Apologies for the long haitus with this chapter. This was originally supposed to be the last chapter, but I was having a lot of trouble on deciding how to end it. So I decided to split it in two and get this half up.
Carlos breathed in deeply, semi conscious, not quite remembering where he was or what he was doing there. He was in a soft, warm bed, snuggled into the covers. Was he at home in his room? Then why did he just inhale a load of coconut scented hair..?! Carlos' eyes snapped open and he jumped back, suddenly wide awake.
His breathing softened and slowly became more controlled as he assessed and remembered the situation. He carefully lowered himself back onto the fluffy pillows, his eyes wide open, and propped himself up slightly higher on his pillow, than the head of the girl lying next to him, fast asleep.
He was lying next to Dorothy Ann Parker. The sun shined through the slits in the curtains and shone down on her head. He couldn't see her face properly, most of it covered by her light blond hair. Slowly, and very carefully so as not to wake her, Carlos reached out with one hand and brushed back a strand.
She moaned and shifted slightly, and he pulled his hand back quickly, but she did not wake up. One of her hands was hidden underneath the pillow she was sharing with him, her other was resting lightly on his chest in a ball.
Carlos exhaled heavily, willing himself to believe he wasn't asleep and dreaming of this strange new heaven. The last night seemed like a weird blur. Him and her had gotten lost, been chased by a cougar... He remembered how she'd clutched onto his arms so tightly and how close she had been as she'd hissed instructions in his ear. And... and she had kissed him...
Carlos rested his head on his arm and closed his eyes, then opened them again. It didn't make sense.
Then she had come into his room, they had kissed again. And this time there was nothing to stop them. He remembered it as just an exhausting and exhilarating blur. Dorothy Ann looked so cute and ... innocent... lying on the white sheets next to him. Carlos suddenly smirked. It was amusing to think she, who looked like a fallen angel now, had grabbed his hands last night and lead them under her shirt.
That's how far they went though, and, with Dorothy Ann, he wouldn't have asked for anything more. A peck on the cheek, or, heck, just a brush against her hand was enough to satisfy him for a week.
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Wanda shivered violently and buried her numb nose into Ralphie's chest. It was so cold. She didn't understand how he wasn't even shivering. Or how he had even managed to fall asleep in this cold and rain.
The two had managed to get their hands off each other sometime around midnight... or close to that anyway, and then decided to finally get some sleep. They had both been exhausted after all.. Wanda grinned.
She looked around the campsite to see if everyone was still asleep, and when saw that everyone was, Wanda closed her exhausted eyes again, her cheek resting on Ralphie stomach, which was rising up and down serenely.
Surprisingly, she wasn't at all surprised or confused of that fact that she had been making out with Ralphie like their lives depended on it - okay, that didn't make sense, but this did. And then that didn't make sense.
Woah Li, Wanda smacked herself on the head, and hit a mosquito without knowing it, trying to clear her head. Usually it wasn't full of so many thoughts. Dammit Ralphie, who'd have thought he'd be the one to make her think so hard?!
Wanda sighed. Oh well, the damage was done, and she definitely wasn't planning on giving Ralphie up this soon. It might be interesting to see where this went.
And so, quickly, figuring their time alone together before the others woke up was limited, Wanda leaned over close to Ralphie's ear and whispered his name teasingly.
His eyes snapped open and he jumped. Wanda suppressed a giggle and placed one numb hand on his warm thigh, leaning in close so that she could kiss him again. Ralphie responded almost immediately, and as she got closer, so did her hand slide further up his jeans.
"It's too cold for sleep..." Wanda said quietly, keeping her voice down so she wouldn't wake any of her other companions up.
"No kidding, you're hands are freezing!" Ralphie laughed, but stopped hastily, "But don't stop!" he added hastily, for Wanda had made to remove her hand from his thigh. Wanda grinned and continued her seduction.
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"Is there anything left over for breakfast?" Phoebe asked rubbing her eyes and yawning. Her back felt very sore, but that was just another side affect one got from sleeping on the hard wooden floor in an ice cold cabin in the middle of nowhere. Phoebe shivered.
"Let me see..." Arnold murmured, sticking his hands inside the depths of his backpack. "Oh, there's something here - I - eww.." Arnold quickly retracted his hand. "The mallowblasters melted then froze over again.."
"Well as long as they don't have hair or something stuck to them," Phoebe said, shifting over to where Arnold sat.
