All characters in this fictional work are represented as being of the majority age of eighteen years (18), or older and are treated as consenting adults. All characters are fictional and any resemblance to real persons, either living or deceased, is coincidental on the part of the author.
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Rain poured down, soaking everything for the fourth straight day, and Erica slammed the phone down into its cradle in exasperation. That call had been their seventh cancellation and it was shaping up to look like another shitty weekend - without the additional staff for the stables, the lifeguards, or the kitchens, the camp was going to be a ghost town. Just the family and the three year round councilors that shared the older cabins on what had been the original grounds. Erica grabbed her day-pack and locked the door behind her. It was not going to stop raining anytime soon, and since it was just a light drizzle, Erica decided to chance it so she could deliver the bad news in person. She had already left all the cancellation notices on her father's desk and did not much feel like being around when he read them. Hence, the rather hasty retreat on her part.
The Old Trail deposited Erica into the clearing in which squatted the three oldest cabins on the grounds, though from the fresh coats of paint and the neat, outdoor, furnishings which were placed outside of them, you might not have guessed that. Erica walked up to the first cabin. The 'girl's cabin' as her mother termed it since it was home to Heather, the only full-time, female, councilor. She was one of Erica's few friends and since they 'lived' under the same roof it was only natural that they had bonded and become fast friends. When there was no answer, Erica opted to try one of the other two cabins. Cabin Number Two belonged to Travis. Whenever he was not holed up here he was in charge of horse stables and giving basic riding instruction to the weekend visitors. Again, no answer, so that left Erica with only one remaining door to knock on. Cabin Number Three was home and hearth to John. Just the thought of knocking on his door made things inside of her tighten up and caused her to hesitate. At the last moment though she mustered her courage and, mounting the low step, knocked on the frame of the screen door.
The inner door came open and Erica's breath caught in her throat. John was on the other side of the screen, enjoying the cool air from the late season storm. His bare chest had filled out in the last year since he had started working at the camp, and his bronzed muscles made her take pause. He smiled at Erica and banged open the screen door with his shoulder.
"Hey Erica" he said, nonchalantly. C'mon inside, we're all waiting out the storm in here.
He waved her inside and as she passed he eased her through the door by placing his large hand at the small of her back. Just that touch sent shocks up her spine and she stifled an involuntary gasp as his warm skin met her wet t-shirt. Inside the cabin the other two councilors were relaxing and passing around a bottle. They were not twenty-one yet, but Erica's dad had always told his full-time councilors that whatever they did in the privacy of their own quarters was their business. So long as it did not impair their ability to work for him, and keep the paying customers happy.
It did not take but a few sentences for Erica to break the bad news to the 'staff' but a rare weekend off during the busy season was not something that they were going to bitch about. Since the office was already closed up Erica did not have to hurry back and these were the only other people that were near to her in age. She sat down at the other end of John's futon - as far away from him as she could manage without being rude - and accepted the half-empty bottle when it came around to her. The whiskey warmed her up enough but did not stop her from taking a drag off a joint that Heather had rolled and then started passing as well. The blend of good booze, and passable weed, was loosening her up and it was not long before Erica was pulled into their conversation.
"This is some good shit" offered Erica as she took a drag and then passed the joint back to Heather.
The conversation carried on for a little longer, and the bottle came around a few more times. Being shared between four people meant that none of them was getting completely hammered, but Erica would have been full of shit if she had denied not feeling a lot better than when she had arrived. As things among people her age so often did, the conversation eventually turned to work and - of course - sex.
"... is all that I am saying" finished Heather.
Her discourse on the advantages of oral sex over straight intercourse had been booze and weed fueled, but Erica got the feeling that she had been speaking from experience. John and Travis just nodded their heads in agreement, having already agreed that they did not mind the occasional 'hummer' from one of the campers. Provided that she was cute and came onto them first. That had been the trigger that had sent Heather into a long-winded story that had ended up with her getting eaten out in the hay loft of the horse barn.
"Wait" started Travis, "that was you?" He laughed deep in his chest and slapped his thigh in amusement. "I thought that bare, freckled, ass looked familiar."
His revelation about Heather's freckled butt carried them on for another ten minutes and left the two of them - Heather and Travis - making eyes at one another. Erica might not have a wealth of sexual experience, none at all to be exact, but she could smell the pheromones and was pretty certain that she knew where things were going to end up between those two. Erica smiled at their retreating backs as they risked the rain in order to find some privacy.