Hijacked.

My friend Jack and his friend Fred and I hijack a bus full of people. Fred is driving. Jack is up front with a large gun keeping control and I am walking up and down the isle collecting cell phones and making sure people don't call 911.

After all the phones are collected and up front with Jack, we continue driving down the highway. A guy in a business suit has his phone hidden in his lap. I stop behind him to see who he is calling. He calls 911 so I grab the phone and end the call. He looks up at me and tries to intimidate me. I aim my gun at him. He drops a bag of french fries and I help him pick them up.

He asks why we're doing this. I tell him that Jack has something to say and this is the only way for people to listen to him. He's been trying to tell the world for years and nobody is listening. Doing something drastic is the only way to make people notice him.

The guy asks why a good person like me would end up with someone like Jack. I tell him that Jack isn't a bad guy, he just ended up in a situation that made him do something like this.

Flashback! - 5 years earlier

Jack's home, small and isolated by farm fields. He lives there with his mom and younger brother. They don't have much money, but they're happy. They go to church, Jack is normal and happy and a good kid. I am with him at church and nearly everywhere.

His mom meets this new guy and Jack doesn't like him. The new boyfriend takes the family to a new church, it is really a cult and led by some psycho. Jack's mom and brother are brainwashed, but Jack doesn't buy it. He is confused and angry and nobody is listening to him, so he runs away.

After a few years he meets up with me again, I'm so happy to see him. Living on his own has hardened him and his mom is still with the guy and the cult church. He tells me that nobody will listen to him, not the police, nobody. So he has to do something to get everyone's attention.

We hijack the bus and here we all are.

Time Jump! - Two weeks after the hijacked bus.

I am at church, Jack is not with me. My mom's friend Sonja, Tom MIlsom and Molly Lewis are at this church. It's a really great church; brilliant art on the walls, blacklights, great music. The message is that we are all warriors for Christ and that we have the strength and power to fight against the evil in the world. Tom is playing the organ, he does this thing by placing marbles in places on the strings to create a repeating music line.

I feel out of place, like I don't belong there with all the people so happy and strong in their faith, riding the high of the great service. Sonja comes up behind me and holds onto my shoulders. I'm trying not to cry, I just want to leave. She tells me that the service and message were really great. I say that maybe everyone isn't meant to believe like that. She says to me "maybe there isn't so much of a warrior in you". I nod and push through the crowd to leave.

Flashback! - I'm back on the bus with Jack.

I go up to the front with him. It's nighttime. A lot of the people on the bus are asleep. Fred is still driving. I tell Jack that when this all gets close to the end, I want him to stay down among the hostages to use them as a human shield so he isn't shot by the police. And I say that when this is really over, he has to do just as the police say and I will go out with him to protect him. I tell him that he can't die at the end of this, because I need him. He agrees and kisses me.