My initial thoughts on the book was that the title looked interesting because I have never seen a book with a title like that. The cover of the book interested me the most with the eyes and the trees over them. I decided it was the book I wanted to read as soon as I picked it up and it was the first book I picked up when I went to the library. I expect it to be very good and interesting because the people I have talked to said it was a good book.

There are many times when we yell at a specific kid over and over again for no reason, it’s the same guy we blame everything on. The girl I sit with does not say anything to anyone she just sits, listens to music and gives everyone mean looks and she also sits like 7 inches away from the window which makes me fall out of the seat it’s so annoying. On the last day of school there are a couple of kids that want to sneak drinks and get drunk on the bus so that should be a lot fun. There are a lot of kids that will have screaming matching between each other. There are times when someone brings a speaker on the bus and we turn it up really loud and we all jam out. When there are no seats for anyone to sit in we make the shorter people sit on laps which sucks. When our bus driver has a drink in her cup holder there a couple of boys that will still her drink and she won’t even get mad about it. We don’t really listen to our bus driver when she tells us what to do we just usually do what we want. There are also always make out session in the very back seat which is gross to see and hear.

I believe I have the best ride ever. All my friends are on that bus which makes it a lot of fun. Just on Wednesday there was a fight right in front of me between 2 of the boys, on of them beat the crap out the other and then the person who was beating up the other person got put into a choke hold. There is also a lot more fights between Elementary kids and the kids in the high school, the tapes got pulled this morning because of that. There is also a lot of name calling and punching in areas of the boys that in sure hurts. There is one guy on the bus that had dating almost every girl on that bus, there is a guy that flirts with the girls in 7th and 8th grade, and there is also a guy that smells like cat pee and all of us in the try to fill up seats so he cant sit with any of us. Everybody eats and drinks after everybody, there has been times when you can see the floor in the back because there is so many wrappers on the ground from food and snacks. Many times on this bus pop bottles and waters are either thrown out of the window, thrown at people or busted on the ground floor. There is one specific on the bus that we pin every thing on because none of us like him, we yell at him, tell him to shut up and he is usually the person the drinks get yeeted at. We usually get our tapes pulled on the bus every other day because of the dumb things we do. We have one of the best bus rides ever because she lets us stand up and also because she also buys us food sometimes. All in all it is the best bus ride ever.

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