“Welcome back to The Jamie Jax Morning Show! Today I have the pleasure of talking to two of the stars of Netflix’s hit series, ‘Outer Banks’, Chase Stokes and Rudy Pankow” Jamie Jax introduced as the two co-stars smiled next to each other. “Happy to be here” Chase added. “Yeah, what he said” Rudy tacked on. “So, I know you guys are excited about the newest season of Outer Banks coming out very soon. What’s your favorite part about shooting the show?” Jamie asked. “Oh, uh probably just getting to hang out with everyone on set. We’ve kind of become a big family” Chase answered with his usual boy-next-door grin. “I really like the beach; North Carolina is beautiful and it’s hard to beat the places we get to film” Rudy answered.

“He likes the ocean more than people” Chase teased, getting a chummy shove from the blonde. “Haha well you two seem to be good friends. I actually remember seeing a video a while back where Rudy was filming himself and Chase made the mistake of having his feet propped up…” the interviewer explained, making Chase a bit squirrelly in his chair. “Oh you mean when I tickled his feet?” Rudy questioned with a brighter smile than before toward his buddy. “It’s not my fault we’re always barefoot on the show” Chase tried to add. “You’re the one always propping your feet up; you’re just asking for it, dude” Rudy laughed before reaching over and stealing Chase’s boot right off his foot resting on his knee.

“Hey!” “Come on, we can give them a demonstration” “Don’t start something you can’t finish! I know your spots too” Chase warned, convincing Rudy to laughingly give up his attack and return Chase’s shoe. “We almost had our first Jamie Jax Morning Show tickle fight!” Jamie laughed. “Don’t encourage him” Chase added before they started on a few more questions to finish out the interview.

After the interview on the North Carolina talk show, Rudy and Chase embarked on the mini vacation they’d been planning for a couple weeks. Rudy wasn’t joking about enjoying the beaches and vibe of their shooting locations during the interview; so much so that they were headed back to one of the beaches to camp out for the weekend. Rudy drove his jeep along the coastline while a local radio station played and Chase relaxed in the passenger seat with his tan size 9s resting out the window. “Careful putting your feet out like that; somebody might come by and give them a lick” Rudy teased. “Yeah right” Chase laughed before the light turned green and they drove on down to the spot they’d reserved for the weekend.

Considering it was still early spring, the beach wasn’t crowded at all but was just warm enough to enjoy it like they did during the summer. They put up the tent after some trouble with the directions and tossed their sleeping bags inside before pulling out the cooler and opening two beers but Chase stopped short of giving Rudy his. “What’s wrong?” “I think we forgot to stake down that one corner” Chase pointed out. “Shit, how did we miss that?” Rudy questioned before walking over to fix it, leaving footprints behind him now that his boat shoes were sitting beside the tent.

Chase watched and quietly sat the beers down as Rudy knelt down on the sand on both knees to situate the corner of the tent. The mischievous brunette crept closer without tipping off his friend and when Rudy reached further to stake down the tent, Chase quickly used another set of roped stakes and planted one on either side of Rudy’s ankles. “What the hell!? What did you do??” Rudy asked before he could even tell what’d happened, knowing Chase’s laugh was enough to tell him something was up. “You started this, bro” Chase pointed out before pouncing on the wrinkled soles.

“AHAHNNOOAaoh! GgEETTOoOFFAhAH!!” Rudy had no choice but to erupt with sudden laughter once Chase’s eager fingers were scurrying all over his bare feet. “Good thing we left these stakes with the rope in the bag from our last camping trip” Stokes teased while Rudy struggled to keep his balance on his knees. Rudy’s 11’s could barely move with the rope across the back of his ankles, forcing the 25 year old to suffer every stroke of Chase’s attack as he happily wrecked the trapped pair. “CcoOmMeEoOoNNN!” “You’re the one who tried to tickle me on TV: this is payback!” Chase announced with a devious smile, thankful the sand was just damp enough to hold the stakes in place for his revenge plan.

