Appalachian Adventure Racing Camp
Copyright© 2025 by Canairs90s
Scene 10 — Lindsey
Lindsey trotted after Cal into the lake, crossing the narrow sandy beach rather than using the pier, but she soon realized why he was in such a hurry as she splashed into waist deep water: it was wonderfully cool and refreshing. She sank down so her shoulders were below the water and reveled in the cooling sensation after the intensity of the competition in the increasingly hot and humid morning air.
“Aaaah this feels wonderful,” Cara sighed, “great idea Linds, or Bae? Both of you? Either way this is great.”
“It feels really nice to cool down, the water is so refreshing. Funny to think it was only a few hours ago we were all swimming as hard as we could across this,” Lindsey reflected.
“Were we all though?” Bailey asked and cast a pointed glance at Cal, making light of his struggles on the swim leg.
“Hey! He tried his best you bitch!” Lindsey laughed and began splashing water at Bailey, who ducked under the water. “Need I remind you who got completely crushed during the bike leg?” Lindsey asked mockingly when the blonde resurfaced.
“But, there were distractions!” Bailey exclaimed.
Cara guffawed at her friend’s protestations. “Weird how they only seemed to work on you,” she pointed out.
Bailey blushed bright red, her embarrassment obvious. “It was just distracting because it was funny, I was way ahead of you anyway, Cara. Superior fitness and all,” she huffed.
“Sure you tell yourself whatever you need to, you little horndog,” Cara teased her friend.
Bailey grunted in annoyance and submerged herself again rather than argue. Cara winked at Lindsey and the pair giggled. The conversation died down a bit after that and Lindsey took a moment to admire her surroundings. She realized she hadn’t taken time to really appreciate the scenery all weekend. Beautiful tree lined slopes rose around them, the sky was a crystal blue with a few wispy clouds. And it was quiet, wonderfully quiet compared to what she was used to in Chicago. With all the competition and talking and instructions and, unfortunately, arguing this weekend she hadn’t really appreciated the quiet beauty of the landscape before now. Without even really thinking she reached out to Cal under the water and grabbed his hand giving it a squeeze. He gave her a surprised look but then squeezed her hand. They held hands and wordlessly appreciated their surroundings.
Bailey distracted them from their reverie as she started to fiddle with something below her waist. After a few moments she seemingly gave up and pulled the straps of her swimsuit off her shoulders. The water was too brown for Lindsey to see anything but she appeared to strip off her suit. Lindsey’s suspicions were confirmed when Bailey pulled her suit to the surface and tossed it at Cara.
“Oh my gosh that feels so good, I finally got that disgusting slime from the tunnel obstacle away from my cooch,” Bailey exclaimed. Cara rolled her eyes at her friend’s crude language but couldn’t help but laugh. “You guys can’t see anything, right, the water is too dark? Not trying to be an exhibitionist out here,” Bailey asked.
“You’re fine,” Cal confirmed.
“Ok cool, didn’t want to be weird, but this feels so much better. Getting that nasty stuff out of my suit but also skinny dipping feels so freeing. You joining me babe?” she asked Cara.
The taller woman shook her head, a small blush visible despite her darker features.
“Suit yourself, slime tail,” Bailey mocked her.
Cara balled up Bailey’s suit and hurled back at her smaller friend. Bailey caught it giggling and let it float near her. Lindsey was starting to really enjoy their fun and playful dynamic.
“I’m not judging you, Cara,” Lindsey, sympathizing with the taller girl. “If I had that nasty slime down there I would want it out. And I promise you we really can’t see anything.”
Cara sighed and with resignation stripped off her swimsuit, being careful to keep only her head above water to protect her modesty.
“Ok, so weirdness aside, I have to admit Bailey had a point. Between getting the slime off my nether regions and being naked in this cool water, this really does feel fantastic,” Cara proclaimed. “So are you two going to join us?”
Lindsey was taken aback by the normally reserved Cara’s proposition. Before she could formulate an answer she noticed Annie and Stefan walking across the field and waved to them. The pair waved back and walked towards the edge of the lake. They were just as covered in mud as when Lindsey had last seen them. Stefan definitely had a limp but didn’t seem to be in too much pain.
“How’s the ankle doing Stef?” Bailey called as their former foes approached the water’s edge.
“It’s ok, tender, hurts a bit but just throbbing pain, not sharp. I am fairly certain it is a mere sprain, but the timing was not ideal,” he replied.
“Well the water is still pretty cool, hasn’t warmed up yet, not as good as ice, but might help a bit, not to mention it feels nice to cool off if you want to join us,” Lindsey suggested.
Stefan and Annie waded into the lake and dropped below the surface once the water was deep enough. They resurfaced with at least the worst layer of filth washed off.
“This is tremendously refreshing, and nice to get a bit of weight off my ankle, thank you for the suggestion,” Stefan said politely. “Would any of you be offended if I discard my shirt? It is a bit unpleasant now that it is soaked.”
