This is just a simple chapter, guys! I'm warning you. But the next chap will be different I swear. It will surely be intense!

Anyway, please keep on reading and trust me on this story guys. I know it's getting boring but next chapter will be really intense.

But thank you for reading! God bless and enjoy your day!

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Stephan and I are strangely becoming better than before since the day we started making a deal to each other. Well, what happened to the island stays in the island though. We are totally going to do everything our heart wants and forget what's gonna happened once we stepped out of the place. God, I never made a deal like this before so I am not sure if this is a good idea. But anyway, this is gonna be the start of not thinking about our parents and just listen to what our heart wants and desires.

Am I really capable of doing that?

But I just want to go with the flow.

One morning, I am busy checking if we have enough foods for the night in the kitchen but unfortunately, we don't have any. I guess I have to go back in the forest to look for something.

"Stephan?" I called out for him while I was still checking on the kitchen counters. I think he is in the living room.

"Yeah?" He answered back in a lazy tone.

"I'm going to get some fruits again. Is Papaya around?" I asked, walking out of the kitchen to go to him while wiping my wet hands using the clean cloth that was on top of the island counter.

Stephan was sitting comfortably on the couch while reading a book. He put it down and stood up "I'm coming with you."

My eyebrows touched and shook my head. "No!" I immediately declined which resulted a disapproving look from him "I-I can do it alone. You don't have to come, you know."

" I'm coming with you, Ariana. Don't make me repeat myself." He stated, passing me and heading outside the house.

I let out a deep sigh and just raised my hands in defeat. I'm not gonna fight him over that.

Honestly, I didn't know what got to me when I said those words at him the other day while we're taking a swim. That was so freaking embarrassing and since that day, I felt a little awkward even if I am the one who opened it and made the deal first. I didn't even know where my courage came from! I am actually seducing him! I don't do that!

Never in my life I seduced someone. Men are the one who seduces me to bed...and only to bed.

Thats why I never had a serious relationship to any guy that came into my life. I easily get awkward and uncomfortable. This is totally not me.

Stephan is waking something in me that I never ever know that I can do.

"How long do you want to stand there?" His impatient tone of a voice broke my thoughts.

"I will be there in the sec!" I shouted at him then ran out of the house as well.

We both entered the forest together, following the unknown and strange trail on the ground. I kinda got used of the surroundings in this forest because I always go here to look for some foods for the couple of times already. It's not really bad though. If this forest was just been taken care of, this will be a very good place to visit. Everything looks magical especially the tall green trees and those amazing smell of flowers.

Stephan and I are just walking slowly, probably just enjoying the peacefulness and silence between us.

"You are awfully quiet since that confession you made the other day." Stephan spoke, walking closer to me.

I chuckled and just played calm "Of course not...I was just thinking of something lately."

"And what is that?"

"N-nothing. Just never mind me." I ignored the topic and just enjoy the moment with him here with me. "Oh look, there are some bananas!" I pointed out.

Stephan walked faster to it and tried to cut off the branch so we can get some of the bananas. He carried as we look for more. We did saw some more unknown fruits but I haven't seen them before so I decided not to take it. It might be poisonous or something. Where could the other fruits be? Oh, how about the coconuts?

"Stephan can you climb that?" I pointed him the tall coconut tree.

"What? Climb that tree? Do you want me to die?" He glared at me which made me laugh.

"Don't be so exaggerated, dummy. You won't immediately die if you fall from that tree. You might just break some bone." I joked, and ended up laughing.

While he just glared at me and that is when I stop. "Okay, sorry. Ill go climb it."

"No, I'll do it." He finally obliged.

My eyes widen "Really?"

"You want to do it, right?" He brought the question back to me.

"Yeah, but you don't have to. I'm just playing with you." I said, chuckling at little.

But seems like I'm to late. Stephan took his shirt off, showing off his mouth watering abs, his gorgeous tattoos that was on the Sid of his tummy and on his upper chest. Damn, i never thought men with tattoos look this hot. He can really make everything look so sexy.

Stephan started grabbing both of the side of the trunk and started climbing up effortlessly. He had a knife between his teeth that i guess he will be using on the coconuts.

Seriously, does this man is somehow related to Papaya? Or any monkey out there? He is climbing the tree so quick and didn't even made a wrong step on climbing his way up. When he finally reached the top, he grab his knife from his mouth then started chopping off the roots or branch of the coconut meaning ...he is only holding himself using one hand on the tree.

"Be careful!" I yelled at him and I noticed the slight smile that formed in those thin lips.

