When we exited our hut we found the boys already busy, having dismantled their hut and were getting breakfast ready.

“Good morning, Skyboy, Blue, breakfast will be ready shortly. Rainbow is gathering some longer logs to use for the roof and should be back soon.”

“Why don’t I go see if he needs any help,” Blue suggested.

“Don’t be gone too long because breakfast should be ready shortly,” Moonshine said.

Blue walked cautiously through the forest until he saw Rainbow struggling with a long tree that had fallen across several smaller downed trees. He quietly stood still admiring the young man’s muscular physique, the way his muscles hardened when he lifted and the way his glutes looked so perfectly formed, round and hard. He gave his head a shake and moved forward to assist him.

“Here, let me give you a hand with that, Rainbow,” he said grabbing the log right beside Rainbow and we lifted together. We easily moved the long log over so that we could gather the shorter ones beneath it.

“Thanks, Blue, I was really struggling with that one. I wish I had a saw because that’s a really solid log and it would make a great cross beam for our hut.”

“Unless Skyboy took it out of the plane already, there should be an ax in the back of the plane,” Blue said. “Why don’t we take these smaller ones back and I’ll look for the ax. After breakfast we can cut it down to whatever size we need.”

They began gathering together the smaller logs and carried as many back as they could manage together.

“I was just going to get you guys, breakfast is ready,” I told them and I smiled because it’s good to see them getting past yesterday’s trouble.

Blue found the ax and he, along with the rest of us trudged into the forest and after a couple of hours we had the necessary materials to build a solid house instead of a hut. 

“That’s not to shabby," Rainbow said with his arm across the young man’s shoulder.

“I think it’s going to give us better protection from the storms and we can stand up inside now. I’m happy with it,” he said as Blue pulled him into a hug and his hand slid down to Rainbow’s ass where he gave him a gentle pat that lasted a bit too long. Moonshine and I noticed and smiled at each other.

We spent the rest of the day going about our tasks. Rainbow and Blue put the finishing touches on the cabin while Moonshine and I gathered water, fruit and vegetables for our meals. 

“Why don’t you go on without me and I’ll catch up with you,” Moonshine said.

“Is something wrong?” I asked and it’s then that I notice that he’s got an erection. “Ah do you want help with that,” I asked pointing to his stiff cock.

“Isn’t that cheating?”

“Not anymore since we all agreed to live in the communal lifestyle. Remember it’s share and share alike,” I reminded him and he stepped up to me pressing his mouth to mine and kissing me heatedly. 

“I’ve wanted to do it with you for so long but seeing how we’re both bottoms I gave up on the thought,” Moonshine said looking into my eyes and then kissing me again.

“I’m versatile like Rainbow, so if you’re willing so am I beautiful.”

“Oh fuck Sky, I’m more than willing, I’m needing that man cock in me.”

I dropped to my knees and looked at the beautiful hard man cock before me. It was long, cut and had a prominent head that oozed precum like a leaking faucet. I extended my tongue to lap up Moonshine’s delicious elixir and engulfed the rod down to its root.

“Are you sure that you’re a straight man because you suck a cock like a gay man, Sky?” Moonshine asked grabbing me by the head and thrusting his cock deep into my throat.

“Mmmhmmm,” I moaned around his rod sending erotic vibrations down the shaft to his balls.

I sucked his cock for almost ten minutes when I felt his balls tighten up and the head of his cock begin to swell. 

“I’m going to come, Sky,” he said and I kept sucking him. “I want you to fuck me so don’t swallow my cum,” he told me and I knew exactly what he wanted me to do with it.

“Mmmhmmm,” I moaned again and pushed him into his climax.

He was shooting what felt like gallons of sperm in my mouth until he slouched back against the tree, completely overwhelmed by his climax.

I got up, turned him around and I spit his cum into my hand. I lubed up his pucker and then my cock before putting the head of my cock to his entrance.

