Your Dream Campground by D.A.Sanford - HTML preview

Gloria. Karla and lessons

It is very funny but I would swear that the two of them are enjoying the almost combative banter and antics between them. I do think that they love this relation. The three of us listen and we cannot tell the difference between them and our previous combative couple.

We will enter that RV and when Karla tries to go out of order, she’ll have the door slammed in her face. When that happens, Karla must wait for the full song “They’re coming to take me away.”

Then the door will open. Bee and Jed all over again. Jaylin commented that she hopes they do not make up as loud as Bee and Jed did. I tell her that Gloria needs to drive. To which Felicity reminds me that Gloria lets me drive when I want to.

“I think that she is trying to establish herself in the pecking order. She was here before Karla.”

“That is all I need,” I think to myself. “A pecking order. Then I hear Karla banging on the door. The door opens and the chorus of “I’m so sorry “ play.

The banter between them is now on the playing side. Karla only says “Bitch.” But her feet never go on the table and she will pat the radio. I do almost call it love. Each has met their match.

We stop at the next rest area, just to stretch our legs. Karla was trailing. We heard the RV engine roar and some men scream. The three of us turn to see the RV had put itself between the men and Karla. The radio was blaring “keep your hands to yourself.”

The door was closed with Karla inside. They ran for their lives. “The nerve.” Karla says. “Thanks Gloria for watching out for me.”

I take the opal on the string and hang it on the rearview mirror. “She deserves it more.” Is all I say. The radio plays “Tell me I’m pretty. “ I tell her just that.

This has developed into something that is worth watching.

While they are working on their relationship, Jaylin reminds us that we need to work through the gems so we can get through our next mission. It hit me, the distraction of Karla and the RV, “What exactly is the next mission?” I ask.

Everything in this pocket dimension world comes grinding to a halt. “All I wanted to do is get breakfast at the diner. We ordered too much and picked up Karla. Now I am going to throw a wrench in the works. My darling RV, please return us to the campgrounds until someone figures out what the hell we are doing.”

In a matter of minutes, we are turning at the sign and parking at the office. I pet the dash and she revs then shuts off. I leave the RV while the women just sit stunned. Then she says “We have reached the final destination for the day. Please disembark in an orderly fashion.”

Inside the office, I looked at the three. “Jaylin, when you joined us, you got angry at Felicity for not telling me even who Jed was. Now it seems that the two of you forgot to tell me what our next assignment is and where. Karla, you just gave me the opal and proceeded to fight with Gloria. What am I training to do?”

The answer comes. We hear Gloria playing a portion of a song “It’s the end of the world as we know it.”

The three freeze at the sound. Time to fess up. Felicity is the one to tell me that they really do not know. It is just that we need Karla and Hellana. Karla just says that even she does not know but it is of vital importance. “My only instructions was that you needed to master the gems and become a god class mage. You need to be to at that level to avert destruction.”

Now, it appears to the four of us that the only one that has an inclination of what is happening is Gloria. She can talk regular but likes the songs. I do believe that she is making us think about what she is implying.

We come back out and she will not open the door. All she will say is “Fly, just fly. We got something. I ain’t saying what it is. Trust me, just fly.”

Well it was worth a try. She obviously is not restricted to songs and we did not need to figure out what she means. Gloria is not saying. The shut door is her statement. We need to just fly.

Karla now pats the side of the RV and says that we need to start training in the opal but,

“That will not take long. I might as well tell you that the next gem is emerald. The emerald was once believed to ward off evil spirits. After that is sapphire. It provides calm and improved spirituality. The last gem, just like the spades is the most powerful. Lapis lazuli, truth, wisdom and divine connection.

Completing Gloria’s mirror neckless

After all the commotion between Karla and Gloria, Karla comes over to me. She had shown me some of the attributes of the opal. She was both surprised and disappointed when I remarked that it’s powers were similar to the hearts.

We are allowed back in the RV by Gloria, Our clothes are in the wardrobe room.

