Chapter Twenty – One - Out By The Lake

Nick layed there in bed, stretched out on his stomach and hugging against the pillow. He wiggled his nose a little, swelling something and opened his eyes, looking over at the fireplace. There was no fire in there. He looked over in the bed beside him and there was nobody there.

”Caraline?!?!” he yelled as he jumped out of bed, looking down at his boxer briefs and reached over for a t-shirt, slipping it on, “Caraline?!?”

Downstairs!

He smiled, and sighed a sigh of relief and looked at himself in the mirror. His hair was sticking up, going in every direction possible. He walked over to the stairs and walked down them slowly, smelling more of the smell. It smelled pretty damn good. He walked around the corner, looking into the kitchen to see Caraline standing there at the stove, with her back to him wearing a white tank top and a pair of jean shorts.

”What are you doing?” Nick asked as Caraline looked over her shoulder at him, smiling, “Are you cooking?”

”Yeah, I am, we have to eat,” Caraline said as Nick walked a little closer, looking to see that she was cooking pancakes. She looked back at him and then started to laugh, “Why do you look so confused? Sit down at the table. I’m almost done,”

”Uh, just, you know –“ Nick said as he paused and pulled the chair out from the table, looking over at her, “no girl that you know, I’ve ever went out with or anything has been able to cook, so I’m a little in shock,”

”I’ve been cooking since I could walk,” Caraline said as she started to laugh and began putting the pancakes on two separate plates, “When I was three I was making cakes in a Easy Bake Oven,”

”Those things are good though,” Nick said as he looked at her and smiled, “I didn’t picture you as the cooking type,”

”I can cook almost anything but I never get the chance to really so I wanted to wake up this morning and cook since there was food here and a kitchen and we had to eat,” she said as she handed him a plate full of pancakes and reached back on the counter, handing him some strawberry syrup, “That’s the kind that they have at IHOP, I don’t know what it’s doing here but I love it,”

”Well damn,” Nick said as he leaned back, smiling, pouring syrup over his pancakes, “I have my own chef,”

”That’s what I wanted to be before I started getting into fashion and all of that stuff,” Caraline said as she handed Nick a glass of chocolate milk and then put her glass and plate of pancakes on the table across from him, and sat down.

”Did you sleep good last night?” Nick asked as Caraline looked down at her plate, pouring the syrup on her pancakes and looked back up at him, smiling, “I take that as a yes?”

”Yeah, the bed is really soft,” Caraline whispered as she smiled, watching Nick as he took a bite of the pancakes, “Are they good? I’m a little rusty because I haven’t cooked anything in a while,”

”Damn, they’re good,” Nick muttered as he started to take another bite, “You cook everything this good?”

”Uh huh,”

”Shit, I’m going to get fat again,”

”I’ve never seen you fat,”

”Eh, I think I was,” Nick muttered, taking a sip of his milk, “So what are we going to do today?”

”I don’t know. I was looking out of the window and there’s that huge lake out back. We could go swimming,” Caraline said, licking the syrup off of the fork and smiled at Nick, “Or we could go out hiking in the woods,”

”Why can’t we just stay around here and eat?” Nick asked, taking another big bite of the pancakes as Caraline laughed at him, “We can do whatever,” he said, smiling up at her. “So what time did you wake up?”

”About an hour ago. I got up and got dressed. You looked so peaceful sleeping that I didn’t want to bother you and I wanted to let you sleep,” Caraline said as she smiled, “Then I called Tim and Faith and let them know that we arrived safely then they I called my mom and told her that we got here okay,”

”Well damn, you just wake up and get motivated,” Nick said as he laughed a little, “We can go out to lake if you want to,” he said as he smiled, “We could get a little freaky in the water,”

”That’s what I was thinking about,” Caraline whispered as she wiggled her eyebrows at him. Nick just looked at her in shock, “Why do you look at me that way when I say things like that? I’m blunt and I’m forward, so what?”

”Just you know,” Nick said as he paused, looking down at his plate that only had one more little piece of pancakes left, “I’m used to girls being shy around me and I have to be forward. I don’t really have to be that way with you. I had to make you not scared that, well you know,”

”I’m sorry about that,” Caraline said as she looked down at her plate, taking a bite of her pancakes.

”No, you have every right to feel that way,” Nick said, taking the last bite of his food, “And damn that was some good food,”

”Thanks,” Caraline said, smiling before she took a sip of her milk, “Why don’t you go get ready to go out by the lake and then when you’re done we can go out –“

”But don’t you need to come put your swimsuit on?” Nick asked as Caraline nodded her head, telling him no, “Oh, okay. I getcha,” he said as he smiled, standing up from the table. He walked over, kissing her lightly on the lips and started to laugh, “Strawberry kisses, yum,”

”Go get ready,” Caraline whispered as Nick smiled, practically running to the staircase.

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”Man, what if we walk up on something that you know,” Nick muttered as him and Caraline were walking through the high grass a little bit later, that lead to the lake, “could bite us or some shit?”

”Then we run for our lives,” Caraline said as she reached the end of the high grass, walking out by some lower cut grass that was around the lake. She smiled, crossing her arms as she looked around, looking at the sun, glaring down on the water, “It’s beautiful,”

”Fucking stickers,” Nick muttered as he walked up behind her and then looked out by the lake, “You sure you wanna get in that water man? We should have a little boat,”

”Would you just shut up and look at it. It’s beautiful,” Caraline said as Nick looked at her, seeing her smile as she looked out at the lake, “I’m gonna go in,”. She took a scrunchy that was around her wrist, pulling her hair on top of her head and looked over at Nick.

