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.
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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