Tina tried her best to squirm away from her friend’s tormenting fingers, but with Ava and Harper holding her arms securely, there was no escape.
"AHAHAHAA NOHOHO! PLEHEHEHEASEEE!" she cried breathlessly. Ava attacked her left side relentlessly while Harper showed no mercy on the right.
Tina's coppery curls flew wildly as she bounced from one friend to the other. Her porcelain skin flushed a rosy pink across her cheeks and down her neck as their hands danced across her ticklish spots.
Ava grinned mischievously, her dark eyes sparkled with amusement as she watched her victim squirm. Her slender fingers targeted Tina's ribs and underarms, eliciting high-pitched squeals with each strike. She seemed to be trying to draw out as much laughter from the girl as possible.
"Cootchie cootchie coo!" she teased while Tina bucked and giggled helplessly.
Harper allowed a small smirk to curl the corners of her lips. Her icy blue eyes observed Tina's reactions beneath ash blonde brows. With long nimble fingers, she seemed to be content to squeeze away at the tender area right above her hip bones, grinning at the way Tina's head flung back.
"What's the matter, Tee? Can't handle a little tee-ckle torture?"
If anyone else was on the bus, they surely would have thought the girls were crazy!
"Noooo p-pleeehehease! I’ve had enough tickling today!" Tina pleaded, but her friends were showing no signs of letting up yet. As the bus rattled over a pothole, Harper's hand slipped from Tina's arm.
Tina slumped sideways off the seat with a squeak. She tumbled into Ava's lap, who let out an "oomf" as the wind was knocked out of her. The Asian girl grinned at her redheaded friend, wiggling atop her.
“I know I’m attractive, but we can’t be doing this in public.”
A sly smile crept onto Tina's lips as she regained her strength. She twisted around to face Ava, trapping the smaller girl beneath her thighs.
“I’ll show you what we can do in public!” She cried. Before Ava knew what hit her, Tina's fingers darted into the small gap between her friend’s biceps and ribs.
"Nooo not fair!" Ava shrieked with laughter. She struggled fruitlessly beneath Tina's weight, completely trapped. With Tina perched on her lap, the feisty Asian girl was rendered helpless.
"Tina get off!" Ava squealed, “Harper help!”
"You really got yourself into it now," Harper mused, making no attempt to aid her friend.
Ava made frustrated grunting noises between peals of giggles as she flailed uselessly under Tina's attack. Her normally tan face was flushed a bright pink. Years of being friends with Ava allowed Tina to know all her most ticklish spots. And exploit them with great relish.
“There’s a spot right where your ribs and armpits meet,” Tina explained, “And if I do this…” She took two fingers on each hand and dug right into that spot. Ava shrieked and threw her head back in a bout of silent laughter. “You’ll do that!” Tina exalted.
She continued explaining and demonstrating various ticklings and Ava’s reactions, “... doing this to your tummy will cause your nose to wrinkle… like so!”
Harper settled back to enjoy the show. Her gaze began to wander and something caught her attention. The bus was taking a strange route - they were heading away from the mall, not towards it.
"Hey guys, GUYS!” Harper shouted.
Tina and Ava stopped their playful tussling for a moment to look at their friend.
“Does the route look different to you?" she asked with a frown. Ava and Tina peered out the windows, noticing for the first time that they weren't on the familiar Blue Line route.
Tina pulled out her phone to check the bus schedule. "This isn't the normal path at all."
An uneasy feeling spread through the group as they realized the bus was going in the wrong direction entirely. Where was the driver taking them, and why hadn't he said anything to the passengers?
The three girls huddled together, keeping their voices low.
"Do you think the driver made a mistake?" Harper wondered aloud.
Tina shook her head. "They would have said something by now if that was it."
"Maybe it's not the driver at all," Ava theorized. "What if someone's hijacked the bus?"
Tina squeezed her friend's arm reassuringly. "Let's not jump to conclusions yet. But we should be careful, just in case."
Just then, the three of them noticed...
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