Just three weeks ago I was told that I had been selected to go on the iWon trip. Not only that, but be paired up with Cooper. Cooper and I had were friends, but now… we just don’t talk, it’s gonna be a whole lot of awkward being her partner that’s for sure.
I did not want to get on that bus this morning. I knew if I didn’t they would just come in and get me, so I made myself get out of my bed and threw some clean clothes on. I grabbed that bag that I had packed last night and got in my-piece-of-junk car. No point in saying good bye to anyone, my dad was asleep and probably hung over, and who knew where my sister was. So I figured I would just head to the high school where I would get on that bus and not be able to piss away my senior year, like I had planned. Just one big party was how I saw high school, only way to get through it and make it fun, or at least interesting. I climbed the stairs to the bus where everyone was pretty much silent, besides a little talk between Cooper and Kendall. Besides the whole claim that we were all from “different worlds” we all had pasts that our principle couldn’t find out about by interviewing out principle. For instance, Kendall and Cooper were somewhat friends, they talked and seemed to like each other okay. After all, everyone liked Cooper. Maybe that’s why I didn’t want to like her.
I grabbed a seat as far back from Cooper as possible, without looking like I was doing it on purpose. She already thinks I’m a big enough ass, why give her another reason. I fell asleep pretty quick on the bus ride, there wasn’t much to do and these people weren’t any where near my friends, I knew what they all thought of me. They all saw me as some non stop partier who was already as into beer and alcohol as any other red neck. Maybe they were right. By the time I woke up we were in Madison, Wisconsin, which was about four hours away from our town of Blair. Everyone was asleep, except for Paul, who was gazing sleepily out the window as if he had just woke up himself. Kendall and Cooper had moved to sit by each other and fell asleep like that. That didn’t take long, Kendall always gets a girl, but he won’t get any from Cooper.
God, Cooper. What was going through my mind to actually like her, to care about her. That could have never turned out good, I don’t know why I ever thought it would. It was just so different with her, I felt like I could trust her and that was something that really was different for me. And I wasn’t about to take that on.
Around three p.m. a voice boomed over the speaker. “Good afternoon students,” said the loud, clearly female voice. “We are going to make our first stop on our trip tonight at around seven, where we will stay at a hotel for the night. Before everyone gets comfy and heads to bed there are some matters we need to go over, involving how school is going to work, along with the challenges you will be doing. So relax and there will be time to answer any questions later, thank you.”
I could feel the mixture of feelings on the bus, some groaned and others seemed to be excited. I’m already ready to be done with these next five months and but all of this far behind me. I put my headphones in and listened to music for a while and talked to Paul some. Cooper, who seemed to be getting along well with everyone, kept switching seats. It was pretty annoying. My eye lids were starting to get heavy again, and I drifted off to sleep again.
I was in the back of my friend, Andrew’s car. Cooper was sitting next to me… her brown hair pulled up out of her perfectly round face. Her hand was laced with mine and I put my other hand around her neck, pulled her in, and kissed her. The kiss was short but it just felt like it should be.
My eyes shot open and Paul seemed to notice my jolt and asked if something was wrong, I mumbled back some excuse. What I had just been dreaming about reentered my mind, and as badly as I just wanted to shake the memory from my head, I still was left thinking what the hell was I dreaming about?! I looked out my window and managed to push the dream out of my head. I noticed that the sun was drifting a bit down the horizon, we must be close to stopping. I checked my phone and saw it was quarter to seven. I also had a text from this girl, Courtney, that I used to have a thing with. I responded something short and put my phone away.
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