The next day

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You wake up to the sounds of exotic birds chirping away and the ambient sound of the waves crashing against the beach as the tide is slowly drawn away from you, indicating that it's probably still early morning. With no interruptions during the night you slept well, even if it was really uncomfortable.

You can feel the soft skin of someone's arm wrapped around your torso, reaching up to your shoulder and behind your neck, gripping you gently like a seatbelt. Amber's head rests on your chest and she's fast asleep, not to mention one of her legs are stretched over yours. As you turn your head to face hers you can see her closely and you notice all the imperfections of her perfect face. Her skin is completely clear but strands of perfectly straight jet black hair are sprawled across her face. Her lips look so soft and delicate, you only see a small crack positioned in the middle, due to the lack of fresh water and presence of heat. You can't help {if talk_to_amber == true}thinking about the kiss yesterday{else}it{endif} when you bring your finger to her lips and gently caress it, and you think she responded with a hint of a smile but it's too difficult to tell if she did it consciously or not, so you quickly withdraw it in case she wakes up.

Standing up, you take a look at the island around you. As beautiful as it is, you still might die if you're not careful. With food, water and shelter being the three things you need to survive, you decided you will work on the latter.

You can already visualise the huts that you are going to construct. The problem is that you don't actually have everything. The one thing you still don't know how to make is the actual wall. At first you were thinking about using mud and sticks, but at the same time, it's not very windy for an island, so there isn't actually a need for a wall.

“I think we should start building shelter.” You say.

Everyone groggily agrees with you and in no time at all, the few of you that were awake enough to do so, found a suitable place, not far at all from where you slept but just far enough that the ground was solid enough to support the wooden posts. You carefully make six markings in the ground, in a circular fashion to represent where the posts are going to be. The hexagonal shape of the hut is an interesting choice but you think it would look better than a standard box. With the size of your markings, you estimate that around six people could fit in here, but five could fit comfortably.

Standing around you are Axel, Selena, Will and Rina. The rest are either still sleeping or looking for more food and a source of freshwater. Since they can't exactly read your mind, you need to order them to do things. You hate giving orders because you fear that it makes you look authoritarian, but it has to be done.

You tell them, except Axel, to start digging holes where you made the markings, while you and Axel go and get the bamboo posts. While you're transporting the wood across, you remember that Selena can make good netting, and that she might be able to make some sort of roof, so you take some banana leaves back too.

After a little help from everyone there, you've been able to lift the posts into the holes and used a boulder that Will found earlier on to hammer the bamboo posts into the ground. It's not long before you have six sturdy bamboo posts in the ground at pretty much the same height. Even though the posts stood at just over five and a half feet, you didn't mind having to duck down to get in. A shelter is a shelter.

Meanwhile, Selena taught Rina how to make a bamboo leaf curtain, and by the time you had finished slotting and securing the horizontal poles into the grooved at the top of the posts, they had made four panels. Two more and that's a whole roof. Using the remaining bamboo poles, you and Will created a thing that looked like a tripod with six legs instead of three, then bound the tops of each one to form a star looking thing. The five of you then hauled it up and held each pole to the already sturdy vertical poles, then tightly wrapped vines around it to secure it. All of you took a step back to admire the half-days worth of work when Axel realises something.

“What about the roof?” Asks Axel.

All eyes are on you now and you mentally facepalm. You completely forgot about the banana leaf curtains that Selena and Rina made.

“Fuck,” you curse. “I forgot about that, how are we gonna reach the top to secure the panels of banana leaves?”

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“Julian, why don't you put me on your shoulders,” says Rina, with a smile on her cute face, “I think I could reach like that.”

“Sure,” you say, remembering the kiss and wondering if this is her, shooting her shot. You turn around and gesture for her to climb on your shoulders. You then squat down as much as you can without worrying about not being able to get back up.

Rina positions herself behind you and propels herself upwards, using your shoulders as a handle. You can feel the feeling of her crotch pressed against the back of your head again. Using all the strength you can muster, you drive your feet into the ground and push using every muscle fibre in your leg. You let out a small groan, clamping Rina's dangling legs with your arms, making sure she's locked on to you.

“This okay?” you ask, causing her to smile.

“Yep, now move me to the hut,” she replies.

“Selena, could you pass me that,” says Rina, gesturing at one of the banana leaf panels.

The rest of the group watches as Rina takes it and reaches up to the highest point of the hut and swiftly ties one end to it, then working her way down and sequentially wrapping the vine to secure the banana leaf panel to the roof structure. As you watch her, you subconsciously move your hand across her bare legs. With only some khaki shorts that everyone seems to have, her legs are smooth and you gently move your hand up and down, then start massaging them. You can feel Rina's legs relax a little, and seeing her tensions diminish like that encourages you to carry on.

“That feels good,” she says.

“What?” you ask, playing dumb.

“Massaging my legs like that,” says Rina.

“Oh yeah,” you say. “Maybe you could return the favour?”

Although she doesn't reply, she smiles and you take that as enough acknowledgement for it to mean yes.

