Field trips for felonies. That's what Piper and Rosie had decided to call them.

Once a month, it seemed like the Wilderness School wanted to bring their students on some dumb, organized field trip, as if they remembered that they were, in fact, humans and not caged zoo animals. Shocking, right?

A pillow smacked Rosie right in her face. She groaned, blindly groping for the pillow to throw it back.

"Rise and shine," Piper said in an annoyingly sarcastic singsong voice. "It's our favorite day of the month!"

Rosie threw back the pillow in what she hoped was Piper's direction. "Sleep."

Rosie winced, burying her head under her pillow as Piper pulled up the blinds, letting in a stream of light. Her best friend-turned-roommate Piper McLean was a lot of things. Ernie to her Bert. Mickey Mouse to her Donald Duck. Ying to her Yang, yada, yada, all that mushy best friend stuff. With that came several huge differences between the two.

Rosie was hardly functional in the morning. One time, she accidentally poured orange juice into her cereal during finals week. Piper was a complete 180 from this; she was productive. Rosie often wondered why her best friend didn't have birds and woodland creatures helping her get ready in the morning.

"Not my fault somebody insisted on creating a list of ways to get out of this field trip at 3AM."

Her head buried under her pillow, Rosie held up one finger. "New one. Number 37," she mumbled. "I'm just too madly in love with Coach Hedge to show my face to him."

Piper laughed. "Oh gross! I just brushed my teeth, don't make me vomit,"

Rosie lifted her head up from under the pillow and grinned. "Good one, right?"

"No comment," Piper smirked. "Hurry up, we're gonna be late!"

They weren't late. Thanks to Piper's coaxing/threatening, they got to the meeting spot just on time. Throughout the crowd, they spotted one of their best friends, Leo Valdez. He was standing by himself, fiddling with what looked to be paper clips and pipe cleaners. Leo grinned as soon as he saw them.

"Ladies," he greeted. "Happy field trip for felonies day."

Yeah, Piper and Rosie had gotten Leo saying it too.

"Don't know about you guys, but I'm super ready to see some rocks," Rosie joked. Leo and Piper laughed.

"Leo, where's Jason?" Piper asked.

Jason was the final member of their little group of ragtag troubled kids. He hadn't been at the Wilderness school for too long, but after becoming Leo's roommate, he quickly became close with them. Piper quickly developed a crush on him, and recently, had finally gotten him to kiss her.

Leo shrugged. "Dunno. Might be in the bus already."

Rosie turned to Piper. "You want the window seat?"

Piper's face flushed. "I think I'll sit with Jason. I mean, if Leo isn't already..."

"Go ahead, Pipes." Leo hardly looked up from his hands.

"Oh. Yeah. That's fine!" Rosie quickly told her.

Ever since Jason and Piper had become a "thing", Rosie and Leo had spent more time away from them, mostly because they got the vibe Jason and Piper wanted to be alone and "coupley". Rosie didn't mind it; Leo was one of her best friends (she had known him longer than Piper) but sometimes she really needed girl time, and Piper would be hanging out with Jason.

Piper smiled at her, and bounded onto the bus. Coach Hedge, their fearless chaperone, popped his head out of the bus windows. How did his head even fit through that? Talk about defying the laws of nature.

"Valdez, Reiger, chop chop, cupcakes!" He growled at them from above.

"There's our cue," she told Leo.

Leo was looking at the bus and had his usual mischievous grin on his face.

"Look," He said. "He has his megaphone."

She grinned. "Well, now I'm really ready to go see some rocks."

She and Leo mercilessly tormented Coach Hedge. They constantly pulled pranks on him, usually just to pass the time. (There really wasn't much to do at the Wilderness school) Their latest project, which Leo called, "Moo, I am Your Father," involving hijacking Hedge's megaphone to sound like Darth Vader (her idea) and monotone sayings about cows (Leo's idea). The process of taking the megaphone and programming it had left Rosie with four bruises and Leo with two minor electrical burns, but was completely worth it.

The two of them found an empty seat in front of Jason and Piper. Jason was snoozing on a gleeful Piper's shoulder.

"Aw, Pipes, that could've been us," Rosie deadpanned, winking at her. She slid next to the window.

"Get a room!" Leo snickered.

