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It’s already 6am, and I’m awake. Me, Audrey Stevens, is awake. My God! I can’t even hold my eyes open. Are people really already awake and sipping their coffee on the way to work? Not a lot of interesting things happen here in the little small town of Danville, KY. I guess that’s why I’m leaving town. I had to be at the church at 7:00 am but I wanted to sleep as long as possible. I went to get into the shower but I couldn’t. My mom, Cyndi, was down on her knees again getting rid of what was left of her supper from last night. You see she has cancer. Real Bad! She’s doing her treatments and it makes her really sick that if she even smells food she literally vomits. Well, I let mom do her thing and hurry get my things together. I finally got in the shower at twenty till. I blow-dried my hair and put on my favorite pants. Oh, they were great pants. They were light denim with this tan lace braided down the sides. I then grabbed my yellow tank top with only seconds to spare, and headed out the door. I arrived at church and went to claim my seat on the church bus. Fortunately, I got the very last seat. That’s the most perfect seat in history. A seat made for a goddess! It’s in the back so you can sleep. I mean look; we had an eleven-hour drive ahead of us. I went and threw my backpack on the seat and went outside the bus to talk with my youth group, pray, and take the first group picture of the trip. I didn’t realize how many people were going. There were 10 youth and 5 adults. We got in a big circle held hands and prayed. Prayed for safety on our trip, unity, patients, and for God to do something incredible in our life and bless us like never before. Little did I know that God would answer that prayer in the most awesome way ever. After we opened our eyes we all stood in front of the bus. In the back row was Terry and Rhoda Harper, Tom Friedman, Sue Gordon, Gina Turpin, and Kevin Hampton. The second row was Cory Friedman, Sara Roach, Isaac and Christian Lambert, and Haley Gordon. The Third row was Whiny Gordon, Greg Friedman, and Kaleen Evans. And of course laying on the ground was me. After we finished and said out goodbyes to our parents we loaded the bus. We were on our way to Myrtle Beach for the best youth rally ever, but I don’t think any of us knew that! Because the trip was going to be so long we knew we would have to stop half way and get a hotel or the girls was going to have stop every hour to go to the bathroom. We got a hotel and room assignments, did a quick 5-minute bible study, and went to bed. That night I had to share my bed with Gina, a 6’4’’, single mother of two, 45 year-old woman. She stands so strong on her believes. I believe that’s why her husband left her. That and she kicks in the bed. She kicked me so much. I finally lost my patients, grabbed my pillow and went to sleep on the couch! It was hard to sleep that night. For some reason I felt so empty. Don’t get me wrong, I was having fun, but on the inside I thirsted for something so.. so .. I don’t know. I finally feel asleep at 3:30am. I awoke by the sound of the hotel room door. I looked up and all my roommates’ things were packed and ready to go. I only had 40 minutes to get ready, pack, and eat breakfast. I went as fast as I could. I was afraid that I’d lose my perfect seat. I couldn’t have asked for a better one. I didn’t even waste time getting dressed I just packed my backpack and headed to the bus. The bus hadn’t even been unlocked so my seat was safe.
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