Grayson Carribean Island

Memories are the treasures that we keep locked deep within the storehouse of our souls to keep our hearts warm when we are lonely. But every moment of friendship shared even for a short time is a treasure, like sunshine and warmth in our lives, like a cool breeze on a humid day, like a shower of rain refreshing the Earth. Recall it as often as you wish, a happy memory never wears out.

I sat on the deck chair and was clamped in nothing but a two-piece bikini, a large hat, and a dark shade to prevent my face from the sun. I could hear loud music being played and the water rolled forward and backwards in a gentle sway that the fresh breeze had to offer.

The clean water in its purest form that reflected the blue colour of the sky brought forth a kind of calming feeling. The multi-coloured pebbles beneath the water glistened as huge dolphins jumped in and out gleefully.

The Grayson private island is bathed in a kind of light that was more pure and warm than any I'd ever seen. It got into my soul that very instant and made itself at home for life. I guess that is why folks say they fall in love with this place. I can see it, I can feel it. It's part of my soul from the moment I purchased it three years ago and till this moment onwards.

The estimated value of this island is worth over three hundred million dollars. It is about a hundred and forty-one square miles and it is known for its pineapple field. It is home to over five thousand people, and tourists from all over the world visit the island seasonal resorts, golf courses, and luxury housing. It is located in Mexico. Yeah, you read right, we are in Mexico for a vacation and a reunion.

"Honey is that sunscreen enough or you want me to apply more on your legs?" Ralph's head poked from underneath, his brilliant smile gave away his excitement. He is clad in a blue short that had the designs of a sea and his lean chest with rippling muscles was left bare for whoever had eyes to sight better things, to do.

"Yes baby, it is more than enough." I bent to kiss his cheek.

"What is that?" Ralph frowned and sat on the next chair closer to me.

"Durh!" I rolled my eyes. "A kiss on the cheek"

"How many times do I have to teach you this woman that I have a large appetite for intimacy and your little kisses is never close to satisfaction" Ralph's hand crawled to my bare waist and he tickled me till I was a laughing mess.

"Stop Ralph" I let out a boisterous laugh and tears slipped from my eyes at the same time.

"Stop? How can I stop when you look this hot. Come here." Ralph pulled me closer and placed soft wet kisses on my neck, chest, and cleavage.

"Guys, just get a room already, ugh! Horny perverts." Jess said from a chair away and took a sip from her fruit juice while she gave us a disapproving look.

"Leave the lovely couples alone, they are having a baecation obviously" Lia sauntered forward with Ian's body firmly pressed to her back and his hands strongly secured her waist and they sat on another chair.

"Nope!" Eric shook his head and raised his hands. "I totally agree with Jess, they look like they are on the verge of making babies."

"Eew! And God forbid I sit down here and watch such display of pornography, not like I mind anyway." Mike shook his head at us.

"Bruh? What are you saying?" Eric slapped Mike's head.

"Ow!" Mike scratched his head. "I was helping you buttress your point."

"Bu-"

"Can you both just stop already? I knew you would jump at any opportunity to fight, bloody idiots." Jess facepalmed.

"That's so mean, Jess," Eric whined.

"You caused it!" Mike gave Eric an accusing glare.

"The more you guys banter, the more I go deeper into it, so keep bantering." I nuzzled closer and gave Ralph a neck kiss.

"Just stop already!" Eric frowned and downed his drink.

"We are here for a reunion and not in a porn site" Mike high-fived Eric and they both chuckled.

"Sorry I'm late" Nate walked in with a guy that looked like an Irish. He had an interesting hair cut even though he is a ginger head. He had dreads on.

"It is fine, we were just about to get started, right guys?" Jess gave us all a questioning look.

"Right!" We all chorused.

"So guys, this is Nathaniel kings, he is from Ireland" Nate kissed his cheeks and led him towards a seat.

"And Nathan, these are Anna, Ralph, Lia, Eric, Mike, and Brady" Nate squeezed his palms and he smiled.

