Author's Note: Sorry for those who had read this and marked it for updates. You might be wonding why you received a notification on a chapter you just read. Below is a revised chapter, I had rushed the first one and was displeased with it.
Wild animals had taken over the souls of the students on bus twenty-four. The bus driver was very laid back, perhaps too laid back as he allowed more excitement to accrue then other drivers would had permit. Two of the students, one sitting in the front of the bus and another in the back of the bus, had brought in plastic toy squirt guns that resulted in a show down every time the bus had stopped for traffic signs. Once the bus rolled on, the boys placed the guns aside but that did not stop the paper wads from flying around in the air or the loud music played by students in the back of the bus nor did it stop the yelling and laughter. Who could really blame the students for their hyperactive behaviour? After all, they were heading from school to a beach, which is as good as it got for some students.
The teacher assigned seats on the bus before the students stampeded out of class. It was a relief on Kim's part that her seat buddy had already been assign. She hated to be the last one standing but to the others students, the ones that had friends, it was not such a hot idea. Those people groaned and complained to the teacher as they begged for the allowance of switching bus partners. It was useless pleading, as the teacher did not sway. In all actuality, their teacher seemed to be enjoying the power of not giving into the students.
Kim was stuck with one of the regular boys who surfed the beach frequently and who happen to ignore Kim completely. He did not even grace her with a smile as he sat in his assigned seat. He kept his body turned towards the aisle; Kim doubted his legs could fit in the seat at any rate. He also had a habit of yelling at the back of the bus to one of his friends, who of course would holler back to him. That was fine with Kim; she had nothing of interest to say to him on their small bus journey. Instead, she was content on leaning her head against the window where, through the space between the window and the corner of the seats in front of her, she could see Jared who sat a few seats up from her own seat. She could watch him all she wanted and no one would notice. Not even Becky who sat somewhere behind her, which pleased Kim more since she was not sitting anywhere near Jared.
Kim knew everything about Jared. She knew his height, his weight, his middle name, his address, his phone number, his favourite food, his favourite car, his favourite band, favourite colour, even his shoe size. After investigating his mother's clothesline, she even knew the size of all this clothing, down to his briefs and boxers. She had it all written down in her diary, though she doubted she would ever forget them.
For that reason, Kim probably noticed his growth spurt before the other students did. However, his inches were hard to ignore as he started to rise above the other boys in their school.
Kim did her own research for male growth spurt and found the typical male grew five inches more in a year during growth stage. Jared did that in a less then a month time and he was young yet. There was still time for more growing. It had caused her to worry slightly but she could not ignore that he looked healthy. His shoulders seemed to broaden with his growing height and muscles seem to be straining against his shirt that caused Kim to sigh dreamily as she tried to picture the way he may feel against her fingers.
Since her experience with the opposite sex was nonexistent, she relied on her mother's discard Romance Novels. Though the story lines seemed redundant and far-fetched, it was Kim's only means in knowing how a male body might feel like. Often she would self-insert herself and Jared into one of the stories as she drifted off in a far away world...
The only light came from a candle resting against her side of the bed. She sat on the bed's edge with a book open on her lap. Though a party was still being held below her in the ballroom, Kim had given a convincing excuse of a considerable and excruciating headache that allowed her to escape the guest.
The book is what led her back up stairs; she simple could not get the book out of her head. She was dying to know how it ended and so absorbed in the pages, Kim never notice the door softly opening as her husband stepped inside.
He had been concern in learning of her departure from the party and came upstairs to check on condition. Relived and mildly amused, Jared found her reading by candle light.
The soft glow shed a warm and inviting light to her skin. Her hair still up in a fashionable style, weaved with pearls and a dress as bright as the sun still belling around her legs, Kim was nowhere near sleep.
Jared smiled to himself as he slowly made his way to the bed, stopping in front of her. He reached out, cupping her chin gently to raise her head to him.
