Chapter 4: Ramen Trouble

"AHHH!" screamed Katherine.

"What! What!" said Julie, slightly annoyed because she was sleeping.

"I'm so flippin hungry! Aren't you?"

"Well, yes, I'll admit that, but you didn't have to wake me up…"

"Who's screaming?" mumbled Chad.

"…or the rest of the bus," laughed Julie. "Okay, so now that we're all awake, what do you guys want to do?"

Everyone sat in silence for a while.

"…I'm hungry," said Mike.

"Aren't we all?" said Natalie.

Again, there was silence. Samantha searched the bus for a crouton. Ryan was listening to his iPod while reading Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. Katherine was chewing on a tin of Altoids Smalls.

"Ummm, you're supposed to eat the Altoids that are inside the tin, not the tin itself…" began Julie, but a glare from Katherine silenced Julie…for once.

So now everyone was silent. Julie tried to get some sleep because she got a headache from not eating, and it was bothering her. For once, Chad wasn't saying anything random. It was just quiet among the group.

The sound of a ripping package was heard. Julie turned around and saw Mike slowly opening up a package of ramen.

"Ohmygoshohmygoshohmygoshohmygoshohmygosh…Mike, can I have some, pleeease?" begged Julie. Everyone else was beginning to wake up, as Julie had broken the silence.

"Fine, just a little…" said Mike, and broke off a small piece of the noodles.

Julie looked in his backpack. "Hey! You've got like five packets in here! Can't I have one? Just one?"

Mike laughed and said, "No…sorry."

Julie was livid. "Mike, you're gonna give me a packet of ramen…"

Again, Mike laughed and said no.

"Everyone on the bus is hungry! Come on, just a little…" Julie wasn't thinking too clearly because hunger can have strange effects on people…

"Ummm, well…"

"Wait, that didn't make any sense…" said Allison.

"AHHH!" Julie screamed as she flew at Mike. By now everyone in the bus was watching this scene. She grabbed a packet of ramen. She was holding onto one end while Mike was holding onto the other one.

"GIVE ME THE RAMEN!"

"NO! LET GO!"

"MAKE ME!" screamed Julie and pulled…hard.

The package ripped and ramen noodles spilled everywhere all over the bus. Everyone was laughing. Julie then snapped and realized just what she had done.

"Holy crap Mike! I'm sooo sorry!"

"Ummm, that's okay…but you wasted a perfectly good packet of ramen!"

"Yeah, but you still have like four more of them in there…"

They suddenly heard cries of, "Yay! Food!" through the bus. People were on their hands and knees picking up the ramen pieces.

"Well, looks like we won't have to clean that up…" laughed Julie.

Ryan was pretty much a motion blur. Somehow he had beaten everyone to the ramen and had what would have been half the package in a matter of seconds.

"Well, someone's hyper when they're hungry!" yelled Natalie as she scrambled to get some of the last pieces. Soon all of the ramen was gone.

"Cool…that solved the problem. Now everyone's got food!" said Natalie.

"Not exactly…I'm still hungry," said Blake.

"Oh psh…" laughed Julie. "Well, hey, you've still got more ramen, don't you, Mike?"

"Um, yeah…"

"Can we all have some?"

Mike was about to refuse, but then he remembered the previous scenario. "Okay, fine…" and opened up another package of ramen.

(A/N: Sorry this chapter was so short, but I've got a lot of stuff to do, even over summer. Yep, Algebra 2 tutoring, German…whole crapload of stuff, so I hardly have time to do the things I really want to do. Very sad, but oh well…)