“Are you sure that you want this, Moonshine?” I asked.

“Oh fuck yes, I want you more than the air that I breathe,” he gasped out and I pushed firmly but not with too much force.

My cock began to breach his opening and Moonshine pushed back, impaling himself on my cock.

“Oh fuck, that feels divine,” he cooed, but I give him a moment to get used to me in him.

I wasn't as long as Rainbow and Blue; I was around eight hard but thicker around than they are and when he started moving back and forth on my cock, that’s when I took over. I placed one hand firmly on his shoulder and the other gripping his hip. My thrusts were neither fast nor were they slow but right where I want them to be to keep us from coming too quickly. I gave him a hard slap on his ass and, holy fuck, this kid came alive. His ass started bucking like a wild stallion that was trying to throw its rider. All bets were off as I increased my thrusts and slapped his ass repeatedly while I reached around him and pinched his hard nubs until he was screaming for his release.

“Fuck me, you bastard … breed your whore,” he screamed out and just hearing that raucous side of an otherwise gentile young man turned me on to a whole other level.

“Did you hear that,” Blue asked Rainbow as they stood back to take in their handiwork on the cabin,

“Yeah, I did, and it sounded like someone's in trouble,” he said and they took off running towards the sounds.

“Ride my cock you slut, ride like it’s the last cock that you’ll ever have,” I yelled out and slapped him harder on the ass.

“That’s Sky’s voice and he’s fucking Moonshine, because he only uses that talk when he’s playing,” Blue said.

They crept carefully through the trees until they could see the two men fucking. Blue looked over at Rainbow and his eyes are watching them fuck while his hand was busy jerking his cock.

“How I wish that was me getting fucked,” Rainbow said as he rapidly pounded his cock and hoped that his father would take the hint.

Blue watched as his lover fucked Moonshine and his cock was aching for attention. He glanced over at Rainbow who’d turned himself so that his hard round ass was aimed at Blue.

“Damn that boy has one beautiful ass,” he said and reached over to place his hands on the round globes. Rainbow pushed back into Blue’s hands and when Blue pulled the globes apart to insert his fingers, Rainbow moaned softly.

“You like that don’t you slut,” Blue said, getting caught up in the role playing game that Sky was playing.

“You know it, you bastard. Now are you going to fuck your slut or what,” he dared to ask.

“Oh yeah, you know I am, but you’ve been a bad slut and need a good spanking.”

Rainbow couldn’t believe that he was finally getting what he’d been hoping for, his father was going to fuck him. SWACK! SWACK! Rainbow felt two hard whacks hit his ass and his cock began leaking more precum then ever. WHACK! as another hit came down harder on his ass.

“Are you going to be a good slut from now on, bitch?”

“And if I say 'fuck no', what are you gonna to do about it?”

WHACK! WHACK! "Does that answer your question, you cock slut?”

“I’m still not convinced that you're man enough to tame my ass, you bastard.”

“I’ll show you who’s man enough to tame your ass,” he said, and pushed Rainbow over a stack of logs.

“I’m coming,” both Sky and Moonshine said together, and while one shot his seed on the tree the other filled his partner’s ass. 

They thrust and jerked until they were spent and exhausted. Sky pulled his cock from Moonshine’s ass, turned him to him and kissed him tenderly.

WHACK! WHACK!

“Do you think what I’m thinking,” Moonshine asked as we crept towards the sound of someone getting spanked. “Wow! That was fast don’t you think,” Moonshine whispered to me.

“I’d say but let’s not interrupt them because it’s a very delicate thread that’s holding them together there.”

“I’m more worried about the aftermath, when he realizes that he actually fucked his son and not some communal dude,” Moonshine said and I agreed.

“We’ll just have to be there for them and hope that they don’t hate one another after.

“I’m going to show you boy just how a real man fucks his bitch,” Blue said in a breath from Rainbow’s ear.

