Kerri, Kaykay, and Sabrina want a ride

Gary startled awake to a giggle at his elbow.

"Gary Menard, asleep at the wheel again!" a young woman's voice said.

"He's cute, though," another said.

Gary blinked and looked around to see Kerri Appleton, a golden-tanned beach babe with curly blonde hair. She'd been the first one to speak. Beside her were Sabrina Flores, a voluptuous black-haired cutie, and Kaykay Park, a tall, athletic young woman with Korean parents who served a mean volleyball. They had been in Lil's year before graduating, and still hung out together. Kerri and Kaykay were wearing swim suits, hats, and mini wrap coverups to keep the sun off. Sabrina had big black sunglasses, and wasn't bothering to cover up her perfect bronze skin other than her white two-piece.

"Whatcha doing, Gary?" Kerri asked.

"Dunno, just hanging out," Gary said.

Kerri giggled. "I bet. Okay, one, two, three..." she cued the girls, nodding her head and tapping her foot for a rhythm.

Gary stared in confusion.

"Gary don't surf and we think he should..." they launched into a take-off on the old "Charlie don't surf" song, but before they made it through the first verse, they dissolved in giggles.

"So what are you doing?" Gary asked.

"Hanging out," Kerri said.

"It's slow today," Sabrina said. "Maybe you could take us out to Smuggler's Cove. I bet it's a little more happening today."

"But that's a private beach," Gary said. "I can't get in."

Sabrina's sunglasses flashed as she stepped up to the car. "Duh, and what's this?" she asked, pointing to a sticker on the windshield. It was a current Smuggler's Cove member permit.

"Sabrina, is it true," Kaykay asked, "you can go topless there?"

"Sure," Sabrina said.

"Honey," Kerri said, "Not only can you go topless, you can go bottomless. At least if you walk around the point to Pirate's Beach. It's still part of the private area."

Gary frowned. "But isn't that next to...?"

"Sure," Kerri said. "Pirate's is next to Bucks Beach. What's the problem?"

"Bucks Beach?" Kaykay asked.

"Where the gay boys go to have sex on the beach," Sabrina said. "I went there once. It's kinda cute actually."

Kaykay turned a little pink in the cheeks and giggled. "Like, did you really see them doing it?" she asked.

"For real. Chinga-chinga-ching," Sabrina said, holding out her hands in front of her and thrusting her hips forward and back.

"Wow!" Kaykay said.

"So can we have a ride, Gary?" Kerri asked.

Gary checked his watch. "I don't know, I've got to pick up Lil at the mall." He didn't mention Bernie, because Kerri and Sabrina would be sure to tease him about his chess-playing glasses-wearing girlfriend.

"Pleeease!" they wheedled together.

"Ummm..." Gary said.

"When do you have to be back?" Kerri asked.

"Uh, two and a half hours," Gary said.

"Awwww, piece of cake. You could come along and check out the beach," Kerri said. "I bet we can get a ride back no problem, if you gotta go."

"It's on the bus line too," Sabrina said. "So getting back is no problem if you have to scoot."

Gary could see they were just going to keep wheedling. Well, at least it wasn't far away. "Hop in, let's go," he said.

Kerri wrapped up her unruly golden locks with a scrunchie, and the girls piled into the Super Surf Van Gary was babysitting for his friend Stuart.

The member sticker got them a quick glance and a wave through the gate at Smuggler's Cove. Gary drove down the winding road past resort cottages to the beach parking area. There was a big white building next to the beach with a snack bar, a mini surf shop with sailboard rentals, men's and women's showers, and an office for the rental cottages right by the beach.

Gary followed the girls down to the beach, carrying a suit and towel in case he had a chance to get a dip. Sabrina was first to go topless, stripping off her white bikini top to free her large, firm breasts, the same perfect bronze as the rest of her skin. Kerri was next, giggling as her softer, paler breasts bounced when she took off her top. Kaykay didn't strip down right away, but she laughed and smiled at her friends.

They strolled toward the point dividing Smuggler's Beach from Pirate's Beach. Kerri pointed out the sign. "Here it is," she said. "Nudity required beyond this point."

"Thanks for the ride, Gary," Sabrina said.

"Yeah, thanks," said Kaykay.

"What?" Gary said.

"You looked like you were just gonna waltz on past the sign," Kerri said. "Uh-uh. We get bare, you get bare. You worried about giving some surf boy a hard-on?"

"We could stay on this side," said Kaykay.

"No way," said Sabrina, tossing her black hair. "So, you wanna come along?" she asked.

"Sure," Gary said. "For a little bit anyway."

"You first!" said Kerri.

Gary stripped down and rolled up his clothes in his towel. The girls giggled, and Kerri and Sabrina whistled and hooted.

"Go on ahead," Kerri said. "Just to make sure it's OK."

"OK?" Gary asked.

"Please?" asked Kaykay. "Just that there are no weirdos hanging out right there," she said.

"OK," he said.

Gary, clothes rolled in his towel, threaded his way around the big wave-shaped rocks at the point and rounded a bend onto Pirate's Beach.