A/N: So, here is a new story for everyone. I hope it doesn't suck. Kelsey and Kai, I miss you.
"You should have seen your face! That was hilarity on a log!"
"I know! How could you actually believe that Kori ran the 400 naked?"
"Or that she would ever even come close to beating Rachel!"
The two girls burst into laughter, brown ponytails bobbing. Their companion, a blonde-haired boy, looked at them with disgust.
"Yeah, yeah very funny!" he said, in his anger reverting back to his (slightly fake) English accent.
"Come on, Kai, lighten up. I mean, how could you be that gullible?" Kelsey, the shorter brunette asked. Her green eyes flashed with laughter.
"It's still not funny. That was over nine months ago. In eighth grade. Don't you think it's getting a little old?"
"Nope!" Kelsey and Rachel chorused.
"Hey kids. Can you keep it down? The roads are getting pretty rough here!" the bus driver shrieked to the three lone occupants of late bus #3.
They immediately shut their mouths. Even Kai, who had only been living in town for a few years, knew the dangers of the slippery, hilly, winter roads. And no one could forget the bus accident that had occurred the past fall, which had injured three of their friends.
Rachel pulled out a book, Tamora Pierce's Squire, and was immediately absorbed in her favorite book. Kelsey pulled out her walkman and began to nod her head in time to the beat of what her friends called "Old Fogie Music," though no one quite knew what it was. Kai stared out the window, twirling a strand of blonde hair on the end of one finger.
Suddenly, the bus hit a patch of black ice as it sped down the hill, and it skidded onto a course perpendicular to its previous path. There was a high pitched squeal of the brakes that went off too late to save them, and then the bus hit the telephone pole and crumpled.
The three friends were thrown violently against the seats. The driver was killed instantly as the cab of the old yellow bus collapsed. There was no one to smell the acrid taint of the gasoline that leaked from the bus' broken tank. Rachel, Kelsey, and Kai were already unconscious.
Police investigators marveled at the wreckage when they arrived. The inferno had destroyed the entire metal bus frame. The bus driver's remains were found, but there was no trace of the three freshmen. All that was left was a strange, circular burn in the snow around the wreckage. There was nothing more.
A/N: I know, it's not very TP-ey yet, but just wait for it.