Jake had missed the mid-August Perseid meteor shower for the past two years because weather forecasts predicted cloudy conditions or rain. Then again, living in the city didn't help either due to light pollution, as they call it at the college planetarium. Jake first got interested in the heavenly bodies when his grandparents took him to planetarium shows as a junior high school student. There was a small, private college in town that had its own telescope and on clear nights, they would focus-in on the rings of Saturn. The planetarium, itself was downstairs and offered shows to the public about the planets in our solar system and sometimes star constellations. Jake couldn't see the patterns in the stars until they drew-in the lines connecting what the ancients saw as people, animals and things. It sure took a lot of imagination to figure out that stuff. He just remembered that the big empty space above the three stars in Orion's belt was his head. That always got a chuckle.
This is the backstory: One summer, while at summer camp, the troop leaders woke up everyone from sleeping at about 11:00 pm, took attendance and marched 110 kids and leaders out to the grassy area of the softball outfield and told everyone to keep looking up. The grass smelled like some chemical. The maintenance crews, aware of the evening's plans, took advantage of the afternoon and sprayed the whole area for insects like mosquitoes, chiggers and ticks so they wouldn't cause problems. The night air of August was cool, but comfortable and the night sky was without moonlight. Once the group was all settled-in, one of the councilors took his flashlight and walked back to the camp headquarters to shut-off the power to the entire camp proper, which made the skies go black except for the shining stars. One of the kids asked, "What are we looking for? Spaceships from Mars or something?"
"Just be patient, campers. This is the first night of the Perseid meteor shower. Does anyone know what that is?"
One camper spoke up and said, "Ahh, it's just a bunch of shooting stars." Clearly, he wanted to be back in his bunk sleeping. Most of these kids lived in the city and were never made aware because they couldn't see them anyway under city streetlights. This was a new educational experience for them as they sat or laid back in the grass, wide-eyed and looking up.
Jake had always felt connected to the Cosmos, but not enough to study Astronomy - too much advanced math. He loved it for what it seemed to be from where he was now. One night while bivouacked on a mountain top in California, during Marine Infantry Training, he got up in the middle of the night to hit the head, when he was awestruck at the sight of the giant ring of stars of the Milky Way Galaxy overhead in the total darkness. Being near a mountaintop, he felt as if his whole body was floating amongst the stars. He wanted to raise his arms to fly just to see how far he could go into space.
Flashbacks aside, this year would be special - unique and different. Jake had finally met a fellow traveler. Victoria had, by every definition, a special form of heavenly body. She exuded the kind of sexiness that every man wanted to get into, and Jake was the lucky prize winner and he knew it. She was witty, smart and always smelled nice, too. Her long, wavy blonde hair and electric blue eyes attracted him at first, but later seemed to electrocute his soul deep inside. It was painful to be without her. Her shape was slightly curvy, but not willowy and her breasts stood proudly and heavily on their own, but she still wore a bra. She had met him through a blog site and laughingly called him a "Nerf Nerd" in his comments section. (Nerf, you know, those spongy toys that kids play with?) Finally, Jake had to ask, "What the hell is a Nerf Nerd?"
It took a couple of days - Victoria let him stew on it a little - then responded, "Same thing as a regular nerd but you can't hurt anybody. LOL"
And so, it began those months ago. Since then, things for Jake couldn't have been better. Victoria was truly unique. Jake didn't know if she would like camping, being a city girl, but Jake had always loved it. He wanted to combine camping with the viewing of the Perseid's this year so he could use his new binoculars and telescope. Besides, he wanted Victoria to share some of the things that he enjoyed away from their lusty boudoir sessions. He didn't even care if they didn't have sex if their minds could connect in the Cosmos as in some of those Richard Bach novels.
Jake took care of everything. He even bought Victoria some new hiking shoes, camouflage leggings and thermal tops, just in case it got cool. It wasn't her usual style of garb, but she would "look" like she was a veteran of the woodland campaigns. To make things simple, Jake got out his old 9' x 9' Coleman tent, set it up and washed it with plain water to get the fire pit ashes off from the last time he used it. Then, to be on the safe side, after it dried, he applied two coats of waterproofing spray to the tent and the rain fly and let it dry in the sun before rolling it back up. As for his old single person sleeping bag, this would simply not do at all. Victoria liked to sleep nude and Jake loved that about her. He ordered the largest two-person sleeping bag and portable air mattress he could find. All the other necessities, stove, lantern, coolers, cookware and insect repellents he already had.
The day before they were to leave, they planned their camp food menus from the online guidebooks, copied recipes and went grocery shopping. It's not surprising how fast the cart fills-up for a three-day weekend. There is always too much food. With the back end of the SUV fully loaded with gear and grub, they left room in the back seat for their clothing duffel bags. Later, they showered together, helped each other don their bathrobes followed by a long, warm hug and drank wine on the deep sofa by the fireplace while reminding each other that 0600 meant 'Oh, my god, it's early.' The campsite was reserved and paid-for, so all they had to do was get there, get camp set up and maybe grab a bite to eat, but it was 230 miles away. Tonight's star show was going to be a late show. There was no rush.
Judging from Victoria's readiness the next morning, Jake was encouraged that she was looking forward to the weekend in the mountains with him, under the stars with just the thickness of waterproofed canvas between them and the elements. She was already dressed, her blonde locks pulled back into a tight ponytail and breakfast was on the table, as Jake scratched his ass and head at the same time staggering toward the coffee pot. Victoria looked hot in those camo leggings and as soon as his eyes could focus, this excitement poked it's head out of his boxer shorts into the open air. Victoria noticed and smiled, "Do we have time for that?" Jake turned around with his coffee and Victoria bent over, kissed the head of his cock then sat back on her heels to watch him grow. Then, she sucked him all the way inside her mouth - clear back to her tonsils and sucked harder all the way back while withdrawing. He grew larger. She lightly tapped it on the side to watch it wiggle back and forth, then smiled, "Sorry, Jake, we're on a time schedule here. Finish your coffee. I promise to make it up to you later."
Jake never argued with her sex logic. If Jake had his way with Victoria's body, it would be sex all the time, anywhere, in any way. Victoria loved to tease and be the center of his attention, but she always followed through. It was her way of shaking up a Champaign bottle before popping the cork. Just now, she had started the bubbles. Jake could feel it inside his chest.
As Jake paid attention to the driving, Victoria enjoyed the scenery. Every so often, she would reach over the armrest and pat Jake's package and cup his balls in her hand through his Levi's. Jake would just smile, but the duties of the road came first. To reciprocate, he reached over to feel her left breast through her clothes and give it a squeeze or lightly pinch her nipple. It was then he discovered that she wore no bra today. The tightness of the package in his Levi's got tighter as his mind flashed to the perfection of her breasts. The size and shape that sculptors would love to immortalize in marble. Still, there were gasoline and rest area stops to go before they could make camp, make love and make supper.