His shorts were firmly in place.

Silly again. His shorts were clearly still on his body. He would have felt them come off if some sort of imaginary water demon in the waves had stolen them. Their dark blue and bright orange glory were still, from what he could see, firmly in place. Now it was time to test the 'quick dry technology' and see how long it would take to get comfortable again.

Walking up the wet sand towards his stuff, Jake waved to Sarah again, who motioned for him to join them. Picking up his things, Jake moved closer to the girls before striking up a conversation with Sara. "Hello there," Jake said, walking up between Sara and her friends towels. "How goes your summer?"

"Hot," Sarah complained. "These two are friends of mine, visiting from Spain. Maria, Carla." She pointed at each in turn.Jake turned away from sarah to look at her friends. Maria looked as though she'd been dozing off, but Carla was reading a book.

Carla lowered her book in order to look at Jake and smile.

[Without a book blocking the view, suddenly Jake saw that Carla was topless. How had he missed that?]

[On second glance, she wasn't topless at all. Her bikini just happened to match her skin tone really closely.]

[Carla eyes quickly lowered to Jake's right shorts leg. Jake fear of his low cut suit was validated.]

[While Jake was distracted with the beautiful Carla, Sarah reached up to Jake's new suit and dragged it down to the sand. ]