Shortly after the match before we started the break, Rose was able to talk the faculty into maybe letting us go on a class camping trip over the break. This was apparently a thing in the fan fiction she wrote. I think she wrote some steamy scenes by how red her face got when she told me. The faculty said we could go on the sole condition that her class finishes their homework first and turns it in. I mean, that makes sense. I gave Rose a notebook to share with her class and they very quickly finished their homework. During the last week of our break the faculty said we could go on a 3 day camping trip. This was NOT in the book, so I have no idea what to expect there. I will just keep avoiding Rose like usual to the best of my ability. We have been doing a good job at avoiding each other and Jennifer has yet to do anything to protect her from me. Bright side, my eyelid has healed by this point so I am not wearing a bandage anymore.
We get to the campground and we set up our tents. The girls are in one camp and the boys are in another camp. While the girls are setting up camp, I can't be over there since Rose is so I help the boys in my class. Ignoring the bullies. They are leaving me alone while I am helping them by proxy through my classmates. Ren has since taken his shirt off while he chops some firewood with a hatchet I provided. The girls have all stopped preparing camp and are all looking at him. I hear Mia say with a loud seductive moan, "Mmmmmm. The things I would let him do to me." She says with a squeal. Heather scolds her while bopping her arm gently with her hand with the elegance of a noble lady, "Mia! You know he is engaged to our precious Violet. You can't just go saying things like that." Mia pouts a bit, "Well you know as much as I do that there is no romance in their relationship. Can't a girl have a fantasy?" The other girls start giggling at the interaction and also at their continued creep fest on Ren. Ren is loving the attention though. He is peacocking a bit and the girls are just loving it. The other guys are groaning in jealousy at Ren.
As they are creeping on Ren, I start off by preparing a fire that won't go out overnight with the wood that Ren has chopped. Not like we need it for warmth because this is the warm part of the year, but it does get a bit chilly at nights sometimes. That and it will be good to have a constant light source at camp overnight for them. To do this I made a ramp that had a stack of wood on it that would automatically feed into the fire as wood burns. These spoiled noble brats wouldn't know any of this. Shoot, I wouldn't know any of this if not for my knowledge of my previous life. One of the girls came over and saw what I did with their fire pit and they wanted me to do it for them as well. Before I could even ask, she hollered to Rose to give the camp some space.
I set up their firepit as well and once I am done with that I go away from the girl camp in the woods to set up my hammock and tarp on top of it. I fashioned a rope above the hammock so I could drape the tarp over it to protect the hammock from rain and the elements. To make sure the tarp doesn't fly away I put a few clothes pins on it securing it to the rope. I am not that far away from camp, but far enough to where Rose doesn't have to worry about setting off the curse. Once I am done, I tell the girls from both classes and the boys from my class in a loud voice so I don't get too close to Rose, "I have some dried meat I can share. I made sure to make a lot of it when I heard we were going camping." The guys (plus Ren) and all of the girls perked up and came over quickly at the news. I call over Jennifer and hand her a big bag of dried goods and tell her, "This is all for Rose." Both the girls and boys groaned as Jennifer walked away. One of the guys asked while disappointed, "Why does she get that big bag?" I laugh, "I don't have favorites among my friends (I say pointing at them), but Rose is special though. She is my person so obviously she is my favorite. I mean we are currently courting." The girls squeal in excitement and Beatrice says as she raises her blonde eyebrow, "So you guys are courting each other? I had no idea! How does that work? You can't even touch each other."
I responded with a slightly sullen expression, "Well we do talk everyday using my phone. I really wish I could touch her. I would even do terrible things if it meant I could only just hold her hand." Some of the girls squeal and Francois says, "That is soooo romantic! It almost seems like you are in a fairy tale burdened with a curse preventing you from being with your beloved. I really do hope you figure a way around it. I am cheering for you two." I sigh, "A real fucked up fairy tale that is for sure. People should be able to love whoever they want without anyone else getting in the way." I shiver thinking of the creator taking over my body and I start to feel a bit sick and sticky from sweat. Lily asks as she comes closer to look at me with a weird face, "Are you ok? You aren't looking so good." I think that face is 'worry'. I wave my hand in dismissal, "This happens a lot. Whenever I think of them possessing me, I feel this way. It… it isn't pleasant." Heather says, "Well I can only imagine. Something comes inside your body to control it against your will. That just seems unpleasant. That actually seems like a terrible nightmare." The other girls nod in agreement and say little things in agreement in a light murmur. She is right, it is a terrible nightmare, but I don't think I could ever admit that to all of them. I finish handing them the provisions I prepared for them. The boys then return to their camp while munching on their jerky care packages. It is nearing dusk and I am sweaty. I say to the girls, "I think I will go wash up a bit. Can you guys make sure the boys don't try anything?" Mia and Heather said, "You can count on us, Violet!" They flex and I giggle and say, "Thanks. I really appreciate you."
