Island of Adventures

chapter 1

It was a typical normal day for Hawaii. Sunny, warm and full of visitors. One of such visitors was a young girl with lightly tanned skin and red hair. Her eyes were so dark brown they looked black. She was wearing a blue dress and was making her way towards the Hula school. She had just moved to the island and was already being forced into one of the traditions by her cousin. In her hand was a black rabbit doll with red eyes.

There was a little Hawaiian girl underwater who had a peanut butter sandwich for someone. It wasn't a normal person, this was, what she called, a weather-controlling fish named Pudge. After she fed it, she started to swim up and the waves gently danced against her wavy, thick black hair and she was looking all around for someone.

The red-head sighed and looked around for the cousin who was her age. "Where are you, Lilo?" She mutters, knowing her older cousin Nani would throw a fit if Lilo was lost.

"Has anyone seen Lilo?" a blonde girl in pigtails asked her friends.

The other girls shrugged as they waited. They had to practice their performance for the next week before they go on a big school trip together.

Lilo came onto the sand and grabbed her bag, getting dressed for hula class.

The girl had changed into her hula outfit and was waiting for them to be called on. She slapped a hand to her forehead as she remembered what Lilo did this time of month. 'She's feeding Pudge...' she thinks.

"I'm coming, Kahila!" Lilo called as she quickly got into her skirt and tube top. Before she did, she was distracted by a large sunburned man with sunglasses and an ice cream. Lilo blinked at him, reached into her bag, took out her camera, flashed a picture and ran off to continue to get to school on time.

The red-haired, girl, Kahlia sighed gently but smiled. She was amused by her cousin.

Lilo came to her side. "Come on, let's go." she told her older cousin and rushed to make it to class for practice.

They ended up arriving a little late. Kahlia waited for the perfect opportunity to slip in to join the dancers. Lilo waited for a signal as the teacher called the four girls to come dance with the older girls and there was another little girl, but she was sitting and watching with the teacher. Kahlia slipped in with Lilo, as the others were already dancing. She took on a look of peace and concentration at the same time.

Lilo hid as the teacher had already counted the girls for the day and was now wondering where Lilo ran off to. The girl then decided to dance with the other girls to the song as she memorized the dance and practiced and practiced day in and day out ever since they were first taught it. As the music stopped, the girls stopped and sang a Hawaiian proverb together. Kahlia forced a smile on her face as they all spoke it. She then looked around as the other girls except her and Lilo fell. Lilo looked around and grew nervous.

"Stop, stop!" the teacher came close to the stage and noticed something. "Lilo, why are you all wet?"

"It's sandwich day!" Lilo excused herself.

Kahlia nodded. "Yes, Lilo has to honor sandwich day..." she says, not actually being mean. She wasn't ever mean to Lilo.

The teacher and girls blinked at them.

Lilo took a deep breath to explain, her mother always told her to explain things people don't understand front hand. "Every Tuesday, I bring Pudge the Fish a peanut butter sandwich..."

"Pudge is a fish...?" the teacher glanced at her.

"Yes, Pudge is a really cute little fish..." Kahlia pitches in.

"But today we were all out of peanut butter, so I asked my sister to go to the store, but she told me to take a TUNA sandwich," Lilo continued to explain. "I can't feed Pudge tuna! Do you know what tuna is...?" she whispered with slight disgust.