Amaya’s Outdoor Walk

“Wait! I know you!” Amaya yelled. She was a pretty college student with a slender frame and black hair framing her pretty face. Amaya was wearing a drab one-piece swimsuit and pointing at another woman. “You are Kathie, the bitch that tricked me into stealing a college mascot!”

“Ah, if it isn’t my savior,” Kathie replied. She was a beautiful brunette wearing a blue bikini. Currently, she was trying to follow the ways of the leaf: do nothing but absorb sunlight for hours on end. At least until Amaya came to throw her shade. “Thanks for the help and your little gadgets. Now can you please move away? I’m trying to get a tan here.”

“No! You will come with me and give back the mascot you stole from the E.E.C.K. campus!” Amaya grabbed Kathie’s hand and attempted to pull her up.

“Really? You want to do this now?”

“Trust me, it’s not my idea of a fun beach day either, but I can’t let you go now that I’m here.”

“Ugh, leave me alone, would you?” Kathie jerked her hand back, easily releasing herself from Amaya’s grip.

Amaya could not let Kathie go, but she couldn’t overpower her either. Maybe she could try to lure her away? She had an idea.

Amaya kneeled to grab Kathie’s purse. “Hey, give that back!”

“You want it? Come get it!” Amaya ran towards the water, hoping that Kathie would follow suit. However, she failed to notice the monstrous wave coming behind her. Amaya was violently tossed back into the sand at Kathie’s feet, the brunette’s purse nowhere to be found. “Owww, come on, Mother Nature, give me a break…”

“Ehem… where is my purse?” Kathie said, standing up and cracking her knuckles.

“Hehe, sorry,” Amaya replied, sticking her tongue out playfully. “I think… yeah, it’s probably on the bottom of the sea.”

“You just lost my wallet, college ID, AND brand new cellphone… You are so dead…”

“W-well, maybe we can call it even and-eeck!”

To call it a fight would imply there was a struggle, a back and forth. In reality, Kathie dominated the encounter. As retaliation, she took Amaya’s purse, towel, and even her swimsuit, leaving the young woman completely naked under the cover of the waves.

“Come on, I said I was sorry! At least give me back my towel!” Amaya said, timidly stepping out of the water to try and grab back her stuff. “Eep!”

Kathie had taken a picture of Amaya with her own cellphone. “I don’t want to see your face again. If you stay here, I’ll send the picture I took using YOUR cellphone to YOUR contacts. Scram!”

“Y-you are bluffing. You don’t know my password.”

“…1,2,3,4. Would you look at that, it’s unlocked!”

“Eeep! I’m going! Please don’t send anything!”

Amaya hurried away from the water. Fighting Kathie would only prolong her humiliation. She would find a way to get even with her and recover her phone once she was back home with her wonderful set of gadgets. But which road should she take to get there?

It was a hot day, so the beach was packed with people, not exactly a place she would want to move across if she wanted to avoid notice. The direct route would be across downtown, but well, that road was even more exposed than the beach!

No, if Amaya wanted to preserve as much of her dignity as possible, she would have to go the long way. Across the nature reserve next to the beach that circled back to her campus.