Beep. Beep. Beep.
'Damn alarm,' thought Joy as she hit the snooze button. 'Mountains are not even that far away, so why do I have to get up at such an ungodly hour?' complained Joy to herself. After dragging herself out of bed she got ready to have a shower. After having a steaming hot shower she felt a lot more awake. Right after getting dressed she heard the door bell ringing. 'Damn Carl is early. I wanted to get some breakfast first,' thought Joy. "Hey, you're early," said Joy as she saw Carl standing at the door.
"Are you going to let me in? I thought we could have breakfast together," Carl says.
"That's so sweet. I think that will make up for you not staying last night," she tells him.
Carl smiled at her as she opened the door and let him in. "You're going to love it this weekend. I have all the equipment we need in the car," Carl assured her.
"Do you have the tent?" asked Joy
"Of course I do, Joy. What makes you think I didn't?" he asked in return.
"I don't know. It's just that I've never been camping," Joy admitted.
"Seriously? You're missing out on a lot, Joy," Carl says.
"And I couldn't believe you hadn't been diving before," Joy teases.
With a sly wink Carl said "Looks like we have something to share with each other,"
"Indeed we do. I need coffee though," Joy said around a yawn.
"I'll get it for you then we can head off. When we get there we have a two hour walk to reach the campsite," Carl says.
Joy's eyes widened and she exclaimed "Two hours?!?"
Carl chuckled, nodding and says "You get used to it, don't worry. Only some of it is mountainous, since most of the trail is flat,"
"It better be, or you'll be carrying me up the mountain," Joy teases as she poked her tongue out at him.
After having their coffee and breakfast, they got into Carl's sports car and drove off towards the mountains. After an hour of driving Joy finally breaks the silence. "This place is beautiful. Rainforests are so amazing,"
"Yeah they are, Mountain forests are more beautiful when they are resting on extinct volcanoes like this one," Carl says.
"How much further until we reach the trail?" asked Joy
"Not much longer now. A few more minutes and we should be there," Carl says.
A few minutes later, they did arrive at a parking area with a few cars scattered about the parking space. "Can you carry the tent? I'll carry the bags with the climbing equipment," Carl says.
"Sure, I'll help you out there," Joy replies, nodding her head.
"Let's get moving" said Carl as he locked the car and picked up the climbing bag putting it over his shoulder before he walked to the trail entrance at the edge of the parking space. "Come on, Joy," Carl called out over his shoulder as Joy struggled with the tent.
After an hour of struggling with the tent up the hillside Joy dropped the tent bag with an audible thump and thought to her self 'I'm so going to make Carl pay for this tonight'
"You surprised me, Joy. I thought you would have dumped that ages ago. Carry the climbing gear. Its heavier but a lot less annoying," Carl told her.
Joy just stared at him and grumbled, "You could have told me this so much earlier,"
'He's so going to get it later,' thought Joy.
"I tried taking Miranda camping once but all I got was complaints. It was so not fun," Carl tells her.
"Really? Well I'm not complaining. It's just that damn tent is so awkward," Joy admits.
"I know. I have trouble with it myself," Carl admits. "You ready to continue? The largest slope is up ahead."
"Oh great. Yeah, I'm ready," Joy says. After about another hour of toil Joy's legs and arms felt like deadweight. "Damn my arms and legs are tired, I have no idea how I'll manage to climb anything today,"
"Don't worry, Joy, we're nearly there. There's an awesome campsite up ahead," Carl told her.
"Wow, this place is amazing," Joy breathed out as they approached a small clearing in the vast expanse of trees. After dumping the climbing gear near some trees, Carl dug out some plastic containers with food in it.
"Let's have some food now. I'm starving," Carl suggests.
"Good idea and I could so do with a good rest," Joy says.
After eating their meal Joy breaks the silence with "When we go back, you're taking the tent,"
"Sure. I thought at one time you were ready to pitch it off the side of the mountain," Carl says, snickering softly.
"That would have been a smart move wouldn't it? Then we'd have no where to sleep" said Joy as she kissed his cheek.
"Now I want to show you where we are climbing first. It's an easy slope so I can teach you how to use the hooks," Carl tells her.
"Can we wait a bit? My arms don't want to do anything right now," Joy asks.
"Oh really?" Carl asks he walked over to her and pulled her back into his chest. He pushed his thumbs into her arm muscles and made her groan.
"Oh, Carl, that's great. They still feel really numb though," Joy moans out.
"After I'm done with this, babe, I'll move onto your legs. Can't have you having jelly legs can we?" asked Carl as he kissed her behind the ear.
"Mm, feels so good. Keep doing that, Carl," Joy purrs out in pleasure.