Chapter 22
David and Sue arrived back at the guest house just on dark finding Sebastien, Carlos, Urs, Simon and Darrell engaged in a very unorthodox game of trivial pursuit. It did not seem to matter what they played it ended up in chaos. Hearty, side aching, belly laughing chaos and they all loved it. However Carlos refused to play monopoly anymore. He seemed to spend all his time in jail or bankrupt. He never did figure out that the others had a pact and it happened on purpose. They all refused to play uno with Simon once they found out how much he cheated and it looked like trivial pursuit was going to get struck off the list pretty soon as well. Only this time it was Urs who had managed to bring the game unstuck. Just when they thought they had him, he would know the answer to some ridiculous question.
Sue and David smiled at the noise. It was like watching school boys and it lightened their hearts. Just then all the pagers went off. By now the boys had their own. Sue looked at hers. “Nat has landed. I should go and get her.”
“Would you mind if I went?” David smiled sweetly at her.” I think she would get a buzz out of one of us going to pick her up.”
Urs piped up. “Why don’t we all go then?”
Carlos and Sebastien agreed.
“I guess that settles it then. You boys be careful on that road at night and under no circumstance let Nat drive back” Sue was about to finish when Darrell spoke up.
“Please, please don’t let her drive she crazier than Tracey.”
“I take it you would rather not have any unbending to do?” Chuckled Sebastien as the others smiled. Over the weeks they had been out a few times on the quads with Tracey. And they had all come to the same conclusion very early on. She was nuts!! So if this Nat was crazier than Tracey she must be a handful.
Between Sue, Tracey, Simon and Darrell the guys had seen every inch of the property from land and air, in a hot air balloon no less. . It was big, but the only things you could really see from the air were the helipad and the swimming pool, most of the buildings were hidden. It amused the guys to know that Tracey had made Jarrod West walk all the way to the next town when there was a perfectly good helipad right on the property. The same helipad they were headed for right now. It had also not gone unnoticed by all four that Tracey could just as easily have flown them straight to the property from Devonport when they had first arrived.

The four of them chatted casually as they drove. They looked nothing like the polished, elegant men that performed on stage night after night to adoring fans. They had all let their hair grow, and each one was exhibiting varying amounts of facial hair. Urs really looked like a wild Swiss hippie with his curly hair almost falling in ringlets in places it had grown so long. Together with a full beard he could have been mistaken for Grizzly Adams. David was much the same, only in the middle of his beard was a small ginger patch about the size of a twenty cent piece. The others had begun to call him Blue on account of the fact that Aussies called anyone who had red hair, Blue.
Carlos, although he had let his hair grow was only sporting a moustache and even though it was the winter months had managed to work on his tan. He was more bronzed than ever.
For some reason everyone thought Sebastien looked like a pirate and his nick name had gone from Sebbie to Sparrow to Jack after the character Jack Sparrow in the Pirates of the Caribbean movies.
So it was this motley crew that arrived to meet Nat at the helipad. No wonder she did not recognise them at first. It was when they all stood in line and greeted her in English, Spanish, French and Swiss and her eyes adjusted to the natural camouflage her heart skipped a beat and she had the widest grin on her face.
“My, My. It does a girls heart good to be meet by not just one adorable male but by four of the most wonderful men on the planet. How the hell are you guys? You look great.” She marched up to each one of them and planted a kiss smack on their lips. This took them all a bit by surprise. Yep. She was definitely a wild child. “It was so nice of you all to come and get me. So come on lets get back to the house I am starving. I need to eat before I see my mate.”
It was not until Nat got herself into the four wheel drive that they noticed the pilot. They smiled and Jimmy gave them a casual salute. He was standing next to the helicopter and next to him where a few bags.
“Reckon she may need these later.” Jimmy kicked the bags lightly with his foot.
David shook his hand. “Just another one of those things you do Jimmy, being a pilot?”
Both men smiled. “Must be.” Jimmy thumbed at the helicopter. “Get to fly this baby back to Hobart, gives me a chance to check up on my sister and her kids. Not a bad gig when you can get it.”
“Tell us Jimmy, Who is the wildest, Nat or Tracey?” Urs was eager to find out.
Jimmy laughed. “Close call fellas. But I reckon you put those two together in the right situation and you are gonna have your hands full.”
Just then they all heard the horn sound and the engine of the four wheel drive fire up.
“Merde.” Sebastien muttered. ”She’s in the driver’s seat!”
They all looked, Jimmy laughed. “Now you are going to find out first hand”
Nat shouted from the car. “Well are you lot coming before I start dinning out on the upholstery? Don’t forget my bags.”
Sebastien grabbed the bags as the others headed for the car.
It was apparent by the way the car came to a stop outside the house, who was driving. Even more so when the guys followed Nat into the house, they had been stunned into silence.
Urs shook his head. “Never knew you could get a four wheel drive on two wheels.”
Darrell shot a look at them and headed for the door.
“It’s ok Dazza no unbending tonight” Nat was in fine form. She hugged Sue and Simon. “That was a lovely reception Suzzie. I might go away just so I can do it again”
“We might have to put the four of them back into therapy before you try that again Nat my girl. I really wish you two would stop scaring people like that.”
Simon had motioned to the boys to follow him to the kitchen were he handed them each a beer. “Figured you could use a cold one. Whose idea was it to let that maniac drive?”
They all started to talk at once but it was Urs who cornered the conversation. “Hers, she jumped in while our backs were turned. She would have driven off without us, no way were we going to get her out of the driver’s seat.”
“Merde. I think I have aged 50 years” Sebastien took a long drink of his beer.
Just then Sue and Nat entered the kitchen. “And you still look so cute, my French pirate.”
With that they all laughed. Sebastien was miffed. “See. Even she calls me a pirate and she’s only been here five minutes. I’m having a shave in the morning.”
“Oh don’t do that you all look so wild and woolly. It’s WONDERFUL, so free.” Nat threw her hands up in the air and did a 360 degree twirl.
The guys just looked on in amazement.
Sue had told Nat about Tracey so the rest of the night was spent eating, drinking fine wine and Nat sharing with Il Divo her part in the Jarrod West story.
By 1.ooam they were all ready for bed. All that is except Nat. She explained that she never did sleep much. Pretty much survived on four hours sleep or less. And that pretty much clinched it for Il Divo. They still were not sure who was the wilder of the two Aussie girls but one thing was for sure. Nat was a wild child, a wild child that did not sleep. That did not bode well for the rest of the world.
What would she get up to while the rest of them slept? If David had known he may have tagged along.