A/N: Ah, my first National Treasure fic. I DO NOT OWN National Treasure, Disney does. Enjoy ze fanfic!
"Beeeeen. We've been waiting for her for two hours. How much longer are we going to wait?"
"Not long. Her bus is gonna be here any minute."
Riley Poole slumped in his seat. He seemed the only one unoccupied in the van, as his buddy Ben Gates was reading Time magazine, and Mrs. Abigail Gates was sleeping. Suddenly, a bus pulled up.
"Look... a bus." Riley said.
"Is it the bus?" Ben asked.
"It better be."
"Hold on a sec."
Ben walked out of the van, holding a piece of paper that read: 'Abigail Adams Gates'. "This isn't an airport, Ben," Riley called. Apparently Ben wasn't listening. Soon after, emerging from the bus was a kid with brown hair and glasses. When she saw her name on the sign, she looked apalled, but went over to Ben anyway. This was who was staying at Ben's for summer vacation.
"Hi, I'm Ben, your cousin." Ben reached out his hand to shake.
"Um, I'm Abby." The girl shook his hand.
"Let me load your stuff in the car,"
Riley went over to Mrs. Gates, and shook her. "Wake up. She's here." Abigail rollled over. "Okay." She said drowsily. Somehow, all Abigail did was sleep, eat, and work these days. I wonder what's wrong with her, thought Riley. "Abby, you can sit next to...Riley." Ben said rather uncomfortably, pointing to Riley in the back. "Hi, I'm Riley. Funny, I thought you would be older." Riley said, shaking out his hand. Abby shook it. "I'm Abby. Is this Abigail?" she said, pointing to the now-sleeping Mrs. Gates. "Yes."
It was a pretty quiet van ride, with nobody wiling to start a conversation. Finally, Ben spoke up.
"You're from New Jersey, right?"
"Yeah." Abigail replied.
"How old are you again?"
"Thirteen."
"Oh, okay. What are your favorite subjects?"
"History, pretty much. And maybe chemistry."
"History? Carrying on the Gates family tradition, eh? Chemistry, too?"
"Yeah. I like mixing chemicals to see what they do."(A/N: It rhymes!)
When Abby, Ben, Riley, And Mrs. Gates got to the house, Abby looked on in disbelief.
"Woooooah! This is your house?" Abby exclaimed.
Ben chuckled. "Yup, this is our house."
"Cool."