05: Rainstorm

Warning: The following chapter contains sexually explicit material. Reader discretion is advised.

“Abigail!” Zach shouted as he rounded the fork in the trail in the last place he saw her. Recent prints in the mud indicated someone had passed through here not too long ago. “Abigail!” Zach walked the trail in the direction of the footprints and came to a stop just before a huge drop-off into the canyon. Looking around he noticed more prints and gasped, “No.” From the looks of the tracks, Abigail had gone over the cliff and fallen into the chasm!

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04: It’s Him!

“Now we’re going to break up into groups of five. It’s very important you remain with your group whenever out in the woods. Although the trails are supervised by park rangers, remember this is a nature reserve. Meaning there are still very dangerous elements around: wild animals, toxic shrubbery, jagged boulders and even hanging cliffs. Please avoid being out past the advised curfew and remain on the designated hiking trails at all times.” Professor Jones counted the heads of the number of students on the bus as Professor Chauncey addressed them.

“Alright, I want the left half of the bus to follow Professor Jones, the other half will remain seated and I’ll give you your cabin assignments.” Abigail and Jemma slipped off the bus and lined up with the other students. Abby began taking shots as the supervising professors handed out sleeping arrangements. 

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03: The Not So Popular

“Write 230,000,000,000 in scientific notation,” Abigail read the next problem on Knox’s assigned homework. Since meeting up with him at noon as promised they’d only gotten as far as the fifth problem; five out of twenty-five. Abigail had quickly lost patience with the numerous bad jokes and sexual innuendoes continuously spouting from Knox’s mouth.

It was close to 3:00 p.m. and she was ready to get out of there and find a more constructive use of her time. “Easy, 23 x 100!”

“Actually the proper rule is ‘Ax10ⁿ’. ‘A’ represents the real number, in this case 2.3 and 10ⁿ represents the number of times you move the decimal. You count those and place them after the 10 as an exponent. The answer would be 2.3 x 10¹¹.”

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02: Ditching Practice

“And she just ditched you? Damn, Bro, and I thought I had problems,” Knox laughed, listening to Zach’s story as the two tossed around the pigskin mid-field. “Jemma’s on some tirade about me and Shana Dempsey when all I did was hand her a glass. Man she reamed me! Instead of going back to my dorm like I’d planned, she poured her drink on me and went looking for some friend of hers. Chicks!”

“At least you know her name. I didn’t even get that much. The only thing I really know about her is she’s a damn good kisser.”

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01: Auld Lang Syne

“I knew I’d find you here!” Jemma Crowe’s voice startled her best friend Abigail Carmichael and she nearly jumped down from the windowsill she sat perched upon. It was late afternoon and most students were already out for the night or preparing to tie one on the town and here she sat with her nose in a book. 

“What?” she asked and glanced over the top of her glasses towards the blonde as she made a beeline through the aisles of books. Dawning Hall was unusually quiet and the dimness from the flickering fluorescent bulbs cast eerie shadows up and down the columns of shelves. Jemma did her best to ignore the sudden goosebumps that covered her arms as she finally made it to the cubicle where Abigail hid.

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