Security and ice cream

The security guard in black pants and white shirt looked at both girls. “You both fit the description of a blonde teen girl with green eyes that went streaking through this area. That kind of teenage hijinks can’t be done here, there are children about. Which one of you was it that thought it was a good idea?” He saw the two girls look at each other when the shorter one said. “I, like, wasn’t streaking!” It looked like she had more to say when the other added her voice to the defense. “My little sister and I didn't-” The older man didn’t want to have an arguing match with a pair of teenagers, they never fess up to what they do so he cut her off. “I know one of you did it and if you don’t want to confess then I will simply pull you both along. I’m sure your parents will be proud to know their daughters got them kicked out today and a lifetime ban. Then we have disorderly conduct, indecent exposure and to minors no less, making this a sex crime. You two ladies better play ball or the police will get involved.”

The litany of crimes the guard listed shocked Bailey, he didn’t do.. Well he accidentally did do them. If the guy called the police and investigated him not only would his disguise not hold up when they ran his information ruining Mandy’s career he would be thrown in jail for sex crime, even when he got out he would be one of those people that had to tell all his neighbors he was on a list. While Bailey was scared stiff, Candi wasn’t having any of this man’s bluster. “Oh my god, are you serious right now? No, that isn’t what happened. You could have come over here and asked if the girl that was running through a park without her top was okay, you don’t know what happened. But no, you come up threatening me and my little sister with being banned and the police.” The guard narrowed his eye, directing his ire towards Candi while Bailey looked to the strong willed girl in panic. “Candi, no we can, like, get in big trouble!” that comment earned a smirk from the middle aged man. “Listen to your little sister girly, now the two of you follow me.” The smirk turned into sneer when the strong willed teen didn’t want to give ground. “Sir.” she looked at his name badge before continuing. “Sir, Mr. Mckinley, I respect that you have a job to do, but you don’t understand what happened. The bathing suit top came off on a slide.” The words showed respect, but the angry teen’s tone was anything but that and the older man was not going to be disrespected. He reached over and grabbed both the blondes by the forearm and started to pull them along. “I am done arguing with the two of you. You want to tell a story feel free to do it with the police and your parents.”

The holding cell the two were left in was nothing but a small white painted cinder block room with a cheap plastic folding table and matching chairs. The air conditioning in here was set low leaving both the scantily clad prisoners colder than they would have liked. They were left in there by themselves at first to ‘think about what they did’. They sat in silence for a bit, Bailey thinking what he could say to not go to jail when the police arrived and thinking how he should have just run again when the guard showed up, but then he would have just taken Candi and for fuck's sake he shouldn’t even be dressed like this out pretending to be a teen girl. It was Candi who broke the silence after seeing how worried Bailey looked. “I’m, umm, sorry, I was just trying to make him stop and think about what really happened and I, umm, like made things worse.” Feeling truly fucked Bailey couldn’t figure a way to get himself out of this, but maybe he could at least not have Candi’s’ future be fucked to for being an accessory. Leaning over Bailey put his head on the younger girls shoulder, causing Candi to put a protective arm around Bailey. “You should have just let them take me, you could have gone to tell Ma.. Mommy and your Dad. When, like, he comes back in we will tell them it was me so you can go or at least so the police will let you go.” tilting her head so her cheek rested on the top of Bailey’s head Candi tightened her grip giving a side hug. “No, I have never had a friend like you. To me you are more than my best friend. We joke about you being my little sister, and I, like, really think of you that way. My sister and I wont let anything happen to my family without a fight. Okay?” The love in her words washed over Bailey and it made him really wish he had someone like this girl in his life when he was younger. He hated all the girly crap, but she had this purity to her emotions that just got past his defences and it was hard to not think of her as a friend or someone you wanted to help and protect. His own emotions had been out of control and they chose now to rise up, bringing tears to his eyes he couldn’t stop, but at least this time he wasn’t balling like a child. With a sniffle and wiping a tear from his eye Bailey replied without moving, the two pressing into each other helped fight off some of the cold on their exposed bodies. “I do totally wish I had you with me growing up as a big sister, but you can’t protect me from this.” this girl was going to be devastated when the truth came out so the least he could do is speak first and make sure this didn’t come back on her.

