Gloria waited for her big brother, Anthony, to get home from school every day. The school bus left him right in front of the house, but one day, Anthony, didn’t get off. Their mother, Lynn, got worried, but Anthony eventually appeared. However, a new bus driver showed up the following day, and Lynn started getting suspicious!

Gloria got up from her drawing table because her smartwatch reminded her that her brother’s bus was arriving soon. She was four years old, while Anthony was a pre-teenager. Their mother, Lynn, always let her wait for him outside because the bus drove Anthony right in front of the house. They lived in a safe neighborhood in Maryland.

So, Gloria told her mom, who opened the front door and let her go outside. Lynn usually kept an eye on her, but someone called her phone. The bus was arriving, so she didn’t worry much and went to see who was calling. When she got off the call, she saw Gloria outside all alone.”Gloria, what happened? Where’s Anthony? I saw the bus coming just now,” Lynn asked her daughter, coming outside to stand right beside her next to their mailbox.

“Please, I will be late if I don’t take him right now,” the man insisted, and there was a look in his eyes that inspired tremendous fear in her.
“I don’t know, mommy. The bus was here. But it left,” Gloria said, pursing her lips and looking up at her mother. This was odd. Anthony typically told her about any delays, and he didn’t have any extracurricular activities yet.

If he had a school project or went out with his friends, he had to call her. Lynn grabbed her daughter’s hand and went inside. She dialed Anthony’s cell phone number, but he didn’t answer. Her gut instinct told her that something was wrong. She pulled Gloria towards the car, placed her on her car seat, and drove to school to find her son.

She luckily talked to his homeroom teacher, Mrs. Cortez, who said that she had seen all the kids getting on the bus.”But Anthony didn’t get off the bus,” Lynn told her, but before they could w=orry more, she received a call from Anthony. “Darling, where are you?” “Mom, I’m home! Something happened to the bus, and we got delayed for a while.

Where are you?” Anthony revealed. Lynn breathed a sigh of relief, told Mrs. Cortez that everything was fine, and pulled Gloria towards their car once again. “Mrs. Torres, didn’t you say that bus arrived at the house?” the teacher called out to her before Lynn reached her car. “Oh, I must have been wrong. No worries! Thank you so much, Mrs. Cortez,” Lynn waved goodbye and drove quickly home.

Gloria and Anthony greeted each other as they always did, and everything seemed to go back to normal. “Hello, ma’am, I’m the new bus driver at the school,” a strange man told her, pointing toward the school bus right outside. “I’m here a bit early because I’m learning the route, and I’ve waited, but your kid has not come out.”

“Oh, well. It’s nice to meet you. But it’s way too early still. Anthony hasn’t had breakfast,” Lynn responded, surprised by the man’s words. He had no idea they were firing the usual school bus driver, who was an amazing older man. “What happened to Charlie?” “Charlie?” “You know… our regular driver?” “Ahh, well. He’s sick. I’m covering for him for several days,” the man said.

The following morning, Lynn was cooking breakfast, and Anthony was getting ready for school when the doorbell rang. “Hello?”Lynn hummed, but she wasn’t convinced. Something in her heart told her that something fishy was going on. It could be the fact that he didn’t have a uniform. “Well, like I said. Anthony is not ready yet. It’s too early,” she said, shaking her head.

“Please, I will be late if I don’t take him right now,” the man insisted, and there was a look in his eyes that inspired tremendous fear in her.
“You can continue your route, sir. I will drive my son to school myself this morning. Goodbye,” she continued forcefully and closed the door in the man’s face. She grabbed her phone just in case, but she saw him getting into the bus and leaving.

Anthony was getting ready for school a few minutes later, and Lynn was about to drive him when another school bus arrived. It arrived on schedule. Lynn decided to take her son out and was astonished to see Charlie driving. He was in wonderful health. Something wasn’t right. She immediately contacted the school, informing them of a suspicious person impersonating their bus driver.

But no one had seen them. They called other parents, who confirmed that Charlie had picked up their children. Nobody else. Lynn then contacted the cops. “What if he’s after my kid and daughter? He arrived to our house yesterday afternoon, I believe. He could have kidn=apped my child! “She sobbed on the phone to the cops. The officers arrived at her house that afternoon and formed a plan for the next morning.

Lynn and some officers waited for the mysterious man at her house, not knowing if he would return. Sure enough, his bus arrived, and he stepped out. He was going to use the same strategy he had used before! When he opened the door, one of the officers surprised him, and he attempted to flee, but the cops apprehended him before he could board the bus.

They ran his fingerprints and discovered that he was wanted on various w=arrants in Texas and Colorado. He was a kid=napper, and Lynn was correct because her son was the current target, despite his height for a pre-teenager. Lynn was congratulated by the cops for trusting her intuition and reporting everything so soon. Meanwhile, the school instituted new safety standards, assuring parents that any new hiring or sick days for Charlie and other bus drivers would be communicated to them. Every PTA parent praised Lynn because their children could have been next.