She laughed and rolled her eyes. “You’ll have to wait til we actually get there, then. I can’t buy enough food to fill you up at a fast food joint.” She cast him a sly glance. “Unless there’s something else you’re hungry for.” She spotted the sign for the Muir woods and sat up a little. “Just a little while longer.”
“That all depends, doesn’t it?” He shifted in the seat and used the bag to cover himself, hating how hair-trigger he was just from the sound of her voice. Blushing and straightening up then, he nodded and settled back comfortably against the seat. “Can we go swimming?”
“There is no point in being at the beach if we don’t swim,” she declared. “We’ll take our stuff inside and I’ll set Helios loose and then we can swim. I have to put on my suit though.” The road twisted and turned through the forest, and she stuck her tongue out of one corner of her mouth as she concentrated. “There’s the town.” It only took a few more minutes before she parked the car near a little bungalow, at the end of a row with a lot of others.
“And here we are.”