You feel your head start to nod. It's been a long day and all you want is for the school day to be over.
Your pencil falls out of your hand and hits the desk with a quiet but still noticeable sound. You jerk awake and try to focus on the teachers lecture again.
You glance at the clock. Five minutes! Finally!
The class begins to pack up and you move to your bag, shoving your papers in and zipping it up a little too enthusiastically. You stand by the door with the rest of the students and check your phone. The screen lights up showing a couple messages from your group chat.

Only ten minutes left!

Finally, lol

Yessss, I want to go home

Same place as always right?

Heck yeah

Yes

See y'all there!

The bell rings out, music to your ears. The class piles out the door, you with them.
You speed walk across the building, nearly running, dodging people and elbows and backpacks.
Up a flight of stairs, two, three. You duck out a doorway, dodging more people. Down a hallway and there they are. Your friends. Your people. You yell out to them and they yell back, waving.
You crash into them, hugging them all at once. You don't normally do this and it feels good.
You tap one of your friends on the head. For a while now It's been like a tag game, someone pats someone else on the head and the person who got tapped has to tap the other person back.
You run toward the school lobby as your friend chases you. Your other friends follow, laughing.
The friend catches up to you, bops you on the head. You gasp in mock pain and exaggerate leaning against the wall.
They pull you up, both of you are laughing so hard your stomachs hurt.
You both rejoin your other friends. All of you make a long chain, putting an arm over each others backs and somehow maneuvering through the door at the end of the hallway. You walk through the school lobby where students are still pouring out of the building, still arm in arm and smiling.
You have to break the chain to get through the school doors, but you stay together until you have to part ways, some of you riding the bus home, some walking, some getting picked up.
Before you get on your bus, you pat one of your friends on the head, the one you know will react the most, and run. They give chase, breaking away from the group.
You run toward your bus, laughing again as they catch up to you.
You skid to a stop in front of the bus door and they tap you on the head. Success. For a moment you both stand there, breathing heavily and laughing.
At last they stand up, smile and wave and walk back toward the others. You have a bus to get on so you grin and wave at them all. They wave back.
You board your bus, somehow finding an empty seat. As the bus pulls away, you see your friends are back at the head tapping game.
You smile, loving them so much. It wasn't the greatest day, but It's your day, their day, our day.

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Alright I think thats a good start to this book! This scenario has a big place in my heart and I wanted to write it down. So yeah, drop a vote, comment, feedback is loved and I hope everyone likes this!