It had always been a tradition to take his son and his buddies camping during the summer.
It was fun, showing them the ways of the wild, teaching them to become men.
And then the boys got interested in girls: ah well, nothing ever stays simple, doesn't it?
Cautionary: romance, only heterosexual, no kinky stuff, and any sexual activity is between those over 18.
In a Forest Glade
Prelude
Davin's wife had been a city girl born and bred. Settling down in the suburbs, instead of in the inner city, had been a big concession for her. He himself would have preferred a home in the country side, but hey, he loved her, so he made a concession too. Then they got Mike, and when the boy started primary school Davin decided it was time to introduce his son to the great outdoors he himself grew up in. From then on he had organized camping trips into the mountains, once every summer.
His wife hadn't been keen on joining them, which wasn't much of a surprise, but she hadn't minded for the two of them to enjoy a couple weeks of 'man' time either. That first trip he had introduced Mike to the skills his own father had taught him when he was his age; fishing, hunting, tracking, living off the land in general, and young Mike had loved all of it. The third summer they planned this a couple of his friends from school had wanted to go with them. So he had contacted their parents, who had turned out to be very keen to have someone looking after their kids for a couple of weeks, sparing them from having to send their boys to summer camp.
That third summer their little camping group had grown from two to four, and it would stay like that all through primary school, except for the final year. That last year turned into the worst year of his life, because it was the year he lost his wife in a car accident. That year there hadn't been a camping trip. Then high school had come, and with his primary school friends still with him, and with the worst grief processed, they had simply picked up where they had left off two years before. A few more fun camping summers passed, and then there had been this little hiccup...
Gearing Up
Not long after the beginning of the school year. as 18 year olds are wont to do, Mike had got himself a girlfriend, a dream of a girl named Kim, short for Kimberley. It was a quiet evening, about a month before the summer holiday, and she was upstairs with Mike, as she had been so many times before that year. Officially the two of them were doing homework in his room together, yeah right... He had been watching the news when she came into the living room, alone. He hadn't noticed her before she started speaking. "Hi Mr Trevena," she said, "We.., I.., we would like to go camping with you this summer, with you and Mike and the other boys I mean."
She had surprised him, both with her sudden appearance and with her request, and he just stared at her for a moment, taking in her lovely shoulder length blonde curls, her deep turquoise eyes, and her stunningly beautiful face. He had been wondering how his just average looking son had managed to hook up with her from the first time he ever laid eyes on her about half a year earlier. "Who's we?" he asked in return. And so he found out that Mike's buddies, apparently, had also got themselves girlfriends, and that these girlfriends didn't want to be left behind when their boyfriends went camping for three weeks that summer either.
Now Davin certainly understood their wish, but he sure as hell wasn't going to take responsibility for three teenage girls. He told Kim that if she and the other two girls wanted to come along they needed to coerce one of their mothers into chaperoning them for three weeks. He sort of expected that to be the last he ever heard of it, but to his surprise, a couple of weeks later, and just a good week before the planned camping trip, he got a phone call from this nice sounding woman. She turned out to be Samantha Bradford, the mother of Kim.
Samantha told him that, because he didn't want to take the girls along without their own supervisor, something she absolutely understood, her daughter had been nagging her to come along with them for weeks. So if it was okay with him, she and the girls would be accompanying them on their camping trip.
***
Damn!
was the first thought that crossed Davin's mind. He really hadn't expected any of these suburban housewives to be willing to risk the great outdoors, and to be honest, he wasn't looking forward to introducing one to those great outdoors either. He could already hear the nagging about the missing amenities. He had sort of promised Kim though, that she and the other girls could join them on their trip if they managed to get one of their mothers to join them.
Double damn!
But he was a man of his word... Not all was yet lost though, he realized.
He had always considered taking a bunch of kids out into the great outdoors a serious responsibility, so before agreeing to anything he needed to ascertain this mom was up to the task, now didn't he? "You do realize there isn't going to be a bathroom, don't you?" he started off with. There was laughing at the other end of the line, fuck she had a nice laugh. She then told him she used to go camping with her parents a lot when she was a kid herself, and also went a couple of times with Kim when her daughter was still in primary school. So while she hadn't been camping recently, she certainly wasn't a novice where the subject was concerned.
With that obstacle out of the way he started her on the practical stuff. He told her that while tents and cooking gear wouldn't be a problem, she and the girls would need to supply their own personal camping gear, and also their own transportation. "No problem," was the short answer he got.
Yeah right, he thought, but your MPV isn't going to climb those mountain trails.
So he explained to her that she would be needing a serious four wheel drive vehicle to get where they were going, again expecting for that to be the end of it,
"A Ranger double cab 4x4 serious enough?" the reply came.
In a suburb where the majority of dads drove some posh German four door saloon, and the majority of mums an equally posh MPV, he had clearly underestimated the Bradford family... This left him with no choice but to tell her that, on condition that she and the girls showed up with all the necessary personal camping gear, for which he would be providing a list, they were welcome to join them on their trip. And then, after the connection had cut off, he started wondering what he had gotten himself into...
***
A week later, just two days before they would be leaving for the trip, he was at the dojo for his last pre-vacation Ju Jitsu training. When he announced he wouldn't be attending for the next three weeks the rest of the small group wanted to know why of course, so he told them that he would be away on his yearly camping trip, which resulted in a lot of interest and questioning. Inevitably the fact that some girls would be joining their regular group came up of course, which resulted, as he should have expected, in some grins and comments about 'boys getting lucky'.
He countered by telling them that Mrs. Bradford, one of the girls' mothers, would be coming along to keep an eye on the girls, which, as he also should have expected of course, resulted in even bigger grins, and comments about 'single dads getting lucky'. He countered that one by informing them that he sure wasn't planning on seducing a married woman. Bill and John, two of his Ju Jitsu buddies, looked at each other shortly, and then Bill spoke up, "Sammy Bradford.., daughter named Kim?"
The chances on two Samantha Bradfords with a daughter of that name living in one and the same neighborhood were close to non-existent of course, "Yeah?" he answered warily.
