Reordinate the Fate

Third Destination: We Don't Need This!

"Today we will rearrange the campervan before leaving this afternoon. Get up now so we still have a little time to rest after tidying up!” Max speaks out loud in the bedroom to make the others wake up.

Today they will leave the cottage and return to nature. Max opens the bedroom door after pressing the light switch to turn on earlier. "Gosh, what time is it?" Cliff responded in a hoarse voice.

"Six." Max replied from outside, “I'll make breakfast. Gather at the dining table quickly."

When Max breaks the egg into the frying pan, someone comes out of the room scratching the back of his head that covered in long hair, "What are we having for breakfast this morning?"  Risa sits down at the dining table and leans her chin staring at Max.

“Typical western breakfast as usual. Beef bacon, sausages, and sunny side up."

"Should I help you?" Will leaves the bedroom this time.  It seems that the man has washed his face, his appearance looks fresher with little wet part in his face remained. “You can check the clothes we left hanging behind the cottage yesterday. I can cook by myself.”

Will turns toward the back of the cottage where they dried all their laundry yesterday. The washing machine doesn't have drying system and Max suggested them drying in the room yesterday, but it turned out that Cliff found a clothes-hanging line behind the backside door that could be shifted to open.

"Risa, help me bring this to the table." Max pointed to several plates. Risa who was holding an apple, took a bite before putting down the fruit on the table and got up to approach Max.  Without speaking, the girl took the plates and placed them on the table.

A few moments after looking at the breakfast that was served while chewing an apple in her mouth, Risa asked, "If we are in the wild and don't have cutlery and utensils at all, what should we do?"

Max takes out the milk from the refrigerator and puts it on the table, after that he grabs two cups of coffee and opens a packet of brewed coffee for him and Will. “We always have our best cutlery. Hand." Max moves his fingers in front of his face.

"We will definitely cook without utensil and eat without this later." Max pointed the cutlery on the table, "You just wait a little more. It will be more fun than you think.”

"Good morning,"

Risa and Max turned around in surprise at that voice. How can be that lazy bum? It's Stevan!

"Hey, what kind of blessing did you get last night so you can wake up without me hurting yoir butt, Freak?" Risa exclaimed in a loud voice. Stevan sits next to her with his eyes half open.  "You always think of me as a lazy, huh?"

"Not always, only recently." Risa answered.

"I feel like I wake up latter or earlier will always look wrong in your eyes." Stevan rises up from his seat and move to the kitchen, looking for a glass and then fill it with water. When he returns to the dining table, he can see Cliff is just woke up and sat down. Will was walking towards them.

Will said, "If we leave it until check out time, I'm sure our clothes will dry properly.” The man accepted the coffee cup which Max extended, "Thanks." After that the five of them enjoy their breakfast without conversation.

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Risa passes Cliff who was washing dishes to the room. She will tidy up his things and start packing. There's not much she brought from the beginning of the vacation. She only needs to packed sun cream and body lotion that she use to protects her skin from UV rays, and the end, she only needs to fold and rearrange clothes because everything has been cleanly washed.

"Risa, please get the car key for me."

Right after Risa finished putting her last clothes into her backpack, Max spoke from outside the room. Risa moves to zip her backpack and takes the car keys that are on Max's bed. "Let me help. You will to put things in the camping car, right?”

Max nodded. “Stevan and Will said they were done tidying up all the load. So I just need to put everything placed on the dining table into the camping car.”

"Fine, I'll bring the things for you while you wait outside."

Risa directs her steps to the dining table and sees various items.  She carries four large bottles of water to puts into the camping car for the first thing in her hands. The girl walks out with her sandals and gives the bottle to Max, who had opened the baggage of the camping car.

"Wow! Do we have a tent in this car too?”

Risa saw the trunk of the camping car and realized that there was a tent storage area at the bottom of the car. Max takes the bottles from Risa's hand, “Of course. The tent made its name camping car, if the car doesn’t contain camping properties, the name isn't a camping car.”

