Chapter 27

They loaded the stuff into the minubus, along with tents and cookers and stuff that Art had acutally managed to be fairly organised about. I think maybe because Seiji was on this trip he had actually started to care about what happened.

The started to walk across the moor to the place where they would stay, laughing and running around, pretty much everyone that is, except Ash.

"My feet are going to get dirty," he looked up at Satu with his big brown eyes, batting his eyelashes.

Satu sighed, "Do you want a piggyback Ash?"

Ash grinned, "It would be so kind of you."

Satu sighed, and picked him up, "My God," he said astonishedly, "You're really light."

As the trudged across the moor the sun started to grow hot in the sky, burning on their backs.

"Hey Fergie," Tor grinned at his brother, "If I take my jumper off, will you carry it."

Fergie shrugged, "Sure, if you'll carry mine."

Tor scowled, "But, but then I'll have to carry one anyway."

"Yep, so you might as well carry your own. Just tie it round your waist," said Fergie as he pulled his jumper over his head.

"Fine," said Tor, doing the same.

"No!" Mara snatched her hand away from Tor's "That's not fair, you have to put them back on."

The twins stared at each other, "Why?"

Mara sighed, "Look at yourselves."

Fergie started to laugh, and gently kissed her on the cheek, "You'll get used to it."

"What?" Tor frowned, "What will she get used to? What are we looking for?"

"Awwww bless," Fergie reached up, gently stroking his brother's cheek with the back of his hand, "You're so slow Torin. Didn't you notice, we're matching again."

Tor stared down at his white t-shirt, and then at his brother's and started to laugh, "I guess we do look kinda similar."

"Kinda!" Mara squealed, "That is so unfair."

Tor kissed her gently, sliding an arm around her waist, "Well it's too hot to put them back on. I guess you'll just have to trust us."

By now, most of the guys were taking their jumpers off. Raven stared up at Alex as he pulled the jumper over his head. "You're really cute." she said.

Alex grinned, "Why thank you." he said, laughing. He glanced up to see if Matt or Eagle were looking, and, seeing them talking to each other, kissed her. "You are the most random, and perfect girl on this earth."

"Alex," said Eagle, without even looking up, "Hands off."

"Jesus!" Alex laughed, "How do you do that? I mean, you weren't even looking."

Matt turned and grinned at him, "Eagle's magic."

Art started to tug at Seiji's jumper, "Aren't you getting to hot." he sniggered, "You are mighty hot actually."

Seiji turned and glared at him, "I'm not taking off my jumper, if that's what you mean." "Awww Sei," said Art kissing him softly, "But you're so fit."

Seiji smiled faintly, "I thought you were the cute one."

"Mmmm," Art slipped an arm around his waist, "You are gorgeous though."

�No,� said Seiji firmly,

�Hey!� Mikey laughed, �I have a great idea,�

�Oh God,� Ally groaned, the only one who was truly used to Mikey�s �Great Idea�s�

�Let�s play truth or dare!�

Silence.

Everyone turned to look at Mikey, �You serious?� Eagle asked

�mmmhmmm,� Mikey grinned, �Aww come on, I haven�t played truth or dare since I was like 12, it�ll be fun.�

�Hmmm,� Art frowned slightly, �But the dares have to be fairly clean till we actually get to where we�re gonna stay, because that way I won�t get into trouble.�

�Oooh!� Ash clapped his hands together, �We could play truth or truth!�

�Truth or truth?� Seiji raised an eyebrow, �Now this I haven�t heard of.�

�It�s like truth or dare, but with no dares.�

�Right, ok, so the name says it all really.�

�Yuhuh.�

Art grinned, �Alright then,�

�Oooh, can I go first!� Amber grinned evilly, �Seeing as I don�t know you guys that well.�

�Sure.�

�Ok, so�� Amber thought for a second, �Matt?�

�Yes.� Said Matt, scowling, and dreading the question to come.

�Are you gay?�

�No!� Matt yelled, �Why are you lot obsessed with the fact I�m gay! I�m STRAIGHT dammit!�

Art laughed, �Yeah, whatever. Your go.�

�Ok,� Matt grinned evilly, power gone to his head, ready to cast the fate he had, only a few seconds ago, been dreading, on some other poor unsuspecting victim.�

�Alex?�

�Oh God.�

�Ok,� Matt grinned, �This is a kinda complicated one. If Eagle and I weren�t here, like in the school, would you have slept with Raven by now.�

Alex grinned, laughing, �Who says I haven�t�

He was only saved by Matt grabbing the back of Eagle�s jumper, �Don�t kill him.�

Eagle scowled.

