Hearing the soft "ow's" from Emma as they walk through the trail, Brandon stops and waits for her to move in front of him. Placing both hands on her waist, he walks behind her and brushes away the branches that hung low in front of them as they walked. The day was perfect, the sun overhead in a cerulean sky, with only a few puffy clouds here and there. The temperature was warm, but he kept his long sleeves on. Didn't want bites from any flying insects. After walking in silence for about a half hour, he stops to lean on a tree. Lifting a couple of bottles of water from his back pack, he holds one out to her. "Here you go, beautiful." He smiles.
She moves in front of him and keeps walking, a smile when his hands go to her waist. When they stop she turns and watches him, she reaches out and takes the water. "Thank you." She opens it up and has a sip. "It's very pretty out here." She turns and walks over to a bit of a clearing and looks around. "Such a nice day too."
"Welcome." he smiles and pushes off the tree to follow her out to the clearing. "The day's all that much more beautiful, because you're in it." He whispers and as he steps up behind her, one arm slides around her waist and he grazes her ear with his teeth. "I love you."
"Is that right?" She laughs softly and leans back against him. A soft sigh and she rests her head against his shoulder. "I'm not sure I want to go back to the houses after all of this. So nice out here. Could stay here for a lot longer then this weekend."
"Yes, that's right." He laughs softly and looks up into the sky as she speaks. "I'm sure it can be arranged." He chuckles softly. "I've loved every moment we've been out there. I don't want to go back either."
"Just is so nice." She sighs and closes her eyes, her hand laying on his, the other still holding the water bottle. "But we would start going crazy eventually. You would get so sick of me." She laughs.
"I'd never get sick of you." He smiles and brings his chin back down to rest on her shoulder. "Bears, yes, I'd get sick of those..." He opens his eyes and funny he should say bears. There were two cubs, coming from the clearing, rough housing with each other. "Hey, shhh quiet, look." He points to them, water bottle held between his palm and last three fingers, index finger pointed to the bear cubs.
She opens her eyes and watches them with a smile. However that smile fades.. "Well, if the cubs are here.." She whispers. "The mother can't be far."
"I know." he whispers and slowly pulls her back, not to disturb the cubs in their play. "Let's go back to the cabin?"
She nods and puts her hand into his. "Mmhmm."
The momma bear came into the clearing and lifted up onto her hind legs and sniffed the air. She looked to Brandon and Emma, but sensed their hasty retreat and let them be. "Whew." Brandon whispered and starts down the trail towards the cabin. "We can call whoever owns the place and get an extension to stay a bit longer if you'd like?"
She walks with him and smiles, her hand squeezing his and thankful mom didn't come to eat them. "Just you and me?" She looks up at him, brushing those golden locks from her shoulders.
"Just you and me, Angel." he smiles and looks down at her. "Then we can go skinny dipping again."
"Oh, just trying to get me naked!" She pushes at him and laughs as she runs ahead of him through the woods.
"Of course!" he laughs and he runs after her.
She laughs more and runs around some of the large trees, turning to watch him, then ducking behind a larger tree and laughing, but with her hand over her mouth to muffle it.
He started to weave through the trees, but he must have missed a turn. He finds himself in a small clearing, no Emma in site. "Emma?" He calls out and looks around in a circle. "Emma, where are you?"
She laughs softly and keeps her hand over her mouth. Blue eyes looking around, she slowly peeks around the tree.
"Emma?" he thought he heard a soft giggle, and turns his attention to that area. "That you Emma?" as he walks slowly forwards.
She gasps and turns back to be hidden by the tree, that is.. till a very big guy comes out of nowhere and picks her up, throwing her over his shoulder. She screams and laughs. "Stop that!"
He heard her scream first and that makes him take off running. "Hey!" he yells out. "Emma, are you ok?" He runs up behind them. "Hey, put her down!"
Gage turns around and sees Brandon. He laughs. "We were calling you two for like an hour, the hell are you doing so far out?" He tickles Emma's leg and she laughs and screams again. "And out here with my little sister at that.." Dark brow arches as he looks at Brandon.
