WAITING at the bus stop for a school service that should have already arrived, Lucas Stokes, 11, made a reassuring promise to two younger and worried students.
"He told them he was not going to leave them, that they would either go with him [if he got a ride to school] or he would stay with them," said Lucas' mum Jacquie Stokes, who was at work when he told her at 9.05am the bus hadn't arrived, 25 minutes after it was due.
