“Wait don’t close it yet!” the cheetah boy shouted to his tigress girlfriend as he hauled the last of their bags out from the house and toward the trunk of the car. Alex was just about to shut the trunk after she put their food and drink in there, but when she heard Ashton’s panicky voice as he fast-walked his way over to her, she pulled the hatchback back up and helped him out with the bags he was hauling. “Sorry, I thought we were done,” the tigress chuckled and settled the bag that was clearly one of hers into the back of the car. Ashton let out a soft sigh and wiped the sweat off of his forehead once the final bag was put into the car. He then grabbed the hatchback, firmly closed it shut, and walked over to give his tiger girlfriend a soft kiss on her forehead.

‘Mwah.’ After his audible smooch, he pulled her in for a tight hug with his hands planted firmly on her plush behind. Alex let out a soft and slightly confused murmur to both the smooch and the hug that came after. When she felt his hands on her ass though, she let out a chuckle and leaned into the hug. Her arms wrapped around his back before they slid down to his ass, too. After a few seconds of just hugging, they both pulled away just enough to be able to look at each other, and Ashton smiled down at Alex in a way she wasn’t used to seeing. The tigress raised a brow at him and tilted her head to the side. “What’s got you smiling like that?” she asked him. The way he was smiling at her made her smile, too; he just looked too cute and happy for her not to.

It took Ashton a few moments to reply to his girlfriend; his blue eyes locked to hers and his lips formed an even wider smile the more he looked down at her face. He tightened the hug, pulled her closer to him, and gave her butt a firm squeeze before he chuckled. “Nothing, I’m just happy we can take this trip together. We’ve both been stressed to the dick with work, I’ve really been looking forward to this.” He averted his eyes away from Alex’s for a short moment and cleared his throat after his voice cracked during the last few words of his sentence. When he brought his eyes back to the tiger’s, his cheeks had a nice layer of blush on them.

“Aw,” was all Alex had to say at first, which almost left Ashton miffed that she would reply with just a sound to him pouring his pretty-boy heart out to her. “I’ve been looking forward to this, too. A couple of days in the forest with my boyfriend? No Sea of Thieves, no Destiny 2 to take him away from me?” Alex leaned her face in to nuzzle at the cheetah boy’s chest, gently brushing her nose over his shirt and taking in his natural scent that she loved oh so much while she was at it.

“I don’t play Sea of Thieves excessively, c’mon. It’s just a few times a week with the boys,” Ashton protested, but the smile on his face still remained. He wasn’t really angry or upset, but he wasn’t going to let her get away with implying he played video games too much. Especially when he could pull up her playtime for a specific game that was off the charts. “I could say the same thing about you and Siege, Alex… How many hours do you have in that? 1,000?”

“1,500. But I never deny it!” Alex replied with a wink, she quickly changed the subject once it became clear she might be the one with the gaming problem. “This will be good for you! No thinking about deadlines or anything work-related, just you, me, and the wild…” she nuzzled into his chest again and started chuffing happily. As she nuzzled into him, her hands slowly started to let go of his ass and she relaxed in his embrace.

Ashton let go of Alex’s ass, too and brought one hand to hold her shoulder and another to hold her head endearingly. He leaned down to smooch her in between her ears and let out a soft chuckle. “Yeah… I promise, I even left my work laptop in the house, work phone, too…” They both stood there in each other’s embrace quietly before Alex spoke up and broke the silence.

“I’m going to suck that dick so hard that not even wildlife will want to come close to our camp…” She suddenly gave Ashton’s ass a firm squeeze with her hands and dug her claws into his denim lightly. She bit her lip and waggled her eyebrows at him suggestively just to add another notch to the tease factor. Her grip on his ass was so tight that it caused the two lovers to mash their fronts together even more than they already were; and of course, Ashton popped a boner, how could he not? It certainly didn’t help that Alex’s tail was brushing up against his leg and that she was smiling in a certain way that made her sharp teeth look even more alluring than they already did. When the tigress felt the cheetah’s boner rubbing against her leg, she grinned, gave him a teasing wink, and let go of the grip she had on his pretty-boy butt. “Shall we then?” she chirped and skipped along over to the door to the front passenger’s seat. Ashton still had his arms out the same way that he was hugging her and froze like that for a few seconds as he watched the tigress in that red sweater, cute skirt, and cute white socks skip away. When he heard her close the car door he blinked, looked down at the very obvious tentpole in his pants, and sighed. “Why do you let her get away with that,” he whispered at his dick. He shook his head a few times before he followed her to the car and got in the driver’s seat.

