It was midafternoon, Callie sat on the lounge chair in her fire watch tower, overlooking the vast mountain ranges. This was her second year volunteering as a fire lookout with the Forestry Service.
The first year she had done this, she'd been alone, but this year she had been assigned a partner, Emily. Today it was Callie's turn to stay inside and make the half hour reports, while Emily cleared some brush away from the base of their fire tower.
Their job consisted of scanning the mountains around them with binoculars, looking for smoke or fire. If they saw any, they'd radio it in to the fire team leader who would get a team on the ground as soon as possible to stop the spread. It wasn't a hard job, and it made them feel like they were making a difference.
Callie liked the intermittent free time though, that's why she volunteered in the first place. 5 months by yourself in the wilderness was just what she was looking for, and it was a surprise to her they gave her a partner this year.
The other surprise, was that Emily was strikingly beautiful. Callie had always been more attracted to women than men, and to her, Emily was gorgeous. 30 years old, about two years older than herself. She had long chestnut brown hair, was fairly thin but had muscle, and had a nice tan from working outside most of the days. Both women did, and Callie liked how the tan complemented her own sandy blonde hair.
She was in good shape too, but was thinner than Emily. An avid outdoors woman, she spent a lot of time hiking on the Pacific Crest Trail. She also liked surfing when she wasn't at college or volunteering.
As she looked out the window, her gaze fell on Emily. She watched her working outside, her jeans accentuated her hips and nice, toned legs. Just a glisten of sweat was on her body, so Callie new she would be heading inside soon.
As she watched her, she couldn't help dropping her hand into her lap, and slowly letting her fingers crawl down to caress her clitoris over her yoga pants. This wasn't the first time she'd done this, but she had never brought herself to climax, just a quick, little tease.
It had been a long time since she had been with anyone, man or woman, and watching Emily while her fingers gently circled around her clit sent an immediate wave of pleasure and tingles across her.
That pleasure was short lived though, as Emily had just finished and was heading up the stairs of the tower to join her. The difficult part about having a partner this time was taking care of personal "needs".
She brought her vibrator this time, as the time before, but now living with someone else, it was a lot harder to find time for herself. Obviously she couldn't do it when Emily was around, so she had to time it for when she was alone.
They each took turns hiking out to where a helicopter would arrive twice a month to deliver food and supplies. Whenever it was Emily's turn, Callie would sneak in a quick session with her bullet vibrator on the couch, usually finding climax very fast. One of her favorite things was looking outside and being in nature while coming. It made her feel a connection to the world. The sun on her bare legs, slight breeze across her skin, made her orgasm intensely. She often wondered if Emily did the same, just the thought turned her on.
She had never brought up sexual attraction to Emily, but she was pretty sure she was straight, though she couldn't tell for sure. Emily never brought up past relationships and didn't have a wedding ring. Emily had a very much type A personality too. More extroverted and bubbly than herself, so she figured it would have come up if she was gay or at least bi.
She heard Emily turn off the solar powered shower on the back deck, and quickly picked her hand up before Emily walked inside.
"All finished?"
"Yeah, it wasn't too much, just some tumbleweed and vines that were growing too close," said Emily.
"Cool. Well, I just made the last report of the day to the fire team leader, no smoke, no fires."
" Awesome! Another easy day, it's hard to believe fire season is almost over. Just a month and a half and we'll be back home. "
"I know!" Callie exclaimed, a slight echo of sadness in her voice. "It's been an amazing summer, we made a lot of good memories on this mountain, remember the snake?"
Emily jumped and shuddered at the thought. The two left their shoes outside, and one morning Emily had forgotten to shake hers out before trying to put it on. She dropped it and screamed when she heard the loud rattle coming from inside.
At the time she was freaked out but soon after had come around and found it hilarious, like Callie did.
"Yeah, I almost went home early, though not the way I'd want", she said with a slight giggle.
As the evening progressed and the sun gradually faded away, the two of them found themselves relaxing on the couch reading their books, having taken care of the few household chores. They were far away from electricity and even farther from TV, so they both brought ample amounts of books. Emily was fond of fantasy and fiction, currently entranced by a work about old Norse myths and gods, while Callie just stuck with her usual Stephen King.
