THE DEAL: Novel (12 page)

"Do you have your phone with you, so we can make a call to take us out of here urgently?"

 “My phone yes I have it usually always on me. Well I think so.”

He patted his pockets, but didn’t have the phone on him and he rushed to the bedroom in search of his mobile phone. Carolina went after him back to the bedroom and helped looking for the phone, thinking it could be somewhere with his wallet and passport in the wardrobe on the opposite side where Carolina found her handbag with all her documents and wallet inside. He found the phone easily, looked at the screen verifying that the phone still had battery and was working perfectly but there was no network. Both left the cabin with phones in hand desperate looking for a place on the island where they could have network to make an emergency call.

They spent the next few hours walking all around the island, from one side to the other, covering almost every inch of the island on network search, but without success, there was none. They returned to the cabin and revolve all inside looking for something that would enable communicating with the world outside the island, the search was unfruitful. There was no means of communication, no landline either, there was no other phone, there were no walkie talkies, and there was nothing of nothing. They couldn’t figure out a way to escape from that damned island except by boat, and didn’t saw any boat on the island or at sea either. Maybe they could try to swim, but how could they swim if there was absolutely nothing around, they didn’t know which direction to take, they could never get anywhere, and maybe the waters were infested with sharks.

Eventually we would die from exhaustion or being eaten by sharks.
– Carolina shroud at the thought.

So this wasn’t also a solution, she wanted to return to her sons, but how?

They felt so exhausted now, but didn’t want to give up as losers. They went back to the cabin and sat on the bed, each on their side trying to think of a solution to get out of there. They didn’t know what to do to get out of there, nothing else occurs to their mind. They could only wait for a boat passing by and try to capture the attention of those who went in it. Right now they had another problem as they didn’t know what to say to each other. Mentally they were accusing each other for being there and they didn’t want to face each other with that question, it was too much for now. It might be a good idea change clothes was they were still dressed as bride and groom and if they had to stay there all those days together they needed to be more comfortable.

Carolina felt so tired but managed to get up from the bed and dragged herself to the wardrobe. She first opened two doors. She saw that it had only new clothes and began to move on clothing, seeing if there was anything that could suit her, when she looked at the sizes, all clothing were her number, there were lots of clothe more than enough for seven days, if she needed to stay there for so long.

This is however if we in the meantime can’t find a solution to get out of here
- because she wasn’t going to give up so easily, but now she was too tired to think of a solution with immediate effect. She stepped to the other side, opening the other two closet doors, and here was one man clothes, shorts, shirts, and t-shirts. She moved lightly on all clothes but everything had still tags from store. Everything inside that wardrobe was brand new with tags, and like on Carolinas side, his clothe were his size as well. She turns to him, and he was still sitting on the bed observing her on her clothes discovery.

"Clothes we know already that we have, at least we don’t need to walk naked around or use palm trees leaves to cover our private bits"

He said with an air of enjoyment, but visibly tired.

"Who said I'm staying here 7 days?! I will find a way to get out of here as quickly as possible"

She said trying to convince herself that it was so easy to do as she was saying it. But before they find a solution to go out of there, they needed to take a shower and change for more comfortable clothes.

It’s only funny being dressed up as a bride when I’m enjoying the wedding or at least I remember it. Which was clearly not my case, I don’t know what happened, who could have the awful joke to dress myself up as a bride and put me on a private island with JP?!

She couldn’t believe it could be him because he looked as confused as she was. Needing to get out of that dress as soon as possible and the more she thought about it the more it seemed that the dress was squeezing her body in an attempt to crush her. She felt short of breath and had to tear the body of the dress as soon as possible.

Heading into the bathroom informed JP:

 "I need to take a shower and take this ridiculous outfit. When I exit the shower we need to have a serious talk."

"You look very sexy without a bra inside that backless dress"

He answered in a tone of amusement or to intimidate her, she wasn’t sure, staring at her with those blue eyes whom she had dreamed so many times to see again, and there they were right now in front of her on a desert island.

"Stop it! We have to talk, seriously! We need to try to solve it. We have to get out of here urgently"

Still sitting on the bed tired and visibly confused by the whole situation he shakes his head with a yes. When Carolina closes the bathroom door behind her, she puts her body against the door, close her eyes and breathe deeply several times, she didn’t want to have a panic attack there, not with JP there. She tried to calm down, bringing breathing under control. After a few minutes when she felt better she found herself looking at the mirror and appreciates how beautiful the dress was.

Definitely this would be my dream dress if I one day would marry again
– She thought while looking at it on the mirror admiring how beautiful she looked in it.

She began to undress slowly the wedding dress. While trying to get rid of it, she began to wonder if it would be possible to have even married with JP or if someone dresses them up and tried only to scare or prank them.

But what kind of reaction does someone expect to provoke on us? Trying to make us think they married and we are now pretending to be on a honeymoon?
That was absolutely ridiculous.

She couldn’t understand what else it could be.

But what if I really married JP?

Did he felt in love for me and I don’t remember?

Am I losing my mind?

Why can’t I remember anything?

