The Parent Trap (Camren)

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That night, Lauren, Dinah and the twins were enjoying their dinner of trout around the campfire while Keana 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." Lauren said putting a few more sticks of wood into the bonfire.

"You sure you don't want some trout, Mamí? Is that okay, by the way, if we start calling you Mamí?" Punky asked sweetly looking expectantly at Keana who was busy rubbing insect repellent on her arms.

Dinah almost choked on her fish when she heard that.

"I think your mother would prefer if you called me Keana 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..." Lauren, Punky, Penny and Dinah answered much to the chagrin of Keana.

"C'mon, its part of the experience." Dinah cajoled and Keana beamed at her 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?" Lauren asked and put down her plate, "Let me see that." Keana 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." Lauren explained with an amused smile as Punky and Penny shared sly grins. Keana 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. Lauren looked around with a raised eyebrow at her queer behavior. Dinah pinched the bridge of her nose. She couldn't believe this was the woman Lauren was marrying.

"Keana... what're you doing?" Lauren asked slowly.

"I don't want the mountain lions to..." she stopped and turned around just as the twins and Dinah 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. Lauren tried to hide her irritation as she shook her head.

"No," she mouthed and Keana put the sticks together in one hand and threw them to the side. Then she approached Lauren 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. Dinah dropped her plate, disgusted, with a mumble of not being hungry anymore.

"Goodnight." Keana said smugly and sauntered into the tent. After she left, Lauren 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?" Penny asked confused.

"Just cool it." Lauren 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. Punky 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.