“HhhEEbBbRoOuUuGGhHTTiiITTuUpP AAsShHOoLllEEE!” Rudy pointed out in hopes of persuading Chase to give up his mission but he had no such luck. All he could do was try and swat his hands away or grab his wrists but he quickly realized how little focus or control over his limbs he had while being tickled so much. Chase looked like this was what he’d come to the beach for instead of the camping trip, grinning from ear to ear as he scribbled up and down the sandy soles and even laughing along with Rudy at how loud he got. “I told you I knew your spots…I’m bringing this up the next interview we do so people know I’m not the only guy on the show with ticklish feet” Chase explained as Rudy lost his balance and fell over onto his stomach. “AALLRRiIGGhHTTYYyoOuUWWIIiINN!!” the younger star submitted to hopefully persuade him to give up his crusade but Chase was having too much fun to give into a surrender now.

“No way, you’re not getting off that easy” Chase refused before sitting across the back of Rudy’s ankles to anchor his knees on either side and really go to town on the lean, smooth feet. “AHAhNNNOAOoHAOHA!! CCChHAAASSEE!!” Rudy shouted with newfound hysteria once he felt all ten nails raking along both feet, leveling up the attack in one swoop. “I think you might be more ticklish than me actually” Chase laughed while dominating the captive feet and Rudy floundered on the sand with embarrassingly heavy laughter.

“GGEETTooOOFFF!!” Rudy tried to convince the best he could but Chase couldn’t seem to get enough of torturing his friend. He knew Chase could be playfully evil, hell everybody on the cast knew, but he’d never really been the sole focus of his wrath until now.

“CCcoOOmMmEEoOoONNN!” Rudy soon let out with more fire than before and reached back one good time to catch Chase’s t-shirt and pull him backwards. “Woah!” Chase fell onto the sand next to Rudy and the disheveled blonde quickly reached back again to yank the roped stakes off his ankles and free his feet. “Oh my God that was hilarious” Chase laughed as he sat up but Rudy wasn’t laughing. “Come on, I was just messing around” Stokes added but Rudy just stood up and brushed himself off. “I didn’t even actually tickle you today” Rudy pointed out. “But you were going to. I was just messing around; we’re even now” “Fuck that.

I’m gonna walk around” Rudy announced with obvious frustration before leaving with his shoes in hand to roam the beach. “Rudy, don’t be like that, man” Chase tried to convince but figured maybe he had gone too far. He’d never tickled Rudy’s feet before. Maybe it was a line Rudy didn’t like crossed or something but Chase knew he never stayed mad for long; he’d be back soon enough.

Chas was right. Rudy came walking back around about an hour later but this time Chase wasn’t with the tent. “Where the hell did he go?” he asked just before his eyes wandered down the shore a little until he found Chase sitting on the small dock facing the opposite direction. “He probably found an ice cream stand somewhere” Rudy laughed just before an idea sprouted in his head, an idea that would actually make them even. Chase seemed to be in his own world on the short pier, indeed eating an ice cream cone and scrolling through his phone, oblivious to the small paddle boat gliding closer to him.

Rudy couldn’t hide the smile on his face as he floated under the dock unnoticed, surprised his plan was working so well but Chase’s bare feet dangled off the edge without a care in the world. Once he was close enough, Rudy grabbed the right ankle and launched onto his foot with his free hand. “AAhWhAATThHEEFfUUCCKK!?” Chase almost shrieked at the surprise and looked down to see Rudy now just barely in view. “Too slow!” Rudy teased as he scratched along the wide sole and really focused on his arch, knowing that to be a solid target. “aAAhAhSSERriIOoUSSlLYY?!” Chase challenged as he tried to pull his foot free but Rudy held on tight, not willing to lose his upper hand.

Chase’s other foot tried shoving Rudy’s hand off but he’d just deliver a quick tickle onto that one to scare it off before getting back to the right foot. “CCoOmMEEOOoNNMmAaNNN!! IimMGGOoNnAAFFAAlLliIINN!!” Chase complained as he bounced around on the dock. “Better hold on then” Rudy answered, not even a little concerned about Chase potentially taking a dip. Rudy was a casual tickler, not at that versed in dishing it out but he was a natural, easily keeping Chase howling up top and slamming his hands into the wooden pier. Chase dropped the rest of his ice cream cone in the water and Rudy laughed at how easy it was to drive him crazy, “Not the ice cream!” Rudy taunted as his fingers punished the supple sole, surprisingly smooth and picture-perfect despite going barefoot so often.

