Stepping up on the bus, I heard the bus driver exclaim, "Whoa! A bunch of five year olds! You sure they are going to understand what they are being shown?"
As I sat down with Ashley and Stephanie, I heard the teacher respond, "Who cares. This is just some idiotic responce the principal thought was appropriate when he told that the children had no knowledge in today's science field."
The teacher sat down and the bus began to move. Naturally all the children, myself included, were loud and noisy as they chattered with their friends. All of a sudden a hand snuck over the seat and grabbed my braid and gave it a pull. Turning around, I saw Johnny; a truly abnoxious boy who I hear had been held back, whatever that meant.
Holding up his hands, he said to me, "Don't touch me! I don't want cooties."
Ignoring him I went back to talking with my friends. Before long all three of us could here Johnny talking about how gross girls were to another kid, who looked as he really didn't care.
As this went on, getting louder and louder, I suddenly lost my temper and thought to myself, "I wish Johnny was a girl, just so that he could see how "gross" it really was and that nobody but him and me knew of the change."
Not knowing were this train of thought came from, I heard a gasp from behind me. Turning I saw that Johnny had instaniously turned into a pretty little blonde girl with pigtails and a pair of pink glasses perched over her green eyes. She was wearing a unzipped white coat that underneath I could see a pair of pink corderoy bib-overalls with a short sleeve shirt that had Hello Kitty in a princess costume pictured on the front of it.
Looking at me, she whimpered, "What just happened to me?"
I shrugged and fiening innocence I said, "Your so weird Beth," and giggled; mostly because I suddenly knew Johnny's new name and that nobody was apparently taking the least bit of knowledge that one of the boys was now a girl.
Even the boy, someone named Alex who I heard teacher saying had come from a broken home, took no notice.
Sitting down, I wondered what had just happened, but suddenly put it aside as Ashley and Stephanie suddenly asked me a question and I was lost back into my five year old life.