Baby Adventures (5SOS)

Camping

The group all goes camping.

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Ashton: 4

Luke: 3

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"Gots ev'ryting?" Ashton asked Luke, as the younger boy sat on top of his bag to squish down everything inside it.

"Yis, gots toofbrush, and pjs, and Pengy, and Lu's blanket, and extra shoesies!" Luke counted on his fingers, then onto his toes as he kept listing.

"Holy hell," Jack said as he brushed Luke off and picked up the bag. "What did you shove in here, a dead body?"

"What dead body?" Ashton tilted his head.

"Oh, nevermind." Jack brought the bag out to the car.

The Irwins and the Hemmings were going camping for the first week of summer (yeah I know they were just in school in the last one shot but now it's summer okay get with it).

Liz buckled Luke and Ashton into their car seats in the back of the car, while Jack and Ben sat in the seats in front of them, and Andrew and Liz sat up front. Ashtons parents were taking a separate car with all their luggage and tent equipment.

Luke held Ashtons hand absent-mindedly and looked out his window at the passing scenery. "Ashon?"

"Yis?"

"What camping like?"

"Is fun! Make marshmallow toasties, go 'sploring, lookit aminals," Ashton said.

"And there's also bears and wolves and serial killers." Jack said, turning around to face them. "They come in the middle of the night to eat naughty little boys."

"Oh good," Ashton breathed in relief, "Ashy is good boy!"

"Oh nooo!" Luke wailed. "Lukey is gunna get eaten!"

"Jack," Liz warned.

"Yeah Jack come on, be a nice older brother." Ben said. He turned around too. "If you're gunna warn them, at least warn them about all the dangers! You left out the most important one of all! The lake monster."

"The l-, the l-, the l-, the l-" Luke stuttered in fear until Ben cut him off.

"Yes!" He said dramatically. "The lake monster! It lives in the lake and surfaces once every thousand years to scour the campground, looking for one special little boy to eat. It's an exceptionally naughty boy, the wolves and bears wouldn't even dare to eat this bad boy, they know to save it for the lake monster."

Luke started hyperventilating, squeezing Ashtons hand tighter.

"Ben!" Liz snapped. "Both of you, give me your phones, you're grounded from them for the rest of the trip."

While they complained they were just having fun, Luke and Ashton looked to each other in fear.

This camping trip suddenly became a lot less fun.

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They held each other tightly as the adults started setting up the tents, watching them from a few feet away.

"Ashy, what do?" Luke asked fearfully. "Dun wan get eaten!"

"Dun worry, Ashy always protect him Lu!" Ashton gripped Luke tighter, squishing the boy in his light blue onesie. "Will think of something."

"Boo!" Jack suddenly shouted from behind them.

Luke screeched and face planted forward.

"Damnit jack!" Liz yelled while Jack laughed.