The three furs piled out of the car and headed towards the large white lodge that looked ridiculously out of place amongst the smaller log cabins. Amethyst prodded Harvey playfully. She figured that if her fantasy was to come true she should up the flirting. Jareth picked up on this playfulness and joined in the fun by grabbing the luvine and tickling her. This caused her to yelp and run away. Jareth winked at Harvey "Let's get her!" With that the fox and coyote ran past Amethyst, blocked her off up ahead and pounced on her. Laughing manically, Amethyst managed to squirm out of their grasp, but stumbled over her own feet and fell flat on her tail at the entrance to the reception area. Still laughing and panting from the quick sprint, Harvey reached out a paw to help her up.
Blushing, the coyote attempted some flirting of his own, "I hope you didn't hurt that cute little bum of yours."
Amethyst puffed out her cheeks, dusted herself off and sighed. "Nope never hurt it, but it's probably all dirty now," she said spinning on her hooves and wriggling her curvy rear at Harvey. "Well?" she asked with a cheeky grin.
Harvey blushed harder as he caught himself staring at Amethyst's behind longer than should have been acceptable. "It's...umm...fine."
Amethyst noticed the pink tinge on Harvey's face, but decided not to make a big deal of it. Instead she grabbed his t-shirt, pulling him along as she skipped towards the desk where Jareth was talking to the female receptionist.
Upon reaching the shiny black marble desk, Amethyst noticed how attractive the female was. The tall, athletic white tigress had the most piercing green eyes and a gorgeous head of jet black shoulder length hair. Amethyst smiled at the pretty creature but couldn't help feeling envious of her. Amethyst grabbed Jareth's waist and snuggled against his neck while still clinging to Harvey's shirt.
"What's happening, Jar?"
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Not sure yet, there are apparently a few details that need to be checked."
As Jareth said this, the shapely tiger turned and walked over to the relic of a computer at the far end of the desk. She picked up a piece of paper, reached across to a nearby telephone, dialled a number and started talking to what was presumably her manager. She gave a little nod, hung up and padded back over to the awaiting trio.
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I'm afraid the shooting event has been cancelled. We were called earlier this morning by the organiser; he apparently has urgent family matters to attend to."
Jareth, Harvey and Amethyst sighed collectively.
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Are we the last to know?" Jareth asked.
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Oh no sir, you are the first party to arrive, I suspect the others will appear later." She said cheerily, "the cabins have all been pre-booked, but if you do not wish to stay then my manager will be happy to refund you."
Jareth looked at his two companions and rolled his eyes "Well, what you want to do?"
Harvey was the first to answer, "There's no point in letting the weekend go to waste by going home. OK so we have all our gear with us but that won't stop us having fun."
Jareth looked at Amethyst expectantly.
Amethyst shrugged, "hell, I'm more than happy to stay, it will do us good."
Turning back to the white tigress Jareth explained that they would take a cabin for the weekend and enquired about the available facilities.
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There is a 24 hour café within the vicinity, a small supermarket, a DVD library where you can get any film you wish for free during your visit and there is a locally run pub about five minutes walk from here."
The tigress reached under the desk and brought out two sheets of A4 paper. One providing information and rules about the cabin they would inhabit. The other stated that the trio had been informed of the event cancellation and were happy with the service.
Once the papers were signed and handed back the tigress turned to a small wooden chest of drawers and produced three silver keys on three separate chains. Handing them to each individual she explained, "Number five is one of our best cabins. It has a set of stairs that lead directly to the loch from the spacious balcony, a stereo system, sky television with a DVD player and it is relatively secluded so you won't be bothered. It has recently been fitted with all new furniture, including mahogany table sets inside and outside. You should have a lovely weekend; the weather looks to be good."
After the keys were handed over and thanks were exchanged the three friends raced each other to the car, grabbed their belongings and went in search of their cabin.
The cabin wasn't difficult to find. It stood alone on what appeared to be large wooden stilts with the stairs that the receptionist mentioned plainly obvious. Before the trio even entered the building Amethyst was taken aback by how large it looked. She was curious as to why they got allocated this particular cabin, perhaps it was because they arrived first or maybe the cute tigress was attracted to the three of them. Hmm now there's an idea, she was pretty cute. Amethyst shivered at the thought. As they wandered over to the front door, Amethyst remembered the tiger saying that they would have a lovely weekend and laughed quietly, what she didn't know. Jareth fiddled with his small silver key trying to get it in the lock. Hearing the lock come undone Jareth reached for the bronze handle and pushed the large, wooden door open. The heavy door creaked loudly and slammed closed as the three friends walked into the cabin. With a collective gasp, bags were thrown heavily onto the freshly polished wooden floor. The luvine, fox and coyote went exploring around what was their home for the next three nights. Amethyst wandered around, brushing her paw over table tops and kitchen surfaces and was astounded at how beautifully smooth the dark mahogany wood felt under her paw pads. The living area was spacious and well decorated. In the corner of the room was a small electric fire and a rather large television mounted on the main wall with an average sized DVD cabinet placed directly under it. The room although spacious was taken up by two classic looking black leather sofas, flanking a hand carved coffee table, with cups, saucers, tea and coffee already laid out in a simple yet effective centre display.
As Amethyst wandered in awe, nodding in approval at the amount of effort that had been put into this cabin, she heard Harvey announce that the master bedroom was his. She laughed to herself and padded through to see what the fuss was about. As it turned out the room that Harvey had chosen was the biggest but that didn't mean that Jareth and her would be left with a tiny box room. The room directly across from the master bedroom was just as big, the only difference was it wasn't an en suite. Thinking about Jareth she couldn't help but notice that he wasn't indoors, she looked across at Harvey who was currently laying spread out on the bed and wandered back into the main living area and through the double doors which lead to the balcony. There he was, her fox, standing with his camera taking photos of the scenery. She strolled over and hugged him from behind, growling slightly and gently licking his cheek.
"It's lovely here isn't it?"
Jareth stopped playing with his camera, turned and smiled at his mate "It sure is, in fact I am almost not bothered that the Airsoft weekender was cancelled."
Amethyst chuckled and shouted for the coyote "Hey Harvey! You should come out and see this."
