(continued from Lauren's Story - Chapter 8)...

She walked back to the group, who was doing their best to pick on Lauren but she was feeling pretty good at this point. She smiled the entire time it took for the next match to take place. Finally, it was their turn. They were going against the student group. Lauren jumped into the mud on the court and started directing the other ladies where to stand. She was playing to win. The mud was getting a little bit drier so it was a little bit easier in places to move around. She spent the game setting up Marie and Stephanie for winning shots and soon the game was over, 15-5.
Again, everyone was pretty well covered except for Lauren and Marie. Lauren was getting ready to repeat her earlier dive when Marie grabbed her arm. "Stop, we are about to start another game, the finals."
And sure enough, they had made it to the finals. The ref ordered everyone off the court as the sun had started to dry much of the court. A couple teenagers came over with hoses and sprayed down the court, ensuring the mud was good and messy before the final match. They even got in the mud with rakes to make sure it was mixed and muddy all the way through.
Their opponent in the finals was a group from the local car manufacturer plant. It was a team of all guys, that didn't look to be in great shape. But somehow they had made it to the finals. Lauren had wished that she had scouted their game from earlier.
They got into the mud and Lauren pulled them together for a team huddle. It felt like high school volleyball season again. She started to bark out some orders when Stephanie spoke up, "these guys were the ones whistling at us earlier, and later. Lauren and Marie, you guys take the lead on volleyball. Donna and Sarah, you work with me on distracting them."
All of the ladies smiled and broke the huddle. They had the first serve and as Lauren got ready to serve, the distraction part of team walked up to the front line of the formation and unbuttoned the next two buttons on their blouses, which now had the top three buttons undone, fully showing off their wet and muddy bras and breasts. And sure enough, Lauren served and the guys were distracted, barely making contact with the ball.
Lauren got the ball back and as she got ready to serve, Sarah grabbed a handful of mud and flung it at Donna's open blouse. Donna let loose a high pitched scream and Lauren served the ball. Again the men were pulled immediately to Donna's chest and it was another point for the ladies.
There was some talk amongst the guys that they needed to focus, but Sarah later swore that a couple of them said they were focused, on what was important, the ladies.
Lauren got the ball back and this time Donna grabbed a big handful of mud, walked over to Sarah and pushed the mud right into her top, onto her breasts. Lauren didn't even wait for Sarah's yell, she just served the ball. 3-0 for her team.
The laughter from the girls must have woken up the guys and at that point the distractions stopped working. They started to actually compete. They weren't great but they quickly made it a competition. The score went back and forth, with the girls always keeping a slight lead. The score was 14-13, with the guys serving. Marie turned and looked at Lauren, she put up 2 fingers and while no one else knew what that meant, Lauren remembered the play from her club volleyball days. Stephanie saw the signal and decided to signal to Sarah and Donna as well. She waved at them and then pushed her hands down. Lauren had no idea what that meant, but there was no time to discuss strategy.
The serve went up in the air, and Lauren made her move. She ran to the front of the net, while Marie moved to receive the ball. At the same time, Donna and Sarah dropped to their knees in the mud. Stephanie looked confused as she was starting to push her pencil skirt down to show off her panties. Jasmine just stood there taking in everything that was happening.
Marie got to the ball and set it for Lauren to hit. Meanwhile, Sarah and Donna started grabbing handfuls of mud and started spreading it all over the front of their blouses (and underneath). The ball came to Lauren and she tapped it up high for Marie, who was running toward then net. Everyone in attendance, including those in the game, had their eyes on Marie as her blouse buttons came undone when she spiked the ball down onto the other side of the net. Match point.
Marie was immediately embarrassed and quickly buttoned her blouse back up. Stephanie quickly pulled her skirt back up and everyone huddled together and yelled in celebration. They walked over to the net and shook hands with the guys from the other team. They got several comments about them "playing dirty" and a few I'd like to have a drink with you later comments but they were nice enough overall.
The ref handed the ladies their trophy with a bag of gift cards and the photographer asked for another picture. They stood in a line with Lauren holding the trophy when Lauren remembered the costume contest. "Oh girl, that was just what they told you. Everyone thought it would be funny. There was no award for best costumes." Jasmine said.
All of the ladies laughed, while Lauren just sighed for the picture. She then yelled out to the photographer, "Wait! I want one more staged photo." And she walked over to the photographer with the trophy to explain what she wanted. The photographer laughed and agreed with Lauren's idea. Lauren walked back to the group stopping in front of them a few feet to place the trophy in the mud.
She told everyone to stand in a line facing the photographer. While she was talking to the team the photographer had grabbed the two teens who had wet down the court earlier. The teens turned on the hoses and started spraying water in the area between the trophy and the line the ladies had formed. "When I count to three, we all jump head first into the mud like I did after the first game. Ready?"
Everyone was surprised by Lauren's orders but they laughed and all agreed to the outlandish request.
"3...2...1!"
And at once they all dove forward head first into the mud. "Everyone crawl over to the trophy!" Lauren shouted.
A few moments later there were 6 mud covered heads placed all around the trophy they had just won. Pictures were taken and the moment was forever recorded into history.
They walked over to the shower and took turns rinsing off under the cold water. Everyone was smiling and there were significantly less people around at this point. Which was probably better because Donna and Sarah had a lot of mud to get out of their bras.
As they dried off with the towels that Donna had brought, they headed back to the parking garage to go home. Everyone was ready to change clothes. "You know we will have to defend our title next year," Stephanie said.
"At least we can dress more appropriately, Jasmine said.
"I don't know, maybe getting dressed up is our bit, gives us an advantage," Marie said.
"It definitely was an advantage that last game," Sarah laughed.
When Lauren got back to her apartment, she closed the door, and peeled herself out of her clothes right inside the door. She was liked over to the trash can in the kitchen and dropped the clothes into it. "Time to go shopping..."