Lucy vs Melanie

Once everyone had a chance to shower - and some of those showers took a suspiciously long time, with Abigail and Sophie barely making it out in time to hear Barbie announce the forfeit match - it was time for the battle of the losers.

"Okay, so everyone has played amazingly well but somebody has to come fourth and I have to to come up with a fair way of deciding who does our public chores this week"

There were gasps of concern from the American girls on both losing sides at this announcement while Maggie and Abigail hi-fived while giving a collective sigh of relief.

"For those new to the group, while we try not to antagonise the somewhat conservative residents of this beautiful city with our flagrant displays of public nudity, there are certain chores that require us to put ourselves out there. This week, the losers of this match will be volunteering themselves for that job!"

"Motherfucker!" Lexie exclaimed, while Sophie shot Melanie a sympathetic look.

Mel's heart sank. This all seemed very unfair. Barbie had chose an activity she excelled at to decide this and it was obvious who the loser was going to be. If she was the best player in her team they were fucked against Lucy and Leilani.

"Okay, so we are 2 v 2 now, although to be clear we win and lose as a team, so Mel who is going to sit this one out?"

Melanie looked at her two teammates who had both been equally hopeless in the last game.

"Pick me, coach!" Lexie raised her hand sarcastically "No, seriously, Princess. I'll do better this time"

"Pick her. I have better things to do" Julianne agreed before retreating back towards the mansion.

"It's going to be me and Lexie" Mel confirmed before turning to see her opponents discussing tactics while feeling each other up. Melanie realised that, assuming Sophie picked Abigail over Maggie which seemed a certainty now, each of the 2v2 teams consisted of partners who were probably going to be fucking each other tonight. Things had moved quickly here.

Team Lucy won the toss and decided to serve. Mel resolved that even if she was going down here she wasn't going down without a fight and readied herself. Lucy and Leilani had witnessed Lexie fail to return practically anything in the last game and were likely to target her. Actually, they had been hoping to put this game to bed early with a few aces.

Lucy jumped up and hit the ball with more accuracy than power so it would land just past the net and well out of Lexie's reach. However, Lexie read this correctly and ran quickly forward, comfortably returning the ball. Surprised. Lucy was nonetheless composed enough hit the ball right back at Lexie. This time launched herself into the air and smashed it down with great **** past Lucy and out of reach of Leilani. 1-0 team Mel.

Melanie looked across at Lexie in disbelief.

"What!? So they made me play this stupid fucking game at high school" Lexie shrugged.

Now Melanie's look was more of a glare. Had Lexie really been playing badly on purpose in the first game so as not to damage her hard ass reputation?"

"Relax, Princess" Lexie smiled. Mel did secretly love it when she called her that "We were never winning with Julianne anyway. But we got this one!"

Melanie looked across at Lucy who was now looking concerned. Melanie felt for her friend, nobody wanted to be the first Brit to be stuck doing naked chores in public. But It was either her or Melanie at this point.

As the match went on it proved to be a remarkably tight one. Lexie, as her build would suggest was an excellent athlete, quick and powerful and a great reader of her opponents intention. Melanie too felt herself improving point by point. She felt a strange sense of confidence around Lexie that was almost alien to her. Lucy and Leilani were no slouches though and gave as good as they got. When Barbie blew her whistle to indicate full time it was 9-9. Lucy and Leilani were looking tired, Melanie seemed to end up in the sand more than anyone and had it up both cracks now. Lexie looked like she was just getting started. Maybe she had been saving her energy from the start for this to ensure missing out on the forfeit. That girl was way smarter than she wanted people to think she was.

"Okay, next point wins, Melanie to serve"

The pressure on Melanie was huge now. Part of her felt sure that she was going to serve into the net but she looked over at Lexie for reassurance.

"You got this Princess" the beautiful, blue and black haired girl winked.

Melanie put everything into her serve. It was never going to be an ace but it was good enough. A nervous looking Leilani was able to return it back in Melanie's direction but Lexie ran across and smashed it back at the Hawaiian. This time Lucy intervened and desperately sent the ball towards Mel.

"To me!" Lexie shouted. Melanie turned and bumped the ball towards her partner. Initially she thought it was going a little high but Lexie jumped like she was an Olympian and smashed the ball over the net towards the sand with too much **** for anyone to stop it. It was over.

"Team Melanie wins!" Barbie proclaimed excitedly after enjoying such an unexpectedly entertaining match.

Melanie could hardly contain her disbelief as Lexie came over and made out with her.

"I want to fuck you so badly right now" Melanie found herself blurting out loud to Lexie. The way she was feeling right now, she didn't even care who else heard.

"What are we fuckin' waiting for then. Let's bail on this bullshit!"

As Lexie took Melanie's hand and led her away the latter caught side of a dejected Lucy, then looked up at Barbie who was having the time of her life. It didn't seem right.

"Maybe next time you want to hand out forfeits pick an activity that isn't your obvious strongpoint" Melanie shouted at Barbie as she walked off.

"Yeah, like a fucking IQ test!" Lexie grinned, delighted to see someone other than her calling out their beloved leader. She really badly wanted to fuck Mel right now too.

For appearance sake, Barbie had to seem wounded by this. Secretly, she was delighted. She knew for sure now she had picked the British girls teams correctly.

When she and Chantelle had selected the teams there had only been one disagreement.

The first team they had nicknamed Team Gorgeous. These were the girls who would use their beauty and feminine wiles for the teams benefit. Most NA employees were straight males who lived locally after all. Lucy had been selected for that team alongside glamorous party girl Tina and exotic beauty Leilani.

The second was Team Genius, and Sophie had been chosen to help Maggie and Abigail with all the clever stuff.

The last two teams were Team Queen, the team she and Chantelle would also be in that would work tirelessly on strategy and tactics while the final team was Team Badass.

Team Badass was arguably the most important team of all since they would be the ones doing the most risky stuff, almost certainly including infiltrating NA property. Chantelle had felt strongly that Mel should be on Team Queen and Cassie on Team Badass. Barbie had trusted her own judgement though and gone with her gut.

The tournament had been a test of sorts. Of course it was unfair and she wanted to see how the others reacted to that. The fact that all three of Team Badass had defied her wishes to stay and win an activity she had unfairly stacked in her own favour, that at least two of them weren't afraid to call her out for it vindicated her decision. Add onto that Melanie's gutsy performance against the odds, Lexie's impressive physical prowess and Julianne's selfless dedication to the cause and she knew she had chosen well. It was also a relief she didn't have to switch Mel and Cassie now. She had grown very fond of Cassie already and Lexie seemed equally taken with Mel. And she didn't want to piss Lexie off anymore than she knew she did already.

She didn't have too much time to feel pleased with herself about that though. She had a match to win and, judging by the opposition's semi final performance, it wasn't going to be a cakewalk for her and Cassie.