Chapter Five

Felicity pouted in her seat. She should be sleeping on her new micro beaded travel pillow (Now arched to relieve tension in neck And shoulders!) but of course, she couldn't fall asleep sitting next to Joshua.
She shuffled in her seat and tried to sit as close to the window as possible.That wasn't very easy because Joshua was sprawled aross the seat, taking up what little space she had. She tried to catch Kimberly's eye a few times but Kimberly was too caught up in her fasinating conversation on lipgloss with Maria Sanchez. Once, about a half hour into the drive, Felicity got Kimberly's attention. She was rewarded with a sympathetic look. Then Kimberly turned right back to Maria and the question of which lipgloss is the shiniest.
She sighed, then yawned. She really was tierd.
"Well," She thought, "If I just close my eyes for a-" and she was gone. Drifting off to sleep before she could finish her thought.
Joshua looked across his seat. Fianally she was asleep. Now he could get to more important isues. Like the mercy championships.
He turned around so his back faced Felicity and his front faced Bruce.
Now Bruce was not the shinest apple in the fruit bowl, and to illustrate my piont: When he brought a paper machae sculpture of himself for his "All About Me" project, evem Mrs. Wilder had a hard time telling them apart.
But what he lacked in intellegence he made up for in strengh. Bruce had almost singlehandedly won the last tug-of-war matches with neighboring classes(Truthfully everyone was holding the rope but only on student was pulling.) That meant, of course that he would be one of the fianalists. In fact, some people wouldn't even challenge him. They just forfeited which was just fine for him. Now in the presense of everyone the mercy finals were about to begin.
Bruce quickly won the first two matches, bending back Josh's fingers with uncanny skill. Josh,However, won the third. He proceded to win twi more rounds. Then Bruce, not to be undone, won the sixth.
Josh cracked his finger sto get ready for the seventh and final round when Ms. WIlder came over and stopped them. Three kids ad already broken fingers playing that game. She didn't want to add two more kids to the list.
"So," Bruce asked,"How are we going to end this?"
Josh thought, any other contest of strengh he would be sure to lose and there was no contest of skill he could do in the bus so he would have do do a contest of luck. Or Not-so-luck.
"How 'bout a coin toss," he said as uninterestedly as he could. "Heads I win, tails you lose."
Now a average person would see through that trick in a few moments Bruce was not an average person. Still Josh was worried Bruce sense the trick. For a second he thought he saw the light of regognition on Bruce's face but it passed as quickly as it came.
"Uh,Ok." Bruce fished a quater out of his pocket and flicked it against his thumb.
"Head's!" Bruce called as it arched then started to fall.
Josh snached it out of the air and smacked it in the back of his hand.
"Tails, you lose." Bruce grunted and plunged his hand into his pocket again. This time he came up with the $5.00 bill he had previously staked on his victory.
Joshua snached the bill and added it to the other 5 his Mother had slipped him. Bruce made a mental note to pummel Josh later.
Suddenly he felt a jolt.
The bus had stopped.
They were there.
Josh peered out the window. An old faded sign stard back at him.
Camp SilverLake.
"Single file." Ms. Wilder said, knowing nobody was listening. How right she was. All the students sped off the bus, happy to be able to finally get up after hours of driving.
Screams of "Where's the bathroom?" echoed throughout the camp.
Josh ran out to join everyone else when he was stopped.
Ms. Wilder.
"Your buddy?" she asked.
Felicity! He had forgoten about her. He groaned and went to wake her up.
He trugged over to where Felicity was still sleeping and streached out his hand to tap her lightly on the shoulder.
He had bearly brushed her shoulder when...
Felicity's eyes shot open, her arm shot out and before he knnew it his arm was twisted behind his back!