“FFuUuCCKkyYYoOUU!! JJuUSSTSSTToHohPP!” Chase tried to argue as he lost more and more control over his body. “I’m just returning the favor” Rudy assured before suddenly switching feet and turning up Chase’s volume even louder. “AAHAHANNoOAoAO!!” Stokes grabbed his stomach as his abs contracted from the uncontrollable laughter and Rudy proved how much of a mistake it was to have tickled him in the first place. “I think I’m gonna need to hear an apology” Rudy insisted just to make use of his newfound power. “AAHAOhNnOoOWWAayYY!!” Chase refused and immediately earned himself a harsher sentence from Rudy’s short nails clawing away at his gorgeous foot.

“AAAHAHSShHhiIIITAHAH! oOokoOOKKK!!” “Ok what?” “IIMmSSOOoRrRYYY!!” Chase shouted the best he could to satisfy Rudy’s vendetta but the tickling didn’t stop. Like Chase, Rudy realized how fun it was to torment his friend and didn’t want to let go despite the forced apology. “AAHACCoOoMmEEoOON! iIIsSaAIIiddIiIWWAAsSSoOoRrrYY!!” Chase tried to get through to Rudy but before he could persuade him, Chase lost his balance on the edge of the pier and slipped right off into the water. “Oh shit! I didn’t think you were actually gonna fall in!” Rudy laughed with a look of humored guilt as Chase came up from the water. “…you’re buying me another ice cream.”

The rest of the day went shenanigan-free. Chase and Rudy swam in the ocean a little, ate some amazing shrimp from a nearby restaurant, and Chase got his replacement ice cream cone before they turned in for the night in their tent. Without any real schedule to worry about, neither of them got up early and were happy to let the sound of the waves slowly wake them up. But as 10 a.m. rolled around, Rudy began to open his eyes and attempted to stretch his arms only to realize very quickly that something was stopping him. “Wha…what the hell?” Rudy asked as he fully came to and blinked a few times upon seeing his sleeping bag was zipped all the way up to his shoulders. Not just that, but there were a handful of bungee cords tied around him from his ankles to his chest, further keeping him from getting free.

“What the fuck is this?! Chase!” Rudy shouted as he writhed in the sleeping bag before Chase popped back in the tent. “Morning” “The fuck are you doing?!” “I told you we were even when I got you back yesterday but then you had to go and make us uneven with that stunt at the pier…so now, I’m settling the score” Chase explained as he sat down in front of Rudy’s bare feet sticking out the sleeping bag. “WHAT?! No way! I was getting you back! Undo this shit! Come on!” Rudy protested with fiery attempts to escape the sleeping bag trap but Chase had even added something to the zipper at the top and the one at the bottom to make sure Rudy couldn’t get loose.

“I guess you should’ve woken up before me” Chase teased as he sat the feet in his lap and prepared to have his way with Rudy’s perfect, narrow soles. “Dude! Seriously! Alright, we’re eveAHaoAohOahohOAh!” Rudy failed to finish trying to negotiate before Chase started spidering all over both feet. “I figured you might not be so ticklish first thing in the morning but I guess I was wrong” Chase laughed at Rudy’s almost energetic laughter as he tried to wiggle his way out of the sleeping bag and jerk his feet free. The Netflix heartthrob wasn’t usually big on concentrating on one area to tickle but considering he had such an easy target, he began to focus on specific spots to see how Rudy reacted.

Chase’s nails soon isolated to the balls of both feet and Rudy instantly tried to fight back with his toes but Stokes just laughed and kept going unfazed, now scratching along the satin balls with direct, harsh drags. “AAohAOHASsSHHiIIiTTMmAAaAANN!! SSTToHoHOHPP!!” Rudy demanded with his own laughter breaking up his outrage. Chase got a major kick out of watching and listening to Rudy lose his shit, typically the more reserved one of the two of them, but Rudy didn’t have much of a choice but to laugh his head off in his mummified position.

“What about the arches? They look nice and sensitive…” Chase suggested before relocating to the pale arches and unleashing his nails again with long strokes that he knew would’ve driven himself crazy too. “NNNoOAhoAHOFFuUuCCkkAHAHa! GGeETTToOOOFFFmMyyYFFEEEETT!!” Rudy tried to dispute but there was no getting through to the 30 year old trickster. Chase’s fingers moved faster than they had the day before; perhaps it was the fact that Rudy’s feet weren’t wrinkled like they were the first time but the wild laughter in the tent illustrated just how horrible the tickle torture was for Pankow.

