"Earth Day? Are you serious?" I heard my friend Eric's voice over the headset and my face fell. Once again here was the guilt trip.
"We have to take care of the earth or it wont take care of us Marcus, don't you see?" I rolled my eyes and agreed, signing myself up for another lame day wandering through the forests doing nothing to improve it other then wandering around getting sweaty. Ah the wonders of friendship.
I got my hiking gear ready and walked through my house in search of something to make the day go by faster. I had a book, a Game boy, and my cell phone, so I knew I would have something to do at least. The State Park had some dense natural forests, but they were surrounded by barren land that used to be farm land and the soil was overworked. Now it was basically bare except the occasional scraggly bush. Teenagers came out there to party all the time so the ground was also covered in trash and old beer cans. It was hard to feel like you were doing something good for the environment when you knew that next week there would be another kegger and it would all be back.
When we got to the forest it was high noon, the sun was bright over head and the air was cool and moist, your typical April day. Eric met me at the forest, a dopey smile on his hippie face. He was so into helping the environment that he had no other life. I was his only friend who was loyal enough to be dragged out to the middle of nowhere to participate in something I barely gave a crap about.
We were given our instructions and split into groups. Group A Eric's group was supposed to scour the outer area and pick up trash, Group B which I was assigned to was supposed to go into the forest and pick up trash, help wild animals, and generally get in touch with nature. I hurried inside the green world of the forest and quickly found a place to relax far from the other workers.
I sat down next to a beautiful old tree, its roots forming a perfect seat and it's gnarled branches reaching high into the air. I could not have given a species if my life depended on it. I sat at the base of the tree and buried my nose in a book, some fantasy novel full of gorgeous women and tough but smooth men. It was boring the life out of me and it was only when I was startled awake that I realized I had dozed off. I looked at my watch immediately and realized it had only been a few minutes. Then I looked up in search of what had woken me.
I noticed a seed of some kind on my lap and looked up, only to realize I was looking up the skirt of a very gorgeous girl on the branch above my head. And I must say here there were no panties. I heard her giggle and I raised my eyes to her face and was in shock. She was young, obviously fully mature but petite, no older the eighteen or nineteen physically, though honestly if I hadn't of seen her eyes I might have guessed younger. She was small, no more then five foot and that was generous, and so delicately boned she couldn't have weighed more then 90 pounds. Yet she looked natural. She was wearing a gauzy gown of some material that shimmered in the light. One of her small pert breasts was mostly bared as the dress draped like a toga on her shoulders. Her hair was long and had a green tinge to it, though it could have been the color of the forest reflecting in the pale blond.