Alicia had an unstable night because of the so-called illusion she quoted for herself. As it occurred for the second time straight in a line, it was quite terrible for her. She woke up at 6 and started packing her bags, texted Ally to pick her up by 7 as the trip was gonna start by 8. She was constantly thinking about what happened to her at night. Ally arrived at 7:05 as usual late and they got a starter to talk about. Both of them left walking to the school. Ally saw that Alicia was upset and was unable to follow along. Ally asked, “What’s the matter? Another dream about the weirdo?”. “Kinda, it’s been pretty crazy this week. Never felt so strange in my entire life.”, Alicia Replied. “What was it? Any other sign which proves clubbing with him as our mistake”,Ally asked. “Well it’s more or less what you are predicting, though let’s forget this and focus on our trip. I still wasn’t able to figure out what the Last lake has in store for us.”Alicia said. “It’s best if we leave this suspense to other coordinators, I hope Shallow doesn’t ditch us at least today, it will be hella embarrassing.” They reached the school. They were shocked to see Shallow was already on time and looking super cool. “Well, I hope he doesn’t ditch eventually haha”,Ally said. “You won’t change Ally”,Alicia taunted.
“Hey girls, are y’all ready for the trip? Well I have bought some cool stuff for y’all. Let’s keep it a secret for now, let’s move towards the bus shall we?”,Shallow said. “Well let’s see what cool stuff, a not-so-cool guy would bring.”,Ally said. Everyone had a small laugh and they headed towards the bus. Alicia still was a bit puzzled and looking at the inactiveness of Alicia, Shallow questioned her, “Hey Alicia, what’s the matter? Anything uncool?”. Ally replied,”Yeah you, that’s uncool”. Everyone laughed. “Nothing, just a little upset stomach, that’s it!”. Shallow offered some medicine but Alicia denied as she was feeling okay just upset about last night.
All of them sat in the bus. Last lake was about 5 miles away. As soon as they got seated, Mrs. Marina announced the schedule. “I hope y’all are super excited for the trip. It’s scheduled to be a part of your nature writing curriculum. So, here is how it goes, the trip as y’all know is gonna be of 3 days. Day 1 is meant for Exploration, Day 2 is meant for Penning the thoughts and Day 3 will be your presentation. Further details will be shared soon once we reach. Till now we give you a task to google about the importance of Last lake and the strange stories about the same.” Everyone was kinda scared when Mrs. Marina added the word, “strange” to the stories of the Last lake. She further added that the one who will be able to find the most interesting story gets a plus point for Day 1. Everyone started googling while Alicia started requestioning herself whether it was really an illusion or an effect of the Last lake.