Today was the day of the trip to camp lake drive. As I turn off my alarm I look at the time, 5:10 am on the dot. The trips supposed to be one week at the camp, "Bring your clothes, shampoo, soap and anything else you will need." I repeated, remembering what Mr. Ney said the day before. I was too excited to wait till today to pack, this is going to be the best trip of the year! "Tory! Come down here as soon as possible!" My mom yelled to me from the downstairs kitchen. "Coming!" I yell back, school starts way too early here, it's like the mayor hasn't lived in any other city or something, this place hasn't even been here that long. I fit into my day clothes, in a burgundy sweater and some ripped jeans, I tie my hair back in a ponytail and head down the stairs. "Good morning, Tory. How are you feeling?" My mom grinned, "I'm really excited!" I said trying to hold in my excitement. "You look very ecstatic." She teased. Oh jeez not the teasing again. "Well, unfortunately I forgot to buy eggs yesterday, so I'll need to head over to the grocery store really quickly." She explained, "Alright, I'll stay here." I stood up and hugged her, taking her keys and ran out the door in a hurry. I decided to turn on the tv, knowing my mom she's gonna be there for an hour. The tv flipped to the news, "This morning a man named, Bert Hironaka crashed into someone's car on purpose to make a proposition. This is what he said." The news reporter looked around the camera and took a shaky breath, "here's the clip." She tried to grin. "I wanna say that everyone even the queen of England will bow down to me, one day. With this," he held up a butcher knife to the camera. The camera man must be shaking because the video was literally flying all over the place. "Or this." He pointed a pistol to the camera and then to the sky, and shot. *BAMM* a loud bang went off and the camera man is out. There was really heavy breathing, it looks like he ran. "And that's the video." She broke down crying and ran off set, is it me or was it like the news reporter was running away from a bee, "Holy s—" a Knock sounds at the door. I slowly walk over to the door and turned the door knob. My friend, Zaiden Samuels was at the door. "Zaiden!" I beam, "Hi Tory, How are you?" He chuckled, I hug him tightly. "I haven't seen you in forever." "Sorry, wish we are in the same class, again." He searched my face, looking all over the place. "What are you doing here?" I ask, "Your mom told me to bring you to school. My dads driving." He pointed to the car parked outside and grabbed my backpack from the side. I roll my suitcase over to the car and put it in the trunk. "Good morning, Mr. Samuels." I say jumping into the car. "Good morning Terry!" He greeted, "Its Tory." I mutter under my breath. Zaiden sits in the front seat we ride off to school.

Mr. Samuels waves goodbye from the inside of the car and we walk into the school. As I walk up the stairs with my backpack on my back and with my suit case in my hand. "Good morning Ms. Woods, and Mr. Samuels." Mr. Ney greeted, "Good morning Mr. Ney!" I said cheerfully. He welcomed Zaiden and me into his classroom that I have been in for hundreds of hours for long lectures. "You two can wait in here with Samantha and Georgia." I sit down across the room from Samantha, she was annoying as hell, and worse she has a crush on Zaiden. To be honest I do too, it's clear to me that he doesn't like her. Zaiden has shown signs that she might like me, well..... that's what my friend Aria says. She says that he does but I have my doubts. Mr. Ney was whispering into Zaiden's ear, he took a seat next to me. Samantha gave me a deathly glare and started to walk over to us. "Excuse me Samantha, please sit down where you are, a lot of people are getting their stuff ready, outside. It would be a shame if you lost a seat." She sat back down in her chair and continued to stare at me. "Do you wanna share a bunk with me?" He asked, "Sure, I guess. If we can." I stare down at the desk, avoiding his eyes. A nervous laugh cake out of me all of a sudden. I look up for a second to look at him, he smiled at me. His braces showed though his smile. Just then, students filled the room from both the classes from the same grade as I am getting crushed. It was like the gold rush all over again. Some students took seats, some just stood and some were sitting on their backpacks on the floor. It was a whole room filled to the brim with grade 7 students, this is what I call a great beginning to a big trip. Aria takes the seat to my right and she smiles at me, awkwardly. She takes a sticky note and writes something down on it, passing it to me after. 'So... He's right next to you.' She wrote, 'He came and took the seat next to me after I sat down.' I gave the note back. 'Oooh, Tory! He likes you! :)' she laughed out loud, 'Samantha was about to take the seat you are sitting in right now, Mr. Ney stopped her.' Zaiden looked from the side of his face looked at the note, I passed the note quickly so he couldn't see. "Mr. Ney thank you!" She said out loud. I turn my eyes to Zaiden, he looks at me with his eyebrows furrowed. The first bell rings and Mr. Ney starts taking the attendance. "Good morning students! As you know today is the trip to camp lake drive, so make sure you bring everything with you." He finished and kept reading the attendance. After we all walked out to the school buses in front of the school. All the students slowly filled the two school buses, I tried not to get lost and followed Zaiden, he walked aimlessly down the aisle as I sat down on the fifth seat from the back. He quickly took the seat next to me and Aria sat at the seat next to ours. He grinned at me then looked around us to see who sat where. The rest of the ride was a bit boring, I looked at Zaiden a couple times but then, the bus driver played the radio and the song. I look over to Zaiden, his eyes were glossy, locked with mine. My ears were numb and my heart was racing. Suddenly some students yelled and screamed, filling the bus with horrific voices and sounds. I look over to Jai and his face was burning red, Maryam's lips were on his cheek. Peoples phones flashed, Aria sat down in her seat sadly. I look out the window and smiled sadly, too.