The Start of a New Adventure - Part 2

Friday 7:30 AM – Ravers Manor - Azure Rocks

"You're really not coming with us?" she asked her cousin Logan.

Logan nodded and said. "Wouldn't look good for the Vice-President of the student council to skip school for an early spring break."

Heather squinted her eyes and looked at Logan for a moment before she slapped his shoulder. "You and Charlie aren't going on a 'boys only trip', you two found a couple of sluts to bang!" Logan chuckled and rolled his eyes. "You get to have fun but I have to get stuck with Kurt! It's not fair!"

Logan laughed out loud now "Yea! laugh it off buster!" Heather fumed at her cousin. "Can't you take Kurt with you? Can't those sluts have a friend for Kurt?"

"Sorry Heather, but it's really not what you think," Logan said. Seeing the dejected look on her face he added. Why don't you and Kurt come with us."

Heather shook her head in disagreement. "I'd still be stuck with Kurt and without my friend and with your slutty dates. Sorry." She paused for a moment before asking her cousin "You sure you don't want to join us later?"

Logan shook his head and said "You shouldn't go either. You know it's Bishop's trip. You shouldn't be intruding on it."

"It's Ashley's cabin too." Heather said "She has as much right to go there and take her own friends too." but Logan just shrugged and shook his head disapprovingly.

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Heather reached up and planted a goodbye kiss on the lips of Father, her Uncle Daniel and her Aunts Audrey, Sophia, and Christine, and finally her Mother. It was a long-standing custom in her family to give a small chaste kiss on the lips. Maybe it was a small part of the myth surrounding her family but he really didn't care about what was said. Saving Logan for last she let her lips linger just a little more than they should, just to tease him a bit more before scamping down the entrance to her car. Back on the stairs, The Ravers shared a brief knowing look making sure they all caught sight of her antics.

Kurt loaded his and Heather's travel bag into the backseat of Heather's blue sports car after packing her two suitcases and a cosmetic box into the tiny truck.

"You know we're only going for a week, right?" he asked her. "Do you really need all this?"

"Hey, a girl has to be prepared for anything." Heather snapped.

"Whoa! Take it, easy honey. Don't bite my head off." Kurt said raising his hands in the air. His voice changed to one of sincere concern for his cousin. "Everything alright, something I can help you out with ooorrrr is it... rag time?" he smirked at the last comment.

"NO! It is not my time yet. Won't be at least until we're back." she said her blue eyes blazing at him. 'Son of a bitch!' she thought 'How the hell does he always get me to reveal that stuff.'

"So, what’s bugging you?" Kurt asked her. "Your boyfriend not coming, missing out on some TLC?" he softly added the last part. "Anything I can help you with," he said winking at her.

Heather huffed as she sat in the car. She got along ok with her cousin Kurt, not as well as she did with Logan, she got along a lot better with Logan, A LOT BETTER. Kurt had a way of pushing her buttons right to the edge of making her explode only to smooth it out at the end. And yet, somehow, Kurt always managed to get her to talk.

"This whole trip sucks" she whined handing the keys over to Kurt for him to drive.

"Why? What's wrong?"

"I broke up with my last boyfriend last month, we can't use our cabin because Dad is using it all week but we can't go along with him, god knows why, Logan suddenly decided he want to go off with 'just the guys', and half my friends have 'other plans'. It all sucks."

"Well look on the bright side, your best friends are coming, nobody there is a stranger and you got the most handsome me to keep you company." He wiggled his eyebrows. "I tell some wickedly funny jokes you know."

Heather playfully punched his shoulder and laughed. He was right it wasn't all that bad. Her best friends Ashley and Victoria were going to be there with Madison, the new recruit to the squad, and there was.... Zack, one of the few boys that seemed immune to her teasing, not counting that time last year just before he broke up with Lisa.

"So, which one of your friends can I make a move on first?" Kurt asked, and Heather instantly regretted not taking up Logan's offer to go with him.