He takes a step back when Gage turns around. "Oh, hey." he looks up at Emma, then at Gage. "We were just walking..." he looks at Emma again, then at Gage again. "Put her down, please?"
She laughs and smacks Gage on the back. "Scared me to death just about."
Gage grins and looks down at Brandon. "Problems?" As he slides Emma to be on her feet.
Eyes dart to Emma then back to Gage. "No problems bro." As he reaches for Emma's hand. "We were just out walking, right, Angel?"
A slight frown at the way Brandon is acting. "Yeah well, dinner." He shakes his head and walks off.
Emma watches them, then turns to Brandon when Gage walks off. "What was that about?" She whispers.
"They know you're my girl." he steps closer to her. "He wouldn't like it if I picked up his girl and started to walk off with her."
'Oh.." She shrugs but then smiles. "Is that a rule?"
"Kind of an unwritten code." he nods and takes her hand. "Hungry?"
Gage walks through to the fire and looks around at all the brothers there, grabbing a beer from the cooler. "Is it mandatory when one of you get a girlfriend you turn into dickheads?"
"A little." She smiles and starts to walk towards camp.
He walks with her, his stomach growling the entire way.
Dirk looks up at Gage and smiles. "He's threatened by your rugged good looks and your sexy body baby."
Gage shakes his head. "I never did like him much.." He growls softly and takes a large tug of his beer.
Once to the camp Emma smiles at them all and walks on over to the grill to get a plate.
Smiling happily, Brandon follows behind her. Taking a plate himself, he loads up on the grub. Even a smile thrown out for the bros that were gathered around the fire.
Cole just stands there and watches it all, he snorts and laughs.. he can't help it.
"You shush." Gage smiles and winks at Cole.
Dirk grabs Cole and wraps him in his arms. "Monkey Man!" he growls playfully and showers his neck and shoulder with kisses. A grin to Gage, won't be much longer for them to be retiring to the cabin they had shared.
Brandon waits for Emma to get done loading her plate and he looks over at Cole. "What's so funny?" he laughs.
Cole laughs and is grabbed, then laughs even more at Brandon. "You are going to get your butt kicked!"
Gage grins and keeps sipping his beer, just, standing there.
She turns and watches them all and smiles. "What is going on?"
"Good question." he steps out from behind Emma and protectively in front of her. If there's going to be punches thrown, Brandon didn't want her accidentally in the way. "What'd I do to deserve an ass beating?"
Dirk just shakes his head and laughs. "Down boy, you don't want to jerk Gage's chain anymore than you already have." He looks up at Gage and smiles. "If anybody is going to be jerking him, it'll be me or Cole or Jessie."
Jessie had been sitting quietly, eating the rest of the dinner and nearly chokes on his coleslaw at Dirk's comment. "Oh dear." he coughs, pounding his chest.
And that just makes Cole scream with laughter in Dirk's arms. "Too funny! Can't... breathe!"
Emma watches Cole and can't help but laugh at how cute he is, then a frown at Jessie. "Are you alright?"
Gage however.. he's calm, quiet.. and eyes stay on Brandon.
Brandon feels the weight of the stare, and he matches it. Sure he has to look up, but still, he stands his ground. He moves his hand to the side, to put the plate onto a little picnic table, eyes never leaving Gage's.
Dirk laughs when Cole does, tickling his sides, to make him laugh even more. He loved Cole's laugh. And if Gage was going to kick somebody's ass, well there was nothing sexier than that. Well, watching Cole and Jessie... his minds starts to whirl and he gets a very dopey grin on his face.
Jessie picks up his pop to take a drink, and when he's done he puts it down and gulps in the air. A smile for Emma. "I'm fine, thank you." he takes another deep breath and smiles brightly for her.
Cole gasps for breath but then he's tickled even more and he screams with more laughter. "Run Brandon, run!" As he smacks at Dirk's hands to stop him from tickling him more.
She nods to Jessie then watches them all. "I don't know what's going on, guys. But nobody needs to do any fighting, right?" She puts her plate down on the table and moves around Brandon to Gage and looks up at him. "No fighting."
