I lift my head sleepily off the pillow as I sorta kinda open my eyes and fumble around to turn off the alarm. I must be nuts setting my alarm for practically the crack of dawn on a freakin Saturday! I don’t have to go to work or dance rehearsal or run errands or train or take care of important business. No, my reason for getting up so early is personal and yeah maybe a bit selfish. See, I have a special day planned, I’m gonna do absolutely nothing but relax and re energize at the pool! I’m gonna just lie out on a lounger in my special pink cabana, the best one poolside – the one you have to make a reservation for because it’s so in demand – and I got my reservation in just in time.
After a quick shower and an even quicker light breakfast, I head over to the pool wearing my favorite blue and white print bikini under my white silk kimono with the scarlet dragon on the back. The sun is already shining brightly in the clear blue cloudless sky. My hair, still slightly damp from the shower but drying quickly in the heat of the day, is pulled back in a tight ponytail. My pool bag, filled to the brim with everything I’ll need for my day of self-pampering, is slung over my shoulder.
I step out onto the deck ready to claim my cabana and suddenly stop short. I’m not alone, not the first one here. A blonde got here before me and what the hell? The bitch hijacked my cabana!! I look at her closely, she’s wearing sunglasses like me, but her face is familiar, so is that body, I’m positive I know her. Yeah, right, it’s Erin. Erin Lee. We sort of have a history, we’ve bumped into each other a few times, traded snarky comments and insults and came real close to ripping into each other at a Halloween costume party last year. Well if she doesn’t move her bum out of my cabana I’ll be ripping into her today!
I move toward her to confront her as she steps out of the cabana with a drink in her hand – my frozen fruit cocktail – but before I even have time to call her a bitch, she bumps her shoulder into mine as I’m in mid stride. I drop my bag as I stumble dangerously close to the pool. Erin continues walking past me with a little smile on her face and her hips and butt swaying. I keep my balance saving myself an unplanned drenching. Furious, I follow her as she settles down on the lounger – my lounger – and unclasps her top. I pull off my kimono, toss it on my pool bag and kick off my flip flops as I get near. Her eyes are closed and her tan body is already protected with sun block. All the sun block in her bag won’t protect her from me! I lift up my right leg and poke Erin roughly in her side with my toes. “Even though you bumped into me on purpose,” I hiss, “I’ll forget that if you get yer ass off my lounger and out of my cabana!” I lower my foot and stand over her, hands on my hips, legs spread slightly. “Or do I have to drag you out by yer ratty blonde hair?!”