To pass the time on the bus ride, Rosie and Leo played one of their favorite games: Nicknames Are A Clearly Better Naming System Decided By A Rosemary and A Leonidas (or the acronym: NAACBNSDBARAAL)

"Dylan." He nudged his head towards one of their least favorite people.

"Dill Pickle."

"Isabel."

She made a face. "Issa bore."

"Good one, Freckles. Piper."

"Piper Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, duh, next one, " She said gleefully. She would always annoy Piper with that one.

Jason and Piper's conversation floated over the seat.

"I...I'm not supposed to be here."

Rosie rolled her eyes and Leo stuffed a fist in his mouth to stifle some laughter.

Leo whipped his head over the top of the seat. "Good one, Jason! None of us belong here! I totally didn't run away six times. Piper totally didn't steal a BMW from that car dealership. And Rosie definitely didn't punch a parole officer."

You punch a parole officer one time, she thought. Leo was never going to let her forget that, was he? Rosie popped up next to him, peering down at Jason and Piper with a grin. "You're gonna fit right in. Everyone here is innocent, you know?"

Leo and Piper both cracked up, but Jason stared at her blankly. She was quoting Shawshank Redemption, a movie about prison that the four of them had watched together last week. The four of them had been quoting the movie like crazy, since they related to it way too much. Wilderness was basically a prison. (And that's saying a lot, since she had been to prison before).

"I didn't steal that car, Leo!" Piper argued. She gave Rosie a pleading look, but to Rosie, the Piper stealing a BMW event still remained a mystery much debated about.

"Right! My bad! You just talked him into giving it to you." Leo placed air quotes around the word talked.

"Who...who are you guys?" Jason asked.

"Oh, well, I'm Rosie," Leo quickly jumped in. Rosie gave him a lighthearted shove.

"Guess that makes me Leo Valdez," she teased. "Your second best friend, since Rosie is obviously your greatest and closest friend." She smirked at Leo, wiggling her eyebrows.

"Hey!" Leo protested.

"Valdez! Reiger!" Coach Hedge barked. "Something wrong?"

"Showtime," Leo whispered to her. He turned around and faced Coach. "Sorry, Coach, I can't hear you! The megaphone would be appreciated!" He settled back into their seat with a grin.

"Watch," she said quickly to Jason and Piper, turning back and settling next to Leo.

Coach Hedge whipped out his megaphone in attempts to yell at Rosie and Leo. However, every time he tried to, his voice would come out like Darth Vader's. He stopped and glared at them, as the bus dissolved into giggles. He picked up the megaphone again, which then blared: THE COW SAYS MOO.

"You two!" He yelled, angrily wiggling a finger at them.

Rosie and Leo exchanged a high-five. They popped their heads back over the seat, both wearing an identical grin.

"You guys are nuts," Piper laughed, shaking her head.

"Coach really loves us," Rosie said, beaming.

"How did you even do that?"

Leo winked at Piper. "I'm a special boy, Pipes," he said, showing her the Phillips screwdriver peeking out of his coat sleeve. "With a pretty good lookout."

Rosie shrugged modestly, her signature smirk on her face.

"I'm sorry-" Jason cut in. "What's going on? Where are we going?"

Piper frowned, concern in her eyes. "Wait, are you serious? This isn't a joke?"

Leo scoffed. "No way is he serious, he's just getting back for the shaving cream on Jello thing that Rosie-" Leo faltered when he saw her expression: a worried face gone pale. "I mean..."

Rosie had recently pranked Jason by putting shaving cream on his jello. At the time, she had been upset that he was spending so much time with Piper. However, Jason automatically assumed Leo was the one to do it, so Leo took the blame for her. She still worried he would find out and ream her out for it.

"You really don't know us?" Piper sounded devastated.

Rosie narrowed her eyes at Jason. In the three months she had known him, she hadn't pegged him as the prankster. At least, not to the extent she and Leo were. She couldn't say that they would be above pretending to have amnesia. Then again, three months wasn't that long.

"No!" Jason exclaimed. "I don't-I can't-"

"That's it!" Coach Hedge exploded. "You four back there are cleaning up after lunch!"

Rosie groaned as the bus cheered. Leo made a gagging motion. Piper and Jason

didn't seem to care.

"You really don't know us..." Piper sounded slightly dumbfounded.

"Not just that," Jason muttered. "I don't know myself."