"Nice to meet you, Nathan, where exactly are you from?" I detangled myself from Ralph and faced the stranger.

"Yeah, same here. I'm from the Republic of Ireland." He rubbed his palm.

"But you have an American accent?" Mike shifted his gaze between Nate and Nathan.

"Yeah, I spent most of my life in the US, I schooled there and lived there."

Brady cleared his throat and spoke for the first time. "How have you been holding up, Nate?"

"Just perfect" Nate shrunk under his scrutinizing gaze.

"Perfect?" Jess laughed. "You practically just disappeared from high school in twelfth grade and no one knew your whereabouts."

"That's not totally true." Nate countered.

"It sure is," Lia nodded in support.

"Okay fine!" Nate sighed in exasperation. "Yes, I know I disappeared all of a sudden even though I was really mean then."

"You definitely were a living testimony that witches existed back then," Ralph said and I elbowed his waist.

"Ow!"

"Shut the hell up!" I snapped.

"Nah, it's fine. I was really mean back then, Nathan." She licked her lips and tried to get Nathan on the same page as us.

I poured a beer inside a disposable cup and passed it to Nate.

"Thanks," her eyes twitched. She took a loud sip and took her time despite the fact that everyone was waiting for her.

Nate sighed again and her eyes darted to the ocean. "What can I say?" She started. "It is a long story."

"Start from any angle I'm sure we will be able to understand." Lia squeezed her shoulders.

"I left Royal academy because I was battling with my life. I had a terminal disease and education was the least of my worry." Her voice came out stronger and everyone except myself and Ralph gasped in shock.

"You knew about it?" Jess frowned and pointed an accusing finger at us.

"Of course I did, but it wasn't my story to tell." I shrugged my shoulder.

"I had to fly to India for my surgery and I had my boobs amputated. Fortunately for me, that put an end to the Cancer."

Mike stood up and sat next to Nate, he reached for her hands and clasped them tightly.

"I want you to know you are still beautiful and a very strong woman." He spoke affirmatively and she nodded her head positively, assimilating his every word.

"I never knew all that happened, I shouldn't have brought the conversation." Brady looked downcasted.

"No, it is fine, you guys needed to know anyway, so I schooled at four different colleges from different countries before I could become a certified gynaecologist."

"That's impressive, no wonder you are one of the best doctors in the world." Ian gave her a bright smile.

"I know right? It wasn't easy but I wanted to make something out of my life because I realized I was given a second chance and I'd be damned if I didn't utilize it." She clapped giddily and did a crazy dance for us.

"Yass baby! You rock." Jess squealed and stood up to join her crazy dance.

"So since we are in a festive mood, there is no other better time to drop the bombshell." Ian winked at a smiling Lia.

"Oh no!" I held my chin dramatically. "Don't tell me you guys finally became terrorists."

They both chuckled at my silliness and announced that Lia was nine weeks pregnant.

"OMG! Congrats boo thang," I stood up to give her a tight hug.

"Not too tight tomboy, I don't want my baby deformed." Ian frowned at me.

"So you see, I better join the crazy dance." Lia stood up and began spreading and folding her hands like a chicken.

"Mike, won't you tell them?" Eric nudged Mike in the arm.

"That?" Mike cocked a brow.

"The stuff!" Eric scratched his head in irritation.

"What stuff?" Mike facepalmed.

"Oh no don't start now, stupid!" Eric stepped on Mike's foot.

"What the heck? Why did you do that?"

"Because your brain needs to be awakened," Eric stuck his tongue at Mike childishly.

"You are one annoying ass! Why don't you tell them your self?" Mike hissed.

"You ass-"

"Leave that ass for the assholes, now can you two stupid grownup own up to your shits and tell us what the heck is happening?" Lia stood arms akimbo while the others sat, waiting for the announcement.

"Let me guess, you guys are dating?" Nathan stroke his ginger beard.

"Of course not!" They both chorused.

"But don't you think that might be a nice idea?" Eric asked thoughtfully.

