The salt water splashed across Caroline's face as she turned the jet ski across the waves. It didn't bother her in the slightest. Her dark sunglasses protected her eyes, and the rest of her was already more wet than dry, her white T-shirt hugging her ample breasts, kept in place by the red bikini she wore underneath. Even her jeans shorts, crudely cut off so high they showed off the bottom of her buttocks when she walked, were largely soaked. Caroline was feeling great. The week's vacation to that remote island she had gone on with her boyfriend Jon had turned out to be everything she had hoped for and more. Gorgeous beaches, great weather, fantastic food. And of course... Jon himself.
As if her thoughts had reached out to him, her tall and equally blonde boyfriend hugged her more closely from his place just behind her, his arms already wrapped around her slender waist. Caroline smiled to herself as she felt his hands embrace her, and as if by chance happen to graze against the lower arcs of her breasts. She was getting turned on, again. She didn't think she had ever made love so many times in the space of a few days before. In the hotel room, on the beach at night, leaning on a tree just off the camping trail where they had gone to enjoy nature... Caroline and Jon had proven simply unable to keep their hands off one another. She was loving it. The feeling of Jon's stiff manhood against her lower back as her boyfriend leaned in on her, told her she wasn't the only one.
Just as Caroline started considering in some detail the practicalities of having sex on a moving jet ski, she realized something was wrong. The jet ski's speed dropped suddenly, the machine steering awkwardly to the left. "God damn it," she thought to herself. Caught up in her daydreams, Caroline had steered too close to the shoreline and ended up well inside a line of orange buoys. Apparently those buoys weren't just there for show. The sleek machine had ended up stuck in something, and it was all she could do to try and steer towards the shore.
"What's wrong, hon?" Jon asked from behind her.
"We're not getting back to the rental place without fixing whatever's stuck to the jet," she replied. "I'm not even sure we'll reach that beach, but the waves should help us in. I see a couple of guys on the beach too; with any luck they will help us out."
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"Idiots!" the young, black man screamed in Jon's face as what was apparently his younger brother glared at the blonde couple, whose broken-down jet ski they had just finished pulling ashore. Jon tried his best to stay calm.
"Look," he ventured, "like I said, we're really sorry we ended up in your fishing nets, but it was an honest mistake. We'll be happy to pay for the damages, but if you could just help us get the jet ski going again..."
"Get that damn thing going again so you can finish off our last nets, is that it? You fucking idiots, how can you not have seen the buoys?" the man spat. "No. You cost us the nets and today's entire catch. You pay us, here and now. Then we can discuss fixing your toy."
Jon sighed and rubbed his beardless chin. Neither he nor Caroline had brought any money with them, neither cash nor cards, for fear of losing them in the water. He had a feeling the fishermen brothers would not take too kindly to that explanation. Still, he had to try.
"Okay guys, you're right, and we'll pay you. We just need to get back to the hotel, to get our money and..."
"You must take me for a fucking fool!" the black man screamed. "You drive through our nets, and now you want our help to run away without paying!"
"Hey jackass, I was driving the damn thing, if you want to scream at someone, scream at me," Caroline interjected, quite angered by the aggressive tone of the dark-skinned stranger.
To her surprise, the man's response was not another tirade, but a sudden, contemplating silence as he turned to her and stared at her with a somewhat incredulous look on his face. And then smiled.
"No, miss," he said, calmly now. "I will not scream at you. I will simply have my payment. Since you drove the toy boat, it's only fair you pay, yes?"
Caroline shrugged. It seemed to make little difference whose account the reimbursement came from, since Jon and her would simply sort it between themselves anyway. Yet something in the man's tone made her wary.
"Fine," she replied all the same. "We already said we'll pay you. I'll do it myself even. We still need to get back to the hotel."
The fisherman's eyes gleamed as he regarded her, before speaking again.
"You misunderstand, miss. You will not be paying us with your money."
Caroline stared at him for a moment of blank disbelief, before realizing what the man had said. At that very moment, her boyfriend was thrown forward, landing face down on the pale sand. The angry fisherman's brother, having sneaked up on them and pushed Jon over, was on top of him in an instant. Before Caroline could think to move, Jon's hands had been pulled onto his back and firmly restrained by a pair of large, black zip-ties.