Olivia

That first day on the island, Alexander and I spent the entire day clinging together, unable to disengage ourselves for even a minute. The feeling we had was as if he and I had entered a kind of alternative reality, a dream or a kind of bubble of ecstasy where he and I could be together without interruption from all the issues that separated us, and with that, he and I were terribly afraid that something or someone would come along to burst this bubble or wake us up to the reality that ...