Alex grinned again, �Probably not.�

�Not!� Ally squealed �My God that�s restrained. Are you gay?�

�Mmm, Now that would be an idea.� Art laughed, �He is cute after all.�

�No, I�m not.� Alex laughed, �Right, so, anyway. Tor?�

�Yeah?�

�Random question, who was the first person you slept with?�

Tor thought for a moment, and then turned bright red, �No comment.�

�Awww, You gotta tell!� Ash cried, �It ruins the game otherwise� [darnit]

�Fine.� Said Tor, and muttered something inaudible.

�What was that?� Fergie grinned, his eyes sparkling.

Tor scowled, �You know full well what I said.�

�Mmmm,� Fergie laughed, �But no-one else does.�

�Who was it?� Art smiled, now intruiged by Tor�s reluctance to give an answer.

�Fergie.� Tor muttered, a little louder this time, and turning a deep crimson.

Fergie sniggered.

�So was Tor the first person you slept with?� Art asked Fergie.

Fergie thought for a moment, and then, almost imperceptibly, shook his head, �No.�

�My turn now.� Tor grinned evilly, �Caley?�

�Mmmhmm?� Fergie grinned at his brother, �You can�t embarrass me, you know that by now.�

�Yeah, but, anyway�� Tor continued, �Have you ever actually slept with a girl?:�

�No!� Fergie squealed, �I�m highly offended, how could you think so lowly of me.�

By this time, they were deep in a forest, and laughter rang through the thick trees.

Seiji glanced around himself, looking at the surroundings, calculating exits, places of attack, and places of defence. Thoughts that now came as naturally to him as breathing did. The trees were thick, and many had branches reaching almost to the floor, all of them very easy to climb. The sunlight dappled through the autumn leaves, the artist in him picking out the golds, reds and browns, the killer in him seeing how easy it would be to hide behind them.

They arrived in a clearing to see all of their stuff, food and tents dumped in the middle.

�It would appear Andi has just dumped the stuff and left.� Art grinned, �But ah well, here we are.� He started to pull the tents out from the pile. �Unfortunately, you don�t get to decide who you stay with.� He pulled a piece of paper out of his pocket, �Right, Matt and Eagle are together, Alex and Ash, Satu and Charlie, Mara and Nienna, the twins, Ally and Mikey, J and Toni, sorry Raven, you get the bundle of joy that is Amber, and Seiji� he grinned �Can go with me.�

They started to set up the two man tents, but instead of the work load being divided equally between pairs, Seiji set up the tent for him and Art (he still managed to be finished first though�how does he do that?), Fergie set up the ten for him and Tor, and Ash point blank refused to be of any help at all.

While they were setting up tents, Art, and later with Seiji�s help, started to make a fire, and set up the cooking stuff, starting to make lunch, so by the time the others were unpacked, there was a hot meal for them to eat.

After lunch, Art jumped up, being over enthusiastic again. �Who�s up for another walk?�

�What?� Matt looked up, �Have you not exhausted us enough or something?�

Art sniggered,

�NOT LIKE THAT!�

Art grinned, �No, it�s just theres this really nice place, which has a stream and everything, and I thought you guys might want to see it, it�s not that far really.�

Everyone looked around at each other, �Sure�I think.� Was the general concensus.

�Do we have to?� Mara asked, �It�s just serious walking uses all the wrong muscles, so I shouldn�t do too much.�

�You can stay if you want.�

�Can we stay too?� Mikey asked, meaning himself, Ally, J and Toni.

�Sure.� Art grinned, �Is anyone coming?�

Everyone else was.

They were about two minutes on the walk, not even out of the forest when Fergie tapped Art on the shoulder, �Can I go back, I have a headache.�

Art softly kissed the top of his head, �Poor Fergie, sure you can, you won�t get lost?�

Fergie shook his head.

�Good, alright then.�

He started to walk back through the forest, the laughter of his friends fading. After nearly takning a wrong turning he arrived back at the tents.

Toni looked up, �Hey,� she took a guess, �Tor.�

Fergie froze, for just a fraction of a second, the idea hitting him like a lightening bolt, he blushed slightly, �Hey.� He said, smiling, �Where�s Mara?�

"She's in there," said Toni, grinning, and pointing to Mara's tent.

