The sun was setting and the energy on the bus was enough to make you sick. There were people talking, throwing things, everything! I stuck my earphones into my ears and turned the volume up. "GAH!" I turned it back down, rubbing my ear.

"Gee, you're smart." Eric said. "You should be on Jeopardy!"

"Well I…you don't sit here…Sophia does!" I said, pushing him off the seat. He hit his head on the armrest.

"Fuck."

"No, thanks." Sophia sat next to me.

"So, what's going on back here?" She asked smiling. She's in Chorus, although she is on the Band bus. God bless her fricking soul! Mr. Seaman stood up holding the DVDs.

"Well, the girls on the Band bus won't be happy with movie choices, nor the boys on the Chorus bus." Oh crap…

We were watching "The Patriot" and I was bored out of my mind. "Gee, what IS it with men and violence?" I asked no one in particular.

"Watch an action movie sometime!" Dan said. "You'd be surprised."

"No, I'd be bored. Just like I am NOW!" Dan shuddered in his seat a smidge.

"Okay…"

We stopped two hours later and the movie STILL wasn't done. It was about 11 at night and we were all dazed and sort of confused. Cade, my best friend, was walking to the bathroom and walked into a vending machine, still half-asleep. She backed up, mumbled "who put that three" and walked away without hesitation.

"Someone needs coffee." Dan said. "But I fear that if we give her some, she will go nuts and not sleep at all."

"Well, I ain't sleepin' until I see Music City!" I said proudly.

"Why…?" Eric asked, like I was crazy.

"Because I am living there when I'm 18. Better see it now!" He rolled his eyes. "NO ROLLING YOUR EYES MISTER!"

"Whatever…" I walked into the little map thingy and Jack, a friend from Chorus was there. "Where are we?" He pointed to some random spot.

"Here."

"You sure?" He chuckled.

"No. But Florida is all the way down there." He said, pointing to the highway. I clapped slowly and he bowed.

"Back on the bus!" I walked with Cade going back to the bus and she was still half asleep. She walked to the open bus door and tried to find the step.

"Um…Cade…" I said. She opened her eyes a little more.

"Oh." She got on the bus and found her seat. Sophia was already there and beat me to the aisle seat.

"I hate you." She smiled.

"Why, thank you!" I laughed and got on the window seat. "Someone say something." She said. "I can't take the silence!"

"Shut up Sophia." Nicole said, and I laughed. Pure irony.

The Patriot finally ended and he put in another movie, some I had never even heard of. Well, if I had heard of it, I'd never seen it. And if I had seen it, I just didn't care. I turned my iPod on and listened to The Calling. The minutes dragged into hours and we still hadn't reached the border of Tennessee. I saw Louisville and yelped, slightly. But it woke Dan up.

"Any reason you yelped like a little puppy?"

"Louisville, horses, Churchill Downs…" I said, smiling like an idiot. Or if I had had Botox. Either way…

"Good for you." He turned in his seat and fell back asleep. I bit my nail excitedly as we passed the city border. "Only three more hours! Maybe…"

Three Hours later

"Whee! We is in Tennessee!" We walked out of the bus to a rest stop. And it was only 3 AM! We went inside and I stared at a map, trying to figure how far we really were. Anthony, the bari sax, walked over and pointed to the middle of the state.

"We're there…right?" I took a hold of his wrist and guided it up the map to the top border.

"Try there."

"But we passed the sign that said 'Nashville'."

"That was a shortcut directly to the city."

"Whatever." He said, walking away. I walked back to the bus with a half-asleep Eric. He just kind of stumbled onto the bus and I hopped on. The thought of Nashville was simply keeping me awake.