After finishing four of the panels, you notice Rina starting to look a bit uncomfortable.

“My arms ache a little,” Rina says, while letting go of the last vine of that panel and watching her unwrap her legs from your neck. You help her off and the two of you sit next to each other on the sandy floor.

“We can finish it off,” says Axel, gesturing at Selena and Will.

“Thanks guys,” you say.

You look at Rina and smile, to which she returns.

As much as you want to continue that kiss you had yesterday, you're not sure this is the right place to do so. Rina seems to have this aura around her, that makes you so gentle and calm, and you feel relaxed whenever you're with her. It's a good effect and she seems to be into you too.

You spend the next few minutes with your legs stretched out and arms supporting you from behind, watching Will and Axel boost up Selena to secure the remaining banana leaf panels to the bamboo structure of the hexagonal hut.

“It looks good,” says Rina, as everyone else agrees in unison.

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“Julian, put me on your shoulders again,” says Selena, with a smile on her cute face, “Try to actually hold me this time.”

“It was your fault we fell,” you say, rolling your eyes. You turn around and gesture for her to climb on your shoulders. You then squat down as much as you can without worrying about not being able to get back up.

Selena positions herself behind you and once again, propels herself upwards, using your shoulders as a handle. You can feel the familiar feeling of her crotch pressed against the back of your head again. Using all the strength you can muster, you drive your feet into the ground and push using every muscle fibre in your leg. You let out a small groan like last time, but this time you clamp Selena's legs with your arms, making sure she's locked on to you.

“This better?” you playfully ask, causing her to grin.

“Come on then, move to the hut,” she whines.

“I am,” you retort.

“Axel, could you pass me that,” says Selena, gesturing at one of the banana leaf panels.

The rest of the group watches as Selena takes it and reaches up to the highest point of the hut and swiftly ties one end to it, then working her way down and sequentially wrapping the vine to secure the banana leaf panel to the roof structure. As you watch her, you subconsciously move your head to watch her hand movements, causing her grip on your head to become tighter as she squeezes her legs together. You realise what's happening and decide to have some fun.

When Selena is about to start attaching the second panel, you tilt your head back, making sure to push into her crotch and you could have sworn you head the faintest moan come from the voice on your shoulders.

“Fuck,” she hisses.

“What?” you ask, playing innocent.

“Nothing,” says Selena.

You decide its time to try something else. You shrug your shoulders, disguising the furthered attempt as a way to adjust her on your shoulders and from another person's perspective, it looks completely normal and harmless. As you do this, she uses one arm to clutch onto your head and you can feel her legs tightening like a vice. You're pretty sure you can hear her moans now, and you can definitely feel her gyrate her hips in a weak attempt to stimulate her clitoris.

You let her continue to build up some pleasure until you suddenly shrug her off your shoulders and clumsily catch her in a sort of piggyback position.

“My legs kinda hurt,” you say, while letting go of Selena and watching her unwrap her arms from your neck. The two of you lock eyes and you give a one smirk to let her know you won this game, to which she furrows her brows and clenches her fists, but ultimately just throws herself to the floor and sits there, knowing she can't say anything.

“We can finish it off,” says Axel, gesturing at Rina and Will.

“Thanks guys,” you say, taking a seat next to Selena on the sand.

You just look at her and grin, to which she punches your arm playfully.

“Whoa,” you say, rubbing your arm. “That punch was almost as weak as your attempt to get off.”

This, in turn, gains you another punch to the arm, along with a smile and an eye roll from Selena.

You seem to have this chemistry with her that you've not really had with anyone else. It's really great and that the two of you can talk serious, but also tease each other flirtatiously like that.

You spend the next few minutes with your legs stretched out and arms supporting you from behind, watching Will and Axel boost up Rina to secure the remaining banana leaf panels to the bamboo structure of the hexagonal hut.

“It looks good,” says Selena, as everyone else agrees in unison.

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We just need one more hut now, to house everyone. You go over to the side of the already erected hut and make more markings perfectly parallel to it, about two metres away.

Out of nowhere you hear the one voice you resent the most.

“There he is,” says Adam, walking towards you with the rest of the islanders.

“What?” You ask, genuinely confused.

“Why didn't you tell us?” Asks Neela.

“Tell you? Tell you what?” You ask, still confused.

“Bro, don't play dumb, we found your secret stash of supplies.” Says Roman.

“What the actual fuck are you talking about?” You ask, slightly louder.

This time it's Adam that speaks, more like a whisper, but nevertheless he leans in and speaks in a low voice. “You found a bunch of supplies buried under where we all woke up and hid them, didn't you.”

The only thing you found buried was the knife, and that wasn't even found by you. Which means one thing, someone else dug up the rest of the stuff and stashed it somewhere, and the blame is on you because you confessed to mysteriously finding the knife yesterday.

“Grab him,” says Adam.

Will takes a step towards you and you can see that in his eyes he is unsure of what to do, but before he can decide, you adjust your footing defensively, ready to fight anyone. You're not going down without a fight.

Instead you feel a heavy grip on your shoulders. You look back and see that the hand belongs to Adam.

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