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The light touches along her stomach made Heidi giggle. It tickled but she wouldn't call him out for tickling her this time, he wasn't doing it on purpose. She liked this. "I love camping. It's so fun." But with only two days of leave a month did they have time to really enjoy camping anymore? That sucked. They'd have to make do with what they had.

"I was never very good at fishing though." Heidi finally stopped fidgeting and relaxed against Tuck again, looking up at the sky through the branches of the tree above them. She ran a finger along the bridge of her nose to make sure it didn't hurt to touch. Good, it would be okay as long as she got some aloe on it later. "I bet the parties were fun~. Did you join a fraternity or anything? I visited a couple colleges but only for tours while I decided which ones to apply for, so I never experienced the actual life of it." She shrugged. She was kind of sad that she couldn't go off and pursue acting, ever attempt Julliard, but..

Heidi tilted her head to one side so it rest against Tuck and she closed her eyes. This was good, too. She was happy like this in Tuck's arms.

"So you love fishing..but you don't eat fish."

"When," Heidi corrected when Tuck said if. When he made it to full hunter. But she liked the idea of camping with Tuck on their days off. They could camp in all the different countries they wanted to visit, or at least in the ones that had somewhere for them to camp. "I'm going to hold you to that."

Heidi laughed when Tuck explained his dad would get grumpy about his fish saving ways. That was cute. "Theodore Ross, savior of fish and other such aquatic life."

She made a happy sound when Tuck nuzzled her, tilting her head up into the affectionate gesture. Today was proving to be the best day ever so far, she didn't want it to end. "So our new dorms must not be much of a change for you," Heidi giggled, turning her head to kiss Tuck's chin. "I'm sure if you wanted to you could find a ball on one of your days off and get some of the guys to play it with you. Heck, I'd play." Guys had made a point not to tackle her back at home but..well...she had this handy new fear shield Matilda provided. She was more durable!

Heidi looked down at herself, picking at her bra to quietly compare the color of covered skin to uncovered skin. "Eh..I should probably get dressed.." It was up to Tuck if he got dressed again. Heidi wouldn't complain if he didn't. "...That requires getting up, huh?" She stared at her clothes strewn about on the ground like a trail of breadcrumbs toward the lake.

"Nah, it's fine. I can go get them." Heidi turned to sit on her knees, putting a hand on Tuck's shoulder to support herself as she pushed herself back up to her feet.

Heidi looked around to make sure no one was around before she wandered away, grabbing her pants first since they were the furthest. She put them back on while she walked, grabbing her tank top next and pulling it back on as well. "Do you want to do some more hiking before it gets too late?" Heidi asked as she picked up her socks, hopping a bit on one foot and then the other while she put them back on. Finally she was back at Tuck's side, flopping down on the ground beside him and grabbing her sneakers.

Heidi's eyes followed Tuck as he stood and redressed and she found herself having to hold her breath to suppress a giggle. This guy was her boyfriend. Her boyfriend. No one else could have him.

..He was a very nice looking man.

She was blushing again as Tuck finally went for his shirt. "I do~. Just until it starts to get dark. And theeeen while you shower I'll make dinner for us and...sleep over?" Heidi sounded hopeful. She didn't have to ask permission for that, right? She felt the need to anyway for some reason.

"..Maybe...habit~." Heidi admitted with a shy smile.

At his question she managed to pull off a completely straight face, though her cheeks were still faintly pink in color. "Sunburned," Heidi lied easily, "hopefully the quartermaster or the infirmary has aloe or something." She stood again, pulling her hair tie from the end of her braid to just tie her hair back in a quick ponytail. "Oh, I have sunscreen in my backpack. I need more if we're going to hike." Heidi held her hand out expectantly. Either the backpack or the bottle, it didn't matter which he gave her.

Heidi maintained that look of innocence with every look Tuck gave her. What? Was it something she said? She didn't do anything. She reached out to catch the bottle when Tuck tossed it only for..him to catch it. She blinked. "Um..sure, if you want." Heidi smiled and stepped closer, pushing her bangs out of the way of her face. "Umm, I need it..here," she pointed at her face, "and here," Heidi then pointed to her shoulders and back. She could do her arms and chest herself.

"Okay~. My door's always open too." Though Heidi really liked spending the night with Tuck.. "...Can I leave things in your room?" If she could spend the night whenever not every sleepover would probably be planned. If she just suddenly decided to spend the night it would be best if there was already something there for her to wear, right?

Heidi took the bottle and just held it for now, closing her eyes while Tuck spread the lotion over her face. She could tell just feeling it that he did indeed use a bit too much; it was fine, she would fix it without making it too obvious. She turned to let him get at her back, fixing her face while her back was turned to him and using some of the excess lotion on ether hand to rub it into her neck. Her arms came next, and by the time she turned back to Tuck she was rubbing lotion on the exposed upper part of her chest.

"Yeah, sure. I need to make dinner for us anyway. That should give you enough time."

When Tuck finished she smiled and put a hand on his chest while she hopped up on her toes to give Tuck a quick kiss. "Thank you, baby~!" Heidi grinned. She was mostly testing how it felt to call him that.

She was just going to stick with her usual nicknames for him, it felt weird to call Tuck baby. The bottle was handed back to Tuck and she then took his hand in hers after he had put it away. "Come onnnn~. I want to see more of this place."