He got into the car as Alex slid her seatbelt buckle into its slot. He reached for the ignition, started the car, and reached his hand for the shifter when he felt Alex swat his hand away from it. ‘Bap!’ she was gentle, but it was enough to get the cheetah to look at her with a slightly angry furrow of his brows. “What was that for?”

“Put your seatbelt on!” the tigress tugged at the seatbelt she had over her front a few times before she let go of it. “My car doesn’t stop beeping, remember? And it’s the LAW.” She added the second part after a few seconds of delay, showing that the sound of the seatbelt warning was more annoying to her than the law requiring the seatbelt. “I didn’t forget! I was going to put it on after! My foot is still on the brake.” Ashton rolled his eyes a tad and reached for his seatbelt to buckle himself in. Once he was clicked in and secured, he brought his hand back to the shifter, put the car into drive, and rolled out of their driveway.

It didn’t take them long to leave the suburban area they started in and get onto the highway that would take them even further away from the hustle and bustle of the city; Alex inputted their destination into the navigation system, connected her phone to the car’s Bluetooth, and kicked her feet up onto the dash as she played the entirety of Lady Gaga’s discography and sung along to it. Ashton sang along to some of her more popular songs, while Alex belted her more obscure ones alone, and when she ran out of Gaga songs to play, she just let the algorithm pick and play songs for them as she looked out the window and occasionally brought up things to talk about. As they approached the fifth hour of driving, they were far away from any tall concrete buildings and were surrounded by green fields and mountains as far as the eye could see. The eight-lane highway they started on turned into a six-lane one, a four-lane one, and into the two-lane country road they were cutting through the mountains on. Ashton kept his eyes mostly glued to the winding roads, but he would occasionally turn to look at the tigress just to smile at her, even if she was watching the hills out the window. He enjoyed looking at her, she was a really good sight for sore eyes. He’d snicker to himself every time he looked away from her and back at the road again; he really felt like the luckiest man alive whenever he was with her.

“Hey, look, there’s the place right there…” Ashton said as he glanced at the only roadside sign that he’d seen for miles. The sign was made of wood and had the name of the place painted on it by hand. It gave off a tiny bit of slasher movie cabin-in-the-woods type of vibes, which made Ashton gulp without even realizing it. Luckily, they were camping in a tent in the woods and not a cabin, so they were safe from the killers, at least based on the movies he’s seen.

“White Forest Ridge National Park…” Alex said as they drove passed the sign. She turned to look at her cheetah boyfriend and smiled. “Sure does sound like a good place to get murdered.” She uttered her words so casually and then looked back out the window. Her words caused a slight panic in the cheetah boy’s eyes as they turned off the paved road and onto a dirt road, just like a horror movie would.

“Alright, Alex… If we are going to some slasher-themed campsite you better tell me now, please, so I can mentally prepare.” Ashton looked genuinely concerned as he spoke to her, and when she just continued looking out the window in silence, he tried to get her attention again. “Aleeeeeex…” After a few seconds, the tigress did turn to look back at her cheetah boyfriend and smiled. “God, no, that does not sound like a way to not be stressed to the dick, I was just kidding! Don’t you worry, no murders on this camp trip.” For some reason, her words didn’t quite reassure him about that, but when he saw her smiling at him, he almost forgot all about it.

“Take a left here.” The tigress pointed to an even rougher terrain off to the side of the dirt road they were on. Ashton complied and they rolled slowly along the bumpy road until they came across a green open area surrounded by trees that overlooked a large lake. There weren’t any tire tracks, footprints, or any signs of anyone having ever been there before. The car rolled to a stop just off the dirt trail and both the car’s driver and the passenger stared out the windshield across the vast lake and into the distance. They sat there in silence as the car’s AC slowly faded out and made the inside of the car a bit warm. After around a minute or two of staring, Ashton stretched his arms out over the steering wheel and let out a yawn.

