Hi all! It took me longer to write this than I expected but this is a continuation of the story A Doe in the Woods. It is not necessary to read part one in order to understand this installment, but feel free to do so if you would like.
Please enjoy!
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Doe's next week of camp was entirely normal except for two small changes. The first change was that Krista became much more engaged. She actually talked and joked with Doe and the campers, and even began to participate in their daily activities. For the first time all summer, Doe felt like she had a partner in her work, and more importantly, she seemed to have a new friend.
The other change manifested itself, quite literally, in Doe's dreams. About a week ago, during a hike in the forest with her cabin, Doe disappeared and reappeared the next day with no recollection of what transpired. Since that day, Doe was plagued with unusual dreams. During her last dream, she was in a dark clearing in the forest completely naked, walking towards a giant flower bud growing from the ground several yards away. Doe couldn't understand why but something about the clearing felt sinister and dark. Even more strange, the closer she moved to the bud, the more aroused she began to feel. When she finally reached the object, she extended a hand and placed it flat against the flower bud. The moment it made contact with her, its warmth permeating her skin, it began to hum loudly, filling the air with low vibrations. Then the top of the bud erupted, releasing a thick mist filled with spores that looked like fluffy dandelion seeds, but both the mist and the spores were a pale pink. Doe tried to dodge the strange cloud, but she couldn't remove her hand from the bud's surface. As she struggled to detach herself, the spores landed on her skin and in her ears and drifted into her nostrils and down her throat as if their only goal was to implant themselves inside of her.
When Doe woke up from the dream, she was always covered in a cold sweat and felt intensely turned on. The dreams were all almost exactly the same: sometimes she was fully clothed, and sometimes there were thick vines wrapped around her arms and legs, but the rest of the events were always the same, she touched the flower bulb, inhaled the strange pink spores, and woke up in a cold sweat with an aching feeling between her legs. Each time it happened, she wanted nothing more than to reach her hand into her sleep shorts and massage her sensitive clit with her fingertips until she came, but she and Krista shared a room, and Doe was afraid of waking her. By the time Friday morning arrived, Doe was dealing with an entire week's worth of pent up sexual energy, and it was making her antsy.
Much to her delight later that day, the campers were scheduled to leave for a weekend away to an off-site excursion, and Doe wasn't one of the counselors tasked with joining them. Krista, on the other hand, was one of the accompanying counselors, and her constant complaining only made Doe even more relieved that she wouldn't be joining.
"At least you get to drive separate. Imagine how much worse it would be if you had to ride two hours in one of the camper buses," Doe had to raise her voice above the clamor of noisy children filling the mess hall around them. It was breakfast time, and all of the campers were buzzing with excitement for their field trip. Krista seemed to be the lone pocket of sullenness in the entire room.
"I literally can't imagine how awful that would be, and I don't even want to try," Krista glared at Doe across the table. "What kind of shit are we even doing at a ski resort in the middle of the summer? There's no fucking snow," she hissed.
"Oh, come on Kris it's so much fun! I've been there tons of times, you can go zip-lining, river rafting, you can even still ride the ski lift to look at the scenery, it's amazing! You can't do any of that here."
"All of that does sound great, but not when I have to spend all weekend chasing after these little rug rats!" she pouted and shoveled a forkful of scrambled eggs into her mouth.
"You're such a downer," Doe rolled her eyes.
"Jae!" Krista exclaimed suddenly, spraying half-chewed eggs all over their table. "Jae, come here for a minute." She was beckoning another one of the counselors, Jae Ikeda, towards where they sat, a few seats away from their campers. Jae had attended the camp almost as long as Doe, and they both started working as counselors at the same time, which gave them two years of staff seniority over Krista, who, despite being their same age, was only on her second year of working at the camp.
Jae was tall and lean, a physique sculpted by years of playing soccer, although Doe always got the sense that soccer was more of something that Jae's parents had coerced him into. As long as Doe had known him, he was much more likely to be found inside playing chess or reading a book, than he was to be found outside with most of their peers. Even now, as counselors, when the campers were given free-time for activities each day, Doe was usually organizing kickball games or monitoring the water sports area, while Jae oversaw the boardgames and helped run the tech portion of the theatrical department activities.
"What's up?" he asked, settling into the empty chair next to Doe.
"Krista's complaining about the excursion. I tried to tell her how fun it is, but she won't listen," Doe explained.
"What? Seriously, Kris, it's a great time," Jae proceeded to talk about many of the same things Doe had already mentioned.
Although they weren't particularly close, Doe considered Jae a friend, and she'd never felt any romantic feelings towards him. But as she listened to him speak, an unfamiliar thought forced itself into her head. How had she never noticed how handsome Jae was?
He wore his jet-black hair in the same hastily coiffed style each day, so it was out of his face but regardless of how much gel he used, he usually ended up pushing loose strands away from his eyes throughout the day. As he spoke, Doe also took note of his muscular jawline and the graceful curve of his high cheekbones that accentuated his intense deep-set eyes. A swell of desire heated Doe from the inside, and she was somewhat shocked to realize that the person she desired was Jae.
