The Proverbial War

Blinking Colt looked up in surprise his fingers leaving the fabric of the bra guiltily.

*****

I swallowed and then watched a little nervously as he got up and came toward me. Why had I offered that?

Somehow I couldn't get over the thrill I'd experienced yesterday when he'd had me up on tiptoe pressed up against him. The sight of him touching the bra idly just seemed to have brought the moment to mind and I'd said something I wish that I could take back now.

He stopped beside of me and dropped the clothes to the ground.

I looked up and he said, "I'd like that."

That was all he said before he made his way out of the campsite. Was he really giving me privacy or was even now circling back to peak at me?

I immediately rejected that thought. Colt wasn't the peeping tom sort. No he was the kind that would walk up and grasp a shirt and send buttons flying.

Another thrill coursed through me at the image of that becoming a full-fledged fantasy suddenly entered my mind.

I held a hand to my forehead as I tried to mentally rein in my errant fantasy minded thoughts. What was wrong with me? Or was the better question, what was finally going right with me?

I swallowed at the thought of that and hurriedly got changed. He was back before long with some fruit and a very ordinary looking rabbit.

*****

"So what do you think about all this?" I asked abstractly.

Colt glanced back at me and gave me a measured look, "About what?"

I swallowed and gestured around me not liking how my innocent question had been turned around on me.

His eyes after lingering on me a moment longer strayed a way to look up at the cloudy orange sky overhead.

"Falling through the world, glowing clouds, dinosaurs and blood thirsty pirates. Is that what you're referring to Kim?"

I nodded.

"I think…… I think we'd better find shelter ASAP!!!" He exclaimed, as he gazed over my shoulder at something behind me.

I turned quickly to see what could possibly put such a look of alarm on Colt's face. Part of me expected to see an onrushing dinosaur, but what I found was a storm. A storm like no other.

The entire sky lit up and fractured as lightning streak after streak fractured out over it into a thousand fingers of blazing color.

"Oh God!" Was all I had time for before I was jerked around roughly by Colt's grasp on my hand. He was tugging me on at breakneck speed through the jungle as he left the exposed ridge in favor of the lower jungle and the shelter that it offered from the storm.