Only minutes later, the coach pulled up at the edge of the field. The group saw Tom jump out of the coach and check his map several times before running his hand through his hair and he and Sam headed over towards them followed by Dixie and Fletch.
"Is this the right site?" Michael asked.
"Yep. I take it Mr Hanssen didn't want to splash the cash on this." Tom said jokily as he tried to lighten the atmosphere. However, he continued when no one was laughing. "Right, I'll get the tents out and the other group are probably still another hour away so I'd like you to set up their tents as well; they've managed to walk about 18 miles today." Tom joked as he turned around and headed for the coach, Sam followed as did Jac and Jonny. Jac went first because she was going to get her bag but there was no way that Jonny was going to let her carry the bag. Especially considering it was heavier than his.
"When do we get our prizes?" Jac asked. They were the first team so she wanted her prize, though she was expecting something crap anyway. She just wanted to rub it in the other team's faces.
"Not yet." Tom replied and he smirked when he saw Jac sulk like a child.
"How're you two feeling?" Sam asked to make conversation.
"Fine." Jac replied bluntly.
"Bit knackered but I'll live." Jonny joked. He went into the coach and got Jac's bag and heaved it onto his back.
Jac waited outside and Sam and Tom opened the bottom storage to get out their bags.
"Jesus Christ!" Tom exclaimed.
"What?" Jac asked worriedly.
"I knew theyd bring booze but I thought they'd make it a bit more discrete. Look." Tom pointed to the storage and Jac bent down to see the crates of beer, vodka, and coke.
"Well don't look at me." Jac joked as she put both hands on her bump.
"Not mine either." Jonny stated.
"Oi, who's the raging alcoholic who can't last one night without a drink?!" Tom shouted across the field as a joke. Michael, Sacha and Mo quickly walked over to the coach, leaving Zorsia with the pile of bags on the floor.
"Jonnnnny." Sacha moaned. Then he tutted at him. He was joking as he tried to blame it on him.
"I'm not drinking." Jonny stated which caused everyone to look at him in disbelief. "Honestly, I'm not." Jonny said truthfully. Firstly, he didn't want to make Jac the only one who wouldn't be drinking, and secondly, he didn't want to be walking with a hangover the next day.
"Right well, as long as me and Sam get a beer, you three had better start unloading." Tom joked. So Mo, Michael and Sacha all carried over the alcohol and put it on the ground sheet.
"I'll take your bag if you take the tents." Tom said as he picked up Sam's bag. "Jesus christ, have you got a tonne of bricks in here?" He joked.
"Haha." Sam replied sarcastically as they both headed over to the group.
"Right two man tent for you." Sam said as he she chucked one at fletch and Dixie. "One for you." She repeated as she handed one to Jonny. And she put the other two man down for herself and Tom.
"Right, there's a six man and a four man." Sam offered as she held the two tent bags out.
"Us three and Elliot'll have the four man." Mo said as she quickly grabbed the smaller bag and stood in front of Sacha and Michael.
"That leaves you and the others with the six man." Sam stated as she dropped the other bag in front of Zorsia. Even Sam and Tom appeared to have a grudge with her for shouting when they faced the bulls. It wasn't the fact that she did it. It was the fact that she showed no remorse and she wasn't apologising for her actions.
"Don't suppose you know how to put a tent up do you?" Fletch asked as he unzipped the tent bag and took out the instructions.
"We don't need them, we'll work it out somehow." Dixie stated optimistically as she snatched the instructions off of him and put them in her pocket.
"Right, what do we do first?" Fletch asked stupidly.
"I'd say taking it out of the bag would be a good start." Dixie joked.
"How about we put out tent up at an angle across the corner? Then you and Naylor can piss in peace behind it." Michael suggested jokily to Mo as he carried the tent bag across to a corner of the field. If they put it at an angle and left a space behind the tent, no one would be able to see them.
"What about Sam, Dixie, Zorsia and Gemma? And Mary Claire?" Sacha said. He always cared about others, though he wasn't really worried about Zorsia.
"Well they're gonna have a six man tent so they can do the same in another corner. I can't imagine Jac would like queuing to take a leak." Michael joked.
"Jonny read the instructions." Jac ordered as she stood there shaking her head at him. He was taking the tent out of the bags and, like Dixie, had put the instructions in his pocket.
"I know what I'm doing." Jonny stated as he laid the tent out flat. However the wind started blowing it away so he quickly ran after it.