Gage's eyes flashed a golden color as he stared down Brandon. His jaw clenched, the more Brandon even looked at him the more he was getting pissed off. However then Emma is in front of him and he sighs. "Who the fuck is he to say I can't pick you up? By the way, I'm not deaf mother fucker." He growls to Brandon.
He reaches for Emma as she walked in front of him. He watches her speak then looks up at Gage, eyes narrowed slightly, his own teeth grinding, causing his jaw to flex. "She's my girl." he whispers.
Dirk stops tickling and just keeps Cole held close. When Gage speaks, he sighs heavily. Deciding to keep out of it, he merely watches the three while nuzzling and nibbling on Cole's ear.
Jessie gets up and dumps the rest of his food into a trash bag. Without a glance back, he walks to the cabin and closes the door behind him.
Cole smiles and watches them, popcorn would be so great right now! Two hot guys fighting! And being nibbled on by his lover, he's a very happy boy right now.
"No fighting, please?" She whispers, but she gets out of the way. Stepping away from them all and walking over to the cabin and going up onto the porch, leaning on the railing. Not wanting to be in the middle of this at all.
"I'm not blind either." Gage growls softly and watches Brandon. With Emma out of the way, and knowing that Jessie left the area he calms down just a tad and closes his eyes, turning his neck just enough for it to crack with a popping sound. "I've known her longer then you, you come in here and think now you fucking own her? Fuck you."
"You're not worth my time." he whispers and turns to walk towards Emma and the cabin.
Dirk winces visibly and holds onto Cole a little more tightly. "Oh, he's asking for it." he whispers.
"Ooo..." He shakes his head, olive greens dart from Brandon's back to Gage, and back again. "What will he do? What will he do?" He whispers and nibbles on his bottom lip, dying to know.
"He's not going to do anything." Dean walks out of the woods and puts his hand on Gage's shoulder. "Calm down." He whispers. "We are all brothers here, we can't be fighting among ourselves when we have greater enemies out there ready to fight us. Right?" He smiles and pats him on the back. "Come on now, it's almost campfire story time."
Gage of course calms right down and blows out a breath. "Right." He nods and drinks down the rest of his beer, tossing it into the trash.
Dirk looks up at Dean and smiles. "Couldn't have said it better myself, bro." He nuzzles Cole's ear again as he's looking up at Gage then. "Anybody ever tell you you're sexy as hell when you're mad, baby?"
Brandon reaches Emma and looks up at her, still standing on the ground. Holding his hand up to her he sighs. "I'm sorry. Come listen to campfire stories with me?"
Jessie opens the door and peeks out when he hears Dean's voice, then joins the rest of the group back out at the fire.
She reaches down and takes his hand and nods. "Yeah."
Gage turns and grabs Jessie up. Smothering him with kisses. "I'm sorry." He whispers and holds his baby closer. A wink to Dirk and Cole.
"Awww.. no fight." Cole frowns and pouts, but then that vanishes when he sees them bring out marshmallows!
Dean stands there and watches them all gather along the logs that are set around the fire and he smiles. "Alright everybody, now I have a very scary story to tell you all." He grabs the flashlight that is tossed to him by Joel. Turning it on he puts his close to his face. "It was the first time I saw Russ... early in the morning without his make-up. Muahahahaha!"
Hoots, laughter and even a few shrieks heard around the campfire from all of the brothers.
Jaden shakes his head and laughs loudly. "Not this story again."
Russ had been munching on a marshmallow, not really paying attention until he heard his name. "Hey!" he yells out and shakes his head, laughing.
And Zack, being new to all of this, leans forward on the log, listening intently and watching the marshmallow ignite in the flames of the fire on the end of his stick. He picks it out of the fire and blows on it, waits for it to cool before devouring it in one bite. Looking up at Dean he gasps. "Ewww!" then laughs.
Burn walks over and chuckles under his breath as he blows out a bit of breath to keep that large bonfire ignited. Pays to keep a pyro around.
A large grin as Oliver walks out with a huge platter full of brownies. "Brownies are served!"