He spit several times into his hand and rubs the spit into Rainbow’s anxiously waiting hole. He spit again and rubbed it around his cock before he placed it to Rainbow’s pucker.

“Brace yourself, slut,” he warned and thrust fully into Rainbow’s ass, burying his cock balls deep in his stinging ass.

“Oh fuck, that hurts,” he cried out and Blue fell on Rainbow’s back.

“I’m so sorry, Son, do we stop or do we continue,” he whispered and Josh then knew that it was his father and not some role player who was going to fuck him.

He turned his head and looked into the tear-filled eyes of the man who gave him life and said, “Yes, please, Daddy, please continue,” he whispered back.

Brandon lifted away and began a gentle rhythm until he felt his son pushing back to meet his thrusts. Bit by bit Brandon picked up momentum until he and Josh were moving harmoniously.

“Fuck me harder, Dad; pound your boy’s ass harder and deeper,” Josh yelled out and Brandon gave him everything he asked for and more. “Rougher, you fucker, tame my ass,” he demanded of his father.

“Oh, I’m going to tame that wild ass of yours, slut,” he yelled out as he began to spank him again.

“That’s it … ride my ass Brandon,” he yelled and gave his father more power to push his cock harder and deeper.

“You want my cock now? You, cock-boy, now ride me like the man that I raised you to be, Josh,” he demanded of his son.

“Let me up so I can turn around and face you while you’re fucking me,” he begged, and Brandon pulled his cock from Joshua’s ass. Josh lay down on the moss-covered ground and pulled his father down with him. Brandon kissed him wildly as he slid his cock fully back into his son’s ass.

He broke their kisses to trail his mouth down his sinuous neck, pausing long enough to leave his mark before moving down to his son’s erect nipples. He bit them first before he gently suckled them causing Josh to thrash back and forth in an erotic frenzy.

“Please stop, Dad, you’re torturing me,” he cried out but Brandon continued his tormenting of Josh’s tender nubs. Josh was in tears when Brandon finally moved on, raising up on his hands and gaining a faster, harder and deeper rhythm that had the both of them moving towards their climax.

“I can’t hold back anymore, Dad. I’m gonna come,” he said weakly as he blasted the most powerful climax that he’d ever had before until him and his father were together.

“I’m coming, Son,” Brandon announced and buried his cock as deep as he could before shooting his seed deep into his son’s ass. 

As they both continued to shoot they came together in a sensually climatic kiss that lasted as long as their climax.

“I love you, Josh,” Brandon whispered against his son’s lips.

“I love you most, Daddy, and thank you,” he whispered back pulling his father to him in a powerful hug and kiss.

“I guess that plan of using earth names went out the window didn’t it,” Marc asked when he and Andrew joined the two men who were still joined together.

They all laughed, in unison saying, "I guess so!"

“I always knew what you were planning, babe, and I thank you. I just needed to come to terms with having sex with Josh on my terms and in my way.”

“So was it all that you had hoped for Josh?” Andrew asked.

“Nah … it was one thousand percent better. What I don’t know is, how the fuck do you take that massive cock of his every night and day, Marc, and still be able to walk?”

“It takes practice and you might want to ask your partner that also because you’re almost as big as your father.”

“Maybe we need to swap positions once in a while,” Josh offered.

“Do you hear me complaining, stud? You just keep on being my top and if you ever have the need to bottom, go see your dad and let me have macho stud here,” he said giving me a kiss that really rocked.

We walked back to camp and enjoyed a swim together before we made a quick dinner and retired for the night.

“Are you alright, Brandon?” I asked him because he’d been a tad quiet ever since we  returned to camp.

He and I took a brief stroll along the shoreline to talk and also to give the guys a chance to have some privacy too.

“Surprisingly I am very okay with what Josh and I shared. I was somewhat apprehensive at first to have sex with him, but while watching you and Andrew going at it like two dogs in heat, I kind of got turned on. Of course seeing him stroking himself off didn’t hurt any either, but when he turned his fucking plump ass towards me that really did it. I just said to myself 'when in Rome, do as the Romans do' and the rest is history.”

