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At The Museum
Grade Two
Trip (7), Iris (7)
May (7), Ash (8), Misty (8), Gary (8), Drew (8), Paul (8)
Trip was currently sitting in his seat in his classroom. The two grade two classes in his school were going to go to the Pewter Museum of Science, and he was excited because he just so happened to be a student from one of those grade two classes. Not only was the boy going to be looking at many different interesting things like Pokemon fossils, he was also looking forward to taking many pictures with his brand new digital camera.
Trip loved taking pictures. Pictures always made sure he remembered a past event, and they let him capture a wonderful moment or an interesting sight within them. He usually used his dad's camera, but recently, he had received a gift of a digital camera, all for himself! And he was looking forward to using it on his field trip. Now if only the teacher would be here already, they would be able to head out.
"Hey, what's that, Trip?" a classmate, Sho, asked, pointing to his camera.
"It's my camera," Trip explained proudly, doing his best to act like it was no big deal. "I'm gonna use it to take pictures at the museum."
"Wow, it's cool," Sho marvelled. He suddenly smirked, and, to Trip's horror, snatched it right out of his hands!
"Hey!" Trip angrily stood up. "Give it back!"
"Nope! I like it, so it's mine now!" Sho held it out of his reach, and Trip wished he weren't so short.
"Come on, Sho, leave him alone," another boy, Ritchie, said, frowning.
Sho ignored him, but found the camera snatched out of his grasp by a red-haired classmate, who handed it back to Trip.
"Hmph! Ruining all my fun, Steven," Sho mumbled, scowling.
"My name is Stephan!"
Suddenly, the teacher arrived, and everyone quickly went to their seats. After attendance and going over the rules for the field trip, everyone was a assigned a buddy.
"You have to be with a buddy at all times," the teacher instructed.
"Are we allowed to choose our buddies?" someone asked.
"No, it'll be a random draw," the teacher explained. "See this bowl? It has many folded slips of paper, and each paper has the name of someone in this classroom. I will pick two together, and the two I pick will be buddies for the trip."
She started picking, and soon, everyone was in a pair. Trip found himself partnered up with a girl named Iris.
Soon, they were all heading to the bus. The other grade two class, 2A, was already waiting there, but it turned out that they had been allowed to pick their own buddies, which led to many grumbles of unfairness from the 2B students.
Finally, they were all seated in the bus, on their way to the Pewter Museum of Science.
"It's going to be pretty boring," Iris muttered, mostly to herself, as she stared out the window with bored eyes. "I'd rather go somewhere interesting outside."
Trip shrugged, smirking. "Well, too bad for you," he drawled as he looked over his camera.
"I never asked you," Iris said, giving him an annoyed look.
"Well, who were you talking to, then?" Trip didn't lift his eyes to even look at her.
"Well, not you!"
"There's no one else here."
"So what—" She froze when there was a sudden flash. She was stunned for a moment, but her surprise dissipated into irritation when she realized what he had done. "Did you just take my picture? I didn't give you permission to do that."
"Yeah, but I did. I'm taking pictures of everything for this field trip," Trip explained. "You're part of the field trip, 'cause you're my field trip buddy."
"Yeah, but you're not allowed to do that without asking."
"It's too late now." Trip stuck his nose up in a final sort of way. Iris looked like she wanted to argue more, but she just huffed and went back to looking out the window.
"You're such a little kid," she muttered. "Not even knowing you're supposed to ask before taking someone's picture."
"Huh? Little kid?" Trip turned to her, feeling insulted. "How am I a little kid? You're the one making a big deal out of all this."
"Only a little kid would say that," Iris said without even looking at him.
Their argument persisted throughout the whole bus ride.
When they finally arrived, they all got out of the bus to admire the huge museum building. Trip went on a picture-taking spree, while even Iris seemed to be impressed.
"Wow, that's so cool!" a boy from the 2A class, Ash, said as he pointed the building out to his buddy, Misty.
"Yeah, I know right?" Misty agreed, marvelling its magnificence.
"This is going to be so much fun!" their friend, May, squealed. "I heard this is one of the best places to visit ever!" She made a camera with her fingers. "It's time for May's Expeditions!" she announced, while her buddy, Drew, looked amused at her childishness.
Trip smirked. She could play around all she wanted. Trip was the one with the real camera!
