Field trip. Bus en route to New York City. Travel buddies. Regrets. Talks of childhood. Lisa. Camera. Sweaters and parkas. A white journal notebook.
Prologue
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âGood morning, seniors. I know itâs way too early, but we have a full day ahead of us. A few reminders before I discuss our itinerary for this trip: number one,  I would be checking your attendance before and after every stop. No foolishness would be tolerated for the duration of this field trip. Number two, always have your phones on hand. We have your contact numbers with us. I will be sending messages throughout the trip to check on you and your friends and to remind you to get on the bus before it leaves. Lastly, your seatmates would be your field trip buddy. You are in charge of one anotherâs attendance, absence, or tardiness and you are expected to report to me should something happen to your buddy. Now, to proceed with the itineraryâŠâ
Sara stopped listening to Mr. Hunter after he said the third reminder. She looked to her left and saw Leonard smirking down at her.
âSo, not only are we seatmates, but weâre going to spend the day guarding each other,â the man casually said. âI told you this is going to be interesting.â
Sara rolled her eyes in return. âI can look after myself. You are just going to ruin this trip for me. I have no plans of babysitting you.â
âWe have no choice but to follow the teacher in charge,â Len said as he shrugged.
âWow,â the blonde said, obviously annoyed. âYou spent most of our senior year in detention or in the principalâs office for breaking every possible offense in the school handbook but chose to follow this one unnecessary instruction? Unbelievable.â
Leonard turned his body to the right to face Sara. Sheâs as fierce as she was when they were youngerânever backing down, never giving up. So he smirked to annoy her. âDonât hurt me, Sara. We were bestfriends when we were little. I think this is the time to rekindle the friendship.â
âFirst of all, it was your twin sister who was my bestfriend. Not you. And there is nothing to rekindle, Snart. Itâs been years and we were kids back then. We were, what, ten? Whatever friendship we could have stopped when you and Lisa moved away. Now is definitely not the time to try and be friends again. Iâm going away after graduation and this âbondingâ will be for nothing.â
Leonard dropped the smirk and replaced it with a small but genuine smile. He nodded. âI get that. Iâm not expecting us to make bff bracelets after today. I donât want us both to get lost in New York, either. So may I suggest just rolling with this buddy system, forget the shit of senior year, and enjoy the trip?â
He offered his right hand for her to shake, but she just stared at it.
âDonât make this day hard for me, Snart. Itâs the only day I get to be away from everything.â
âI wonât,â he promised. âNow shake my hand so we can take a nap before Stop #1.â
Sara shook her head. âI only trust pinky promises.â
Len chuckled. âOf course. How could I forget?â
He closed his fingers, leaving his pinky up. Sara finally moved her hand towards hisâ and intertwined their pinkies.
âDo I still have to kiss my thumb?â Leonard asked, if only to annoy Sara.
But she bit. âOf course. How else are we going to seal the promise?â
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They didnât get to have a nap.
Mr. Hunter kept roaming around the bus, checking the seats, taking note of who are trip buddies, until he made a stop at Lance and Snart.
âMister Snart, are you going to be a headache for Miss Lance here?â the professor asked, an eyebrow up.
Leonard cocked his head towards the older man and gave him his signature smirk. âI pinky promised to behave, Mr. Hunter. Literally. I even kissed my thumb.â
Hunter just sighed and faced Sara, waiting for a complaint or a request to change buddies. But she just smiled. âI got this, sir.â
âAlright then. If you need anythingâŠâ
She nodded, prompting him to leave their side.
 âI get that all the time,â Len began saying. âThat look of mistrust. Suspicion. Started when my old man got chunked. You saw how that went. People kept calling me names growing up so I became it.â
âI know that feeling, especially after last year,â Sara replied. âIs that why youâre telling me this? To sympathize and give me pity?â
âNo,â Leonard replied swiftly. âForget I even said anything.â
 The two remained silent for a while. Sara was just staring at the window to her right, seeing the lights pass by. Leonard was taking out the things inside his bag and placing it on the little space they have between them.
An extra shirt. A sweater. Charger. A pen. His wallet. His phone. A stress ball. A flask. And a digital camera.
âYou have a jacket and a sweater?â Sara said, tearing him away from his thoughts.
âIâm expecting to be cold. Shouldâve brought my parka.â
Sara chuckled and helped him put back the things in his bag, leaving the camera last.
âYou still like taking pictures?â she asked.