"Can you both just focus? What is happening?" Ralph snapped at them.

"Fine! We both merged our companies together a few days ago." Eric smiled at a smirking Mike.

"Wow! That's awesome, but why?" Brady asked.

"We made that rule in our bucket list many years ago and we thought we might as well just fulfil it since the merging will work in our favours to help push the companies forward," Mike announced, they both looked proud of themselves.

Mike had always loved designing clothes and making unique designs, and Eric? He is really talented in designing quality and unique sneakers. He has worked for high profiled companies like Adidas, Gucci, Channel and different numerous companies before he decided to set up his own. A company that produces both unique outfits and lovely shoes will definitely prosper. It is a good initiative. Not only are they fulfilling their bucket list but they will be uniting more as a bromance.

"That definitely calls for a celebration, where are the wines?" Ralph announced and the cooks instantly brought in roasted chicken drumsticks and lambs to chug down with the expensive liquor.

"It is so good to know that y'all are doing so well, this is the kind of group anyone should be willing to join. The type that motivates success and also strengthens the bond of sister and brotherhood." Nathan spilt.

"Awn! Thank you!" We all cooed and exchanged proud glances.

"Cool, so what do you do?" Lia leaned on Ian who rubbed small circles on her hands.

"I'm a player!"

We all gasped and stared at one another before chorusing. "What! A player?"

Nathan and Nate released a low peal of laughter. "Relax guys!" Nate said amidst laughter.

"Not a player in that sense, I play musical instruments, I'm majorly into hip-hop and raps." He licked his lips.

We all let out a chuckle and a sigh of relieve.

"Forgive our ignorance, but I don't know you, and I follow all American hip-hops and raps."

"Yeah!" They all said and little mutters were made as everyone was wrapped in their little conversation.

"Well, I'm still hoping for my big break. I play at night clubs, small birthdays, events and weddings."

"Speaking of birthdays, I brought him here to play for those little muffins, where are they?" Nate's eyes wandered around.

But before I could call them, they came running towards us. My little bundles of joy.

"Mom, Lorenzo won't let me touch his spiderman" Hailey's little hands twitched and her forehead creased with sadness.

"Oliver Smith Lorenzo, why don't you want to share your toys with your sister?" I folded my hands and stared at my strong boy.

He frowned and pouted his little pink lips. "Because spiderman is for boys, she should go play with her dolls instead."

"But he threw my dolls in the ocean and now I have no toys to play with" Hailey glared at Oliver.

Ralph shook his head, "Now what do you have to say about that young man?" Ralph stared at Oliver. The resemblance between them was second to none.

"Oops!" Oliver shrugged his shoulder and scratched his long tousled hair.

"He couldn't even apologize" Hailey huffed and folded her arms to her chest.

I sat up and pulled Oliver closer. "When next you do that unintentionally, you should say sorry"

"You see mom? Oliver is becoming a bad brother, he is supposed to be protecting me and not fighting with me." Hailey whimpered and nuzzled closer to me.

"Now c'mon, do the needful little Oliver twist" Lia wiggled her brows at a shy Oliver.

"I'm sorry, sis," Oliver said and pulled Hailey for a hug.

"Aww!" We all cooed.

"Now that is how good kids behave, your godmother is proud of you both" Jess clapped excitedly.

They detangled from their warm embrace and cuddled Ralph and I.

"Dad?"

"Yes son"

"Am I a bad brother?"

"Of course not son, you already apologized. We can always replace Hailey's dolls ." I patted his long brown hair and kissed his forehead.

"Oliver is not a bad brother, right?" Ralph asked Hailey.

"Nope!" She smacked her lips. "He is the best brother I can ever have, only that he acts badly sometimes."

"I'm not a bad brother" he pouts "it just that girls sometimes acts like brats"

This made everyone turned their heads at him in awe and chuckled. Logically the men agreed even though they didn't show.

"We're girls and we're supposed to be handful" Hailey yelled in his face.

"See what I mean" Lorenzo facepalmed.

