"Talking like we used to do, It was always me and you, Shaping up and shipping out, Check me in and check me out, Do you like walking in the rain? When you think of love, do you think of pain? You can tell me what you see
I will choose what I believe, Hold on, darling
This body is yours, This body is yours and mine, Well hold on, my darling, This mess was yours, Now your mess is mine, Your mess is mine, See you in the marketplace
Walking 'round at 8am, Got 2 hours before my flight, Luck be on my side tonight, You're the reason that I feel so strong, The reason that I'm hanging on, You know you gave me all the time, Or did I give enough of mine?
Hold on, darling, This body is yours, This body is yours and mine, Well hold on, my darling, This mess was yours, Now your mess is mine, Oh, Now your mess is mine, Oh, Your mess is mine, Bring me to your house
And tell me "sorry for the mess" Hey, I don't mind, You're talking in your sleep, All the time, Well, you still make sense to me, Your mess is mine, Your mess is mine, This body's yours and this body's mine, Your mess is mine"

I didn't realize that everyone on the beach was gathered around the stage as I sang Vance Joy's "Mess Is Mine" to my wife for a karaoke song. The crowd erupts in an applause and suddenly I become shy.

Lucy is up front smiling with tears running down her cheeks. Tori and Mike were standing next to her and Tori had her arm around Lucy's shoulder. I can tell there was a bit of jealousy as Mike casually applauded and glanced over at Lucy and then to me.

I jumped off the stage and took Lucy into my arms kissing her sweetly as I wiped the tears from her cheeks.

"You are full of surprises." She says breaking the kiss.

"You've heard me sing before. Remember when I was cooking in nothing but an apron." I smirk.

"Yes I cannot forget that sight." Lucy says.

Mike shakes my hand and gives me the well done speech while Tori is gazing between Mike and I probably begging for him to serenade her the way I did Lucy.

"Ha don't look at me babe I'm not going up there." Mike says. "You know I don't sing.

"But please, it was so romantic!" Tori begs.

"Not happening, sorry." Mike says as he takes her hand. "Let's go sit over by the beach."

It's a cool night and the beach is alive with all the visitors and residents that live around this island. The locals are the ones that mainly work here and they are putting on one hell of a show.

Lucy yawns and I rub her shoulder. "You ready to go home?" I ask.

"Yeah. The noise is starting to get to my head." She responds.

"Are you ok?"

"Yeah my heads still sensitive to things."

"Alright let's head back." I say standing up.

"Awe are you guys leaving?" Tori pouts.

"Yeah. I had a brain tumor and my brains not liking the noise much." Lucy answers.

"Oh honey sorry to hear that." Tori says. "Feel like having company?"

"Don't be sorry. It's gone and I'm doing really good. And sure if you guys want to come over that's fine with us." Lucy says.

"How about we stop for some wine?" Mike asks.

"Alright." I say.

"Ok we will stop and then meet you back at your place. Red or white." Mike asks.

"Red!" We both say in unison and we all laugh.

Lucy and I head back to our suite on the water off of a boardwalk lined with other suites. They call this the honeymoon suite and it's beautiful.

Lucy heads into the bedroom and grabs some headache medicine.

"Are you sure you're ok?" I ask concerned.

"Yes I'm sure. Not anything like before. I promise you." She assures me.

"Alright. I just don't want anything else happening to you."

"Nope I'm good! I'm going to throw on my leggings and a tank top. I'll be out in a minute if they get here before I'm done."

"Ok." And I lean in to kiss her then shut the door behind me so she can change.

She comes back out and she looks sexy in her leggings that hug her body just right and the tank top showing off her tattoo just right.

She kisses me on the cheek. "Not here yet I assume?"

"No." I answer walking out the door to peak down the boardwalk. "They are coming now."

"Great!"

"Hi!" Tori says walking through the door. "We brought the wine." She says going into the kitchen."

I go in to help her but she insists on getting it so I go to the living room where Mike is laying out the monopoly board game that he brought.

"Nice, you brought entertainment!" I say.

"Of coarse! Not much to do around here." Mike responds.

"Can I claim the thimble?" Lucy asks.

"Only if I can be the dog." Tori says bringing in 4 glasses of wine.

"Ladies first." Mike says handing Tori the dog and Lucy the thimble. Mike hands me the car and takes the shoe.

Tori went first, then Lucy, myself then Mike. Lucy was killing it. She had most of the property. She was feeling good too because she was on her third glass of wine.

Tori took Mike out and then me. Once it was her against Lucy, Tori jumped up to get everyone refills on wine. Tori divides the rest of the third bottle between Lucy and I and opens another bottle for her and Mike.

I'm trying to take it easy on the wine so I sip a little at a time and see Lucy doing the same thing. An hour later I started feeling pretty buzzed but drowsy at the same time and I could tell Lucy was too. Mike and Tori seemed to be ok and maybe it's because they weren't drinking as fast as we were.

"Hey, hate to be a party pooper but I think Lucy and I need to get to sleep. We are pretty drunk and it's late. Mike stands up saying yeah no problem, that they should go too. They put the game away and grab the rest of the wine as they stumble out the door.

"Thanks again." I say. "This was fun."

"No problem." Mike says walking out the door. "See you tomorrow!"