“It was fucking hot seeing you fucking him and knowing that you were father and son only made it that much hotter.”

“Will I do it again, I’m not sure, babe and it’s got nothing to do with him being my son. But I’ve always been the type of man that stuck with one person and I don’t know if I would or could share you if we were ever to leave this island. What are your thoughts on this,” he asked.

“Well babe, like I told you weeks ago when we first began our relationship, I was torn between my love for my wife and what I was beginning to feel for you. I’m sure of one thing though, I’m definitely a one person man. Monogamy has always been something that I believed in and still do. Now before you go asking me about Mary and what I’ll do if and when we ever get back home I really don’t know. I’m more than likely going to get a divorce, because with me being gone, I doubt that she’s given up dear ole Clyde.”

“I want you to know that I am very in love with you and I’ll stand by whatever decision that you make. Now I’m tired and need some sleep, today was not only draining for me physically but also emotionally.”

When we entered the cabin we found the boys spooning together and sleeping. We assumed our spooning position after a lengthy kiss and drifted off to sleep.

The next morning we’re re wakened by the sound of a plane flying overhead. We all rushed out to the beach just to find that the plane was leaving.

"Do you think they spotted our plane, Daddy?" Josh asked.

"I don't see how they could have missed us," Brandon replied.

We sat on the beach and eat what food we had left from the night before. We spent the next few hours waiting to see if the plane or a boat would show up. When it didn’t, our hopes were dashed and we decide that we needed to gather some more food for our next meal.

"Daddy, what if they come back while we're gone off gathering food?" Josh asked and I could sense his concern because it mirrored my own.

"Why don't you two stay here while Marc and I go gather the food?" Brandon suggested.

"I guess so, but what do we do if they return," he asked and I suddenly realized that Josh was more dependent on Brandon then he was before the plane flew over. He’s more like a little boy waiting for his Dad to tell him what to do.

"Just make yourselves visible ... try rebuilding the fire," he said.

With that plan in place, we headed off into the jungle and began to gather some fruit and wild vegetables.

"Do you think they really saw us, Brandon?" I asked, having already formed my own opinion.

"No, not really.... they were flying way too high to be a search plane. It was probably an island hopper heading to the Bahamas."

"So why give the guys false hope, Brandon?"

"They needed to have their spirits lifted if only for a little while. Didn’t you notice how Josh reverted to a little boy depending on me for his security? I haven’t seen him like that since his mother got sick and died."

"I did notice that about him. You don't really think we're going to be found do you," I asked him.

"Seriously, Marc... no, I don't. Someone would've found us by now. What’s it been since we crashed, months?" I simply nod because I, too had my hopes up for a rescue.

I’m wondering what Mary must be thinking and doing back home ever since we disappeared. I’m positive of one thing and that she’s not sneaking around anymore with Clyde. 

“I’m sure that Mary is happy as a lark with me gone. Now she can openly carry on with Clyde and not worry about being caught,” I told him as we finish gathering what we could carry and make our way back to the beach. 

The boys have a fire going and they are staring out into the blank ocean. As soon as Josh saw his father he was back to being that little boy again.

"Daddy, there's been nothing since that plane flew over here earlier," Josh announced disappointedly.

"Well don't give up hope, Son ... someone will find us eventually," he said.

We stored our provisions in what was left of the plane and worked on reinforcing our cabin’s roof with palm fronds. We decide to swim as a diversion and after awhile we headed in for a nap. But first Brandon and I build up the fire. Once we were inside our hut, Brandon asked me if I was still comfortable with us as a couple.

"Brandon, you've been really quiet ever since we had our conversation last night," he commented.

