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The noise on the bus was reaching outrageous levels. The windows had been put down and the few adults that were brave enough to come along were trying not to go crazy. Kids that were meant to be sitting were being tossed back and forth by the bus moving in and out of traffic. They were on their way to that glorious place that every kid dreams of going. Disney World!
It was a perfect day in Orange County. 82 degrees and sunny! This trip is a reward for students who have done well in school. All students above a 3.0 grade point average at Dr. Phillips High get to go... for a small fee of course. They did have programs for lower income kids to come along as well and every teen regardless of their financial status was excited to go. Even the ones trying to play it cool.
Disney world was only about 10 miles away, but it still took about 20 minutes, and for the kids it was 20 minutes too long!
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Olyvia sat in the far back of the bus, as far away from her brother as she could get. She couldn't believe he came on this trip! Was he trying to ruin her life? She glanced at him and rolled her eyes before turning back to a few of her friends. Not a whole lot of her friends actually got to go on this trip, they didn't have the grades. She didn't exactly surround herself with intellectuals. Although most thought her parents somehow bought her way onto this trip, she actually had the grades. Her friend Stacey though? Well she had seen Stacey's dad in the office two days ago, and suddenly she magically had the grades to be here. It really wasn't fair, and she wanted to be angry, but Stacey was one of the popular girls. Plus, she was letting her friends believe that her parents had done the same thing. She wasn't going to let something that silly ruin this trip for her.
She was trying to play it cool, she had actually never been to Disney World, but she had told the people around her that she had been there tons of times, no big deal. Twirling her hair in her finger and keeping the perfect nonchalant smile, she looked around the bus at all the other kids from her school. A lot she had never even met before.
Olyvia glanced at her brother, wondering if Mikey was secretly excited as well. She knew Joey, he was a lot of the girls' heart throb, the super jock who loved attention. There wasn't much going on upstairs with him, though. Olyvia was kind of repulsed by his lack of intelligence, actually. How the hell did he even get on this trip? Regardless of her true feelings though, when she caught his eye she gave a coy smile and a ditzy flirtatious wave. There was Nat, just about everyone seemed to know Nat, she seemed pretty cool, if not a little odd. Tom of course was here. He was in a couple of her classes, such a know it all and seemed full of himself. Always in some type of suit. Weird. There was that English girl that usually had a skateboard. Other than that she didn't know much about her or really anyone else on the bus.
Not too much longer until they would be free to explore the wonderful world of Disney! Well, however free you could be with your big brother lurking around.
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