Room69, Amy and Alyssa
Noah pulled up to the camping grounds and grinned happily. He stopped the engine and got out of the car, waving as Chris and Adam pulled up. As he looked around, he took in the separate tent spaces, with a spot for a car, right next to it.
"Yo asses," he greeted.
Adam and Amy hopped out of the car, Amy immediately started bouncing around, running over to Noah and AJ's tent space. Chris and Alyssa got out slowly and made their way over to the rest of the group.
"Yo," Alyssa replied.
Adam grinned. "Ok, well... who's gonna put the tents up?"
"Bags not!" Amy yelled, going over and sitting on a wooden post.
"Lazy biatch," Adam replied jokingly. He went over to his car and pulled the stuff out, as Amy groaned and went to help him.
Alyssa and Chris went back to their space to set their tent up, so Noah grinned at AJ and kissed her cheek as he unloaded their car.
AJ
AJ grinned and jumped up and down on the spot.
"I am LOVING this," she chuckled, then spun around in a circle.
"How much further have we got to go? As in days?"
Noah, Adam and Amy
"Maybe... half a day? But it's getting pretty dark, and I'm pretty tired. So best to stop here, or we'd be sleeping in the cars."
Noah pulled the tent out of his car and started to assemble it, looking over and chuckling as he watched Amy order Adam around but not help.
AJ
AJ chuckled as she watched them as well.
"Poor Adam. He sure picks the girls, huh?" she shook her head.
She knelt down and watched Noah.
"Yell out if you want somethin'."
Noah, Adma and Amy
"Amy, why don't you help me?"
"Adam, why don't you shut up?" But Amy was grinning and she skipped over to help Adam put their tent up.
Noah chuckled again. "Nah, I'm right. More like poor Adam and poor Amy. They're both like each other, always wanting to stir up trouble."
He put the tent up and grinned over at AJ. "Wanna get the sleeping bags and stuff?"
AJ
"Okily dokily."
AJ got up and went back to his car, grabbing the sleeping bags, blankets and pillows.
"Am I the only one who thinks it's gonna be cold tonight?"
Noah
Noah nodded over at Amy's shorts and singlet top.
"Yeah, probably... although she doesn't feel the cold. We could dump her in the snow in that outfit and she'd complain it was hot."
He started to blow the air mattress up.
AJ
"Well if you get burnt you can't tell whether it's cold or hot anyway."
Then she hesitated.
"Depending on the degree of course. Eventually your skin would either melt or freeze."
Amy and Noah
"Ehh, she's a freak."
"I HEARD THAT NOAH!" Amy yelled back.
Noah grinned and waved at her, then put the mattress into the tent.
"So... shall we get a frie started?" he asked, noting the dark sky.
AJ
"Ooooh yeah," AJ rubbed her hands together.
"And the best thing? I'm camping with musicians. Campfire songs!" she chuckled.
Room69, Amy and Alyssa
Noah grinned.
"I bought my guitar, and so did Adam, I think."
He gathered some firewood and took it over to the barbeque, and started to light the fire.
Chris, Alyssa, Adam and Amy came over soon after, bringing chairs and food. Chris jogged back to his car and got the fold out picnic table, and brought it back over to Noah and AJ's camp site and unfolded it.
"What are we doing for dinner?" Lys asked.
Adam held up a box. "Barbeque." He waited for Noah to finish lighting the fire then opened the box and started to cook the meat and vegetables.
Amy rifled through the bags for cutlery and plates, and threw the tongs to Adam.
AJ
"Oh yeah, throw a shrimp on the barbie."
AJ chuckled.
"Actually, I've never tried barbequed shrimp. SHould try it sometime I guess. I'm not even sure when I had shrimp last."
Room69, Amy and Alyssa
Noah grinned and kissed the top of AJ's head on his way to get lanterns and his guitar. He came back seconds later with a jacket on, carrying a few lanterns and his guitar.
Chris took the lanterns and lit them, putting them around their table on the ground and hung one up above them.
Alyssa spread a picnic blanket out onto the ground and sat herself down on it, Chris flopping down to sit with her. Noah sat on it below AJ's feet, and strummed his guitar absently.
