Chapter 21
Sam looked up the wall as Adam and Nate strapped her into the harness. Bryan was already up on the climbing wall ahead of her.
Adam met Nate's eyes and the two brothers exchanged grins. They heard Quinn snort while he held Bryan's guide rope.
"Okay Sammy," Adam put his hand on her shoulder. "Now just use the hand holds and put your feet in the holes and you should be good."
Sam nodded. This was going to be a lot easier than free climbing out of the Phantom's valley, she thought. At least if she fell, the guide rope would keep her from dropping to the ground.
She grabbed the first hand hold and started her climb. Sam went up slowly, making sure to be steady before moving up further.
"Have they done it yet?" Adam quietly asked Nate.
"No," Nate shook his head.
"My gosh, what is he waiting for?" Adam wondered. "My goodness does she have a sweet body or what?"
"I saw you linger while putting on that harness, big brother," Quinn grinned.
"How could I not?" Adam laughed.
Sam had almost reached Bryan and the two of them smiled at each other. Sam laughed when Bryan leapt over to straddle her on the wall.
"Don't tangle your ropes, Bryan," Adam shouted up to him.
"I'm sure it's not his rope he's thinking of tangling," Quinn joked, earning another look from Adam and Nate.
"What about Debi?" Nate asked his younger brother.
"I'm teasing," Quinn gave them a disgusted look.
They still weren't so sure of that, but didn't say anything more. Adam was worried about the ropes.
"Bryan get away from her rope," Adam yelled up to his brother.
"He looks like he's humping her on the wall," Nate snorted. Quinn burst out laughing.
"Damn, he does doesn't he?" Adam laughed.
Bryan looked down on his brothers with a wicked grin, causing them to laugh harder.
"Jakey's gonna be sorry he missed this," Nate managed to get out between bouts of laughter.
"Jake's gonna be pissed if he learns about all this," Adam predicted.
"Who's gonna tell him?" Quinn teased. "Whoever is gonna tell Jakey his girl got humped on a wall raise your hand."
None of them raised their hand and the three guys started laughing hysterically. Sam looked down at them, wondering what was going on.
"I wonder what's so funny," Sam murmured to Bryan.
"You know those guys," Bryan responded, but he was laughing.
"You know what they're laughing at," Sam hit his arm.
Bryan pretended he was going to fall off backwards and Sam screamed, causing the three guys below them to look up in alarm.
"What's going on?" Adam asked.
"Bryan almost fell," Sam shouted down.
"Bryan, get away from her now," Adam told him.
"You know how to ruin my fun, big brother," Bryan grouched, but swung over so he was next to Sam instead of behind her.
"Now I can keep climbing," Sam shot him a grin.
"Aww, poor Bryan," Quinn yelled at his twin. Bryan flipped him off which only made Quinn laugh. He tightened up Bryan's rope so he couldn't climb.
"Knock it off, Quinn," Bryan shouted. "Give me some slack."
"Quinn, you idiot," Adam said to him. "Quit playing around."
Quinn let up on the rope some and Bryan was able to start climbing after Sam.
"Sammy's gonna beat you," Nate yelled up.
Sam looked back at Bryan with a grin.
"Bryan's gettin' beat by a girl!" Quinn teased his twin.
"Well maybe I wouldn't have if someone hadn't played around with the rope," Bryan shouted down.
"Excuses, excuses," Quinn responded, earning a frown from his twin brother. Quinn just grinned up at him.