THE DISASTROUS DROP
THE DISASTROUS DROP
Hello I'm Lemony Snicket, and I'm sorry to inform you of another unfortunate events. You have probably read of the woeful tales of the life and times of Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelair. If you have, I feel very sorry for you. But I'm also sorry to say that this new tale of Jason Henry is far more unfortunate than anything that you have read before. In the following book, Jason Henry will encounter a vicious bully, a horrific bus crash, hungry wolves, freezer burnt French fries, and a broken compass. So before you turn the pages of this depressing and miserable book, please know that I will not be offended if you put this book back on the shelf in which you found it, and never look at it again.
CHAPTER 1
I and most likely many of you, are not extremely popular. When you have cake flying at your head at the lunch table, thrown by someone; then obviously you are not popular. If you stand up to find that your shoe lassies are tied together and the whole class is laughing at you; then you are probably not popular. And if you find yourself wondering onto a bus with no where to sit, because no one wants to sit beside you, then the sad truth is, you are definitely not popular.
Jason Henry stepped onto the bus, squeezing his way in between the extremely large bus driver and one of the seats. In the back, he noticed, sat the bullies, who would take any chance to harass and torment him. Jason didn't want to sit in the back, so he was hoping to sit up front somewhere, but unfortunately, everyone spread out in their seats, just to avoid sitting beside him.
In most books you would read something along these lines: And as Jason Henry walked down the aisle looking for his seat, the only seat left open was the very back seat. Right next to where the bullies were. Jason took a seat, but the bullies didn't even do anything to harm him. He had a nice and peaceful ride to school, and he lived happily ever after. But I'm sorry to say, that this was not the case. The part about Jason not being able to find a seat is correct though. The only seat left unintended was the one in the back, where all the bullies sat. But the bullies didn't leave him alone. Instead, right when he sat down, they began to flick his head as hard as they could. The two main bullies, Brad and Nathan walked over to his seat, and sat beside him, squishing him to the window as the bus pulled off.
"Hey Jason… how's it been. We're so glad you came to sit with us today," Brad said, as Nathan, and the others laughed. "You want to give us your money, Jason," Nathan asked. "It would save you a lot of pain." As he said this, Nathan grabbed Jason's head, and threw it against the glass window.
"Can you not beat me up today guys," Jason pleaded. But it was no use. He had pleaded time and time before, but it always ended with a black eye, and a few hurt bones. Number one he was skinny, and not at all muscular for his age, and number two, five guys verse one boy is extremely unfair, but I'm sorry to say that life isn't fair. And Jason Henry's life is especially not fair. The other members of the gang quickly grabbed onto Jason, and were probably about to beat him up, because he wasn't popular, when suddenly the bus made a sharp turn to the right. Jason, Nathan, Brad, and everyone else on the bus sat up to see a car coming straight for them. The heavy bus driver beeped his horn, but it was no use. The driver in the car was asleep, and the driver hit them head on.
The bus was going to fall off the mountain that it was driving on. The bus driver didn't know what to do, but he quickly jerked the wheel to the left. This made only the back turn. There for, half the bus was on the mountain and the other half was off of the mountain. For several minutes everyone stayed still. They didn't want the bus to lose balance and tumble down the mountain, which I'm sad to say it did. "I need everyone to the front of the bus so we can shift the wait to the front," the bus driver said, as he tried to open the door, which didn't open. Everyone on the back of the bus tried to run to the front, bus the bus was at such an angle that it was impossible. If I was on that bus then I most likely would have fallen down just as Jason and the gang did, and I too would have most likely caused the bus to fall off the mountain just as Jason and the gang did.
When they hit the back of the bus, the wait made the front of the bus raise completely in the air. All the students flew to the back. The only person who didn't fly to the back, was the bus driver, who held on to the wheel with his feet dangling. "I CAN'T HOLD ON MUCH LONGER!" The bus driver yelled. As he said this, his hands slipped, and he too fell down. From my research, I have determined that the heavy bus driver was three hundred and twenty pounds. So when he hit the back of the bus, obviously the bus fell off of the cliff.
The bus flipped, and flipped, and flipped, and rolled, and rolled, and did a flip roll, and a roll flip, and flipped, and flipped, and flew up in the air, and hit the ground, and flipped, and flipped, and flipped, and flipped, and flipped, and did sort of a corkscrew, and flipped, and flipped, and flipped, and flipped some more, and twisted, and twisted, and did a flip in the air, and did a flip on the ground, and did a 360, and flipped, and flipped, and it flipped again, and it flipped, until finally the flipping stopped.
After all that flipping, I can't image how dizzy I would be. Not to mention having a three hundred and twenty pound bus driver squashing you the whole way down. So as you can see, Jason was a little discombobulated, which in this case means a little dizzy after rolling down a mountain several times, when he woke up. He slowly stood up.
On the floor of the bus, were several dead bodies, I'm afraid to say. Sources who found the totaled bus months later, described the bodies as a blood bath. The kids could not be identified. And as Jared walked over the bloody bodies, tears fell from his eyes. He was so happy that his life wasn't taken. If only he knew that surviving a bus crash was just the beginning. If I were there I would make sure to tell him to watch out for the wolves, but I wasn't there, and the bus crash was just the start of the long chain of unfortunate events that lay ahead.