"I think she may be the first one of you guys to get lost in this place. I'm pretty sure I saw her wander towards the beach, but I'm not 100% Sorry Ms. Holmes." Malcolm lied smoothly.
                              
"Ok, I'll go check for her. Thanks Mr. V!" Kim waved goodbye brightly and Mal closed the door.
                              
Alice popped her head back up from behind the bed to see Malcolm leaning against his own door, chuckling softly. "Too close." he said, looking up at her, his eyes dancing with lust and good humour. She stood up from behind the bed, torn tank top in her hands, peasant skirt set onto the bed. Her bra was part way back on and she turned her back to him.
                              
"Hook me up?" She asked, figuring to get a move on since they'd already almost been caught and had only been here for two hours now. Malcolm's heat radiated into her back so she knew he was close.
                              
"Now why would I want to do that?" he asked, lips brushing her shoulder as his hands crept around to pull the offending garment away.
                              
"Mal we really..." Alice tried to object but he shut her up with a kiss. They were more conscious of the time, but it was still another thiry minutes until Alice got to sneak out of his hut in her torn tank top and make a mad dash around to the stairs of her own hut to dive inside.
                              
Whomever she was rooming with was a heavy packer. There was a massive luggage set at the foot of one bed, Alice's own small luggage already set on her side. She dove into the pack and switched out her clothes for a bathing suit, remembering the lie told to Kim. She yanked on the suit and pulled her skirt back on over it, loosing the running shoes in favour of flip flops. Then she was back outside and running down the stairs only to physically run into Butch.
                              
With a thud of unprepared bodies smacking into each other at the base of a flight of wood stairs, Alice and Butch both took a moment to recover. "You're not dead." Butch stated calmly.
                              
"And you're not fluffy." Alice replied, not understanding his comment. Butch grunted and helped pull her to her feet.
                              
"Kim was worried you'd gone off and disappeared." Butch stated simply.
                              
"I'm sorry. I realized I'd never been in the ocean before so I ran out to the beach. I only planned to go for a quick swim, but that tide sure pulls you up the beach." Alice lied quickly. Butch just nodded like this made complete sense. He walked with her back towards the lounge area where her friends had gathered. Students were surrepitiously getting cocktails at the bar while the three chaperones kept a weather eye on the lot of them. She saw Malcolm go a little pale and gulp when he spotted her walk in and smirked.
                              
Alice had bought a black one piece bathing suit that was a few scraps of fabric away from being a string bikini. It was a dark purple colour, rich against her skin tone and the bottom was low enough that it showed off her hip bones and almost all of her tattoo. The only reason she wasn't rocking the plummer crack was the aformentioned scraps of fabric. One connected the bottom of the suit to the top in the back, the other copied a thin line up the front. Alice had kept her skirt low with the swimsuit and now the bottom of it brushed the floor as she walked. She knew it had to look startling, all that skin and ink exposed after she'd spent the last few months hiding it away. But Ace had never looked at her tattoos as ugly, even though they covered up scars. It was just how she'd gotten used to looking by now. Unfortunately a lot of her male classmates seemed to suddenly realize that she wasn't hard on the eyes and they started to drift over to try and talk to her. She actually curled her lip at one of the mouth-breathing jock-letes that was panting after her until West casually walked over and slung his arm over her shoulders.
                              
Since the student body hadn't figured out if West and Alice were together or just best friends, West's intervention gave her some space, but not if these guys could try and get her alone from the looks of it. "Remind me how your gender has survived this stage of its evolution to reach maturity?" Alice asked her friend, a little amazed at how corny, stupid, insulting and downright LAME some of hte pick up lines were.