"You could help." Jonny shouted.
"I could but I wouldn't want to exert myself." Jac joked. Jonny rolled his eyes and dragged the flat tent back next to the four man tent.
"We're not going that close." Jac stated.
"Sit." He ordered and Jac sat down on the tent on the floor to weigh it down whilst Jonny went around and pegged the base of the tent in the ground.
"Think of it this way, the closer we are to them, the warmer we'll be." Jonny joked.
"Jonny that is absolute bull." Jac stated.
"Oi, language." Jonny said.
"I said bull, that's not swearing." Jac stated. Jonny smiled. She said she's not swearing, that must mean that she had begun to watch her language because of the baby, not that her language was too poor anyway but he still found it cute.
"Jac." Mo shouted above the roaring wind that was blowing her damp, frizzy hair manic. It had mostly dried from the wind but it was still wet.
"What?" Jac shouted back as Jonny pulled her off of the tent and to her feet. He began putting the poles together whilst Jac walked over to Mo. Leaving the men to put up the tents.
"We're putting the tent like that so there's a bit of shelter behind it when you need to go to the toilet." Mo explained as she pointed to Michael and Sacha who were also putting the poles together.
"Alright, thanks." Jac replied and suddenly, the wind dropped so she was shouting for no reason.
"Jac, comes and give me a hand please." Jonny asked. Jac rolled her eyes, spun on her heel and walked over to Jonny to help him feed the poles into the slip.
The four man tent seemed quite large Mo though so she picked up the tent bag and realised that they were putting together the six man tent.
She smiled because they would have more room and she only hoped that the other team wouldn't realise. Though there was no fear of Zorsia checking. She was standing, still with the tent by her feet on her phone as the wind blew her hair manic.
"Tom.. What am I supposed to do regarding..." Sam trailed off as her and Tom began putting their tents up the corner near Dixie and Fletch. They were only five metres away from each other.
"Regarding?" Tom queried wondering why she hadn't finished her sentence.
"I'm on... How am I supposed to change my...?" Sam asked quietly, she trailed off again hoping Tom would get the message.
"Oh um... Just shoe me out of the tent and change your 'whatevers' in there when you need to. And about the toilet. We can put out tent right in the corner and there'll be a bit of privacy for you behind it. That's what the others seem to be doing." Tom explained.
"Okay." Sam replied slowly and quietly.
"Samantha Nicholls, you're not embarrassed are you?" Tom joked.
"Tom shut up." Sam muttered.
"You are as well; you're blushing!" Tom stated. He then realised that she truly was embarrassed and she was nearly mortified so he dropped the guy rope, walked up to her and kissed her on the lips.
Sam quickly broke into a smile. And pecked him back before she carried on with the tent.
"Is that all I get?" Tom shrieked.
"You'll get more later, if you're lucky." Sam joked as she pegged in the final guy rope tightly so the tent wouldn't be moved in the wind.
"Do whatever you want, just no sound effects! And might I add Sam, very good pegging." Fletch joked loudly. Sam then realised that he and possibly Dixie had heard their conversation and she blushed again. Tom saw her red cheeks.
"You should see her in bed fletch, she's amazing!" Tom joked to shut fletch up. "Go on, get in the tent and I'll bring out bags over." Tom suggested kindly. They were the first in the field to get their tents up so Sam unzipped the small two man tent, kicked her wet shoes off and slipped inside the tent.
"And that, is how you put up a tent!" Jonny proclaimed as he stared at the sea green two man tent.
"And that, is how you don't put up a tent." Jac joked as she looked over at Zorsia, still standing alone on her phone. Michael, Sacha and Mo had already put up their tent and were glad they were sharing their tent with Elliot, not her. Though they wished they had walked with him as well.
"We should probably help her." Sacha admitted.
"Well I ain't. She risked Jac and our baby girl's life." Jonny stated harshly which caused Jac to blush; he cared about her. Jac shuffled into the tent so she could try and warm up.
"C'mon Michael, this is cruel. She must he freezing." Sacha stated. He was freezing and he had been moving and putting a tent up. She had been stood in the same spot for almost half an hour on her phone.
"Mo, would you mind bringing our bags over while we help little miss bitchy please?" Michael asked.
"Yep sure." Mo replied. Sacha and Michael headed over to Zorsia.
"Listen, I'll go and get our bags. You stay here a minute okay?" Jonny said to Jac who had already gotten in the tent because she was freezing. Jac nodded and brought out her phone.