Amy looked over from her place with Adam. "Play us the new song!"
Noah glanced over. "Which one?"
"The AJ one."
"No."
AJ
"The AJ one?" AJ raised an eyebrow.
She leant forward slightly so she could reach Noah's head and ran her fingers through his hair.
"Do tell. Did you miss me that much?"
Noah, Amy and Alyssa
"There is no AJ one," Noah replied, looking up and smiling at her. "Amy's lying."
"It's either that or 'Dancing Queen', Aimz style," Amy said.
"Ohhh!" Lyssa clapped her hands. "Do it!"
Noah started to play 'Dancing Queen', as Amy jumped in front of them, dancing and singing like an idiot.
"They call me the lane machine,
Cheap not free,
Been a prostie since I was just thirteen!"
Amy swung her hips around, waving her arms above her head.
"Friday night and the light's are low,
I'm looking out for a place to blow.
The girls are giving me filthies,
Saying I'm a tart.
Hold on, I need to crack a fart."
She bent down and grinned.
"Shall I go on?"
AJ
"Please, God, no," AJ shook her head, not able to wipe the grin from her face.
Then she laughed.
"That's worse than one of my friends back home."
The thought made her hesitate.
Noah, Amy and Alyssa
Noah leant back against AJ's legs and raised an arm to pat her, before continuing to play the song.
Amy giggled and started dancing like a maniac again.
"I forgot to have my monthly shower,
Uhh yeah!
I've forgotten the lines,
I better not do that next time.
Um, yeah, I'm a prostie, yeah!
He's having a drink of scotch,
I think I'll nick his watch!"
She collapsed onto the blanket, giggling.
Alyssa leant back into Chris's arms. "Amy, you're an idiot."
Noah switched songs and started strumming the chords of 'Brown Eyed Girl'.
AJ
"Now here's one I remember," AJ grinned, leaning back into the chair, her fingers still curling around Noah's hair even though he was almost out of reach.
"Of course, words are another thing entirely."
Room69, Alyssa and AJ
Noah changed to the openings of a NOFX song. Alyssa squinted while she thought then she started laughing.
"Noah's playing a naughty song!"
Noah grinned. "No I'm not."
Amy danced around. "Naughty!"
"Sing it," Adam said, crinkling his eyebrows. "I don't recognise it."
"It's 'My Vagina'," Chris replied.
"Noah!" Adam picked an onion ring off the plate and threw it at him.
AJ
"I got his... wait, I'm not gonna go there."
Then AJ burst out laughing.
"I'm being corrupted. You and your dirty minds."
Noah
Noah grinned and started singing loudly.
"My vagina has two sets of lips,
But I don't get monthly blood drips,
My vagina hardly even used,
My vagina's got lots of extra skin,
They took my outtie and made it an in,
Changing Donnie to Marie Osmond."
AJ
"Ok, I'm gonna work my magic and shut him up."
Then AJ leant over, turned his head and kissed him.
"And that doesn't mean you can stop playing guitar," she grinned when she took a breath.
Noah and Adam
Noah grinned as Adam cheered.
"Guys, dinner!" he called.
Noah put the guitar down and picked up a plate for himself and AJ and went and got them some dinner. He brought the plates over to AJ and placed one on her lap, then sat by her feet again, as the rest of the group started to get their dinner.
AJ
"Little burnt, huh Adam?" AJ chuckled, lifting some meat and biting a chunk off.
"As dad would say, charcoal is good for your teeth. Me? Charcoal is good to induce vomitting."
Room69, Amy and Alyssa
Adam grinned as he went with Amy to sit at the table with their dinner. Chris styaed on the ground as Alyssa brought their food over.
"So, what do we wanna do tonight?" Noah asked.
"Run around like idiots?" Amy suggested.
"Ok, something that we don't normally do?" Noah grinned.
AJ
AJ hesitated and gazed up at the sky. There were only few clouds around, and the stars were shining brightly.
"Can anyone tell me some of the constellations?" she bti her lip.
"I miss my southern cross and giant saucepan."