"Okay!" Mike clapped to distract everyone. "Enough with the bad brother and sister things. We have a birthday to celebrate right everyone?"

"Right!"

"Good, let's get the party started then," Mike said in a sing-song baritone.

Ralph clapped once and twice and instantly, two caterers came with a huge train of cake that had happy birthday to the Smith twins boldly inscribed on it.

"Happy birthday loves, how old are you now?" Nathan asked them.

"We are five years old." They giggled.

"So is your name Lorenzo or Oliver?" He smiled brightly.

"My name is Oliver but my Italian middle name is Lorenzo."

"Nice, so what do you want to become in future?" Jess asked Oliver.

"A bad boy." He grinned.

"What? Why?" Eric brows furrowed.

"So I can find my Ultimate tomboy and fall in love just like my parents" he wiggled his brows at us and we all chuckled.

"It is good you want to be like your parents someday, but you should study an actual profession." Brady chirped in.

"Like law," Lia said.

"Medicine," I added.

"Accounting," Ralph ruffled Hailey's hair.

"Or even science," Nathan said.

"You should look forward to studying a great course so you can be great people someday just like all of us sitted here." Ian pointed to us all.

"I will think about what I want to become someday," Oliver said and took a huge bite from the chicken on the table.

"Hailey? What do you want to become in future?" Ralph asked out of curiosity.

Hailey covered her face shyly and stared at us from the little gaps. "I want to be a bird."

"Why do you want to be a bird?" Nate tugged at her sunshade. Sunset was beginning to set in.

"So I can fly and see the beautiful sunset." She jumped and pointed at the sky.

And true to her words, dusk was creeping in and fairy light in the trees had been turned on. Beads of multiple different colours were littered like petals to look like a rainbow across the white crispy sand that boasted of large cowries.

The tiny dots of colour bounced across the surface of the reflective water and it looked like everything had been coated in millions of brightly coloured M&Ms.

Ralph promised to take the kids to Disneyland after our trip from Mexico and my friends all gave the kids lovely gifts they wrapped up for them and they were all happy. The party preparations were in full swing. More and more were arriving and the music was getting louder and louder. The water thrashed around the party-goers that were busy swimming, floating, splashing and dancing. My friends got even more drunk as more carton of expensive liquors was opened for the celebration. It was a night to be remembered.

The water stretched around us in every direction; as far as the eyes could see. The sun had taken its final bow and the fat silver moon was over the horizon. Brady signalled to us to get ready. We got our placards ready like we had practised for days now and today is the D-day so it has to be perfect. We were all hold different placards that when brought together spelt 'Will you marry me, Jess? Please make me the luckiest man on Earth.'

We got fireworks ready as well, fireworks that spelt out the same thing. Brady inscribed the same words on the sand and everyone was fascinated and couldn't wait to see the outcome of it all. Lia's job was to distract Jess by taking her to the room to help her out with something. Brady looked really nervous and paled.

"Man, you have got to relax, everything will go well, " Nathan squeezed Brady's shoulder.

"We are all in this together and we are as nervous as you are but you have got to take a chill pill," Ralph assured his friend and Brady nodded his head in acknowledgement.

"Thank you so much for participating and helping me make this day special for myself and the woman I love and want to spend the rest of my life with." Brady took out a handkerchief and wiped a stray tear. Beads of sweat assembled on his forehead, he was as nervous as hell.

"God bless you all, you are the real gem. The MVP!" Brady hollered and we all chuckled.

"Jess is coming," someone from the crowd muttered and we all brought out our phones to video the event.

"What is going on here?" Jess looked at us all and we kept quiet.

"Hey babe," Brady scratched his neck and walked towards her.

"What's going on Brady?"

"I swear I got a whole speech planned out but the moment I saw your beautiful self coming, my brain got formatted. That is what your beauty does to me." Brady picked up her hands and kissed her knuckles.

"This is what you do to me babe, you are like a slow poison and you kill me slowly and softly," jess bit her lips and a smile took over her features while the crowd cooed.