”Going in where?” Nick asked, watching her as she kicked her sandals off, smiling at him, “Caraline?”

”The water,” Caraline whispered as she unzipped her jean shorts, pushing them and her panties down to the ground. She smiled, as she stepped out of them and started walking towards the water, pulling her tank top over her head and threw it behind her, walking into the water. Nick stared at her, watching her as she moved out into the water. She looked back at Nick as she went chest deep into the water and started to laugh at him, “Come on Nick,”

”I’m not going out there,” Nick said as he shook his head no, “I don’t know shit about that water,”

”It’s crystal clear mountain water, come on,” Caraline said as she tried to splash some water his way, “Stop being such a chicken about going skinny dipping in front of me,”

”Fine,” Nick muttered as he started to push his shorts down to the ground and walked out to the edge of the lake, looking down to see a little fish swim by, “My god, Kevin would be so fucking proud,”. Caraline laughed at him as he walked further into the water, until it reached his waist and he looked over at her, “I’m telling you, if something bites my dick of –“

”It’s not,” Caraline whispered as she swum closer to him and wrapped her arms around his neck, “Now isn’t this nice?”

”Yeah it is,” Nick whispered back as he wrapped his arms around her waist. Caraline looked around, and then up at the sun as it shinned down on them and then back at Nick, smiling. They looked each other in the eyes, moving their faces closer to each other slowly, until their lips were about to meet. She moved her nose against his lightly, causing him to smile, taking her mouth into his, kissing her slowly.

Caraline moved her arms, closer around his neck, pushing the top part of her body against his as the kiss became deeper. He moved his hands around her waist, pushing her up a little so that she could wrap her legs around his waist, almost causing him to enter her but not quite. She started to giggle against his lips when he moved them away, kissing down her neck slowly, sucking on it.

”Nick,” Caraline whispered as he moved his lips back to hers, and they started to kiss slowly again, “Nick,”

”Yeah?” Nick asked as he broke away from the kiss, looking at her, “What?”

”We shouldn’t do it in the water because it could cause me to get an infection or something. I read it somewhere once,” she whispered as she leaned over, kissing him on his chest and then on his shoulder, “Let’s go back to the grass,”

Nick smiled, moving his arms around her waist tighter as he started to walk out of the lake, still carrying her as they continued to kiss one another deeply, sucking on each other’s tongues. He reached the end of the water, laying her down on the grass and moved on top of her, kissing her again. He moved his lips from hers, moving them down to her chin, and kissing along her neck, sucking on it, and biting on it softly. He moved down to her chest, giving it little butterfly kisses as he moved his hands down to her breast, touching them softly.

He moved his mouth down to her right breast, kissing it softly. He put his mouth over her nipple, moving his tongue around it causing her to move under him a little. He smiled, moving down to her stomach, kissing and sucking along it as he felt her hands run through his hair, turning him on even more. He dipped his tongue into her belly buttoned, causing her to giggle a little. He smiled against her stomach, kissing and sucking along it when she started to pull on his hair a little and he looked back up at her. She moved her lips, telling him to ‘come there’ and he smiled, crawling back up her body, and began to kiss her deeply again. He moved his right hand down, spreading her legs a little, giving him better access. She moved her hands to the side of his face, as she sucked on his tongue, causing him to moan into her mouth.

He moved his hand up, touching her lightly which caused her to moan into his and he smiled, touching her again. He began to move his hand back up his body, and stopped kissing her, looking down into her eyes a she entered her slowly, moving all the way it. She smiled back at him, and leaned up, kissing him deeply as she wrapped her arms around his neck, holding onto him tightly as he began thrusting inside of her slowly.

She moved her lips from his, kissing and sucking along his neck and his shoulders. Nick pressed his lips together, feeling sweat drip from his forehead and leaned over, kissing along her neck, tasting her sweat as he moved his lips back to hers, and began kiss her again. Caraline wrapped her legs around his waist, and pushed her hands against his chest, pushing him over onto his back, letting him enter again as she moved down on top of him. He moved his hands to her waist, looking up at her as she smiled at him, biting down on her bottom lip.

He sat up, moving his arms around her back, holding onto her shoulders. She wrapped her arms around his neck, leaning over to kiss him again as she continued to move down on top of him. She moved around a little, teasing him when only made him want to push her down on him. She did it again, teasing him and he moved his hands down to her waist, pushing her down on top of him causing her to moan a little and smiled, moving down on top of him harder herself. He smiled back as she moved her hands through his hair, which was almost completely wet from the sweat they had worked up from the heat because the sun was shining down directly on them.

They both sat there, with Caraline moving on top of him until they were both out of breath and drenched in sweat. They had their arms wrapped around each other so tight that neither could hardly move, until Nick put his hands on her waist, pushing her down on top of him one last time and they both felt their release. They held their heads together, catching their breath as he leaned over, kissing her slowly on the lips, sucking on them.

”Caraline –“

”Hmm?”

”I have something I wanna tell you,” Nick whispered as he kissed her gently on the lips. She opened her eyes, looking into his, smiling and he smiled back, “I think I have some stickers on my ass,” he said as they both cracked up laughing, falling back onto the grass.