Alyssa and Noah
Alyssa frowned.
"Um... constellations... anyone?"
Noah snorted.
"Nah, I have no idea."
AJ
"Ok..." AJ shifted slightly.
"Then let's make some of our own."
She gazed upward for a moment, looking for any particular patterns that stood out.
Then she point upwards.
"Cheshire was named in 1963 by an old scientist mad on cats," she grinned, point to a circle of stars.
"He held his cat up to the sky and thought it looked like a Cheshire cat. The name stuck."
Noah and Alyssa
Noah grinned as he finished his meal. He stood up and tossed his paper plate into the bin.
"Um..." He pointed up to a star. "That's the 'Noah'. Coz I'm a star."
"Idiot," Alyssa grinned.
AJ
AJ scratched her cheek, looking for more.
"And that there is a rock made of drums. Hang on a second, that one..."
She pointed out the brightest star.
"That's Venus. That I know. We can see Mars at the moment."
Alyssa and Chris
Alyssa picked up Noah's guitar as everyone started to finish dinner. She strummed it, then handed it to Chris.
"Come on, use your talent."
Chris grinned and started to belt out a few chords.
"Any requests?"
AJ
"Something Hanson?" AJ raised her eyebrows hopefully.
Then she chuckled.
"If you know anything by them. I'm surprised you don't avoid them like the plague."
Amy, Chris and Noah
Amy bounced. "The new CD is awesome!"
Chris grinned. "We've played with them, they're good kids."
"Who are older than us." Noah replied.
"Yeah." Chris frowned then started the chords to 'MMMBop'.
AJ
"And don't we all know that one?" AJ grinned.
She swayed a little, then bent over to kiss Noah again.
"You know I love you sometimes?"
Chris, Noah and Amy
"Yeah, I think I've heard that once or twice," Noah said.
Chris stopped playing for a second and scratched his nose, then resumed playing 'Where's The Love'.
"Where's the loveeeee?!" Amy exclaimed.
AJ
"Now that was one of the best video clips they did," AJ nodded.
"Not that anything can go past If Only. DIRT BIKES! Dirt bikes man!"
Chris and Amy
Amy nodded.
"That was good."
She grinned.
"UNDERNEATH! PLAY UNDERNEATH!"
Chris blocked his ears for a second. "Amy, volume."
AJ
"NO! No, no, no..." AJ insisted, shaking her head.
"You play Underneath and I'll confiscate that guitar. I haven't heard it yet, and I don't plan to until I get a proper version."
Room69 and Amy
Chris grinned.
"It's alright, I don't know it anyway."
Amy pouted. "I'm gonna listen to it in the car tomorrow."
"No," Adam started. "You're not."
"Can you feel the love?" Noah joked.
AJ
"Where's the love?" AJ did a little jig, "there's the love!"
She pointed at Amy and Adam in time with the mock-up, then burst out laughing.
"Sorry, couldn't help myself. Or anyone else."
Amy, Adam, Alyssa and Noah
Amy grinned.
"Right," she said to Adam. "There will be Hanson in the car."
"Oh, and I'll just agree to that, will I?"
"Yeah!"
"There any towns around here?" Alyssa asked.
"Don't think so," Noah replied. "This is the hub of life. Although, there is a games room in this place somewhere. Wanna check it out?"
"Hell yeah!" Alyssa exclaimed, standing up.
AJ
"I'm with Amy on this one. Hanson rules."
AJ held her hand up in a piece sign.
Alyssa, Amy and Room69
Alyssa ran down to her tent and grabbed a jacket, then came back.
"Come on, let's do this thing!" she exclaimed.
Her enthusiasm was contagious, and Chris, Adam and Amy all got up, and locked everything in their tents up, then came back to wait for Noah and AJ.
Noah stood. "We all ready, AJ?"
AJ
"Ah..."
AJ looked around at them, slightly confused.
"What are we doing again?"
Adam and Noah
"Going to the games room."
"Games shed," Adam corrected Noah.
"Games shed. There's a pool table and stuff." Noah held his hand out for AJ.
AJ
AJ rolled her eyes.
"Oooooook."
