Jenna woke to the feeling of something hot and wet hitting her face. She jerked back as she saw the large dog that has taken up a seat next to her and had decided it would be hilarious to slobber all over her face. She groaned angrily and pushed the Great Dane's massive muzzle away, "Oh piss off".
She looked around at the burnt out fire pit, and a few other couriers who'd slept in front of the fire instead of drunkenly stumbling into their tents. Whenever they stopped off somewhere they took the opportunity to get hammered drunk, since they couldn't really drink much on the road, whenever they could it was party time.
Jenna grumbled as she pushed herself up off the ground and looked around at her friends I the early morning light. She wandered over to the lanky breaded Hispanic man who had fallen asleep on some pillows not far from her. She gently kicked the man, "Wake up asshole, we've got things to do".
The man grumbled and swore quietly at her, "Pendejo", he rubbed his eyes and looked up at her, "What time is it?".
Jenna shrugged and scratched her shoulder, "I dunno, Five-ish?".
Carl groaned and rolled back over, burying his face in the pillows, "Go back to sleep then, it's way to early for this shit".
Jenna smiled, Carl was one of her best friends, but getting him up in the morning was a hell of a task. She sighed, "We've got to start prepping for the leg up to Belgrade".
Carl rolled his eyes, "Then why don't you do that Jenna?".
Jenna smirked evilly and kicked him again, "Because, asshole, I need your help. Plus you're already awake so stop whining".
He sighed, finally defeated, "Fine, but I'm going to be grumpy and hard to deal with all morning because I've got a massive hangover".
Jenna stretched her arms as she turned towards the tents, "You're always grumpy asshole" she wandered over to her tent and rifled through her stuff, grabbing a warm jacket and wandering over to the tent next to hers. Ruffling the tent she received a groggy, "Oh fuck you".
Jenna chuckled, "C'mon Aaron, it was either me or Carl who had to wake you up, and you know he'd just gross you out with sex jokes until you came out of the tent". There was some grumbling and shuffling for a few moments before a large red headed man emerged from the tent, shaking himself off and rubbing a hand through his beard.
He gave Jenna an unimpressed look, "I will never not hate mornings".
Smiling at him she replied, "I know, they're not my favourite time either, but I've got some work for you".
Stretching Aaron yawned, "Yeah? We're talking extra work right" He grinned cheekily, "Work implies doing what I normally do, not also doing extra shit for you".
Jenna shoved him playfully as they wandered over to where Carl had just woken Rachel and Martin, "It does technically fall under your responsibility Aaron. We're bringing another person along with us, so I need you to buy some extra supplies for them".
He raised his eyebrows, "Another person?".
Jenna shrugged, "They're going to pay so I thought, why the hell not".
Aaron snorted, "Ok then, well if I'm buying for them are we talking man, woman or other in terms of sanitary and toiletries".
"Woman" Jenna responded, "Kinda cute too".
Aaron rolled his eyes, "I don't even wanna know Jenna, Carl's probably dying to chat with you about every attractive person in this entire town, so you to have fun".
Aaron wandered over to where Rachel was sitting, and after a few moments they left to secure the supplies for the next leg of their journey.
Jenna plonked herself down by Carl and Martin and grabbed a beer out of the cooler. Carl grinned evilly at her and leaned over, "So who's this lovely lady who'll be travelling with us?".
Jenna laughed, "Name's Ellie, she's that guard from when we first arrived, red hair, serious attitude".
Carl scratched his beard, "Yeah I remember she and her sexy friend came to have some sorta serious discussion last night right?"
"Yep that's her" Jenna nodded, "She's on some suicide mission to Vancouver, but she's willing to pay so I figure we take her as far as we go, drop her off with Carly's new group and let them deal with her from there".
Carl wiggled his eyebrows at her, "No plans to put the moves on her, eh?".
Jenna snorted, "Whatever Carl, I mean she's kinda hot, but she also hates me, and like I said, crazy suicide mission to Vancouver".
Carl grinned, "Never stopped you before. What was that girl from Kansas' name again? Annie, Amy..".
"Ainslie" Jenna sighed, "And she turned out to be a raging psychopath who tried to kill us".
Carl shrugged, "Well yeah, but she was hot and totally into you".
Jenna sighed dramatically, "You're ridiculous!" she said standing up, "I'm going to go find her and tell her the plan, you better have everyone up and getting organised by the time I get back".
Carl chuckled as she when, "Whatever man, 20 bucks says you tow hook up!".
Not turning around, Jenna flipped him the bird and left him chuckling by the fire pit.
Pendejo- means stupid. I don't really know any other Spanish insults so I went with that one.
Belgrade- a town north west of Jackson, home of Yellowstone international airport.
Author's note
Hey guys, I know it's been an eternity since I updated but I have a semi acceptable excuse. First off I got the plague and was bed ridden for about two weeks, then I had to catch up on school work and I had to do about four major presentations for my classes. Then I was on school holidays, but I have my yearly exams when school starts back up again so I've been frantically studying and making notes, as well as completing a big assignment. And then I started watching orphan black, it's not a great excuse but it's a great show, I recommend it, I watched both seasons in a week.
Anyway, I must thank my amazing beta Bluesky509, and I promise the chapters will get longer; I just have to get through the set up.
Thanks for reading!