Where The Hell Are We?

Ji'lahni's POV:

     

Mina! "Where the hell are we? We're in the middle of nowhere." I yelled. "We're about to come up missing out here in these damn woods!" Shawna whined from the back seat. "Ji'lahni I swear this is where the address you gave me took us to. I followed it exactly as that G****e lady told me." Mina said looking confused and a little scared. We have been driving since four this morning and it was now almost seven pm and we still haven't made it to the Crystal Wolf Lake Reserve. I'm pretty sure that my legs are numb and my ass died four hours ago.

        We were supposed to be performing for a mating anniversary and also planning something they called a mating ceremony for our good friend Lateri Crystal. She took our dance class to Spruce up her love life six months ago. She was sixty years old, but she had aged beautifully, she looked at least forty-five. She had long beautiful, curly brown hair, hazel eyes that changed color whenever she was excited or happy. We noticed that whenever she got a tough dance move, or a compliment when she remembered the choreography, her eyes would change color. She had beautiful tanned skinned, it was almost like it had a golden glow, like an Egyptian goddess.

        We became her instant daughters; she called us every Wednesday night at the same time and we would talk for hours. She really has become important to us since we are all the family we had. Our parents died in an accidental fire during Christmas seven years ago. Mina was sixteen, me and Shawna were eighteen and we have been together ever since. It's weird that they call it a mating ceremony instead of just saying a wedding, but oh well, with the money they're paying us they can call it whatever the hell they want.  

         Me and my cousins were the owners and operators of JMS Wedding planning and also owners of JMS dance studio for BBW women like us. We mostly dance to sexy sensual, hip-hop, r&b, and even some pop music. We each had our specialty.  Mina was hip hop r&b; Shawna was r&b and pop and I do sensual and r&b. We also added self-defense classes with our best friend Lynn, who is a bad ass at everything crossbow, shooting, sword, and martial art. She's BBW as well, we met her in college, and we have been inseparable ever since. She has also been training us for the past five years, yes we can do it all. We have to work twice as hard, and we have our limits, but we always said work smarter not harder.

        So, we had to learn how to use our skills differently.  We train every day and although we're not as good as Lynn, but please UNDERSTAND we can damn sure make her ass stumble. That's saying a lot since she was black and Asian and has been training since she came out of the womb. She would have been with us in these damn woods, but she had family stuff, so she won't get here until tomorrow. But we do have her toys in the trunk just in case we have to fuck some shit up out here. We're supposed to be staying here for the next three weeks until the wedding, because we live so far away, it made sense for us to just stay until after the mating ceremony. They paid us so well that we would have stayed longer if they asked.

        The bride is Lateri's soon to be daughter-n-law which I don't think she likes her all that well. While she was taking our class, she would roll her eyes at the mention of her daughter-n-law. Come to think of it, I don't think she told us that woman’s name until she asked us to do the mating ceremony.  But she loved her son and talked about Makahi Crystal every single time we talked. She said it was time that he settled down and started a family. Since him and the name we cannot mention have been dating for three years, it was time they sealed the deal, even if she don't like her "uppity ass." Her words not mine.

    She was hoping that he would find his Luna, she called it, don't ask me what that means because I don't know. But giving this is a Mating ceremony, I just chucked it up to, it must be a cultural thing. She seemed like an earthy type person who walks barefoot outside, preferred sleeping outside on the ground, and living off the land so to speak. Far different from our southern asses. Don't get me wrong we're country and definitely know how to farm, cook, garden, and build things to survive. We learned that from our grandparents and parents, but that was a different time for them. Even though we lived that way back then, we have also evolved as well. So, we not doing none of that survival shit, unless we have to, like an apocalypse or some shit.

        About three months ago Lateri called me and asked that we do her son's wedding, sorry mating, and performed for her anniversary.  We essentially declined, due to the fact that she was halfway across the country in a place that we have never even heard of, and we would be losing money if we tried to plan that at our rates. But she wouldn't take no for an answer and offered us damn near what we would make in a year. So here we are, we flew as far as we could and rented a car to travel the rest of the way, which is where we are at the present time lost as hell. "Look, pull over so we can get Lynn's guns out the trunk, because it's getting dark. I'll be scared as hell even with a gun, but hopefully fear will make me pull the trigger. Because being mauled by a bear or a damn mountain lion, won’t be fun at all. That would be some fucked up shit ,for three black women to be killed in the damn woods. You know damn well black folks don't do the woods at night, hell not even in the day if we think big ass animals are in them.

          Mina pulled over and I hopped out to get Lynn's bags.  "And get the knives too we gone be tomb raider out here."  Shawna said. Mina looks at Shawna through the rear-view mirror frowning. "And what the hell you gone do with them knives? Yea you know how to use them, but you know damn well you hate violence of any kind." Mina teased. Shawna hated conflict she was quiet, reserved, avoided arguing, and drama. Mina on the other hand was smart mouthed and could back it up. As for me, I observe and speak only when spoken to, you get the same energy you give me. I don’t like to fight but I will if you cross the line, and we always protect each other no matter what. Getting back in the car handing Shawna the bag of goodies.

          "Here, I just got the whole bag. I wasn’t standing out there all that long time, trying to find that stuff.” I said, closing the car door. " Damn this shit is heavy, I can see right now that Lynn is planning on working our asses to death. I thought we would catch a small break for three weeks, but she damn near brought everything she has in her studio." Shawna sighed heavily. "You already knew Lynn wasn’t giving us no damn break. You remember what happened last year when we took a week off to vacation in the Bahamas. We damn near died when we got back in the studio, because our dumb asses tried to do our classes, then turned around and tried to do hers."  I shuddered at the remembered pain in every part of my body, fingernails included. We literally crawled into our apartment every day for two weeks straight. I feel like at least two of those nights, we just slept at the front door until after two am.

            Another half hour had me dozing off. I was exhausted because we have literally been up for three days straight: prepping, planning, and organizing for this trip. "Hey look, I think I see something, it looks like some kind of guard shack." Mina said tapping me on the shoulder. I hopped up on full alert praying that we had finally made it. "Thank God I hope we're in the right place or they can tell us where to go.” Shawna said, zipping the weapons back up only halfway, just in case we needed to move quick if whoever this is tried to kidnap us. I don’t blame her because you never know in these damn woods, but here we fucking go. I don't know why but I feel like this is about to be some weird shit we're not use to. I hope we're not walking into some type of hippy weird shit where folks walk around with their ass, titties, and dicks out. Like the people who just be having sex with any and everybody. I may be open minded and respect people's culture but don't think I'm joining in none of that shit. Now Mina and Shawna would definitely consider joining, because them some damn horny Bitches, but anyway, here goes nothing.