Chapter 132: Don’t Be Cheeky

“Are you guys ready yet?” called out Jessie’s mom.

“Nearly!” called back Bjorn. “Jessie’s just pulling on her jeans. Won’t be long.”

In the other room Bjorn was making final adjustments to his hair as Jessie Harper pulled her jeans up over her hips then zipped and belted them in place.

“There!” she said. “All ready.”

Jessie then looked across at Bjorn standing by the door. She then walked up and flung her arms around him from behind and said, “I’m sorry, Bjorn, for making such a fuss before. I can be a silly old cow at times. I guess I’m just feeling very emotional at the moment what with Carrie the way she is and us a million miles from home and all the stress of getting through the Pageant and worrying about how they will actually save the baby if they can’t save Carrie. I ... I ... I guess I just need a strong man to lean on at the moment. Do you know one I can lean on?”

Bjorn turned and hugged his lovely girlfriend very tightly and said, “I think I might know one willing to do that. If I see him I will let him know what you want. How’s that for a promise?”

Jessie said nothing as she squeezed in harder to Bjorn’s chest then mumbled, “Come on. Let’s get going. Let’s see what this little town is made of before we go to see Carrie. I wished I’d paid more attention in my German classes at school. I still can’t understand a word of it even though I did two years of it. Wie dumm von mir!” (How stupid of me)

“Das stimmt, kleines mädchen!” replied Bjorn after a few seconds. (That’s true, little girl)

“Hey ... sei nicht frech!” snapped back Jessie. “Maybe I know more than I think so just watch it junger mann!” (don’t be cheeky; young man)

Bjorn squeezed Jessie’s shoulder as the two headed on out into the corridor just outside their room where Glenda and Bryce were waiting. The door was locked behind them and soon they were all dropping down through the levels in the elevator to the ground floor and to what ever was waiting for them out there on the streets of Ulm ... a city with a thirteen hundred year old history along with one of the world’s tallest church steeples and also the birthplace of Albert Einstein.

This city that Jessie, Bjorn, Glenda and Bryce were about to explore also had the only fully equipped, but only partially state funded, medical centre in the world dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of the rare form of cancer that Carrie Pearson had. This is why she was now domiciled here with her family so she had immediate access to the centre and whatever it could do to hopefully save her life - which was not looking very promising at present.

All the indications were pointing to just a matter of weeks if not less before this rare form of cancer claimed another victim. Everything was being done to avert this and to also try and save the child growing inside her body but so far the prognosis was not good. Carrie knew this and had requested the presence of her friend Jessie Harper and the father of her baby - Bjorn Erikson. She wanted to have a good chance to talk to them both before she slipped into another coma - a coma she would in all probability never come out of!

Even though the mood amongst these four travelers from afar was quite sombre, considering the circumstances, they still found it in themselves to put all that aside and just enjoy the moment for what it was worth. Part of that moment involved them getting fully dressed in their normal attire even though they were all quite familiar and comfortable with the worldwide spread of Lifestyle Nudism. Once dressed all four then stepped out out in this new world that was Ulm in Germany.