"I'm still trying to come to terms with never being rescued, Marc. I’m sorry that I’m quiet and it has nothing to do with you and me. I told myself that I will deal with the issues concerning us when we get back, if ever.  I’m in love with you, Marc, and that’s a very strong concern for me. It doesn’t even bother me that I went gay since we’ve been here, because guys have done that when put in long term, all male situations. You know like going to prison, all male boarding schools and stuff like that. But what does concern me about our relationship is what happens to this gay side that I’m embracing? Do I automatically reverse back to my heterosexual behavior and detest you and what we have together or what?”  

“I understand what you are saying, babe, because this gay thing, it seems to go against everything I've ever believed in," I confess. “I also have been thinking about what to do if we’re rescued and get back home. I've fallen in love with you also and even that bothers me because we’re two men and I have never had one single gay thought in my life. Just how do I handle that with Mary, my family and friends who have always known me as a straight man?"

"What do you mean, buddy?"

"Well I'm married and I loved my wife, but now I've fallen in love with you as well. Do we sneak around like a couple having an affair or do I leave my wife to be with you and come out as a gay man?"

"I never gave that any thought, Marc. I wouldn't want to be the reason you and Mary split up. I like Mary and she is such a sweet lady," he said. "I guess it's something that only you can decide, Marc. If it's easier, I'll find a place of my own to stay so that you aren't tempted or pressured while we are still marooned here."

"No, Brandon, that's not what I meant. I want you here with me. I guess I have to sort this thing out for myself. I do know this, that I am in love with you," and I pulled him to me and we kissed so tenderly and passionately as we held each other tight.

"I love you also, Marc, and I want to make love to you for the rest of our lives if you'll have me."

"Are you proposing to me, Brandon?"

"Yes, Marc, I am if you will have me for a mate."

"Brandon, I don't know what to say," I said, looking into his eyes. "Do I have to give you an answer this moment?"

"Of course not, my love ... you take all the time you need. Marc, I just wanted you to know how much I love you."

"I love you so much, Brandon, but this is moving so fast that I need time to think it over. I want to, but I just don't know, Brandon. It was one thing to kiss you, but when you fucked me that first time it really did something inside me that I'm having a hard time understanding. I know that we’ve been a very loving couple these months and I’m so thankful that I had you in my life during this time. I won’t lie to you either, our sex life has been way better than I ever enjoyed with Mary and you can’t even imagine how much that’s weighing on me. If someone was to ask me to choose this very minute who I wanted most in my life I would have to choose you, sweetheart.

"Really, Marc, you would truly choose me over Mary at this moment?”

“I would and I do,” I said.

“Good, now I pronounce you both married. Kiss each other already so I can get some sleep,” Joshua growled from his side of the cabin.

We kissed passionately before we cuddle into our spooning position and soon we were asleep, with me snuggling in the security of Brandon's arms.

I awoke in the middle of the night, startled to find myself alone. I felt around for Brandon, but he was nowhere to be found. I got up and slowly moved outside hoping to find him close by.

"Brandon are you out here," I asked quietly, but got no reply.

I walked down towards the beach and I could see him staring out into the ocean. The moonlight was bright and his silhouette was striking.

"Can't you sleep, babe," I asked coming up behind him wrapping my arms around his waist and resting my head against his shoulder.

"I'm sorry. Did I wake you," he asked.

"No, but when I woke and you weren't there I wanted to find you."

"I'm fine, buddy, I just couldn't sleep," he said and I knew that something wasn’t right with him.

"Is something bothering you, Brandon?"

"Marc, do you really want to know what's wrong?"

"Of course I do ... did I do something to anger you 'cause you seem to be angry," I replied.

"Marc, I'm really in love with you and I have been for months now. But it’s killing me to hold you close all these months and wonder if I'm pressuring you into this gay relationship," he blurted out. "I know that I said I wouldn't pressure you, but Marc, I'm going to find a new place to stay until you figure out what you want."

"I ah... but Brandon..." I was at a loss for words standing there.