I go to the nearby stream and look around to make sure there are no boys and take off my clothes. I fold them nicely and place them in a dry place along with my towel and I go wash. This stream is cold and I yelp when my foot touches it. I hear a giggle and I turn in a panic since I am naked and I see Rose a ways off looking at me in the distance and instantly relax. She is far enough away so the curse doesn't activate and she starts taking off her clothes too. I am completely captivated and stop like a deer in headlights. Trying to commit everything happening in front of me permanently into my memory. She folds her clothes and places them aside and she wades into the water as well and she yelps too and I giggle in response as well. I just continue to absorb her presence into my eternal memory. Every curve. Every piece of skin. She is too far for me to see any freckles on her skin sadly. I would have loved to see all of the freckles drizzled upon her flesh. Taking the time to count every single one until I figure out exactly how many beautiful freckles she has. Kissing every single one.
Careful not to get too carried away with my imagination I continue to watch Rose as she bathes herself. The way the sun is setting behind her is the most beautiful thing. She is surrounded by a beautiful amber and purple sunset with rays of the sun bouncing off of her red hair. The brightness is soft and warm enough so it doesn't hurt my eyes though I would gladly welcome aching at this moment as long as it doesn't get blurry on me. The part of the sun still above the horizon is being concealed by trees and being obscured is really helping with my eyes. Her skin looks like it is glowing as if I am basking in the presence of a goddess. Her naked form right now is such a work of art that it would be admired by millions if displayed in a museum. That is if I wanted to share her and I don't. I continue to bask in her beauty as she bathes herself and when she is done she giggles at my response and she waves mouthing, 'I love you'. Her doing that took me out of my trance and I wave back and mouth back, 'I love you, too.'
Realizing I was in this very cold water the whole time I hurried up and washed myself since I was not doing anything while I was watching her and got out to return to my camp. I want to talk to Rose before bed. I made sure to bring the phone as well. I brought a lot of things with me. Basically my whole survival go bag I was going to escape with. I take my phone to camp and ask them to give the cup to Rose. I go back to my hammock and lie down awaiting the signal tug. I feel the tug and I hear, "Violet, you were so beautiful and cute all wrapped in one just now. The way the setting sun danced across your black hair flowing in the breeze looked as if you had an amber fairy dancing and playing with your obsidian hair. While your eyes looked like glittering amethysts even visible from afar." I tug on the line, "Me beautiful? You were the one that had me in a complete trance looking like a goddess who descended from the heavens." I sniffle and start coughing and continue, "I think I might have messed around and caught a cold from today. Though I would gladly catch a cold everyday if I could keep seeing you like today." Rose tugs on the line, "I won't keep you up too late so you can get some rest then." I tug on the line frantically, "Don't leave me yet! I want to continue talking to my goddess for a bit." Rose tugs on the line, "Ok, I will talk to you a bit more. Very hard to say no when you call me a goddess. Your goddess." I tug on the line, "I want nothing more than to worship everything that is you. To kiss you all over. I would even do wicked things just for the opportunity to suck on one of your toes."
I hear some giggles. Male giggles. Some of the bullies approach and say, "I didn't know Violet was such a freak. Worshipping a commoner like her on top of that. You are an enigma, Violet. Hey, cut the phone line." I say into the phone real quick, "The boys are about to cut the line. I love you, Ro-" I felt the string loosen when the string was cut. The bullies flip up one side of the tarp throwing it over the rope and they grab me out of the hammock. I start fighting back, "Get off me!" I say then I start coughing then followed by a sniffle. A lot of them realize I am sick and they say, "Eww. I don't think I want to catch that. You are on your own dude." The mixed, brown haired pervert, the one who is named Axel according to Rose, stays and tries to feel me up. I might be sick, but that doesn't mean I am out of commission. I have fought with many colds before when I did martial arts in my previous life. I parry his grabby hands away and grab him in that same fluid motion and knee him in the groin. By now the other girls are coming in and they proceed to beat him up very satisfactorily until he retreats to the boys' camp.
Lily approaches me, "I don't want to leave you alone out here. I am going to move my tent to be next to you." Mia and Heather both say the same thing. They take down and set up their tents again by my hammock. I ask Heather, "Hey can you tell Rose I will replace the phone as soon as I can since the boys took the cup I had." Heather responds while pulling up the blanket in my hammock to tuck me in, "I sure can, Violet. Get some rest and let us take care of you for once." I continue to cough and sniffle and accept their help. Lily comes up to me after setting up her tent with one of the other girls' help since she was struggling with it. She wipes the hair from my face and grabs her canteen and puts it to my lips, "Here Violet, you need to drink water." I sit up a bit and meet her canteen to drink some of the water she is offering.
