The leaves began to change; the wind was beginning to pick up its forgotten chill. Fall reared its head in our direction and no one had even paid it a second thought. This was probably because I had sadly taken up residence in a cold industrial city, alongside my stunning girlfriend. We rented an apartment here only recently, not because we wanted to or because we are city folk. It was because that's where our graduate classes lie. While you can choose your home and your profession, you can't choose where life will force you to go.
It was now November, the dreadful season of electionitis is subsiding. The undergraduates were back to the torments of their daily classes instead of pestering us to vote. Now with Thanksgiving around the corner, a new-found pressure to go home for a family dinner was set upon us. We dreaded the thought of going till a brilliant idea sparked in our heads. Why not duck out for a camping trip? We loved to camp and we both enjoyed the look and feel of nature; so why not tell the family that our work load was too much and that we were going to try and catch up over the holiday weekend?
In the past our families had paid it no mind when school came before minor holidays like the fourth of July or New Year's, so why not Thanksgiving? True, this is more of a family occasion but we need an escape; it was worth a shot. We threw our bags together immediately and phoned the families. They, as hoped, took the bait and didn't try to guilt us twice. Either at our old age we are immune to such trickery or we just no longer cared about what they had to say. Either or we were off in a flash as soon as the phones went away.
It felt as though we had no sooner left the apartment and the concrete jungle then we had arrived in our secret haven. True, it was no grand secret, just a near-by trail with a few rentable cabins along the way. In short notice and with no time to plan a real hike, it was much more then we could have expected. We chose it because we would get to see nature without trash underneath the single tree on the block or a fence all around it.
Hopefully due to the holiday, the annoying families on trips into the wilderness would be less in quantity. We threw our back packs on and begin to hike towards the cabin. It was Friday night, so we felt there was no need hike a lot the second we got out of the car. Plus, we had to check in with the ranger before we could really do much and setting up our sleeping arrangements felt more relaxing.
While we may be enthralled with the harsh world of roughing it with little to no comfort or luxury, we just weren't in the mood for squeaky springs under a Boy Scout harassed mattress. We brought ourselves a nice big inflatable mattress. Our one luxury for the weekend; it, of course, tortured us by taking the longest time to set up. Upon finishing inflation and eating our premade dinner, we decided to take a stroll over to the waterfall just up the trail, our favorite spot to relax.
We wandered up in the dark; our little cabin only a short walk behind us all lit up to guide our path on the way back. When we got up there, we sat down and stared up into the stars. We were never much for words when appreciating nature. What was there to say when you could both see the same beauty? Tonight was different, though; she wandered up in front of me and spread her arms out. Mainly to feel the breeze, I later found out. I still don't know if it was the look of her hair in the wind or the moonlight all around her magnified by the waterfall, but she looked amazing out there by the edge. I just couldn't resist sneaking up behind her and putting my arms around her slender stomach holding her close, kissing her along that smooth neck of hers. I whispered into her ear "You look beautiful tonight", short and sappy of course. Like I said, we were not much for words, so why try to butter up? The blatant truth was she was sexy. Not having a hard-on around her was like not being able to see the light of day.
I began to kiss her along her neck some more, then she turned towards me. I looked into her eyes right before I kissed her on those lovely lips of hers. She grabbed my hair in her hand pulling my head forward as our tongues danced the tango. My hands tightened around her waist as I pulled her back from the edge. I wanted so badly to strip her right there and then, but I heard children running up the hill. Laughing and yelling as they tried to feebly climb up the hill. We barely had time to slip out of sight behind a bush where we could continue to kiss in private. I stopped kissing her lips only to return to her neck. Slow kisses at first that turned to a nibble here and there. I could feel her breathing getting harder and harder, followed by one word, "cabin".
She grabbed my wrist and down the waterfall trail we went. A little faster and we would have just gone for a ride on the water itself. We didn't waste time fiddling with the door or stopping along the way. We like to get straight to the point and enjoy the mood. We slipped into the cabin and released our extra clothing and fell onto the bed. I landed on top of her. We embraced again sharing some passionate kissing, deep and personal. I stopped to kiss her neck as my hands began to slowly inch her shirt north.