Beatrice Santello Part 2 - #17
Bea and Mae meet some locals.
Image by Kilinah. A little thick, but still kinda appropriate.
Bea and Mae spent the afternoon strolling down the beachfront, looking at the hot bodies and stopping into some stores to try to find a bathing suit for Mae. Bea had decided her own underwear was close enough and that really no one would know the difference.
In the end they decided on just getting some orange bottoms that fit with Mae’s T-shirt that were on clearance. But Bea convinced her that they were cute when she belted the T-shirt with a complimentary blue-colored frilly sash. Then they stopped into a little shop and bought a couple of virgin piña coladas that they drank while people-watching.
“Oh my god, would you look at this guy in the white trunks?” Mae whispered and Bea glanced in the direction she was pointing.
As if the rippling abdomen wasn’t enough, the guy was packing.
“Fake. Stuffed some socks down there I bet,” Bea whispered back. “Besides, I thought you...”
Mae shrugged. “If you recall, I never actually said, did I? Besides, I can appreciate a good looking body as well as you, Ankh Goddess!”
“How about those two?” Bea said, indicating a pair of girls following the guy.
“Nice! I think that one on the left might be bigger than me! Say Bea, you wanna rent some skates or something? Suddenly I feel like doing something… active.”
“Feeling a little out of shape? Yeah. Me too. Let’s go see what we can find.”
They tried renting some roller skates, but neither Bea nor Mae could manage to keep from falling over on them, so they turned them back in.
“Hey! Let’s go in the water!” Mae suggested next.
Bea looked at her askance. “Mae, do you even know how to swim?”
“No. But we can’t go to the beach without getting our feet wet!”
Bea sighed, but followed anyway. The water was cold, but against the heat of the day it felt good and they got used to it quickly. But they soon got bored and just walked down the water’s edge looking for pretty shells.
“Hey!” called someone and Bea looked up.
Three guys were standing at a volleyball net. Not bad looking guys either, if a little young.
“Hey!” came the voice again, from the fox-guy holding the volleyball. “You girls wanna play?”
Bea looked around to see who he might be talking to. Mae looked up too.
“You mean us?” she called back.
“Sure! Come on, we won’t bite!”
Mae looked at Bea who shrugged.
“Can you play volleyball?” Bea asked Mae.
“Not really. We used to play in school some though.”
The guy was coming over to them.
“Come on, we’ve only got three. It’ll be fun. You can both be on my team!”
“We suck,” Bea said before regretting the choice of words.
“No problem. It’s just for fun,” he said, ignoring the opportunity for a risque pun, and immediately Bea started to like him better.
She looked back at Mae, but Mae was already heading towards the court.
“I guess so! I’m Bea. That’s Mae. We’re not from around here. Just visiting.”
“Glad to meet you Bea. I’m Kurt. Jeff’s the gator and the little shit is my brother Jon.”
Bea followed him back. “We really do suck, Kurt. Like… I’m not kidding.”
“Good. Maybe we’ll look better! Here. You serve. Just stand behind that rope and hit it over the net.”
“Okaaaaay…” she said, taking the ball.
She threw it in the air… and promptly blinded herself. The ball hit her head.
“Crap.”
Jeff and Jon laughed, and Bea threw the ball over to their side in disgust.
“Don’t worry about it Bea,” Kurt reassured her.
Jon served next. Fortunately it was rather soft. Mae got under it and bounced it back up. Kurt then bounced it up again right in front of Bea. She recognized his intent and jumped as high as she could. She didn’t get a solid hit on the ball, but it was enough to send it over the net - barely - where Jeff tried to block it, but it just hit his chest and fell to the ground.
“Nice Bea!” Mae said, and she couldn’t help but grin a little. Kurt served the next time but it went out of bounds.
“See,” Kurt said. “We suck too.”
“You do anyway!” his brother taunted.
“Shut up pipsqueak.” Kurt said while Jon served the next ball.
The rest of the game was a comedy of errors, but amazingly the boys screwed up almost as much as Mae and Bea did. They played on for about an hour before calling it quits.
“That was fun,” Jeff said as they all headed back to the water to get cooled off. “You girls here long?”
“Na,” Mae said. “We gotta head back later after the party.”
“Party? What party?”
“We don’t really know. We were invited to a party at the pier tonight. But we gotta head back home by ten.”
“Sounds like Lame Ken’s party,” Kurt said.
“Are you guys going?” Mae asked as they splashed into the water.
“Me and Jon can’t. Got a family thing tonight. But Jeff could go.”
“Yeah, if you two are coming, I’ll go. What time will you be there?”
“Probably around eight I guess,” Bea figured. “Is that too early?”
“Still light out. Party won’t really start till after dark at nine, but if you’ll be there, I’ll come early.”
“Great!” Mae laughed. “Now, how about somebody teach me how to surf!”
Kurt and his brother snorted. “On these dinky waves? Good luck with that.”
The afternoon passed and they had a pretty good, low-key time with the three locals until Bea felt it was time to be heading back.
“Well, good to meet you guys!” Mae said as they started heading back down the beach.”
“Yeah!” Bea echoed. “And see you later Jeff!”
“Hey, you want to give us your phone number? We’ll text you!”
Bea looked at Mae, who shook her head.
“You won’t believe it, but we don’t have cell phones.”
“What!?” Kurt exclaimed.
“Where on earth are you girls from? No cell phones? Are you like, from overseas or something?” Jon joined in.
Bea laughed. “Practically.. Possum Springs.”
“Never heard of it.”
“Not surprised. But we’re on IM,” Bea explained and gave them their ID numbers.
“Cool. Thanks! Maybe we’ll meet again sometime?”
“Maybe. Later!”
“Bye!”
Mae looked at Bea as they went back to their car. “Well that was pretty fun!”
“I suppose.”
“Do you like Jeff?”
Bea shrugged. “I probably should, being another gator. Pretty good looking but kinda young.”
Mae nodded. “Yeah. They all were cute. Jon’s a kid though.”
They got back into the car after brushing off all the sand they could.
“I think they’re all in high school, Mae. At least that’s the impression I got.”
“Yeah. Jailbait.”
They drove back to Jen’s house with Mae hanging her feet out of the window, but Bea was in a good mood so she didn’t complain.