It
feels like a set-up
“I’m sorry, what?”
Asked Ivan, whom had been distracted by the loud noises of the Homo sapiens in
the bus.
“I said, it feels
like a set-up. This whole school trip thing” Sighed Syaza.
“So, what you’re
trying to tell me is that the teacher spent hundreds to sponsor us all to this
trip, just for a set-up? Yeah, sounds pretty reasonable”
“Not that la Ivan,
Miss Ann-Marie is nice enough to set the whole trip for 5S, but WE here as
seniors-becoming-chaperone-for-the-trip is definitely not a coincidence. I
think Yuki, Darren and our lovely juniors here” – Syaza rolled her eyes –
“purposely request for us two to be here. You do know how they love teasing us
both, right?”
“Yeah, that might
be true but looking at the bright side, we now have more quality time together,
with the juniors I mean” Said Ivan with a grin.
“Like why in the
world would I spend my precious time with you” Mumbled Syaza, yet still unable
to hide her mouth from shaping a cheeky smile. “Wait till I get my hand on
Yuki, she is so dead!”
“Right.....” Ivan
drifted his eyes to the window.
At
the other side of the bus, Kelly Low was busy convincing Sham Siv to watch
YGOTAS, her high-pitched voice can be heard even a mile away. Poor Sham could
just nod her head in agreement. Twin
sisters Jesline and Vivien Tang overheard the conversation and joined in; their
previous desire to sleep abandoned them as the four girls chat away in the bus.
Shu
Ern and Arreya were weirdly silent in the bus, still regretting their decision
to join the bus trip instead of going shopping. In their mind, they could
almost imagine the racks of fashionable dresses being crowded by shoppers,
sparing not even an inch of the cloth for them.
“Cheer
up girls, you still got me right?” Benjamin said brightly.
“Oh
Benji, how would you know, those fabulous clothes will moan without us!” Weep
Shu Ern.
“No,
my personal tailor can make up for all of it, no?” Winked Benjamin, immediately
winning both of the girls’ heart.
“Hmm.....
tough proposal, at what cause?” Asked Arreya, her eyes already gleaming back to
life.
“The
cost is that we all enjoy this one week of adventure and have fun!”
“As
you wish, master” Giggled both girls simultaneously.
“Hey
Farid, what are you doing?” Asked Ashvin.
No answer.
“Suit
yourself” Ashvin shrugged, trying his best not to be upset, since the situation
of the bus was not suitable enough for him to sleep, he decided to find a
friend to talk with. Since Farid – who was sitting in front - was now out of
the list, he turned to Ru Yin and Chong RuYin who sat behind him.
“Tham,
Chong, what are you guys doing?”
“Boring
ourselves to death, wanna join?” Replied Tham.
“Sure”
“Ah
shut it Shen, don’t mind him Ashvin, he’s just a little carsick. We were
discussing about what interesting thing might happen when we got to the place.
I mean seriously, why can’t Miss Ann-Marie just tell us where exactly is the
destination? At least we can plan everything earlier” Chong said, a little bit
worried about everything.
“Well
that’s the surprise Chong. Just let it go for awhile will you?” Shen snapped.
“Woa,
relax dude, and please hold it in kay? I don’t want to clean the whole bus up
because of you” Chong rubbed Shen’s back, trying to calm his friend down.
“Getting
carsick doesn’t means that I’m going to barf, moron. But I’m fighting over a
seriously huge headache over here”
“Ah
okay then. By the way, anyone actually talked to Sayyid yet? I mean, he’s as
quiet as robo-guy over there, and he’s practically mute!” Chong pointed to the particular guy who
ignored Ashvin’s question earlier, the one who was shutting himself from the
world with the help of his iPod.
“First
of all, Farid’s not mute, he can talk.... I think” Ashvin said. “and second,
yep. I talked to him when we was waiting for the bus to come. He’s pretty nice,
but mind seems to be somewhere else. Like he’s thinking over something
important.”
“Like
the regrets he had for moving from his old school to this hell? Possibly.” Shen
said, his fingers rubbing his forehead gently to decrease the headache.
“Hell?
I prefer mental prison thank you. For example, Kaveeta there, as you can see,
is with her minions trying to make Kay Chloe’s life more miserable. If you look
to the left, you can see Tim trying to sneak a frog into Lucas Yeoh’s shirt.
Now look at your back, you can see our psychotic vice president, Clarissa Kor
nagging Gynie Yeung concerning her way-to-colourful dress and care free life.
And don’t even get me started on gigglish Ash Nair and Syasya Aqilah gossiping
behind us.”
“Well
looking at the bright side, at least they’re not sleeping” Ashvin tried to
justify their actions.
“Natashya
Khoo and Celine Wu is”
“Ah
just shut up will you?” Shen found his limit.
Among
the noisy students, Shixin Chng sat alone, looking through the window. In her
hand was a small picture that she held firmly, like it’s the dearest thing for
her. Though constantly, her eyes will drift to her classmates and settled on
that guy. But then she’ll shook her head and continue on looking through the
window, trying hard not to let the same thing from happening again – and yet she still do so.
Three
hours later, the commotions in the bus fade as the students start to feel
drowsy. One by one felt asleep. Cheah, who was busy working on his short story,
stopped for awhile and looked around him.
“Umm.....
Aifa? Don’t you feel odd? Everyone suddenly felt asleep, even Tim, and I
thought he can’t sleep.” No reply,
apparently Aifa had also joined her classmates in the land of dreams.
“Great,
even I feel drowsy” Yawned Cheah, but he tried to stand up to stretch, refusing
to sleep because he wanted to finish up his work, but his feet failed him and he
drifted to sleep, but not before he saw a rather peculiar sigh; the
bus driver and Miss Ann-Marie were wearing oxygen masks...
