The Difference Between Us

{22} Field trip

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Everyone was excited about the field trip. Last week, principal Mayorkun announced that all classes would be doing extracurricular activities and split all classes according to the activities they would be doing. The seniors had a trip to a wild life conservation resort in Beastgrovia, the second years had a field trip in Humawod, a neighboring town to Beastville, while the first years had a trip to the museum and art gallery.

Shelia and the girls went for shopping because Scarlet decided to be nice and gave them her credit card. "Take it," she said "I don't use it anyway." Sure is nice to be rich.

So here the girls are in the mall, running around like rabid dogs and asking my opinion in most of their choice stuff. I mean, why me?! I am a guy, I don't know stuff like this!

Now I'm stuck with Sharon who was asking me to help her decide between a brown sundress and what she called a hazel brown sundress. When I told her to just choose one since they were both brown, she dramatically gasped and started lecturing me on the different shades of brown. Now I know walnut is a colour.

"Come come Sharon, let's go buy swimming stuff!" Shelia came to my rescue and pecked my cheek before leaving with (more like dragging) Sharon to the beach section. We were staying for three days and two nights in Humawod.

First day is for fitting in and visiting Kennuct Industry's confectionery where we would be given a crash course on how to bake simple stuff. Kennuct industries are a group of companies which specialises in confectionery, clothing, cosmetics and games. I wish we could go to the gaming industry though.

Second day, we go to the facilities of the hotel for stretches in the afternoon and third day is our free day and also the day we leave. I am not exactly hyped about this field trip but the others are. There is an unsettling feeling I have about this trip, I feel it in my gut.

I have this ability to sense danger and foul aura when it is approaching. It is just like having a sixth sense. Maybe I'm just the one feeling uneasy, yeah, maybe.

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The trip to Humawod was long and boring, to me anyway, so I slept throughout the trip. There were times I woke up to sounds of giggles from the girls and sounds of screaming by the guys playing paper football/soccer. How they got the paper and button steady on the bus was beyond me.

(Paper football/soccer is a paper simulation of the actual game. A field is drawn on a large paper and origami posts/net are made for each end. A button is used as the ball and a very small stick is used as the goalkeeper. It is a two player game which mostly involves trying to get the ball (button) into the net/post.)

I remember waking up to the feeling of a sharpie on my face and Sheila's giggle. I caught her red handed trying to doodle on me but she pretty much did the deed after cute begging and puppy eyes. Right now, I have whiskers and a button nose. Of all things, she decided to make me a cat or a dog, whichever her mind wanted to illustrate. Ayo had a moustache, those ones with super curly ends, and Jordan had a mock monocle? Okay, the heck is going on here?!

Don had a star on his left face with his eye in the middle of it, while Bryan's face was striped. Even Scarlet had a red kanji art on her left forehead to mimic an anime star called Sabaku no Gaara. I am so sure it took a WHILE before they got Scarlet to do that stuff. I know because of the deadly glares she was shooting at them. I can't imagine them holding her down and steadying her face to do it.

We checked in to an hotel also run by Kennuct industries- hey I never knew they ran hotels too! The place was heaven because of the size of and the facilities in this thing. We were split into groups of twos for the rooms and were given time to settle in. I was partnered up with Ayo much to my luck.

Don and Bryan got partnered. Jordan was with Mumbai, an Indian boy that is in April's team. Sheila got Sharon, Phyllis got Scarlet , Arielle got Milan, a girl from my class, and so on and so on.

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The confectionery was fun although it took lots of effort to stop April from gulping down the eggs. We were split into four groups to see which group could bake the best cream buns and my group came first. I noticed though that all the while, my patient, (yes I feel like a doctor) Scarlet , didn't do anything other than clicking the button on the mixer and nobody dared to question her about it.

When we were done with baking, a girl around our age came to taste our buns. She's the CEO's daughter I think. She declared my team's baking the best and went to flirt with Ayo, wrong choice there.

It may seem like Ayo is gentle but he's actually dangerously blunt and won't waste time flipping anyone off. Is that jealousy on Bryan's face?! Somebody has a thing for rich pretty girls, eh?

"Hey Cutie, I'm Lisa and you're?" She asked while batting her eyelashes to look innocent and alluring.

"...intruding in my personal space, so scram." Ayo placed his hands on her shoulders and pushed her away from him. The girl, now named Lisa scoffed but it was one of amusement and followed Ayo who was walking over to my side.

"Cutie is a meanie, I see." She stated and smiled when she saw me. "Hi there." She started.

"He's taken." Ayo cut her off. Now she just looked annoyed but smiled anyway.

"What is with you?" She asked sweetly but the annoyance in her tone was as clear as day.

"That's just Ayo for you. It took me a year to get through him despite being seatmates." Sheila came into the discussion and smiled at Lisa. "I'm Shelia." She introduced but Lisa just stared at Sheila and left her outstretched hand hanging. Shelia awkwardly dropped her hand and tucked her hair behind her ear in embarrassment until a deafening squeal from Lisa made us all flinch.

"Oh M Geeeeeee! You're so beautiful, and your hair...tell me, tell me, tell me which shampoo you use!!!"

Me and Ayo shared confused glances at each other and Ayo did the crazy sign, which made me snicker. Shelia introduced Lisa to the rest of the class and they all seemed to get along well. Lisa is a jovial person, I see.

Said girl suddenly stopped talking and teasing Jordan about his unique hair colour when she saw Scarlet who walking by with her hand stuffed in her pockets. The redhead was totally uninterested in the CEO's daughter. Lisa, though, did not consider this and ran towards her yelling 'GAARA!'.

Scarlet , who still had the kanji art on her forehead, flinched and side stepped in time to dodge the popcorn from hugging her. I decided to call her popcorn because she couldn't sit still for a minute. If there is anything Scarlet dreads, it's physical contact that she didn't initiate. I had to learn the hard way to stop poking her side when she sleeps in class.

Said redhead looked emotionlessly at Lisa whose expression changed to realization. "You're Scarlet Fredrickson!" She yelled and then moved back to give the scarlet haired girl her space. "I've heard so much about you!" Or not. "You're my rebel model Scarlet ! I heard you won a bike racing..." Scarlet gave Lisa the infamous blood glare and the popcorn grew pale at once. Wow, had no idea my patient was this popular and what the heck did popcorn mean by bike racing? I feel like it's not an ordinary race tournament. I should probably investigate.

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