Kim let a small gasp of surprise as Jared touched her face. She slowly brought her head from the book to look at her husband, pausing at the bulge straining against his pants. She felt her cheeks warm with a blush as she raised her eyes further to stare into his warm brown gaze.
"Jared, I wanted to…" She never finished her request to finish the story as she felt his lips against her own, pleading for more then just a kiss. His strong hands slid from her shoulders down the length of her bare arms and back up again. He gently placed pressure on her shoulders to carefully push her backwards onto the mattress.
He lips were covering hers with urgently while his hands skimmed over her blouse, trying to find a way to get to her warm naked flesh.
Jared let a groan escape from his lips, cursing softly in frustration as he moved away from her.
She reached up towards him, stroking his powerful arms and gasped aloud as she felt her shirt buttons pop. Then Jared was back in her arms, his lips tracing down her neck, over her collarbone. Kim arched upwards slightly as she ran her hands through her husband's hair, tugging slight for his kisses to move lower. She felt his familiar smile widen against her bare flesh and she moaned in frustration. "Stop teasing." She whispered, pulling at his locks.
The bus slowed to a stop jolting Kim out of another daydreaming experience and into the world of reality. She blinked back her vision as students began to shuffle out of the bus and onto the beach, where they formed a horseshoe circle around the teacher.
"I want you to find natural habitats around the beach. Describe where you found them, what could or is leaving there. I also expect a list of ways you see beach erosion happening now. How will it affect the future of the beach and at what rate is the erosion occurring." He then smacked his hands together to dismiss them. "Everyone is to meet back here at eleven thirty or no lunch! Stay out of the woods!" He yelled as the boys of the group tore down to the ocean's edge.
Kim pulled out her camera, as did Michelle, to take some pictures. Kim knew Michelle was doing it for yearbook and the school's paper but Kim; she was doing it for her scrapbook of Jared. She had taken pictures of him over the years, noticing how he aged from a child to a teen and now it looked as though he was starting to wear his adult body while others were stuck in their teen amour.
She smiled as she caught a picture of him in front of a perfect rolling wave and the sun at his back as he faced her, well maybe not her. Maybe he was facing his friends but with the zoom lens, it looked as he was facing her. Smiling just for her. His hand waving in the air, that was for her too. Then he swept Becky up off her feet, spinning her around as he threatened to toss her into the ocean. Becky of course was screaming with mock terror but Kim was sure the other girl felt secure in Jared's embrace.
Kim sighed depressingly as she pulled the camera from her eye to delete the accidental shot of Becky in Jared's arm. Satisfied that the image no longer existed, Kim brought the camera back up to her face but her model had disappeared.
With a frown, she brought the small camera down once more as her eyes darted across the students, trying to pick out Jared's tall frame from the other boys. Briefly, she glanced up at the sun and though it had moved slightly, it did show time was nearing lunch. Plus, there were too many boys still out on the beach. If food were to be served soon, Kim was sure the boys were first to disappear.
Kim turned slowly around in her little spot of the beach, trying to locate her obsession. With a grateful sigh of relief, she spotted him moving towards the woods. The students were not supposed to go in the woods, not after what had happen to Emily when she encountered a bear. Still, that did not stop the boys who felt that chugging up towards one of the half shack of a bathroom was more bothersome then trending into the woods to find a tree.
Kim smiled devilish and she shook her head no, saying to herself "I cannot do that." Yet, her feet seem to be doing their own thing as they lead her in the path of evilness.
It was only a few seconds later that Kim found herself in the woods trailing after Jared, keeping a watchful eye on his white shirt as she swatted away flying insect assaults. Only a few times had she lost sight of him as she tripped over tree roots and wild vines.
She only stopped when she noticed that he had stepped up to a tree. His head swirled around, trying to see if he was in the clear no doubt, but Kim ducked behind a tree and lowered herself to the ground to peer through some of the underbrush.
She put the camera to her eye, shooting partly blind, as she did not want him to notice her hiding spot. When Jared started to head towards the beach, then did she stop clicking the camera's trigger. She remained in her spot quietly as Jared trailed passed her, never noticing her.
