It was a windy summer's day, the brisk breeze causing the large white clouds to fly fast across the sky. The forecast for the weekend had been for heavy showers but so far we had got away with it, which was lucky for us as we were out mountain bike riding in the forestry reserve. It was cool but not cold, the clouds offering the constant threat of a downpour but it never really materializing. It seemed like the bad forecast had kept quite a few people away as the deeper we went into the forest on the marked gravel trails the fewer people we met.
We had just reached the bottom of long gradual slope that ran along the edge of the forest on one side and an open meadow on the other and had stopped at the large barred gate. To our left just inside the forest were several large fallen trees.
'Shall we stop for a while and have a snack?' I asked Karen my wife and she agreed as we had been going for a couple hours by that point.
We wheeled the bikes off the path and into the trees and leaned them against one trunk and then shrugged off our back packs. We walked over to another of the fallen trees that was so wide of girth that when you climbed up and sat on it your feet dangled a foot or so off of the ground. We fished around in our bags and found something light to nibble sitting close to each other.
I put my arm around Karen and said.
'Well. I'm glad we chanced it and came, it's been nice so far.'
'Yes, it's lovely, I really like it here.' She replied.
We sat and ate and watched as the few intermittent cyclists or walkers passed by on the path, unaware of our presence a hundred yards or so off in the trees. The wind rustled the leaves in the braches above us and made the grass of the meadow sway like waves on the sea. We snuggled up and she rested her head against my shoulder, I felt the heat of her head through her sort brown shoulder length hair. It was nice for us to get away and spend some time together, we don't get much time on our own these days. Still, we had enough contact for me to know and recornise the signs that Karen was feeling a bit amorous, and I was getting that message now.
I'd better point out that Karen has a daring streak in her. She likes to have sex in slightly risky places, it really turns her on a lot to know that people are nearby when we are lovemaking, although she really would not like getting caught, that's for sure! Karen shifted from my embrace.
'I think that I'll go a bit further in and see if I can find a place to have a wee.' She said, sliding down off of the log.
'Would you like me to come and keep watch for you?' I asked.
Karen smiled and said 'Yes.'
I took her hand and we wandered further into the woods, taking glances back every now and then to see what the cover was like from the road. The trees in this part of the forestry reserve were old, native English trees, mostly oaks. The leaf canopy was tall and there were gaps between the large and knarled trunks. The canopy was quite dense so the only under growth was a few straggly saplings and glades of waist high fern-like bracken.
We started looking for a suitable spot and were surprised by the sudden appearance not that far off of two horses with riders. The only noise in the forest was the wind rushing through the boughs and shaking the leaves as it passed in waves. I guess that the direction must have been carrying the sound of the riders approach away from us other wise we'd have heard them long before we saw them. The two girls riding smiled at us as they passed and soon disappeared out onto the path.
It made us a little nervous but after waiting for the riders to go Karen selected a clump of bushes and began to undo her jeans. I turned and faced the pathway and scanned the forest as she squatted down to go, I could hear her going as I stood watch. The path was some way off from us now but still easily visible, I could see the odd person pass by on it every now and then, but I doubt if they would have seen us looking back in as the gloom of the trees would have swallowed us up from their vantage. Still, those riders had surprised us and there were plenty of walkers about off trail.
Karen stood up and was wiping herself off with a tissue as I turned.
'So, do you fancy being naughty in the bushes?' I asked her with a grin.