Chapter 19

Last seen: Emma Graham, Amanda Peters, Elizabeth Patrick, and Nicky Woods (seniors of Patricia Loyalton School for Girls) sunbathing in St. Barts, topless. Nearby, their male equivalents from Kingston School for Boys played beach volleyball with a few other teenage boys they had met.

Look ... Emma dropped the magazine onto the middle of the table where the girls were sitting outside next to the beach bar, eating lunch. She had just picked it up at the resort's connection-to-the-world-outside-this-resort-and-St.-Barts store.

They found us? Elizabeth joked, and stuffed another bite of her chicken caesar salad into her mouth.

She nodded, Yep.

At least the little squares of other colors were blotting out their boobs.

Nicky's polished-right-before-she-left-by-Juliet-of-the-Aveda-Salon-and-Spa fingers plucked the magazine off the table. It was three days into their vacation, and the girls were already browned from their tanning and their Lance'me or Estee Lauder self tanning lotions. They had downed on-the-rocks or blended alcoholic or fruity beverages, flirted with the resort's workers, flirted with the other seniors who were there with their families, partied it up like mad in town, and then spent the entire day after sunbathing and sleeping with huge Emma Spade, Gucci or Chanel sunglasses on. She needed a taste of the real world.