Mark stepped of the Bus and looked across
the fields at the fairground. It looked unreal almost as if everything had been
set up for a photo. The tall trees boarding the field were just touched by autumn. Here and there a red maple leaf stirred in the light breeze Slight fog covered the valley tents and pavilions
rising out. The sun, barely sitting above the trees, gave off a soft bright
light that bathed everything in a warm glow. It looked as if everything was
ready for and just waiting for the click of the camera.
Mark turned to grin maniacally at
his brother getting off the bus after him. Ben was just putting his phone back
in his pocket muttering something about there not being any wifi before looking
at his brothers smirking face.
“You do remember that I really wasn’t
against coming on this field trip?” Ben said.
“Oh I know.” Mark said his grin
starting to get wider. “I just can’t wait to see you try petting one of the
animals”
“Hahaha, you would jerk!” Ben
replied punching his brother in the arm.
It was hard to mistake Ben and Mark
for being anything but brother’s .Being twin’s kind of has that effect. Being
very similar in appearance they were very deferent from each other. Two sides
of the same coin. Mark being slightly shorter but having more muscle was more
of the jock type being most comfortable in the metal shop class. Ben, although
very athletic, liked to mess around with circuit boards instead of hit things with
a hammer. What they shared was bright red hair and blue eyes that let them
stand out wherever they went.
“Besides.” Ben continued. “I’m not the one who really
wanted to see the animals.”
“Ya, where is….”
“Aren’t you guys sooo excited!” A
moment later an arm was thrown around each brother’s neck and a slim girl with
the same red hair as them only slightly brighter was swinging between them. Her
feet dangling a few inches from the ground. “I can’t believe you guys came with
me! This is going to be amazing!”
“Speak of the devil” Ben began as
Mark said “Well it wasn’t that hard of a choice for me anyway. It was either
this or cut open a frog for bio.”
“Ugg, you know I tried getting them
to stop doing that. No one actually learns from cutting up those poor frogs. So
in the end all you get is a bunch of dead frogs.”
“Ya we know Holly. Remember we’re
the ones that helped you with your ‘save the frogs campaign’.”
“More like we were coerced into
helping.” Ben added “She had me up all night helping her make that poster. Just
because I know how to make a computer doesn’t mean I’m good with Photoshop.”
“What do you mean Ben, that poster
was amazing. You know I couldn’t have done it without you guys. Well maybe I could
have but it wouldn’t have been as fun or easy.”
“And in the end I still had to cut
up a frog for biology” Mark said shaking his head.
“You just said you got out of that
so stop being such a big baby about helping Mark.” Holly looked out over the Fairgrounds
her green eyes seeming to sparkle in the morning light. “Oh, wow that is so
pretty. Okay so we only have a couple of hours before we have to help volunteer
so let’s use it.”
