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The man on the bus would not stop grinding his teeth. Ryan tried not to hyper fixate on it,

but he could hear the sound, even through his earplugs. The calcium squealed

obnoxiously. The sound got even worse when the man stuck the end of a pen between his teeth

and began gnawing on it. He circulated it through his mouth, pushing it around with his tongue

and squeezing it between his back molars. Ryan bent over in his seat and

cupped his hands over his ears to further block out the sound. The man stared at him. Ryan did not

know how far away his stop was, but he was close to snapping. The man seemed to be doing it

on purpose, like he could tell how much it was getting

on Ryan's nerves. He bit down on the pen cap until it cracked, and then he sucked it into

his mouth, rattling it against his teeth while never once moving his gaze. Ryan didn't

have anything to throw at him, but he wished that he did.

He would start taking off his shoes and hurling those if the bus did not stop soon.

The bus's brakes finally let out a shrill scream as it came to a stop at a covered bench.

The glass hut was covered in graffiti, and the bus stop sign had been sprayed over so that the symbol was almost entirely obscured.

This was not his stop, but Ryan did not care. He had to get off the bus or he would go nuts.

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