Alea Barnes

The White Oak

"In 1585, Sir Walter Raleigh founded the colony of Roanoke," Mr. Smith, a large, balding man informed the bus's occupants from where he stood. The rain was coming down in streams over the windows, causing them to fog over with condensation from the breath of the twenty-seven sixteen-year-old, two seventeen-year-olds, and three adult chaperones. Most of them consisted of jocks or kids slapped with the 'troubled teen' sticker. So, obviously, most of them weren't paying a lick of attention to his drawing lecture. They were either butting heads over seats or talking to friends.