“CcHHAASSSEE!! FFuUuCckKiInNngGSSTTohOHOPP!!” Rudy raged as his head thrashed back and forth out the top of the sleeping bag but Chase only turned things up another notch when he suddenly jumped to the toes for a brutal blitz attack. Rudy’s eyes shot open and he leaned forward as if to see for himself what was happening but quickly fell back into a laughing, thrashing fit as Chase ravaged his long toes. “AAhAOhAOHAFFuUUUCCKkAOAH!! NNOONNOOAOhAOHA!!” “Ticklish toes too, huh?” Chase pointed out with a 3 for 3 score of sweet spots on his buddy’s handsome feet.

Rudy’s barely-tanned toes wiggled and flared out in distress as Chase scratched and spidered across both rows with a more chaotic technique than moments earlier, as if to create a tornado of tickling up and down Rudy’s tender toes that he could never get used to. His big toes were far fatter than the rest of them and unfortunately for Rudy, that made them better targets for Chase and his devilish fingers as he grabbed both with one hand to anchor them together and started scratching along just the pads of Rudy’s big toes.

“AAAAHAHAWWhhAATTThHEEFFUuuUuCCKK!?! LLLLEETGGoOOoOfFmMYYTToOoEESSS!!” Rudy roared with high-pitched yelps escaping every few seconds from such a sinister twist. “This is fucking great” Chase laughed while focusing on the juicy toes with short, relentless scratches of his nails in a simple back and forth motion that might as well have been crafted in some kind of torture technique class. “SSTtoHOhoHOpPPP!! EENnNOOoUuGGhHAHA!!” Rudy could barely get his words out as he squirmed in the sleeping bag and tried to shake his toes loose of Chase’s grip. “So am I a better tickler than you?” “HahAHAYYEESSS!!” “You sure?” Chase pressed without leaving the big toes. “AHAAYYYEEEESS!! yYoOoUuUURREEbBEEETTeERR!!” “That’s what I thought…but you know what’s better at tickling than I am? A feather” Chase explained as he finally spared the big, juicy toes and held up a white feather for Rudy to see.

“Are you serious right now?! Where did you even get that??” “It’s a seagull feather; I found it on the beach this morning. It kind of gave me the idea to do all this” Chase enlightened as Rudy tried to calibrate how worried he should be. Feathers only worked in cartoons, right? They didn’t actually tickle, not in real life. But Chase was happy to find out for the both of them when he started sweeping it along the undersides of Rudy’s left toes, making them only twitch at first, allowing Rudy to control his reaction better than he could before.

Chase watched Rudy’s face tighten up and his jaw clench the more he swept across his toes, soon drifting onto the right set to get the same restrained reaction but he wanted more than that. So, without warning Chase slipped the feather between two of Rudy’s left toes and Rudy jumped nearly a foot in the air with a hilarious yelp. “WWooAohTthEfucK!?” “I knew it!” Chase happily announced before sawing the feather between the same two smallest toes and forcing Rudy into another wild uproar. “SSHHIIitTAHAHASSTTOhohPPP!! SSTTOHOhOPP!!” “What happened? I thought you were holding it in” Stokes taunted with the feather still pulling back and forth until he moved onto the next space and got the same, electrified reaction.

“NNoOOhAOhOAHAA SSTtOoPPWWiIiTtthHhEEFFEeAAAThHEERR!!” Rudy shouted like he just couldn’t handle it but Chase just heard ‘keep going.’ He planted his free hand on the top of Rudy’s ankles to pin them in place more and started going down the line of the left toes with even more enthusiasm this time, finessing the simple feather between each of his rosy toes to keep his camping partner laughing than he’d ever heard him. Rudy’s toes tried to fight back but any attempt failed within a couple seconds once the feather was flossing between them, refusing to let Rudy be anything but on the defense as Chase started feathering his right toes

“CcCCoOmMMEEoOONN!! CChHAAAsSEEsSSTthOhOpPP!!” Pankow tried to persuade as he began to fear his right toes were worse than his left. “Oh man, I wish the rest of the guys were here to see this” Chase laughed at Rudy’s expense before slipping between the second and third toe of the right foot and getting a more unhinged outburst. “Oh shit! What was that??” Chase asked before immediately repeating the technique and making Rudy go ballistic in the sleeping bag. “NNOAoOAHANNOOAOhAOHAOAH!! CChHAAAASSEEE!!” Rudy practically screamed with the cruel feather sawing between the worst two toes it could’ve been but Chase looked like he’d struck gold; he wasn’t about to just move on.

