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“Look, over there,” Matt yelled out, pointing into the woods.
Off in the distance, there was a structure of some sort, just barely visible through the drifting snow. We squinted at it from a distance, all of us a bit timid to go tromping into a random house in the middle of the woods. Matt leaned forward into earshot.
“We should try to reach it and see if we can hide out in there,” he yelled. “Maybe there is heat or a fireplace or something that can keep us warm while we wait out the storm.”
We all looked at each other and nodded as a gust of wind almost blew me off my feet. Jason gripped tightly to my waist as we trekked through the trees toward the structure. As we approached, we realized that it was a small, rustic cabin. Amber climbed the stairs to the front door and knocked hard.
“Hello? Is there anyone in there?”
No one answered, and all the lights were off, so she tried the doorknob, but it was locked. She sighed and turned back to us shrugging. Austin handed Jessica his poles and took off his skis, walking up to the door and rattling the handle. He stepped back and kicked hard, watching as the door flew open, snow blowing inside.
“Come on,” he yelled, waving everyone in. “I’ll pay the owner for the damages. We just need to get out of this weather.”
The six of us walked into the cabin and closed the door behind us. We took off our skis and looked around, shaking the snow from our hair and arms. The cabin was expansive, with a large open room and a huge fireplace at the other end. Austin and Matt looked at each other and then back at the fireplace before racing over to see if they could get some heat into the place.
“Thank God there is a huge pile of wood.” Amber laughed. “I am not feeling my lumberjack skills today, or any day for that matter.”
I smiled and walked through the cabin, deciding that if we were going to be there for a while, I should see what the place had to offer. To the back right was a doorway into a large kitchen. I opened the fridge and the cabinets, relieved to find that whoever was here before had left the place completely stocked with food. No one wanted a situation where there were six hungry and tired skiers trapped together in the woods. It had the makings for a really bad made-for-TV movie written all over it. I glanced out the kitchen window, but it was nothing but a blanket of white, and the storm didn’t look like it was going to be letting up anytime soon. I wandered into the room across the hall to find a bathroom with two stalls with doors. Past those was one gigantic galley style shower room with multiple shower heads.
In the hallway were several doors, but they all opened up to closets and one small area for the water heater. I furrowed my brow, realizing there were no bedroom in this place. I walked back out into the main room where the fire was already crackling in the fireplace.
“Well, I have good news and, well, weird news,” I said, gathering everyone’s attention. “There is a large, very well stocked kitchen, so no one will starve.”
“Sweet,” Jason said, rubbing his hands together.
“What’s the weird news?” Amber was cautious in her question.
“There is one really big shower with multiple shower heads and absolutely no bedrooms,” I said, shrugging my shoulders.
“Well, that’s weird,” Matt said. “This room is huge and has enough chairs, couches, and ottomans to seat like fifteen people. Why would they not use part of this as a bedroom?”
Jessica laughed. “Yeah, we could all comfortably lounge around all day, but where the heck do these people sleep? Maybe it is some sort of vampire cabin.”
“You watch too many movies,” I said. “Seriously, there is a daybed right there that is large enough to fit several people. And then the hammocks strung up in all the corners. It leaves more than enough space to sleep.”
“Who wants to go on a vacation to the mountain and sleep on a hammock indoors?” Austin pulled on one of the roped hammocks.
“Why would anyone build a getaway cabin made for this many people and not put in somewhere for people to sleep?” Amber looked around suspiciously.
I stood there staring around the room, feeling like I had been somewhere like that before. Then it hit me. It was just like the swinger’s vacation that Jason and I had taken to Bali several years back. This wasn’t a vacation cottage at all. This was something way more interesting and possibly even more perfect for my master plan than I could have thought of myself.
“Guys,” I yelled to get their attention. “I know exactly what this place is.”
“What?” Jason walked forward.
“This is a swinger?
??s pad!”
Chapter 6
Matt
My mouth immediately dropped open as Kristin’s words spilled from her mouth. This was a what? I had heard of swingers, and I knew that Kristin and Jason were more than cavalier about their sex life, but I had never seen a place where the more than daring went to escape and be more than taboo about their sex lives. I had grown up very sheltered and conservative, so the idea of sharing my wife had never really crossed my mind, not even for a second. Was Kristin actually serious that this was a swinger’s cabin?
I closed my mouth and looked around the room, realizing that it, in fact, made a lot of sense. There was nowhere in the cabin that was private, and unless it was just you and your significant other, nothing would be left to the imagination in that place. It was obviously too big to be meant for just two people, so I was now thinking that Kristin knew exactly what she was talking about.
“Whoa,” Austin said, plopping down on the couch and then lifting his hands nervously.
