The Forest Elf

Camping Disaster

The truth dawned on Callum all at once and he stared wide-eyed with fear up at the angry elf who had him pinned down with her weight and had hold of both his wrists tightly. He could smell the wine on her breath so he knew this definitely was Tia. Does this mean all this time she was waiting to strike him down and claim his head or something. Callum's mind was overloading when Rayla leant in closer to whisper in his ear.

"I've waited a long time for this moment to claim my prize." Rayla said in a menacing manner.

Callum was lost for words but managed to utter, "W-what's your prize?"

Rayla closed in on his neck and whispered, "your blood of course!"

Callum felt Rayla's mouth slowly close in on his exposed neck and he stopped struggling and closed his eyes. As everything went dark he felt Rayla's teeth grazing his neck and her tongue. Wait a minute her tongue? She was kissing him! Callum's eyes shot open as she began kissing his mouth gently. Callum without thinking responded and as Rayla released his wrists, he put his arms around her and hugged her tightly.

Rayla broke off from the kiss and whispered, "You honestly thought I'd go through all this to hurt you?"

Callum looked back a bit embarrassed, "Yeah I thought it seemed odd, other than the transformation that is, I guess it was just shock. You pull off menacing and scary really well."

Rayla laughed as she rested her head on Callum's chest and replied, "Plus you totally gave up and just let me have your neck, without as much as a fight!"

Callum went beetroot red and just admitted, "Even though you were acting scary it was super hot, so if that's the end then so be it."

Rayla looked back into Callum's eyes, "Oh You big softy, does that mean we can have that moonberry pie.- now your not going to do a runner?"

Callum laughed, "Of course, the nights not over yet!"

They walked back to the campsite hand in hand and snuggled up together under one of the many blankets Rayla had packed. The fire was dying down and Callum's MP3 player was playing mellow tunes.

Callum sat up suddenly waking Rayla from her daydreaming. "Does this mean we're dating now?"

Rayla laughed and looked him straight in the eye. "Only if you want to, my Prince."

Callum looked at Rayla with a wry smile, "Prince, I kind of like the sounds of that, you've never called me that before."

Rayla chuckled as she stroked Callum's hair, "well I've never kissed you like that before either. What nickname would you give me?"

Callum squinted and scratched his chin in thought, "hmmm, what about saucy minx!"

Rayla looked at Callum and rolled her eyes, "I'm sure you came from the 1970's with nicknames like that. Is that what decade it is in your house?"

Callum snorted with laughter, "Yeah we're quite backwards on our farm and now your going to be part of it as well. I'm buying you some flares and roll neck jumpers!"

Rayla snuggled into Callum and gently told him, "I've got a place at Katolis university, did you get any acceptance letters?" Their romantic moment dashed in a sudden thought of sadness as they realised they could soon be apart.

Callum raised his head and looked at Rayla, "I've got four letters from different universities that I've not opened yet, I daren't look in case they're rejections. I promise I'll look at them as soon as we get home in the morning."

Rayla looked lovingly at Callum, "Don't worry we'll find away to be together, I'm not going to let this separate us."

Callum smiled back and held Rayla's hand, "That's good to know, but I'm not going to stop you getting a good education if I strike out. Trust me you would come to resent me."

Rayla hushed Callum, "look anything I do I take the consequences, I would never blame you. You don't even know if you've done bad anyway. Enough of this talk anyway tonight is you and me, anything else is for future Rayla and Callum to deal with!"

They both laughed at that thought and they crawled into the tent and cocooned themselves in comfy blankets. In the dim lamplight Callum spied Rayla undressing under the blankets. He pretended not to notice then did the same. Rayla then wiggled over to Callum under the sheets.

Rayla jumped as she reached over to Callum, "Oh your naked as well, mmm gonna have some fun tonight!"

Callum laughed out loud, probably a bit too loud, "sorry for ruining the mood I'm a bit nervous, you've literally terrorised me tonight!"

Rayla rolled her eyes, " I know I'm sorry it panned out different in my head, so..... I'm making up for it now."

She pulled Callum into a tight cuddle and all of his whining stopped in an instant. He'd dreamed of this moment with Tia and now he was with Tia sort-of, well a more elf version of her, completely naked in a tent in the middle of a forest.