Deciding to wait in her spot as Jared moved further away from her, Kim flipped the camera around to see how the pictures looked. She found the picture of him seating on a fallen tree with the woods behind his back. It was a nice picture, she thought to herself. She slowly turned around, still low to the ground and still viewing the camera when a blast of hot air rushed against her face. She froze, feeling her heart race. Slowly she raised her eyes, expecting to see a giant grizzle bear but instead she stared into the eyes of an enormous black wolf only inch away from her face.
She fell back on her rump, screaming as she crawled backwards trying to get a distance between the wolf and herself but not managing to find solid ground for her feet.
The wolf remained, watching her but still it was far too close for Kim. "Get!" She screamed and it snarled at her. She felt tears flowing down her cheek and her arms began to shake as her feet continue to scramble against the pine needle flooring.
Kim felt her arm being attacked by thorns as she scurried through a wild prickly bush but she kept moving and screaming. She even gave her camera a toss at the wolf's face, missing it completely. Kim could hear voices coming to her rescue from the beach. Each second those voices grew closer and closer. She heard someone ask who was in the woods, which student was missing but no one said her name.
The massive wolf looked over his shoulder towards the beach and then once back at Kim before it slowly headed away from her, further into the forest. By the time her rescue got to her, the wolf was gone.
"Honey." One of the female chaperones, Anna might have been her name, knelt down beside her, letting Kim cry against her shoulder. "What is it?"
"She probably saw a spider." One of the boys snickered.
"W-wolf." Kim managed to whisper. "H-huge wolf."
The students grew quite, all remembering the wild bear story involving Emily. They looked around nervously, knowing wolves lived in a pack, could there be more then just one out there.
"Get her to the bus." Another chaperone yelled at the students that started to circle Kim. "All of you back to the beach!"
Kim took a moment to scoop up her camera before Anna led her back down to the beach area. She turned slightly to see Jared standing in an open sunlight area of the woods. He was staring in the direction the wolf had went with a frown on his face. In the distance, a howling of a wolf could be heard. Kim doubted it was the one she had seen, it was too far away. Wasn't it?
Jared had taken a step towards the howl but stopped with a puzzle look on his handsome face. He felt compelled to follow the howl but unable to understand why.
Later that night, Kim sat in her room with her camera plugged into her computer going over the pictures. She had to admit that the scenery enhanced her images of Jared. She enlarged the picture she had taken during lunch, after the wolf experience. He sat on one of the fire camp logs, the sun slightly casting its ray of light upon him from over head. The ocean carelessly lolled a wave inland in a peaceful manner. In the picture, it looked as he was staring directly at her. His perfect teeth flashing as he gave the camera a dimpled smile.
There was another photo image of Jared with out his shirt on. A few of the girls were able to throw cups of water on some of the boys, who then took off their shirts to dry in the sun. Though it was chilly and the other boys seem to be manly fighting off the chills, Jared looked comfortable. She smiled as she scrolled the image downwards, slowly over his face, his neck, his shoulder, his chest, his muscled stomach and then the photo was cut off. Still it was one of her best scrapbook worthy pictures. She turned towards the next picture; it was with Jared in the woods. To her disappointment, the picture had not turned out how she had wanted it. Of course, one could clearly see that he probably was watering the tree naturally but no other delightful images could be clearly seen.
The perverted Kim sighed in despair but it was short lasted as she printed the pictures off and turned her attention towards her diary. She wrote briefly about the wolf and she was clear on the height of the wolf though she did not tell anyone else. Who would have believed her that the size of the black wolf could be compared to a horse! It was best that they just thought it was a large alpha wolf in the area. Someone else can spot it and say state on its size. Let them be the weird one after all, wasn't it enough that Kim was the invisible one?
"Kim, dinner!" She heard her mother call from below. She slipped her diary behind some books on a shelf and gave a blown up picture of Jared a quick kiss on the lips before leaving her room.