Max continued, “You can ask Stevan to help lift the gallon of water. I think there's another big bottle of water, right? I bought 5 pieces.” Risa chuckled, “Be patient, explore master. My hands are not that big.”

Risa entered the cottage and called out Stevan who was in the bedroom. "Stevan, can you help me lift a gallon of water here?"

The person that name being called was seen coming out a moment later and lifting gallons of water easily. Risa smiled crookedly, "You want to show off your muscles, huh?"  Risa deliberately touches Stevan's large arm and pressing it.

Stevan's face looked uncomfortable, “You! Stop touching!”  Stevan speeding his pace before Risa sees an embarrassed expression that he couldn't erase from his face. Risa”s loud laughter could be heard behind him.

"Is it enough for us five? Just two gallons of water?" Stevan puts the gallon of water in the baggage of the car.

"We will only use it if there is no clean water for drinking in the forest. If we find water that's clean enough, we won't drink the water in here.” Shortly after Max replied, Stevan comes in and out again with the second gallon of water.

Stevan goes back inside to clean up his things, just as he passes Risa. The girl hold his steps by pulling the back of his shirt. "Wait a minute!"

"You were the one bought the groceries with Max last night, right?" Risa's tone seemed unfriendly. “Yes, what's wrong?"  Stevan turned around and got tossed by a pack full of woman's goods.

"WHY DID YOU BUY THIS, FREAK?!"

Stevan chuckled and takes up a pack of pads that Risa had thrown on the floor, "I just thought you needed this just in case of preservation if any—"

"PRESERVATION FOR WHAT, HUH?!"

"I'm studying biology, Risa. I know that woman must face it once a month.” Stevan handed it to Risa, "So I bought it for you." Risa takes the pack roughly, “You don't have to put it in the trunk, Freak! Just give it straight to me! You are stupid!"

Risa gone into the room and came out again a few moments after. "Hey, your face is blushed, my friend." Stevan said.

"It's because of your stupidity!"

Risa lifts the grocery bags out with an annoyed face. She ignores Stevan, who is now behind her laughing loudly as a revenge for what she did before.

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"Are we really not able to carry it?"

Cliff sees various sweetand sparkling drinks that were left on the table. "We'll waste drinks if we leave it here, Max." Max keep shaking his head, “We don't need that. Drinks is easily adding weight to the camping car. It's hard to ride on the uphill roads we'll be on after this.”

"I agree," Will added, "Beside that, this drink will only increase our thirst and we will crave for more water after that. Extra amount of sugar is also not very good for the body at this time. We already have enough honey supply as an energy booster and artificial sugar replacement.”

"All right," Cliff finally nodded, "So we just leave it here?"

Max agreed, "Let the officer take care of it." The man looks at the other four one by one. The backpacks were attached to their backs. Half an hour is their deadline for check out.

"Okay, we haven't forgotten anything here?" Everyone shook their heads. "Your clothes are not left behind?"

"I've checked everything." Will believes to himself, "I'm sure nothing is left."

"All right, let's get out now."

Max moves to the simple main building which is the receptionist for all wooden cottages in this hill area, while Risa and the others enter the camping car ahead. “Do you know where we're going? Did Max tell you something?”

Cliff answers Risa who was sitting on the passenger middle-seat  on the right side as before, “I already asked this morning. We'll camp again, but this time it's really in the wild. We will camp on the mountain as our fourth destination.”

Max came in, "Are you guys ready to go?"

After everything is ready, Max starts the engine and drive the vehicle in a more uphill direction. "We're going to the mountains. This mountain is kind of forest mountain, it's not open for public, but I already got permission to camp there.”

"How long will we be there?"

"Four days." Max replied, "But on the early morning of the fourth day, we will descend the mountain so we can get to the next destination in the time I planned." Nobody answer Max afterward.

Risa said to Stevan who was on the left side of middle-seat, "Can you lower the window?"  Stevan presses a button and so do Risa in the right side. The cool hill breeze entered the camping car, as if waving to the five 'escapers' who were moving from the wooden cottage area to the next location, the mountain.

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