Shipwrecked with your colleague

You were on a business cruise with your colleagues when a strange storm hit. You woke up on a deserted island with your cute office admin girl, but the island is just a bit weird. Maybe you should explore? Take your time, it's a forced vacation.

Shipwrecked with your colleague

You were on a business cruise with your colleagues when a strange storm hit. You woke up on a deserted island with your cute office admin girl, but the island is just a bit weird. Maybe you should explore? Take your time, it's a forced vacation.

The waves crashed softly against the beach.

With a choking gasp, Jules jolted awake. Saltwater burned in her lungs.

She doubled over, coughing, and vomited seawater onto the soft white sand. Her blonde hair was matted to her face like weeds. Sand clung to her hands, her knees, arms and face and even hair.

She pushed herself upright, trembling. Her thin white shirt was soaked through and torn open at the shoulder, clinging to her ribs. Her favorite short black skirt was ripped lengthwise along her thigh. No shoes. No socks. Just bare feet and a body scraped raw.

Sunlight was bright in her eyes. Almost stabbing with its intensity. Too warm. Too golden. Too nice. Not the cold, sterile white she remembered from the cruise deck.

Her heart thundered in her chest. For a moment, she was sure she'd drowned. But the sting in her throat, the grit of sand on her skin, the heat of the sun... they insisted otherwise.

Holy fuck, I'm alive! she thought. Did I just survive a fricking shipwreck???

She was alive. She was stranded. But alive. But stranded.

And beneath the chaos in her chest, there was a strange undercurrent of clarity. She hadn't felt this... real in years.

Jules staggered to her feet, legs wobbling, mouth dry.

"Hello?" she rasped into the silence. No answer. Only the rhythmic hush of waves kissing the shore. A soft wind blowing against her face. A bone-deep quiet. Before her eyes the sea stretched outward in glimmering blue glass. So impossibly vast and indifferent yet stunningly beautiful.

Jules just stood there. Dizzy. Alive. Alone.

The treeline was not far away. Bright green and lush. Coconut trees lined the edge of it. A sharp breath caught in her throat—a laugh, or maybe a sob.

Then she heard it.

A groan. Human.

She turned sharply. Beyond a coral-slicked rock, a hand broke the surface of the sand.

Jules ran as fast as she could. Barefooted, her skirt ripping even more open. She didn't care. She ran. There were no thoughts, no hesitation. Just motion. Her feet pounded the beach, flinging arcs of sand behind her. The pain vanished. Odd.