Okay so this is the sequel to "You won't survive if you're vain" Karma and Amy go on a road trip after the camping trip and meet some people along the way. Sorry it took so long but I'm writing the second chapter now so it shouldn't be too long to wait now.
"Right so I borrowed this thing for a couple of weeks," Amy tapped the steering wheel, "so I was thinking we could visit a few camp sites, and chill out without my lovely family bothering us."
"And you seriously think I don't know you well enough to know that 'think' means meticulously calculated and all those sheets of paper you just rammed into the glove compartment aren't a variety of maps and itineraries."
A rose tinge touched upon Amy's cheeks as she bit her lip and thought momentarily that she could lie to Karma but thought better of it. She reluctantly reached over and opened the glove compartment, gathered the sheets of paper then shuffled them like a news reader on her lap much to Karma's amusement.
"It's just a few things I got together when I was cooped up inside stressing about you, wait that sounds bad, I mean us." Amy choked out her sentence trying to contain the mix of nervousness and excitement whilst Karma looked softly down at her.
"You know you shouldn't ever worry about us, or me, I couldn't take it thinking that I had disappointed you or done you wrong, this," Karma gestured towards the paper, "and everything else you do for me, it means so much. You're always there to tell my secrets to, I know if anything happens that upsets me I can come to you for support and I'd like to think that you feel the same way."
Amy leant over and kissed Karma on the forehead, "Of course I feel like that you know how important you are to me." Amy glanced at her watch quickly, "Okay and we have to get going if we want to eat and get to the campsite in time."
Amy pulled out of the layby they were sitting in and Karma enjoyed watching her concentrating on the traffic around as Amy would squint her eyes or let her tongue poke out of the side of her mouth occasionally. Karma found Amy's obliviousness to her watching these actions endearing, she was so tied up in what she was doing and Karma was glad as it meant that she had time to sit and admire her beautiful girlfriend.
Karma loved how Amy's hair no matter how messy looked like it had been perfectly designed to fall over her shoulders like snowfall on the top of a mountain. Unlike the snow the blonde colour of Amy's hair was soft and warm and it made Karma feel as though she was cuddled up under a blanket watching the rain fall down outside. Then there were her eyes that reminded Karma of the perfectly blue water at an aquarium, she recalled the time they visited the aquarium on a school trip. It was about a year ago and the two of the girls had gone with the whole class; as per usual Shane was too busy checking out the guide to notice any of the fish and Lauren was more concerned with what area offered her the best lighting and reflective combination for her next profile picture. Karma and Amy had managed to sneak off from the Principal's sub-par talk on the benefits of fish in the human diet. Karma found Amy's talk on the variety of fish and where their names came from and why their scales were a particular colour, in fact Karma was probably sure she would've found anything interesting that Amy had said, she was always so knowledgeable. Anyway they happened to be wandering around and Amy had stopped once again at a jellyfish tank to tell Karma about their different stings when one of the guides came up behind them.
"Seems like someone knows their jellyfish, how do you fancy coming up with me, we've just had some new babies in and they're kept upstairs for safety?"
Amy looked quickly over to Karma for her approval but the beaming face was too much to turn down, they had an hour before they had to go back to the meeting point so Karma returned Amy's smile with one of her own. They walked upstairs to the labs and Karma watched on as Amy was caught in an engaged conversation with the man and another woman who had been in the lab already. The conversation concluded with the two aquarium workers passing on their email addresses and inviting Amy back for work experience if she wanted. Karma half wished they hadn't made the offer because that's all she heard about for the rest of the day but Karma couldn't deny how nice it was to hear the enthusiasm and passion in her voice.
Karma drifted back into the real word when she noticed Amy had pulled into the car park of a little diner on the side of the road.
"Don't worry I researched this place, apparently it does really nice burgers and ice cream and they have a jukebox, although it won't be as good as your singing." Karma blushed slightly at Amy's remark so Amy quickly changed the topic as they walked into the diner. As much as she loved the red tinge on the brunette's face she didn't want to make her feel uncomfortable.
"You seemed quiet in the van?" It was more of a question than a statement, despite her concentration on the road for fear of even jolting the vehicle with Karma in it, Amy detected the absence of singing or absent minded comments en route.
"Yeah I was just thinking, something you did reminded me of the aquarium trip."
"What was it? What did I do?" Amy said self-consciously whilst Karma just smiled at her and opened the door to the diner.
"It was nothing bad, I was just admiring you."
"Admiring me, eh?" Amy raised an eyebrow eliciting a chuckle from Karma.
They had reached the bar by this time and they ordered their dinner and waited for it to arrive so they could sit down. Once they had finished Amy paid the bill and they both walked out to the van, Amy looked quickly through her bits of paper so she could remember the way to the campsite from the diner.
Karma watched out the window as she absent mindedly hummed to the music faintly drifting out of the radio. She enjoyed looking out of the window but it wasn't long until they pulled up at the site and Amy reached the check in window and a girl not much older than them walked over to the window to see to them.
"Hi, how are you two lovely ladies?"
"Umm we're fine- thank you." Said Amy stuttering in an attempt to find the paper she needed.
"Have you got the paperwork for stay?" The purple haired girl enquired.
Amy was still fumbling around with the paper clearly flustered and giving Karma cause to giggle at her before she pulled out a sheet and read over it to double check it was the right one. "Here you go, I think that's the right thing."
"Yep, Raudenfield three nights right?"
"That's it, if you just follow the road down a bit further and take the first left along by the lake there should be a pitch for the van, fourth along on the right side."
"Ah thank you very much."
"If you need anything just pop up to the shed you'll probably see me or Sophie hanging around, if not we might be out walking around so we won't be long."
"Okay, thanks for your help."
Amy drove off down the road and managed to find the pitch relatively easily. She parked up the van and opened it up to extend the side part and began trying to navigate the tent attachment. Karma was trying to figure out how to attach the electricity supply to the van and once she had connected it Amy was finished with the attachment so they now had somewhere to sit and eat with the bed inside the back of the van. Amy stood looking out over the lake and had a light sheen of sweat from the heat and putting the tent up. Karma came up behind her and wrapped her arms around the taller girl's waist resting her chin on Amy's shoulder.
"It's so beautiful I can't believe you've done this all for us. I should ring get your Mom to lock you away more often."
Amy turned around unamused but her steel façade broke quite soon when her face was only a few inches from Karma's. Karma took Amy's sunglasses off her to reveal her blue eyes and placed them on her own head knowing how much Amy hated to love Karma wearing her stuff. It went against every obsessive bone in her body but Amy couldn't deny that everything she owned seemed to look better on Karma. Amy leant down to connect her lips with Karma but Karma pulled away and instead took Amy's hand to pull her into the van and onto the bed.
"I didn't want to scare the wildlife."
Amy laughed shaking her head, "Don't do that again or I'll scare you" Amy leant down to kiss Karma, "and when you least expect it." Amy launched a tickle attack on Karma but it was shortlived as they both got quickly out of breath and couldn't resist celebrating the moment in their own way for much longer.