hawii was beautiful this morning with its glowing sun, the rolling waves of the sea and the clear blue sky.
it was a wonderful day to feed pudge the fish, after all he does control the weather. lilo would be late to hula class again though because she had to sneak out the kitchen to go shop because the chief had carelessly let the peanut butter run out. (give it tuna the chief said... YOU CAN'T FEED A FISH TUNA)
of course being a princess and living in a palace tented to attrack attention which was why she wasn't supposed to go out alone. but lilo was always alone. with her parents gone and her older sister running the kingdom with no time for her, lilo was always alone.
stricktly speaking lilo wasn't supposed to go swimming alone either but she always did.
although lilo was the princess no one really liked her, she was eccentric and lets face it she was just the spare to them so when walking around she was mostly left alone. the people had queen nani and lilo was left to mourn the death of their parents alone.
lilo never saw nani unless she was getting told off. (which dispite what your all thinking was not a lot thank you very much).
anyway lilo had scrambled out of the sea after making sure pudge enjoyed his peanut butter sandwich, and was now dashing to her hula class.
she hated the people in it but she loved the dancing, the only reason she still went. she had been practicing after all and it would be a waste if she stopped.
when she sneaked in the other girls her age were already on stage and dancing, her place in the middle free.
she heard the hula master ,kumo count the girls as they danced and she winced when he noted she wasn't there.
shaking that off (and some water) she snook back stage and came on then waited for the right moment... there lilo danced her way into her place and swayed to the music, following the moves.
she was as graceful as a rolling wave and beautiful like an orchid. as she lost her self to the music she didn't notice the puddles she left behind which was making it hard for even the older girls.
soon the dance stoped and all the girls lilos age slipped but miraculously lilo stayed on his feet.
"is everyone alright" kumo asked (if anything happened to the princess!) he sounded genuinely concerend as he helped myrtle edmounds to her feet.
they all nodded and kumo turned to her.
"lilo why are you all wet?!" he sounded like he dreaded the answer.
"its sandwhich day" she replied as if the answer was obvious. seeing the questionig looks she continued "every tuesday i take pudge the fish a peanut butter sandwich, but today we were out of beanut butter!"
"pudge is a fish?"
"so I asked the chief what to give him and he said a tuna sandwhich!"
eyebrows were rising, the older girls seemed genuinely confused and so did kumo.
"i can't give pudge tuna!" lilo cried
"do you know what tuna is" her voice turned to a whisper
"fish?" kumo asked cautiously and rightly so as soon as he said the words lilo exploded.
"IT'S FISH! if i gave him tuna i would be an abomination, i was late because i had to run to the store to buy peanut butter because all we has was STINKING TUNA!"
kumo put a conforting hand on lilo hoping to stop her melt down.
"lilo, why is this so important?" he asked gently.
"pudge controls the weather" she replied seriously.
the other girls sneered at her. then myrtle stepped forward "your crazy" she said
lilo took one look at her and luanched herself with her fists first. scaring the other girls who ran for cover whilst lilo pounded myrtle.
kumo lifted lilo off the other girl and set her on her feet in front of him, myrtle has scarpered behind him. he sighed and calmed the other girls.
"i think we should call your sister" the reaction from the girl was immediate.
she reared up, shaking her head with her hands behind her back. it was hard to believe that innocent face had just two minuets ago been violent.
"i won't do it again, I'll be good, i promise. i just wanna dance i practiced. i just wanna dance i practiced." her big brown doe eyes looked so sad. kumo sighed
"ew she bite me"
"alright girls back to practice" whilst the younger girls got them selfs together kumo went over to the older girls
"get into positions claire you will have to give the signal to the little ones, i have a phone call to make"
after hula class the door burst open and the girls ran out screaming and laughing, except lilo. kumo can over hand set a hand on her shoulder.
"i called the palace, they said to stay on the porch" lilo looked down, she was used to this.
when kumo went back inside lilo stood. she looked towards the other girls and walked to them.
"does this look infected to you?" she heard myrtle say
"hey"
"you better not have rabies" myrtle sneered
"yeahhh"
"are you going to play dolls?"
myrtle just looked at her and shook her head her arms crossed "don'tyou have some royal duty or something, oh wait no because your just the screw up" then she and the other girls turned and walked away.
lilo just stood there and stared after them, tears welling up in her eyes. yeah okay she knew she wasn't important no need to rub it in.
she took a deep breath, wiped the tears away then dejectedly started to walk home.
a sleek black car passed and lilo pretend she didn't notice as she cut through so allywayd and a small thatch of hawiian forest.
she made it to the palace and to her room with out any interuption and proceed to push things from around her room in front of the door, so when she finished the door could not be opened.
she then pulled out her record player and found the most depressing elvis record she owned and put it on so loud she could no longer hear the depression trying to drown her.