A/N: Sorry I haven't updated for a while. I was getting backed up with starting Jr. High and everything. I hope you're all still staying with the story! To Cricket W. George, your name in this story shall be Rachel and bubbles rule 1, your name shall be Jeanne. MistyDunkin101 your name shall be Analea and SunnyRules1 your name shall be Elaine. Cricket and Bubbles have an...um... special, part in this chapter (please don't kill me when you read it.)
Disclaimer: All trademarks of ASoUE belong to Mr. Handler, not me, because no matter what bubbles rule 1 may think I am NOT Mr. Handler.
The Notebook Brigade
Chapter Six
The Last SAFE? Place
On the Bus
"Hey! The bus stopped!" Elaine whined.
"Well, at least we're spared for another ten minutes or so before we are tortured into insanity," Libby pointed out.
"You mean lectured to about puberty," Analea said softly from her aisle seat. Libby looked across Elaine and to her as to say "My version was more accurate!"
"Someone's getting on the bus!" someone from the front of the bus yelled. There was a great murmur among the fifth graders as everyone scrambled to the windows to get a better look at the newcomers.
"Pile!" Libby exclaimed, and, her having the window seat, Elaine and Analea piled on top of her. The girls looked out the window to see three people (who they noted looked eerily alike) all wearing green sweater vests and each sporting a different color backpack. When they entered the bus and the girls got a better look at them, Libby suspected they were triplets or at least related in some way. As Libby looked over at the seat opposite them, she saw Rachel and Jeanne having a heated argument over who they thought would get to sit next to "the hot guy or the hot guy's identical". As the three newcomers made their way down the aisle, Rachel eventually pushed Jeanne off the seat and made sure "the hot guy's identical" knew the seat was open. But he passed her seat and sat with Jared and Josh. Rachel still had a bit of hope left on her face but "the hot guy" past her seat too and went to sit with his brother. Libby was so absorbed in her thoughts of Rachel's obsess for finding hot guys, she almost forgot about the girl who also had boarded the bus. She had stopped right in front of her, Elaine's, and Analea's seat.
"Could I possibly sit here?" she asked.
"I think we can fit one more person," Analea said. "Okay everybody, scootch'er buns!" and the three girls squeezed together to make room for Isadora.
"So," Isadora asked as she sat down, "Do you know where this bus is headed?"
"I do!" said Libby, "We're all going on a field trip to a fluffy happy land of fun and enjoyment!"
"She means the opposite," Elaine said. "We're all going off to a place called Robert Crown, where some people will lecture us about our death sentence."
"A.K.A. Puberty," Libby finished for her. "By the way, I'm Libby, next to me is Elaine, and next to her is Analea." Elaine and Analea said "hello".
"But it's not so much who we are," Elaine said. Analea continued her sentence.
"It's who you are and where you're headed." Over the next hour or so the bus was traveling, Isadora introduced herself and her brothers to the three girls who finished sentences for each other's sentences. Isadora also told them her story from the beginning when her and her brothers were playing tag in the ballroom, to how they ended up on the highway. Libby, Elaine, and Analea expressed deepest sympathy to Isadora, and she told them she was close to over it. The girls were silent for a time, until a thought jumped into Isadora's head.
"Libby! Do you know the coordinates for Robert Crown?"
"Sure. Why?" Libby asked. Isadora signaled for her to wait and called for Quigley.
"What is it Izzy?" he answered sticking his head around the side of the seat in front of them.
"Tell him the coordinates Libby," Isadora urged. Elaine and Analea watched intensely as Libby told Quigley the coordinates and he began to flip through his purple notebook.
"It might be the The Last Safe Place!" Quigley exclaimed, becoming frantic with the page flipping now.
"Of course it isn't The Last Safe Place!" Analea, Libby, and Elaine cried out together.
"Robert Crown is a death trap!" Libby scoffed.
"It couldn't be!" Elaine uttered.
"It won't be!" Analea whispered.
"It is," Quigley said calmly. "Robert Crown is The Last Safe Place."
BUM BUM BUM! I hope that was enough of a cliffie for you guys, and I hope all the new characters don't confuse you too much. I'll put their listings down at the very end if it helps. And now the name standings!
Elise: 3
Irene: 3
Olivia: 1
Suzanna: 2
And just so you know, I am counting votes outside of FanFiction (like from friends at school and etc.) So don't go through the reviews, count them all and say "You counted wrong!" I will not like it.
So with that said...REVIEW! (please)
Characters:
Rachel: A sweet, preppy girl who always wants the hot guys.
Jeanne: Pretty conservative girl who likes to talk...a lot...really loudly.
Jared: Nerdy but really sweet boy.
Josh: Recess football jock. Sweet but short.
Elaine: Shy girl, but with a lot of spirit who despises the thought of getting any older than 13.
Analea (AH-Nu-LAY-Uh): Extremely polite and always wants to include everybody.
Libby (Me): Extremely conservative girl who rebels fashion and (as you can see) loves the use of sarcasm. NOTE: Can become much too hyper if is provided with enough sugar.