Jonny quickly caught up a Mo as they went to go and get their bags from the ground sheet.
"Listen, keep an eye on Jac tonight, it's gonna be freezing so you'll need to keep her warm." Mo warned Jonny.
"Any suggestions?"
"Sex?" Mo joked.
"Haha. Very funny Maureen." Jonny replied sarcastically.
"I dunno. If this rain holds off we'll probably have a fire soon to warm up. Just tell her to put layers on and she should be okay."
"Yeah well somehow, 'she should be okay' doesn't fill me with confidence Mo." Jonny said seriously as he put Jac's bag on his back. He picked up his own bag in one arm and he saw mo struggling with her own bag so he took hers as well, whilst she carried Sacha and Michael's.
Meanwhile...
"Zorsia, need a hand?" Michael asked bluntly as he squatted down and unzipped the bag. He realised that it said four man tent on it and decided that he didn't care if she was a bit squished during the night so he carried on and took the instructions out.
"Oh um. Sure." Zorsia huffed. Sacha couldn't believe that she wasn't even grateful for the help but he knew that he was doing a nice thing for when Gemma, Harry, Mary Claire, Edrward and Arthur arrived (they had already put up their tent which Elliot would sleep in.)
5:45pm
Jac and Jonny were unpacking their bedding in their cosy two man tent.
"I can't believe I fell for that." Jac admitted.
"Fell for what?" Jonny feigned innocence.
"You zipped both sleeping bags together and put them in the same bag. You said it was to save room and I fell for it." Jac said as she tried not to laugh.
"You want to sleep in the same sleeping bag with me, admit it Naylor." Jonny requested and Jac couldn't help but smile.
"I knew it!" Jonny exclaimed as he pushed Jac gently back on the sleeping bag, hovered above her using his arms for support and gave her a passionate kiss. The wind was blowing the tent about like mad but they were distracted by each other when finally familiar voice brought them out of their own little world.
"You guys wanna come and get your prizes?" Fletch asked from outside the closed tent.
Jac had forgotten about that so she pushed Jonny off of her, chucked her shoes on loosely and swiftly exited the tent, pushing a Fletch out of the way and headed for the coach were Sam and Tom were standing.
"That's the fastest I've seen her move all day." Jonny joked to fletch as he exited the tent and zipped it up behind him.
Mo, Michael and Sacha were already waiting there but Zorsia was not.
"What about Zorsia?" Michael queried.
"She doesn't want it, she said that, and I quote, 'the oaf staying with them lot can have it.'" Dixie stated. They all knew she meant Elliot.
"What're the prizes?" Jac asked as soon as she arrived.
"Prize number one." Tom said as he got a wooden cylinder from the coach and handed it to Jonny.
"Wow, a log." Jac said sarcastically.
"Actually, it's made of certain materials so it'll burn for up to ten hours; you don't need to go and collect firewood now." Tom explained. "Oh and you'll need these." He added as he gave Michael a box of matches.
"Prize number two." Sam said as she got something else from the coach. "Six hot chocolates with marshmallows and skewers to warm you all up." Sam explained as she gave the carrier bag to Mo.
It had six of the cups already filled with galaxy hot chocolate powder that you only needed hot water for (that they could heat on the Trangia or fire) with mini marshmallows in the lid, a pack of wooden skewers and two bags of large marshmallows.
"Okay, now I'm happy." Jac said as she pulled the carrier bag off of Mo and held it firmly in her hands.
"And prize number three." Tom said as he pushed the button to open the storage on the coach. "You've got to have something to sit on round the fire haven't you?" Tom joked as he revealed six large beanbags. "And don't worry about getting them wet on the ground, they're only cheap crappy ones." He added.
"Jonny get mine." Jac ordered as she quickly scurried away with the carrier bag.
"She's like a petulant child. One minute she's hyper active the next minute she's more pissed off than that bull earlier." Jonny joked as he grabbed two of the dark blue bean bags and headed back to the tent.
Jonny put the two bean bags down near a patch that hardly had any grass on it where there had obviously been a fire before. The land was still wet from the earlier rain so Jonny put the log down on the bean bag to stop if from getting wet. Jac came out of the tent with the Trangia, two bowls, two forks, a black plastic spoon and ingredients for dinner (pasta and a jar of sauce.) in a bag.
"Where's the hot chocolate bag?" Jonny asked.
