One Word: Route

It was three-thirty in the afternoon. The bell rang for the last time, releasing anxious teenagers from the confines of their school. Peter was one of the eager ones ready to get out into the open air. He jumped the stairs leading out onto the sidewalk. He landed, shifting his bag on his shoulders. Peter waited there at the bottom of the stairs for his friends to catch up with him.

( Once all his friends gathered they set out together down the sidewalk )