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this far out in
the woods was such a good idea. At least this way I could grab the
lead rope if he got a bit too far away.
    I unrolled one of the blankets and
spread it out over the sand. I pulled one of my notebooks out of my
book bag then settled on my stomach.
    I read all of the headings then skimmed
over the main points, muttering definitions and answers to
questions to myself.
    “Live vaccines... killed vaccines...” I
took a break after the vaccines to grab an apple out of the saddle
bags. I took a bite and chewed thoughtfully.
    “Intravenous...into the vein.
Intramuscular...into the muscle. Subcutaneous....under the
skin.”
    I smiled as I studied and lost myself
in the definitions. Pharmacology was one of my favorite
classes.
    I glanced up to make sure Dodge was
still close enough to catch. My eyes widened and I screamed in
surprise.
    Jasper started to laugh. He stepped
away from the tree he had been leaning on and came towards me.
“Sorry. You were concentrating so hard I didn’t want to bother
you.”
    I glared at him and tried to get my
heartbeats to slow down. “How long have you been standing
there?”
    He smiled and sat beside me. “A few
minutes.”
    As my breathing got back to normal my
irritation slowly dissipated. “Oh. Good god, don’t ever do that to
me again!” I smiled.
    He laughed. “So what are you
doing?”
    “Studying. I have finals this week.” I
lay my head down onto my arms and eased the tension in my
shoulders. “What time is it?”
    “It’s after lunch.”
    My stomach growled. “Hmm. So it would
seem. Did you eat? I brought a lunch.”
    He shook his head. “I was fishing and
lost track of time. Do you like fish?”
    “I love fish.”
    He grinned. “I’ll make lunch. You can
study some more if you want.” He wandered into the woods and came
back out with sticks and some bigger dead branches.
    “There’s a lighter in my saddlebags if
you need one.”
    He shook his head and pulled two stones
out of his pocket. I watched in amazement as he struck the stones
together and a spark flew toward the sticks and dead grass he had
bunched under them. It took three more tries, but he soon had a
fair sized fire going.
    “When you go camping, you really go
camping!”
    Jasper looked up and smiled.
    I had to catch my breath.
    He went back into the woods and
reappeared with a handful of long green branches and a fish. After
tying the branches together he placed the fish on top of them and
held it over the flames.
    I watched every move he made, unable to
look away.
    He glanced sideways at me and smiled. I
blushed with the embarrassment of being caught staring. He held my
gaze with his and I saw him take a deep breath. He blinked and
turned back to the fish.
    “All done.”
    I moved my books out of the way to make
room. He held the sticks up in the air for a few minutes to let
them cool down then set them on the blanket.
    “That smells great!” I reached into my
saddlebags and pulled out the cheese and bread I had brought
along.
    Dodge gave a loud sigh and I smiled at
him, standing in a sunny spot with his eyes half closed.
    We were quiet as we ate. I concentrated
on the food and picking the bones out of the fish so I wouldn’t get
caught staring again.
    I started as something moved in the
bushes to our right.
    Jasper jumped up and was standing, the
movement so quick I wasn’t sure he had been sitting at
all.
    Everything seemed to happen all at
once. Dodge stepped in front of me just as Jasper looked my way.
For a quick second his blue eyes, narrowed with indecision, flashed
towards mine. He seemed to make up his mind just as quickly and he
ran towards where the noise had been. A growl erupted from his
throat.
    I must have blinked, because one second
Jasper was running towards the bushes, and the next a tiger was
leaping over them.
    There was a loud thump as the tiger
collided with something I couldn’t see.
    Dodge pushed his shoulder into me but I
was frozen in place. Something grey