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Friday 7:00 AM – Cole Residence - Azure Rocks

Brandon Cole and his best friend Trent Thorton finally finished loading his SUV with all their stuff and closed the back door. Sitting in the back seat was Ashley Woodsen, Brandon's girlfriend, her friend Victoria Walker and Brandon's sister Madison.

"Dud this week is going to be so fucking great!" Brandon said "and the emphasis is on Fucking!" he pumping his fist in the air after closing the hatch and making sure the girls didn't see him.

"Yea, speak for yourself" Trent answered him, happy that his friend finally decided to get a steady girlfriend and stop banging anyone of the groupies that hung around the team. He was even more impressed that he managed to get one of the Cheerleaders.

"Hey don't get down." Brandon said "I got the hunch Ashley wants to set you up with one of her friends. Maybe we could, you know, hang out together, double date, maybe a bit more."

"You really think I could score with one of those beauties?" he asked.

"Look if I could get Ashley after all our history, then yea you could totally get one of them. You’re a great guy, much better than I am."

Has Brandon started up the SUV and pulled out to the road to start their two-hour trip he marveled at his good fortune. He was going to spend a whole week with his girlfriend, with no parents to sneak around to have sex with her. 'And if I'm really lucky maybe some fun with her friends' he thought 'Dylan always says the cheerleaders are all easy sluts, Trent and I could have some real fun times this week.' Brandon completely overlooked the fact that by taking Ashley's cherry he basically disproved his old friend’s theory. Even so... When he remembered Dylan's comments about the cheerleaders... something tugged at the back of his mind that made him feel uneasy.

Trent was happy to come along. He felt honored to be invited and even though he had known Brandon for just a few years he already felt pretty close to him and shared a little of his protective nature with Madison, He felt much the same with his own little sister, especially when that creep Dylan was around. He was actually surprised that Brandon had thought about inviting him instead of Dylan. That was one strange friendship Trent and the other football players didn't really understand, but then again childhood friendships were weird sometimes. He thought it was a good sign that Brandon saw less and less of Dylan over time and spent more time with Trent and the other football players.

Ashley felt like she was in Seventh Heaven. A week with the boy she loved, making love to him without having to sneak around her parents, or rushing it before they came home. It was like going on a honeymoon and haveing her best friends with her. She had been dreaming of this trip ever since she and Brandon made it official. Not having to sneak around her parents, not having to rush the sex, and being able to sleep and wake up together was like living a dream.

Ever the matchmaker, Ashley was also thinking about if she could hook up Madison or Victoria with Trent maybe even Heather if she decided to lower and standards and date someone her own age. She wished Brandon had brought another one of his friends so she could pair them up with the girls, but her mom had told her she was already abusing her position by bringing in too many people to what was, originally, Zack's idea of a trip. She knew her mom was right but... Anyway, she was also worried about Victoria, she was still so depressed and moping around about losing Dustin. She hoped that hooking up with someone or at least talking with someone else would help her get over Dustin and move on. The only thing missing was Logan, she knew she could count on Logan to help her work the boy angle while she worked on the girls to pair them up, but he just wasn't here. 'Oh well, maybe Heather or Brandon can help with the boys.' she thought.

Madison was pissed at her brother and father for forcing her to come along. She knew why they wanted her here. If she was with Brandon she couldn't hang out with her other friends and, god forbid it, meet a boy. 'They want me to be a virgin till I get married, but the hypocrites bang every girl they can.' remembering Brandon's string of groupies. She scoffed inside, 'They still think I'm a virgin haha, stupid cavemen,' she thought of both her father and brother. Madison thought that joining the cheerleader squad would help her meet more guys since Brandon couldn't exactly piss off the entire football team but they all seemed to take her in like the team mascot, nice, friendly, protective to her (which sometimes she appreciated) but none of them ever asked her out on a date.

