The early morning light streams through the curtains, forcing me to squint. I check the time; 6:00, I've slept in; I only have 45 minutes until the train leaves. I walk into the bathroom and see my tangled mess of dirty-blonde hair through the mirror. I shut the door and turn on the shower, slowly taking off my clothes and stepping in under the faucet. The hot water streams over my body, relaxing me and giving me time to prepare myself for the day. Once I'm finished I hop out and grab my skinny jeans, my blue tie-dyed singlet and my black velvet heels, then go and get dressed. I start heading downstairs to get breakfast. When I get down stairs mum is humming away as she cooks porridge over the stove. She turns around when she hears me and smiles at me. "Mum, why are you so chirpy? Are you happy I'm leaving?" I ask sarcastically, "No honey, I'm just happy you're finally doing something, of course I'm sad you're leaving" she laughs 'gee thanks' I think to myself, but I just reply with an "Oh"

Mum waits outside while I grab my stuff. Once it's all loaded into the boot I hop into the car to see that Mums chirpy mood has faded into a blubbering mess. "Mum, what's wrong?" "You're gonna be gone and I won't get to see my baby girl anymore!" she says, sobbing harder, "Geez Mum, it's only gonna be 2 weeks, and I'm not you're baby girl anymore, I'm 17." Mum nods at me then wipes away her tears and drives off.

When I get to the train station Amy is already waiting; she is wearing her red dress that sits just above her knees and her brown knee high boots. Her long blonde hair is flowing over her shoulders and her sunglasses are sitting on her head. "Hey, Poppy!" she says, hugging me when I reach her. "Carly should be here any minute, the boys are running late, Connor stayed at Finns house last night so I'm guessing they didn't really sleep." She says, waving her phone in my face as proof. As if on cue, I turn around to see Carly running towards us, her brown hair going all over the place as she runs and her turquoise heels, floral skirt and pink singlet standing out in the crowd as usual. As she gets closer I realise that she has dyed blue streaks in her hair, a similar colour to her shoes. Carly is constantly dying her hair different eccentric colours, the streaks are quite refined compared to usual. "Hey guys" she says when she reaches us, smiling, "Hey, how are you?" I ask, Carly is halfway through giving me an answer when we hear; "If you do that one more time I will push you onto the train track!" followed by some laughing then a loud crash. We turn around to see Connor sprawled across the ground and Finn standing next to him, laughing his head off. "Guys, little help please" Connor says when he sees us, referring to his suitcase that has come open and his clothes all over the ground. We go over to help him, now laughing too. "What on earth were you guys doing that ended up with Connor on the ground?" Amy asks, giggling, "Well Connor kept shooting me with that stupid water pistol so I tripped him" Finn says, pointing to the now broken, plastic water pistol on the ground.

We take ages helping Connor with his stuff because every time his suitcase is almost zipped up one of us starts laughing and the suitcase unzips again. By the time we are finished the train pulls into the station and over the intercom we hear a computerised woman's voice saying "The Melbourne train to Adelaide has arrived on platform 3b and will be departing in 10 minutes." "There's our cue" Connor says and we start walking over to the platform.