Hey Guys! It's FRIDAY! Yay! Hehe. Well I'm glad a lot of you liked the last chapter I updated on Monday. :D I just hope you guys will like this one even more. Well, I don't know. Depends who you like better. XD Well you will see! Were now really getting into the story! Well don't want to bore you to death with temptation. Don't forget to READ, REVIEW, and ENJOY!
Clare struggled to slide the tent poles through the holes of the tent. She groaned, "Alli? A little help?" Alli got up from the fold out chair while rolling her eyes as she helped her slide the poles through. The tent was in position, sort of. When Alli was about to skip away, assuming they were done. "Alli! We still have to put in the steaks." She whined as she got down on her knees and started to hit the peg with a rock, failing miserably.
Clare missed a couple hits, when a pair of arms wrapped around her. Jake knelt down behind her and held her hand that held the rock. "You want to put the steaks in facing away from the tent. For resistance. Otherwise they'll just fly out if the wind picks up." He controlled her hand as he helped her pound the steaks through the dirt. They both smiled at each other once it was in the ground.
"Uh…Hello!" Alli hollered to get their attention, waving her rock, showing she had no idea what she was doing. Adam walked up behind her and snatched the rock out of her hand. "Give me that!" He quickly put the peg in glaring at her rudely. "There you go, princess!" Alli just gave a snobby look instead of thanking him.
Jake grabbed Clare's hand to help her up to her feet, throwing a crooked smile her way. "Hey, would you mind if I showed you something?" Clare slowly released her hand from Jake's nodding with a soft smile. "Cool. Put on your bathing suit and a good pair of sneakers, and we will leave in ten." He gave another grin before running off to his, Adam, and Eli's tent.
Inside his tent, Eli was writing in his notebook, getting a wild surprise of Jake running in while taking off his shirt and jumping to his duffle bag. "Woah, what's going on hot stuff?" Eli sarcastically said readjusting so he was sitting up more.
"I'm taking Clare to the Old Spot. You wanna join?" Jake replied before turning around as he slipped on his trunks.
Eli glanced down at his notebook. "Uh…maybe I'll catch up with you guys later."
Jake stared at his friend as he shook out his wife beater about to put it on. "Ronald got you writing again?"
"I'm always writing. He just wants this piece done by next week." He shut his book with one hand, waving it around, and tossed it to the side.
Jake plopped down in front of him, elbows resting on his knees. "What does he got you writing now?"
Eli rolled his eyes. "A love story."
"Oh! Are you basing it off of you and Julia?" Jake joked. "I mean the ways you guys are getting hot and heavy. Is it True Love?" He allowed a light chuckle escape his lips.
"I'm not in love with Julia," Eli quickly remarked. There was an awkward moment of silence until Eli spoke up. "Here, you and Clare go have fun. I'll meet up with you guys later. I'm going to take a nap first. Long drive."
Jake gave a concerned grin before patting him on the knee and rising back to his feet. "Well, don't nap for too long. We will probably be there for a couple hours. And I don't see your ass down there in an hour. I will personally make sure you don't have a pleasant night's sleep tonight."
"Duly noted," Eli said with a smirk, as he watched his friend leave.
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Jake led the way through the woods. Followed behind was Clare, then Sav holding Anya's hand behind him, and then Alli, then Adam. "Where are we even going, Jake? We've been walking forever" Alli complained; cursing to herself with every misstep she would take.
"Would you shut up already?" Adam yelled. "We're almost there! God dammit!" Alli glowered back at him, looking away as she rolled her eyes.
Jake chuckled hearing them argue. "Here we are." He pushed some branches away, holding them so everyone else could pass through. Entering a huge water hole that led off into a few small streams which had a waterfall pouring down the rocks into the hole. All the girls looked around, admiring the beauty as they watched their steps on the rocks to get closer to the water.
