Julie Pritchard was JP to everyone that knew her. Some people didn't even know her real name. Only her boyfriend called her Julie and that was only when the two of them were alone. Ah, Phillip, she thought. He wasn't happy about her going on this camping trip with Maggie and her 'cousins', he doesn't trust 'that girl' at all. Maggie said Phillip was invited, that he could come too, but "he'd rather work than spend a long weekend trapped with her nearby".
Phillip thought Maggie was a bad influence, and in reality he didn't know the half of it. Maggie spent her days trying to get JP to "live a little, it's not like you're married". To JP it felt like it sometimes, though. Her and Phillip had been together since he was 16 and she was 14. Five years was a long time, almost all her teenage years. They'd discovered everything together and she'd only ever been with him (though they held off having intercourse until they were eighteen, on the off chance they would write their memoirs one day).
"Hence the need to live a little," Maggie would complain. "You can't spend your life sitting on just one cock."
"Don't be crude," JP would say.
"You could have anyone you want. You're the hottest babe I know," was usually next. Maggie herself had a nice body but she wasn't really that good looking with clothes on. It was usually only after Maggie undressed that boys went 'wow', which is the reason JP suspected she undressed so often.
For herself, JP knew she was lucky. She didn't do anything to look after herself yet her body and looks had turned out as good as she could have hoped. It had reached the point where she had to be careful where she wore a nice dress or a bikini, otherwise guys would buzz around like flies. No matter how much she ate or how lazy her weekends were she didn't get big. Her ass and stomach was slim. Her breasts filled a c-cup nicely but she didn't need a bra, they stood up by themselves.
She thought of the way Phillip looked at her whenever they had the chance to get naked, the sparkle in his eyes, the way he went straight at her with his cock. It was almost as if she was too much. She wished Phillip was perhaps a little less attracted to her body, and a little more to her. Making her wax her vagina clean was a classic example. He was obsessed with how her pussy looked above her own feelings, he knew she got embarrassed every time she went to the change rooms at swimming. His argument was that none of the girls ever said anything bad about JP being bare, but when you're a girl you know it's what they're saying behind your back, not what they are saying to you that counts.
"You don't even have acne," Maggie would frown if she ran her fingers through her wavy brown hair, feeling how soft it was. "Are you sure your dad is your dad?"
Poor dad, JP thought, he wasn't so lucky. Bald young, always chubby. He made them laugh though, they all loved him.
The camp was deep in the forest at a clearing near a backwater. It had taken two hours to hike along the small, single-file track. It was a marked campsite but rarely used, it was the only place you could get away from people on a holiday weekend. They were taking two extra days, staying four nights. There was no cell-phone reception but Maggie's dad gave them his satellite phone for emergencies.
Maggie's 'cousins' were more a group of friends than they were family. Only one was an actual second cousin. There was Maggie and JP, plus one other girl and three guys. At 19 JP was the youngest, but everyone was about the same age. It might look like a group of three couples but it wasn't. No one was officially boyfriend and girlfriend. The other girl was Sandra, a Vietnamese girl. She was good looking but a real tomboy, handy to have around a camp. The three boys were Jeff, Danny and Rabbit. JP didn't know Rabbit's real name and he didn't know hers.
Because it was odd numbers there had to be one boy-girl tent. They drew straws and JP was paired with Rabbit but she said no way, that her boyfriend would kill her.
"He's never going to know!" Maggie tried to tell her, making JP suspect the draw was rigged. Sandra volunteered to swap, scuppering that particular piece of scheming. Rabbit and Sandra knew each other well, Sandra said there would be no surprises to be had.
Tents were pitched apart from each other, the ground was rough in most places and there were lots of trees with heavy branches to avoid. Fires were allowed on the sandy bank of the backwater. There was an old pit built with stones that you could use even in summer, so the 'kitchen' was set up there. Girls and boys toilet trees were roughly decided in different directions behind cover. The boys had fishing rods, but they didn't really expect to catch anything.
With the hiking, the designing and setting up of the camp, cooking, eating and cleaning they were tired not long after dark. They had one strong battery lantern they used sparingly and a series of hand held torches and lights, so unless they were going to sit around the firelight there wasn't much incentive to be up once daylight had gone.
After everyone had turned in Maggie and JP talked for about fifteen minutes when suddenly Maggie got out of her sleeping bag and began shuffling around as if she was going out.
"What are you doing?" JP asked, confused. Maggie was changing her sleepwear for lingerie.
"I'm going to go and see Danny."
"What?!" JP was super surprised. Those two hadn't seemed to have hooked up at all, there was no affection between them all day.
"Maggie, you said this wouldn't happen."
"Just for a little while. Come on, don't be a prude," Maggie said, checking her torch and her sandals.
"You said this wasn't a date trip."
"For you, yes. Not for me."
"But...how did you even...I didn't see you with him at all today."
Maggie shrugged. "Jeff told me when were cleaning up."
"Just like that?"
"Why not?" she shrugged again. "Here. Take some just in case."
Maggie opened a big box of condoms and threw a strip of three toward JP.
"Maggie! What are you doing? I don't need that, why would I need that?"
Maggie laughed. "I'm not doing it with Jeff in there. He's my cousin."
She unzipped the flap and stepped out, wearing only a white silky strap top and matching white t-back panties.
"Hey, hey, wait! What's that mean?"
