Moans from the tent chapter 1 part 2 of 5

Moans from the tent chapter 1 part 2 of 5

"Really? Do you want to sleep? It's too early."

It was true, JP had to concede to herself. It was 9-something at the latest.

"What's your story anyway?" Jeff asked. "You went to school with Maggie?"

JP thought of laying and ignoring his question, but he knew she was not asleep, and JP was not naturally rude, even if she was grumpy. It is not his fault, she sighed.

"School and now college," was her short reply. It was the best she could muster.

"Hmmm," Jeff said, letting the silence sit for a while, the torch still on, facing the door. "So... your turn."

"What?"

"Ask me something."

"What?"

"Anything. Just ask me something."

JP sighed and turned over. "Why did you have to tell Maggie that
Danny was interested?"

Jeff shrugged. "I just said he was interested, not that he wanted her to sneak over for the night. How was I to know..."

"Know what?"

"Well, that my cousin...did that so easily."

"You really don't know her very well."

"I guess not."

"Why did you move out here?" JP asked.

"For college," Jeff said frowning, JP knew he went to school here, why ask that?

"Yeah, I know that, but why here? Why didn't you go to school back home?"

"Oh. I do not know. Do something different. I applied to anywhere I had a family. Got this one."

"You're only second cousins, right?"

"Not your turn."

"Huh?"

"Not your turn for a question. My turn," Jeff said as a means of changing the topic.

"Oh."

"You didn't want to stay in a tent with Rabbit because you have a boyfriend?"

"Yes."

"But...if you didn't have a boyfriend, you would have stayed with him?"

"That's two questions. Not your turn."

"Okay, forget whose turn thing."

"You're second cousins, right?" JP asked again.

"Yeah, so what?"

"You came here to study because of a second cousin you hardly know?"

Jeff laughed. "My uncle and first cousins are here too, not just Maggie's family. You would have taken Rabbit if you were single?"

"No!"

"Why not?"

"Come on. Not even slightly my type. How could I tell people my boyfriend is called Rabbit?"

"I guess."

"How do you know those guys? Just through Maggie?"

"No, Danny is from lifeguards too. Rabbit, I don't really know, Sandra and he goes back apparently."

"You're a lifeguard?"

"Part-time only," he said nodding.

"So, you know first aid?"

"Passed all the courses."

"Oh. I feel safer out here now."

"I think that's the only reason why Maggie asked me along."

"Oh, come on! Don't be silly."

They talked back and forth for some time. School. Family. Sports.

Movies. Books. Holidays. Camping experience. Occasionally a small yelp or scream would come from the distance, and they would giggle.

"I think Maggie likes sex," JP said apologetically for her friend.

"Are all girls like that?"

"No!" JP squealed.

"You don't like sex?"

"Oh, that's a trap that question. Whatever I say is wrong."
Jeff laughed. "I like you."

"Why thank you."

To be continued