The next morning as the two teens were bathed in the warm pink glow of the rising sun, Sora sat awake watching Kairi sleep.
He smiled as she stirred when the light lapped playfully across her rosy cheeks. She was like an angel to him, it was unforeseen to the boy how someone with so much warming beauty could possibly be human anything less than a goddess. Sora had loved her as long as he could remember, his heart had flipped when he had seen her for the very first time, and he knew deep down that if he couldn't have her he would become bitter and die.
A strand of her chocolate brown hair fell across her face as she slept. Sora grinned slightly and flicked away from her soft smooth skin.
A dolphin, only three metres away leapt into the air to greet the morning and Sora's attention was temporarily distracted. When he looked back Kairi was awake. She rubbed her eyes and stretched sleepily.
'Good morning Sora,' she smiled at him and sat up, 'what were you looking at?'
Sora pulled her close so that their bodies were touching side to side and pointed at the frolicking Dolphin,
'You're gunna love this.' He said, waiting for her to spot it.
Two more had joined in the animal's glorious dance and they put on a joyful display for the next hour.
By the time the Dolphins had finished, which Sora worked out was probably around ten, both of them were feeling the heat and a little hungry,
'Fruit for breakfast again?' Kairi suggested to the boy. Sora rolled his eyes. Then he pulled his shirt off his chest and started to tear at it savagely,
'What are you doing Sora?' Kairi asked, a little bit worried about his actions,
'I've got a better idea!' Sora said, 'How do you feel about Fish?' Kairi realised now that Sora had made a crude fishing line from tying the shreds of his shirt together. He used a piece of metal from the chain attached to the pocket watch they had found in the chest as a hook before digging through their fruit supply,
'Now for the bait!' he said triumphantly tore some flesh from an open green coconut and hooked it on,
'Hope this works!' was the last thing he said before dropping the line into the water.
The line just floated on the surface awkwardly,
'Damn!' he cursed and dragged it back up into the boat, 'It needs a sinker!' he paused, 'Hey Kai, do you still need the key on the necklace?' he asked, hoping she would let him use it as a weight,
'Yes!' she replied, 'My parents gave it to me! Idiot, here use this!' she passed him her bracelet of Thalisa shells, 'They should do the trick.'
Sora thanked her and tried fishing. The line worked, but they didn't catch anything all day and were forced to eat fruit again,
'We are going to have the baddest runs ever!' Sora muttered as he bit into a juicy mango. Kairi grimaced, momentarily disturbed,
'Hey,' she said, 'we've put up with one another's toilet habits this far, what's an extra bump on the road?'
The next morning, the two woke up with their arms wound tightly around each other,
'Must've been cold last night.' Sora suggested, but they both knew that nature was beginning to take steps to ensure the continuation of the species.
The next two days went by without much commotion, the boat continued to glide towards the unknown, and there was only a slightly awkward time which lasted for about an hour when Kairi had tried to ask Sora how he was coping not being able to have a wank everyday like she suspected he had done while they had lived on the island,
'Fine! But that's really none of your business Kairi!' he had yelled very embarrassed,
'Okay, okay!' Kairi held up her hands defensively, 'It is a natural male need and I was just wondering if you were doing okay without it.'
Sora paused for a moment,
'I can cope without!' he said, 'It's not like I'm addicted!' Kairi smiled,
'Of course not Sora, but honestly I don't mind if you do have to take care of yourself from time to time.'
This was too much for Sora who was not really comfortable talking to a girl about that kind of thing snapped,
'Well I don't! Now can we just drop the whole thing?'
'Okay.'
Now, three days later Kairi grinned as she remembered that the past two nights, Sora's end of the boat seemed to keep hitting a "bumpy patch of water" while he thought she was asleep.
'What are you smiling about?' Sora asked grumpily, he still hadn't caught any fish,
'Nothing.' Kairi replied.
Just then something got hooked on Sora's fishing line and began to tug frantically,
'It's doing a runner!' Sora yelled, 'help me pull it in before the hook breaks!' They both pulled hard on the line, but the fish only pulled harder until it eventually tugged Sora right out of the boat. In the commotion he let go of the line. Expecting to fall in deep water, Sora readied himself, when all of a sudden his hands sank into soft, fine sand,
'What the?' Sora looked up from where he was crouched and his jaw dropped. Directly in front of them was a strange looking island. It was just as tropical as home but seemed very deserted,
'Kaiā¦' he asked, 'do you see what I see?'
'Yes.' She replied, 'But it wasn't there a minute ago!'