She took Noah's hand and stood, before reaching up to plant a quick kiss on his lips.
"It's not actually as cold as I thought it would be, but I'd better grab something anyway."
She made her way to the car and grabbed a jacket from the back.
Noah, Amy, Alyssa and Adam
Noah locked the car after her, and took her hand as they followed the rest of the group to the games shed.
Noah knew they'd reached it when he heard Alyssa screaming in excitement. He followed the rest of them in.
"Hey, place to ourselves," Amy commented, finding a couch and throwing herself down on it.
"Pool?" Adam said, tossing a pool cue to Noah.
AJ
"Yes please!" AJ bounced a little, "doubles?"
She sat on a nearby stool with a smile plastered on her face.
"Whoever's team I'm on shouldn't mind losing, that's for sure."
Adam, Amy and Chris
"Then that should be Noah's. He's used to being a loser," Adam grinned across the table at him.
"Not if I play. Get ready to lose, Adam. We're gonna do triples. AJ, me and Lys, against you losers," Amy said, standing up and cracking her knuckles.
"Triple A," Chris said with an amused grin on his face, walking over with Alyssa to take their cues.
"This is not going to be pretty girls, there'll be swearing, nudity, probably, and humiliation, when we beat you," Adam smirked.
"Bring it on, bitch," Amy replied.
AJ
"Oooooooh," AJ grinned, grabbing a cue.
"Getting low. Like you guys have anything worth seeing anyway."
She chalked her cue, then blew the excess off.
Noah, Amy and Adam
Noah grinned, his eyes glittering as he started and broke.
Amy leant against her cue as she waited for her turn, making 'you're gonna die' movements to Adam.
Noah sunk two, then missed his next one.
"AJ, you're up."
AJ
"Crap, you're good," AJ screwed her face up.
She studied the table for a moment, and sunk only one ball.
"Dangit."
Amy, Alyssa, Adam and Chris
Amy stepped forward and missed, much to Adam's amusement.
Adam went next and sunk two, giving Chris his turn. Chris sunk one, but then missed his next one.
Alyssa's turn. She sunk one, which brought it back to AJ.
The guys were grinning, thinking they were going to be victorious.
AJ
AJ pursed her lips and smiled a little.
Sauntering around the table, she playfully hit Noah with her cue before taking aim.
One down. Two down. Three down. Miss.
She winked at Noah, before returning to her stool.
Chris, Alyssa and Amy
Still cocky, the guys stopped concetrating as hard as they should've been. And then Chris missed a shot.
And Alyssa sunk the last ball, making the girls the winners.
"HA!" Amy shouted, dancing strangely. "WE WIN!"
AJ
"Oh yeah!" AJ held her arms in the air and headbanged a little.
"We rule. We rock. Bow to our socks, and all that jazz. I swear, we should have made a bet thing."
She scratched her chin.
"Or wait a moment... what did Adam say?"
Room69 and Amy
"Adam said nothing," Adam replied quickly.
"Damn, we needed a bet," Amy said, scratching her head, and prancing over to Adam. "What was that about us losing?"
Noah grinned and eyed off the video games. "I'd love to discuss this in detail, but there's a car over there, that is just begging for me to drive it."
"Race ya?" Chris said, running over.
"Yeah!"
AJ
"Now this I gotta see..."
AJ followed Noah and Chris over to the car racing, and sat behind them to watch.
"Now this is something I bet I could kick someone's ass at."
Room69 and Amy
Noah and Chris raced, with Chris promptly losing.
Noah grinned triumphantly, and got up to see Amy and Adam playing Street Fighter together.
He wrapped his arms around AJ and kissed her forehead lightly.
AJ
AJ yawned and leant in to him.
"We gonna hit the sheets soon? I could do with some z's."
Noah
"Yeah, sounds good. I need sleep if I'm driving."
Noah signalled to the others and they all started to make their way back to their respective tents.
Noah walked into his tent, and kicked his shoes off, then hopped onto the mattress.
AJ
AJ hesitated, watching the others get into their tents, then crawled in to be with Noah.
She crawled in beside him, lay her head on her pillow, and was soon asleep.