The girls never seemed to learn (not even the married ones)—or maybe they just enjoyed it. She wasn’t, for sure. “Why are we here?!” Heather...suddenly blurted out. She knew she had caught Mitch and John by surprise. She hadn’t even really been paying attention to what they were talking about, but she was savvy enough to see that they had an interest in each other… and to see that maybe John had an interest in her as well, at least, she thought he did. She also knew that sitting in a bar. " How did you survive," Laura asked, almost begging to know the secret."Martin and Kim, a couple we had recently met, noticed the change in our attitude and decided to butt in. Kim talked to me, and Martin talked with Henry. The idea was that if we couldn't talk to each other, maybe we could talk to them, with the understanding that they would then share our stories with no one but each other. It turned out to be quite easy to talk to Kim, I mean we all want to say what is on our mind, it is. “Because I feel like I’m getting in the way of her and Sasha.”Dawn frowned, sat up straight, and in a tone of realization, she said, “Because you don’t think you proposed to her for the right reasons.” It was a statement, not a question. She leaned over me, so that when I opened my eyes again I was staring at her and not the ceiling anymore, and she stated questioningly, “You proposed to her because of me?”I blinked twice. “Not just because of you.”“But you proposed because she nearly tried to. A few seconds passed in silence so she assumed either the owner of the cabin was out or it had been long since abandoned. She decided not to tempt fate and headed back the way she came to set out and find a less inhabited island. As she followed her footprints back in the sand she kept looking back over her shoulder to make sure no one was following her. As she rounded the last bend Lucy's stomach dropped when the spot where her kayak had been dragged up to was now empty. She looked around.