Stokes’ took his other hand off Rudy’s ankles and used it to tickle the rest of his toes while he continued weaving the feather between the sweet spot, clawing along the undersides and the big toes again while the feather did its magic to help prove his tickle dominance over his co-star. But, as effective as Chase was, his method proved a little too good, soon attracting a nearby police officer patrolling the area.

The flap to the tent opened up and the man looked in like he didn’t know what to think, “…everything ok in here, boys? I thought I heard screaming…” “Everything’s fine, officer” Chase assured with an awkward smile as he dropped the feather and tried to look like he wasn’t tickle torturing his friend’s feet. “Yeah, we’re…all good” Rudy added as he caught his breath. “Alright…just try to keep it down” “Will do” Chase answered and the tent flap closed back up.

Rudy kicked him in the leg one good time and Chase laughed off the moment of anxiety, “I wasn’t about to try and explain that” Chase added. “I should’ve gotten him to arrest you for cruel and unusual punishment” “Oh yeah?” Chase challenged before scooping up Rudy’s feet again and grabbing the feather. “NO! I was kidding! Chase dontAHoAhoaOAH!!”

Rudy wasn’t released from the sleeping bag until he said every embarrassing thing Chase could think to make him admit but thankfully Rudy wasn’t as angry with Chase as he was the first time he’d tickled him. Perhaps a good night’s sleep had improved his mood. They even stopped by a local shop for lunch before heading back to the beach without any talk of the unusual wake up call at all, seemingly having moved on from the silly game of getting each other by the time they were relaxing on the sand enjoying the sun.

Chase sported a red set of short trunks that went up a few inches from his knees and Rudy wore a similar style but in blue, together almost looking like some kind of swimsuit ad as they tanned on the shore. They sat on one side of the tent to make sure they avoided anybody walking by and potentially recognizing them and it worked; in fact it was so peaceful that Chase fell asleep right there on the sand after only 30 minutes. Rudy sat up to ask him something and saw him totally knocked out, making him laugh at first but the random nap reminded him of how he’d woken up that morning, quickly convincing him that the opportunity to get Chase back was too good to pass up.

Rudy woke Chase up with a playful smack on his ass and the sun-kissed stud sprang to life with a jolt, “Hey!” “You must’ve been sleeping good” Rudy laughed as Chase began to realize he couldn’t move his arms or stand up. “What the hell, man?! Am I tied up right now??” Stokes questioned with growing frustration. “I almost forgot about those bungee cords in my car until you used them this morning on me. They’re gonna help me make us even again” Rudy explained, cluing Chase in on what was keeping his wrists behind his back and his knees and ankles tied together. He tried to roll over onto his front or yank his hands free but a quick flutter up Chase’s bare feet derailed his efforts. “AhaSShHiT! Come on! This is bullshit!” “Yeah right” Rudy laughed off before trapping the ankles between his knees and unleashing on his buddy’s defenseless soles.

“NnOOOoAhoHaoA!!” Chase went to squawking and jerking around on the sand almost instantly, putting another smile on Rudy’s thin face. “Where ya going?” Pankow teased as Chase squirmed and tried to get free but the green bungee cords held tight and kept his feet at Rudy’s mercy. Since they sat vertically to Rudy, he scribbled and scratched across both soft soles from a side angle, combatting any chance of Chase to use foot to block the other. “AhAHaFFuUuCCKK! RRuUDDyYYySSTToOHOHoPPP!!” Stokes shouted between his animated laughter, taken back by Rudy getting one over on him like this. “You look like a fish flopping on land when you thrash around like that” Pankow taunted while terrorizing the famous pair locked between his legs. Unbeknownst to Chase, the sun beating down on his soles while he tanned had left them a bright pink color and more sensitive than usual, intensifying every move Rudy made on them.