Fergie grinned back, "Thanks," he mouthed, before tiptoeing over to the tent. Slowly, so as not to make a sound he pushed the flaps to teh tent aside. Mara lay on her stomach, feet waving in the air, reading. As she felt the cool breeze she twisted around to see what had made the tent open. "Tor?" she whispered, eyes shining in delight.

Fergie traced a gentle finger down the back of her neck, "Hello beautiful."

"I thought you'd gone."

"Mmm," Fergie lay down beside her, resting his arm across her hips, "I came back." He blushed slightly, "I missed you."

Mara snuggled against his chest, "Oh Tor," she sighed softly, "I missed you too."

Fergie put a gentle hand under her chin, and kissed her softly, firmly pushing her over so she was lying on her back. Still kissing her, he placed both hands on her slender hips, slowly sliding them up underneath her t-shirt.

"Tor!" she squealed, grabbing his hands to stop him, "Not here," she whispered, "They'll hear."

Fergie grinned, "Come on then," he said, standing up and holding out a hand to her. He pulled her out of the tent.

"Where are we going?" she asked

"You'll see." he said, grinning, and pulled her out into the forest, in the opposite direction to where the others had gone. When he had gotten lost on the way back, he had infact found a much small clearing, surrounded by a dense wall of trees and bushes, the perfect hiding place. "Shhh," he whispered, "They might still hear, you'll have to be quiet."

Mara giggled in nervous excitment. As he kissed her again, and shiver of delight ran down her spine; she wanted him so much. She sank to the floor, landing on a soft mossy bank, pulling him on top of her. "Oh Tor," she sighed, "I need you so much."

Fergie smiled, thank God he and his brother talked about everything, he now knew virtually everything about Mara, what she liked, what she didn't. He leant down and kissed her, just above the top of her jeans feeling her shudder with delight underneath him. Slowly he started to undo her jeans, sliding them over her hips. he lifter her t-shirt over her head: My God she's skinny, he thought, I really must find some subtle way of getting her to eat, without letting her know I've slept with her. He smiled softly to himself, and covered it up by pulling his own t-shirt off. He kissed her collerbone as his arms slid underneath her, in one movement undoing the clasp of her bra. As his toungue flickered over her nipple she moaned softly. Fergie tried hard not to grin to himself, really sleeping with a girl wasn't all that hard, he didn't know what his brother made such a fuss about.

Mara reached up and playfully bit his ear, "You're being very gentle today," she whispered.

Shit, Fergie thought, she's used to sleeping with Tor. He ran his toungue down the centre of her body, pausing only to kiss her bellybutton, "Well," he said, smiling up at her, "Everyone needs some TLC once in a while." His gentle fingers slid between her legs, feeling how wet she was he nearly winced, she really did want him, Tor even, he mentally corrected himslef, she didn't actually want him, she thought he was someone else.

"Jesus Tor," Mara squealed, writhing underneath him, "I need you so much."

What the hell am I doing? Thought Fergie as he slid inside her.

Afterwards, she snuggled against the warmth of his body, feeling his strong arms around her. "Love you Tor."

"Love you too." Fergie smiled, "You know, you're very beautiful."

Mara looked up at him, eyes shining with delight, "You mean that?" she asked

Shit, Fergie swore to hismelf, my brother really is a shit boyfriend, "Yeah, I do, I probably don't tell you enough, but you're really beautiful."

"Thanks," she muttered sleepily into his chest.

"Mara," he said, gently stroking the side of her face, "I need a favour."

"Anything."

"I figured Art would flip if he knew I was coming back to screw you, so we kinda pretended it was Fergie that came back, so you mustn't say anything, ok?"

Mara looked up at him, grinned and kissed him. "You really do think of everything, don't you?"

As night began to fall, they sat around the fire, Seiji with his arms around Amber, Tor sat between Mara and Fergie, Ash snuggled up to Satu.

"I know!" Ash giggled, "We should play truth or dare again."

There was a chorus of groans and "please no" s

"Although," Amber grinned, "We could play 'I never'"

"I never?" Ally looked up, interested for once, "I've heard of this."

Amber ignored him, and turned to her brother, "You bring anything to drink Art?"

Art laughed, "When would I not? Yes, and Andi gave us a little present aswell."

"Go get a bottle or two of somthing while I explain."

"Yes miss," said Art sarcastically as he got up.

Amber, used to him, let it wash over her, "So basically the first person says something, and if the statement doesn't apply to you, then you have to drink." she frowned, "I hope I'm never a teacher, it's easier if you demonstrate."

Art returned with a bottle baring no lable, "Hmm, this is usually fun for I never."

