Eveline had a lot of personal issues and weaknesses that she was dealing with. One of her biggest shortcomings was that she was desperate for acceptance, and would do literally anything to try to fit in. Jenny knew that about her teammate, so she decided to push Eveline's weakness in an effort to dominate her completely.
Jenny insisted on holding her hand the entire time the students moved about. Eveline did not know what to make of her team captain's strange behavior, but she noticed that Jenny was not only massaging the palm of her hand with her thumb, but also looking at her with a weird intensity. Eveline was very uneasy with the bizarre new development of Jenny's blatant advances, but did not dare try to pull her hand away.
One of the stops was at a city park. The team took group pictures, but then Jenny decided she wanted pictures of herself alone with Eveline. She pulled her naked teammate in front of a stone platform performance set up for public performances and speeches and lined her up for the camera. She couldn't resist caressing Eveline's soft bare skin and telling her how pretty she was.
Eveline's heart was pounding. She forced a smile as the camera went off. OK, so Jenny now had her pictures with Eveline. Better to say that Jenny now had her first pictures with Eveline. First out of many, most likely.
Eveline wondered if there was any way the day could get more stressful. Poor girl... what a silly thing to wonder about. Well, she'd get that answer soon enough.
One of Eveline's teammates had just bought an expensive digital camera and was eager to try it out during the group's Sunday outing. She bragged the camera was so precise that "it can get your razor stubble from across the room." And that was no lie. The device did indeed take very high-quality pictures. There was no question that every minute detail of Eveline's body was being thoroughly documented in the camera's memory card. All of Eveline's teammates, not just Jenny, wanted to have pictures of themselves hugging or holding hands with their naked companion.
Jenny decided to push even harder. Her cell phone included a loudspeaker that played music almost as well as a boom box. She decided it would be fun to have Eveline do a dance performance for the benefit of her teammates and anyone else standing around in the park. She didn't exactly order Eveline to dance, but instead used psychology and encouragement, with dares and support of the rest of the team. Before she had time to really think about what she was doing, Eveline took off her shoes and complied with the wishes of her friends. She danced to several of Jenny's favorite songs, while the rest of the team cheered, applauded, and encouraged her to continue.
Meanwhile, Monique, the teammate with the camera, took picture after picture of Eveline. Her camera had a direct feed to Jenny's email address, which in turn fed directly to several on-line image-posting accounts. Jenny's accounts were open and she had hundreds of on-line friends. Eveline's pictures "went viral" almost immediately after Monique took them.
Jenny was blissfully unaware that, by the end of the day, she would deeply regret having set up the automated photo-sharing arrangement with her on-line accounts.
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While Eveline was dancing and posing for pictures in an effort to please her teammates, her heart jumped when she saw that a new classmate had joined her audience, a male student. It was Lance Comstock. And Lance was not just any classmate: he was the guy with whom she had a secret crush over the past year. Lance happened to be passing through the park, and saw her dancing and stopped to watch. He had noticed Eveline plenty of times in the hallways and in class and thought she was kinda cute, but was clueless that she actually liked him.
He was fascinated by what he was seeing. Eveline, who always seemed so shy in school, was out in the middle of a park dancing in the nude, as though she were a Druid priestess. His heart pounded as he suddenly realized he badly wanted her. One doesn't come across a girl who likes to run around naked in public everyday. He had always fantasized about having a "free-spirited" girlfriend, and here was such a girl, right in front of him. He knew that she didn't have a boyfriend. Hmmm...
Eveline was totally winded after having danced non-stop to eight rapid pop songs. At that point Jenny made a mistake that messed-up her plan to control Eveline. After taking more pictures, she encouraged Lance to talk to her, figuring that the conversation would further embarrass her teammate and further isolate her. In fact, quite the opposite was about to happen, that a classmate with whom Eveline had secretly been in love with was about to express his interest in her.
At first Eveline was totally panicked about being left alone with Lance. But, as he rambled on about admiring her "free spirit", it dawned on Eveline what he wanted. She couldn't believe what she was hearing. He actually was interested in her? Really?
Eveline realized what Jenny was up to and wanted to get away from her. For the first time in her life, she summoned the courage to actually ask someone for a favor.
"I... Lance... can you like... take me somewhere? Anywhere? Please?"
And, with that, Eveline said goodbye to her teammates and her shocked team captain. She departed with Lance, and Jenny's fun came to an abrupt end.
They walked to where Lance had parked his car. Trying to think of something that would fill a large portion of the day, he invited Eveline to go hiking with him in a nearby state forest park. At first she thought about asking him to get her some clothes, but he seemed so fascinated with the "free-spirited" illusion that she figured it would be better to let him keep thinking that she was naked because she wanted to be. After she got into her locker the next day and retrieved her outfit, she'd have to let him know that it was due to a bunch of weird mishaps that she had lost all her clothing. She'd have to confess that she was not a "free-spirit", but that could wait. For the moment she'd simply enjoy her little victory over Jenny and see if Lance was serious about being with her.