"I'm keeping it safe." Jac replied and Jonny smirked. She had probably hidden it in the tent. "Don't forget you're cooking dinner." Jac stated as she gave Jonny the things she had carried out in a bag.
"Why?" Jonny shrieked.
"You said if I sung earlier, you'd cook. And I sung so you have to cook." Jac explained.
"Oh yeah..." Jonny remembered. "Sacha have you finished with that newspaper yet?" Jonny asked.
"Um, yeah why?"
"Can I have it to put under the log so it doesn't get wet before it burns?" Jonny asked.
"Yeah sure." Sacha replied. He put his bean bag down next to Jac and Jonny's and went to get the newspaper from his tent.
Meanwhile, Sam and Tom walked back to their tent. Once in there, Tom laid down on the double sleeping bag and waited for Sam to join him. She quickly took two ibuprofen and laid next to him and they both laid on their side so they were facing each other.
"You look cold." Tom lied.
"Really?" Sam queried. She didn't feel too cold. She was in the coach when it rained so she wasn't wet. And she had plenty of layers on.
"No I just wanted an excuse to warm you up." Tom admitted as he climbed on top of her and began kissing her.
"I can't believe I fell for that." Sam stated as she pulled away from his lips.
"No, but I bet you're glad you did." Tom joked as he leant in again. He didn't realise that he was putting a bit of pressure on Sam's abdomen which was still aching as she was waiting for the ibuprofen to start working.
Sam pulled away from his lips once again.
"Tom get off, please." Sam pleaded as she brought a hand to her lower abdomen. Tom felt movement and he looked down to see her hand pressed on her waist band of her leggings.
"Sorry." Tom said as he quickly slid off of her. "You okay?"
"Fine, just give it a minute for the painkillers to kick in." Sam said as she turned on her side to face away from Tom hoping he would do what he normally did; gently rub her stomach to relieve the pain caused by menstrual cramps.
Sam smiled as Tom slipped his arms around her hips, under her shirt and then he softly palpated her lower abdomen.
"Thanks." Sam whispered was she closed her eyes. She could feel the pain slowly fading away at the touch of his warm, soft hands on her flat stomach.
"You'll be able to repay me in a few days." Tom joked quietly as he kissed Sam's neck.
Half an hour later, Jonny had made a surprisingly edible meal for himself and Jac. And they were now sitting in front of the burning log, warming up with their hot chocolates with the mini marshmallows on top on their bean bags.
It was almost pitch black and the fire was illuminating the circle.
Sacha, Michael and Mo had eaten their dinner too and they had all started on the beer. They were only on their third one and they had taken Harry and Mary Claire's alcohol over to Zorsia's tent earlier so they didn't get mixed up. The vodka and coke wasn't theirs, they only had beers. Michael leant down in the carrier bag and got out the remaining four hot chocolate cups.
"Here." Michael said as he tossed them at Jonny. "You two can have these aswell. We've got these." Michael stated as she picked up his bottle of beer. He knew Jac, being incredibly skinny even with the bump, would feel the cold the worst. He also knew that she wouldn't want to make a fuss, well normally she wouldn't but after her... Entertaining, quotes of the day he wasn't sure, that she wouldn't say if she was cold or not. Especially not in the presence of people like Elliot who were due to arrive soon.
"Thanks." Jonny replied. He chucked them toward his tent and they successfully went inside. He knew that would help him warm Jac up later and he could save two for in the morning too. They weren't too cold because the fire was working and they sat there relaxing waiting for group two to arrive.
"Hold this please." Jac said as she handed Jonny her empty hot chocolate and with great difficulty, stood up from the beanbag.
"Where're you going?" He asked.
"Toilet. And don't you dare look." Jac threatened as she walked behind the six man tent.
"Can you hear water trickling?" Jonny joked after she had been gone twenty seconds.
"Shut up Maconie." Jac snapped.
"I need a pee but I don't want to break the seal." Mo joked. She knew that because she was drinking, once she started peeing she wouldn't stop and that it was easier for the men to take a leak than it was for her in the field.
"Well, I'm breaking the seal. See ya." Michael said as he got up
Sam got back in her and Tom's tent after going behind it to go to the toilet. Their tent was illuminated by a LED lantern in the middle of it.
"Tom you know you said to shoe you out of the tent when..." Sam trailed off as she got something from the bottom of her bag and put it in her pocket.
"Oh yep. I'll go and wait by the gate with a torch, the second group should be here any minute now." Tom said as he grabbed the torch. He pecked Sam on the forehead and gave her a smile before leaving her to it.
