This part is shorter, due to writers' block. Enjoy!
The bus lumbered at about two miles an hour. Everybody was very antsy, itching to go home. We finally reached the tiny clump of woods next to the school. The bus was following the tiny path alongside the creek. The windshield wipers were frantically moving back and forth, Mr. Saize trying to see through the snow that had started to fall again. My friends were acting weird again, nervously glancing up at the windshield every few seconds. I tried to concentrate on the fact that we were going home, but this feeling of dread was creeping over me. How was I supposed to know I would never go home? Suddenly, a deadly screech jerked us all back to our senses. Mr. Saize had slammed on the brakes, but that was a mistake. We must have slid on a patch of ice. We were turning almost 360°, when the bus lurched. We were turning over. Everything went black.
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When I woke up, at first I didn’t know where I was. Everything was white all around me. As my vision cleared, I saw the faces of my three best friends, and, even stranger, Ms. Coleman. They all looked very relieved to see me awake. I tried to speak, but all I could feebly muster was “whhaaaat?”
“Oh my gosh, you’re alive!” Angelina said breathlessly.
“What do you mean?” I said shakily.
Then I remembered. The snowstorm. The bus. A wave of sickness swept over me. I vomited on my blanket.
“Oh gross.” Olivia said, staring at the pool of vomit on my bed. “Olive!” Hannah said indignantly.
I finally looked down at myself. One of my arms was in a cast. I had a nasty gash on my leg, like something had scratched me. I tried to move, but couldn’t. Instead, I said, “What happened?”
“The bus slid and crashed into the river. The other bus driver called 911 and they got everyone to a hospital. You’ve been unconscious for three days.” I finally realized where I was.
“On a completely different topic, we have to get you out of here.” said Ms. Coleman brightly.
“How? Why?”
They told me the plan. They had stolen four sets of nurse’s outfits and a huge cart that they use to deliver flowers and cards and stuff. It took all four of them to carry me to the cart and set me down inside it. They put covered me with a blanket and I felt like a slave on the Underground Railroad, but I tried to put those thoughts out of my head. Then, all around me, they put tulips and daisies and all types of flowers imaginable. Directly on top of me, they put dozens of cards. I felt like a prisoner of Hallmark. Then they put stuffed lions, monkeys, dogs, and many more stuffed animals on top. I heard their voices faintly, “That’s great, you totally can’t tell she’s there.”
Suddenly, we were moving. It was hard to breathe, but I focused on the fact that I was finally getting out and going home. A strange muffled voice above me said, “Good morning, Christine.”
“Good morning.” Hannah replied. She must have been impersonating a hospital worker named Christine. After a while, we stopped and I heard the ding of an elevator. I was wheeled in, and I felt the swooping sensation of going down. We were on our way out. Once the downward sensation stopped, we left the elevator. Once we were moving again, I heard loud microphone feedback, then Angelina’s voice on the intercom. “Code blue, we have a code blue, to room 705!” I could hear loud footsteps around me as all the hospital workers rushed to room 705. In the chaos, we must have been able to slip out rather easily. I felt the cold winter air as soon as we got outside. All of my “rescuers” began to dig me out of the pile, and I saw where I was for the first time. We were in a parking lot, with only a few cars in it. The massive snowstorm had left and so the world was simply doused in slush. Hannah quickly helped me out of the infernal cart and got out car keys. I heard an automatic unlocker click, and a door opened on a white Mazda. Angelina came rushing out of a back door to the hospital. “Come on, we have to move.” She said, slightly out of breath. I walked to the car with the help of Ms. Coleman, and climbed in the back seat. Hannah took the driver’s seat, which scared me a little. I mean, Hannah’s thirteen. I finally took a good look around the car, It was amazing. It has everything. It had a mini fridge, stocked with sodas and ice cream, it had a TV and DVD player, a hundred books, a CD player. I realized the tiny car couldn’t fit everything, but I didn’t care. Olivia buckled me up and said, “We have a long drive ahead of us.”
Try and figure out what this picture is of and where it's from (hint: My Dad took it on August 11th, 2007. A prize to the correct guesser! (Moriah you can't guess because you already know)
