I followed Jenna's gaze and soon understood her mood shift. Walking over to us were Alicia, Mary, and Kimberly, three eighteen year old girls who stuck together tighter than glue. They all came from wealthy families who lived on the edge of town, and each of them was daddy's little girl. They banded together at a young age and since then have always needed to be the center of attention of everything. They constantly talked and talked to anybody willing to listen, and then anybody who wasn't willing to listen for that matter. I had begun to hope that with school over I wouldn't have to see them again, but I guess I was sorely mistaken.
The leader of the trio was named Alicia, a strawberry-blonde with curls down to her shoulders and cold blue eyes. She was the shortest of the three, her small body clad in a red bikini, but she also had the loudest mouth of them as well. What she lacked in size she compensated with volume. A hundredfold. She had a cute button nose that was more often than not twisted into an arrogant smirk, usually when she was degrading somebody else or boasting about all the cool stuff she had. And when she wasn't boasting or taunting, she was lounging around in barely acceptable clothing, doing her best to show off her body at all angles.
Mary was the tallest and most athletic of the group, her blue bikini doing nothing to hide the years of gymnastics class. Her jet black hair was always tied into a ponytail, which reached her lower back, so it wouldn't fall into her green eyes when she went running. Always right behind Alicia, she often supplemented the blonde's insults with a few jeers or threatening gestures, happy to let blondie do all the hard talking. Despite her less frontal role, most of the devious ideas and tricks that the group did were her's and as such you could always expect to see a sparkle of mischief in her eyes whenever she looked at you. Maybe she'd be planning just how to embarrass you enough to keep quiet and stay out of their way.
Finally, there was the redhead, Kimberly. Her ginger hair fell freely down her back, and a splotch of freckles dotted her face. And most of her upperbody too, as the yellow bikini she wore exposed a lot of skin and freckles covered a lot of it. Despite clinging onto Alicia and Mary, she wasn't actually a bad girl. In fact, had she never met the other two, I could definitely see her being a naturally popular person. But Alicia somehow managed to get Kimberly to cling to them, doing whatever they said. She was that timid good girl that ended up in the wrong crowd. And it was too bad as well, she had a very lovely smile when she wasn't around Alicia or Mary.
If there was one thing they had going for them, it was that they were, by every standard, smoking hot. It was something they make clear at all times, both in what they talked about and what they wore, and I must confess my eyes were drawn to their bikini-clad bodies more than I would have liked. They had gathered quite a following by the end of high school, a club that treated them like Queens and served their every whim. And anyone who wasn't part of this club was beneath them, and they treated these people (which was most of the school actually) worse than dirt, though Jenna always got the worst of it when she was around. Her natural friendliness and popularity got her pegged as a rival from the start, the three brats constantly trying to pull attention away from Jenna and towards themselves. Jenna managed to keep above it through good humor and sometimes just leaving, but I felt for a while that she was reaching the end of her patience.
"Well look at this. If it isn't Jenna and her little boyfriend," Alicia sneered as she walked over to us, Mary and Kimberly in tow.
"And we're here to have a good time. If you don't like that, feel free to stick your head in the sand," Jenna replied, and as I visualized the three of them actually doing that I couldn't help but snort, which got Alicia and Mary glaring daggers at me. I shrugged apologetically, but still couldn't resist smiling. It had happened many times before, it would happen many times again.
"Actually, we came here to issue a challenge," Alicia said, her eyes narrowing, clearly displeased that we were trying to blow her off. "The three of us have a beach ball net set up further into the dunes, nice and secluded. I want us to have a match there, you and your boytoy against me and Mary."
This was probably one of the worst trap setups ever. That didn't matter to Jenna though. "Why?" she asked.
An evil glint in Alicia's eye told me that she was ready to reel Jenna in, and also mentioned volumes of mischief she had in store for us. "I just want to take you on in a fair game is all. I'm tired of you acting like we're not important, that you're somehow better." Jenna rolled her eyes, clearly tired of this girl's hypocrisy. I shrugged, trying to take a relatively neutral stance, though I too was growing weary of hearing the double-standard these three constantly used. Alicia glared at both of us before continuing. "As I was saying, I'm tired of your attitude and want to settle this once and for all. If we beat you, then you have to pay a penalty forfeit."
"Same for you when you lose Alicia," Jenna snapped, although from the look on Alicia's face I could tell that thought hadn't even crossed her mind.
"Yeah sure, whatever," Alicia replied with an arrogant shrug. "So are you up for it Jenna, or you too scared that we'll humiliate you?"
As mentioned previously, this was possibly one of the worst trap setups ever. Outnumbered in a secluded area with three girls (well, two) that hated us? It practically yelled trick. And I highly doubted that these girls would play fair. But when I looked at Jenna, I could tell she was a bit more conflicted. She'd endured these brats for years, and now she was being directly challenged. She figured something was up too, but the chance to rub it into these snots if we won? The thought was very appealing.
It didn't take long for Jenna to reply as she said...
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