Bus Crash Bonding Chapter 1: The Crash
The bus ride back to school was so boring and Veronica wasn't getting anywhere with Meg, so she just decided to listen to her iPod. Veronica glances towards Meg, who was sitting by her self. Sighing, she looks around the bus, taking out her headphones when she hears a familiar voice.
A couple rows ahead of her Benita was playing a message from Dick. It was a very funny booty call, that even made Veronica chuckle. Another girl was also on the phone, and the rest of the students were doing their own thing. The bus driver was humming along with a song on the radio, seemingly very happy.
Suddenly a loud explosion goes off in the front of the bus and everyone screams. The bus drives straight off the Pacific Coast Highway over the cliff. Veronica, still holding her phone, speed dials someone and yells
"HELP! THE BUS IS CRASHING! HELP!" into the phone, as the school bus free-falls through the air, landing with an almighty crash in the icy water. Veronica's phone smashes against the chair in front of her along with her hand, breaking it in four places. A jagged piece of metal, from the floor of the bus, goes threw her calf. Water floods threw the bus, people are screaming and crying. The roof of the bus collapses and a hole appears above Veronica.
"GUYS OVER HERE! THERE'S A HOLE!" She shouts at the top of her lungs. "MEG!" She yells, seeing her friend stuck under the roof being crushed.
"VERONICA! I'M SO SORRY!" Meg cries out. Veronica struggles over to Meg and tries to help her out, tears falling down her face.
"NO. Veronica, save yourself." Meg says squeezing Veronica's hand tightly. "You're a great friend." She says, as she pushes Veronica away from her.
Veronica screams as more of the roof falls on Meg blocking her from view. A PCHer called Cervondo pulls Veronica away from the lifeless body of Meg, with the help of a girl called Ronda. They half swim half walk back to the hole Veronica mentioned to them. Looking back Veronica sees both the bus driver and the teacher slumped in their seats as well as a guy called Peter who was also seating near the front of the bus. Benita was struggling to make it to where Veronica, Cervondo and Ronda were waiting for her. She goes under the water for a second, resurfacing farther away than she was before. The next time she goes under she doesn't make it back up.
Cervondo and Ronda help Veronica out of the hole, where Marcos was waiting for them. Ronda gets passed up next, just as the rest of the roof crumples inwards. Cervondo screams in pain.
"YOU GUYS GO ON." He yells back at them from somewhere inside the metal deathtrap.
"THANK YOU! YOU SAVED US!" Ronda shouts back, with tears running down her face.
They were all soaked to the bone and shivering.
"We have to make it to the shore!" Marcos tells us. Looking down at her leg Veronica collapses, falling heavily onto the roof of the bus that they were standing on.
"I can't." She says, trying not to look at her leg, which still had a small piece of metal in it. She tries to use her right hand to get back up but screams out with pain. "I think I've broken my hand." She says woozily.
"We are going to die!" Ronda says, breaking down and falling next to Veronica.
"I'm so sorry guys! It is all my fault!" Marcos says, sitting down on the other side of Veronica. He rips some fabric from his shirt and ties it around the wound on Veronica's leg.
"How is this your fault?" Veronica asks, lying back on the bus so that she couldn't see her leg.
"Because he was trying to kill me and Peter, and everyone else was collateral damage." Marcos says sadly, whipping away a tear.
"Who?" Veronica says; her eyes fluttering closed as she spoke.
"Cassidy blew up the bus."
"What?" She asks dreamily.
"Veronica! You've lost so much blood! OH MY GOD! Veronica DON'T FALL ASLEEP!" Ronda yells, snapping out of her stupor.
"Ronda, stay here and help stop the bleeding! I'm going to try and swim to shore and get some help!" Marcos says. He jumps into the water and starts swimming to shore.
"Oh God! Oh God!" Ronda says ripping up her shirt and tying it around Veronica's leg. She was now in nothing but a singlet and short shorts.
A siren started ringing, but it sounded so far off to Veronica, who was close to passing out, and also to Ronda who was shaking from cold. She was close to passing out too.
"Veronica, don't fall asleep." Ronda says, lying her head down on the bus, to Veronica who was already asleep. "Don't fall asleep." She says drifting off herself.