Rudy’s free-for-all soon transitioned into a more focused approach and he went after the balls and heels at the same time, using one hand for each as he clawed back and forth across both fantastic feet. “FFuUUCCkKHhAOhAOhA!! OOKOokKAOhAOHA SSTToHoHOHPP!!” Stokes howled harder than he ever anticipated with wide-eyed over-stimulation but Rudy’s fingers refused to slow down. Pankow knew he’d tied the ankles too tight to allow for much movement but he could tell Chase’s feet were still trying to fight him, “If you’re wondering why you can’t move your feet…there’s a rubber band around your big toes” Rudy happily pointed out. “AhAOhWWhhAATTTtHHEeFfuUuCCKkMmAAANN!?!” “I found it in the tent. You would’ve done the same to me if you would’ve thought about it” Rudy added while wrecking his friend’s feet as viciously as he wanted.

“YyYOouUuURREeAaAddDDiIiCCCKK!” Chase fired back as his own bubbly, deranged laughter got the better of him and Rudy indulged in the rare chance to tickle him without fear of immediate retaliation. “Alright, I won’t be a dick…I’ll be nice” Rudy announced a few minutes later once his nails stopped their mission to seemingly destroy Chase’s feet and he began massaging them a little. “Yeah…that’s better…I could use a foot rub” Stokes encouraged as he got his wits about him and rested on the sand. “Yeah, just relax” Rudy added while Chase caught his breath and welcomed the more pleasant development but as his fingers reached the top of Chase’s soles and landed on the undersides of his toes, Rudy pulled the rug from under him.

“NNoOO!! HoAOhAOAOhOHAOAAFFUUuCCkkmMmEEE!!” Chase exploded once Rudy unleashed on his plump toes, even swiveling around to sit on the back of his ankles and trap his feet between his crossed legs for supreme access. Rudy couldn’t have looked happier clawing along the plush undersides while Chase floundered around behind him like he’d caught fire, now laughing with all his lung power at the brutal twist. “Such soft toes you have…” Rudy teased to rub in how screwed Chase was and really let his sadistic side come out as he scratched all ten tan toes, knowing all they could do was wiggle in place and hope the rubber band would break.

“FFuUUCCkkKOoOOFF!! aohAOhAOHAALLlEETTmMmEEGGOOAAAsSHhOOLLLEE!!” Chase hurled the best he could with a contorted face and exaggerated smile, having underestimated how mean of a tickler Rudy could be. “Am I a dick or an asshole? Which is it?” “AHAOHABBoOOoTTTHH!!” Chase confirmed, getting another laugh from Rudy as he raked up and down the velvety undersides of both rows as if he wanted to attract the cop from earlier with Chase’s insane laughter.

“What was that thing you did with my big toes this morning? This, right?” Rudy questioned before concentrating on Chase’s bound big toes with a few fingers from each hand. “AAAAhAHAHAhaNnOOhoH!! IIIMmMmSSoOoRRrYYY!!” “No way, me and these toes have unfinished business” Rudy assured while scratching along the juicy big toes just the way Chase had his, unaware until now that they actually both had pretty fat big toes compared to the rest. No wonder the technique worked so well on him too.

Chase rustled up sand in the air the more he bucked around and he squealed a few times to Rudy’s enjoyment as he focused on the middles of his big toes, running just a couple nails back and forth and along the sides of each to keep Chase a total mess. “CCoOmMmEEOOONnAhAH!!” “Alright, since you asked for it” Rudy obliged with vague obedience and stopped tormenting the big toes, letting Chase’s cheeks relax and his muscles to calm down but it didn’t last long. His head popped back up with fresh panic once he felt something snaking between his smaller toes, “Dude! You win! Come on!! No more tickling!” Chase desperately tried to convince but he couldn’t see just how much of the last bungee cord was already weaved between his toes. “I couldn’t find another feather so this will have to do” Rudy explained before pulling both ends of the green elastic rope back and forth between Chase’s tender toes.

“AHAhahahAAAMMoOOTTHHEerRRFFFUuuUCCkKKEERRERAHA!!” Chase lost his shit better than Rudy could’ve hoped but the bungee cord was far more lethal than he realized. The texture of the slender rope and how it so easily slithered between Chase’s left toes was unbearable, almost too punishing for a friendly tickle war. “Now I think it’s time we negotiate a truce” Rudy explained as he flossed back and forth. “AHAOOkKOOkOKK!!” “You didn’t even hear the terms yet” “OOKOOKAohAOHA TTEELLMMmEE!!” Chase tried to hurry, ready to satisfy whatever demands Rudy had but the answer didn’t come; instead the bungee cord was slipped between his big left toe and the second in line.

