“Toothbrush, toothpaste, passport, sweater, sunglasses do those even go together? Clothes, money, phone, laptop, purse, clutch, snacks…..SNACKS!”
“What are you screaming about Elise?” my mother interrupted my packing process.
“I NEED SNACKS FOR THE BUS! HAVE YOU SEEN MY CANDY AND COOKIES?” I asked her.
“Ugh, my daughter and her fattening foods” my mom said, sighing. “And yes, they are on the kitchen counter, where you left them twenty minutes ago” my mom said with an eye roll.
“THANKS” I yelled to her, and then I just continued with my packing process. “Hairbrush, makeup kit, curler, umm…….shoes…..SHOES!”
“What now?” my mother huffed sounding annoyed.
“Nothing” I replied, so she wouldn’t start judging my packing skills. Then I looked in my closet, only my flats and flip flops were in…FLIP FLOPS!
“Okay you need to stop screaming and giving me a heart attack every five seconds!” my mom reprimanded. Oops, looks like I said that out loud. I just needed to find three pairs of shoes, make that two. Okay, one, I just found my grey converse under my bed… How’d they get there? And my black heels…yes! Right next to the dress I was supposed to pack. “I’M READY TO GO MOM!” I said, as I dragged my suitcase downstairs.
“ELISE!!!!” I heard an all too familiar voice shriek.
“KATELYN!!” I screamed back.
“OhmygoshI’msoexcited!” she squealed.
Laughing I said “yea, me too!”
“ELISE, KATELYN”
“KATELYN, ELISE!”
And with those shrieks cue more friends.
“IZZY! VANESSA!” Katelyn and I shrieked simultaneously.
“OH MY GAWD I SEE CHELSEA!!” Isabelle squealed and started waving wildly at our blond friend.
“HEY CHELSEA!” Katelyn called hoping she would finally acknowledge our presence. Chelsea’s eyes flickered up and as her gaze landed on us the corners of her lips twisted up into a grin.
“HEY BESTIES!” she squealed and ran to us. And all at once we all started freaking out with random squeals, shrieks of excitement, and hugs, because that was when the reality of this amazing situation dawned upon us. We were about to get out of America, and go to Canada!!! A week away from high school in a super awesome hotel, speaking French, and shopping! Not to mention the Canadian pubs!
“Alright girls” my mom said, her eyes twinkling with amusement. “I think it’s time for you to go, if you don’t want the bus to leave without you.”
“BYE MRS.LYONS!!!” my friends screamed as they ran for the bus with their luggage.
“Bye mom!” I said, giving her a quick kiss and then dashing for the bus as well. We dropped our luggage off in the bottom of the coach bus, and then boarded just holding our pillows, blankets, and purses.
Isabelle had a triumphant grin on her face as she was munching away on MY chocolate chip cookies shamelessly. Seriously! That girl is as stubborn as an ox! So we were deciding who should get to sit in the seat by themselves having to share with the snacks. It was Vanessa’s turn but since Isabelle knew Vanessa was so adjusting, she decided to make a deal with her twin: Vanessa would get a gift from Isabelle in Canada if she got a seat to herself. And of course Vanessa said yes. Then she decided to go even deeper and begged us to let her keep the snacks on the left so she could be on the right so she could be closer to us. I mean seriously, does that girl not have a limit to how many things will go her way?! But we love her anyways <insert long sigh and eye roll> and so we let her sit on the aisle seat with snacks by the window, basically all to herself except for that one bag of bbq chips she threw at us. Who even likes bbq? I was sitting next to Vanessa, and Katelyn next to Chelsea.
“Elise……Elise…..wake up Eli”, ugghh, who was waking me up at this time………”OH MY GAWD ARE WE IN CANADA!?” I screamed, suddenly startled awake.
“UGGGGHHHHH” I heard a loud groan coming from my right. “WHO THE HELL STARTED SCREAMING” it growled. I looked to my right and saw that it was Chelsea, who decided to go back to sleep. And next to her lay Katelyn, with some drool coming out of her mouth into Chelsea’s hair. I smirked to myself pulling my phone out of my pocket and taking a picture of those two. And then I remembered the reason I was awake. “Vanessa!!” I said.
“What?” she asked me innocently.
“WHY DID YOU WAKE ME UP?” I asked her.
“Well, I was bored and I thought talking to someone would be fun and you were sitting next to me so….” She trailed off and smiled. I just stared at her in disbelief. What kind of wacko would wake up a perfectly peaceful person at…..?
“Hey what time is it?” I asked Vanessa.
“Oh, it’s only 2 in the morning”, she said, sighing. “You guys all went to sleep sooooo early” she carried on. “And I was wondering if…”
“OH NO YOU ARE NOT GOING THERE!” I exclaimed. She was approaching the truth or dare zone….
“YOU WOKE ME UP FOR THIS?!” I shrieked.
“Well I was bored, waddya expect?” she huffed, glaring at me.
“Way to entertain me” she muttered, rolling her eyes.
“Just play games on your phone.” I instructed her and fell back asleep.
“AAAHH!” I woke up screaming
“WAKE-UP CALL, WAKE-UP CALL” a super loud megaphone was blaring in my ears.
“Jesus Christ….” I muttered, really wanting to kill Madame Baker right now. I was having the perfect dream…. Wait! If she was waking us up it was probably for
“WAKE-UP CALL, WAKE-UP CALL” the megaphone interrupted my train of thought.
“WAKE-UP, IT’S THE BORDER CHECK!!! TAKE OUT YOUR PASSPORTS!” Madame Baker yelled.
“OHMYGOD WE ARE LIKE INCHES AWAY FROM CANADA!” I heard Katelyn yell.
“WOOOHOOO!” Katelyn, Chelsea, Vanessa, Isabelle and I started cheering.
“WOOOOOOOWOOOO!” we heard other people join in.
“QUIET!” Madame Baker yelled, but she was grinning.
“THE SECURITY IS COMING IN! ACT MATURE, THE QUICKER WE GET THIS DON THE QUICKER WE GET INTO CANADA!” she exclaimed, getting a little squealy herself at the end. Then two guys in police uniforms walked up our bus, checking our passports to make sure we were all citizens of America, and that it was safe to let us in to Canada. Finally, after ten minutes of ‘staying mature and quiet’ the security officers left.
“AND WE ARE OFF TO CANADA!!!” Madame Baker screamed, gushing with excitement.
A/N: hey guys :) I'm trying out a new story...... and so I hope you like it!!! Oh, and I appreciate comments and votes ;)
