‘You’re so full of shit’ Bette shook her head and laughed as she spoke the words, rewarding Tina with a smile that could melt the polar ice caps if only she was a little further from the equator.

Bette shut her eyes tight against the sun as she let her head drop back down.

Tina made her way around the pool to where Bette lay

‘God I can literally feel myself baking‘

‘Yeah, I was just about to hop in to the pool, I like to wait til I’m really feeling the burn before I cool off.’

‘Well before you do can you grease me up?’ Tina  mischeviously held out a bottle of tanning oil to Bette who had sat up properly.

‘Well when you put it like that how could I resist?’ Bette replied sarcastically, though she couldn’t keep the smile playing at her lips from betraying her.

‘Not all of us were blessed with flawless mocha skin – some of us have to work a little harder to get that ‘MTV glow”.

‘Tee, this stuff doesn’t make you glow it makes you shiny and sticky and for the record once this stuff is lathered on you, no part of my body will be coming in contact with yours’

‘Uh huh‘ Tina raised an eyebrow.

‘What?’ Bette could always be baited with a carefully timed eyebrow-raise.

‘You say that now… But the sight of me stretched out on a chair, sun beating down on my golden, glistening skin my hair cascading down my shoulders with a single bead of sweat rolling down my chest will be too much for you to bear’ She teased

‘Where do you come up with this shit? Reading all those movie scripts makes you spout such crap‘

‘You love it! Now shut up and let’s get greasy!’ As the final word escaped from her perfectly formed mouth she let her bottom lip fall so Bette could get a good look at her bottom row of teeth, accompanied byanother perfectly executed eyebrow raise. A moment later Tina was lying on her stomach, stretched out and ready to feel Bette’s magical hands on her skin. Her bathing suit was a white one piece, the top bandeau attached to the bottom by a thin strip running down her front, so from where Bette stood it looked like a tiny white Bikini.