“NO! Come on, just chill out!” Chase attempted to persuade before Rudy started sawing again to get Stokes laughing his ass off again. “My terms are…well, I don’t actually have any but we’re even after this. Alright?” “AhOAAYyYEESSS!! YyYEESSAAlLrRiIiGGhhTT!!” Chase agreed without even thinking about it but that didn’t stop Rudy from stretching the cord out some more and slipping it through a few of the right toes while one side still sat in the space on the left. “What the fuck?! I said alright!” “Yeah I heard you” Rudy admitted as he pulled both sides of the cord again to give the right toes their own turn. “AAAHAHAHHAASsSTTOhoHOHPPP!!” Chase begged with his ego being worn down with every pull of the bungee cord between his poor toes.

Chase began to fear some evil entity had taken over his mild-mannered friend; Rudy was never this ruthless or devious but being a tickler with such un-challenged power corrupted him the same way it had Chase. “AAlLRRiiiGGhHTT!! EEnNOOUuGGGHHH! AOhAOhAOHAIiIiGGiIiVvEE!!! AHHAAUUnNNCCLLLEEE!!” Chase surrendered in every way he could think of as his laughter became more delirious. “So you won’t get me back, right? Truce?” Rudy clarified with the same, hellacious flossing between Chase’s toes. “AAYYYEEEESS!! GGoODDYyYEEEESS!!” Chase agreed as quickly as he could and Rudy finally gave up his revenge crusade. “Great, because I think Austin and Drew should be here in about a couple hours” Rudy explained. “What? What are you talking about?” Chase questioned as his bondage was undone. “Austin texted me while you were asleep” “Shit, I’m glad they didn’t show up early” Chase pointed out. “Yeah, they could’ve seen you laughing like a little girl” Rudy teased, getting a shove from Chase once he was fully free.

Just like Rudy said, Austin North and Drew Starkey arrived at the North Carolina beach around 5 p.m., ready to join their co-stars for their last night of camping. “What’s up, guys?” Austin greeted both of them and Drew did the same right after before spreading out their towels and taking a seat next to Rudy and Chase. “So where are all the girls? I figured you guys would be drowning in women by now” Austin teased. “Haha no girls. But Rudy did about drown when he got knocked down by a wave earlier” Chase explained, getting a laugh from everyone but Rudy. “Well we could at least let loose a little” Drew suggested as he opened his cooler and supplied a round of beers for everyone. “You’ve got the right idea” Rudy pointed out as they caught up with each other and made their way through the rest of the cooler.

By 6:30 each of them had a pretty strong buzz and were trying to figure out where to order food from but Austin had an idea of his own. “I think we should take a picture before the sun goes down” “What kind of picture? I’m not mooning anyone for free” Chase added. “Maybe we should do one of those cheesy pictures where we bury each other in the sand, something stupid like that” Austin continued. “As long as the tide doesn’t start coming in” Rudy pointed out. “We’ve got plenty of time” Drew assured and they quickly decided that Rudy and Chase would go first before they switched positions.

By the time Austin and Drew were done, Chase and Rudy were buried surprisingly well in the damp sand with only their heads and feet sticking out. “Why is this so comfortable?” Chase asked. “Probably because you’ve had 4 beers” Rudy laughed next to him. “Alright, go ahead and take it” Chase instructed but neither Austin nor Drew took their phones out. “Guys…I’m gonna end up getting washed away” Rudy pointed out. “Actually, we had a better idea than a picture” Austin explained as he moved to sit in front of Chase’s bare feet. “What are you talking about?” Rudy asked. “We saw your interview for that morning show and we want to see how ticklish you guys really are” Drew elaborated as he took a spot in front of Rudy’s feet.

“No…no way, come on! You’re fucking with us” Chase tried to dismiss, hoping they were just joking. “You guys are the ones dumb enough to let us bury you” Austin laughed with a quick finger across Chase’s left toes. “Come on, just dig us up and we’ll go get some food! This is stupid!” Rudy also tried to deter but Drew was already reaching out to start teasing the balls of both feet. “I’ve tickled Chase before; I’m curious about you now” Drew explained before having his way with Rudy’s exceptionally vulnerable feet.

