Help! Read the sentence from Julius' rough draft.

I'd been walking quickly in the growing darkness when a group of kids on their bikes came around the corner so abruptly I had to dive into a bush to keep from getting run over.

Julius wants to replace "abruptly." When he looks it up in the thesaurus, he finds the following four words. Which is his best choice?

A) suddenly

B) rudely

C) sharply

D) hastily