"Marc, let's go back and go to sleep before the sun comes up," he said, walking off towards the cabin.

Why did that fucking plane have to fly over our little paradise and drudge up buried feelings? Why! I was mentally screaming as I slowly walked back to the cabin. I lay there in Brandon's arms, hearing the gentle breathing of his sleep and I felt so content. He hasn’t touched me sexually ever since that fucking plane flew over our island and that’s bothering me also. I’m so upset over the thought of him moving out of the cabin that I can’t sleep. I notice the firmness of his cock as it rests against my ass and I want him. Am I still in love with my wife or are these feelings for Brandon just that, misplaced affection because my wife is not with me? I can’t seem to get a handle on it which is just another thing tearing me apart inside. Although I enjoy having sex with Brandon, I’m still not completely comfortable with the idea that I’m gay. I have spent hours playing my past back trying to find just one time where I had a gay encounter and I can’t for the life of me find one. Well, other then the kissing session that I had with my brother, I can’t think of any. Then my mind replays articles that I read when my brother came out about how some men’s gay tendencies don’t come out until later in life when someone awakens it in them. Could that be Brandon and me, could we have awaken our sleeping inner gay guy in each other I found myself wondering.

Brandon shifted in his sleep and pulled me even tighter to him as he snuggled his face into the back of my neck. I could feel his breath on my skin as he slept and it sent shivers down my spine, the good kind.

"How could I have fallen in love with you, Brandon?" I asked myself. "I've always been so masculine and never once did a man turn me on sexually.” But here is Brandon, holding me tightly to him as if he might lose me if he were to let me go. I could feel something deep inside me, a deep kindred spirit for him and that's what I was trying to understand. He'd told me he was going to move out of our cabin so that I can figure out what it is that I’m feeling. Now I find myself not wanting him to go because I’m afraid that if he goes it will be the end of us as not only a couple but as friends also, and I can’t live with that.

I turned to face him and found myself almost at the brink of tears.

"I don't want you to leave me alone here, Brandon, because if you do it will be the total end of us. I can’t live without you in my life, I’m not delirious with lack of sleep I’m deliriously in love with the only man who has ever truly made me happy but has filled my heart completely with the true meaning of love." I said almost yelling. "I love you and I want you to make love to me," I said as he sleepily smiled at me.

"Marc, I love you more than I could have ever imagined. I never thought that I could love a man but yet here I am in love with you," he said, looking into my eyes. "I don't want you to be doing this just to keep me from moving out until you decide."

"I've decided, Brandon... and I want you to share my life with me and not as an affair should we ever get back home. I don't know if we'll be here for years or if we'll be rescued next week, but it's you I want."

"What about Mary?"

"I’ve crossed that bridge and I am going to get a divorce if we ever get rescued. Would you now make love to me before I rape you myself," I asked pulling him into a kiss and we chuckled when we heard Josh grumble.

“Wake up babe we’re going to fuck because as long they’re awake and fucking no one is going to be sleeping,” he says.

“I was hoping that you would wake up and want to fuck,” Andrew replied, already awake and horny.

I pulled Brandon on top of me as we kissed so deeply and passionately. Brandon took his time as he movesd down my neck kissing and nibbling as he moved. He slowly started to kiss his way down to my nipples and gently bit on one and then sucked it so hard that I was thrashing about with pleasure.

"Oh fuck, lover, that is so sensuous," I said as he moved to the other one and again I was in ecstasy. “But what I really want and need is your cock in me.”

“I’m with you on that feeling, Marc,” Andrew said from his side of the hut.

Brandon slowly moved down to my throbbing cock and took it entirely into his mouth sending waves of erotic pleasure through me. Slowly, he pulled off my cock and then swallowed it again, doing it over and over again until I was crazy with my need to come. He quickened his pace on my cock and for several minutes he took me to the pinnacles of pleasure, keeping me walking that tightrope that with one powerful suck and I’m climaxing. He’s been doing this so long that I’m begging him to either take me or make me come.