The next time the door opened a younger man in his late twenties, early thirties stepped into the room and looked at the sisters holding each other looking terrified. He hated having to take a hard line with them, but his boss was adamant saying how they needed the fear of god put in them and how if their parents were just going to let them run around causing trouble and not teaching them to respect authority, he would. They didn’t look like the trouble causing type, unless you were their dad trying to protect them from the wrong sort of men. The two pairs of green eyes looked up to him as he walked in and immediately both started to try and talk at the same time to him and then to each other to tell the other to let them handle this. “Stop, just, stop. One at a time. You, tell me both of your names and your age. ”

“Candace Ann Connors and I’m seventeen, this is Bailey Ann Best, she is…” the guard waved his hand at her. “I got it, okay give me your mom or dad’s phone number and we will see about getting them here.” Both again tried to talk at once, trying to explain what happened and he realized why his boss might have reacted the way he did. The older man was crotchety and two teen girls trying to talk over one another at him could do that. “Okay, okay. Calm down. I just need a phone number. Once your parents get here we can work all this out, I can you are worried. I will try and talk to my boss and tell him you are both sorry, maybe if you apologize to him we can skip the police. Honestly, I’m on your side. If he thinks you are questioning his authority his ego gets bruised, as you two get older you will notice that in some men. If you can apologize, act sincerely I can see if we can just let the two of you go with your parents and skip the police and the ban. Think the two of you can do that?” Bailey was quick to say yes, he was already pretending and apologizing was a million times better than what he just had to do to get out of a changing booth, but when he said yes Candi said no. “I’m sorry, did you say no?” the guard asked in confusion.

“A girls bathing suit top comes undone on a slide and she rushes off to a changing room is not streaking, and he was just being mean and trying to bully us because of how we look!” her words were biting but all they did was get a heavy sigh in response. Pulling out one of the seats the man sat down across from them. “Okay, first let me introduce myself. My uniform says I’m Baker, but you two can call me John. I’m not sure which one of you is the one in the report and from what I understand you aren’t saying to protect each other and that is fine. The thing is girls, running through a crowded area topless is a crime and when you add just a single kid in the mix it becomes a serious one. Now that said, this should never go that far, but it could. Mckinley can be difficult, but if you apologize he might give in.” Candi looked over to Bailey who looked at her with pleading eyes. Leaning over Candi kissed Bailey on the forehead before responding to the guard. “We will do it, but could we like apologize in front of our parents so they know we did it?” Nodding John smiled at the two girls. “I think my boss would like that even more, let me go write this up and call your parents.”

It was over an hour later when Amanda and Derrick came back to their cabana to dry off and if the girls were back yet. Unlocking the bag Amanda pulled out both of their phones to check to see if anything popped up at the office that needed their attention, and both found a few missed calls and a voice mail from a gruff sounding man.

“This is Mckinley with park security, your daughters were caught streaking through the park, come down to security so we can discuss and see about a police report.”

“Oh no…” Amanda said as she pulled out the park map to see where security was located, while Derrick clenched his jaw and called his secretary. “Hey.. yeah I am still at the park, it has been mostly a good day, but we ran into a little problem. Could you find out the the contact information for the president of the park and send me a text when you have it, good thank you. No I hope this doesn’t end up being too serious, but reach out to my lawyer too and tell him I might need him. Okay, I will let you know everything once this is cleared up, thank you again.” handing up the phone he looked over at the beautiful woman who was wearing a serious expression. She handed him his shirt before putting on her suit cover over her head. “Time to be adults again I suppose.” Derrick took a deep breath trying to calm himself down and not jump to any conclusions and remember today was supposed to be about fun. “I’m sure it is all a misunderstanding, how about one more for luck?” gone was his clenched jaw, replaced with his warm smile. Rolling her eyes Amanda gave him a peck on the lips, having a hard time denying him. Something about how that smile and how relaxed he looked again, the man knew how to lead and it inspired her to want to follow.