"Ok," Amber handed the bottle to Seiji, "You have to start Seiji, and say, "I never played I never before."

"Ok......." said Seiji uncertainly, "I never played I never."

Amber took the bottle from him, "Now I have to drink, becuase I HAVE played I never, yeah?" As she drank, people started to get the idea. She passed the bottle to Art, who drank, and the bottle made it's way around the rest of the circle without anyone drinking and got back to Seiji.

"Now what?" Ally asked

Amber took the bottle, "Now it's my turn." She grinned, and thought for a second, "I never..." pause, and then she giggled, "I never accidentally bit someone when having sex." She laughed, and handed the bottle to Art.

Art thought about it for a second, and then, laughing too, drank. He passed it around, Toni, J, Mikey, Ally, Tor, Fergie and Seiji all drank, the others sat there looking smug.

The bottle found it's way back to Art.

"Ok," Art thought, "I never had sex with a girl."

"oooh?" Said J who was sat next to him, "What constitutues drinking."

Amber, being in charge dictated the rules, "I reckon if you've been as far with a girl as it is biologically possible for you to go..." she winced, "ew, then you drink."

"Ok," said J, and then drank, she passed the bottle to Toni, who also drank. Ally then Mikey drank, Charlie and Nienna didn't, Satu did, Ash didn't, Raven and Alex didn't, Mara didn't, she handed the bottle to Tor, who drank, he handed the bottle to Fergie...

Fergie sat, staring at the bottle for a second, and then, wincing, drank. He handed the bottle to Seiji.

"Wait!" Ash cried, "But this afternoon you said you never had sex with a girl."

"mmm" Fergie suddenly became very interested in a blade of grass by his feet.

"So you lied!" Amber cried,

"No."

"So you're lying now."

"No."

"But, but," Amber stumbled, "Then how does it work?"

Ally grinned evilly, having put two and two together, and arrived at a very shocking four, "He could have slept with a girl between then, and now."

Tor turned to his brother, laughing, "Who?"

Mara's jaw dropped, "You bastard."

Tor turned to face her, "What?"

"You complete and utter bastard," she staring straight ahead, suddenly, as if she had just ocme around, she shook her head, and turned to Tor, "Not you."

"Who then?" said Tor, mightly confused...bless him.

"Your bastard brother."

"I dont get it!" Tor wailed, "Why are you so angry at him, and who has he slept with and...oh." He got there a few minutes after everyone else. His face turned to absolute thunder, without thinking his arm swung around in the direction of Fergie.

Fergie caught his wrist, Tor's fist stopping millimetres from his face.

"Oh Jesus," Tor gushed, fear in his eyes, "I didn't mean to hit you Ferg, I didn't hit you, I'm sorry."

Calmly, Fergie got up, and walked away from his brother, into the forest, turning back only to say, "You swore you'd never do that, you swore."

Tor put his head in his hands, "What have I done?"

"What have you done!" Mara squealed, "What's HE done! THE BASTARD FUCKED ME!"

Art sniggered, not helping.

Tor turned to Mara, snarling slightly, "Actually," he whispered in the voice of someone trying very hard to stay calm, "He isn't a bastard, he probably fucked you for a reason, and I very nearly hit him, which is the one thing I swore I'd never do."

"Tor!" she yelled as he started to get up, "I'm your girlfriend, and your brother just screwed me! What does it matter if you hit him or not?"

"Becuase Fergie needs atleast one person in his life who he knows wont hit him..." Tears started to run down Tor's cheeks, "And I just did." He got up and started to run after his brother, �Caley wait!�

Fergie, who hadn�t got far, turned, a look of utter disgust on his face, �Why should I wait for you �You�re just like he is,�

�I�m sorry.� Tor cried

Fergie froze in his tracks, �What was that?� He said, a smile almost playing on his lips, �Was that the boy who never apologised, saying sorry?�

Tor scowled slightly, turning red, �I said I�m sorry.�

�Aww Torin.� Fergie stopped and walked back to his brother, putting his arms around him, �Love you Tor, you�re nothing like that English Bastard.�

�I�m sorry for trying to hit you Ferg.�

Fergie sniggered, �I�m sorry for sleeping with your girlfriend,� He looked over Tor�s shoulder at Mara, �I�m sorry, really I am, it wasn�t a nice thing of me to do, and I am an utter bastard.�

�Uh,� Mara blushed, she genuinely hadn�t been expecting an apology, �That�s ok?� she ventured.

