I arrived at the bus terminal on Hong Kong Island side just after 7:00 am. I was only a few minutes late but they should have waited for me. Well, I wasn't sure if I really wanted to go anyway! Gave me the creeps just thinking about the trip. Perhaps this was my perfect way out. Sod it! Sod them all!
"Coco." An unfamiliar voice called me from behind just as I was about to leave.
"Oh, hi Anne. A surprise to see you here."
I wasn't trying to mock her but Anne blushed crimson all the same. I didn't know Anne that well, as we attended different classes in school. But this was Anne, one of the top students from our graduation form and a senior prefect. Who would imagine a good girl like Anne joining this trip!
"Don't worry Anne, nobody will know about this."
She nodded shyly and said, "Where are they anyway?"
"I don't know, I just arrived. Perhaps they caught the last bus. I think one just left at 7:00. Let's see, the next bus is... 7:30. Perhaps others will join us by then."
You might wonder what this was all about. No big deal really, nothing sinister, just plain wicked. You see, we just took the open examination and were waiting, in my case very nervously, for the results. If all went well, I could be starting university life in about two months' time, but in the worst scenario, I would have to start looking for a job. I was so worried it was driving me crazy. Then yesterday, Ivy and a couple of the girls proposed that we should do something bold and daring together before we went our separate ways. Ivy joked about skinny-dipping at a secluded beach near Shek O. Well, one thing led to another, Ivy who was my best friend and confidante talked me into it. I wondered who persuaded Anne to come. However, as she was obviously more embarrassed about this than I, I kept quiet.
In the next 20 minutes, we waited mostly in awkward silence but nobody else showed up. I was thinking that perhaps there was still a chance that we could both get out of this with no loss of face. The ignition of the New World Bus engine jostled me back to reality.
"Are you girls hopping onboard or not?" The bus driver asked.
Sheepishly, I took a sideway glance at Anne, hoping that she would say something like, "Sod it! It's a really stupid idea. Let's go home!" After all, Anne was the prefect. I look up to her literally as she was also a few inches taller.
I could see that she was deliberating.
"Say it, Anne. Say, 'Go home' Anne! For Christ's sake, the bus driver is waiting. Make up your mind, Anne!" I screamed at her, but only inside my head.
Anne bit on her lower lip and said, "Let's catch them unexpected on the beach." Then, with bold strides on her long legs she stepped aboard the double-decker bus and paid the fare with her Octopus card. Shit, trust Anne to make a decision!
Anne and I studied at a very conservative girls' school. Our uniform was a light blue traditional Chinese long dress, or cheongsam as it was called. Those from Hong Kong would no doubt recognise the school I was referring to. School rules stipulated that the hem must cover the knees but the splits on the sides were not strictly regulated. For some, the splits went way up almost to the hips showing a lot of legs. But never Anne, the good-girl-at-school!
Today, she had a white Disney t-shirt, a pair of powder-blue running shorts and a pair of Birkenstock T-strap in neon green. Being the good girl, she kept her long jet-black hair in braids in strict compliance with school regulations, even though there was no school today. Christ, why couldn't she loosen up just a little and be bad for a change?
This was the first time I caught a really good look at Anne's legs and I envied her. How come some girls had it all? Tall, good-looking and score good grades! Life was just so unfair!
Well, if the good girl said: "Go" then who was I to complain? I wasn't about to chicken out in front of Anne. I stepped onto the bus. But as my mind was so preoccupied, I dropped my purse along with the coins everywhere. This was a truly bad omen and I should have taken heed. The bus was delayed when Anne and I gathered up my change of 13 coins for the fare, another bad omen! Then I followed her to the upper deck, admiring her smooth muscle-toned calves and the soft soles of her high-arched feet on the way up.
The bus snaked around Shaukeiwan district a bit gathering up passengers. You could tell there were groups of high school graduates just like us heading for the beaches on the south side of Hong Kong Island. You couldn't miss them as they were still discussing the exam papers that we sat for just a few days ago.
"Was that the correct answer?" I whispered to Anne, hoping to get a little reassurance.
Suddenly, she looked worried and whispered back, "I am not really sure. The papers were all very difficult this year. To tell you the truth, I was so worried that I couldn't sleep at night. Can you see the dark patches under my eyes?"
That coming from Anne was a surprise. Anne had none of the snootiness or pretensions of the other top students at school. She was such a genuine, nice and friendly person. Dark patches under her eyes or not, Anne was undeniably very pretty with a clear complexion, bright intelligent eyes and an exquisitely chiselled face. The tensions and awkwardness between us started to disappear as we began gabbing away during the rest of the bus trip, momentarily forgetting what lay ahead of us.
By the time we arrived at the last stop at Shek O Beach, the sun was already burning fiercely on this early summer Thursday. We filed out of the bus with the rest of the passengers.
"Anne, do you know where we are going as I wasn't sure."
"Don't worry Coco. When Jenny asked me yesterday, I checked it out on the map. But I want to go round the kiosks on Shek O Beach to get a bottle of mineral water first, if that's alright with you. Who know, we may catch them having breakfast there."
