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A ray of sunshine poked through the small, zipper opening of the gray tent, as the sun started to set. Bird calls were sounded, an annoying buzz was too, and a weird musky smell was hanging in the air. Bradin slowly woke up, swatting his face after feeling a mosquito give a small bite.
"Gah, damn it- What the? Where am I?"
He looked around him, confused. This place was DEFINITELY not his room. It was a small, little area, which apparently looked like a gray tent. Sunlight peeped right through a small opening of it, as he rubbed his eyes. He blinked alarmingly, but he soon relaxed after seeing his and Lin Lee's bags on the ground nearby.
"Oh………..now I remember…….." he muttered to himself.
He turned around, looking for Lin Lee, but she surprisingly wasn't there. Shit, where is she?
He opened the flap to the tent slowly, the bright and bleary sunlight totally catching him by surprise, and nearly blinding him.
"Ha, what ran over you this morning?" a voice chirped. Bradin blinked, regaining his senses and eyesight. He turned towards the direction the voice was coming from, and nearly jumped a foot in the air after seeing Lin Lee, calmly sitting on a log, sketching in her sketch pad with a pencil.
"Oh shit! Lin Lee damn it! Don't scare me like that!" he cried out, breathing heavily. She laughed, smiling at him.
"It's not my fault you're so blind and careless!"
He 'humphed', crossing his arms crankily. "but seriously though, you really do look like shit!" she continued laughing tremendously, receiving a frown from Bradin.
He plopped down on the log next to her, watching her give gentle strokes of shadowing to her sketch.
"It really looks like a squirrel, ya know. It's really good." he commented, placing his head against her shoulder. She smiled gratefully, brushing back a piece of hair from her face.
Bradin glanced around, noticing a minty green colored sketch pad laid down on the grass next to them. He picked it up slowly, and carefully started to flip the pages and stare intensely at each one.
"Impressive sketches," he told Lin Lee. Some of them he noticed were sketches of people, but one particular one caught his eye.
"Who's this?" he asked her, pointing towards a young man in the picture.
The young man looked to be about his own age, and had sparkling bright blue eyes. His dark brown hair was messy in the back, but a little spiky in the front. He had on a goofy smile, bearing all of his 'movie-star' white teeth. He was leaning against a red sports car that was probably his own.
Lin Lee glanced over, her cheeks flushing a deep red immediately. "He's just a really sweet friend," she replied, turning her attention back to her work.
Bradin raised his eyebrows, a spark of jealousy igniting up in his gut. He knew he doubted what she said, and he could've sworn he detected a twinkle in her eye.
"I doubt it," he muttered, closing the sketch pad shut after seeing enough.
He got up from the log, and crawled back into the tent. He came right back out after a few minutes with a towel, tooth brush, and toothpaste.
Lin Lee raised her eyebrows at him, giving him a peculiar look. "What are you doing?" she asked. Bradin rolled his eyes, walking past her and making his way down the pebble-stoned pathway.
"I'm going to take a bath, DUH!" he shouted over his shoulder.
Lin Lee rolled her eyes, muttering, "Yeah, to wash you're skinny white ass!"
"I heard that!" Bradin shouted over his shoulder. "and FYI: it's FINE ass!" Lin Lee laughed, rolling her eyes.
(A/N: You guys BETTER REMEMBER this picture you just read right now, since it's an IMPORTANT scene that's going to mysteriously come right back on in the sequel to this story! If there is one…………….okay, back to the story! Tadaa!)
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A little later………………………….
Geez, why can't I draw the squirrel's tail? It's just a fluffy little thing that is completely useless for all I know! Lin Lee sighed, getting ready to tear the sketch apart. Will anybody notice the tail is missing? Naw, I don't think they will………..even though it'll look a little creepy and disgusting………..
"What are you doing, talking to yourself?"
Lin Lee looked up, seeing a half-naked Bradin Westerly with JUST a towel wrapped around his hips. He had no shirt on as water dripped sexily down his chest and hair, and the towel was sliding pretty low down as he approached her. DANGEROUSLY LOW.
She flashed her eyes down immediately, and she could feel her cheeks flush a deep scarlet red.
"No…………w-what makes you s-say that?" Bradin smiled, stifling a laugh.
"Well, you seem to be deep in thought, that's all…………why are you blushing?" he asked, even though he was pretty aware of why.
She tried her best not to blush even more, but apparently she did. "N-nothing," she replied nervously.
Bradin gave her a wicked wink, placing his hands on the end of his towel. "Aw come on, just admit it, you want me to remove this towel!" he teased.
"Yes- wait, uh-no! No I don't" she cried out, biting her pencil in embarrassment. He grinned, satisfied with her answer.