The two girls were escorted by John out into the main area, they could see the first guard they interacted with talking with who the guards thought were their parents. They both had a very serious expression on their face looking none too happy. This entire situation was causing Bailey to lose his composure again, he really hoped apologizing would keep the police out of this, he really didn’t want to spend time in jail or be considered a sex offender. Tears coming unbidden to his eyes Bailey ran forward from the guard and threw his arms around Mandy, making a mental effort to stay in character while his emotions seemed to want the pilot seat more and more. “I’m sorry mommy, I didn’t mean too! It was an accident I swear my top just came off on a slide and I wanted to hide!” Amanda wrapped her arms around Bailey patting the feminized man gently. Candi walked up to her dad and then looked over to Mckinley with a glare. “Candace, the officer here was just telling me how one of the two of you. Bailey by the sound of it ran through the park topless and then the two of you wouldn’t cooperate with him. Would you mind telling me your side?”

“Wait just a second, I told you what happened. The girls even admitted it and said they were going to apologize when the two of you showed up. I figured that would have been better than a police report getting involved, don’t you?” the guard said looking to Derrick, paying little heed to who he considered to be the wife consoling her little girl. Derrick looked to the man with a measured gaze then back to his daughter. “Go ahead, tell me your side Candace.” Looking back to the guard Candi steeled herself. She never planned to apologize to the blow hard, she just wanted her dad here for help, she knew it was beyond her power to protect Bailey or herself and while she was putting on a brave front for Bailey, the girl was a mess as it was, she was scared too. “We went up on the high slide, Cliff to nowhere they call it. Bailey went down, and I umm.. Was too scared so I went back down the steps. When I got down Bailey was gone and the slide's lifeguard at the bottom handed me her bathing suit top, saying it came off on the slide or when she splashed into the pool. He like umm apologized for scaring her and said she ran off and pointed me in her direction. So I went that way and found some changing booths and looked inside and found Bailey with another lifeguard who was trying to help her. He said he worked over at the wave pool. Then when we came out the guard came up to us demanding we come with him and said we were going to be banned from the park and going to jail for exposing ourselves and would be considered sex offenders.”

“Thank you princess, I think I have the full picture.” Derrick could see the cracks in his daughters demeanor and how she was a hair away from crying worse than Bailey. Calmly Derrick looked to the two guards, but focusing on the middle aged Mckinley. “This all sounds serious, I’m going to make a phone call to see if we can have everything cleared up.” That response was obviously not to the guards liking. “You go ahead and make your calls if you need, I will be over at the desk here making a few of my own, as you said this is a very serious issue.” He stalked away while the other guard gave a half hearted smile and was about to walk away when Amanda called out to him. “Baker, can I ask you a question?” she said, still holding Bailey rocking him gently. “If you were in charge would you handle this situation like this or differently?” looking over his shoulder to his supervisor at the desk making a call and then back to her. “No ma’am, but I can’t say anymore. I hope you understand.” Amanda nodded letting him know she understood and allowing him to go on his way. A few minutes later Derrick hung up his phone, he wasn’t giving off that warm smile like he was earlier, but he no longer looked upset. He motioned for Candace to come over and he took her in a big hug and she finally broke. “Shh, everything is going to be okay. You and Bailey could have handled this better, but you didn’t do anything wrong. I’m proud of both of you and I’m sorry you had to go through this, everything will be okay.”

