This choice: Given to a tiny-hater for safekeeping. (CONTINUED IN PART 2) • Go Back...Chapter #7Hanna Lends a Hand by: matthias   (Chapter originally written by worstfailure)
Selena cleared her throat. "Actually, uh, I'm sure Hanna would love to take Matt off your hands, Mari. It will keep him out of harm's way, and he can spend time talking with her. She's nice...enough."
Mari raised an eyebrow. "Hanna's nice? We talking about the same Hanna here?"
Hanna, in the middle of climbing up onto the lifeguard chair, flipped her middle finger at Mari. Mari stuck out her tongue at the shorter girl.
Selena rolled her eyes. "Okay, yeah, Hanna is gonna Hanna, but my idea makes sense, right? Plus, it lets us focus fully on the battle. Let's face it, if you want any chance of beating me, you'll need to be one-hundred-percent committed to this contest."
Selena could see the instant her words sunk in, and Mari's competitive nature began heating up. Your girlfriend smirked at her diving rival. "Oh, that right, Morrow? Okay, fine. Let me hand Matt off, and then you're going down."
"You're out of your league, Fuertes." Selena grinned from ear-to-ear as she walked off towards the ladder leading up to the high dive.
Eyes locked on Selena, Mari didn't even look back down at you before she tossed you up towards the general direction of the lifeguard chair, and then she ran off to join her rival. The two girls were fully entering their own competitive states of mind at this point, and it was obvious all the rest of the world was going to start blurring for them.
Not that you yourself were immediately noticing this, as you were too busy pinwheeling through the air from Mari tossing you like a ragdoll.
With a soft 'slap' you finally crash landed from Mari's toss...right onto the slick lycra fabric of a one-piece bikini. You'd landed directly on Hanna's perky left breast, squishing slightly upon impact, but not enough to stop yourself from craning your neck up to look at Hanna's face.
She was staring right down at you, pure disgust in her eyes.
You hastily tried picking yourself up. "I-I'm so sorry, Miss Hanna. I-I didn't--" Your excuses cut off as you slipped and face-planted right into her breast again, the girl's soft chest simply too slippery to stand upon.
The distaste nearly dripped from her mouth as she spoke. "Shut up, bug." Hanna groaned as she peeled you from her breast and flicked you down onto the little armrest table with roughness. She watched you lazily as you picked yourself up and dusted yourself off. "What kind of messed up mind control do you have over Mari? Are you gaslighting her? Blackmailing her?"
You gaped. "What? No! None of that! Mari and I love each other!"
"Psh, maybe." Hanna scoffed. "But Mari's obviously settling. She's with you because...what was it she said to me? She said something like 'oh, we've been dating forever, Matt's really great to me'." Hanna tapped her chin. "I think her next sentence was 'I just wish he would stop disappearing on me, it gets lonely...and a little old'.
"Mari would never say that!" You exclaimed, starting to get heated at this irritating lifeguard.
"She totally did, bug. Guess your vanishing acts are wearing on her patience. Well, it's a good thing Mari's got Selena waiting in the wings, huh? All she needs now is the right push, and she'll fall into Selena's arms. God knows Selena 'Falls to Pieces Around Mari' Morrow has been waiting long enough to make a move!"
You were fuming at this point. "They. Are just. Friends!"
"God, you're dense! There's nothing a little freak like you can do to satisfy Mari that Selena can't do a million times better." Hanna began smirking. "And, I mean, Mari's the one who tossed you away without even talking to you, so she could chase after Selena faster. Plus, haven't you noticed how often Mari stops to stare at Selena? Those two are head over heels for each other. Doesn't look like a little bug like you can compete from where I'm sitting." Selena's shit-eating grin was infuriating.
You were furious at the direction this conversation was going...even as some of Hanna's points were hitting a lot closer to home than you'd ever admit. You weren't blind to how Mari stared at Selena a second longer than she should. You knew that Mari sometimes would act standoffish for a day or two after you'd return from being lost for a month or so. You'd also thought about how little it felt like you could do to satisfy Mari on a sexual and even an emotional level. That sort of inferiority thinking wasn't a new experience for you. You'd wondered time and again if you deserved someone as incredible as Mari...or if she deserved someone closer to her level.
But to hear that from this sadistic girl? You refused to stand for it.
