I woke up as the breeze spread out in Mariana's tipi. My body slightly shook, and I started to shiver. Goosebumps popped out a little in my arms. I turned my head to look at my sleeping beauty. My thumb and index finger stroke gently on her right cheek. She blinked with her eyes closed, feeling my fingers caressing her neck. Then, she slowly opened her eyes and looked at me. We started to smile a little bit to each other. I laid on her as we're like centimeters away from each other. We looked at both sides, making sure that no one's looking at us. I stood up and closed the 'doors' of the tipi, to make ourselves a bit more...private.

    It was a little bit dark, but good thing that up there; at the tip of the tipi, there was a bright hole. Streaks of light came out from the bright hole of my tipi. I kept staring up there and then, I looked at Nadia, walking towards me. She had a ponytail on, and slowly let her hair down. She fixed her dark, wavy hair with her fingers, while my heart skipped a beat. The streak of light blocked us in the middle, but we went into it.

I cupped my hands between her cheeks, about to kiss her. However, her lips pursed mines lightly. My body began to warm up, and I felt a burning desire to make this moment more passionate and intense. This light kiss turned to deep and passionate by adding tongues to each other's mouth. My heart began to pound faster; our hands, our arms, and our hands stroked all over each other's bodies, including our chests. We couldn't stop kissing each other, letting our moans and groans out and smooching sounds.

    My lips caressed her neck, and I heard her getting aroused. My hand stroked gently her soft, black hair; the other stroked her lower back. She slightly bit my collarbone, and I let my sensual winces and moans out from my mouth. Suddenly,  my lips locked hers and our tongues dancing together. I slightly bit her lip and kept kissing her again. We slowly sat down together, on our flat bed.

I began to unbutton her red crop top, little by little. While she was looking me taking unbuttoning her crop top, she started to unbutton my blue, short-sleeved shirt. I took her crop top off,  leaving her red, spaghetti strap blouse on. She was unbuttoning my shirt carefully, little by little. I looked at my open shirt and my torso is about to be bare. She gripped my collar as I gripped her blouse straps. We took a glimpse to each other. Then, I slowly slipped her blouse straps down and left her crème-colored bra on. It was exposing her skin, and a bit of her breasts. She slowly took my shirt off and left my torso bare.

We looked at each other's collarbones, skinny and shiny. My heart started pounding faster and stronger. I took the risk of beginning to slip both of her bra straps. I slowly slipped it down until the straps stopped in her biceps. My hands cupped both of her cheeks and I kissed her lightly on the lips. Then, I added tongue and I laid onto her on the bed. I caressed her neck, and she moaned of electric shocks from my lips, making contact on her skin. I felt her soft hands on my shoulder blades of my back. I brought my arms around her back, and my fingers stroked the back of her bra. I was about to unclasp her bra, but she stopped me.

"Hey..." Nadia softly spoke.

"What?" I chuckled.

"I didn't know you were being such a tease." She giggled and I started to giggle, too.

I slightly bit my lip, but she slightly licked between her lips. I couldn't even resist her seduction. We want more from each other. I unclasped her bra but left it on anyway. My head nuzzled on her chest, and she stroked my unkempt hair gently. Suddenly, someone opened the curtains of the tipi. It was Mariana and she got shocked while she saw us with only jeans on. I gasped out loud and I covered my torso on the blankets. She buried her face with her hand and turned away from us, like it's dirtying her mind. She quickly closed the curtains.

"Guys, put your clothes back on, man!" She exclaimed as we tried to find our flung clothes.

I found my blue shirt and her red crop top.

"Derek, you found my red top?" Nadia asked, while she clasped her bra back; I hurriedly flung her red top towards her and she caught it.

I put my blue shirt on, and buttoned it back carefully. She put her red blouse back on first, then buttoned her red crop top. However, something came into my mind to say something to Nadia.

"Nadia..." I called her as she turned her head back to me.

I walked towards her as I held from her waist to her sides.

"I guess that was the most intimate moment ever in our lives. I've actually never experienced that before." I softly chuckled as she started to giggle.

"To be honest, Derek, me neither. As I've told you before, I didn't know you were being such a tease." She spoke.

"And I didn't even know how seducing you are." I whispered as I saw her surprised look.

I felt her hand on the side of my neck. I have a feeling that we're prepared for some locking lips. We softly kissed in our lips, then deeply with passion. I felt her arms stroking gently on my shoulder blades, as my hands snaked under her blouse, trying to expose her skin a little.

Suddenly, we heard soft, whooping noises from the curtains of the tipi. Then, we also heard smooching noises. It was Mariana, Ashkii, Nova, Migisi and Chayton, who were getting "overexcited" of seeing us kissing. Unfortunately, I got really annoyed because I want this moment to make it personal for us. However, they're kind of...nosy.

"Guys, stop!" I scolded and they just burst out laughing. Well, we cracked up, too.

