Love Match
The summer after we graduated high school, my best friend Cami and I decided to go travelling around Europe. Her parents and my parents agreed they weren't going to finance our wild summer of drinking and "who knows what," so we took our meager savings and said we'd rough it. If they had known what our poverty would get us into, they probably would have set up large bank accounts for both of us, and I wouldn't have this story to tell.
A tiny bit of background: Cami is my best friend from forever. We met in third grade and went all through school together in a wealthy suburb. (I'm going to be a little vague about some details, since I don't want to get anyone into trouble, especially me.) Cami is the big one. She just kept growing. She's 5'10" and 140 pounds, in a package you'd probably call voluptuous. She has big firm tits and curvy hips, but she keeps it all in shape with an hour-long killer workout six days a week. Her hair is naturally light brown, almost blond, and the highlights are blond, but not natural. She's got the fair skin of her Viking heritage. Her eyes are blue green, wide and laughing. She's the instigator, and she almost always gets her way.
I'm the little one, 5'4" and 110 pounds. My tits are about a handful, where Cami's are more than two hands and a mouthful. (If you're wondering how I know, we'll get to that.) My name is Jeanette, but Cami calls me Jen. I work out, too, though not as savagely as Cami. I've got more of a model's build but not tall, kind of petite, with a face to match. I have dark brown hair and brown eyes from my father's French ancestors, and my skin turns a creamy shade of mocha when I get in the sun. I'm a little quieter and more reserved than Cami, which isn't saying much. It's fun when we walk down the street together. Guys don't know which of us they want to look at first.
Anyway, we were getting shipped off to different snotty colleges in the fall, and we both wanted a summer of adventure before we settled down to that drudgery. We both went into it with a "try anything" attitude, although Cami has always been the crazy one.
We started out in Spain, intending to hit every beach and bar on the Mediteranean. We each had almost two thousand dollars to start with and we didn't know how far that would take us. It turned out not to be very far. We thought we'd stay in hostels and make our own meals instead of eating out in order to conserve funds, but that lasted about two days. As Cami put it: "Fuck this, I'm getting a hotel room." From then on, it was hotels and restaurants, and the money was gone in two weeks.
So there we were, broke in a little resort town on the beach. We didn't even have the money to change our return flights. It looked like our wild summer was going to be a short one, but Cami said, "No way."
One afternoon, we were sitting in the Paradiso, our favorite bar, a place on the beach where all the foreign kids hung out. Hector, the owner, was sitting with us. He was a big guy, under thirty, with long black hair, dark, dangerous eyes, flashing white teeth, and he was interested in Cami.
"We need to make some money," Cami told him. "How about we serve drinks here?"
"Sure," Hector grinned. "Fifty bucks a night and tips. Start at five, go till whenever."
We all knew what the tips were in that place, and the hours meant we'd be working all the time, just to make enough money stay there and work some more -- not the summer of fun and adventure we had in mind.
Cami said, "Fuck that. There's got to be a better way."
"Sure," Hector grinned again. Then he told us about a girl from the summer before who offered to wait tables in the nude. She took home something like €1,000 a night, and Hector loved it. She packed the club on the nights she worked.
I was shocked.
"That's more like it," Cami said, "but it still sounds like a lot of work. How about if we just bring in the business and let the other girls carry the drinks?"
"Sure," Hector grinned. "Just tell me how."
"I'll think about it," Cami said.
It didn't take her long to think about it. About two minutes later she bounced up from the table and went to the bar to talk to Hector. I couldn't hear what they said but Hector grinned a lot. At one point, his eyes opened wide and he looked from her to me and back at her again.
"What did you tell him?" I asked nervously, when she brought fresh drinks to the table.
"My idea to bring in the business. I told him we'd do a wrestling match in sexy bikinis. He liked it. He guaranteed us 500 euros. If he breaks 10,000, he'll make it a thousand. Not bad, right? That'll keep us here for almost a week. At least it gives us some time before we're out on the street."
"But Cami ..."
"Come on, let's go out to dinner. We can afford a little celebration of our new independence. Right?"
I wasn't so sure about that.
She took me to a nice place on the beach and we had a great meal and a couple great bottles of wine, but I never quite got what it was we were going to do. Cami was vague.
"Oh, you know, just wear our bikinis and throw each other around a little. It'll be fun."
"Hector's going to pay us 500 euros for that?"
"Don't worry. We're going to make it a thousand."
"Who's going to pay that much to watch that?"
"You'll be surprised," she said.
When we left our hotel for the Paradiso, we walked along the beach. The little waves washed over the sand with a soft shushing sound, and the sky was speckled with stars.
"This is so cool," Cami said. "For once, we get to see what it's like to earn our way. If our parents they knew about this, they'd shit."
If I'd known what she signed us up for, I probably would have too.
I wore my lime green bikini under a tank top and short linen skirt. Cami wore outrageous, low-cut, skin-tight jeans and a tube top. Her large, springy breasts moved beautifully and freely beneath the thin spandex. When we got to the Paradiso, it was crowded. Somehow, we found a table and Hector came over to serve us personally. He brought our drinks, sat down and flashed his devilish grin at Cami.
"You girls ready?"
"We're ready," Cami nodded eagerly.
Apparently I didn't get a vote.
"It's all set," Hector said, pointing to the small stage where he had local bands perform some nights. "I'll get Mina to announce you in a couple minutes."
I saw one of those inflatable kiddie pools taking up half the stage. Instead of water, it seemed to have about three inches of something red and shiny in it -- Jello. I suddenly realized how we were going to bring in the business, and it sobered me up quick.
"Cami," I whined, "I don't know about this."
"Come on. It'll be fun."
I didn't get much time to think about it. We barely had a chance to gulp down our drinks before Mina, who runs the place for Hector, got up on stage with a microphone. I noticed how the bar had filled in. Now it was packed right out onto the terrace in front. I guess word got around about the pool of Jello on the stage. They were waiting for the show and greeted Mina with hoots and applause as Cami pulled me up on stage beside her.
"Yeah, yeah,"Mina said to quiet them, "I love you too, and we've got a special show for you tonight. These two beautiful, athletic young girls have agreed to wrestle for the title of Champion of the Paradiso. Hector will be your referee, something even he should be able to handle, since there are no rules. With these two, we're expecting a wild free-for-all, and who knows how it will end. But now, let me introduce our lovely combatants. First, we have Killer Cami, conqueror of the continent."
Cami raised her arms over her head and shook her boobs under their thin tube top skin, grinning at the audience, which looked to be about a hundred or more. They raised a commotion, banging on the tables, shouting and whistling. Drunk and disorderly in about 14 languages, they were an intimidating bunch, much too up close and personal for my comfort.