“Ha, well sounds like you’ll fit in just fine with this crew,” Lindsey said wryly. Annie perked up at that, looking around at the others. Grinning, Bailey rose up a few inches to the top of her shoulders was visible. Lindsey watched as Annie connected the dots, seeing the lack of straps then noticing the swimsuit floating next to the blonde.
“I thought I had the monopoly on shameless behavior around here!” Annie laughed.
“Well, to be fair, our reason for stripping down was a bit more functional, we had this disgusting sludge from one of the obstacles stuck in the bottom of our suits,” Cara explained, “it was not very pleasant.”
“Swimming in the cool water with no clothes is quite nice though, we’ve discovered,” Bailey added. “Not like you can see anything inappropriate with how brown the water is anyway.”
“Well it’s not like it takes a lot of convincing to get me out of my clothes,” Annie said with a smile. Lindsey rolled her eyes at that comment while Annie proceeded to strip, although with her short stature nothing inappropriate was on display. She rang out both garments and tossed them to the shore to dry. Stefan did the same with his shirt. Lindsey exchanged a brief look with Cal, were they the weird ones now for wearing clothes? He shrugged, seemingly fine with the status quo, which reassured her.
The group discussed some of the different obstacles and experiences they had during the course of the day. Stefan explained how his team had decided to try the short route with more obstacles since they had come out of the bike leg last (albeit not too far behind the others) and didn’t think they probably had the fitness to catch the other teams. Bringing up the bike leg led to a fresh round of teasing of Bailey about how the distraction had worked on her and her maintaining her defense she just thought it was funny. That caused Annie to bring up how it very obviously worked on the guys from Team 1, especially Tommy, and the group had a laugh at his expense. Lindsey found herself actually appreciating Annie’s blunt nature, and discovered Stefan was quite funny as well once he got more comfortable.
“Alright, well we have a frightfully long car journey ahead of us, so I think we had best go prepare for our departure,” Stefan said. “While the experience here was markedly different from what we expected, we enjoyed ourselves and are better for having made acquaintances with you four.”
“Do you think you will be having any more, umm, familiar relations?” Cara asked, clearly feeling awkward about having to bring it up.
Annie looked at her quizzically, “Uh, we don’t exactly have a plan, we tend to be pretty spontaneous. Why do you ask? Want to join?”
Cara flushed, embarrassed, Bailey giggled at her friend’s discomfort and explained; “I think we’ll pass, thank you, it’s just that the walls are paper thin and if things were going to be noisy we thought we might give you two some time,” the blonde explained.
Annie looked aghast, embarrassed, she exchanged a look with Stefan, who looked equally distraught.
“I didn’t realize,” she said softly, “all of you have heard us?” She got four nods in return.
“Oh no, I am so sorry,” Annie said, she looked almost on the verge of tears. Lindsey was confused, self-proclaimed shameless Annie was embarrassed? The smaller girl took a deep breath and seemed to compose herself a bit.
“Early on in our relationship we decided we wanted to be open and sex positive. Be open to trying new things and enjoying life’s journey. However, we also agreed that full consent had to be part of everything we did sexually, that’s why I didn’t push it with you yesterday, Cal. Blasting you with the various noises we’ve generated over the last few days without your consent was wrong, and I am really sorry about that.” Lindsey noted her reference to Cal and filed that away to ask him about later.
“Well said, Annie, I would just like to reiterate it was not our intention to force you all to listen and I really apologize for it. After all, ball gags exist for a reason,” Stefan said, adding a touch of levity to the suddenly tension-filled atmosphere.
Nobody said anything for a moment, processing everything. Lindsey had to admit she was impressed, she had thought the married couple just didn’t care what others thought, but understanding their thinking increased her level of respect for them.
“Well, as I recall, you did manage to improvise a gag on at least one occasion,” Cal piped up. Lindsey remembered the episode from Friday night after the first challenge and burst out in laughter. It took Stefan and Annie a moment to catch on but they couldn’t help but chuckle once they did. Bailey and Cara looked confused.
Lindsey couldn’t help herself, “Be quiet, you dirty slut or I’ll shove these nasty slimy panties in your whore mouth,” she said with her voice artificially deep, imitating Stefan. Bailey and Cara laughed, realizing who she was quoting.
“Fucking do it and do meeee,” Cal responded, in a falsetto voice, imitating Annie from a few days ago. “I think you two may have already bailed before that part,” Cal said to Bailey and Cara, his voice returning to normal, the two women were laughing hard and even Stefan and Annie were chuckling a bit at their antics.
“Seriously though,” Lindsey said, her tone also back to normal, “I really do appreciate you apologizing and considering others. As long as you don’t mind a bit of good natured teasing, of course.”
“Ha, I think that’s more than fair,” Annie replied, “glad we can all laugh about it, even if it’s at my expense. We do need to head in though, I promise we will be as quiet as church mice. Stefan, would you be a dear and toss me my clothes.”
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