"If only you know how you got my brain all fried up whenever I set my eyes on you, Brady. You are such a beaut." Jess baritone came out softly and she placed her hands on Brady's shoulder blade.

"I promise that when I remember my speech, I will read out in the bedroom and make you scream in ecstasy because I will make sure your body feels me." Brady kissed her cheeks.

Jess slapped her hands over her mouth and chuckled, a blush was creeping in. "Dude what are you saying outside?" She laughed.

"All I need you to say is yes to my proposal Jess, I want you to be my girlfriend, my wife, the mother of my unborn kids, the woman that rules my empire, just you and all of you, honey." Brady kissed her forehead, cheeks, exposed cleavage, arms, and legs till he was levelled down on one knee and his eyes trained on her, filled with anticipation and love.

"Say yes, aww!" Some tourists said and took more pictures.

Tears slipped from Jess and she turned her back on Brady. She wiped her tears and began jumping around.

"Fuck yes, I will marry you!" She knelt and kissed Brady till they were both up.

Fireworks was released and we all cheered and danced to Nathan playing his guitar and singing for the newly wedded couples.

"OMG! This is beautiful, it reminds me of when you proposed to me at the Eiffel tower," I said to Ralph and leaned on his shoulder.

"You made me a complete man when you said yes." Ralph musical baritone whispered in my ears and he picked up my hands and began twirling us around.

"Hey mom and dad, we are also dancing." Hailey and Oliver waved at us as they twirled around and we chuckled and waved back.

"Thanks for providing such beautiful kids for me, for us." Ralph kissed my jaws.

"Thanks for the mind-blowing sex that led to their birth." I chuckled and kissed his lips.

Amelia and Ian stood at the middle of the party and tapped their wine glass with their teaspoons.

"It has been a lovely day so far and congrats to the latest couples." Ian bowed at Brady and Jess.

"We urge everyone to fill up their glasses because it is almost midnight, actually we have less than ten seconds and I want us all to toast to happiness and forever ending," Lia announced and everyone began filling their glasses.

The countdown soon started and the sound of wine glass clinking reverberated around the island.

But what most people didn't know was that the sound symbolized the sealed toast to happiness and a forever ending.

_______♥The alternative end♥________

So, guys, I'm done with the bonus chapters. I know it took me time to update it but I needed to think it through properly and round it up in a perfect way that touched the lives of every significant character in this book.

A huge shout out to these wonderful people for helping out in one way or the other Nobody_True

grace_chanbee RuthieBalo

So this wasn't how I planned this book from the onset, but as I ventured deeper, the plot changed.

Ralph was supposed to come from a poor family and he was supposed to be a gangster and a drug addict, a notorious bad boy. But most times, my hands just typed on their own accord and boom! I came up with this satirical plot that points out the vices happening in the world, that corrected the ills, that entertained the viewers, that blended in with multiple genres like horror, romance, mystery-thriller, love triangle, tragedy, and a lot more. Each chapter symbolized one genre or the other.

I love you all for sticking with this book. If you like my writing techniques, you can follow me and check out my other books. I promise you won't be disappointed. I will be focusing on 'Synchronized Hearts and fangs and wands' for now and I will be working towards bringing my reality TV show novel on Wattpad. If you like smut and naughty scenes, then you Can't afford to miss it because I will be giving you the dirty details, so watch out.

__♥Outline of Ultimate Tomboy♥__

Annalise Gray doesn't believe in love. All she wants is to finish college as a pharmacist and take over the family's business as the sole billionaire heiress. Nothing more, nothing less. But all her plans came crumbling into pieces when a certain bad boy comes her way.

Ralph Smith is the baddest, cockiest, and egotistical bastard who never backs out from a challenge until he wins. They end up creating their romance story when cupid arrow hits them hard in the heart. It all started as a game, who knows? It is probably Karma's way of bringing two flawed people together and binding them for eternity.

Aureovoir,

Xoxo

Barrister_Tife.