A young girl with dark curly hair and lightly coloured skin stood alone at the front of two parked buses waiting for the rest of her class to show up. ‘First one here as usual’ Bette thought out loud. As always she was over prepared, she was usually the first one out of her class to be at anything. Most people saw her as somewhat nerdish but to her friends she was nothing of the sort.

“Bette!” A familiar voice called out. “Hey James, looks like we are the first ones here!” Bette placed her book back into her backpack. “Everyone’s around the other side of the bus, loser” James nudged a slightly embarrassed Bette. “Oh, I thought I was just early” Bette explained as the redness in her cheeks died down.

They walked around to the other side of the bus to find a few of their other classmates chatting away in their own little groups. The teacher was taking the names of the people who had shown up on time. “Has anyone seen Dana, Josh, Jenny, or Tina Kennard?” She looked down the list of the missing students. “We can’t leave until they show up”.
“Typical” Bette muttered to James sighing.

“Mother Fucker!” Alice cried dragging her luggage over to the side of the bus. Bette skipped over to greet her friend who was helping Shane with her stuff. “Shane over slept, we nearly missed the bus!” Shane looked like she had just rolled out of bed, her hair was scruffy and her clothes needed to be washed badly.  “You didn’t miss anything, we are still waiting on the prep kids to grace us with their lovely presence” James joked. “Shut up faggot!” Josh elbowed James lightly in the side of the head. “Are you ok?” Bette smoothed the injured area with her hand. “They are just high school drop outs don’t let them get to you”.
“Jerk!” Bette yelled as they laughed walking away.

“Finally” the teacher rolled her eyes “It’s ok to get on the bus!” The students pushed and shoved to get on the bus leaving the back row free for the popular kids to sit in.  “Baby, I want the window seat” Tina gave her boyfriend sad puppy eyes “Please” She begged. He slid over as Tina crawled over him to get to the window seat. “Thanks babe” Josh pushed Tina against the window and started making out. “Urgh do they even care that no one wants to see them fondling each other” Alice spat in disgust. Tina giggled after Josh gave her a quick spank.