She had so many questions, and there was not a single answer. Finally she was able to take the wedding dress out, folding it carefully and placing it on the wooden bench available in the bathroom next to it she had new clothes to wear that had taken from the closet before. It was a short beach dress, in various shades of green and it was airy but pleasant to wear at the island. While she was searching for something to wear in the closet, she saw bikinis in various formats and lingerie but they were all white. She remembered that JP liked white lingerie and he was also wearing white Calvin Klein boxers when she met him.

A thought crossed her mind:

Was he who engineered all this?

But for what purpose just for sex?!

If he doesn’t want me in London...If he doesn’t care about me in any way, shape or form...

And he treated me with indifference all this time...why now?

She couldn’t believe it had been him doing all this.

He doesn’t need to do all this to get me, he knew that...

Or did he hit his head and woke up one day and started liking me and I don’t know?!

Ruling out all possibilities, there had to be other reasons, a real one, but Carolina wasn’t able to get there alone. As she was entering the shower saw she had a wedding ring that fit in an engagement ring, both diamond rings. She stopped when she saw the rings, had never seen those rings in her life, and remembered the engagement ring that Nils had offered her and they are definitely not the same. She had never seen diamond rings like this before, and the one Nils offered her, she remembers being beautiful. She never had seen such a magnificent ring like that she was using right now, one had a great round diamond, all around little diamonds, coming down the ring, forming a perfect match with the wedding ring. The wedding band was perfect all in little diamonds. With all the confusion, she hadn’t even noticed she had rings on her fingers, now she has two rings as if by magic on her finger.

This is the finger which has been free for eight years waiting for someone special to fill the gap with a ring.

Was that special someone JP?!

She couldn’t believe it had been him. Carolina took the rings off from her finger and saw inside that the ring had an inscription:

Forever yours JP

Carolina was in shock, how did this happen? She couldn’t remember a thing. She just thought it could be a bad joke from him or someone, but to take this to this level with diamonds and engraved rings, this had gone too far. In the shower, she rushed to get out of the shower because she needed to take this story to the bottom and talk with JP right away.

When she came out of the shower she was already fresh up with all the energy to go talk to him. When she arrives in the bedroom, she completely loses her focus when she saw him completely naked waiting for her, to reach the bathroom for a shower as well. She wants to start talking to him, but no words come out, her eyes are fixed on JP’s body, the body she missed so much to touch and smell. In her mind was an old film passing by with sex pictures of them having sex, making her remember every moment with nostalgia and desire. He passes by her as if it was the most natural thing in the world, leaving a trail of his masculine and unique scent.

"I need to take a quick shower as well we can talk in a little bit"

He goes to the bathroom and shuts the door. Carolina is going up next to the bedroom window to try to distract the vision that she just had. With an accelerate breathing she feels excited, if he had just touched or kissed her, she thinks that she could have an orgasm right there. Being there with him would be problematic, she had to have a huge control, a control bigger than the world, and the thing was she couldn’t know if she was able to control herself around him. Her mind was filled with lusts of forbidden pleasure with JP, when she receives in the middle of images with JP one image from Nils, forcing her to return to reality.

She tried to shake everything from her mind as it was too much to think about, what a mess. She had to control herself, she couldn’t do this to Nils, he didn’t deserve it, and they had travelled a long way to be happy and to convince herself that Nils was the ideal man for her and not JP.

When JP got out of the shower, he came with a bath towel around his waist, continuing with his worked and hairy chest on display right on front of her, teasing her emotions on purpose.

Oh and his delightfully broad shoulders seeming making a mental disgrace clouding my perception to talk with him.

She tries to recover looking away out of the window, watching the palm trees, trying to count them down to the beach and then back from the beach to the cabin, to calm her breathing and chemistry for him and be able to start a serious conversation with him. Feeling normalized without diverting taking her eyes from the beach, she said firmly:

"We have to talk now because we have to find out as quickly as possible what happened. We need to get out of here. Do you have any ideas or suggestions?"

As he kept in silence, she couldn’t understand if he was doing it on purpose or if he was trying like her to find out what was going on. Carolina cleared her throat and continued:

"So what kind of joke is this? Why are we here? Is this any sick joke to make me feel bad or something?"

He looked confused at her and sits on the bed, looking at her with a very serious expression, leaning back on the cushions, exposing the most of their male attributes, always looking at her with his intense blue eyes and answering in a intimidating way to her:

"I hoped you could tell me what’s all this about, it’s time to let me know what’s your idea by kidnapping me, forcing me to stay here with you for a week.

Let's face it, you were always after me, stalking me with messages on a daily basis, you were obsessed with me. I did nothing to come here or bring you here. Do you really believe if I wanted to come into a place like this it would be with you?!”

Looking and inquiring her, trying to understand what’s going on. She remained in silence waiting for him to continue with his thoughts, which were insane, and so were her thoughts.

“Common you would never be my first choice if I wanted to come here with a woman.

By the look of it, we don’t know how we got here.

Unfortunately I don’t know anything about what is happening, I wish, I knew. But the oddest thing is that I can’t remember anything."

This comment was enough to push through all the desire she had for him, rising into irritation.

How could I care for a man who despises me this way?!
- Already with her nerves on edge. Mentally counting from one to ten and after she finished she said as calm as possible:

"Are you sure you don’t know anything about all this?!"

Asked Carolina obviously doubting him, but trying to keep her posture upright the best she could under the circumstances, trying to forget his horrible comments about her.