The Question of Cuteness (Intro)

Intro

"I like short cute non-virgins.", Max proclaimed. It was in the middle of the class during lunch break.
"Yeah, we know", was the answer from the crowd surrounding him. Max was about the most popular kid in the whole school whose preference of girls was widely known. He was an immortal sexoholic and switched girlfriends frequently. He was only five feet two inches which was shorter than the average guy but had great looks, an unnatural charisma and a silver tongue which made every single girl he liked to fall for him. Rumour had it that even his dick was enchanted to make any girl totally fall for him. When girls even an inch taller than him asked him out, he rejected them flat out, and said that they were no good to have fun sex with. Most girls in the school either hated him or loved him.

However, Selena didn’t fit his description quite well. She was six feet tall, was incredibly beautiful but not 'cute' in any way. She wore glasses and an intimidating expression in public. She was the sort of ideal girl that one would expect to be perfect. She was great at sports, bad at guys and was the smartest person in the school. Unfortunately, she had no friends. None at all. Everyone treated her like a higher being and left her alone. And she was a virgin. She used to know him better than most people and was his neighbour for almost 12 years. She had asked him out once before but he rejected her completely and she had never asked him again. They rarely talked at school and only a couple of times at home. But the thing was, she loved him more than she knew was possible.

It was soon mid-summer when their school had taken them to an outbound excursion to a big jungle island. Few tourists visited the island and the jungle was far from hospitable. But it came cheap and was calm.
They had a lot of fun on the little island for a week and their ship had come by to take them back to civilisation. On the way back, there was a storm and the ship's engine stalled, in the middle of the sea. The fuel tank was leaking and somehow a fire started, slowly at first and then big enough to cause the fuel tank to explode. The ship was burning and all people evacuated in rowboats. They were tying all the boats with a rope but in the chaos missed one boat. Max had been struck unconscious by hitting the ship's railing when the ship was swinging because of the waves and Selena caught a glance at his body and immediately charged towards him. She grabbed him and jumped out and into the lone boat. Then the currents started changing their directions and a whirlpool formed in the distance. A large rogue wave was coming from the other side. The wave would have sunk the boat but Selena skilfully rode the wave and they escaped it's wrath. She lost sight of the other boats. She rowed all night until she found an island and as soon as they got to shore, she fell asleep.