It has been a while since someone has cared for me like this. It is kind of nice. Lily is such a good friend. I am really glad I am not going through this alone. I can't imagine going through this cursed life alone. I say a bit of what I am feeling after I take a long sip of water, "I feel so blessed to have such wonderful friends like you." Lily blushes and Mia and Heather both go "Awwww. We love you too." Mia then says with her spunky flirtatious nature, "If I were to catch what Violet has, do you think Ren would nurse me back to health?" Heather laughs, "No." Mia smacks her teeth towards Heather then moans, "Mmmmmm. I can just imagine him at my bedside 'Mia, is there anything you need me to do?' then I would reply, 'Me.'" We all laugh at Mia and her antics.
They are just a breath of fresh air in this shitty dystopian world. I smile and do a little happy wiggle while sniffling. Lily squeals and hugs me, "You are just the cutest." She lets go and continues, "Sorry, I almost forgot you were sick. Do you need anything?" She swipes the hair back out my face again and I respond, "I am just tired." She says, "Ok. I will tuck you in and cover you back up with the tarp. Let us know if you need anything." I replied, "Will do. Thank you." Lily seems to be glowing with happy energy while she lowers my tarp. I quickly fall asleep.
I wake up coughing really badly and my nose is completely congested. I really have to pee so I get up and go away from camp and find a tree away from people that has a branch I can hold on to. It is as I am peeing I say 'Shit' to myself because I forgot the toilet paper in my rucksack in my sick haze. I do the shake dry we had to often do in the army when there was no toilet paper which happened so much. We commonly referred to this as the 'twerk-dry'. At least I didn't need to poop. I get close to my hammock again and I start to feel really dizzy and my head starts hurting. That plus my cold caused me to go weak in the knees.
Lily, seeing this, runs to my side and catches me, "You should have called for one of us to help you!" I replied, "I was ok until I got a headache and started getting dizzy. Everything is ok though. Plus, you are here and you caught me so everything is fine." Lily blushes, "I am always here for you, Violet." I can't really see all of her face since I can only see her profile but I think she is making a weird face again. She takes me to my hammock which is already open with the tarp and helps me to a seated position and then covers my lap with the blanket. She says and she pulls the blanket up so I can hold it over my arms, "Wait here a moment and I will put on some tea for you. I originally brought my tea kettle to make you your beloved tea for your snacks, but I think you need something for your throat right now." She fumbles through one of her bags, "Ah hah! Found it. I have some honey here that will go perfect with your tea and help you feel better." I say, "Ooooo. I love honey. That sounds delicious, Lily. Thank you." She clutches the honey to her chest and she grabs her tea kettle and goes away to prepare the tea.
Lily comes back when it is done and I take the cup she offers me and relish in the warmth the hot cup of tea brings. While I am relishing the warmth, Lily gets some provisions I already prepared and puts a small bag in my lap for breakfast to go with my tea. She said, "I apologize that this is not the proper pairing. I hope you know I remember everything from your lessons." I wave my hand, "It isn't like I am grading you or anything. That and my taste and smell is a little off because of my cold so I couldn't fully appreciate it anyways."
I attempt to take a sniff with my congested nose and say, "I wish I wasn't so congested because from what I can tell it would smell delicious." I take a sip slowly since it is hot and I moan satisfactorily and sink into my hammock even more relaxed, "This hits the spot right now. Thank you so much, Lily." She makes another weird face and says, "Just ask me whenever you want tea. I made sure to bring a lot just for you." I hold my teacup close to me because it is so toasty, "I will, I appreciate you doing all of this. Is there anything else the girls need done today that I can help with? I brought a lot of supplies that I don't mind sharing." Lily lightly flicks me on the forehead then brushes the hair out of my face, "You are not going to do anything today except recover and let us take care of you." Mia chimes in, "If you don't, I will go over and tattle to Rose." I groan, "Ok fine."
I start pouting while continuing to sip my tea because I just like to be useful. I guess that is a residual personality trait from living in a capitalist society that is so focused on work and not health in my previous life. I never would take a sick day on Earth. I was even bedridden one time for 5 months and still would work remotely. I don't want Rose to be mad at me for doing too much, because I completely believe Mia that she would snitch on me. Today is going to be boring if I can't do anything. I wonder. Hmmm. I ask, "Hey you guys, could you maybe help me get the supplies I need to make another phone? I have string, but I will need something to make into a cup. Maybe chop a log in our firewood pile that is wide enough to make a cup into a cup sized piece. I can carve out the cups while resting in my hammock. I have a hatchet you can borrow in my bag over there." I say as I point to my bag.
I have a carving knife in there too for carving survival things like spears and such so I am not trying to use a big ass dagger to carve a cup. That would be really silly and not to mention not safe since it isn't the proper tool. I should be able to get up and get the knife myself. I am sick, not bedridden. It isn't like I have to walk 2 miles in snow while sick to get the knife so I will be fine. Especially since this will be a vacation in comparison to my previous life.
