Situations your parents warn you about

You know when your parents warn you of all the scary things out there in the world and you laugh because 'it'll never happen to you', well your wrong. I proved that to myself today. I was on the bus to go shopping with Shannon; we were sitting up the back, upstairs. A man came on the bus and came and sat in front of us but turned around to face us and started leaning really close. He wanted to introduce himself and to shake our hands. There was something not quite right. All the questions he asked made alarm bells ring in my mind. We tried to avoid answering them, but in our efforts not to be rude ended up telling him our names, where we were from, what school we went to and where we were going. He wanted us to go shopping with him and tried to convince us he was a hibs player. Then he wanted pictures with us and asking us if we had drugs. I'm not sure if he was drunk, but there was something not right about him anyway. I knew i needed to get up and move, needed to do something, i mean we've all been warned enough by our parents, but we couldn't move; he was blocking our path. I just wanted to get out of that situation. Eventually the bus driver actually stopped the bus and made him get off. Everyone on the top level of the bus were kids from our school and were all really concerned if we were ok. The all admitted how sorry the were, and that they desperately wanted to help us but were too scared in case he turned on them. They let him back on the bus, but by this time we had moved so managed to avoid him. He did get off at our stop though, even though he mentioned before he was getting off at Deer Park. I'll never really know who he was or what his intentions were today, but i'll never forget the fear every one of us on that bus felt and the pure uncertainty we felt in doing what we knew we should have.