"Jeff... Jeffrey... Will you shut up! I don't care about the bloody football!... Yep... See you tomorrow... Bye" Dixie shouted down the phone much to Fletch's amusement in their tent.
"You two sound like an old married couple. Oh wait-" fletch joked which made Dixie smirk.
"He's useless. He can't even cook a flippin' ready meal without assistance. You know what I might give holby control a ring and tell them they need a fire service at our house." Dixie joked.
"Isn't it weird being married to someone you don't love?" Fletch asked.
"Not really, it's just been so long I've gotten used to it. And it wasn't really weird in the first place; we're more like best friends than husband and wife." Dixie explained.
Jonny, Sacha, Michael and Mo were sitting by the fire when they suddenly heard a woman scream.
"Jac? Jac?" Jonny shouted as she flew off of his beanbag and ran around the back of the tent with his torch. He hadn't turned it on but Jac quickly found his arms and Jonny could feel her trembling. Luckily, she was decent.
"There's somebody there." Jac whispered as she held onto Jonny's arm tightly. Jonny fiddled about before he managed to turn the torch on to reveal a highland cow, similar to the one from earlier with long horns looking at them from the other side of the fence.
"It's just a cow Jac." Jonny said softly as he wrapped his arms around her and pulled her into a tight hug. He would've joked about it but the way she was shaking made him realise that she was genuinely petrified.
"Everything alright?" Sacha asked cautiously. He didn't go round the corner for fear of catching Jac in an undecent state of dress because she had gone round there to empty her bladder- for the umpteenth time that day.
"Fine, just a visitor came to say hello." Jonny joked quietly. Jac wasn't moving so Jonny out his hands on her arms and guided her back around to the fire. He sat her down on her bean bags and sat next to her on his one.
"What kind of visitor? You look like you've seen a Ghost." Mo stated.
"Nothing, it's gone now." Jonny stated, knowing that Mo had said she needed to go to the toilet earlier. He wanted her to crap herself (hopefully not literally) if she saw it aswell.
"You sure?" Mo asked as she looked at Jac. She couldn't see properly because the light of the fire was lighting everyone's face up but she was sure that Jac was very pale.
"Yep, she's fine." Jonny stated as he slipped his arm around Jac's shoulders, he knew she needed to calm down and she wouldn't want to talk just yet.
"Right well I've gotta break the seal or I'm gonna wet myself." Mo stated as she got up and went round the back of the tent.
Jonny squinted his eyes in anticipation waiting for Mo to see the cow, but she didn't take a torch with her so she didn't see it right away.
Mo was just pulling her leggings up when she felt a warm, moist breath go down her neck. Mo screamed and ran over to Sacha and jumped on his lap.
"Jesus Christ Mo!" Sacha exclaimed and Jac and Jonny sat there laughing hysterically; Jonny was pleased that it had cheered Jac up.
"Sorry, am I missing something here?" Michael asked.
"There's one of those cows out there on the other side of the fence." Jonny replied once he had calmed down.
"A cow? Why didn't you tell me you moron?" Mo moaned as she got off of Sacha's lap, hit Jonny round the back of the head and plonked herself back on her beanbag.
"Are you okay now?" Jonny whispered into Jac's ear. She had stopped shaking, though she was still rather quiet. Jac smiled, turned her neck and replied by kissing Jonny on the lips.
"Ugh." Michael joked as he took another sip of beer.
Once Sam had changed, she slipped her shoes back on and walked across the field to join Tom by the gate. It was fairly dark but he had his torch on.
"You alright?" Tom asked kindly.
"Stop asking me that! I'm fine." Sam protested.
"Alright, sorry. I just hope this group hurry up because all I'm looking forward to is cuddling up with you in the sleeping bag to keep each other warm." Tom joked as he brushed a bit of hair out of Sam's face. Sam put her hand around his and turned the torch off. Tom leant in and kissed Sam on the lips.
They were kissing passionately by the time they had a torch shining at them.
"What the?" Sam began as she tried to shield her eyes from the light.
"Finally! I told you I could get us here." A voice that could only belong to Mary Claire announced.
Extra long update because I probably won't update until tomorrow night. I haven't got any more chapters written in advance but I'm going to start writing the next one now. I've got ideas for the rest of the night but I haven't got any for the next day (morning, the trek or the journey home in the coach) so please can you give me some ideas :)
Thanks for reading, please review x