Field Trip

Chapter Four: Heading Home

    As soon as the school day ended, Adam ran to meet his friends by the hover board racks outside near the school parking lot.

    "Hey guys!" Adam called.

    "Hey Adam!" Mark replied.

    "So, what did you think of that whole creepy envelope spiel this morning?" Ryan wiggled his fingers in the air like he was telling a spooky story.

"What envelope spiel?" Landon asked.

The rest of the group glared at him.

"Oh! THAT envelope spiel! Come on, what could possibly be so secret in that envelope that even the teacher can't read it?" Landon scoffed.

"A top secret document from the government?" Ryan suggested.

"Really? A paper from the government that our parents are allowed to read but our teachers aren't? What kind of bullshit idea is that?! That wouldn't make any sense! Public schools are owned by the government, so teachers would be able to read whatever they told them to hand out, right?" Adam argued.

"I don't know, it was just an idea..." Mark mumbled as he shrugged his shoulders.

"If it's not from the government, then what could it be?" Ryan thought out loud.

"No clue. I'm sure we'll figure it out eventually." Landon replied.

"For now, we should all go home and do our homework." Mark added.

Everyone but Mark groaned in unison.

"I just don't understand what problem you guys have with homework! It only takes 5 minutes!" Mark argued.

"Yeah, it takes YOU five minutes! It takes the rest of us all night!" Adam replied.

    "You would be able to get it done in five minutes if you just focused!" Mark stated.

    "Not if you barely understand the subject!" Ryan laughed, shaking his head back and forth.

    "Come on, guys, let's go home." Adam chuckled as he hopped on his hover board.

    Landon also laughed. "Yeah, let's. Besides, we have all that homework to do!" he winked at Mark, who rolled his eyes.

    "Shut up." Mark grinned.

    Adam and his friends headed down the sidewalk, chatting all the way home, and said goodbye before going inside their own houses.