Now Karla pulls out a green gem. Again it is in the shape of a bead drilled through the center so it can be added to the string. It is obvious that it is an emerald. I’m looking at it and just as Karla was going to explain its properties, we hear Gloria playing "Gimme what you got, gimme what you got.”

I’m smiling but Karla is not. “Greedy bitch aren’t you! He needs to hold on to each until he grasps all the properties.” We are not moving but now the RV is rocking side to side. Karla just remarks that her throwing a tantrum does not change the fact that I need to hang onto each of the gems until I am ready to receive the next.

Felicity and Jaylin come out of our room. Jaylin has to ask, “Karla, what have you done to get Gloria upset?” We hear from the radio an old childhood song, “Nobody likes me everybody hates me, I think I’ll go eat worms.”

Trying not to laugh at the look Karla is giving, I say that she has given me the next gem, the emerald and Gloria wants it for her mirror. Jaylin goes back to her room and comes out with a string of pearls. Those are now hanging from the mirror.

“Thank you very much, thank you very much. That is the nicest thing anyone has ever done for me.” Plays.

Karla is now giving all of us that look. “You all spoil her too much. Now is the right moment. The emerald is said to ward off evil spirits. Maybe I should just join it on the opal string?”

A young kids voice comes out of the radio saying “I dog dare you”

This is how it went for a while. I studied the gem. It hit me, “This gem actually attracts the evil spirit to it and is able to relieve it of what was possessing it. Thus it releases the spirit to move on.”

Karla is looking at me as if I was something very odd. Jaylin says, “He did the same thing to me with the diamonds. He got the whole deck right in one statement like that. The only one he had to really earn was the spades. That one still was easy for him.”

She grabs the emerald from me, walks up to the stringed opal and threads the emerald on it. Then rehangs it with the remark that she better not desire the next gem. “He really needs to hold on to the last two. When we finish, then you can have them.

Again she is giving Goria that look when we hear her “What we have here, is a failure to communicate.” Then we are startled when we hear, “I really need to gain those powers, through Craig, in order to protect all of us.”

That is the first time that we have heard Gloria’s true voice. She sounded almost desperate. As if she is our guardian, our mobile fortress. I just tell Gloria that we will share. I go to the work shop and come out with red thread. I tie one end to the gem string and the other to my belt.

“Will the three of you come here.” They do and I address Gloria. “This red string is my promise that you will have the last two gems when I physically do not need them anymore.”

I use the opal’s power as I cut the string. “Gloria, I need you to concentrate. No song, no movie line, just your own words. What do you feel?” I move the thread end on my belt and they see the end of the part on her mirror move.

“I feel like it is still connected. We are connected. Thank you.”

I have each of the three, starting with Felicity then Jaylin and finally Karla, I produce three red threads. Connecting them to me and each other, I cut them. Now each of the women have a five red thread ring. Both Gloria and I have five braided red threads.

“We are now all connected to each other. We all share. We all help. We are a family.”

The three feel what each other feels but Gloria can only relate in terms of what she felt as the RV. Right now, she can relate in the mental level but physical she never knew until this connection.

It’s a little overwhelming for her. She knew how tires felt on the road. When one or all of us would pet the radio metal. Now she feels skin sensations. She asks if I would touch Karla’s skin.

I do and she, being the wise guy, tells us that it is interesting but feels weird. I then touch Felicity and Jaylin. “That is amazing. They feel much better!”

Karla just says “Bitch.”

I need to reign in this experiment.

“Can we get back to the gem. What do I need to know about the sapphire?

Karla tells me to close my mind from outside interference. “Just hold it in your hands and let it guide you.”

I do and I feel like I am floating in their arms. I feel warmth, almost like I am one with the universe. Now I feel something that is disturbing that tranquility.

Hellana! She is very near. The four feel it too. Gloria is playing the imminent danger music from all those shark movies.

A banging on the door brings us all back.

“Open the damned door.”