They went in, and admired the spaciousness and the small displays of strange stones and rocks. They soon met up with their guide for leading them through the museum.
"Everyone," their teacher said seriously, "please remember to stay with the group. It is such a large museum, you could easily get lost. And also, stay with your buddy!"
"Okay!" the students chorused.
"And if any of you gets lost, we have staff members who can help," the guide said. "They'll be the ones wearing orange shirts like the one I'm wearing."
The guide led them all through many areas of the museum. It turned out those stones and rocks were actually real life Pokemon fossils!
"That one's of Omanyte!" Gary Oak was spouting facts and knowledge about each of the fossils while his buddy, Paul, just examined the displays with a neutral expression on his face. But at least they were still keeping up with the group. Iris, on the other hand, was becoming extremely irritated at Trip for holding her back.
"Come on, Trip, they're leaving us!" she urged.
"Wait, just one more," the boy said, taking another picture of a display.
"You don't have to take a picture of everything here. Just hurry up!
"I can't hurry up if you keep distracting me when I'm trying to take a picture!"
"Come on, they'll leave us behi—" Iris froze when she turned to where the group was. Or had been.
"Okay, I'm done," said Trip. "See? It didn't take too long." When he frowned slightly when he saw her expression. "What?"
"They're... gone," Iris told him. And so they were. The two seven-year-olds were all alone. Well, not completely all alone. There were other people too, but they were all strangers.
Iris huffed. "Oh man! How are we going to find them now?"
"Easy. We'll just go in the direction they were going. It's such a big group, we can't miss it!"
"Hmph!" Iris folded her arms behind her head as they both walked, Trip leading the way. "This is all your fault, you know," she told him.
"My fault?"
"If you weren't such a little kid, you wouldn't have wasted so much time on just taking pictures. Now we're stuck in this boring place!"
"It's not boring! There are so many interesting things around here. Like that." He paused, taking a picture of a display. "And that." He took another picture.
"Oh, stop with the picture-taking! We're completely lost, and we still haven't found the others. What's your plan now, genius?"
"Hm... We can ask one of the staff members," Trip suggested. "That's what the guide said we're supposed to do."
"Yeah, but do you see any staff members around here? How does a staff member even look like?"
"You probably weren't paying attention to the basic rules the he was telling us," Trip drawled in a know-it-all way. "He said staff members wore orange shirts."
"I don't see anyone with an orange shirt."
"What about that guy?" He pointed to someone.
"He doesn't look like a staff member to me."
"But he's wearing the shirt."
"What if it's a different orange shirt? Do you remember how his shirt looked like?"
"Hm... I took a picture of it. We can check that." Trip began pushing buttons on his digital camera to find a previous picture. "You told me not to take pictures, but it's a good thing I did!" he said, smirking.
"Your taking pictures was the reason we're lost in the first place!" Iris snapped.
"Here, I found it." Both Trip and Iris huddled around the camera.
"I can't tell if it looks like that guy's orange shirt," Iris said, squinting her eyes as she tried to get a better look. "Your camera screen is too small!"
Trip looked irritated. "I'd say it looks exactly like that man's shirt," he said, not wanting his efforts to have been in vain.
"No it doesn't!" Iris snapped.
"Yes it does! I'll go ask him right now!"
"Fine!"
"Fine!"
But by the time Trip looked up, the man wearing the orange shirt had already disappeared.
"Great," Iris grumbled. But then the two heard voices. Familiar voices.
"Hey, do you think it's that way?"
"No, Ash, it's probably that way!"
Iris and Trip turned at the sound, hoping the group had come back to look for them, but all they saw were Ash and Misty walking alone, bickering as they did. Once Ash saw the two, his face broke out in a grin.
"Hey!" he called out, running up to them, his buddy Misty chasing after. "Hi guys! Man, I'm glad we found you! Misty and I are totally lost. Do you know where the others are?"
"It was your fault we got lost in the first place," Misty muttered. "I told you we shouldn't leave the group!"
"No, we're lost too," Iris said. "All because of Trip," she added, causing the boy to glare at her.
"So, what should we do?" said Misty. "We couldn't find any of the staff members. There are so many other people here too, so it's hard to find someone to help us."
"Yeah, same with us," said Iris.
"We'll just have to look for them ourselves!" Ash cheered childishly. "Follow me!"