Well, they thought she wouldn't meet anyone out here in the middle of nowhere, but, Gavin and Zack were coming along and she was finally going to get one or the other now that Lisa gave her the green light to pursue Zack, and Gavin. 'But if I really want to get even and screw him over, what better way than to fuck Trent right in front of Brandon, maybe even with... Yeah something like that would teach him a few things.' she thought to herself, and on that same page 'plus he is kinda cute… wonder if it true that black dudes are really hung like a horse. Vickers wasn't.'

Victoria was more than happy to go on a mini-vacation. She pulled out her phone and started making a video blog of the trip, she would cut and edit it later, but it was good practice for her to know what could be done as a reporter. Not that she wanted to be a reporter, she wanted to be the face of the news, the next Rachel Maddow or Erin Andrews. Video Journalism was the future and she wanted to add that to her parent’s newspaper. She was also relieved that they would be far out and away from everything and maybe, maybe if she were away from everything, she could think things out and start to move on from her relationship with Dustin. And also, maybe she could get away from the feeling that someone's eyes were always on her. It had started back in December when they went shopping at the mall. She just couldn't get over the feeling that she was being watched, that someone was stalking her. The girls all said she was being paranoid, that she was just missing Dustin, but she knew, she knew someone was following her and her friends, she just couldn't find out who it was. She hoped that by coming on this trip she could get away from that horrible sensation.

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Somewhere close to the Cabin.

Peter Zander, Hannah Woodsen, and Taylor Bishop finally turned off the dirt road and onto the blacktop for the final stretch on their trip to the cabin to join the kids. Since the cabin was so far away from where they were studying up at Green Hills College, a 6-hour car ride was out of the question. They had taken an early flight from Green Hills to Earhardt Ridge, a large town about an hour east from the Cabin. After renting the SUV he was driving, they bought some extra supplies they would need for themselves since their appearance was supposed to be a surprise. To cut down on their travel time, Peter had driven through some back roads, more like service roads used by utility companies and the rangers to make it to the cabin at least an hour before the kid arrived.

Once back on the smooth blacktop Taylor, in the passenger seat, pushed her seat back, kicked off her sandals, and put her bare feet on the dashboard. Peter couldn't help himself and he let his eyes admire her bare feet and her long well-toned legs. He didn't stop himself there and glanced again at what else she was wearing, a pair of denim shorts that hugged her hips and a tight tank top with a deep neckline. He knew she was stressed out from studying so much. Hannah would say it was because she hadn't had sex in the last few months after breaking up with her last boyfriend.

He caught the relaxing sigh from Taylor and was glad to see her let loose and unwind. They rarely got a chance to see her like this and it was refreshing. She was always so much in control of herself, something that was mirrored in the careful way she always dressed, tasteful and elegant with just a touch of sensuality.

Something that was almost the exact opposite of the person currently sitting right behind him and had a finger running lazy circles on his shoulder and neck, his other childhood friend and ex-girlfriend, Hannah. Hannah had gone with the Barbie look today. She wore low-heeled sandals like Taylor, Daisy Duke cut-off shorts that showed some of her ass cheeks when she bent over, and a hot pink T-shirt. The T-shirt had a black silhouette of a naked woman with a devil's tail and horns and angels wings and halo. Written next to it said 69% Angel right across her breast.

"Finally!" All those bumps were starting to hurt these puppies." Hannah exclaimed cupping her breast with both hands. He sensed her shift and lean against the doorframe and stretch her legs across the back seat.

"That's what the bra is for," Taylor murmured with her closed eyes from where she sat next to him.

"Yea but then..." Hannah started to say and then stopped herself when she saw Peter look at her in the rearview mirror. Peter saw her wink at him and tilt her head down to Taylor. "...Yea your right, better to use a bra next time." Peter got curious and glanced down at Taylor and saw the frills of her lacey bra poking out from her tank top and got a good view of her cleavage. When he did so he heard Hannah chuckle behind him and he knew, she made him look. He just sighed 'she did it again.'