I go into the bedroom and Lucy is passed out face down on the bed. I turn her on her side to make sure she's breathing and she groans, so I wrap my arm around her and fall asleep.

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Lucy wakes me up in a frantic. "Zane wake up! Zane! Get up!"

I roll over groggy. Definitely feeling the wine from the night before. I rub my eyes as Lucy waits patiently for me to come too.

"What's wrong?" I ask.

"It's gone! All gone. Everything!"

"What's gone Lucy?"

"Our stuff, my ring! Your ring! Our bags. The tv. Do you get what I'm saying now?"

"What the fuck do you mean it's all gone?" I look down my wedding band is gone and my citizens watch that Paul gave me for a wedding gift. I jump up to go grab my cellphone and that too is gone.

"I already looked for yours and my phone. Not here either. They took the phone out of the room too." Lucy's says.

"Oh baby. We have to call someone. I'll go next door to call the police and notify the owner of the suites."  I say walking out of the room. Shit the place is empty, who the fuck would do this.

I knock on the neighbor's door as a tall beautiful dark haired woman opens the door crying. "I'm sorry to bother you, this doesn't look like a good time." I say as she pulls me into the suite. She pulls me to her lips pressing roughly against mine.

I push her away. "Um no I'm not here for this!"

"Oh. You're not? Most men are." She says in an European accent.

"No I'm on my honeymoon."

"But you're not wearing a wedding ring?"

"That's why I'm here, I need a phone to call the police. We were robbed last night."

"Oh goodness. Please yes. Go ahead use my phone sir. I'm so sorry for being mistaken." She says.

"No problem." I say picking up the phone.

Hello. Yes I'd like to report a robbery.

Yes that's correct. My suite number is 18.

Thank you.

"Thank you miss. The police are on their way."

"No problem. So sorry again."

"Don't worry about it." I say shutting her door.

I walk back to my suite to let Lucy know that I called the police. As soon as I open the door I'm cracked in the head with something hard and it causes me to lose consciousness for a few seconds. Someone grabs my arms and ties them behind my back and slips a blindfold over my eyes.

"Lucy!" I yell.

"Zane. Help!"

"Let her go!" I shout.

"Shut the fuck up!" A voice says with some sort of device to disguise his voice. "Get up!"

I struggle to stand up, my head throbbing from the blow I took. "Get the girl." He says escorting me out of the suite.

"I called the police." I say as I'm shoved out the door.

"Shut the fuck up I said!" And the handle of a gun slams into the back of my head.

"Fuck!" I yell.

"I SAID SHUT THE FUCK UP." and another blow to my head.

"Zane!" Lucy cries.

"Shut up bitch!" And I hear a crack against her head as she falls to the floor.

"Come pick this bitch up!" The other voice says.

"Get him to the suite." I feel different hands on me now as I'm ushered to somewhere else.

I hear sirens in the distance. I stumble over my feet as I'm being pushed to god knows where. I would to just know that Lucy is ok. Why are these people doing this to us? What did we do to deserve this?

"Please just tell me is Lucy ok?" I ask.

"She's breathing." Someone answers.

A door is opened and I'm pushed inside. Shoved into a couch is what I'm assuming. I feel weight next to me and I'm hoping it's Lucy and then her head falls onto my shoulder.

I hear what sounds like duct tape and my feet are pulled up from floor, my legs are being taped together. After that a piece is ripped off and put over my mouth. I hear the same sounds next to me, and I'm assuming they are taping Lucy up too.

"Don't you two move!" And I hear the door shut.

I start thinking of ways to get out of the ropes. I scoot as close as I can to Lucy and try nudging her. I finally feel her stirring and then muffles sounds. I manage to reach her hands and grabbed the rope tied around her hands. I found the knot and started working it with my fingers and I feel it loosen. Her hands become free and she pulls her blindfold and the tap from her mouth. She then pulls my blindfold off and then the tape from my mouth. I give her a quick kiss after looking her over.

"Are you ok?" I ask.

"Yes. You?" 

"Yeah I have splitting headache though." As I feel warm blood drip down my head. The blindfold must have been over the cut. "Can you untie my hands?"

She reaches over and unties my hands. I reach for the fabric used as a blindfold and tied it back around my head to stop the bleeding. Lucy got the tape from her legs and was working on mine. Once we were both free. We stand up, I get a bit dizzy so I have to steady myself.

While I was trying to get the dizziness to pass Lucy went into the kitchen and comes back with two big knives. 

"Here, take this." She hands me a knife and heads to the door, she cracks it open to peak and see if anyone  is out there. "Ok clear. Let's go."

"Is that Tori and Mike talking to the cops?" I ask.

"Looks like them but my visions a little blurry."

Mike turns around and sees Lucy and I coming toward them. "Oh shit! Tori let's go!"

"Stop them!" I yell and two big cops tackle them.

"Drop the knives!" The one cop says and Lucy and I gently lay the knives on the ground.

"There he is! That's the guy who called you!" The European girl says.

"You two are the ones staying here?" The cop asks.

"Yes. I used her phone to call you." I say pointing to the European girl.

"These two need medical attention!" The cops calls to the paramedics.

Tori and Mike are put into the back of a cop car and we were taken for medical attention. I ended up needing five stitches in the back my head and thankfully Lucy was ok. We sit on the back of the ambulance and I pull Lucy into me and hold her.