Amanda tries to put on the bikini with Jade's help

The small part of Amanda that wasn't shying away from the bright light of day, suffering from a hangover, still asleep, or still stoned, blazed with humiliation and desperately tried to cover up. She was sure her friends were well-intentioned, but they didn't seem to realize just how transparent the little beach robe was.

"I can't get this top on," she whined, fumbling with the five-year old string bikini.

"Got it!" Jade said, zipping over and plucking the top from her hands while Jessica and Angie walked swiftly ahead of them, chattering away about the latest gossip, seemingly oblivious to the distance they were putting between the straggling pair.

"Boy, you fat," Jade said as she tugged on the strings.

'I'm not... that's too tight!" Amanda protested, but Jade pulled with all of her might, just barely able to get the straining string around Amanda's back. Tying it was even more of a hardship, and neither noticed the way their struggle made the robe flare open, exposing her bald lower half to the world.

"There!" Jade crowed at last. "We just snip off top strings. You too fat for it to tie," she said, and from somewhere produced a pair of scissors before snipping off half of the bikini's top.

"Hey!" Amanda protested, but it was far too late. And at least she had her top covered.

"Bottom!" Jade exclaimed, producing the tiny side-tie thong.

Amanda nearly groaned, but yelped instead when Jade flicked it like a whip betweeen her legs before grabbing it like a rope and yanking it upward. "Ow! My..." she stopped, unable to say the words 'pussy' or 'cunt' or 'vagina', all of which had a cord of a bikini mashed up against it.

"Your what?" Jade asked innocently, pausing.

Amanda finally blurted the only thing she could think of. "People are looking."

Jade looked around, saw that indeed there were a few people looking, though most hurried by with obliviousness or tried to pretend they hadn't seen a half-naked girl. "Into the alley?" she asked Amanda, who...