“WaAIiiTT!! AhOAohOhNNoOOAhAOHA!!” Rudy couldn’t help but fall apart once Drew started scribbling across the balls and arches with an excited smile. Chase watched Rudy freak out for only a couple seconds before Austin jumped on his feet with the same enthusiasm, clawing upwards from his heels across both soles. “FFuUCCkAkAohAOHA!! CCoOMmEEOONNN!!” Chase burst with fresh laughter, reminding him how sore his abs were from what he’d endured hours earlier. “Wow, I thought Rudy was exaggerating” Austin laughed while dominating Stokes’ wiggling feet. “FFuUUCCkKOOOOFFF!!” Chase fired back. “That was a dumb thing to do” Austin pointed out before quickly elevating his attack with faster scribbles than Chase was prepared to take for a second time that day.

“NNoAOaohAOhAOhaGGoODDAaMmMmIIiTTAOhA!” Stokes head bobbled around and his mouth seemed stuck wide open with raucous laughter while Rudy tried escaping his own sand trap. “aAhOhDDRREeEEWW PPLlLeEAASSEE!!” “Please? Damn, your feet must be pretty damn ticklish to be begging already” Drew mocked with far too much of an appetite to torture his friends to have any sympathy. His strokes and scratches were harsher but not as fast as Austin’s but they tickled like hell as Drew focused right where the balls met the toes and the bottom of his pale arches. Austin and Drew’s eagerness to have some fun with Chase and Rudy seemed to only intensify after discovering how ridiculously ticklish the pair’s feet were but little did they know, this was far from their first tickling of the weekend. Rudy and Chase were both tickled-out, even having declared a truce before their friends got there but it looked like they were in for another round whether they liked it or not.

But as if their fates couldn’t have gotten any worse, out of nowhere, like some cosmic joke, a single seagull feather fell from the sky after a few birds flew over, landing right next to Austin. “Woah, where did that come from?” North questioned in awe while Chase looked on with terrified disbelief. “NO! Don’t mess with it; it’s probably got some kind of bird disease!” “I think it’s a sign; feathers are supposed to tickle, right?” Drew suggested. “Good idea, man” Austin agreed and Chase’s feet kicked in place in hopes of moving enough sand to get free but failed to make much headway before Austin was threading the feather between his left toes. “AAAhOoOHAOhAOhAOohMmyYgGGOOoDDDHAohA!” Chase freaked worse than Rudy had when his toes had been feathered and Austin’s face lit up with new excitement, “No fucking way, dude!” Austin exclaimed as he realized the feather was actually two that’d stuck together, giving him twice the number of feathers to use on Chase.

“AAuUuSSTTIInNNdDDOOnNTTAHAH!!” Chase shrieked as the feathers gave him a dose of karma for using one on Rudy that morning. Austin grinned like he had discovered his new favorite thing to do and continued weaving and sawing the white feathers between each of Chase’s bubbly toes down both rows. “That’s a good idea, getting between the toes like that” Drew decided as he thought for a moment before taking off his necklace. “Drew, seriously! Help me outta this!” “Haha yeah right” Drew laughed off before using his braided necklace to see for himself just how ticklish the blonde was between his slender toes. He quickly got his answer.

“SShHiiIITtAohAOhaOAooOOHOHFFuUUCKK!” fired out of Rudy louder than Drew knew possible and it instantly convinced him to keep going. “Holy shit, man…this is crazy” Starkey laughed as he finessed the necklace between the big and second toe of his right foot and made his way down the row, cranking out explosive laughter each time with the simple pull of his necklace back and forth as if he’d worn it just for that reason. Chase’s cheeks were red as apples and his toes tingled with the constant tickling but Austin was too entranced with how fun it was to toy with him to stop, wielding the feathers like he was a secret pro who knew just how to get Chase squealing. Drew was just as enthralled as Austin as he started in on the left toes with his necklace to floss between each one, especially after figuring out that it was the slow pulls that really got Rudy going nuts.

As the four friends spent the sunset tickling each other and laughing their asses off, the same cop from earlier that morning stood by on the edge of the pier watching them. He’d heard the same unnaturally rowdy laughter during his beat just after Austin and Drew had gotten started and realized it was the same blonde and brunette duo, now only with two others. But unlike before, he was now aware who the boys were and instead of interrupting their fun, he captured the whole thing on video from a distance, knowing TMZ would surely pay good money for such an unusual celebrity story…one that would only end in even more tickling for the Outer Banks boys.