I get up to get my carving knife after they leave with my hatchet to cut the firewood for my project. Heather sees me up since she was still here and scolds me, "What are you doing, Violet?" I respond while digging through my rucksack, "Getting my carving knife for when they return. I don't suspect it will take them long at all to split one of those logs over there." Heather asks, "Why didn't you just ask me to get it for you?" I responded, "Well it was right here and it isn't like I am dying or anything." Heather responds, "Well, we don't care. We want to make sure you do the least as possible so you can recover. Who said we were going to let you do the carving anyway?" As I find the carving knife, I close my bag and Heather comes up to me and takes the knife from my hands and makes me sit back down. By this time the other two were already back with a cup sized piece of wood.
Mia returns then says in a scolding voice, "Do I need to tattle to Rose? I think somebody was up just now." I shake my head, "That won't be necessary. I was just getting up to get my carving knife." I say pointing to Heather who is holding it, "A certain somebody won't return it though." Mia says, "We did what you said not because we were going to let you carve it but we were going to do it ourselves." I sigh and pout, "I was going to use that as a way to stave off the boredom of being sick." Lily then says, "Well you can talk to us while we carve this for you. We can take turns borrowing the knife. Though I personally have never carved before so someone would have to show me how." I then say, "The most important rule is to carve and cut away from the body to prevent injury. Other than that pretty much imagination is the limit. Would you like to see me do a few cuts to see my technique?" Lily then says, "Ok, but ONLY A FEW."
I picked up the knife and a piece of the wood and did a few carving cuts to show them my form. Lily then quickly confiscates my knife and takes over. She is a little clumsy at first trying to get the hang of it but gradually finds a groove. We continue talking for a while as they pass the wood around to carve it and I hear that Rose made me soup for my cold. With some of the vegetation she foraged in the forest. Apparently there was only enough wild vegetables in the close vicinity for one pot. It is around lunch time at this point so I am actually pretty hungry. Lily doesn't seem to be happy that Rose made me something which I am not sure why. Lily goes over to grab me a bowl of the soup and reluctantly hands me the bowl and asks, "Would you like some more tea maybe?" I nod as I take the bowl of soup from her hands, "I would never turn down a free cup of tea. I love the tea you make." Lily perks back up a bit and goes off to prepare me some tea. I am not used to this kind of pampering in this life. I finish eating the soup as Lily comes back with the tea. I get halfway through drinking the tea and my eyes start getting heavy making it difficult to keep my eyes open. Lily says, "You look like you could use a nap. We will continue carving this for you while you rest." I hand her my cup of partially drunk tea and I fall asleep immediately.
I wake up a few hours later to a commotion and I feel A LOT better. The girls are frantic right now. I ask, "What is going on?" Heather says, "The bullies came over while we were distracted earlier and stole all of the food you gave us and also the provisions we brought with us a while ago while you were asleep and now we don't know what we are going to do." I sigh while going to sit up, "I will take care of it." Heather says, "No, we can do it." I shake my head, "I actually feel a lot better now thanks to you guys." I take a deep breath through my nose which would have been impossible this morning while pointing to my nose in emphasis and she seems convinced. Heather then asks, "What do you plan to do? You can't possibly take them on by yourself." I shake my head, "You are right and I don't plan to. I was going to hunt us fresh game and cook us fresh meat instead of dehydrated food. They will probably want to steal that since it will be even more appetizing than the dried food so before I start cooking I will equip everyone with makeshift spears to protect our food." Heather says, "You showed us how to do that when you showed us how to carve the cup. We can worry about that part while you hunt." I respond, "Before you start carving those spears, I will need to make a bow and a few arrows." Once I am done, before I head out to hunt, I'll prepare some snares in case I am not so lucky.
I make a few snares for birds around camp using flexible sticks to spring the trap and slip knots to grab the prey and then make a bow and a few arrows. It was a little awkward making the bow since I was still a tad weakened from being sick earlier today so Lily helped me bend the wood I used for the bow so I could string it tightly. Once I had my bow and a few arrows I gave the girls my carving knife and I set off into the forest and climbed a tree near a pond where the stream was heading to. I took a few practice shots in camp to get a feel for the bow and also test the tilling process while making the bow so I am pretty aware of this bow's range. I took that range into account when settling on a perch. Figuring the wildlife probably drinks from this pond. I sit up here and wait in my perch. I see a family of deer go to drink water and I don't have the heart to destroy their family. Those fawns need those adults and I don't want to traumatize them. We need food, but I refuse to cross some lines. I will just wait for another opportunity.
