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(!) "Jade and Andre have a bit of a squabble during breakfast, then in the deep forest Andre goes to do some bird watching, then enters Jade who breaks him from it. Sorry for the late updates."

Chapter 4: A New Friend?

Saturday

30 June 2012 6:00- Morning

Angeles National Forest/ Camping Grounds

"Am I mad? No. what for, I knew I wasn't going to need them anyway. Look let's just forget that. It's pretty early and I was thinking about doing some activities together. I actually printed out a paper with what to do when your out camping."

'We'll get to that later, after I made breakfast and sleep for a bit."

"But Jade you just slept, actually we both just woke up. You're making breakfast for both of us?"

"Oh no just for me. Why you wanted some breakfast?" she asked him.

"I would love s-"

"Make your own, what do I look like, you're girlfriend?"

Andre sighed heavily and sounded annoyed, he went back to the motor home to get some eggs and bacon, and some bread while he was it. Andre came back with a small grill and a frying pan. But jade didn't appear to be in the camp area, did she go out somewhere. Where ever she went Andre hoped she'd be ok. He got started on making breakfast for himself. He tore open a small hole in the bacon package and pulled four strips of bacon. Bacon had it's own oil so he would use that to cook his eggs.

Andre heard noises around him, he brought with him a knife just in case. He pulled it slowly out of it's leather sheath. He moved the pan away from the fire and stood up, he gripped the handle of his knife and lunged forward into the thick bush. What came running out was a doe, a female deer. He breathed a sigh of relief and went back to finish cooking his breakfast.

But back at the camp grounds Jade reappeared. Andre wondered where she wandered off to.

"You were gone for a while Jade? Is everything ok?"

"What? Oh yeah, it's just that you were taking so long I went o get my own eggs."

"Your own eggs? from where. Is there a farm out here, because I don't think there is."

"Hey you gonna eat those bacons? And that hero bread?" she chimed, Andre went over to turn the bacon but Jade took over and pretty much just took his stuff.

"I was gonna eat that Jade." Jade placed the half cooked bacon in her bread that she opened with her fingers, she cooked some eggs that she collected and cracked them. She placed them on the pan and watched them cook. Andre could do nothing but watch as his eggs and bacon were eaten."

"Mmm Mmm Mmm now that's good bacon. Andre you want some?"

"No." he answered sounding serious.

"Why Not?" Andre went into the forest, but not before taking some binocular with him and a notebook with him.

"Andre…where you going!?"

The Forest

With breakfast being skipped, Andre chose a good spot to do some Bird watching. Jade came and saw him sitting on a log which had fallen from a tree. She wasn't going to tell him that she felt sorry for taking his breakfast, but she did want to make it up to him. She was careful where she stepped at when walking down a small rocky mound. She took a seat next to Andre and watched him. He had his binoculars planted on his eyes which were looking at some bird which was making some calls from an unknown location.

Jade inched closer to him with some bread in her hand, Andre knew she was there but chose not to say anything. Jade wanted to say I'm sorry, but that wasn't her. Then, something caught her eye in the corner.

"Yo Andre check it out, one of your condoms landed over here."

Andre didn't respond to her, he opened up his notebook and began to draw the birds he saw. Jade hated being ignored, especially when Beck did it to her. She reached for his notebook and snatched it from him.

"Jade!"

"Talk to me or else say goodbye to your notebook."

"How you doing, are you enjoying this trip."

"Not good enough!" She shouted. "Jade I don't know what you want me to tell you-"

"Ok I'm sorry for taking your breakfast and throwing your condoms Andre!" Andre was surprised, shocked actually. Never has he heard Jade apologize, maybe to Beck but never to anyone else. Andre went up to her and grabbed the notebook from her hand.

"It's ok Jade, look I get it if your uncomfortable on this trip with me. I only want you to be you, the real you. Don't feel like you have to put up a front, it's just you and me out here; let's enjoy the natural world."

Jade nodded her head and smiled, she watched Andre open up his notebook to finish sketching the bird he was watching, but by the time he tried looking for the bird; it had flown away.

"Damn." Andre quietly said.

"What's wrong Andre?" Andre closed his notebook and looked at her, "The bird got away. It's ok though, it's not like I can't find another one."

Somewhere a few feet away from them was the sound of something, it didn't sound like no bird or no deer. Andre went to inspect the noise with Jade following close behind him. Andre took his knife out and gripped the handle just in case it was something much bigger. Pushing past some bushes and some narrow trees, Jade and Andre found something chubby and furry in a cage. To Jade it look like a fat mouse, she actually thought it was that so much she pulled her phone to take a picture of it.

"Jade what you doing?"

"Taking a picture of it, it's obviously the world's biggest rat caught in a trap."

"Jade I don't think it's a rat, let me pull out my phone and see what I can get from it. I got this app that identifies anything I take a picture of."

"Whatever, all I know is this gonna get me a couple of followers. Move so I can take a good picture of it." Jade shoved Andre as he waited for his phone to come up with results of the picture.

The Slap

Newest Update

"Just took a picture of the world's biggest rat while camping here in Angeles National Forest, Andre thinks its something else. I plan on keeping it as a pet." Mood Excited- :D

The Forest

"I got the result Jade, what this fat guy is a common Wombat. Wombats are native to Australia. How the hell one got here to the states is strange. Maybe it escaped from a zoo somewhere."

"Well wherever he came from, he's coming with us. C'mon help me unlock the cage."

"Jade that sounds like a really bad idea, he's in a cage for a reason. He could have rabies or could be wild." Andre really didn't want them getting hurt by some foreign animal.

"If you were In a tiny cage somewhere in a forest and I came across you, I would release you from it."

"Really Jade, you mean that?"

"Yeah, why not." Jade and Andre pulled on a the lock on the cage, their combined strength got the opening open. The wombat came walking out and stopped to turn to the people who freed it.

It went up to Jade and stood on it's small hind legs, it looked like it wanted to be picked up. Jade went for it and picked the chubby animal up. "See Andre, he's not wild, he's just really heavy. It feels like a really fat hairy baby."

"Just keep that thing away from Me Jade."

"Wait! take my picture with it Andre, I want Beck to see it." Andre placed his notebook and binoculars on the ground and took Jade's phone to take their picture. The wombat was unusually docile and tamed, it moved a bit but allowed Jade to hold it up by it's butt. Andre found the focus and snapped a picture.

(!) "Continued in The Next Chapter."