Strip down!

I shook my head as I reached down to my shorts, hooking both my thumbs into the waistband, sprinting in a mad dash into the water. I didn't want to get my clothes soaked, and risk having a borderline see-through tanktop and athletic shorts on my walk back. Logically, it made more sense to me as I pulled my shorts down and my tanktop overhead in one single motion, and threw them behind me onto the sand of the beach. Sure, willingly putting myself into a situation where I was now stark naked like I had fully intended to avoid was impractical. But I was in full control of the situation! I could help these two girls, then get back to this abandoned section of beach before anyone would see me! I wouldn't even have to worry about someone stealing my clothes. The prospect of these two girls seeing me like this was a bit embarrassing, but the water was a deep blue and not completely clear. It was highly likely they'd never know, especially considering their predicament. I couldn't help wincing a bit as cold ocean water splashed everywhere due to my forceful blitz through the calm waves. Once I was deep enough that I could get swimming, I began a full **** swim out to the pair of girls caught in a panic.

I began to close in on the girls, and yelled out a question as the gap began to close. "What's wrong? Are you two ok??" I asked, as I slowed down.

The blonde girl wearing a red bikini top weakly groaned, and almost seemed to sink below the waves again. Her brunnette friend in a blue one-piece struggled to hold her up, clearly indicating that the blonde was unable to swim for some reason. "S-She's got a cramp, and can't swim hardly at all! I tried to carry her back to shore, but we're just getting swept out further! Can you hold her for a second??" The girl said. I didn't need further instruction, before I swam right over and assumed a position using one arm to help hold the girl up by her shoulder, and the other to help balance it out and stay afloat. A look around confirmed to me that it was about as bad as I thought. We were getting swept out, and fast! The only logical explanation was that we were caught in a rip current, which would sweep us out to sea in no time!

"Listen, this current is going to pull us out towards sea, and it is way too strong to try and swim against it. We should try swimming to the side, until the current will eventually run parallel to the beach, and THEN swim towards shore!" I calmly explained to the other two girls, as I began swimming parallel to the beach. The brunnette seemed a bit confused, but followed my instructions and helped to pull out of the current.

It didn't take long for us to swim far enough that the current was now running parallel to the island's coast. We were quite far out at this point, and I could tell the two girls didn't have much stamina left in them. I knew they didn't have the stamina to swim upwards of a 300 meters back to the shoreline. Against my better judgement, I made a call I wouldn't normally have risked.

"Let's ride this current for a bit, save our stamina... You two don't have the energy to make it back to shore here..." I said, feeling a bit of nervousness rise up within me as we began slowly being swept towards shore, but also further down the beach... away from my clothes...