Love at the Sea

Four: Kaleikoa

We cried together. It's been a while for both of us. I never wanted this to happen.

My mom and Aunty Pua always talked about how we kids, they called us, we will be together forever.

While our fathers will tell us both of you are bound to marry each other, and finally our siblings told us, "Both of you are meant to be!"

We would always look at them and laugh but deep inside I knew they were right.

I have found the one girl I wanted to marry and have a life with more than anything in the world.

Though I didn't know how Lei felt, everyday I hope it was the same. I wonder what school she'll choose to go to. I really wanted to ask her this year to prom.

My phone rings, "Hello?" "Kalei, for you birthday present from Aunty Pua and mom. We are all going to the Big Island. We are all staying at the Hilo Hawaiian Hotel. Well Mom and Aunty have a convention and so she wants to bring all of us, create memories you know."

"Lei guess what we get to do this weekend?" She wiped the tears from her face and looked at me.

"We are all going to Big Island this weekend, It's Aunty Pua and my mom's birthday present to me. Me, You, Our parents, Makana and her fiance, Kanoe and his wife and Kainoa and his girlfriend."

She looks at me and smiles. Then gets up and says, "It's really getting late and I have a couple of tests I need to study for." I nodded and then got up even though I knew that was a lie.

We pick up our boards and walk to my truck. I get in the bed of my truck and Lei passes me the boards. After we load them in, we get in the truck and leave for Makana's house.

When we get to the stop light I look over to Leilani and see she's just staring out the window with a blank expression. "Kalei, are you really not coming to school tomorrow?"

She asks, I was waiting for her to talk but not for this question. I take a quick glance over to her and notice she's not even looking at me, she's still staring out the window. "Maybe," I say, as I pull into Makana's driveway.

I turned off the engine and just face her.

I want to know what she's thinking and I'll probably have an idea if she'll just lets me read her eyes but I guess she knows that I would do that because she doesn't look at me.

She opens the door, closes it and then walks up to Makana's door and sits on the little bench by the window.

I look to where she is, then locked my truck and walked up the lanai to where Lei is and joined her.

We sat there in silence and then, "I had my entire year planned out, going to prom with Chelsea and Derek, looking through colleges with Chelsea and then picking them, graduation, everything was planned. Now it was means nothing. How am I gonna tell Chelsea?"

She looked at me, her eyes were so sad. "I don't know," I say, I can't think of anything else to say that would cheer her up. She just nodded and then got up and rang the doorbell.

Makana opened the door and Lei immediately hugged Makana. They walked into the living room, sat on the couch and cried.

I walked past them to the bathroom and right before I turned on the shower I heard Makana, "You can still go to prom at Kamehameha."

Then I heard in a small voice, "Someone has to ask me though." "You know Kalei would ask," Makana said and I found myself nodding because I wanted to.

Then I heard Leilani start to cry again and in a quiet voice I hear Lei mumble, "I don't want him to ask me just because my mom asked him to take me."

I turned on the shower, I didn't want to hear anymore of this.