"Oh fuck, Brandon, you have me so turned on and needy that you had best fuck me now or suck me off because I need to come," I howled as Brandon plunged his tongue deep into my ass. "Oh yeah that’s it I'm gonna cum," I shouted and Brandon quickly moved away from my pucker and took my cock into his mouth just as I shot my first explosion of sweet cum. Brandon put  two fingers into my hole as I shot rope after rope of hot cum into Brandon's mouth as he fucked my ass with his fingers. I continued shooting a couple of more shots until I’ve surrendered all that I had. Brandon dropped my spent cock and nipping, he moved up to kiss me with all the passion he felt giving me a taste of my own cum.

"I love you, Marc," he whispered in my ear.

"I love you also, sweetheart," and we kissed deep and tenderly. "Fuck me, lover, hard and deep," I pleaded. The anticipation was overwhelming as Brandon placed his cock to the entrance of my ass. He slowly but firmly pushed his cock into my ass.

"Oh yeah that's it, lover," I yelled as the head popped through and the pain was instant but ceased more quickly this time.

Brandon bent and kissed me as he waited for me to relax. After a few moments, I was able to relax and Brandon slowly pulled almost all the way out before pushing back in. We soon found our rhythm and made love to the music of our beating hearts gazing into each other’s eyes as he sped up his thrusts. I was meeting each thrust with a push of my own, bringing both of us, once again to the edge.

"I'm going to come again," I said as I started shooting my seed again.

Brandon pounded my ass like a stallion in heat as I continued to shoot my cum over and over until he was reaching his own climax exploding deep inside my burning ass.

"Fuck me ,lover," I whispered as Brandon filled my ass with his hot seed.

I was pumping as rapidly as Brandon continued to pound my ass.

"Yeah, sweetheart, ride my cock," I howled as he continued to shoot his cum.

Brandon finally collapsed on top of me and we joined in a passionate kiss.

"I love you, Marc, with all my heart," Brandon said as he slowly pulled his softening cock from my ass. "Are we alright, you and I?" he asked?

"I'm not sure about you, lover, but I'm more than alright because you've stolen my heart, Brandon. I love you so much and I never thought I'd ever in my life say that to another man." 

As our post-orgasmic high ebbed, we cuddled together into our spoon position and fell asleep as we swooned in the afterglow of our love making.

"Daddy, get up. There's a ship!" Josh yelled sometime later that morning.

Brandon and I got up quickly, threw on some shorts and rushed outside, shielding our eyes in the late morning sun. Andrew had stoked up the fire and it was blazing away. We ran down to the shore and there it was, about one or two miles out was what appeared to be a cruise ship. Brandon ran back to the wrecked plane to get the flare gun. He fired it off high into the sky hoping the ship would see the flare. He waited for a few moments then fired another flare. The wait seemed interminable and then one went off from the ship. Without hesitation, Brandon fired off a third flare and immediately the ship fired off one more.

"What's that mean?" I asked.

"They've seen our flare and know we need help."

"Are we going to be rescued, Daddy?" Josh asked.

"It certainly looks like it, Son."

We watch as the ship came closer to shore, but stayed about a mile out. A smaller boat was discharged and approached the shore with two crewmen aboard.

"My God, are we glad to see you!" Brandon exclaimed as the guys came ashore. "Our plane crashed months ago and we'd just about given up hope of ever being rescued."

"The captain saw your flares and sent us to see what assistance we could offer."

The crewman radioed back to the ship and told the Captain that there were four men stranded here on the island. Within a few minutes, we gathered up our luggage, hopped aboard the small boat and headed back to the cruise ship. Brandon and I watched the island grow smaller as we got farther from it. My heart sank lower and lower as our paradise moved farther and farther away and as it became but a speck on the horizon, so did my hope for a future with Brandon.