‘Kel ……. Pete’ ‘Something’s come up. I need three days off …….. starting now’ ‘It’s not like I ask often ……. and you can dea... with the Harper quote for me ….. come on ….’ The desperation must have been audible in my voice and Kel, my business partner, knowing me of old caved in ‘If you must Pete, if you must.’ Chucking on my leathers I jump on my bike and speed home. Throwing my favourite Cardin, light grey, wool suit, shirt tie and all the usual stuff in my saddle bags, I grab my passport and. ” Matti didn’t want to get into details, so he left it at that.Yvonne looked very surprised and said, “That shocks me, Matti. I thought you guys were a perfect couple, from what Dawn told me when I spoke with her on the phone. We haven’t talked recently, but now that you tell me this, it might explain why she didn’t sound very happy when I last spoke to her. In fact, we didn’t speak for very long, which also surprised me at the time. What happened between you two?”Matti didn’t know what he. ..Leaving her parent’s aside (and I transiently thought leaving them aside would be a wonderful idea), she was over the major hurdle in her academic life, she would be employed locally and we had de facto settled into a happy life together. There was no doubt in my mind that I need not look any further for a marriage partner, and was reasonably sure she felt the same way.So before I had even reached the office, I had decided to ask her to marry me, for the right reasons this time. I would do it. I smiled at them and that must have disturbed their confidence or something because the suddenly walked away.I looked up and saw that the boat was going into a bay. I had a decision to make; do I get off the boat dressed as I was, in only the material-less thong; or do I put something else on.I opted to put on the half sarong. Okay it didn’t cover anymore of me but it was clothes.I waited for most of the other passengers to dis-embark but I was followed off the boat by the 3 youths. I was.