The bus ride was about 10 minutes from their school so Tempe and Angela sat together leaving Booth with, well no one. He sat alone silently thinking about how much Jack would have liked the Jeffersonian.
When they arrived a short time later they walked inside with the rest of the group to wait for the kids from the other school. The group showed up a few minutes later. They looked nice. Booth saw one girl who looked pretty, standing with a woman wearing a name tag that said 'Hello, my name is Rebecca.'
His mind snapped back to the present by a voice that sounded annoyed saying,
"My name is Caroline and I'll be taking you on a tour of the museum so line up. Come on now," They lined up with the other school and Booth became separated from Tempe and Angela, and found himself next to a Sandy haired boy who introduced himself as Parker.
"Hey I got separated from my friend Jack." Parker told him. 'Just a coincidence' Booth thought quickly. "I have a friend Jack too." He said trying to calm down.
"Wow that's neat." Parker said. He smiled all the way to the first exhibit. The woman leading the tour, Caroline, said it was informally called 'Limbo' by the grad-students.
"This is where we keep our unidentified bones." She explained then she invited them all up to a table to take a look at some bones.
In his haste to get to the front Booth accidentally shoved past one of the kids from the other school. "Sorry." He mumbled.
xXx
They looked really familiar. Like Jack had seen them before but he couldn't place it. He stood with Parkers group trying to figure out what to do. Just as he got up the courage to approach someone and ask where they were from, an impatient voice barked,
"Line up! We'll begin the tour in 5 minutes."
Jack shook his head and lined up. He ended up next to a boy he had seen around but never taken the time to get to know. He turned to the boy.
"Hi, I'm Jack. I've seen you around school."
The boy smiled and said in a high pitched voice, "Hi, I'm Lance."
They shuffled along, Jack lost in thought, Lance reveling in the fact that someone had talked to him, until they arrived at the first exhibit. 'Limbo' as it was called by the grad-students. When they were invited up to the table to see some old bones, Jack was shoved aside by a boy. He didn't get a good at him and barely heard the mumbled apology. He pushed his way foreword until he was right behind the boy. All the emotions he had kept bottled up for the past few days were about to be unleashed on this poor boy who had the misfortune to bump into him on the wrong day.
He reached out and thumped him on the back. With out turning around he grunted "Watch it!" Jack thumped him again.
He spun around and opened his mouth to yell "Knock it off!!" but he froze when he saw who it was. "Jack?" He whispered.
xXx
Booth hurried to the front to see the bones and didn't notice the boy he knocked over fuming, he did however notice when he was thumped on the back. He grunted "Watch it!" over his shoulder and when he was thumped again he turned around to see…"Jack?"