Disclaimer: I don't own CATCF, and I deffo don't wanna!

Oh lookie Sian! - Yet another chapter for you to read when you get home! And I'm determined for this story to last just one more chapter, so chapter 11 should be the last one... but there MIGHT be a 12th chapter, but... We'll have to see.

Anyway, this story is now officially the longest story I have ever written! (cries as it is a CATCF fic) Again, I must apologise for the crapness of the story...


Mike paid the taxi driver and got out carefully – So as not to hit his head on the taxi roof. He had been stood by the bus stop for no longer than about 10 seconds when down the street he saw Sian, and another girl who he presumed was Steph, running towards him. – Sian was carrying a cage with what he guessed was the ferret and cat inside, and Steph had a bag over her shoulder, behind them was a manic looking woman screaming, swearing and issuing death threats at the two girls.

"Well today is officially worse than the factory trip." Mike muttered, as he quickly looked to his right and saw a bus come trundling along…


Sian and Steph ran as fast as they could, as they turned the corner they saw a very confused Mike stood at the bus stop.

"Well he's keen!" Steph joked through gasps for breath, trying to ignore Laurel who was gaining on them.

Mike yelled and pointed at the bus that was pulling into the stop, and the two girls willed their legs to go quicker.

"COME BACK HERE! YOU WON'T GET AWAY FROM ME!" Laurel hollered behind them, not caring that most of their neighbours had been sat on their doorsteps watching the entertainment for quite a while now – Some had even brought popcorn!

Mike hopped on the bus and without directly looking at the bus driver, told him to wait. Sian and Steph rounded the corner and stumbled onto the bus.

"SHUT THE DOORS!" All three kids yelled, the bus driver complying quickly so as Laurel reached them, she was faced with a shut door.

"Sorry to sound a bit bossy, but I think now would be a good time for you to continue on your route now." Steph said after taking a moment to catch her breaths as she and Sian flopped into the nearest seats.

"Erm… Ok…" The bus driver said, wondering if maybe he should have become something a little less dangerous and demanding…

"Hey! It's the guy that through us off this morning!" Mike exclaimed at Chris the bus driver, who gulped and started the engine, suddenly wishing he had other passengers on board apart from Mike, Sian and Steph… Then he looked out his rear view mirror at Laurel who was still ranting in the middle of the road and decided maybe not.

"You're here again?" Steph asked, surprised.

"What can I say? The governments been sacking people again, and I seem to have no life." Chris sighed as he swung the bus round the corner.

"Erm… Ok then." Steph replied as she lifted the cage onto one of the seats.

"Right, where do you wanna go?" Chris asked after a moment.

"Erm… Don't you have to follow the thing known as a bus timetable?" Mike said with a roll of his eyes.

"Technically, but the only time I really get passengers is during the school run! People don't seem to like public transport anymore." Chris explained.

"Well we love it." Steph said as she leaned back in her seat and closed her eyes.

"Well, if we can go anywhere – Take us to the hospital." Mike said after a moment.

"Why there?" Sian asked, looking up with a worried expression on her face.

"Well speaking technically… I should still be there." Mike admitted sullenly.

"Oh great, MARVELLOUS!" Steph said dramatically.

"Your parents are gonna hate me." Sian sighed, holding her head in her hands.

"Erm… Depends how much they hate dead people." Mike replied, looking out the back window of the bus.

"What do you…Ah." Steph said as she saw Laurel in her battered car – which still had bits of house on the bonnet, come spluttering round the corner after them…