"Last one in the water is a rotten egg!" Adam yelled as he ripped off his shirt and cannonballed into the water. A large splash followed after hitting Anya and Alli, damping their clothes. "ADAM!" They both screamed. Alli slid her shirt off, "You're going to pay!" She finished removing her cover clothes before diving into the water. Then followed by Sav and Anya.
Clare admired the top of the waterfall. Every hit against a rock, every glare the sunlight would bounce off the water. It was beautiful. She couldn't let her eyes look away. She didn't even notice Jake had stepped forward, standing next to her. "So, what do you think?"
Clare hesitated, with a bit a fear of surprise by his random appearance. "It's…It's beautiful. I've never seen anything more pretty."
"Not even me?" He smirked down at her, and she giggled once they met eyes for a second.
"You're almost there." She looked down at her feet with a chuckle that he joined in on.
"Well then…" He slipped off his wife-beater, tossing it on the ground. "I'll have to work on that." Once he kicked off his shoes he dove into the water with great form. Clare continued to smile at him as he swam back to the surface flipping his wet hair back out of his face. Biking with his legs to keep him up above the water. "Come on in Edwards!"
She took her time to take off her converse, and slip off her shorts. But once her lengthy shirt was off, revealing a light blue bikini, showing her full figure. Jake couldn't help but stare. She walked to the edge of the rocks, leaping out into the water; pulling her legs to her chest and hugging them with her arms. She broke through the surface pushing her wet hair back. Once she got her sight back, Sav and Adam were clapping. She caught their faces of being turned on in a sarcastic way. Clare and Anya just laughed at the boys' excitement over Clare's cannonball while in a bikini. Then when that finished, Sav put his arm around Anya as they sat on an underwater ledge. And Adam went back to swimming around.
Jake stroked over to Clare. "Now that was beautiful. But still doesn't beat what we saw the other night." He joshed making Clare splash him with water.
"Never again! I already told you." She continued to throw water in his face.
"I know. I know! Calm down!" She finally stopped, ending with them smiling at each other. "C'mon. I want to show you something." He grabbed her hand, and led the way as they swam toward the waterfall, where the water became shallower. They stepped on a ledge and Clare stuck her hand out feeling the heavy falling water on her arms. Suddenly, Jake's arms wrapped around her waist and he whispered in her ear, "C'mon." He bent over a bit so he was a shield over Clare as they walked through the waterfall. Once his arms were off of her, she looked around to see a black cave that had a silver glow from the sunlight shining through the water and hitting the minerals on the wall.
"Oh my god! It's amazing." She ran her fingers along the wall.
"Yeah. When Eli and I found this place a few years ago, we also found this cave. Just sort of became our, like, hideout," Jake spoke up.
"You and Eli are really close, huh?"
"Well you know how Adam, Eli, and I have been friends since High school. We were our own Three Musketeers."-he paused for a light laugh-"Us three have been coming her every few months or so. And we always love to chill in our little hideout cave thing."
"Like a little club house?" They both giggled and he nodded, "Yeah sort of." Then Clare stepped up to him, "What are the rules? No girls allowed?" She joked.
They walked closer, smiling into each other's eyes. "Only the special ones," Jake said with a low-toned voice. Clare's quiet breathing became uneven, as she could feel her blood rush through her body. Her eyes kept jumping from his eyes to his lips. Jake never stopped smirking, and as he took another step to get closer to her, bodies almost touching. Without realizing it their faces slowly moved closer to each other.
"Adam! You're such an ass!" Alli's screeching voice sounded and Adam's "OW!" afterwards, immediately making Clare and Jake jump away. Clare looked to the back of the cave rubbing her arms, as Jake turned completely around grabbing the back of his neck. "Uh…We…" Jake said.
"We better get out there…make sure Adam and Alli don't kill each other," Clare finished and he nodded at her as they made their way back through the waterfall. Clare lifted her head after the being powerfully soaked, realizing why Jake covered her when they went through it first. She wiped the water out of her face, and brushed her hair back when she met eyes with Eli. Standing across the water hole, with mouth dropped a bit and eyebrows furrowed. She smiled at him, but his expression didn't change. "Hey Eli!" She waved over to him. "I'm glad you ended up coming!" He nodded before taking off his shirt and diving into the water.
