Love at the Sea

One: Leilani

I have known Kaleikoa since before I was born says both my mother and his.

My mother and father are best friends with his parents. When we always got together, which was every weekend if not everyday, our fathers always joked about how since we spent so much time together it means in the end both of you will marry each other.

We looked at each other every time they told us that and laughed then my mother will turn to his mother and say, "That is the plan, right Kanani"

Then both our mothers laughed then looked at us kids. So we were always together; at school, at the beach and if I had to go somewhere my mom would always make Kalei take me.

Like I said we were in each others lives before we were born, my mother and his mother went to Kamehameha school together and been best friends since the first time they met each other in kindergarten.

Sure they both have other best friends but together they were sisters. Both our mothers went to University of Hawaii at Manoa for college and that's where they met their husbands, our fathers. My mother is ¾ Hawaiian and ¼ Filipino while my father is ¼ Hawaiian and ¾ Filipino, which made me half Hawaiian and half Filipino.

While Kalei's mother is pure Hawaiian and his father is pure Portuguese, which made him half Hawaiian and half Portuguese.

He then turned down the loud radio and asked me,"Lei, how did you get to the beach today?" I turned to him and said, "Chelsea and Derek gave me a ride."

He nodded and then said, "You know I could of taken you." I turned away and looked out the window and said, "I know, but I just really wanted to go to the ocean."

This was a lie, the same lie I've been telling him since we both started high school.

We both go to Kamehameha, but the difference between him and I is that I'm not in sports but in choir, plus I dance hula.

Kalei on the other hand is in paddling, track, and cross-country, which meant he was way more popular at school then I was. We both had almost perfect grades both 3.0s.

"I know your lying Lei," he says. I smile then rolled down my window so I can feel the nice wind while he makes his way from Sunset Beach to Liliha Bakery.

"What do you want to eat?" I stared out to the bright moon and said, "Hmm..." I actually didn't know, we go through this schedule once in a while because of his cross-country I don't see him at the beach surfing much.

I'm always there though. I wish I could surf, I'd be over there surfing everyday instead of standing there and watching other people surf, "What are you thinking about?"

I looked at him and said, "Can you teach me how to surf?" Kalei pulled into a parking space at Liliha Bakery and then got out.

I know he'd probably say no because of what happened to his older sister, Makana, she wanted to learn so one day when we all went to barbecue at the beach Kalei's dad, Kalei, my older brothers and Makana when out with their boards.

I was sick that day so I couldn't go and learn, I just got to body board, which I loved to do anyways. Well, while Makana was being taught by her dad, Kalei and my brothers went further out to surf. Everything was going good until I heard a hellish scream.

I wanted to turn around to see who screamed and what was happening but my mother told me to come back to shore now!

So I did want I was told, I paddled back to shore when I got out of the water I see my father take my board and then run into the water then he paddle out to where Kalei was.

I went to sit with my mother while Aunty Kanani, was moving around with a first aid-kit and her phone in her hand.

Finally they all got out but Makana was carried on her board.