It's told from Kurt's point of view

I had never really liked riding by bus. All the germs passing onto every single piece of material, the shaking and the jumping in the movement. And knowing people could hear your every word having a conversation- not that I should have to care about the conversation- part this time though. I was all alone.

Stepping onto the vehicle my head was only filled with how much I hated this. And as soon as I had paid the driver, I kept my hands and arms to my sides not touching anything I wouldn't have to. Surely the driver wouldn't start driving until I had sat down. And then it wouldn't matter if I held onto anything or not.

Wrong!

When the bus abruptly started moving I lost my balance. For a moment I tried getting steady on my feet, then I tried to fall right onto the floor- but when the driver stopped right back both of the tries were useless and I fell right into the lap of a skinny boy, about my age.

"Sorry about that."

The driver shouted back to me. But I barely even heard it. I had never been this embarrassed in my whole life- and when I ended up on the floor trying to get up it didn't make things better really.

During spread laughter from the whole bus. And the skin of my face warming as I felt myself blush I finally got onto my feet. The driver now waited until I had sat down before he started driving. But long after he started driving I could hear the laughter and the driver's own chuckling from the front.

I didn't look up- but annoyingly the only spot on the whole bus that had been left for me to sit was on a one turned with the back towards the front- and as if the nausea creeping up my throat with every hill and every turn wasn't bad enough. The boy I had fallen right into sat right in front of me as we were facing each other.

I didn't look up.

Maybe if I had, I would have seen that the boy kept looking at me.

Maybe if I had…

Random fact

I ride by bus quite a lot- and this idea came to me when I almost (ALMOST) fell right into a girl's lap when it started moving just as I sat down.