Me and Nadia came out from the tipi, to get some fresh air in our lungs.

"Hey, we haven't heard about your father, Mariana. Is he feeling better?" Nadia asked her.

"Right, I haven't heard about him for a while." I thought.

"Thank God he's completely recovered." Mariana smiled.

"Mariana..." I called as she looked at me.

"You still miss our biological family?" I asked her as her smile faded and nodded.

I miss Jason a lot.

"Frapo! Frapo! Frapo!" We heard a familiar shout from the distance.

Then, we saw a figure running towards us; it was Wayna who are calling us. Along with him: Sayen, Knoton, Tama, and Aquene were running towards us. I didn't know what was happening to them, if something's wrong about to happen. I felt a sudden fear in my nerves expecting something frightening about it.

"Frapo! Ayoeng peng sempul tìkin! Pxiye'rìn!" Aquene urged us to come their father's tipi.

"Peu? Keyawr lu fmawn?" I asked Aquene if it's something bad.

"Just come to his house and he'll tell you." Aquene urged us, because she cannot tell us what's happening.

We all rushed to his tipi, as fast as we can. I want to know if it's something either good or bad. I can see their faces full of fear, but Mariana didn't react anything. I have never seen Mariana being such a calm person. We all went inside in his tipi, as we saw him sitting in front of us.

"Pxoeng, heyn." Wachinksapa Tyee (his real name, but I call him Chief sometimes), commanded us to sit in front of him, as we sat in unison.

"I have horrible news for all of us, I afraid to say." He sighed as everybody fell silent.

My body's still shaking with fear, my mind is going blank that I can't even speak up against.

"Rumors are coming out of nowhere about this pristine place. Buccaneers were looking for an island for tourists to take a vacation. This island will be visited by distinct people as tourists." He confirmed as I began to distrust about those news.

"No, it won't." I thought and I shed tears.

I walked out from his tipi, fell down on my knees and kept crying. I buried my face with my hands. I may look painful, but my heart has a burning rebellion. There's no way that those buccaneers will take their first steps on this place. Suddenly, I felt a hand on my shoulder blade.

"Derek..." It was Nadia, trying to comfort me.

She got down on her knees to talk to me, I looked at her but I don't have anything to say.

"I don't think that you may know this, but..." She softly spoke.

"I never want this island to be touched. This island is my home, and I wish I could stay here with my dad forever. Besides, I didn't believe what the chief said. So that's why I walked out." Nadia told me as I tried to calm myself down.

"You know what? Let's go to my house." Nadia decided as I got up and we walked together to her home.

We climbed down the hill steadily, although I landed in flat ground first. Nadia was about to land in, also. Although I carried her waist with his hands as she put her hands on my shoulders, and finally stood on the ground. We were about to walk inside of her, but we heard a strange noise from the ocean. We climbed up on a tall tree, to see what was going on out there. Nadia took out a telescope from the pocket of her jeans. She gave it to me as I looked through it. Suddenly, I saw a ship sailing towards us.

"What is it? What does it want out there?" Nadia asked.

"It's coming so fast." I spoke as I kept staring at the ship. Suddenly, I saw the name that Nadia told me before, The Buccaneer.

    "Buccaneer?" Buccaneer ship?" I gasped.

    "The Oceanographer and the Great Blue Whale." Nadia shuddered as I remember that she told me about her mom's death before.

    "Oh, no. I think we're being invaded." We were a little bit scared and saw those four men stepping in the sand.

    "Simply heavenly." The first mate described this place.

    "Bloody paradise." The second bastard described about this island too, but he made us mad.

    "Not on any map, either." The third mate spoke.

    "Captain, come and take a look at this." The first mate showed the island

    "Oh, yes. This is my bowl of rice, all right. This'll do quite nicely. Nature in all its glorious splendor." The captain was amazed but not us.

    "Put the barbies over there. We'll fill the sand with beach chairs, and we sell piña coladas for 10 bucks a pop." The third mate planned for the tourists.

    "Oh, shut up you bastards." I whispered.

    "You promised everyone a private island, Captain, and that's exactly what they're getting." The first mate advised.

    "Corporates are going to love it. This'll be their own private Buccaneer paradise." The second mate cackled as the four men cackled.

    We're definitely in shock right after he said that, though I got really pissed off.

    "Buccaneer paradise?" Nadia whispered.

    "I'll kill them." I growled.

    "No. They'll leave this place now." Nadia stopped me.

    "Excellent. We come back in two days." The captain advised his three mates.

    "How great would a hotel look right there? Strip all the trees back." The first mate pointed the trees that we both love.

    "Perfect." The captain agreed.

    "Back in two days." Nadia copied that in her mind.

    "This island cannot be touched." I declared this island with my firm tone.

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"Guys! Guys! Guys!"

"Father needs us, immediately!"

"What, is something wrong?"

"Children, sit."