(Part 01)
Downshire is a relatively small English county but like a pocket battleship it packs a lot in, a short but beautiful coastline, a channel port, the Ancient forests of Dancingdean and Pepperstock, the craggy ridges and manmade lakes of the Pepperstock Hills National Park, the rolling hills of the Downshire Downs, the beautiful Finchbottom Vale and farm land as far as the eye can see from the Trotwood’s and the Grace’s in the south to the home of the Downshire Light infantry, Nettlefield, and their affluent neighbour’s, Roespring and Tipton in the north but our story begins considerably further south in the Finchbottom Vale although the players in this tale come from every corner of the county.
A group of University friends were camping at the Eastern end of the Finchbottom Vale, on the Maxlins camp site in Sharpinghead that was once a working railway station before it fell afoul of Dr Beeching and his draconian cuts.
The campsite was attached to Maxlins Holiday Camp and although the campgrounds were nothing to do with Maxlins, all those attending did have day passes to use some of the amenities.
They were just spending a week relaxing before they returned to Abbottsford University for their 3rd year.
One of them was Sean Hallows who had gone to Maxlins with his long term girlfriend Daisy.
He was a rather ordinary looking lad, a bit of a bean pole with scruffy blonde hair and a bad complexion, the only remarkable thing about him was his heart.
He had to return to his tent one morning after breakfast because he had forgotten his phone.
“Get my sunnies while youre there” his girlfriend Daisy said
“Ok” he retorted and set off at pace.
They were about ten minutes walk frrom the food hall but with his great long strides he did it in five and he went to Daisy’s tent first and went inside without hesitation as he knew where she kept her sun glasses.
But as soon as he got inside he stopped dead in his tracks as her best friend Katie Bell was still in the tent, though not still in her sleeping bag, in fact she wasn’t in very much at all really.
She was kneeling down, facing the flaps, pulling a T-shirt over her head, apart from that she was only wearing her underwear.
Sean stood motionless by the opening spellbound by the vision of the girl he had been in love with for almost a year.
She was a big Ginger Amazon of a girl almost as tall as he was, long limbed, busty and beautiful, well he certainly thought so, which was why when he came upon her in a state of near undress he couldn’t take his eyes off her, and there was a lot of her to look at.
Katie hadn’t noticed him at first as her long ginger locks had fallen across her face but when she did she made no attempt to cover herself and chose instead to glare at him.
In utter embarassment and uttering appologies he retreated to his own tent red faced but she pursued him and as it was her spectacular nakedness that had caused his blushing she quizzed him over his peeping when he all but confessed the truth to her about his love of her and then they lay in his tent and shared a kiss that they had both longed for over the previous year.
The following couple of days there was a little awkwardness between them, but not because they felt guilty for what they did, the kiss was electrifying, so the reason for the awkwardness was simply that they wanted to do it again although neither of them actualy knew how the other one felt.
(Part 02)
On the third day most of the group were going on a coach trip to Pepperstock Castle for the day, but the night before Sean tripped over a guy rope on the way back from the pub and twisted his ankle, so he cried off and said he was going rest it for the day.
Daisy gave him a goody bag, containg a sandwich, crisps and a bottle of water then she kissed him good bye in the tent and told him to be good.
But Katie was standing behind Daisy and as he caught her gaze his eyes betrayed his thoughts.
Katie wasn’t going on the trip to Pepperstock Castle because she and a girl called India were driving over to Sharpington instead.
Katie was originally from Sharpington and still had family in the town so she had planned to spend the day visiting them while India was meeting up with a girl she’d met the night before.
Katie knew in the second that she made eye contact with Sean that he wanted to share a kiss with the ginger amazon again, so as soon as she dropped India by the pier she drove back to Sharpinghead again, she could always spend the evening with her family instead.
As soon as Daisy and the group left Sean limped over to the shower block and had a long refreshing shower and tried to think of how he was going to spend the day on his own.
He was really dissapointed that Ginger Katie wasnt going to be spending the day with him or he with her.
He returned showered and shaved to his tent and got himself ready and then he had an idea of what to do.
Katie got back to Maxlin’s camp site in double quick time and after parking the car she stopped at the washrooms to freshen up, applied make up and perfume and made her way to Seans tent.
She took a deep breath before she burst in through the flaps and said
“Surprise!”
But there was no one there, the tent was empty.
“Bollocks” she exclaimed and then she muttered under her breath as she trudged back towards her own tent
“I drive like a mad thing to get back here and no snog, I could be having tea and cake with my Aunt and not getting a snog, I didn’t need to drive all this way”
Sean was at that moment sitting at a picnic table where he had eaten his crisps and sandwich and he saw Katie as she bounded along towards his tent.
He saw her enthusiastically enter his tent and then exit again and trudge forlornly towards her own.
So he stood up and limped after her as she went sulkily to her own tent and caught up with her just before she entered.
“This is a nice surpise” he said “I wasn’t expecting to see you today”
“Oh its you” she said as she turned around while trying to hide her obvious delight
“Arn’t you pleased to see me?” he asked already knowing the answer
“I havent come back to see you” she lied
“Oh I thought you came back for another kiss” he said
“Well you were mistaken” she retorted
“So you don’t want a kiss then?”
“Not bothered one way or the other” she replied
“Well if you don’t want to then there was a cute blonde in the picnic area who seemed very interested” he said
“Don’t you dare” she squeeled and bundled him into the tent and on to her sleeping bag.
“If there’s any kisses on offer” she said as she half lay on top of him
“Then I’m having them all”
“They are very definitely on offer” he confirmed and her lips touched gently onto his.
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