woundedzombie
The gas station down the road has a quite mood about it. It's always abandoned and I've never found out why. You always will see this same, gentle looking man walking down the road across from it though. He's always wearing this small, red bracelet and a rope necklace around his neck. Anytime you see him he'll always be wearing it. Some say that he found that necklace many years ago in the back of that abandoned gas station, but he always says the same thing when you ask him where he got it, "What's it to ya'?" One day, I got a closer look at the bracelet when the fragile, old man was asleep in the doorway of the abandoned gas station, it read, "I will not abandon you." It made me wonder for a while, so then I decided to take a quick glance at the man's necklace, it had a stone engraved with the initials "HRR". My initials, I thought to myself. Why would this man have a necklace with my initials on it? I started wandering down the road when the man woke up and called my name. I was frightened, so I started to sprint. Then all of a sudden, I couldn't run anymore, it's like my feet didn't even know how to move. I just stood there in tears, awaiting for the man to approach me. He placed his hand upon my shoulder and said I will never leave you. I turned around slowly and realized that he had quite the resemblance of my boyfriend, Austin, just a lot older. Without saying a word, I trudged back home wondering who the old man was. The next day, I went back to the old, abandoned gas station and the old man was gone. I started to walk back home when a hand settled itself upon my shoulder. I stopped suddenly. A voice from behind me said, "I told you that I'd never leave you." When I turned around, the voice from behind was my boyfriend, Austin. He was wearing the same necklace that the old man was the day before, the same bracelet too. I asked him where he got that remarkable piece of jewelry and his reply, the same as the old man's, "What's it to ya'?" I left it at that, but to this day I still wonder who the old man was that walked the streets of the old, abandoned gas station.