Train to nowhere

 My sister and I were on our way home. She and I have been at the camp for three weeks and our train leaves today. She had bought the tickets in advance, so we jumped into the carriage as soon as the train arrived. Strangely, there were few people on this train, and they all boarded the last carriage. Just like my sister and me. The car was new, with reserved seats. I made myself comfortable on the bottom side shelf. Oh, I've been waiting for this moment for a long time! All this time, I've been dreaming of being on a train going home. The camp was terrible. An old building that would be worth filming a horror movie in.

And these children... I didn't tell my sister what I didn't like. We were putting our bags on special shelves when the train started. I didn't even notice it. I just glanced out the window and saw the platform moving. Stop. Not the platform, but us. It wasn't said over the speakerphone that our train was leaving. I poked my sister.:

"Look!"  The train was slowly pulling away. Slowly and very quietly.

We got the food on the table. While my sister was busy with her, I looked out the window. Fog. It's all fog. It was cloudy in the morning. And then there's the fog, you can't figure out where it came from. The situation was depressing. My sister asked me to go to the guide for boiling water. We were at the end of the carriage. I went to the beginning of it. On the way, I decided to count how many people were traveling besides us. Hmm... only 10 people. Not enough. Moreover, people only entered this carriage. But I was even more surprised when there was no guide in place! I went back to my sister.

"There's no one there.

"Why not?" - she was very surprised.

"Are you sure there's no one?" - Yes, exactly.

My sister and I ate and I decided to read. I took out a book. Out of the corner of my ear, I heard a conversation between two fellow travelers. They talked about how sleepy they were. Well, lie down. I looked down the aisle. Almost the entire carriage was asleep! Two fellow travelers, too. I looked at my sister. She had her head in her hands and was sleeping on the table. Unbeknownst to me, I felt tired. My eyelids were closing. I realized that I was going to fall asleep, just like everyone else in the carriage.

I don't remember how long I woke up, but when I woke up, the whole carriage was awake. What was that? And why did everyone fall asleep? The carriage was in chaos. Everyone was indignant and said something. My sister said our bags were missing. How? Where to? What happened here while we were sleeping? One of the guys riding with us decided to go to the other cars, but he couldn't: the doors were closed. After his failed attempt, a real panic began. Many women were vying to say something...

First, I was carrying a rare vase! But that bag isn't there!

The second: I'm calling my husband. He works for the police. Oh, damn, it doesn't catch here!

Third: What is the train number?

Four: Where the hell are we?!

And then we stopped. Everyone immediately fell silent. I looked out the window. The fog came down and I saw the station. Just a station. It looked abandoned. The name of the settlement was not written on it, and there was no settlement either. Just an inscription: "station". The fog had almost disappeared behind the nearby pine trees. Everyone clung to the windows. Then I heard the sound of doors opening. It sounded eerie in the silence. Strange thoughts came over me. All the fellow travelers began to leave for the street. I didn't want to leave alone. Apparently, I was the only one who had a strange feeling.

But, my sister made me go out with everyone. We went out. The landscape was sparse: scorched yellow grass, pine trees in the distance... Suddenly, the fog returned. He spread out like a blanket. He was knee-deep to me. There was a murmur from the crowd. People were worried. Someone from the crowd suggested returning to the carriage. Oh, the first sensible thought. But suddenly there was movement in the fog.

"Hey, what's this?"  I asked my sister. Something flashed again. Now it's not just me who's noticed it, but everyone.

A real panic began. At some point, I got scared. And for good reason.

Hands began to appear from the creeping mist! Pale and thin. Someone screamed. Everyone started climbing through the doors.

The guy suddenly shouted:

"They're closed!"

Were the doors closed?! And we didn't notice how they closed! But the hands were followed out of the fog by bodies.

People were coming out of the fog. There were a lot of them. But were they people? They had no faces.

They rose, moving jerkily. The creatures were reaching out to us.

"I'm scared!"  I whispered to my sister.

All the people were afraid and were dumbfounded. The "people" slowly got up and approached us. They looked terrible. We stared into their faces, unable to move or say anything. All this would have gone on for a long time, but suddenly the creature standing in front of me grabbed my arm. I let out a high-pitched scream in surprise. The strange freaks started grabbing the others. The women screamed, the men tried to fight back. But the creatures were stronger. They were slowly dragging us into the pines, into the fog... I looked at my sister with tear-filled eyes. She said:

- Everything will be fine. - But it's not like that.

We were approaching the pines when I decided to take one last look at the train. In the carriage, many people asked what the train's number was. But

there was no number. In place of the number, on the electronic strip, it was written:

- Train to nowhere