"Wait, why are we following you?" Trip piped up. "I can probably lead better than you. I say... this way." He pointed down the hall.
"Well I say this way," Ash, just wanting to be contrary, pointed down a different hall.
"No, it's this way."
"This way."
"This way!"
"This way!
"THIS WAY!"
"THIS WAY!"
"Wow, they're such little kids," Iris commented.
"I know, right?" Misty agreed. The two girls chuckled.
"Okay you two, stop with the fighting!" Misty ordered, putting an end to their squabble. "We all need to decide where to go together."
"Or," Trip countered, "we could split up. I mean, we just need to be with our partners, right? We don't have to all stick together."
"Yes we do," Misty shot back sharply. "When you're lost, it's best to all stay together, so if they find us, they can find us all instead of having to look for everyone separately."
"I can lead the way," Iris offered.
"Do you know where to go?" Ash wondered.
Iris proudly puffed up her chest. "Of course! It's like my sixth sense! Come on, everyone! Follow me!"
They began trekking through the fossil section.
"Whoa, look at that!" Ash exclaimed as they passed a huge skeleton of what looked like it might have been a Dragonite. Trip quickly took a picture.
"That looks like a dragon type!" Iris marvelled, looking at it as well. "And that one too!"
"It says here," Misty read off the display information of the second fossil Iris had pointed to, "that this was Aerodactyl. It wasn't a dragon type, though."
"Really? It looks like that, though..."
They arrived at another section of the museum where there were displays of rare gems and stones.
"Wow," Misty breathed as she looked at a display of huge pearls. "These are beautiful!"
"Yeah," Iris said, her eyes glued to a Dragon Gem.
Trip wasted no time snapping shots while Ash just wished he could keep looking at all of these forever.
They later arrived at the Pokemon display section, where there were huge displays of Pokemon figures, showing Pokemon evolution, and timelines of when it was estimated certain Pokemon had arrived. The four especially marvelled at the enormous models of Dialga, Palkia, Arceus, and Giratina, as well as many other legendary Pokemon, like Mew.
They had to admit, despite the fact they had no way to find their classmates and teachers, it was all still pretty fun.
"Sixth sense, huh?" Misty mumbled, her eye twitching.
"Ehehehe," Iris laughed sheepishly.
"I knew we should have gone the way I said," Trip muttered.
"Or the way I said," Ash added.
Yup, Iris's leading had failed miserably, ending them in front of a door that said 'Do not enter' in big letters.
"Well, let's try again," Iris said, turning and heading the other way. "Onwards!"
"No offence, Iris, but I think I should lead," Misty said, walking up front. "Come on, everybody!"
"Why does Misty get to lead?" Ash grumbled.
"She'll probably end up getting us lost again," Trip said doubtfully.
"What was that?" Misty hissed, looking at them with dangerous eyes.
"Nothing!" the boys said quickly, intimidated by her brewing temper.
They ended up following that red-head, who seemed to be a lot more careful to study the signs around them. Although how they would be able to find out where the others were by following the signs, the other three had no clue.
In the end, they didn't reach their group. Instead, they found themselves at the information counter.
"See? You couldn't find the others either," Ash said, folding his arms. "We should just go the way I was—"
"Of course we didn't find the others," Misty snapped. "How are we supposed to find them when we don't know where they are? My plan was to just find the information counter and have them help."
"Of course, Ash," Trip said. "You should have already figured that out. It's so basic. Everyone knows that's what we should do."
"You didn't think of doing it," Ash accused.
"Oh brother," Iris muttered exasperatedly as Trip and Ash began quarrelling again. In the meantime, Misty informed the woman at the counter of their situation, and she was happy to make an announcement over the intercom to call one of their teachers over for the four of them.
While the four sat and waited for their teacher to arrive, they had to agree, even though they had gotten lost, they still had had a fairly enjoyable field trip.
Tsk tsk, you four! You should stick with your group at all times! At least Misty managed to get them to some staff members.
Okie, I should tell you guys that I'm going to a place where the chance of me having internet access is very low, meaning my next update isn't going to be until somewhere in August. So I won't be updating for the rest of this month. Hm, my initial plan for this summer was to try to write as much as I could for fanfic, but I haven't been managing to go update-crazy, have I? Oh well!
Anyways, thanks for reading!
Bye bye for now! Have a great day, and smile all the way! And see you next in August, okay? :)