Bria the lifeguard

Morehead Lodge was a summer vacation destination located on Lacaucoq, a network of remote woodland lakes located a few hours north of Norville. It was a remote and exclusive, renown among the wealthy and well-connected for its recreational as well as culinary distractions. For generations, working as cleaning or kitchen staff at Morehead Lodge was a premium summer job for the youth of Norville and surrounding towns.

When she had the good fortune to obtain a job as a lifeguard at the resort, the rumor around school was that the previously unobtainable Miss Jeurgen had agreed to become the girlfriend (or at least 'hooked up') with Carl Sutter, a classmate and employee of the Lodge. Carl's older sister and Bria's supervisor, Katarina ("Katie"), insisted that, to the contrary, it was Bria's beauty, charm, grace, perkiness and swimming skill that merited her inclusion in the sublime sorority of Morehead lifeguards.

Lifeguards rarely returned to Morehead for a second season, usually ending up as trophy wives or mistresses for the rich and/or famous clientele they met over the course of the season. Once Bria established her trustworthiness, Katie further explained that Morehead lifeguards didn't have boyfriends, at least not outside the guest list at the Lodge, so as to encourage the men who came looking for a fit, young muse upon whom to lavish wealth. Their uniform was a backless one-piece (perfect for shrugging out of when necessary), though even on-duty the favored fashion was a string bikini. They assisted with aqua-sports, aqua-fitness and aqua-therapy in the heated pool when not saving lives or patrolling the lake on their wave runner.

The staid and safe atmosphere prevailing at Morehead Lodge was somewhat undercut by the excitement and danger, at least for those who knew, of the presence on a neighboring lake of Camp Cocker, a wilderness retreat program for troubled youths from inner cities as far away as Chicago and Detroit. According to Katie, "those thugs really know how to fuck", and they had access to excellent ****, so she insisted her sweet pretty colleagues have surreptitious and (what she considered to be) consequence-free encounters with the rough boys nearby to clear their heads and keep themselves from getting too wrapped up in the debutante ball that was Morehead Lodge.