Summer Drabbles - Roughing It
"Are you okay, Cody?" Daniel's sweet little face showed such concern, she stopped turning the freshly caught trout in the frying pan, and stepped back from the fire pit.
"Honey, I'm fine. Why?"
"Well, last night, I heard you scream in the woods. I was scared you got hurt." He just looked up, and she held the spatula suspended in mid-air, trying to think of what to say. It was a summer camping trip, one of the rare times that she, Hsu and some of the men got up into the mountains.
"I saw a snake."
He looked wide-eyed. "A big one?"
"HUGE. Gi-normous." She went back to the fish. "You should go wash up for supper, Daniel."
Daniel went off to wash his hands and face in the stream, and Cody went back to frying the fish, not even bothering to look at the man sitting on a tree stump behind her. She didn't have to.
"And YOU, mister, can wipe that smirk off your face right now."
"Honey, I'm fine. Why?"
"Well, last night, I heard you scream in the woods. I was scared you got hurt." He just looked up, and she held the spatula suspended in mid-air, trying to think of what to say. It was a summer camping trip, one of the rare times that she, Hsu and some of the men got up into the mountains.
"I saw a snake."
He looked wide-eyed. "A big one?"
"HUGE. Gi-normous." She went back to the fish. "You should go wash up for supper, Daniel."
Daniel went off to wash his hands and face in the stream, and Cody went back to frying the fish, not even bothering to look at the man sitting on a tree stump behind her. She didn't have to.
"And YOU, mister, can wipe that smirk off your face right now."