Amor de mi Alma || 2Jae

Chapter 6

"Good news, Band," says Mr. Divins, on Wednesday the week after Youngjae had talked with Jaebum in the second-floor bathroom. "It's confirmed that we will go to Disneyland in just two months, so we better get going on our pieces." The whole band cheers and Mr. Divins grins at everyone. "Why don't we spend this class making room-groups and planning what we will do once we're at Disneyland itself?" The class agrees and they quickly put away their instruments once they are dismissed.

Jinyoung, his saxophone still hanging from his neckstrap, immediately walks toward Youngjae, who is already beginning to ask Jaebum whether he wants to room with him and Jinyoung.

After Jinyoung pipes in that he'd be fine sharing a room with both Jaebum and Youngjae, they deem that Youngjae gets the bed to himself and that Jaebum and Jinyoung will share a bed, as Jaebum is obviously more comfortable with that, though it seems that he is immensely regretting joining Band as soon as they heard that the Disneyland trip will be held.

"It'll be so much fun!" Jinyoung says excitedly. "We can get matching Mickey Mouse caps and we can eat cotton candy and ice cream shaped in Mickey Mouse ears and we can go on Splash Mountain and we can go to The Haunted Mansion and scare the crap out of Yugyeom and Kunpimook -"

"Don't get too excited now, Jinyoung," Youngjae calms the older. "We don't even know what we'll do and when we'll do it."

"But can we confirm the caps and the cotton candy and the ice cream parts?"

"Yes we can," says Youngjae, "but only if we are allowed free roam, which I doubt they won't let us do because Disneyland."

"Agreed." Jinyoung looks from Youngjae to Jaebum and back to Youngjae and then grins widely.

After fifteen minutes of constant chaos and talking, Mr. Divins calls everyone back to their chairs and then they begin discussing what they would do once at Disneyland. According to Mr. Divins, they will fly there on April first and they will return April sixth.

"The overall cost will be about a thousand dollars," Mr. Divins says. "And we will most likely stay in the Country Inn & Suites, which will mean that our trips to Disneyland itself will have to be by foot to get there. Not only does this mean that you will have to be on your best behaviour since we will be more in public, it also means that our trips to Disneyland will be limited as we won't take away most of our trip to walk to Disneyland."

"Really?" Amad Smith, the bass clarinet exclaims. "That sucks!"

"I know it does," Mr. Divins says. "But staying at the Disneyland hotel itself will cost too much, and there is no way that we will be able to store instruments in the hotel rooms, but the Country Inn & Suites has apparently an all-you-can-eat breakfast, which I think the website said was free, and according to review the staff is very nice, but it is also close to a shopping center so we will also go there for one afternoon or maybe a whole day if we have time. There's also a pool and jacuzzi that we can go to, but I will take a look at that because it may cost a little extra money. And there is even a gym and a giftshop for those of you who want to go there."

"What else can we do when we're in LA?" asks Yugyeom. 

"We'll be seeing if we can go to the Hollywood sign and to the Chandelier Tree and to the Walk of Fame street with the celebrity names, snap some pictures to make your friends jealous. We'll go to the beach for sure, I have already decided on that myself. We can also go to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art if most of us want to, and if the group decision is split on half we can do half going to the Museum of Art and the other half to the Science Center, and there should be plenty of arcades to go to. We'll get it all settled."

"Can we go to the Grand Canyon?" Rosy calls out.

Mr. Divins shakes his head, "No, that's a seven and a half hour ride if we don't count weather and traffic with it. It'll eat away too much of our time and we'll probably only get a few hours to look around there and that'd be too little time to do something. Unless we were to get a hotel booked, which would only add to the cost, we wouldn't be going to the Grand Canyon."

"How much would it make the cost if we were to go?" Youngjae asks.

"About three-hundred dollars at the least."

"Can't we fundraise for it?" asks Ariana Sharpe. "We've done it in the past for big trips like this."

Mr. Divins shakes his head once more. "Even with fundraising, it'd still make the cost each one of you have to pay too high. We'll just stick with staying in Los Angeles for now, maybe we can see about the Grand Canyon next year or the year after."

"Or we could go to the Grand Canyon ourselves," Youngjae snorts, and some kids giggle.

"What about airport times?" Ryan Hunter, the tenor saxophone, asks once everyone is quiet again. "Will we have to get up early?"

"Since flying from Cleveland to Los Angeles is quite some time, about eight hours I think, I'm afraid I'm going to have to book early. But if we do have to be at the airport before eight in the morning, then I'll late you have some chill time at the hotel, where you can either go to Disneyland, go to some shops in the streets around the hotel, or simply chill in the hotel itself, staying in the pool or checking out the giftshop."

"Sweet," Jinyoung grins. "But what if we leave Cleveland at like, eleven in the morning?"

"Then you'll have to stay at the hotel, I don't think Disneyland would be enjoyable if we only were to go there for about two hours," says Mr. Divins. He glances at the clock. "Well, we just have about fifteen minutes left so just go off on your own, fiddle around on your instruments or do some homework or have some free time. I'll get back to you as soon as I know more about the trip."