Good Girls // JATP

Trente-Et-Un - 31

Brynna's POV

Waking up at three in the morning was not how I wanted to start my second day of winter break, but I didn't have much of a choice. Today was the first day of the Senior Trip. We fly up to Seattle and then go on a bus to Vancouver Canada and spend a few days there before flying back home. This was the trip that I've been waiting for for years and the fact that I actually have close friends that are my age and I can hang out with during this trip, is going to be great.

"Here, I'll take that for you. Why don't you go get us a seat." Luke grabs my bag from me and pushes through the small crowd of other students attending the trip.

I walk up onto the bus and walk down the aisle until I drop down into a seat behind Alex and Reggie.

"Someone's a bit tired." Alex points out as I lay my head against the window and close my eyes. "Did you even sleep last night?" He asks and I groan.

I think it's funny that Luke made up a pretty good excuse to leave my house yesterday, saying that he had so much to do but then decided to call me right as I was about to go to sleep.

"Luke called me at eleven and would not stop talking about his plane anxiety. I dozed off a few times but then he would start another tangent and I'd wake back up again. He didn't hang up until two fifteen and I was up at three. So basically, I'm going to sleep the entire plane ride and still be tired." Luke plops down next to me and I shift my weight to the other side so I can lay my head on his shoulder.

"How dare you keep her from getting her beauty sleep, Luke. You are truly evil." Reggie says in an almost mocking tone.

A chuckle escapes my lips and Luke gasps at the accusation.

"I didn't know who else to talk to." Luke tries to defend himself. "I had a list of people I could call and she was the first and she happened to pick up. Her fault for not just hanging up." He crosses his arms over his chest and lets out a huff.

"Shut up, I'm trying to sleep." I slap his chest and he stiffens up.

"Sorry, I'll shut up now." He relaxes and wraps his arm behind me as I doze off on the drive to the airport.

Getting through security didn't take too long because we students were the only people there. We quickly got to our gate with a half-hour to spare before boarding.

"The only places that are open are McDonald's and Starbucks. Nothing else opens for, like another 2 hours. So those are your only options." Alex points out the two kiosks just down the hall from our gate.

"I vote for McDonald's!" Reggie shouts excitedly. "I just love their pancakes." He says bashfully.

"I'm good with that as well. I like their breakfast sandwiches." Alex shrugs.

Food does not sound like a good idea on my stomach at the moment, especially fast food like McDonald's so I'll gladly pass on that.

"I need coffee so I'm gonna go with Starbucks." I rub my eyes and look over at Luke to see him nodding.

"I agree with Bryn. Coffee is a must right now and I'm not really up for McDonald's crap coffee at the moment." Luke nods us in the direction of the coffee shop.

After fifteen minutes we meet back at the gate and find four open seats next to each other. The gate has filled up with more people aside from the high schoolers and I can see in their eyes that they're not ready for the chaos they can see with being on a flight with a bunch of teenagers.

We soon got seated on the plane and Luke's plane anxiety started picking up again. Before the plane even left the gate, he had a death grip on my hand.

"You'll be fine, Luke. Just think about it this way. If the plane does go down. You'll die with your friends and a bunch of other teenagers. And if you don't die, it'll be a fun story to tell your kids." I try to give his hand a squeeze but he somehow squeezes my hand tighter than he was before.