The deer family leaves and I wait some more. I see a big strong lone buck approach the water to drink after about 30 minutes. I take my bow and draw an arrow and take careful aim. I aim for a one shot kill in the neck. The buck moves while the arrow is in the air and the arrow hits more towards the center and the buck collapses but doesn't die straight away. I climb down from my perch and grab my dagger I brought with me and I say, "I am sorry beautiful one. We are hungry. Your life will be celebrated. I hope you do well in your next life." I pet him on the face for comfort with one hand and I take the dagger and stab him in the neck with the other to put him out of his misery. I pray over his soul, "If there is a god/goddess up there, please look after this soul and treasure them in the next life." I wasn't particularly religious in my first life though after being reincarnated into this world I believe there must be something up there. I bend down and grab the buck in a fireman's carry since it is so heavy to bear the load on my shoulders. I could fireman's carry battle buddies in the army that were 280-300 pounds so this deer is not quite that heavy but is in an awkward shape. I get the buck comfortably on my shoulders after some finagling and his hooves are draped around my neck with his body on my shoulders. By this point I am covered in its blood. I grab the legs to hold him up and carry him back like that.
Once I get close but not too close to camp I drop the buck and I go to my bag to grab my rope and the girls aren't here at the moment so it was a quick in and out of camp. I return to the buck, tie a knot around the hind legs and hoist the buck into the air with the head facing down and blood starts pouring out of the neck wound steadily like a faucet. While the buck's blood is being drained, I go to my bag to grab a change of clothes. Lily returns at this point wielding the spear she made with the handkerchief I gave her tied around it and gasps, dropping that spear and running to me, "What happened?! Are you ok?!" I put my hands up defensively before she can touch me to get all bloody and gross, "I am ok. This blood is not mine, it is from our dinner. I am about to wash up while the rest of the blood is draining." Lily sighs and I can see her physically relax, "That is good. I thought you hurt yourself at first so that is a relief. Here let me get your outfit for you so you don't get blood on that outfit too."
She grabs me a change of clothes and follows me to the stream where I bathed yesterday and sets the clothes down and lingers a bit before going back into the forest. I take off my clothes and start bathing to get this blood off of me. Once the blood is off of me, I get the clothes that were covered in blood and start scrubbing them in the cold stream water to clean most of the blood out. I don't have any detergent on me so this will have to do for now. Once most of the blood is out of these clothes I hang them up on a branch for now while I get my clean clothes on.
I take my wet clothes near my camp and hang them up to dry. Making sure to grab an apron in case the buck is ready to be cleaned to protect my now clean clothes. I get back to the buck and he seems to be drained. I put on my apron, I roll up my sleeves then I take him down and start to skin him and clean him right where we are so we don't make a mess of the campsite or possibly have a stinky situation tomorrow. Once I get all of the meat cleaned up I use the hide I cut off as a tote to carry the meat back to the campsite. I go to my bag and get a frying pan I had in there out and I use some of the fat from our fallen friend as I would oil and crush up some acidic berries the girls were able to forage since it compliments the meat and rub it into the meat then when the fat gets hot and melts nicely I plop the meat on the pan and start frying.
The girls are ready by this point and everyone has a spear. They post up around our camp to give me space to cook and the bullies come quickly as I predicted. They say, "What smells so delicious? You just have to share." The girls yell, "You already stole our food! This is us getting more so we don't go hungry. Eat what you stole!" They aggressively bang their spears on the ground like a pre-battle hype and I love it. I am smiling ear to ear at their warrior spirit. I flip the meat to cook the other side. Lily had prepared the steel plate from my bag to put the cooked meat on before she equipped herself with the spear. Bless her. I plop the finished meat on the plate and continue to cook. The bullies seem to not want to be stabbed by spears so they go back to their camp smacking their teeth while green with envy.
I giggle a bit, "You guys were great. Did not realize you all turned into badasses when I wasn't looking. I was kind of hoping a tiny bit they would have tried you so I could have seen you whip their asses." A few of them laugh at my remark and Yasmina says while wiping her black hair from her beautiful dark face, "We were kind of hoping too." Everyone starts laughing then and I continue to cook our dinner. I hand out the cooked meat when it is ready to the girls so they can eat it when it is fresh. It works out so only a few of them are away from their defensive posts so we still have coverage and they can eat. While we are having food, Mia and Heather sing for us. Everyone has their fill and we still have some meat left over. We also cook for the boys in our class, too. Though they may not be helping us, they aren't siding with the bullies at least and they have come around from all of the knocker. I season the leftover meat as well but with herbs instead and leave it out to dehydrate to help restock some of what was stolen. Making sure to use as much of our fallen friend as we can. Though I personally don't like intestines so everything except those.
