Wilson's Hard Lesson (35 page)

By: Patricia Heat

Spread Wide on the Beach

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“Hurry up dad!” Elaina yelled once she had carried her heavy
bag down the stairs. Elaina, her twin sister Alana, her stepfather, and her
stepfather’s best friend Richard were on their way to go camping and her dad
was currently holding everyone up.

“We’re going to leave without you if you don’t hurry up!”

Elaina had been looking forward to this trip for months and
she wasn’t going to let her dad ruin it. She and Alana had never been camping
before and their father promised them that he’d take them once they were
eighteen. They turned eighteen the month before so it was time for their father
to deliver on his promise.

“Dan you’re so slow. You’re getting old man!”

Richard called up the stairs and reached down to grab
Elaina’s bags.

“Thank you,” she said happy that she didn’t have to carry those
bags to the car as well. Dan came to the top of the stairs and he was wearing a
suit

“I’m going to have to pass. I have a lot of work that I need
to do at the office.” Dan said as he slipped on his freshly polished black
shoes.

“What’s keeping everyone? Let’s go!” Alana said coming back
into the house. She paused when she saw her father. “Why are you dressed like
that for a camping trip?”

“So we can’t go now?” Elaina said visibly upset. Dan looked
at the watch on his wrist and shook his head.

“No, you two can go with Richard. I’m just not going.”

The twins should’ve felt bad for their stepfather because he
had to work, but they were overjoyed that they could still go.

“We hope you land whatever client your boss has you after!”
Alana said and grabbed Elaina’s arm forcing her to follow her outside. Richard
stared up at Dan.

“Well that sucks for you,” he said with absolutely no
remorse. “I’ll eat enough fish for us both”. With that said Richard picked up
Elaina’s bags and made his way out of the door.

* * * * *

“Are we almost there yet?” Alana said just like a child
would say when they were in a hurry to get to an amusement park.

“We’re about an hour and a half away,” Alana sighed and
leaned back in her seat. Elaina was in the front seat browsing through the
internet on her phone. There was a strong possibility that they wouldn’t have a
signal in the woods, so she wanted to get enough internet time as possible.

“Just watch videos on your phone,” Elaina suggested without
moving her eyes from her phone.

“It died an hour ago.” Alana groaned. Elaina sighed and
threw her phone at her. Richard glanced at Elaina and then back at Alana.

“For you two to be twins, you’re nothing alike.”

Even though Elaina and Alana looked the same; both were
around 5’3 with honey colored skin because of all the sun. Their eyes were a
medium shade of brown and their hair were jet black cut into a short bob, but
they were as different as night and day. Elaina being several minutes older was
definitely the most mature between the two and Alana was the one who always had
to have fun. Elaina enjoyed having fun too, but she wasn’t going to act like a
child when it wasn’t happening as quickly as she would have preferred.

“Because we’re two completely different people,” Elaina said.
“Just because we look the same doesn’t mean we’re the same.”

Richard laughed a hearty laugh.

“You’re right about that.”

This was definitely going to be an interesting experience
for him. He didn’t have any kids and never thought girls would be interested in
camping, but here these two girls were in his minivan with their short shorts
on. This trip can go one of two ways; one, they have a good time or two; the
twins would get eaten up by mosquitoes. Either way it goes, Richard was
definitely going to enjoy himself.

When the three finally arrived to their destination, the
twins hustled out of the car and looked at their environment.

“Wow, these trees are huge!” Alana said mesmerize by all of
the large trees that decorated the woods. It was the middle of the day and the
sun practically got lost within the massive greenery.

“Come on, grab some stuff,” Richard said as he grabbed a lot
of the heavier bags out of the car. “We’ve got a little ways to go before we
are where we’re supposed to camp at.”

Elaina and Alana went back to the car and grabbed all that
they could. After they got everything that they could manage to handle, Richard
led them down a small path in the woods. They walked for thirty minutes before
they arrived at their campgrounds.

“Here we are” Richard said as he sat the items that he was
carrying down. A short run away they could see a lake and they heard the birds
chirping along with other animals making music throughout the woods.

“Nice job picking out this area,” Elaina said grinning from
ear to ear. She could tell just by looking at the environment that they were
going to have a good time.

Richard unpacked two medium sized tents and began working on
getting them constructed. “Do you need some help?” Elaina said walking towards
him. Alana ran towards the lake and stared into it in a daze; she had
definitely not planned on helping.

“Sure, go get your sister before she falls into the lake.
Your mother and Dan would never let me hear the end of it if one of you were to
get hurt out here.” Elaina nodded her head and ran towards her sister.

“Come on, we need to help Richard out.” Elaina grabbed
Alana’s arm and dragged her back to where Richard was at.

“Why the hell do we have to help him set up the tent? Isn’t
that the reason he’s here, to set things up for us?” Elaina glared at Alana and
pinched her side.

“Don’t be lazy!” If it was up to Alana, she’d run around all
day by herself and leave Elaina and Richard to do all of the hard work. Elaina
definitely was not going to be taken advantage of like that.

“It’s so nice of you to join us.” Richard said sarcastically
as he handed Elaina and Alana some rope so that they could bring the tent up.
It took them almost forty five minutes to assemble the two tents.

“I’ll start a fire,” Richard said as he took some logs out
of a bag that he was carrying. Alana said something about wanting to sunbathe
and ran towards the lake again. Elaina looked at her phone to see if she had a
signal, when she noticed that she didn’t, she walked over to Richard.

“Is it hard to start a fire?”

“Not really if you have the right materials and wood.”

