Alana and I straightened ourselves out and washed our faces. I grabbed the crabs Alana had dug up from the beach and we headed back to base.
“What’s wrong, Alana? Why are your eyes swollen? Did you cry?”
While approaching, Millie asked upon noticing Alana’s red eyes.
“I was pinched by a crab when I was catching one. I cried because it hurt so much.”
“Uff, that’s painful. A crab pinched me once when I was a kid.”
Probably out of embarrassment, Alana made up a random excuse to cover our hot rendezvous at the beach. Millie, not the least bit suspicious, began to engage with Alana in a serious talk about crab pinches.
It was not like I could expose her. Listening to the girls’ discussion, I drew close to Bella who was sitting on a rock, and got down on my knees to undress Bella’s ba