"No... But this one has banana smeared all over it..." Arnold said, a disgusted expression on his face when he pulled it out to show Phoebe.
"Then I'll take the clean one," Phoebe giggled and took it from his loose hand.
"Hey!" Arnold felt the sweet disappear from his palm and turned over to Phoebe. "Fine... I'll eat this one... Nothing in a banana that can harm you... Even if it's smeared over a mallowblaster and the inside of my backpack..."
"Here, we can split the good one - " Phoebe broke the snack in two and handed the larger piece to Arnold. He took the smaller piece from her other hand instead and put it in his mouth before she could protest.
While Arnold chewed, Phoebe turned around to peer through the little window of the cabin to the outside. She suddenly froze, the mallowblaster halfway to her mouth. "A - Arnold!" she gasped.
She heard Arnold choke on his mallowblaster beside her. "W- What?!" he spluttered, coughing.
Phoebe jumped up and rushed over to the window, a large grin on her face. "Look! It was too dark to see before, but look Arnoldཀ"
Arnold choked the rest of the mallowblaster down and hurried over to where she was standing. "What, what is it?!" he asked breathlessly.
"Look, between the trees, right near the lake. Arnold, I think it's the bed and breakfast!" Phoebe squealed happily, turning to Arnold with a large smile. She saw his eyes, behind his glasses, widen in shock, and then his own mouth tilt upwards into a huge grin that soon spread from ear to ear. He turned joyously to Phoebe.
"It is the bed and breakfast. It has to be! Phoebe, we found it!" And before Phoebe could brace herself for it, Arnold leapt over to her and pulled her into a tight hug. He released her almost immediately, looking suddenly flustered. Phoebe felt her face growing red.
"Um..." she squeaked. "Do you - do you want to go out now and walk up to it?"
"Er.. Yes, obviously..." Arnold seemed to be regaining a hold on himself. "Come on, before everyone else thinks we've been eaten into a bear."
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The pillow felt so soft beneath her cheek, the space were her arms lay loosely in front of her very warm. The sunlight that must have been streaming through the window above was shining red through her eyelids. Dorothy Ann moaned and shifted slightly. Her eyelids felt so heavy.. Where was she? Wait a moment..
Her eyes snapped open. This wasn't her room, it was the bed and breakfast. Dorothy Ann frowned. And.. where was Carlos..? He had been right here before she had drifted off to sleep. Holding her close to his chest so she could breathe in that wonderful soapy smell of a freshly showered Carlos. But now he was gone.
Dorothy Ann sat up, squinting at the bright light streaming through the cracks in the curtains. "Carlos?" she asked, her voice hoarse. Where had he - ?
A tinkle of china and a muttered 'shit' answered her question from the hallway outside. DA threw back the heavy comforter and slid out of the high bed.
"Carlos?" she asked again, padding across the soft carpeting with her bare feet towards the door. It was slightly open and DA peered through it into the hallway to see what Carlos had been up to.
Her gaze first on the floor, she spotted a shattered glass cup lying on the wood surrounded by a pool of what looked like orange juice. Carlos was standing next to it, a tray in his hands, with more dishes precariously close to tipping over in the same fashion the orange juice jug had just a few seconds before.
Dorothy Ann suppressed a laugh and hurried over to help him before anything else broke.
"I wanted to surprise you..." Carlos said, sounding slightly sheepish and looking down at the spill as DA took the tray from his hands.
"Oh you definitely surprised me," DA said quickly. "Here, I'll just take this to the bedroom and - "
"I'll get some paper towels from downstairs," Carlos said. He began to take off towards the direction of the stairs, but suddenly stopped, and turned back to give Dorothy Ann another kiss. It surprised her so much this time that she promptly dropped the tray and jumped back.
"Ah!" Carlos jumped back as well as the teapot crashed over his bare foot. "DA!"
"You surprised me!" DA said. "What sort of reaction were you expecting? You just jumped out of nowhere, I thought you were leaving!"
"Fine, I won't do it again," Carlos said, clutching his left foot and trying to balance on the other.
"I didn't say that," DA snapped.
Carlos smirked. "Knew you couldn't resist my charms. I'll go get some paper towels." He turned his back and headed back towards the staircase. "Enjoy your breakfast."
Dorothy Ann looked down at the floor where the orange juice was now mixing with the scrambled eggs and shook her head, but couldn't surpress a grin.
Last chapter will be up ASAP. Thanks for your patience.
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