Elaina watched Richard place the logs in a pile and
positioned rocks around his handmade fire pit. Elaina never really paid
attention to Richard before, but she noticed that he was fairly attractive. He
was large maybe approaching 200 pounds and he was incredibly tall, taller than
her stepfather who was 6’3. He had bronze skin and black hair with specks of
grey. Stubble lined his cheek which was chiseled nicely. He was definitely a
manly man.

“What?” Richard asked when he noticed Elaina looking at him.

“Do you have a girlfriend Richard? I’m just curious”

Richard scratched the back of his neck and shook his head.
“No, I’m honestly too busy for one.”

“You ever thought about getting married and having kids?”
Elaina asked as she sat down on the dirt in front of the now lit fire pit.

“I used to think about it, but it never happened. I’m a
little too old to be having kids now anyways.”

“How old are you?” Elaina countered back. Richard raised an
eyebrow.

“Forty-eight. What’s up with all of these questions?”
Richard asked as he reached into the cooler and grabbed out a beer.

“No reason,” Elaina said looking happy for some reason.
Richard eyed her curiously as he downed his beer.
What is going on in her mind?
He thought to himself.

He threw his can in a bag and took out a frying pan. Richard
didn’t use a grill when he went camping; he thought that was taking the easy
way out. He brought some food with him, but he wanted to fish and hunt his own
food because that was what true campers did. He picked up a fishing pole and he
and Elaina made their way to the lake to see what they could get.

Richard and Elaina were able to catch six pikes while Alana
cheered them on from the sidelines. Richard cooked up the fish and everyone ate
two pieces. It was surreal to watch a fish being captured, de-scaled and
cooked, but the experience was interesting for Elaina. Alana didn’t want to eat
the fish because she saw them killed, but when hunger began to sit in, Alana
had no choice but to eat it.

“It’s sad how we just killed these fish and now we’re eating
them” Alana said in between bites.

“Says the girl who is still eating them,” Elaina responded
back.

“Why couldn’t we just bring something from the store?”

“Either way it goes whatever we brought would have still
been killed.”

“But at least we wouldn’t have killed them.”

Richard watched the girls argue back and forth and he
cracked open another beer. He found the two amusing, but he was more interested
in Elaina than he was in Alana. Elaina had a fighter’s spirit, willing to learn
the means to survive, while Alana merely wanted to lounge around like she was
in the Bahamas.

“Night and day,” Richard said smiling at the girls. Alana
looked at him in confusion.

“What does that have anything to do with it?” Richard shook
his head and smiled. Elaina remained quiet though, but when Richard looked into
her eyes, he understood that she knew exactly what he was talking about.

“I’m going to bed.” Alana pushed up on her feet and began
walking towards the tent. “Are you coming?” Alana turned back and looked at
Elaina. Elaina shook her head.

“I’m going to stay out here a little while longer.” Alana
shrugged, unzipped her tent and zipped it back up once she was all the way in.

“You’re not tired?” Richard said as he threw a few logs into
the fire to keep it lit. It was a little after ten and it was completely dark
out. He brought some lanterns for him and the girls to use for their tents, but
he wasn’t planning on calling it a night just then.

“No,” Elaina said looking up towards the sky. She didn’t
really get a chance to see the stars because of all of the lights in the city,
so this was a nice change for her.

“Me neither,” Richard said looking at her. “Want to walk
around a little before we call it a night then?” Elaina nodded her head and
stood up. Richard stood up grabbing a torch that he brought along and held it
up to the fire. Once it was lit, Richard and Elaina began their walk.

“Do you come camping a lot?” Elaina asked him once they were
a little ways away from the tent.

“I come a few times a year. It gets really nice around this
time.” Richard looked down at Elaina and smiled. “Are you getting cold?” The
temperature did drop some and Elaina could feel Goosebumps forming on her skin,
but she shook her head.

“No I’m good.” Elaina hopped over a fallen tree and
stumbled; Richard grabbed her arm before she fell over and held her close to
his body.

“Be careful, you could get a pretty rough cut out here.”
Elaina was surprised by how hard Richard’s body was when he pulled her against
him. He smelled good also which Elaina thought was odd considering that he had
been working all day. When she finally was able to catch her footing, she moved
away from Richard and blushed.

“Thank you.” She said looking away from him. When Richard
held Elaina close to him, he couldn’t help but to be in awe about how soft her
body was. He could smell the sweet scent of her shampoo and it kind of turned
him on. He really didn’t want to have these types of thoughts about his
friend’s stepdaughter so he quickly pushed them out of his mind. They listened
to the sounds of the crickets and owls which made music all around them. Elaina
never knew that she could hear something so beautiful.

“This is amazing,” she said as they came across a small
little pond which made its way through the woods. She knew that if her
stepfather would have come with them, she’d be in the tent at that moment with
Alana while he and Richard was more than likely drinking by the fire.

“It is, the nights get real dark around here, but stick to
the fire and you’ll be able to see a lot of amazing things.”

Elaina looked up at Richard and noticed the fire dancing
around his face. His eyes were gentle and warm and he smiled at her when he
noticed that she was watching him. Elaina’s chest started to clench and her
breath came out quicker. She didn’t know what was wrong with her and why
Richard had that effect on her. Without thinking, Elaina grabbed the torch out
of Richard’s hand. Richard was confused by her actions, but when he saw the
look in her eyes, his mind went wild and his intelligent thoughts left him. He
pulled Elaina closer to her and took the torch from her. He put the fire out by
pushing it into the water and kissed Elaina under the moonlight.