I propped myself up on my elbows in the white sand of the beach, watching the waves crashing against the shore. The gentle tropical breeze brushed my face as I watched Jason power napping under the shade of a near by palm tree; something he was getting very good at. It was our 4th day stranded on this beautiful island, and still no one seemed to be in any hurry to go.
Everyone was getting to know their way around the island, and most had even picked out their favorite spot to 'chill' in. Jas and I had finally decided to keep our inlet to ourselves and not let anyone else steal our 'little slice of heaven' as he had put it. For the last 3 nights, we had slept under the stars, sheltered only by an over-hanging rock embedded in a nearby hillside. I was kind of growing accustomed to falling asleep in his arms as the tide lapped gently at the moonlit sand, especially after making love to him for a couple of hours before hand. Speaking of which, being stranded on a tropical island really does wonders for your sex life.
The sound of someone laughing a few yards down the beach pulled my attention away from Jas. The morning before, much to our surprise, we had awoken to suitcases and boxes of food that had drifted onto shore from our now sunken cruise ship, and it was apparent now that it hadn't been all of it. I stood up and brushed the white sand from my tanned skin, and trotted nonchalantly down the beach to where Tony and Mika were pulling things out of the water.
"Are these yours?" Mika asked, putting on my new pair of sunglasses I had bought just before we left for the cruise.
"Oh My God!" I yelled, "Yes!"
"And to think you were whining yesterday about your stuff not showing up. Girl, you get your own suitcases out of that water!" She said, rolling her eyes at me as she handed over my shades.
Pulling them on, I smiled back at her as I walked slowly out into the water to some other things that were bobbing up and down in the waves. Despite her orders to get my own things, Mika followed closely behind me, gathering things as we went along. A big rock jutted out the surface of the water about 50 feet from the beach, and it was helping to collect the stuff that the waves continued to wash in.
A few others that had come to see what was going on had waded out with us, and helped us pull all the stuff back to the beach. I was amazed at how much stuff had suddenly appeared in the past couple of days and even more amazed that our stuff had just shown up all together, out of the blue. Mika tossed a black carry-on bag at Tony causing it to land in the wet sand at his feet with a 'sploosh'. He looked at her and kicked a clump of wet sand at her back. I laughed as I hung Jason's prized leather gym bag around my neck, and tried to pick up our other huge suitcases that stood beside me on the sand.
"Need help weakling?" Tony asked, grabbing both bags as he took off trotting down the beach to where Jason was still sleeping.
Tony and Mika had been the first couple we had met from our group once we had gotten aboard the ship. Mika and I had spent our first afternoon of the cruise lounging in our bikinis on the ships sundeck getting to know each other as Tony and Jas had decided to try their skills at shuffleboard with the old folk, as Jas had so endearingly called them. We had really hit it off with them, and I knew that once we were rescued we'd be sure to keep in touch.
"Wake up fool!" Tony yelled, playfully kicking sand across Jas' painfully pink chest.
"Ouch, jackass!" Jas said, opening one eye, glaring at him.
I laughed and dropped his gym bag on the other side of him. He looked at me, and I could tell he was still a little groggy from his nap. I knelt down and kissed him gently on the lips as Tony pretended to be looking at something else down the beach.
"Our stuff." he blurted out mid-kiss as if he had just suddenly been un-blindfolded.
I couldn't help but laugh, "Yep, it washed in with some other luggage and more boxes of food this morning. Mika found my sunglasses and knew this was ours."
"Great! I can finally change my boxers!" he yelled, standing up and grabbing the bigger of the two suitcases.
Plopping down in the sand near my feet, he placed the suitcase between his legs, and pried open the lock with his pocket knife. Tony had dismissed himself from our presence a few minutes before so that he could help the others with their stuff too. I smiled as I watched him saunter effortlessly down the beach and into Mika's awaiting arms. I directed my attention back to Jas when I heard the lid of the suitcase hit the sand, causing the zippers clank against the material.