The 40th Floor

Chapter 1 - The Announcement

Cara's POV
Beep Beep Beep Beep Beep Beep Be - . "Uugggghhh school ! What a trek like", I complained as I slammed my hand on the alarm, trying to stop the beeping noise from going through my head. I took out my phone and texted Lauren that I'm going to be late.

~ hey girl, I'm gonna b late again. u might aswell just head without me I'll c u in class. - Cara

~ nah girl, it's grand, ill wait up sure, u only gonna take a few mins :) - Lauren

~ cheers luv c u in about ten mins so ;) - Cara

~ kk girl c ya in a few ;) - Lauren

~ Shlater - Cara

I quickly jumped out of bed got into my casual everyday outfit, jeans, top, hoodie and converse. I raced downstairs dunked some cereal into my mouth and added milk, munched on it, grabbed my bag and ran out the door. I ran down the road and tripped face first into the concrete while getting carried away checking out some guy next to a stop sign. Lauren noticed from across the road and could not hold in her goofy laugh. "Hey girl, still asleep ?", Lauren questioned me and immediately burst into a laugh. I shot her a look but couldn't help let out a giggle myself.
We walked to school with a bag of rocks on our backs struggling to walk. "OMG GIRL ! I had the best dream last night omg it was class !", Lauren screamed into my ear getting over exited about her dream about Luke. I wasn't listening to Lauren because I spotted my gorgoes crush hop out of his car and drive his fingers through his dark fluffy hair. "Girl are u serious, I'm trying to tell u about my dream here liek", Lauren exclaimed as she noticed why I wasn't listening. "Woah girl slow down now, don't fall, HAAAH", Lauren said already in tears. Me still in my own world. Lauren finally got me to wake up and we walked into school laughing away to each other.

I grabbed some books out of my locker before the first period. I was thinking about the competition I was praying our class would win to Orlando but I thought when do I ever win something. I probably jinxed it for the whole class. I sighed to myself then I heard a deep voice beside my locker say "Hey Cara". I automatically knew it was James. I banged my head off the top of my locker because of course me being me I stuck my head into look for my CSPE book I really don't care about. "Ow ! Fu-", I shouted but realised how loud I was so shut up straight away. "Damn, eh, are u okay?", James said giggling but curious at the same time. "Ah yeah, yeah, I'm good, yano just looking for my book...heh...heh....lol", I say too awkward to even think I'm standing here. James let out a giggle. "Well, see you in class then", James said winking before he could walk away. I smile, then slam my locker closed and bang my head off it. On purpose this time.

I was walking back to my base and spotted Courtney in the corridor. "HAAIII!!!", she yelled in my ear. "HAAIII!!!" I yelled back. We walked into our class and sat down in our seating plan. A seating plan doesn't really work for us because you can name anyone in the class and we are best friends. It's amazing. Having all the most funniest, craziest and nicest people in your life since play school. I couldn't ask for a better group of friends. Us being us, we made paper airplanes and started throwing them across the class and crumbling up paper from our copy books and trying to shoot hoops with the bin. What a laugh. Our class tutor came in and stood there silently. We all froze. She picked up a paper ball helled it in front of her giving us that look saying "really". We all sat there waiting for something to happen and then she smiles and throws the paper ball into the bin from the other side of the class and gets it in, hitting off the wall first. "Thats how you get a basket", she teased even though it's a bin, we all knew what she meant. We all jumped up "AAAYYYYEEEEEEEE !!!!!! OI OI OI!", we all screamed laughing our heads off. "Alright, alright lads sit back down fun time is over", our tutor said mockingly.

BAAHHNNUUUNNNG! The announcement bell rang leaving us all half deff. "Aheeemmm, morning students and staff, number of announcements this morning. First of all can all the teachers please complete the role, secondly we have our daily joke -Why can't penguins fly ? Because their a bar-" We all giggled at how stupid and pointless the joke was. "And our third and final announcement is the winners of the trip to Orlando Florida for 2 weeks is Naomh Fiachlár". The class jumped up and screamed with excitement and started singing a chant! "So congratulations to Naomh Fiachlár, you will be packing your bags shortly as because the trip is in 3 days. That is all", the principal said over the intercom. We are all still chanting and so is the teacher because she gets to go too. "Okay lads quiet down, quiet down. Congratulations guys we are going to Orlando Florida for 2 weeks !". We scream once more. Stuart raises his hand. Cara sniggers. "Yes, Stuart?", miss aksed. "What hotel are we staying in miss?", Stuart questioned. "Why we are staying in the fancy Bush Hotel, Stuart", the tecaher replied all posh like. We giggle. "Miss, isn't that the hotel with 40 floors ?", Edward asks worryingly. "Oh Ed, that's just a mith. People say The 40th Floor is haunted but there's only 39, nothing to worry about", she sniggers. Edward looks at Charles, then Ken, then Ben making that not so sure look.

The teacher also looks worried.