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"So…what were you and Jakey-boy doing behind the waterfall?" Alli implied as her and Clare were picking up firewood in the woods.
"What? Nothing! We didn't do anything!" Clare said quickly as she dropped her couple pieces of wood. She struggled to pick them back up.
"I'm not trying to grill you. I was just asking." Alli bent down next to her, helping her pick up the sticks. "No need to get spastic." Clare didn't reply making Alli wonder, "Unless something did happen."
Clare looked over at Alli's wide-eyes. "No nothing happened. But I think something was going to. I don't know. It was weird. He brought be back into this super pretty cave and I think…We might have felt something. I have no idea. Can we just drop it? I'm with KC. Jake is nothing more but my roommate."
"Already dropped," Alli said giddily, ending with a touch on her shoulder for encouragement. Clare smiled at her friend, before they headed back to the campsite.
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Once the girls left for firewood, Jake opened up a beer taking a few swigs from it, until Adam swaggered over to him to get himself a bottle. After taking his own sip, Adam broke the silence, "You'd tell me if you and Clare did something right?"
Jake shook his head, surprised by the randomness of his question. "Uh…yeah?"
"Cool. Cool….so what did you guys do behind the waterfall?" He took another sip trying to seem nonchalant, not even giving him eye-contact.
Jake kept jumping from his questions. "Nothing!" Sav and Anya glanced over at him, but then looked away which gave Jake the okay to speak again. "We did nothing but talk."
"Cool. That's a relief—" Adam spoke until Jake interrupted, "But—" Adam jumped on his words turning to face him, "Not but! No, not but. I thought you said nothing happened?"
"Nothing did happen. But something might have almost happened. I have no idea. The whole thing was kind of fuzzy. We were staring at each other, standing super close to each other. It was like, we were the only people in existence. Like time had froze just for that small moment. Then Alli yelling at you broke us up and we jumped away and left," Jake confessed, beginning to be scared to look at Adam again.
"Dude…she's our roommate. You can't do shit like that. Close or not. It just wouldn't be right."
"What wouldn't be right?" Eli asked walking passed them to get himself a beer.
"uh…streaking through all the campgrounds." Adam quickly replied off the top of his head. Jake gave him a look, that made Adam shrug while Eli was taking off his cap.
Eli raised an eyebrow at Jake. "You're right. Jake that's wrong, very wrong."
"Yeah, you're right. Alcohol is beginning to get to me…I'm going to start the barbeque." Jake dashed off over to the grill.
"That, was…weird…." Eli said taking a sip. Then he looked around and caught eye of Clare and Alli returning with firewood. Eli set his beer down and ran over to take the sticks from Clare tossing them by the fire pit. She replied with a "Thanks."
"No problem. You want to help me build the fire?" He asked, making her nod with a smile.
So what did you guys think? I hope you liked it. But I don't care if you hate it. I'm fine with that. Okay one other thing I would like to say for the LAST TIME! THE ENTIRE STORY IS ALREADY WRITTEN! So No suggestions and no telling me write the chapters longer. The story is done, I will not change anything and Some chapters are long, some are short. Get over it. I post these every Friday because of school and work, and everything. It's convenient.
But then, it's also Friday so let's see if you guys can follow the challenge to get another chapter on MONDAY! You guys were crazy last time! You gave me 15 reviews in like 24-hours! Great job! I really appreciate how much you guys like my story. Well this week! How about 20 Reviews! If I get 20 reviews by Monday morning on THIS Chapter! I will post Chapter 10 on Monday!
NEXT CHAPTER! In Chapter 10 of "4 Guys and a Clare", named "Once Night Falls". Sitting by the Fire, barbequing, hanging out. What could possibly go wrong? Oh, right… ;D
