Every time I hear a bus full of teenagers screaming I am taken back to my school days. I don't need to check if its actually them or was it even a bus. Those screams are nostalgic enough.

Counting days until the trip, the excitement while packing the day before; I miss it all.
Even when i was on those trips,I would wonder of a time, when all of that would be gone and how then I would long for that one last trip years later, as I, now.

I loved how non judgmental everyone became during these trips. Singing out of sync, dancing off beat, failing badly at dumb-charades, everything that would otherwise be made fun of, was cherished in that bus.
Devising intricate plans to secure that last seat, for that was where all the smuggled items were hidden. Vodka shots, brewers everything tasted better back then.

As we checked off every crazy thing one could do on a bus, we'd find ourselves at railway station in what would seem like few minutes. The sleepers we rode on had a rhythm, one which everyone heard but few resonated.
We made sure everyone knew rabid teenagers had taken over the train. As it got darker , more intense games were introduced . This was when feelings would be discussed.
See, we didn't really need to be in a relationship to feel loved back then.
Many other stories reside on those sleepers, most of which retain their purity only in our minds.

As the sun grew we would realize how less we knew about each other, how more we did now and how much more there could be to know.Getting off that train was as hard, as to not get off it.But the pause switch lies a dimension above.

I now realize, that rest of things on that trip dont really matter as much. The journey and being with each other is all that I miss. The words 'all that i' make is seem so futile, maybe thats what keeps me from falling apart.
Being with the same people each time.It was tradition. For our togetherness was so much larger than those hotel rooms.
Years later, in the same room, I wait for the next trip, alone or am I?
Ah, togetherness such a refreshing change it would be now.