Yet, before you could speak, Hanna cut you off. "I'm one of Selena and Mari's best friends, and its been torture watching them play figurative footsie for years because Selena won't move in and Mari won't kick you to the curb. Well, bug, I'm done waiting. These two are on the cusp of getting together, and if there's a way for me to lend a hand and help them along while also dumping you into the garbage? I'm sure as hell taking it." Hanna leaned back in her seat. "But for now, shut up. They're about to start."
"You can't just--" You began, only for Hanna to roll her eyes and drop her water bottle onto your body, pinning and crushing you flat.
Up on the high dive, Selena couldn't quite see what was going on down in the lifeguards chair, but she saw Hanna smirking and talking animatedly at her arm rest, where you presumably were. The silver-haired girl winced. Technically, she'd been talking out of her ass by saying that Hanna would be okay babysitting Matt. Didn't Hanna hate tinies? Selena couldn't really remember. Truthfully, Hanna had just been a convenient way for Selena to get Matt out of the way for the afternoon.
Selena winced again. Get him out of the way? She didn't mean that...surely. Did she? Selena didn't really know what she wanted anymore. Well, she wanted Mari to hold and love and spend her life with, but Mari was taken already. Selena respected that, didn't she? She told herself she did, at any rate. Mari was just a friend...a ludicrously sexy friend Selena could never take her eyes off of. And this wasn't some sort of date, it was just two friends hanging out. Only friends, and only hanging out.
Of course, if Mari considered it a date, Selena wouldn't exactly say noooooo...
Selena shook her head, trying to snap her focus back into action. She was getting distracted. Complicated feelings about Mari came later. Beating and simultaneously impressing her crush with her diving skills came first.
The silver-haired girl picked at a small wedgie in her bikini bottoms, and then cast a look over her shoulder. A blush burned in Selena's cheeks as she realized the Brazilian beauty had been staring intently at Selena's wide booty, and a similar blush popped into Mari's cheeks when she realized she'd been caught. The two girls shared a brief, awkward laugh, and then Selena stepped aside across the diving board, allowing Mari to go first. Mari playfully bumped Selena's shoulder, then moved on before she could see the dumb smile that crossed Selena's face at her touch.
Mari executed another perfect front-flip into a dive, much to the applause of the crowd still gathered below. She emerged from the pool a moment later, and was given an 8.5 as her score by Hanna (earning a flick on the foot from Mari as a result). Hanna simply chuckled and explained she wasn't about to play favorites.
Mari was just about to notice that you seemingly weren't visible up on the armrest alongside Hanna, as all Mari could see was the other girl's water bottle, but right before she pointed anything out she heard the sound of the diving board creaking and flexing. Mari turned around immediately, all thoughts of you fleeing from her mind for the moment.
Mari watched in awe as Selena executed not one but two full front-flips before landing gracefully in the water below with a perfect dive, the gathered crowd screaming with enthusiasm. Mari loudly cheered and clapped too, not too proud in her competition against her diving rival to hold back on congratulating a truly excellent dive. Mari froze, however, upon watching Selena break the waves and resurface, the girl flipping her long hair out of her face and shaking water from her head as she bobbed over to the edge of the pool and pulled herself out.
Selena looked like some sort of aquatic goddess emerging from that pool, and Mari's voice caught in her throat. Blushing, she reigned her emotions in and chastised herself for reacting in such a way. What would Matt think if he saw her staring at Selena like that...wherever he was. For some reason, Mari couldn't exactly remember anymore.
Obviously, Hanna have Selena 10 points for the dive.
Selena sauntered past Mari, bumping the bronzed girl with her butt playfully. Mari smirked, falling back into her competitive mode she inherited from her mom. Racing past Selena, Mari tore up the ladder, ready for another jump or twenty. She was having a blast!
Meanwhile, you languished under Hanna's water bottle, begging the girl to at least let you free so you could watch Mari having fun. Alas, the girl seemed content to let you suffer...though little did you know Hanna was hardly resting on her laurels. Instead, Hanna was actively trying to plan out how she could make you suffer even more, and also get you out of the way of her two friends and their burgeoning love.
1) The competition ends thirty minutes later, and Hanna molds you into a towel shape and gives you to Mari for her to dry off. Oblivious, your girlfriend happily accepts.
2) The competition ends thirty minutes later, but a part of Mari's swimsuit has torn. Luckily, Hanna happens to have some Tinex on hand to make repairs. Tinex named Matt!
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