Now that we have food again, the girls have come up with a fireguard system though they probably don't know what fireguard is. In the army we had a system where two people were awake to keep watch for an hour or two then switch with another pair and keep switching until the night was over. Even though we are just camping this feels really intense like a Lord of the Flies type of environment but only for 3 days. One would have thought that at least one faculty member would have come to chaperone. Hormones of 17 year olds are wild and they must know that. I think the creator is just trying to up the difficulty level again since we are fighting the prophecy. I signed up for the first fireguard shift of the night with Lily. Mia and Heather are taking the next shift.
The girls didn't quite finish the cup today while I was out hunting since they were working on the spears so I picked up where they left off and carve while we are standing guard. Once I get the cup the size I want it to be I make a bow drill using the bow I made and I get a sturdy stick and fashion a stone bit on the tip and wrap the string around it to make it spin and get my bow and treat it like a cello. I have never played the cello but the long smooth motions is what really gets this friction going spinning the stick. Within no time this makeshift drill gets a hole in the cup and I feed my string through that side to halfway finish the phone. I will need Rose's phone to complete it. Which I will do the next time I have the chance. Once I am done with the phone it is about time to swap guards.
Lily says in astonishment, "Wow, you were a lot faster than us and you were able to finish it." I yawn while rubbing the back of my head, "Well, I have had practice." Lily then asked, "Why would you need to practice something like this?" I responded, "Well, I was planning on escaping the life of a noble before the academy, but my father stopped those plans." Lily asks while waking up Mia and Heather then changing into her sleepwear, "Why would you try to run away from being a noble?" I respond while also changing myself, "Well not only do I not desire to marry Ren, I guess you could say I witnessed a prophecy for this life of mistreating Rose and saw my death at the academy. I didn't want to risk being here in case I couldn't change the course of events. My father found me within 24 hours of me running away even though I did so much to avoid detection, too. That destroyed any hope for escape that way for me. I did all of this preparing for that escape attempt."
Lily then gets a serious looking face and asks, "Does that prophecy have anything as to why you tried to kill yourself at the beginning of the school year?" I nod while I hop into my hammock plopping my head to the side so I could still see her, "Yea. I ran into Rose very quickly and the curse took over and I felt this dread that I couldn't change things so I decided to screw the prophecy and try to kill myself instead. I could not even do that successfully. Don't worry, I won't try to kill myself anymore. At least for the time being." Lily then says, "Good, I was just about to say you better not. Ok, I will go ahead and go to bed now. Sleep well, Violet." I replied back, "You sleep well too, Lily."
I look over just to make sure that Mia and Heather are good to go and it seems they are in their position. I just hope all of the girls on watch are responsible. When I was in the army, there were so many people that were assigned to fireguard that would sleep when they were supposed to be on watch. Bright side we were only in a training environment when they did that because that would have been so dangerous down range in a combat zone. These girls aren't soldiers, but in a way we are. The way we have to fight these perverted bullies at school they are more badass than a lot of the soldiers I served with. Thinking about how many out of shape people we had and their lack of work ethic. Things I have yet to see out of these girls. I am still thinking of these girls like children because of my memories. They are women. Strong ones at that. After thinking that my worries seem to fade away since they have been only showing nothing but their competency from the start. As my worries fade, sleep takes me.
I wake up and do my morning routine and then after I eat something for breakfast I check my snares and they have birds in them. I finish them off while praying for their souls and prepare them to cook later by plucking the feathers and draining the blood. I save carving the meat until right before cooking and leave them hanging upside down to drain. I then asked one of the women if they could grab Rose's cup from our phone. She gets it and brings it to me and I complete the phone and hand it back to her so she could take it to Rose. I go back to my hammock and I wait until the signal tug while holding the cup to my ear.
Next I feel the tug and hear the words, "Violet, I know you were pretty active yesterday even though you were sick. Are you feeling ok now?" I tug on the line, "I felt fine after your soup and everyone's pampering. Your soup was magical. I really missed talking to you yesterday." She tugs on the line, "I really missed talking to you too. I used my power on the soup hoping it would heal you." I tug the line to interrupt her and say, "Wow, that's amazing! I didn't know your power could work like that." She tugs the line, "I wasn't sure it was going to work to be honest myself. Speaking of magical food, that venison you made yesterday was magical. I didn't know that berries would bring out the flavor like that." My brain has a way of retaining some miscellaneous information and this time it wasn't useless. Ha. This was a random fact I remembered from some food related anime in my first life. It just stuck with me. I am just glad it wasn't misinformation. I tug on the line, "I have some of that venison dehydrating now and I caught some birds in snares that I am currently draining that will be lunch. I will probably have to hunt again for dinner. It might not be a bad idea to station some girls on the path to where I hunt just in case the boys try to come and steal our dinner on the way back to camp." Rose tugs on the line, "That is good thinking. Let us know when you head out and we will station girls up the path." I tug on the line, "Sounds good."
