"Hey Sarah don't touch that! It's an antique!"
"What really?"
"Yeah."
"So, you're telling me that this small piece of handkerchief is worth millions?"
"Yes, Sarah. It's from the pre-independence era."
"Wow Hope, I didn't know you were such a nerd."
"Well, I prefer the term educated."
"Oh really?"
She punches me hard on the shoulder.
"Yep."
"Ouch! That hurt!"
"Well, that was my intention. Anyway, we should keep walking, we don't want to fall behind our group do we?"
"No we absolutely do not want that."
We start walking. My eyes fall upon a huge skeleton of a dinosaur.
"Hey Hope, what dinosaur is that?"
"That's a tyrannosaurus rex or T-Rex for short. They were one of the strongest dinosaurs."
"It looks cool."
"Yeah, it is cool. By the way, my parents won't be home for the weekend."
"And what do you seem to have in mind?"
"Well, we could do a sleepover."
"Hmm... That's a pretty good idea."
"We could watch movies, dance, stay up all night and eat what we want."
"You're getting me excited already!"
"It's going to be a lot of fun."
"Yep."
"Hey look there's our group."
We go and stand at the back of our group.
"Sarah, I need to go to the washroom. I'll be back soon."
"Yeah sure."
I look around and spot a familiar face next to me.
"Hey Aaron, what's up?"
"Hmm... what? Where am I?"
"You were sleeping?"
"Yeah, I was. Until I was woken up."
"You can sleep while you're standing?"
"Well, yeah. I mean it's not the most easiest of things, I can do that."
"So, what's up?"
"Nothing much really. I'm really bored."
"Yeah, me too."
"Plus, the tour guide doesn't really know what she's talking about."
"How's that?"
"Well, most of the facts that she's telling us are wrong."
"Museums aren't really my kind of place."
"You're visiting one after a long time aren't you?"
"How'd you know that?"
"Well, you wouldn't have been fiddling with that million dollar handkerchief if you had visited one recently."
"You saw that?"
"It was hard not to."
"Don't tell anyone about that."
"Don't worry Sarah you can trust me. I won't tell anyone."
"I trust you."
"I think I'm going to check out what they're serving in the cafeteria. I'm really hungry."
I watch him walk towards the cafeteria. I start laughing when I watch him slip and fall on the wet floor.
"Hey Sarah, I'm back."
I turn towards Hope.
"Well, that took you long enough."
"I was only gone for five minutes. What were you laughing at?"
"Aaron slipped on the wet floor."
"That must have been pretty funny."
"Yeah, it was."
"Okay everyone! That ends the tour. Feel free to visit any exhibit you want."
"Come on Sarah let's go."
"Go where?"
"Let's just walk around. I'm pretty sure we can find some cool stuff."
We start walking.
"So, where should we go first?"
"Let's go to the Opulent Oceans exhibition on the first floor. I'm pretty sure there'll be lots of cool marine species there."
"Okay let's go."
We take the lift to the first floor and then enter the exhibition hall.
"Whoa! This is so cool!"
"Hope look they have so many fishes in that aquarium!"
We walk closer to it.
"Look they've got clownfish in here!"
"And large catfish too!"
"I could just sit here and watch these school of fish swim around for hours on end."
"School of fish?"
"Yeah, that's what you call a group of fish that swims together."
"Oh yeah, now I remember."
Suddenly I see a small part of the aquarium turning black.
"Sarah, what was that?"
"I think it was an octopus protecting itself. It does so by ejecting a small amount of ink. Let's go to the cafeteria. I'm feeling really hungry and I forgot to eat breakfast."
"You forgot to eat breakfast?"
"Yeah, I was so excited for the trip today that I left home without eating my breakfast."
"You're dumb Sarah."
"Well I take after my best friend."
"Ha-ha, that's true."
We take the lift back to the ground floor and start walking towards the cafeteria.
"Hey Sarah do you remember the time when you gave me a box of oreos?"
"Oh yes. I woke up all night to replace the cream with toothpaste. I still remember how you got revenge on me."
"I covered your entire car with post its."
"Yeah, you beat me at my own game."
"It sure was fun."
"Yeah, that's true."
We enter the cafeteria and sit at a table. I order ham and cheese sandwiches and pepsi for the both of us.
"Maybe we can visit the butterfly conservatory after this."
"Where is it?"
"It's on the second floor."
"Yeah, we could go there."
I look around the cafeteria. I can hear faint sounds of conversation and laughter in the background.
"This cafeteria kind of reminds me of the cinema where we met for the very first time."
"I was thinking about that too. It has the same atmosphere."
After a while our sandwiches and drinks arrive and we start eating.
"Wow these sandwiches are really good."
"They remind me of the time when we decided to cook pasta together."
"Yeah, we nearly burnt my house down."
"And after that we went out for coffee and sandwiches."
"We've had so much fun with each other."
"And I hope that we continue to have fun with each other."
"We will."
"To having fun."
"To having fun."
We touch our glasses together and take a sip of our drinks. We finish eating after some time.
"Come on let's go to the butterfly observatory."
We take the lift to the second floor and then enter the exhibition hall."
I look around the hall and see hundreds of butterflies flying around.
"Hope stop tickling me, it's not funny."
"I'm not doing anything Sarah."
"So, you're saying that you aren't tickling the back of my neck?"
"Nope."
"Then what is it"
"Let me check. Sarah..."
"Sarah what?"
"It's... it's a spider."
"What?!"
"I'm just kidding, it was just a butterfly. It just flew away."
I punch her hard on her shoulder.
"Ouch! What was that for?!"
"Don't make jokes like that with me ever again."
"Point taken."
"This hall is much better than the earlier one isn't it?"
"Yep. It is. And it's much bigger too."
"I can see a lot of rare butterflies here."
"Yeah, I can't imagine how they must have collected so many butterflies."
We start walking around the exhibition hall.
"Hey Sarah look at that!"
I gaze in the direction Hope is pointing towards and see a butterfly with transparent wings.
"Whoa! That's such a cool butterfly!"
"It's a glasswinged butterfly Sarah. It's mainly found in the central and northern regions of South America."
"How do you know so much about butterflies?"
"Well, when I was a kid, I'd go out with my dad every Sunday. We'd go to the park and catch butterflies. I still remember that mom kept a distance from me when I went to her to show what I had caught. She was scared to death with insects."
"I still remember when me and dad played a prank on mom with a fake spider."
I start smiling when I think of the incident.
"Hey Sarah, we should probably go now, it's ten to four, and we need to be at the bus by four o' clock."
"Yeah, let's go."
We take the lift to the ground floor and then exit the museum.
"I really look forward to our sleepover Sarah."
"Yeah, I look forward to it too."