The Short Trip

It Won't Be Worse

So all the students knew, and the students began to talk and talk with tension and fear among them, except that Olivia heard what they were saying.

Olivia was immersed in the scenes of the movie, but when she heard loud noises outside the headphones, she removed them and heard what they were saying about changing the flight path.

I began to feel fear and tension, like the rest of the students, as the sun had begun to set, and we were walking in a forest inhabited by no one and very silent.

It was very noisy inside the bus, so I tried to calm the students down, but to no avail. I held my nerves and was somewhat calm, but whenever the voices of the students escalated with fear and words indicating anxiety and loss, I began to feel anxiety and fear just like them.

The tour supervisor tried to talk to the students and tell them not to be afraid or worried about changing the itinerary, but no one was listening. Everyone was expecting possible scenarios and almost all of them were bad.

Especially when a student wanted to contact his parents to tell them about this, the trips supervisor tried to prevent him from contacting them, which led to the students standing with him, which prompted the trips supervisor to let him do whatever he wanted, and the rest of the students started talking to their parents except for me.

I was expecting that it might not be that bad, yes we are walking in a forest and something is expected to happen to us now, but I don't expect it to get worse than that.

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– The tour supervisor was next to the driver, and when she looked at him, her gaze fell on the gas indicator, and noticed how it was about to run out. She said to him with astonishment, « How did you not take a look at the gas indicator before starting the trip, and why didn’t you fill it up? » When the students heard this, they started to get disgusted and knew that they would end up stuck in this forest. The driver said to the tour supervisor in a harsh tone, « Can't you shut up a little bit? »

The supervisor looked at him with wide-open eyes, amazed at what he said to her, and said, « “How dare you. . . . . »

The driver interrupted her, saying, « "You are not literally solving anything, you are only making things worse and more complicated, and I have to start fixing it." »

The driver turned to the students for the first time, face to face, and told them in a loud voice words to make them calm down and that everything will be fine...

While he was talkin' to children, the bus was driving itself, but the driver was looking out of the corner of his eye on the road, and the road was extremely dark because the night had fallen on them. And suddenly the tour supervisor shouted in the loudest voice, saying, « “Beware, beware, driver, look in front of you quickly! »

All the students screamed loudly, and some students remained silent when they saw a huge tree branch and a large rock in front of the bus window, and in a matter of seconds, no one realized what was happening.

At the same moment, the driver turned around in a split second with his eyes open, grabbed the handle of the bus, made a random left movement, and the bus fell.

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« "Oh my head . . . . . where am I? » I said that while holding my head tightly.

I tried to get up, but I couldn't, so I turned my head to the left and found a river nearby.

« "What the hell is that ! ? Where am I?” »

I was in a state of indescribable terror, but I tried to calm down while my heartbeat began to rise and I felt my chest entering and exiting faster while I was breathing rapidly.

I tried to get up for the second time but to no avail. I kept trying until I succeeded and got up, but I was unable to stand and walk properly, so I preferred to sit.

I looked left and right looking for my bag, Sophia and Sarah, but I didn't find anyone, I was alone in this darkness.

I felt pain all over my body, and when I looked at my feet, I found them bleeding, and I did not have my bag to use tissues or anything, so I had no choice but to cut a part of my shirt to use it to stop the bleeding.

I found a plank on the floor, I took it and grabbed my shirt from the hand, cut a part of it, and used it, it was really painful.

I sat again and tried to calm myself down I was very afraid, and tried to understand what happened to me when we were on the bus and where are the rest of the students and why am I alone now.

– Olivia is talking to herself in her mind :

« I was sitting by the window and the last thing I remember was that we hit a big rock and the bus was very noisy and the bus overturned. »

– Olivia looked around and saw a mountain behind her covered in grass

« Maybe when the bus overturned from the force of the push, I was thrown away and fell here because of this mountain. »

Olivia took a look at her body from her feet and arms, and indeed, she found many obvious scratches and bruises.

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