We continued talking until around lunch time and I smelled poultry cooking. I went to finish cleaning our birds and they were gone. I yell "Fuck!" Realizing the poultry smell I smelled was the boys cooking our lunch. Some of the girls come running, "What is wrong?" I sigh an exasperated sigh while throwing my hands in the air, "The boys stole our lunch. I prepared some meat that was draining here, and they stole it. I am going to have to hunt now. I have some meat that was dehydrating overnight from our venison that you guys can snack on while I am out." The girls are pissed about the bullies and I go grab my makeshift bow and arrows and my dagger. I let the girls know when I leave so they can protect the path to the pond.
I get to my perch and I wait again. It takes about 45 minutes of waiting for a doe to appear by the pond that I shoot and kill in one blow. No suffering for her, that is good at least. I say a quick prayer over her soul to whoever is listening above and I leave the arrow in to keep the bleeding down today so I don't look like a murder victim coming back to camp. Well yesterday was mainly because I had to use my dagger to finish it off. Since today was a clean kill, blood is a minimum. I get her on my shoulders and start heading back to camp.
The bullies try to ambush me on the way to camp. I drop the doe and pull out my dagger and Giovanni says, "Woah we just want your kill there. No need to threaten us with that." I then laugh, "You are literally stealing the food we need to live and you are saying we don't need to threaten you? You have literally been only threatening us. We refuse to lie down and take it!" Some of the women who were near that realized what was going on joined in, "Yeah! What she said! FUCK YOU! Get your own food and stop stealing ours that we worked for." They were armed with their spears and the yelling alarmed other women that were closer and in a few minutes the boys were all surrounded by our warriors. Some of the boys tried to throw rocks they prepared ahead of time at them, but soon realized they were really outmatched. They smack their teeth and retreat back to their camp and the women stay by my side while I take the doe back to a different spot to drain. A spot that the boys haven't seen before and hoist the doe up and cut her neck to drain the blood faster and get some women to guard it.
I am all sweaty and want to wash. Thankfully I don't have any blood on me so I don't have to worry about immediately washing these clothes or anything. I go to my bag and grab a pair of clean clothes and go to the stream. I accidentally stumbled upon Rose and she is right there in the stream bathing. I go to run away from her then I realized. Wait. She is right there in front of me. Why don't I feel gross? I start giggling and I run towards Rose. At first she is startled thinking I am Creator/Violet. I say when I get in front of her with passion, "My goddess." while still giggling a bit.
Her face morphs into excitement and I go straight for the kiss immediately. I just ran into this stream fully clothed, not giving a care in the world. No care except Rose's lips. That is the only thing on my mind right now. We make out for a while and when we come up for breath I ask, "Can I run my fingers through your hair? I have always fantasized about it from the moment we met." She giggles, "Good luck." I ask confused, "What do you mean good luck?" I go to run my fingers through her hair and they get caught immediately in her curls. She yelps and giggles. Jennifer comes running after hearing Rose yelp and before I could say 'It isn't what you think.' She knocks me out.
I wake up late in the afternoon and Rose is right by me along with Mia, Heather, and Lily. I start giggling and reach out to grab Rose's hand. I kiss it tenderly, "I am not sure what is happening, but I love this. To be able to hold your hand finally." I start crying happy tears. I think about it and this camping trip wasn't in the prophecy and we are also away from the academy. I wonder if the academy has some sort of power over this curse. Does the creator only have control over me at the academy? That is the only place I ever got possessed. Maybe it is just because this was not in the book? I excitedly say in a hushed whisper to not alert the boys, "We need to run away now. This is our chance!" I think the academy might be a core part of this curse and if I will survive past my 19th birthday and avoid hurting you we need to abandon the academy. Rose takes my hand in both hands, "I will follow you anywhere, Violet." I then say, "Let me get my gear together." Jennifer was here the whole time and witnessed what just happened and is caught up to speed. I then tell Jennifer, "If we run away I won't be able to afford your salary anymore. Thank you for your services so far and hopefully we won't have to rehire you. Here is your last paycheck" I reach in my bag and pull out my purse and hand her the last paycheck, placing the coins in one hand while shaking the other. She then says, "This was the best job I ever had. Anytime you need my services, just let the guild know and they can get in touch with me." I then say, "Will do." I get up and break down my camp area and put it in my rucksack and gather the rest of my gear. Once everything is together and Rose is ready. Mia, Heather and Lily are all crying now. I give them a group hug and say, "Thank you guys for being such great friends. I love you guys so much. When we get settled somewhere we will write to you." I then say to Rose, "You ready to leave, Rose?" I really hope this prophecy won't interfere with our plans. She comes in to kiss me and says, "Yes. I have been waiting for this moment for a long time." I strap the bow on the ruck sack and then put it on and we head out holding hands.
