Bonnie creates a distraction

"How are you going to do that?" asked Ben, curiously. "She can't just get out of the tub and walk away. She doesn't have any clothes on. We'd all see her."

"You and the rest of the boys could leave," said Susie, crossly, folding her arms. "You're disgusting, you know that? You don't have to stand here all night long just because there's a girl in the tub with no clothes on."

"Yes we do," said Ben, as all the other boys nodded. "I see your point, but it's not every day you get to see a girl with no clothes on."

"Hey, look," said Bonnie, who'd just stuck her head outside the flap of the tent. "Mayor Peggy's walking down the street."

"So what?" said Susie. "Mayor Peggy's always walking down streets."

"I agree with that," said Ben. "It seems like it's a big part of being a mayor."

"True," said Bonnie. "But she doesn't usually walk down the street without any clothes on."

There was a brief pause as the boys did some maths in their head. On the one hand, there was a naked lady right there in the tent with them. On the other hand, they couldn't see very much of the naked lady in the tent, since she was in a bubble bath. It didn't sound like the naked lady outside was in a bubble bath.

And it sounded like the naked lady outside was Mayor Peggy Jackson. Everyone in town liked Mayor Peggy Jackson, but she sure could be a high-and-mighty kind of mayor when she got down to it.

Why, just last month she'd proposed a new law banning Doc Topper from posting pin-ups on the walls of his Old Fashioned Malt Shoppe, even though it was the state's only 18+ Malt Shoppe! And the next week she'd tried to outlaw itching powder, just because of a little joke Doc Topper had played on her during what would otherwise have been a very boring budget meeting at the Pinkwhistle Town Hall.

Yes, it had often occurred to the red-blooded menfolk of Pinkwhistle that Mayor Peggy Jackson, competent as she was, could benefit from the occasional reminder as to the obligations of her position. Such as, for instance, having to walk down the street with no clothes on now and again. Doc Topper had even been known to suggest making it a bylaw, though it was the view of most of the equally red-blooded womenfolk of Pinkwhistle that he was only irritable because she'd beaten him in the election.

"I wouldn't mind seeing that," Ben said, thoughtfully.

There was a general rush for the exit. Susie waited until all the boys were gone from the tent, leaving them alone with Fatima in the bubble bath, and said "Good thinking, Bonnie! That lie got rid of them!"

"What lie?"

"I can't believe boys are so stupid! Anyway, what are we going to do about Fatima?"