Mckinley had a smug look on his face knowing an officer would be done here shortly, he didn’t really think anything would come of it, but a police report should scare the girls into showing proper respect next time. While waiting for an officer to arrive his cell phone started to vibrate in his pants and he was surprised to see the park's president calling him. When he got off the cell phone he frantically called the dispatch number back for the police and then typed something up before heading over to the waiting family. “It appears there was an error… and I need to apologize to your daughters for scaring them. We here in security do our best to keep the park safe and may have been over zealous in our efforts. I’m sorry for the inconvenience this has caused all of you. For causing the disturbance in your day I would like to direct you to the customer service counter near the front of the park, they would like to try and make this up to you all.” The speech sounded **** as it came from a man that was obviously used to getting his way. Stepping away from his daughter Derrick held out his hand to shake, he pumped the mans hand once with a firm but not an intimidating grip. “Thank you for that, I speak from experience when I say it is hard to apologize when you believe you were doing the right thing. I honestly wish you the best of luck in your future.” Stepping back away from the guard Derrick put one hand on Candace's back and the other on Amanda’s as the group walked out of the security room.

When the group stepped into the sun and away from the door Derrick looked at the two girls. “That is all over, everything will be fine. If something like this happens again Bailey just try to stay in the pool until the lifeguard can help you, if he doesn’t notice you need help just call out to him. I can only imagine how scared you were and that is why you ran, but try to remember it is okay to ask for help. Candace I like that you were standing up for others and trying to help, but you have to try to remember to start with respect to those with authority even if you think they don’t deserve it, and once they feel you have acknowledged them, then you can discuss, but not argue your point. Now both of you, this advise wont help you all the time. I promise you if you ask for help from those around and start with showing respect you will get out of more situations than not. Now lets go see what they have for us at customer service and then we can all get some ice cream, and I think you both earned the treat and can ignore your diet for the rest of the day, just think of all the calories you have and will burn today.” while Derrick talked to the girls she just watched and smile at how easy it looked for him to wave away their worries and frame a bad situation as a lesson for the future. Bailey on the other hand mostly just mostly thanked the heavens to have gotten out of that situation intact. He wasn’t sure what this man had done to get that guy to not only let them off, but apologize and wondered just how much influence he really had. The last thought brought a dark cloud over him as he wondered what could this guy do if he found out the truth. Bailey still wasn’t paying attention when he was guided over to customer service, the lady behind the counter was saying something when he was brought out of his funk hearing his name.

“Come on Bailey go stand behind the counter and smile for a photo” Candi was saying to him and nudging him forward. After his photo was taken she got one two, then both were handed a plastic card with a lanyard. On his it read Bailey Ann Connors-Best, season pass - minor and had a red border around a photo of himself smiling. Candi held up her pass to Bailey when she looked at it. “Oh look they put our names together, they must have thought we really were sisters!” Bailey groaned looking down at his. “That is because you keep calling me your little sister, and they put me as a minor, I’m an adult.” the comment came out as a whine that caused Candi to giggle. “Of course you are, I’m seventeen and I’m the older sister, remember?” Bailey just rolled his eyes causing the teen girl to laugh some more. He considered telling the lady about the mistake, but he knew it wouldn’t matter, after Friday this could all just be a memory.

Stepping away from the booth the four of them headed to the line for the big waffle cone ice cream stand while Derrick told them everything they got compensated for. The summer passes won’t come in handy for Candace and I, but that can be a fun activity for you two to have mother daughter time. They tried to refund us the ticket prices, but when I told them we won the tickets they gave us some in park credit. So it looks like food and maybe a little light shopping for a souvenir is on them.” Amanda smiled at everyone before adding. “They also suggested and we agree, that one of us should accompany each of you for the rest of the day. Just in case Mckinley is around looking for a reason.” Bailey wondered if suggesting just leaving would work or go over like a lead balloon when Candi had a mischievous look in her eye. “That sounds fun, I want to go with you and Bailey can go with Daddy!” she said, giving Amanda a hug.