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That night, Jade, Beck, Andre and the twins were enjoying their dinner of trout around the campfire while Nina looked at her plate in disgust. The only fish she ever ate were those that were filleted and this freshly caught slimy fished roasted on an open fire made her sick. She wrapped the provided blanket around her body tighter and clung to her phone.
"This'll hold us for a while." Beck said putting a few more sticks of wood into the bonfire.
"You sure you don't want some trout, Mom? Is that okay, by the way, if we start calling you Mom?" Lola asked sweetly looking expectantly at Nina who was busy rubbing insect repellent on her arms.
Andre almost choked on his fish when he heard that.
"I think your mother would prefer if you called me Nina and no thank you, I do not eat trout... for the thousandth time. I'll wait until breakfast. What are we having?" she asked with fake enthusiasm.
"Trout..." Jade, Lola, Callie, Beck and Andre answered much to the chagrin of Nina.
"C'mon, its part of the experience." Andre cajoled and Nina beamed at him sarcastically as she slapped her leg.
"And what's the other part? Being eaten to death by mosquitoes?" she snapped, "God, you'd actually think they like this stuff!"
"What's that you're using?" Jade asked and put down her plate, "Let me see that." Nina handed the bottle over to her and she sniffed it before putting some of it on her hand.
"Well you're sure to attract every mosquito on the mountain with this stuff. Its sugar and water." Jade explained with a smirk as Lola and Callie shared sly grins. Nina glared at them and the twins hurriedly ate their trout and pretended that nothing happened.
"That's it! I'm taking one large sleeping pill and going to bed," she announced picking up two sticks before she stood up, as she went to the tent, she started whacking the sticks together and the sound reverberated in the silent night. Jade looked around with a raised eyebrow at her queer behavior. Beck pinched the bridge of his nose. He couldn't believe this was the woman Jade was marrying.
"Nina... what're you doing?" she asked.
"I don't want the mountain lions to..." she stopped and turned around just as the twins and guys snorted, "There are no mountain lions up here, are there?" she asked standing to her full height, which didn't really say much, after realizing the joke's on her. Jade tried to hide her irritation as she shook her head.
"No," she mouthed and Nina put the sticks together in one hand and threw them to the side. Then she approached Jade who was now looking at her worriedly but she planted a luscious kiss on her lips leaving her quite breathless. The twins rolled their eyes and tried not to gag. Andre heatedly glared at the woman stealing his best friends love while Beck dropped his plate, disgusted, with a mumble of not being hungry anymore.
"Goodnight." Nina said smugly and sauntered into the tent. After she left, Jade gave a warning look at her daughters who looked back at her innocently.
"Guys, I'm telling you, lay off. This isn't her thing, okay? I'm not marrying her because she's Annie Oakley," she said sternly.
"Who's Annie Oakley?" Callie asked confused.
"Just cool it." Jade said and went back to her trout.
Later that evening, the moon shone brightly over the lake and no sounds where heard except for the distant hooting of the owls and the slight whisper of the wind as it rustles in the quiet. If you listen much harder, you'll hear a zipper softly being pulled down to reveal two girls both identical looking with impish grins on their beautiful faces. Lola flinched as she unzipped the tent, not wanting to create any noise that would tip any animals or her mother off. She looked around to see if the coast was clear and stepped out of their tent. She turned to her sister and signaled to her that the coast was indeed, clear. "C'mon, c'mon!" She whispered as she watched her twin carefully step out of the tent.