We walked until the moon was up a decent height in the sky and I did just like last time and we hid our tracks with a branch. I ask her, "Do you want to keep walking or do you want to rest for the night?" Rose says, "I don't want to keep walking, and I am not really wanting to rest either." I then ask, "Then what-" When she reaches out to take off my rucksack with that face she is wearing I am pretty sure she means sex. I AM ON BOARD. No more words necessary. MESSAGE RECEIVED.
I take my rucksack off immediately and pull out my hammock and lay it on the ground and spread it out like a blanket and we then take off our clothes with lightning speed giggling and then we meet on the 'hammock blanket' and start kissing passionately immediately. My hands are touching her all over her flesh that is glistening in the moonlight. I can't stop touching her now that I can. I continue to kiss her, feeling fireworks and tingling all over from her kiss. Just like it did with Liz. I don't ever want to stop this. To stop kissing her or stop touching her. I want to kiss her more, but I want to taste her between her legs. I leave her lips and start kissing her all over like I told her I wanted to. Kissing every freckle I see in this moonlight. I relish and treasure each and every kiss, leaving a hickey on her neck while my hands wander to her breasts.
I am crying a bit now and Rose asks, "Are you ok?" I pause briefly, "I am the best I have ever been. This is everything I have dreamed of. To touch you. To kiss you." I continue to kiss her all over relishing this feeling of my lips on her flesh. I then say continuing from earlier after my brief kissing intermission, "To taste you." I go between her legs and I lick her with a mission. I passionately lick her with her moans being music to my ears. She was already soaking wet for a while, but I was enjoying tasting her and hearing her moans. So I continued stretching out her pleasure, taking my time. After a while of edging her with my tongue, I put two fingers in and slowly started pumping while continuing licking. I pick up the pace and she starts yelling with pleasure, "Violet, yes! Just like that!" I keep going and she climaxes. I then continue to lick and pump just like I would do with Liz to lengthen the orgasm.
When she is done, she relaxes her tense muscles from the climax and slumps on the 'hammock blanket'. I go up beside her to lay down and I trace my fingers across her skin and say, "I love the sounds you make." Rose purrs, "You made me make them. I am really thirsty. Can you pass me your canteen?" I reply while rolling over to my rucksack I placed next to the hammock and rummage around in there until I find the canteen and roll back over and hand it to Rose. She chugs the water and she then says, "I can feel my legs now. I believe it is your turn now."
I lay back down and I reach to touch her and go in for another kiss. She starts touching me all over and I am exhilarated by her touch. To feel her touch me. ONLY me. No creator interfering. It is at this moment that I am really glad that Rose turned down that idea of strapping me down for sexy time back at the academy. This is so much better. I focus on every single one of her touches. Feeling her wandering hand squeeze my breast with one hand and down my side with her other hand. She leaves our kiss and starts kissing me all over. She starts off by kissing my neck, then my collar bone area, then my upper breast. Leaving hickeys in each spot as she grabs my breast passionately with her left hand and dragging her fingers against my skin tenderly with her right. She then latches onto my right nipple with her mouth and continues to squeeze my other breast with her left hand.
Her right hand wanders between my legs and she starts touching me. I am already ready to rock and roll. Her fingers get coated in my juices as soon as she touches me. She giggles and says in a mischievous voice, "You are so ready for me aren't you." I nod with a flushed aroused face, "I have been ready for a long time. Precisely the moment you reached out to take off my rucksack. Thanks to this 17 year old hormonal body." Rose giggles and whispers sweetly in my ear, "I was too." She continues to suck on my nipple and touch me, swirling her fingers around my clit making moans escape from my lips. The way she is touching me almost feels like this isn't her first time. First times are usually a little awkward, but everything we are doing seems so natural. She migrates down kissing my stomach with intention while still touching me on my clit. Kissing on her way to her hand. When she reaches it she removes her hand and starts licking me instead. Moans keep escaping my lips at her touch. She puts two of her fingers at least it feels like it into me and she starts pumping too. Moans keep escaping from my lips and she picks up the pace and pleasure starts to build and build. I yell out her name, "Yes Rose! Yes!" When I orgasm, she does like I did and keeps going through the orgasm.
When my orgasms end she plops up beside me, "I love the sounds you make." She says as she giggles and kisses me. She then hands me my canteen so I can take a drink. After a quick chug I reach over and touch her gently across her skin, "I don't want this night to ever end. I want to keep touching you. Keep hearing you make sounds of pleasure." Rose purrs, "I don't want this night to end either." I am getting the feeling back in my legs and then I ask, "Another round?" Rose then says, "Do you even need to ask?" I then reply, "Well yes, obviously consent is everything. Even if you are my lover." Rose giggles while I roll back on top of her and start kissing her for round two. We went back and forth so many times I lost count until we both fell asleep from exhaustion from having constant sex for hours.