Just Another High School Story!

They got onto their buses, and Leah immediately put on headphones, the coach sat on the front seat, and Leah sat on the right sea, there was no one with her, she was sitting alone, the bus got crowded and the coach started counting, she realised that everyone's seat was filled, except Ethan was nowhere, she went out to look for him after asking the coach for permission, and she realised that their security guard was arguing with Ethan, the guy wasn't letting E go in without identification, Leah ran over and said, "He's with me, I have his name on the list." Ethan looked haggard, like he had drowned in alcohol, no wonder he seemed unrecognisable, and a little dangerous. She helped Ethan in, but he did not even look at her, he walked right past her. "What's going on?" Leah wondered, But of course, she thought, I'm going to find out. She got into the bus.

Mindy needed extra credits for her application, she was sucking up to the coach, when Ethan and Leah entered together, even though Mindy wanted to, she could not get out of the conversation that the coach was having with her, they were talking about times that lay ahead and she was desperately begging for the coach to increase her participation score, Ethan looked around and saw that since not too many people were going, the bus that they were taking was small, and the only seat left was the one next to each Leah, so even though he didn't want to, he ended up next to her on the bus, they were riding together, for the first time, well, first as in sitting so close to each other, after their 'break up', she could almost feel like things were normal, but the thing that broke her heart was that he did not even look at her, or talk to her. They were driving and suddenly, the bus got a jerk. Leah was about to hurt her head against the window, she had basically been sticking her head out to get fresh air, but just as she braced herself for the worst, she felt a strong grip on her waist, the touch was electric, never before in her life had she felt like that, her heart was beating so loudly, she was worried, she had burned all the food she had eaten before, Oh god, the touch, she thought, it's too hot in here. The weird thing was that the hand didn't let go, even when the bus returned to moving normally, it was almost like he was hugging her, willingly, touching her, lovingly, was she just imagining things, but he was the drunk one, how...?

Ethan had his eyes on Leah the whole time, when he did not talk to her, she turned away, he had the urge to caress her hair, she looked so pretty, and happy now, a huge burden had been lifted off his chest, originally he thought that maybe, she still couldn't get out of the slump he had put her in, but now that he saw her like this, he realised that his mistakes had been forgiven, truly this time, he did not need to hear it, his heart told him so, told him that she had forgiven him.

When the driver took a sharp turn to save the bus from an accident, before, Leah had gotten a jerk, he did not want her to get hurt, and so automatically, his hand reached out, like a seatbelt, he protected her, but without realising that he had gripped her waist, this was his first time holding her like that, the spark, ooh, the atmosphere, his brain was going to short circuit, but all of those thoughts flew away as he realised how much he had missed being able to touch her, he hugged her. She had not just thought so. He really did.

Just like that, they reached the campsite, the trip that would change their lives had officially begun.