[Mississippi summers](https://imgur.com/a/mAX3aIj) crawled by about as fast as the rusty barges going against the powerful river that gave the state it’s name. The constant heat kept the sensible people in the shade with some ice cold sweet tea, but the guys and gals who grew up playing in the heat of the Mis’sippi sun saw heat stroke as a risk worth the worry-free days spent at the lake with friends.
This was a summer like all the others before, and despite being in colleges all around the country, five long-time friends had each come home for the summer to enjoy it with the same faces they had spent all other summers in memory.
An eroded bank looked down on muddy water from a couple yard’s drop above the sandy shore of the lake. A rotted log sat precariously close to the edge so that the two old friends using it as a bench could dangle their bare feet in open air away from the rough dirt.
“There’s probably a dozen snakes all in that water waiting for the chance to bite the shit out of you for stomping around in their house.” Emma warned with the high pitch inflection she used when frustrated. Her dark brown hair was in a long braid that snaked over her slender shoulders and hung in the cleavage of petite breasts under a thin, damp spaghetti strap top.
“Agreed,” Luke said sounding sarcastic and overly enthusiastic for the blank expression he wore while he took a drag from the cigarette hanging from his lips. Emma elbowed him in the side and he jerked away with a dramatic squeal that seemed odd coming from his tall solid body toned from years of track.
“You could’ve come!” Amy yelled up at the two, blonde shoulder length hair dancing from little hops where she stood barely five feet from dry land. A ball of loosely clumped mud flew threw the air without warning and made a *SLAP* against the back of Amy’s head as it exploded to cover her entire back. “AH, WHAT THE FUCK- “ Amy screamed, but just as she turned to rip someone’s head off, another mud ball flew through the air and splattered against her pale chest all the way up to her chin. Bek held her two hands together in front of her, still dripping mud. She looked at something other than the angry and startled Amy while beside her Mickey could be seen smiling even with only his eyes and nose above the water.
Amy made a horrible gagging sound and pinched her nose. Her sun-tanned legs flailed for a desperate few steps against the waters resistance until she flung herself far enough from the bank to sink entirely beneath the water, an eruption of water splashing up. Luke gasped for air at the sight as he erupted in laughter, half choking from the cloud of smoke he had in his chest unfortunately.
Emma gasped with wide eyes, hands coming up to cover her nose and mouth in shock. “GUYS!” She yelled, but already starting to laugh along while Luke let himself fall backwards on to crusty dirt dotted with tall onion grass.
Mickey jumped out of the water joining in on the laughter, his beard dripping water and hairy beer belly shaking. Bek putting her long brown hair in a pony tail to get it lut of the way and was laughing even as she ran to where Amy’s head was rising out of the water. Bek’s chest bounced in a dark red bralette with little support. She had worn it without knowing they would end up at the lake, but with every exaggerated stride she took trying to get her legs out of the hold of the waters drag she had to hold the loose material in place so her tits weren’t falling out for the boys to see.
Amy’s shoulder length blonde hair still held on to chunks of the disgusting smelling mud that had at least been washed from her skin. Tan bare shoulders rose just out of the water while her hands lifted up a once bright neon pink sports bra that now looked like socks you wore for too many days in a row. She held the bra in just one hand while she again pinched her nose. “It smells like SHIT!” She whined a bit nasally, half angry and half pitiful. She flung the stinky bra up towards the two laughing at her from the top of the bank wall.
“I’m sooo sorry, but you shoul- “ Bek yelped suddenly as Amy turned and leaped out of the water at her with only a muddy glob raised high where there should’ve been a hand. The mud slap connected with bek’s cheek and splashed over most of her upper body. She instantly wretched at the smell and quickly submerged herself as an escape. Her quick descent into the water forced her now stained top off of her body where it floated on the surface. Amy snatched it up greedily and flung it into a bunch of plants growing in the shallow water closer to the shore but further away from a cleared path into the water.
Mickey was avoiding the conflict so far with success, circling the muddy girls wide as he trudged in a half run towards the shore. Looking back to make sure Bek and Amy weren’t about to coat his pale farmers-tanned torso with fresh shit-mud from the bottom of the lake, he couldn’t see water mockasin between him and the shore.