Fergie laughed, �No, it�s not, and one day you might understand why I did it.�

Tor turned to him, �Why did you do it?�

�Because,� Fergie shrugged, �Because you broke a promise to me.�

�I did?�

�Yeah,� Fergie absent mindedly stared into the distance, as if staring back into the past. �You promised me you never be serious about someone who was English.�

�I know, I know.� Tor paced a gentle hand on his brother�s cheek, �Love you Fergie,�

�Mmm,� Fergie kissed him softly, �Love you too,�

�Okay.� Art grinned, �Well, now that�s all smoothed over, shall we carry on with the game.�

Both twins laughed, and looked at each other, �I think we�re going to bed now.�

Art sniggered, �Going to fuck each other?�

Fergie grinned, �What else?�

Art shook his head, �You two are damned twisted.�

Tor ignored that comment, and, wrapping his arms around his brother�s waist, pulled him into the tent, �Come on Caley.� He said, his eyes flashing evilly.

�Uh, what about me?� Mara wailed,

�Oh yeah.� Fergie grinned, he went across and rather sweetly kissed her on the cheek, �I�m really sorry.�

�That�s very sweet Fergie, but actually I wanted to hear it from Tor.�

Fergie looked expectantly at his brother, �You did say some rather harsh things to her.�

Tor sighed, and knelt down beside her, �Look baby I didn�t mean it, it�s just I was tired, and confused, and.� He kissed her, �You have to understand, Fergie means so much to me, more than you can imagine. He�s my twin,� his hand started to slide around her waist, �Now you have to understand I really love you,� his other hand slid underneath her t-shirt, �it�s just I love Fergie more than is humanly possible.� He kissed her, and as he felt her shiver with delight, let her go. �Come on Fergie, bed time.� He said, an evil glint in his eye.

�Fine, ok then.� Said Mara, starting to huff, but then realised that actually, even if she threw a tantrum no-one would notice, or even care.

Eventually, after some more heavy drinking, Art decided to put everyone to bed.

�Come on guys, sleep time.� He grinned, one arm sliding around Seiji�s waist.

�What!� Mikey groaned, �But it�s half term.�

�And we still have to get up in the morning. Besides,� he grinned, �I want to screw my boyfriend now.�

�Don�t I get some say in this?�

Art shrugged, �You saying you don�t want it.�

Seiji grinned, �Not in as so much�yeah, alright then.� He gave in and let Art pull him into the tent (and in fact pull him IN the tent)

The others slowly decided to go to bed. Eagle almost deliriously happy, because he was not only sleeping in a rather small tent with Matt, but also because he and Matt were friends again.

Slowly, the hubbub of the evening died down and was reduced to people chatting in twos in their tents, soft whisperings and gentle laughter filled the night sky.

Ash had fallen asleep, needing his beauty sleep as one so beautiful did. Alex lay awake, his head sticking out of the tent, thinking of Raven. He made a snap decision, and got up. He walked over to Amber and Raven�s tent and undid the zip, �Ray, are you awake?�

Raven looked up, smiling, �Yeah.� She said, grabbing a jumper and climbing out of the tent. �Another random moonlight walk?�

�Sort of,� Alex wrapped his arms around her, hugging her close, keeping her warm from the rapidly cooling night. �Look up at the stars�

Raven gazed up, �I heard once that the stars hold your fate.� She smiled up at him, �Do you think they mean us to be together.�

�It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.�

Raven smiled, �Shakespeare again?�

Alex�s hand reached up to her cheek, �Only because you like it.�

Raven�s arms slid around his waist, �I like you.�

Alex smiled, and kissed her softly, his hand sliding just underneath the edge of her jumper.

�Alex,� Came Eagle�s warning voice from his tent.

Matt collapsed with laughter

�Will you guys ever let me touch her?� Alex asked, sounding stern, but in the moonlight they could see the smile upon lips.

�Nope.� Matt laughed, �Raven�s too special.�

�Hey Matt?� Raven spoke for the first time, �So he�s not allowed to touch me, right?�

�Yep.�

Raven grinned, her eyes sparkling, �But I can touch him, right?� she said, as her delicate fingers started to undo Alex�s shirt.

Alex caught her hands, �Not here, and not now.� He said smiling.

�No!� Both Matt and Eagle yelled.

Alex grabbed Raven�s hand, and pulled her just out of sight, wrapping his arms around her, and kissing her, at first passionately, then more softly, gently, lovingly, �I love you so much Ray, can I ever say that enough.�

Raven smiled, �I�ll never get bored of saying it,� she muttered, burying her face in his chest, �Love you.