"Thanks for you cooperation. For staying for interrogation, we're allowing you to eat at Human Chinese Restaurant for free. It's right down the road. And we'll allow you all to stay at the nearest hotel until we can send you to Orlando."
"Thank you," Mrs. Culken said. The officer who interrogated us nodded his head, got up, and left the room. We were all silent. All eyes were on me. Again.
"Well, we should probably get something to eat."
"Be quiet, Marvin." Marvin sat down, and for the first time in my life I was mad Marvin was told to be quiet.
"Alright Helen," Mrs. Culken said to me, her voice trembling, "do you wanna explain why you knew about this before it happened?"
I stared at her. "I already told you. I saw the bus go into the tunnel, and the tunnel collapsed, killing everyone." I looked at them, trying to see if they would actually believe me or not.
They didn't.
"Why did you cause this?"
I turned to Mary, who for the first time in her life was sad. "Why?" She repeated.
"I didn't. I just saw it. And freaked out. That's all I did, I swear."
Greg stood up to give me another one of his rants.
"Oh yeah? What about the-"
"Stop it Greg." Mrs. Culken said. We sat there for a few more monents.
"Well, um, I'm pretty sure we're all getting hungry, so how about wel just go to the restaurant and eat?" Mrs. Culken agreed to Takumi's suggestion. Pretty soon we were at the restaurant.
As usual, Greg was eating the most. He was eating egg rolls. Everyone else picked at their food, and ate in silence. None of us could think of anything to say that wouldn't cause us more grief.
After some egg rolls, fried rice, hot & sour soup, and some noodles, we were all done. I had not touched a single bit of food. I was not starving. I just wasn't hungry.
"Fortune cookies!" Our waitress came back with fortune cookies for everyone. She dropped mine in front of me, and walked away. I looked down, then at everyone around me. Everyone had broken their fortune cookies open, and were eating them, or were in the process of doing so. I sighed, and broke mine open. I usually don't eat the cookie part, I just like the fortunes. I read mine.
"Your luck will turn until you are strangled by it." I blinked. I was not sure if this was a good or bad fortune. It didn't matter. I turned it around. 1 2 3 5 8 13 21 34. It was the Fibonacci sequence. That was strange. I shrugged, and folded and put it in my pocket. Then I looked up. Mrs. Culken was ready to take everyone to the nearest hotel.
"Well, that was a tiring day, wasn't it? I bet you're all exhausted. Let's go, the cars are waiting." No one moved. "She's right. Come on, let's go to our hotel. We left our school for Disn- ey World, so we're going to Disney World." Everyone got up. We left the restaurant behind us.
Our mode of transportation was a taxi. The police paid for everything, so the cost wasn't a worry. Besides the cost, there was nothing to worry about. I mean, the accident was over, I saved myself, including 7 people, and the police were sending us to Orlando free of charge. But I still had that feeling that I had this morning.
The cab pulled away, and as it did, I turned around, seeing the accident site. After the collapse, it had set on fire, and now there were fire trucks, paramedics, police, and almost every kind of emergency personnel available. It soon faded away, just like Pluxsawteny.
