Chapter 10

"I'm OK mom, really! Look, here's Wendy, talk to her and ask her yourself."

Tambry handed the phone over as the redhead rolled her eyes.

"Hi it's me. Yeah, she had a doozy of a splinter but I took it out. We cleaned her up over here, hope that's OK, figured you didn't want mud hosed off all over at your place. The shack, meh, who cares about a little mud, ya know? Anyway, ya outta be proud of her, she would make a good lumber jack. Yeah. Cool. OK, goodnight."

Wendy handed the phone back to Tambry, who had retightened her robe sash (Mabel's robe fit her perfectly), and then looked up to her friend and rescuer.

"Thanks Wen. And…do you really think I would make a good lumberjack?"

Wendy raised her hand and wobbled it back and forth. "Eh, more or less. Yeah, I mean, even Nate couldn't stop talking about you dragging that timber to try and save him. I think he's crushing on you all over again haha!"

Tambry smirked. "Well, I'm crushing on my loverboy." And she walked over to Lee who was sitting on the couch in the shack living room, where the fireplace was burning with a comfortable warmth, away from the continuing rainstorm outside. She sat on his lap wrapping her arms around his neck. He was wearing one of Dipper's robes after cleaning up. It was shorter than his size, so his knees and muscled calves stuck out.

"Boy? Not anymore babe." And he leaned in and kissed her cheek.

Tambry leaned back and smacked his shoulder and looked around at everybody and blushed, an embarrassed smile trying to brush off the innuendo. Mabel and Wendy exchanged knowing smiles, while Dipper rolled his eyes at Wendy, which Wendy guessed she could read. She turned to him and whispered quietly.

"Jealous? I promise, you won't have to wait long." And she kissed his neck. Dipper wrapped his arm around her waist and pulled her close, turning to her to hide his face, now it was his turn to blush.

"OK, but…not outdoors, OK?"