Leonard shrugged. âNot so much nowadays. No new subjects to take pictures of. Iâm already tired of asking Lisa and her cat to be my models.â
âHow is Lisa, by the way, since she transferred schools?â
âHappier than I am, thank God,â Leonard replied softly. âShe doesnât need the shit thrown at me to be thrown at her, too.â
Sara just nodded, afraid of asking more questions. Sheâs afraid that she doesnât have the right to ask anymore. Lisa tried reaching out to her even after the Snarts moved away. Saraâs dad didnât allow any contact with the twins, afraid that theyâll use their friendship with his daughter to convince him to drop all charges against Lewis Snart. It broke Saraâs heart, but what broke her more is knowing that her friends needed her, but she wasnât there.
Years passed before Lisa tried to reach out to her again. It was just last year when she got a text from a random number, asking her if sheâs okay and if she wants to grab a coffee sometime to just talk. It was signed with âLizzieâ, but she knew it was her. Sara wouldâve said yes, if not for the shame of not being a friend to Lisa when she needed it. She was too embarrassed to admit that she needed a friend.
Seeing the grim look on her face, Leonard asked. âDo you still write?â
Sara turned to face him. âCome again?â
âI know you quit the Literary Club, but do you still write?â Leonard repeated his question. âYou had this white journal notebook before, do you remember? You said your goal was to fill every page. Did you finish it?â
Sara smiled and lifted her bag she kept from under her seat. She opened the zipper and dug deep, only to take away the same white journal notebook Leonard was talking about.
âTwenty pages left,â Sara said with the same sweet smile Len remembered from years ago.
 Leonard was eating the sandwich Hunter passed around as breakfast for them when Sara took her pen and opened her journal.
She wrote â#1â on the top-left corner and scribbled a drawing of a sun beside it. At the center, she wrote:
 âThe sun is up, my dear, open your eyes
and see the invisible people throwing stones at you.
Cuts will sting, blood pouring at your demise,
Pick the stones and the bricks and build your own refuge.â
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A Captain Canary Highschool AU.
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She was still sleepy, but unfortunately, students were needed at the school at their high school before 5AM for their field trip to New York City. Sara Lance was a senior at Atlantic City High School and she, like almost everyone in her year, cannot wait to graduate and go to college, if only to escape the city she grew up on. She has always felt that staying in her hometown is, in a way, holding her back from her dreams. From what she want to be.
After the scandalous rumor that spread about her during junior year, she decided to step away from limelight. One last year, she told herself. She distanced herself from her friends, knowing that theyâll leave her eventually. Better to do it herself than watch all of them go one by one. And the same could be said for her family.
She quit the Literary Club despite the encouragement of their adviser. Now her words, once meant for spoken word poetries, are now only heard by the walls of her room. Not that she minded.
 âMr. Snart! Please, for the love of god, get inside the bus!â Mr. Hunter, their History teacher, yelled.
âAlright, alright,â said the smug young man that entered the bus. âI am going in, Mr. Hunter. Iâm just taking my sweet time.â
The bus door closed and he came in, balancing as he finds a seat. And there it is. Beside Sara Lance.
 âSara Lance,â he sat beside her, removing his navy blue jacket. âNo lovely girl beside you? Or guy? I heard you love them both.â
Sara deeply sighed before turning towards him. âLeonard Snart. Canât you sit, literally, anywhere in this bus besides the seat next to me?â
âWell, is this seat taken?â Leonard replied.
âNo, butâŠâ
âThen Iâll take it,â he replied. âCome on. Itâs not like anybody here is willing to sit beside you.â
Sara felt her eyes well up with tears but tries her hardest to stop them. âI think we both know about the scandal last year andâŠâ
âItâs not about that,â Leonard replied as fast as he could. âItâs because you can beat the living hell out of everyone who tries to mess with you. I remember you beating the principalâs son during sophomore year. That was amazing.â
Feelings now controlled, Sara replied. âCarter Hall was being a dick.â
âJust like more than half the school was with you last year. Why didnât you beat them all?â
But Leonard was met with silence.
 The two of them have known each other from childhood. Their mothers were friends and their fathers were both policemen in Atlantic City PD. They were close, along with Leonardâs twin, Lisa. But things fell apart when Leonardâs mother died. It became worse when his father was jailed by Saraâs father from theft. The Snart siblings moved to their grandparents and him and Sara stopped talking. Ten-year olds who had each otherâs backs, erased from each otherâs history. Theyâve become just familiar faces in the hallway.
Until now.
 âThis is going to be an interesting trip,â Leonard said, finally settling in on his seat.
Sara rolled her eyes and whispered, âDonât I know it.â
Ah, if I could finish this one, that would be great.
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