shelter where you find it

CHAPTER 1
The Beginning.

It all started on a day like any other in a remote mountainous region.

My cousin Tina and her boy friend Rick had convinced Mom and Dad to allow them to take me camping she had after all just turned 18 and Rick was 19 so they assured all that it would be safe and it would certainly be more educational than sitting in front of the TV for 2 weeks.

My good friends David and Peter were also allowed to come as they were not only my mates at school but all our parents worked together and they wouldn’t be home most of the time anyway, me I’m Bruce and well this story is sort of my fault in a long winded way though I’ll never admit it in front of my cousin.

Tina and Rick had an amazing relationship and when we arrived at the camp site they immediately entered their tent and Peter, David and myself spent the first 2 days listening to the joyous moaning of two young lovers humping their brains out and of course we imagined the positions and techniques that they would be doing it in and laughed and snickered.

On the third day however we had convinced them to come with us and attempt to reach the top of the summit on the mountain on which we were camped and after 5 hours or so we got as high as we could go without needing climbing gear, so we stopped rested ate some potato chips we had taken along with us and watched the dark clouds of a storm in the distance approaching. As we started back it began to rain much to the dismay of Tina who hated being uncomfortable and wet denims and woollen jumpers soaked and heavy is pretty uncomfortable when you’re walking a fair distance.

We found some shelter under a incline and thought about waiting it out but after 30 mins all it did was get heavier and we knew that it wasn’t going to stop o we headed back down to camp.

Reaching the river we had crossed is when everything turned to shit, the river had flooded and increased in ferocity not only couldn’t we cross but our camp was gone well maybe it was there it was the land we had set up on that had decided to disappear under the flooded river.