Bedtime Story Epilogue

Anna had been stuck on this small deserted island for several months. She had gotten into a routine or should I say a rut. She learned how to fish and the trees provided tasty fruit for her to eat. She didn't have anybody to hound her. She didn't need money for anything. It really was an ideal life style. After all her troubles it was nice to finally be rid of them. But there was one thing missing. The reason she didn't marry any of the men that pined after her was because she had never been in love. The one thing that she always told herself was that when she married, it would be because she fell completely in love with someone. Now it seems like the chances of that happening are rather slim. Still she consoled herself with the realization that you can't have everything you want in life and the things she struggled with before no longer torment her.

But fate doesn't always follow the plans we make for ourselves and one day she saw a man, passed out on the beach. He had dark brown hair and amazing blue eyes. To stare into them was like staring into forever. A feeling came over her like she was drowning but never wanted to come up for air. Was this what falling in love is like she thought to herself. To have this intense emotion for someone she had never even talked to. She became lost in a dream but it was only for a moment. When she came back to herself, she checked to see if the man was breathing. Once she was convinced he was alive, She slapped him in the face very hard.

The mysterious man awoke quickly, jumped up and looked around. When the only person he saw was Anna he let down his guard.

"What did you do that for?" he asked with a slightly bruised ego.

"I was trying to wake you up" Anna explained playfully.

"Couldn't you have been more gentle about it." The man responded.

"I could have." Anna confessed, " but it wouldn't have been as much fun." She smiled when she said it.

"Well, I don't think it was that funny. Where am I anyway?" He asked changing the subject.

"I don't know." Anna answered, "I was left here to rot several months ago and they didn't tell me where I was."

"You've been here all by yourself and you've managed to survive. I'm impressed." The man replied.

"Why? because I'm a 'girl'" Anna teased. "You think beautiful girls can't do anything for themselves."

"I never said you were beautiful." The man shot back.

"Are you blind? Everyone thinks I'm beautiful" Anna responded.

"Does everyone think you are modest too?" The man quipped.

"Well, It's hard to be modest when you are as amazing as I am!" Anna explained.

"Maybe you're just not trying hard enough" The man responded, "Is there anyway to get off this island?"

"Not if your lucky" Anna said smugly.

"What is that suppose to mean?"

"Come on, every man dreams of being trapped on a deserted island with a beautiful woman." Anna rolled her eyes.

"I never said you were beautiful!" the man shot back.

"Then maybe you haven't taken a long enough look" Anna said with a stern voice. Her voice changed from playful to serious so fast it mad the man a bit nervous.

"It wouldn't be proper to stare at a women like that." The man protested.

"Seriously," Anna said "It's just the two of us, take as long a look as you like and then tell me I'm not beautiful."

Anna posed and the man took a very long look at Anna.

"Well, I suppose you look alright" The man finally said.

"Alright! just alright! Listen here, this island and everything on it belongs to me, including you. So unless you want to face some major consequences, you better think about it again."

"Since you put it that way, you are the most beautiful woman I have ever had the priledge of laying my eyes on."

"That's better" Anna said very satisfied with herself.

"Now that we have settled that question, what do you propose we do now?" The man asked.

Anna didn't answer. She approached the man slowly. When she reached him she pressed her lips agains his. A spark of electricity passed between them and they both felt something they had never felt before and they both liked it. He thought to himself that maybe he was lucky after all. All the misfortune that he had suffered had led him to this deserted island and this beautiful woman.

"Wow" the man said when the kiss was over, "I think you are right, maybe I am lucky."

"Of course I'm right" Anna confirmed, "I"m always right. The sooner you learn that, the better off you are going to be."

"I think I already have." the man answered and this time it was him who initiated the kiss. He put his arms around Anna and she melted into them. Being stuck on the island wouldn't be so bad now that she had someone that she could do anything she wanted with.

Anna and the man fell competely in love with each other and lived on that island happily ever after.