Short Stories

Field Trip Dream

[So, the day I got out of a relationship, I decided to sleep and.. well it wasn't so bad]

My school decided to take a field trip and everyone went. And by everyone, I mean my three cousins and me. I was sitting in the grass watching idiots make a fool of themselves while eating some gummy worms. Just as my cousin, Elaine, came back from wherever she was, I ran out of gummy worms. I told her to buy me a bag of gummy worms and magically time skipped. I had the bag in my hand but it was also time to go back. And when I mean it time to go back, I mean we were almost to the bus. So we started running but I, being a stupid greedy person, decided to steal another gummy worm bag form a random person sitting on the field.

"Hey! Come back here!" He yelled after us and started chasing us. "Go! Go! Go!" I shouted. On the way out, Elaine stopped abruptly and pulled out a bag out of nowhere and apparently, it was a borrowed bag. As soon as she placed that down, she made a run for it. I looked at my arms full of stuff, then at the box of borrowed bags and then at my arms again. Two stuffed animals, two gummy worm bags, my backpack, and two large drinking cups.

"You! Stop right there!" The guy shouted as he ran to me. My feet started running as soon as he came into my sight. I ran out the building and towards the big giant school bus. The seat levels were really high. The level of these seats were like the top of normal school bus. Very high, like I said. You could see a whole football field from bird eye view when you're riding it. The doors were still open when I arrived. I stepped into bus but accidentally dropped all my stuff, all over the third seat. I sat down in the first seat while my two older cousins, Elaine and Kelly, sit together. Kevin sat with his friend with my stuff on the seat.

Suddenly two boys sat down next to me. One boy had wavy dirty blonde hair and was smiling. The other boy was a friend of his. He had chocolate brown hair and dimples when he smiled. They were sort of cute but whatever. I rolled my eyes and turned around to ask Kevin if he could get my stuff but he refused. That brat...The bus started moving even though some people were missing. Oziel was one of the unfortunate ones. He sort of made it into the bus. Half of his body was in, and the other half was on the other side of the door. The bus, however, kept moving. The idiot decided to pull himself OUT of the bus and hang on the outside. He was swinging back and forth as the bus driver drove the bus. He pushed a button from the outside and the bus's wheel turned to those floats that are in movies. We drove onto the street, where it's covered in black sheets. There were signs everywhere saying to be careful and that the roads were slippery. There's cars parked on the sides of the roads. The bus, without wheels now, runs into the cars. The floats run over them, crushing them in the process. But it didn't stop there. The bus continued to slide across the road and runs through an acre of tall grass.

While all of this was happening, the blonde boy somehow found time to climb over me and sat next to window. "Move," I said. He turned to me and simply smiled. Now I'm being squished between the blonde and brunette. I grab blonde boy's left arm and pulled him towards me, trying to pull him over so I could claim my window seat. Instead, his arm strength gives up and it falls... it falls onto the right side of my hip and thigh. He looked at me and smirked.

"Why'd you put my arm there? Huh?" I glared at him. What is he, an idiot? I said I didn't and continued to try to move him. I was sitting down while he's half standing. The space is narrow between the seats. Eventually, he's leaning over me. He smirked once again. "Why'd you pull me over you?" I pushed him to the right and scooted next to the windows. The bus was still moving. It's turning to go back to the pick-up line. I gave up and decided to get my stuff after everyone gets off. I pulled up my hoodie and leaned onto the window. I felt the seat being emptied and sighed. They were gone, finally! Then a few seconds later, my backpack and stuff dropped next to me. I turned around and saw the same two boys smirking. I was about to thank them but then decided to check for my stuff first. They could've stole something. Most things were stuffed inside, like smaller bags and the stuff animals. But the one thing that wasn't there was... my phone. Some other small stuff like keys, pencils, paper, and glass case was missing too... It was on the floor under the second seat. I was about to ask the boy sitting in the second seat for help but before I could say anything, he pointed to his ears and said, I can't hear anything. For once. I was glad I learned a bit of sign language. I signed out, "Can you understand my sign language?" He nodded. I signed out the letters C-A-N and he said the word. I pointed at him, he said, "You". I did the motion for "pick up" and he understood it. I pointed to ground and motioned to all my stuff. He understood and went down to pick them. While he was doing that, I decided to look for my phone. I looked on floor, it wasn't not there. In the bag, not there either. I checked my seat in case it fell into the crease. Found it! I picked it up praying it wasn't cracked. It was...

And I woke up after that. I was so afraid that it was real, and reached over to my phone to see if it had crack. Thank the lord it wasn't cracked. In the dream, my screen was cracked into pieces and it was like falling apart too... Scary...