Friends, The Quiet Saviours

It's cold and grey outside, and you can't wait to get out of this way - below - zero weather, and into your nice, warm house. You feel like you've been walking for ages, when you know that the walk home is 25 minutes and you've only been walking for 10.
You're alone, with no one to get your mind off of this yucky weather. You think to yourself, "I could really use a nice hot chocolate right about now."
You continue to walk, when you start to hear a faint sound coming up behind you. You hear the laughter of teenage girls and the terrible sounds of their version of "Jingle Bells". You continue to walk, as the terrible sounds grow louder, as they creep up behind you.
The next thing you know, there are arms flying over your head and all around you. The girls are chanting louder than ever as they circle you, which starts to get you a bit spooked.
You try to tune them out and walk past them, quick. You try to get away from them and it takes quite a bit of time, but they finally get the hint that you don't want to deal with them right now.
You continue to walk when you hear an unrecognizable voice that's clearly trying to get your attention.
"Hey, you. You look so weird! You're ugly, what's wrong with you? What, you can't talk?"
You don't turn around to face the creep who clearly has nothing better to do than basically poke you with a stick. You keep walking and he keeps following, shouting at the back of your head. You try to ignore him, but he makes it so hard to when he makes deep jabs at you. You take a glimpse at this person and know for sure that you never met him before in your life, and you're pretty sure he does not know you.
So you wonder "why is he saying all of this crap?" He doesn't know you, he doesn't know how you've been having to deal with this kind of crap for a while and you're pretty much at your breaking point. He DOES NOT KNOW YOU.
You get closer to a bus stop, and you just glare the stop down as you walk. You've been staring it down and toning the strangers out for so long, you don't realize that the loud girls from earlier are trying to get the boy to leave you alone, telling him to stop. He doesn't listen and continues to shout at you.
You go back to ignoring him, and walk past the bus stop, you can hear the girls stop, but you can still hear foot steps behind you. He's still walking up behind you.
You feel your heart pounding so hard and so fast it hurt, in panic, not knowing what this stranger's intentions are. You start walking faster than before, and you hear his footsteps get faster too. You're scared out of your mind, worried about what could possibly happen.
You take a quick glimpse back he's behind you, but that's not what you notice. You notice that someone you know is coming near, behind him. You cross the street and wait for your friend to come. You never felt so relieved to see this person in your whole life. Once your friend crosses, you could see the stranger turn around and start walking back to the bus stop.
Who knows what could have happened if your friend never showed up...

Don't take your friends for granted <3