"Sure, I think I should get a bottle for myself."
We followed the crowd to a string of tin huts by the beach front, selling anything from sandwiches, noodles, to suntan oil and huge inflated crocodiles. We got our bottled water but there was no sign of Ivy, Jenny or whoever else was supposed to be coming.
"If they are not here, then they must be down on that little hideaway beach by now. Let's surprise them." Anne grinned mischievously.
"Yeah, let's give them a fright... for leaving us behind."
We retraced the short distance from Shek O Beach past the bus stop. Anne took a right turn at a small gap on the roadside then down a footpath to Rocky Bay Beach to find it deserted. We stepped precariously round the rocky sea edge for another 15 minutes or so towards the nameless beach on the map, right below the cliff of the Country Club golf course.
We kept our approach dead silent, intending to scare the hell out of the rotten lot who left without us. As we sneaked around the last corner, however, we were both surprised and disappointed to find our destination, a small secluded stretch of sand and pebble beach surrounded by scrubs, also deserted.
"Where the hell are they?" Anne and I echoed together.
"May be they all chickened out!" Anne looked around and said after a while.
"Now what?"
I suddenly felt embarrassed at our predicament. Now, Anne and I had to decide whether we went ahead skinny-dipping with just the two of us, or chicken out like the others.
"Well, what do you think?" Anne asked.
I could hear the hesitation in her voice. Her cheeks were once again flushed.
"Well, do you want to do it Anne? Or..."
"When Jenny told me about it yesterday, I said right away that I didn't want to come. She really talked me into it. Then I thought, as you all labelled me the good-girl-at-school, may be I should really try something bad just once. It seems a crazy idea, but is such a big challenge for me. If I don't do this now, I don't think I ever shall. Well, I'm not really sure though." She looked nervously around the deserted beach.
I wanted to get the hell out. Yet, I had an urge to help Anne fulfil her challenge, to be bad for just this once.
"Hey, this may be fun. Since we are here already, why don't we at least give it a try."
"And this stays just between the two us, right?"
"Goes without saying." And we hooked our little fingers to seal the pact.
Anxiously, we scanned around checking carefully that there was no one spying on us, not from behind the scrubs, not from the cliff top and not from out there in the sea. Then awkwardly we turned our backs to each other to disrobe. I had never gone starker before anyone, not since I was five or six anyway. Oh God! Just thinking about it, Anne had such an attractive body. I would look awful naked beside her.
Nervously, I pulled the polo shirt over my head. I hesitated a few seconds and looked around some more to check if we were really alone, finding that Anne was doing the same. Our eyes met momentarily before we turned our backs at each other again in awkward silence.
With shaky hands, I reached behind my back to unclip the bra. And I felt so insecure when it became loosened. I took a deep breath but that didn't help calming my nerve at all. When I shrugged off the white cotton bra, I was shaking like a leaf! But once that was out of the way, there was really no turning back. Quickly, I dug my thumbs inside the elastic waistband of my denim mini-skirt and lowered it together with my pair of plain cotton knickers to my ankles. Stepping out of them on the pebble beach I quickly stuffed them into my tiny satchel. I had never felt so nervous before!
Gingerly, I turned around to find that Anne still had her back to me. Like me, she was now stitchless but was busy arranging her things into her chic little sports bag. Looking at her naked backside made me even more uncertain about the whole thing. She looked so slender and sexy, just like a fashion model.
"Are your ready, Coco?"
Anne said as she turned and caught me ogling at her. I felt like a thief getting caught. She blushed then said something out of character but which ultimately made sense.
"Well, we may as well give each other a good once all over and get it out of the way."
So that was exactly what we did!
Anne had fair skin showing a healthy glow of pink under the sun. Her small breasts were very perky jutting out high on her chest, A-cups I guessed, with the top curvatures slopping slightly inward and capped by taut and up-tilted deep red nipples. I couldn't help but compared hers with my bowl-shaped B-cups, silver dollar pale brown areolas and now equally erect nipples. We were both so nervous yet terribly excited to find ourselves naked in the open air, under the glaring tropical sun. Hers was nicely shaped but mine's bigger. Round One, I think it was a draw.
My gaze fell on her slender waist, concave on the sides but curved alluringly over her slim hips, her tummy was taut and flat. Her waistline would be 22" at most compared to my 24" with baby fat! Even her belly button looked so cute and sexy! Her pubes was a neat silky black triangle, just large enough to hide her intimate bits while mine was really sparse leaving virtually nothing to the imagination. I always thought that I looked gross down there. So, Round Two to Anne.
My eyes travelled southward to admire her long-stemmed legs, slim at the thighs and shapely at the claves. She must be at least 5'5" and I only 5'2". Standing next to her I seemed to have short fat legs. There was really no competition.
"You win, Anne!" I conceded.
"What? Are you kidding? Coco, you are so gorgeous and in such great shape while I am just too skinny,"