Maggie laughed and disappeared into the darkness. JP turned off her own torch and listened carefully. She heard the occasional stumble then some voices. After a time a torch was clearly making its way back to her tent. JP prayed Maggie had been kicked out, that it was all a misunderstanding.
"Sorry, JP, I've been ejected. Can I come in to wait?"
Shit, JP thought. When she didn't answer, Jeff opened the zip and shone his light in on her. JP was in her sleeping bag and moved up on one elbow, squinting at the light. Three condoms were lying next to her in plain sight.
"Shit! They are NOT mine," JP yelled out, throwing them disgustingly to the far corner on Maggie's side.
"I'm sorry. I got booted out. I'm not sure how long for," he said, ignoring the condom situation and crawling in onto Maggie's mattress and bag. JP saw he was only wearing loose boxers and a t-shirt.
"I'm not having sex with you," JP couldn't help but blurt out as he flicked his sandals off outside and redid the tent zip.
"Okay," he said remarkably casually. "What do you want to do?"
"Sleep," she said, turning her back to him. "Can you turn that torch off?"
"Really? You wanna sleep? It's too early."
It was true, JP had to concede to herself. It was probably 9-something at the latest.
"What's your story anyway?" Jeff asked. "You went to school with Maggie?"
JP thought of laying and ignoring his question, but he knew she wasn't asleep and JP wasn't naturally rude, even if she was grumpy. It's not his fault, she sighed.
"School and now college," was her short reply. It was the best she could muster.
"Hmmm," Jeff said, letting the silence sit for a while, the torch still on, facing the door. "So...your turn."
"What?"
"Ask me something."
"What?"
"Anything. Just ask me something."
JP sighed and turned over. "Why did you have to tell Maggie that Danny was interested?"
Jeff shrugged. "I just said he was interested, not that he wanted her to sneak over for the night. How was I to know..."
"Know what?"
"Well, that my cousin...did that so easily."
"You really don't know her very well."
"I guess not."
"Why did you move out here?" JP asked.
"For college," Jeff said frowning, JP knew he went to school here, why ask that?
"Yeah, I know that, but why here? Why didn't you go to school back home?"
"Oh. I don't know. Do something different. I applied to anywhere I had family. Got this one."
"You're only second cousins, right?"
"Not your turn."
"Huh?"
"Not your turn for a question. My turn," Jeff said as a means of changing topic.
"Oh."
"You didn't want to stay in a tent with Rabbit because you have a boyfriend?"
"Yes."
"But...if you didn't have a boyfriend you would have stayed with him?"
"That's two questions. Not your turn."
"Okay, forget the whose turn thing."
"You're second cousins, right?" JP asked again.
"Yeah, so what?"
"You came here to study because of a second cousin you hardly know?"
Jeff laughed. "My uncle and first cousins are here too, not just Maggie's family. You would have taken Rabbit if you were single?"
"No!"
"Why not?"
"Come on. Not even slightly my type. How could I possibly tell people my boyfriend is called Rabbit?"
"I guess."
"How do you know those guys? Just through Maggie?"
"No, Danny is from lifeguards too. Rabbit I don't really know, Sandra and him go back apparently."
"You're a lifeguard?"
"Part time only," he said nodding.
"So you know first aid?"
"Passed all the courses."
"Oh. I feel safer out here now."
"I think that's the only reason why Maggie asked me along."
"Oh come on! Don't be silly."
They talked back and forth for some time. School. Family. Sports. Movies. Books. Holidays. Camping experience. Occasionally a small yelp or scream would come from the distance and they would giggle.
"I think Maggie likes sex," JP said apologetically for her friend.
"Are all girls like that?"
"No!" JP squealed.
"You don't like sex?"
"Oh, that's a trap that question. Whatever I say is wrong."
Jeff laughed. "I like you."
"Why thank you."
They stayed silent for a time and Jeff turned off the torch to save battery. In the dark the sounds of Maggie and Danny were easier to notice.
"She sounds happy," Jeff whispered.
"She brought A LOT of condoms," JP sighed.
"Do you use them?" he asked so casually.
"What are you talking about?"
"With your boyfriend. Do you guys use condoms or just go in freely"
"Don't you think that's kind of personal?" JP scolded him.
Jeff ignored her. "My girlfriend hates them, she never wants to use condoms. But I just don't trust her on the pill. She is completely disorganized. She says she takes it every day but I just don't believe her."
"You have a girlfriend?"
"Yeah. Apple."
"Her name is Apple?"
"I know I know. She gets teased a lot."
"Where is she? Why isn't she here?" JP asked, perhaps suspiciously.
"Camping? That's not her. Decided to work the extra hours of the long weekend."
"What's she do?"
Jeff hesitated. "Waitress."
"Ha. My boyfriend does nightshift at Texaco".
"Yeah, well, get work where you can when you're studying. Is he studying?" Jeff suddenly asked, hoping he hadn't somehow insulted her boyfriend.
"Yes. What about Apple. Does Apple work at Apple?"
"Ha ha."
"Come on, does she?" JP teased.
"No! I told you. She's a waitress."
"Oh really? Where does she work then?"
"Doesn't matter."
"Where?"
Jeff hesitated before answering, "Hooters."
"She does not!"
"She does."
"She does not. You're making that up."
"She does. It's true."
"Are you freaking kidding me? Your girlfriend is a Hooters girl?"
Jeff sighed and nodded in the dark before saying, "Yes."
"Wow. Wow," and after a time she added, "She must have nice breasts."
"She does," Jeff laughed embarrassingly.
"Wow. I could never do that."
