Mick returned with 3 drinks and stood opposite us. Large as life when 1 guy asked who we were, cooly Vic said the is Mick and his Mrs. his mate just s...id Ok cool, nice arrangement. 'Yeah. it works real fine dude,' Vic said.Then he kissed me hard on the lips. I like that. After about 1 hour Vic was getting a bit pissed but more horny, so was I too. His hand was om my ass, squeezing it. 'Hot damn man that is some fine white ass you gotten you there Vic boy,' said a new mate, just come in.' Yeah. Tessa was struggling. He had learned early on that she tended to pull away when something upset her. At the moment, Tessa was trying to avoid just that. She was attempting to gain control of her emotions, and sort out what it was that had brought this on in the first place. Tessa’s current uneasiness was Conner’s fault and he knew it. But he wasn’t about to apologize for it. When he brought up the idea of spending a three-day weekend with Tessa he hadn’t exactly been expecting her positive. See the "Caravanning" story for some background.Mark made an announcement, "Three weeks from this weekend we are going to a friend's hunting camp for the opening of deer season. I'll let you know what to pack."Courtney and Carly and I looked at him with question marks on our faces. Courtney spoke up, "What do you mean WE? I don't know anything about deer hunting."Mark laughed, "You don't have to shoot Bambi. This is more a getaway than anything. My Dad did this for years but he and another. Each tribe preferred to fight independently, and that would be our downfall. I understood that already, even though I only had sixteen years.The last few days had been a maelstrom, the events too much to absorb. The defeat of our army, the death of my mother. Our flight northwards.I had seen them all, but seeing them and living them were two different things.Just like last night; I had known the ceremony was coming, but it didn’t stop it from being frightening. I had become a woman last night,.