He dropped the coconuts and I tried to carefully catch them. And they were three coconuts in total. He finally got down and gave me the confident and wicked smile on his face "Piece of cake." He murmured, causing me to roll my eyes at his cockiness.

"Yeah, right, dummy." I hissed at him and continued walking because I am really being distracted by his topless part that is screaming for me to be touched. Darn it.

I heard him laugh as we continued searching. "So, what else should we look for?"

Roaming my eyes around the large trees then suddenly I saw some brown small thingy hanging near a tree. "Wait, are those kiwi?" I pointed my index finger.

Stephan looked at the direction of what I was pointing at then shrugged his shoulders "Beats me."

I narrowed my eyes at him " Nice talking to you, Stephan. You really helped alot."

He chuckled and scoffed "Hey, don't talk to me like that. If it weren't for me, you will not have these coconuts with you."

"Oh, should I kneel down and say thank you?" I mocked, stepping on a branch to reach for the Kiwi. I didn't take much because unfortunately, I didn't brought a bag with me to put the fruits in it. The coconuts really made Stephan's hands full. Making me no choice but to handle the bananas and kiwi.

"Are these enough for you?" Stephan questioned referring to the fruits.

"Yeah, I guess these are enough for two days or so." I replied, as we started walking out of the forest. It's actually pretty nice to feel that Stephan is here with me to help me get some fruits. This is the first time we came here together unlike the past fews, it's either he was the one who will come here or me with Papaya.

Where could Papaya be?

I haven't seen him in the while so it feels kinda weird because he was always around everytime Stephan steps out of the house so, I decided to ask him.

"Hey, have you seen Papaya lately?" I asked him.

"He was at our window this morning." He answered.

"This morning? I haven't seen him"

"Because you sleep like a dead person, I tried to make noice for you to wake up but you just lay there on the bed so peacefully." He sneered.

I blushed in embarrassment and mentally, slapped myself. God, I really know that I sleep awfully. I don't have a grace when I sleep than when I'm awake. I guess all of my feminine side came out when my eyes are open than my eyes are closed.

"Do I really look horrible when I'm sleeping?" I asked.

Stephan laughed "Not horrible...actually I find it really cute."

I blushed even more at his comment. "Cute?!"

"Yeah. Cute." He repeated.

"Why cute?" That is really confusing.

"Well, some girls are so conscious of what will they look when they're asleep..." He stops then faced me." You just let me stare at you with a drool dripping down your opened mouth. And for me, I really find it so cute, you know."

I don't know but is Stephan really trying to make me feel so embarassed? Can the ground just eat me up right now and let me die. No one had ever watched me sleep. I never slept literally next to a man before because I'm afraid that they might see me how horrible I look when asleep.

"Could you just shut up? You're embarrassing me right now." I mumbled, pouting a little facing the other way.

Stephan kept on laughing as I die in embarrassment until we're getting nearer to the shore. We finally reached the house and we put all the fruits in a bowl inside the kitchen. I placed the others in a basket that was on top of the counter.

Stephan went straight upstairs and I don't know what is he going to do there. I just sat down on the couch and placed a pillow on my lap. Now, what should I do? Mostly at this hour, I don't have anything to do.

I heard Stephan's footsteps on his way down the stairs and I saw him topless and only in his beach shorts.

"What are you going to do?" I asked, raising an eyebrow.

"You wanna swim? The temperature is kinda hot so I decided to dip a little."

I shrugged my shoulders and smiled. "Sure. Why not."

Stephan smiled back and head outside. I ran upstairs to get my bikini again and put them in a hurry. I don't want him to wait so I changed into them in just seconds. I don't know but I really feel excited when we're going to swim together.

I put on a knitted styled oversized shirt that I just randomly saw in my suitcase and ran downstairs where I caught Stephan doing something at the beach.

I don't know but he is building something. Like a small nipa hut. It's not yet done because it looks like he just started a few minutes ago, he only had the side.

"You really love doing something different, don't you?" I asked, laughing softly as I walked closer to him while checking the nipa hut. "What exactly are you doing?"

Stephan raised his head to look at me then stood up "I'm making what you are literally seeing. Starting now, this will be the place where I'll be staying the night."

My eyebrows touched. "So you're leaving me alone inside the house?"

"Sort of." He smirked, and continued building his small house that is made up of bamboo and some large leaves. This man is really crazy though. He loves doing something that he is making hard for him. Then he suddenly laughed "I'm just kidding. I just want something to hang out here with you so we could chat for a while."

"Really?"