Mickey screamed like a toddler in a horror movie at the sharp pain in his calf and moved with a speed that worried and impressed everyone until he was all the way up the steep slope dug out of the wall next to the log where Emma and Luke had been.
Emma was on her feet now, standing back from Mickey as if he actually was the snake, but Luke was purposefully digging through his camera bag at once. He threw a pair of dry gym shorts and his truck keys to Emma.
“Run and drive the truck up the the trail so we can get him at least to the trail head with an ambulace waiting if not on its way if you can get service for 911.” Luke said in between heavy breaths. Emma’s eyes were as big as saucers and wet with coming tears, but her expression hardened a bit and slid on the way too big shorts and foregoing socks to slip on her tennis shoes. In seconds, Emma’s slender frame was being carried by her long toned legs with confident strides that were a testament to her long and impressive cross country career.
Mickey was breathing shallow and rapid breaths with his lower back leaning back against the log. Two thin long streams of blood trickled down his right calf where it pooled around the sole of his foot. Amy and Bek were on either side of him in squats that rested their asses on their kicked up heels. It appeared Mickey was forcing a smile to assure the two girls everything would be fine in a strange reversal of roles.
“For all I know, I’m already in heaven,” Luke barely caught Mickey say to himself with a smug grin on his face, closing his eyes and leaning back on the log as if to sleep.
Amy didn’t hear or maybe just didn’t understand, her eyes leaking more tears, but Bek looked to naked Amy’s body save for the too-small pair of royal blue bikini bottoms Emma had found under her passenger seat. Bek’s faced blushed and turned her back to Mickey and Luke, catching the joke finally. She wrapped her arms across her bare tits with embarassed eyes cutting to the side to see if Luke noticed, only to make eye contact with his grinning face. She popped up with a scowl fixed on her face and went looking for clothes, checking over her shoulder after a ways to make sure Luke was still staring as she swung her hips with a little exaggeration.
“At least Emma’s the best possible person you could have running to save your life.” Amy said forcing a smile and putting an arm around Mickey’s thick shoulders. The guy’s labored breathing seemed to calm just long enough for a quick animated face at Luke. He bit his bottom lip and cut his eyes down to Ashley’s chest with bouncing eye brows. “I wouldn’t really mind if she stopped for coffee at this point.” Mickey said his expression pained again but laughing with increasingly steadier breaths, and Luke laughed along too.
Amy seemed surprised when her sun dress came flying at her in a wad from no where, but when she saw Bek standing above the three of them in nothing but her spandex shorts, Ashley quickly got to her feet. “Our bras might be gone for good, I couldn’t find them in the water.” Bek said annoyed. Red-faced, Amy stood to put on her dress with nothing between the thin fabric and her damp chest.
The sound of tires on loose gravel grew louder over the course of a minute, giving luke and Amy time to help walk him to the side of the trail. As Emma pulled up, “There was no service the whole trail there and back, I’m just gonna have to take him to Jackson.” Luke nodded.
“Do you know directions out of here… or?” Emma asked, fully aware he knew she didn’t know the parks country highways.
“I do!” Amy yelled angrily as if she had been overlooked. She didn’t wait for an answer before jumping in the pssenger seat and having Mickey scooting to straddle the stick shift with either leg. “Go, go, me and bek will pack up and take her car to whereever you guys end up.” Emma nodded, wasting no time with a three point turn to head back the way she had just run to fetch the truck but a bit faster and more unstable than her own trusty legs.
Bek had already started to pack up all of the food and beach towels we had brought in tote bags, expeting them all to stay for dinner too. He couldn’t help but notice her spandex shorts from her volleyball days were ridng up every part they could, resulting in some arounsing definition. She looked over and saw him staring at her.
“You act like I don’t give you any attention.” She said, returnig the stare with a sassy attitude. Luke grabbed his camera from the ground.
“Cheese!” He said excitedly. Bek reached for the camera starting to laugh, but Luke danced backwards. The flash snapped in Bek’s face and she stood still, hands on her hips as pose cop outs. He took picture after picture, each time presing the button and capturing a little more of a closer more and more willing Bek until she was pressed against his stomach with her bare chest. Read more »