“HHHhhyyaaaahh… So, should we set up our tent?” he said, his words heavily distorted by his yawn.

“Mhm! I’ll look for a spot!” Alex slipped into her shoes excitedly, unbuckled her seatbelt, and let herself out of the car. Ashton stayed in the car for a few seconds longer and watched the tigress as she skipped over to look for a flat and dry surface where they could pitch their tent. He smiled as he watched her, tapped his hands on the steering wheel a few times, and got out of the car to grab the tent and bring it over to wherever she chose as their spot. As he grabbed the tent and the other supplies, he heard his girlfriend excitedly call out to him; “Ashton! Over here! I found the perfect spot!” He slung one bag over his shoulder and held another in his hand as he walked over toward her still with a smile spread across his face. “Alright, alright, I’m coming.”

Pitching the tent proved to be a little harder than the two lovebirds initially thought. The instructions the tent came with were more useless than the ones that came with IKEA furniture. Combine that with broken English that was clearly put through online translation software multiple times and Alex and Ashton were putting poles in the wrong holes, hooks on the wrong anchors, and protective weatherproofing on parts where it wasn’t needed. After a little over an hour, they finally got it right and had a spacious four-person tent pitched up with camping chairs, lamps, and their food coolers all set up. Ashton dusted his hands together, placed them at his hips, and looked at his handiwork with pride. “See? I told you that long pole went in the middle.” He chuckled.

“The instructions on this thing are the worst I’ve ever seen…” the tigress grumbled and shook her head before she chuckled. She wiped her forehead free of the small amount of sweat that had built up there and turned around to walk her way back to their car. Ashton did the same with his forehead, although he had a lot more sweat and had to use his shirt to get it all off. He turned his head to follow Alex as she walked back to the car and raised a brow at her curiously. “Where are ya goin’?” Alex turned around to face Ashton but continued walking back toward the car, “We need bedding in the tent, duh… Unless you want to sleep on the plastic tarp.” Alex raised a brow right back at the spotted feline boy teasingly.

“Right…” Ashton said to himself and turned back to look at the tent again. The smile on his face was still so full of pride. He was a real outdoorsman now. He circled the tent and tugged gently on the anchors just to be sure they were all secured properly. As he tugged on the fifth and last anchor, it came free from the dirt and he crouched down to hammer it into a different spot with a rock he found lying nearby.

‘Clink, clink, clink, clink!’

After he hammered the anchor back into the dirt, he heard some fumbling noises coming from the car. He peered his head around to see if he could catch a glimpse of what she was doing. He only saw that she was grabbing something from the back passenger’s seat, which was odd because they hadn’t put anything in the backseat. He pushed himself up from his squat and made his way to the car. “You need help there, Alex?” he asked as he approached the car. When he got close enough to look at her through the window, he saw that she was digging around in one of the bags she pulled out from the back. He wasn’t quite sure what she was looking for, but a bunch of her little personal objects were spewed about on the seats. He knocked on the window to get the striped feline’s attention.

‘Thump, thump.’

“Need help?” he repeated. Alex turned to look at him and pointed to the front passenger’s door. Ashton took a few steps over to it, pulled it open, and stuck his head inside. “What are you looking for?” he asked, his brow raised as he looked at his girlfriend. Alex stopped searching through her bag and let out an exhausted sigh, “I can’t find the wet wipes I brought. There’s some dust on the pillows in the back and I need them to wipe it off, can you look in front? Maybe I had it in my hand while I sat up there and it fell somewhere.”

“Sure,” Ashton replied and climbed into the car to help her look. He checked the gaps between the seat first and saw nothing, then he reached his hand underneath the seat and moved it around blindly. He gritted his teeth as he stretched his arm under the seat as far as it could go; he felt loose coins, what he assumed was Chapstick, and some sand. He continued to sift his hand around under the seat until he felt something that vaguely resembled the plastic pouch that wet wipes usually came in. He pulled his arm out from the tight space under the seat and looked at what he had in his hand to make sure it was actually wet wipes before he brought them up to show the tigress in the back seat and turned to look at her with a goofy smile. “Found it!” he said excitedly. He looked like he was about to say something else, but his ability to speak words flew out the window when he saw her.