" Yep...look." he pointed out the table inside and I saw a small table with the basket of fruits we picked up earlier. But they we're arranged amazingly on a bowl though. Really weird, how did he do that?

"So, let's swim?" He asked, holding his hand out to me.

"How about this thing that you are building?" I asked.

"This can wait. But I can't." He replied, grabbing my hand and in a snap, he had me in his arms, carrying me bridal style causing me to blush as red as an apple.

"W-what the heck are you doing?!" I snapped, trying to jump out of his arms but he wouldn't let me . "Put me down, Stephan!"

Stephan just laughed and started walking while carrying me. "Nah, I guess I'd rather have you in my arms." He flashes me one of his teasing smile. "Let's swim together."

Before I could protest, Stephan already started running to the ocean and jumped to the water in a huge splash. He was holding my hand the entire time as we swim up to get some air.

"Darn it." I muttered and splashed him some water. " Why are you in a hurry?"

"No, I'm not." He replied, still holding my hand as we just float on our spot and just enjoyed the presence of each other. Our faces are so near and I can feel his heat even if we're in a water.

But then I just asked something that was out of the box.

"When do you think we'll get out of this island?"

Stephan's smile suddenly vanished then took a deep breath "No clue...but I'm not looking forward for that day though."

I gave him a confused look. "Why?"

"Because I want to stay longer here in the island with you." He confessed, turning away from me as he swims forward and he saw a rock and climbed it to sit on it. I was just following him behind as I lean on his lap with half of my body dipped in the water.

"Aren't you getting hurt because this place reminds you of your ex wife?" I asked, don't know where my courage came again. Learn how to shut your mouth, Ariana at times like this.

Stephan's expression changes once again. His eyes turns to me and he is not doing the first move to look away first. "Actually, something is different."

"Different?"

He nodded. "I am feeling something different. Before, I used to hate this island once I came here but little by little, I just felt like my chest had lightened. I don't feel anything at all anymore."

"You mean, you don't feel any pain or sorrow like the past few days?"

"Nope. I don't feel anything anymore and I don't know why." Stephan answered, taking some of my wet hairs on my face and sweeping them back away.

I felt glad. He doesn't feel sorrow anymore. That is usually the reasons we're fighting and not getting along before because of that hatred and sadness in him about this place and they were affecting me because I'm the only one with him. He is bringing all of his anger on me. I can still recall how bad our relationship to each other that time. We really don't get along.
"I really miss Papaya, you know." I just blurt out.

Stephan chuckled and slowly, I can feel his warm hand on my cheek and he started caressing it softly and I can't help but feel shivers down my spine as he stared at me like he was staring right through my soul. "I missed him too."

"Where could he be?" I avoided his eyes and looked at the sky instead. "Look! Look at the color of the sky, Stephan. It's kind of a mixture of orange and blue! It's so beautiful."

"Fuck, I don't care about it's color." He snapped as he pulled my face closer to him and kissed me deeply. My cheeks started to heat as his lips moved gracefully together with mine.

I actually enjoy kissing him. The best lips I ever tasted in my entire life! I didn't kiss that much men but I can really point out which one is Stephan's. Jeez, what am I saying?

I sounded like a pervert woman.

Darn this dirty thoughts.

I felt his hand combed though my hair as he deepened the kiss while he kissed me harder. He had his back leaned closer to me became he is sitting on the rock while I just lean on his lap still in the water. But our position is just so amazing that he can the full control of our kiss.

Then I felt his tongue seeking for an entrance and I immediately opened my lips and our kiss just gets hotter and deeper.

"Damn." Stephan harshly muttered as he pulls away a little and then kissed me more. He dove in the water as our kissing scene turns into a really make out scene. We are now in the same level, so he had the chance to put his hands around my waist while I place mine on his shoulders. His body is really warm and darn, his shoulders, chest and arms are so hard! Did he lived in a gym? He freaking is a Greek God with that heavenly body! I felt his hands went down dangerously passed his fingertips on my butt and he pulled me up to wrapped my legs around his waist. Our bodies much closer leaving no gap between us.

Making me really feel his body.

"Urg, what the heck are you doing to me, doll?" He groaned, slowly pulling away again, as our nose touched and so are our foreheads rested on each other.

I panted and wanted to feel his lips more. Then as our lips and tongue battle in dominance, I managed to answer his question. "I simply have no idea."

"How I really wished that you are not the woman they planned for me." He huskily whispered with a pained look on his face. "Things will be easier."

Yeah, I really hope so too, Stephan. I really hope things are just been easier for the both of us.