full, he decided to close the double door by pressing a button beside the steering wheel.

Few of the passengers outside manage to stepped in while the rest are still fighting against each other.

Vincent manage to sit at the middle part of the bus and beside the window on his left, “Whew!, that was fun.” he took a sigh and leaned comfortably.

The passenger bus began to roll its wheels and left the spot leaving those passengers having a brawl on the road.

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During the long travel, Vincent can be seem having a nap for a while through the clear glass window. His arms are in crisscross form while it's layed above his shoulder bag idling on his lap.

(Traffic lights: Red)

The yellow traffic light turned red after a few seconds and the passenger bus where Vincent is riding lessens its speed on the first lane, till its wheels are no longer rolling on the first lane. The bus is idling beside the road barriers that divides the very wide road for the vehicles to drive in the opposite direction.

Vincent felt the stopping movement of the bus, causing him to wake up from a nap. He stretches his neck shortly and lean his left arm to the window followed by his head to lean it too.

While he was staring outside, something captures his eyes on the other side of the road. This road is divided into three lanes which is the same to the road where Vincent's bus is idling for a little time.

It's a man with a very dark skin and looks like a beggar. He has a thin body and the way he walks with his bare feet seems weakened, behind the lines of people standing on the road side too and waiting for a transportation vehicle to give them a ride.

This man doesn't have an upper shirt, he has a thick loose hair that reaches his chest and covers his face, while his lower body is just a dirty pants with lots of torn parts.

After revealing himself on an open space and between the two persons standing on a one meter apart from each other, he suddenly turned his head to the right where Vincent has been staring at him and matching his spot.

The black skinned man noticed that Vincent's eyes is staring only at him at the other side of the road, causing his feet to stop taking another step.

He stared at Vincent too but his face couldn't be seen clearly because of his loose hair that is covering it.

“Hm?” a question in Vincent's mind when he felt weird because of the black skinned man's sudden action as his eyes turned sharp.

They both wonderingly stared at each other until the traffic lights time is about to reset.

(Traffic lights switching: Yellow)

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(Traffic lights: Green)

(Engine hissed)

The passenger bus began to roll its wheels going to the right of the intersection.

Vincent and the strange man's wondering moment of stares was interrupted by the increasing movement of the passenger bus.

Chuckles, “Weird shit.” he said as he leaned back comfortably and sighs, while the black skinned man steadily watches him moving away until he's no longer visible to his sight.

The travel continued and it took him two hours before reaching his destination. He step out and began searching for the company's building location.

He wandered for several minutes and finally found it. He entered the door, opened his bag for the securities to check, gave his ID to the admin station in exchange for a visitor's ID, rode an elevator that reaches up to twenty-fifth floor, stepped out on the thirteenth floor, looked for the company's door and entered it.

His job interview process took him five hours of finishing it, but he only ended up hearing the same words like the other previous interviewers. He was told to wait for a call while his grades are being processed for two weeks.

Vincent step out through the automatic sliding doors, he wears a disappointed look on his face for wasting another day of job hunting.

He turned to the right direction and walked some meters until he reaches the bus stop.

At the other side of the six lane road divided into two by a road barriers, the same black skinned man is watching him walking closer to the idling passenger bus, while seating on a bench beside a cute little girl curiously staring at him with sharp eyes and holding a bitten sandwich on his left.

Vincent's head is nodded down a little, he's not wandering his eyes around because of the disappointment. He just continued to walk straight until he is out of the black skinned man's sight when he was covered by the body of the passenger bus.

The curiosity of the little girl causes her to lift her right gripping hand and land it onto the black skinned man's left arm.

The little girl's mother was talking to her phone and focusing her eyes at the end of the road for a moment.

(Car honks)

When a taxi cab beeps twice on a far distance, she only knew that there was a stranger seating beside her daughter when she turned her head around to take her daughter.

“Let's go baby,” she calls her daughter, “hey! don't touch that man.” she quickly grasp her daughter's left arm and pulled her away from him with a worried look, fearing that he might be a bad guy.

The dark skinned man wasn't hit by the little girl's hand because of the sudden pull, and she was startled by it.

The service cab stops in front of them and the little girl was seated in first before her mother in the backseat.