"Well, I take that as a yes. But if you do, why don't you see for yourself?" She looked up slowly, her face twisting in horror as he made a move to drop his towel.
"Ew! Stay away from me Bradin!" she screamed, getting up from the log and made a quick run down the pathway. He soon ran after her, despite the difficulties he received while holding onto the towel on his hips.
"Aw, come on hun! You KNOW you want me too!"
"Heck NO! Stop teasing me Bradin!" she cried out shrilly, leaping over a log.
Bradin laughed, hearing every scream that came from her as it echoed around the whole forest. He was pretty much enjoying all the teasing he was giving her, and the reaction he was receiving in return.
Hehe……………..revenge is sweet!
But the screaming soon stopped, and he heard a small yelp and a thud. Bradin looked around, trying to see if Lin Lee was hiding anywhere. It was as if she completely vanished from sight. "Huh? Lin Lee, where are you?" he called out, and he heard a soft groan somewhere on the ground. He looked down, and saw a pair of legs sticking out of a prickly berry bush.
"Lin Lee?" he asked, surprised.
He knelt down and brushed the branches and leaves of the bush apart, seeing a messed up Lin Lee sprawled inside it. Her hair was tangled terribly, and it was no longer the sleek black it used to be, but a light brown after being matted with mud and dirt. Small twigs and leaves were tangled in it too, and her fairly tanned skin was caked with mud. "Oh shit!" he muttered, taking a hold of her arm as he pulled her out of the bush.
"Are you alright?" he asked worriedly, wiping some mud off her cheek with his thumb. She pointed down to her ankle, still looking a little shaken up. He looked down, and saw that her ankle was sprained.
"Oh shit, I'm so sorry!" he apologized sincerely, giving her a tight hug.
"Bradin! Stop suffocating me! Having a sprained ankle by tripping over a damn tree root is enough pain for one day!" Lin Lee's muffled voice cried out through his chest.
He released her, smiling sheepishly. "Hehe……….sorry."
"Meow………"
Bradin raised his eyebrows, staring at Lin Lee weirdly. "Did you just meow at me?" he questioned, wondering if the fall had made her go completely nuts and psycho. She stared at him back with the same confused expression.
"That wasn't me. Why would I do that?"
"Meow………."
"Okay………..there that monster goes again!" Bradin muttered, frustrated. Lin Lee sighed, crawling on her knees back inside the bush. She stayed there for a few minutes, rummaging and searching for the little 'monster'. She soon came out with a little gray bundle in her arms.
"What the heck is that?" Bradin asked, as she slowly hopped to him. He poked the little fluffy ball with his finger, but he jumped a mile in the air after the ball hissed at him.
Lin Lee patted the bundle, and laid it gently on the ground. Surprisingly, deep olive green eyes (exactly the same as Bradin's!) stared at him in return.
"It's a kitten, and I'm going to name her Pepper," she replied, giving a soft pat on the kitten's soft fur. 'Pepper' looked to be a tabby cat with silver hair and black stripes, and tiny pink ears. Her little paws were barely the size of Bradin's thumbs, and had evil sharp claws at the end. Bradin frowned, shaking his head.
"No way are we keeping this! And how do you know that it's a girl, anyway?"
Lin Lee sighed, rolling her eyes. "Brae, you OWE me a favor to keep her! And this 'it' is a young kitten named Pepper. Do you REALLY wanna know how to find out if she's a girl?"
Bradin raised his eyebrows. "A favor?"
"Yeah, a favor! For spraining my ankle after evilly teasing me!" she pointed out. Bradin sighed, running his fingers through his blonde hair. "Hey, it's not my fault you wanted to see more parts of me!"
"Who said?" she scoffed, crossing her arms in anger. He groaned, not wanting to start the argument into a fist fight.
"Lin Lee…………" she turned away from him,
refusing to even look into his eyes. He sighed, hating it when she ignored him, and he was pretty much on the verge of begging on his knees and pleading.
"Damn………….fine, it's alright!" he shouted. She cheered happily, and batted her eyelashes at him.
"See, you can't resist me!" she laughed in his face. She picked up Pepper, and cradled her in her arms.
"Whatever. But if that cat gets ANYWHERE near my pillow tonight, I SWEAR that I'll skin it alive!" he swore grumpily, trudging his way up the pathway.
Lin Lee giggled, giving Pepper a soft kiss on the nose.
Hehe whatcha guys think? You like it? Well, I wanted to write about a cute little kitten that will enter the story and terrorize Bradin's life in the woods! Mwahaha I'm going to make some kind of war spring up between the two, and Pepper will win against wimpy Bradin! (well, ya know the drill, give me a review! it makes my day! Lolz)
love lots, rei ann ;)