The Leanaped attack cut us off from the rest of the world. We were trapped and did not know what was going to happen to us.
Life on the island before the invasion was focused around three main things, tourism and export of sugar and pineapple. The war ended all that as there was no oil for the planes and ships and a large portion of the world's population had died from the war's after effects. The people of earth did not die the way you would have imagined, with alien death rays, but from the total shutdown of transportation, food production and medicine. The major industries had to close down and with them most of the worlds economize. The people did not start attacking each other but as with all disasters came closer together as they helped each other out. It was lucky for some that hydro and nuclear power still worked but it was only used for emergencies now and to maintain the technologies earned. On Maui, it was different.
Maui has one power station and it burns hydrocarbons. It was shut down. That left us on Maui with huge fields of sugar cane and pineapple to eat plus all the fish you could ask for and a lot of dead cars. We were not going to starve and we were not going to be cold but we were all now stranded in a land that needed to be reworked.
When Amber and I first heard about the end of war, if you could call it that, we never did kill any of them and it only lasted a few weeks. We decided to take the free farm land that was being given out for people who wanted to grow a large garden of taro and sweet potatoes, traditional crops of the island. We were lucky; they gave us some land near Keanae within a mile of a nice undeveloped beach. We also had mangos, bananas, papaya, and mountain apples growing on our land and near our house. It was our own tropical paradise.
The ten acres was on a very steep slope with a stream running down one of the boarders and a few acres of flatland by a dirt road. We had to terrace it to make space for the plants to grow and we built our hut on the flat spot. Life was good. We worked on the garden five hours a day seven days a week but then had lots of time to go and play in the waves, fish and explore our new homeland.
One day while walking down the beach, we came upon one of the many mango trees. Amber headed towards it together a juice dripping sweat fruit.
"Dave come here and look at this, you're going to love it. It's a lava tube and it has a great hotspring in it!" Amber called.
I walked over and looked in the cave with her my arm lightly around her slim waist. The cave was as large as a racket ball court with a small entrance hole and a hole in the roof that let in just enough light to see by. The cave was warm and wet and smelled just a little like sulfur. The walls of the cave were the gray-black of lava with a rough sharp sand paper surface. Growing on most of the walls were green vines and mosses, giving the cave a very nice welcoming feeling. Taking up most of the cave was a large pond with lots of boulders in it and steam boiling of the surface. We sat down by the edge of the pool and I stuck my finger in the clear blue water to see how hot it was. It felt like it was about 28 degrees which was just perfect as there was a strong cool breeze blowing through the cave; every were on the island seemed to have wind.
I looked at her and said, "Do you want to get in?"
"Sure, I'd love to", she said with that knowing smile on her lips. She was wearing a white light cotton blouse with that billowy Indian kind of look and a bright yellow sari with beautiful red and orange flowers painted on it. She stood up and looking at me and started to slowly unbutton the blouse. I was transfixed, as first the edges of her breasts came into view followed by her perfect stomach. Her skin was the color of dark almonds and that made the colors of her hazel eyes and light brown hair stand out.
Without her top on she looked like a princes as she bent down to unwrap the yellow sari,. Every time I look at her, I wanted her and I felt a serge from my heart. I loved her. I wanted her now but it was not to be just yet, as she was stepped out into the hot water letting out a sigh of relaxation.
It was now my turn and that for her was not nearly as entertaining as all I had on was my new hemp shorts and a pair of woven sandals. I quickly removed them, placing them with her clothes and stepped into the water. It felt very hot! I am always amazed at how quickly she gets into steaming hot water. I walked over to her; the water was just above my knees. She reached up and ran her soft hands over my stomach and down my hips gently pulling me down into the water with her.
The bottom was somewhat sandy with a sticky muddy feeling mixed in. I could feel it oozing between my toes. As I sat down next to her she leaned her head against my chest and I moved back to lean against one of the rocks. It was wonderful to be here with her. Forgotten was our life plan to go back to Seattle and work for the next ten years like mad men in order to pay back our huge school debts. All we had to do was survive and this was the place to do it.
"How do you like our new life so far?" I asked her as I sat with me.
