" The brigthest day will always be the one you feel happier, but the darkest day will always be the one that you'll let others make you sad. "
"So what did you think about my inspirational statement?" T.K asked, with a pride smile on his face.
"It is cool to start a novel, but it's not that inspirational." - Kari answered while packing her bag.
"What?!" asked a confused T.K. He had put a five minutes effort on his novel opening setence and now his own girlfriend was criticiezing him.
" Relax honey! Face it! It doesn't even make sense. You only put some poetic words together and a normal, intuitive thinking...I can't explain ."
"Ok..." - he nodded simply. "We both know you suck at writing." he whispered.
"What honey?"
"Nothing, I just asked where is my bag."
The couple left the building on Tokyo's outskirts. A cab was already waiting for them downstairs, T.K put his bags on the trunk while Kari sat herself. She saw her phone which had two missed calls from Tai. Her brother didn't even imagined that she was living on T.K's university apartment, and had left hers (which she used to share with Yolei and another japanese girl that has nothing, but absolutely nothing to do with this story, so forget I ever mentioned her). If he knew where she was living, then ehr parents also would and T.K certainly was getting a broken nose.
"My brother called me." - she said. "Wearen't telling him about the apartment and us."
"I think he would understand the situation. " TK replied, trying to see the best part of the picture. Kari answered him with a grimace of sweet contempt.
The cab jinked the traffic jams and busy streets in order to arrive to the Harbour on time. TK leaned his head to the window and saw the city's busy buildings, passing by. Soon he'd be much more relaxed, the group had plan this trip to Ohinakii Island (totally made up). Next to the bay, it was not a typical southern pacific island, with high temperatures, crystal water and exotic vegetation, of course not, but it was calm. Just what they all needed: calming down. He looked to car, lost on phone messages. She was slidding her finger on the touchscreen and smiling here and there, somehow she caugth him staring at her.
"What?"
"You're beautiful." he said. She laughed and grabbed his arm, pulling him next to her. The phone's camera flashed on a quick photo, that costed a dirty look from the cab driver.
"Matt is going, isn't he?"
"Yeah, he is. Does it upset you that much?"
"A bit. What about Davis..."
"He's going, and nothing will happen. I promise you." Kari interrupted assuring ti make firm, althought her voice almost sounded comical.
The Harbour was busy like always, the tires scraping on the asphalt where heard, many people entering ferry-boats, cranes could be seen, on the industrial site, toddling around lifting cargos and ship the seaguls and the sea waves crashing could be heard above all. It was hot, agitated and everything pointed to a nice day : it was a normal August day.
Kari paid the cab while TK go the bags, she opened her pursue to retain the change, and took the tickets. She checked them.
"Gate 23, where is that honey?" -she asked TK.
"Kari!" - a voice called. The couple back to see Ken and Yolei heading to them.
"Yolei, you're coming. You made it." Kari giggled, hugging her friend. Ken and TK bro-fisted.
"I know..." she answered on a hysterical laugh. " I wasn't coming because of Ken, but he actually got a way out of the work and we totally made it!""Hey, by the way, do you know where is gate 23?"
Sora had her phoned glued to her ear, just like a football player she dogged the people walking on the harbour, the same didn't hapenned for Tai behind her that slided his finger on the touchscreen bumping into people currently. Sora hung up the call and notice a clumsy Tai.
"Focus, Tai! We'll get late because of you. Forget your sister, she's fine."
"We won't be late, and I have more than reasons to be worried- she has declined more than two calls..."
"Exactly! She's so fine, and wants to keep that way. She'll be here any minute now."
The couple finally arrived to the gate 23. The ferry-boat waited them: it was one of the biggest on the Harbour. Tai put his phone on the pocket, and started walking trough the pavement like an ansious child. A gas truck was entering the ferry-boat, another tow more trucks waited in the line to get in. The heavy vehicles where the first to be put, they'd be all chained and stuck on the asphalt floor, only after it would the normal passagenrs and cars get in.
"When will Izzy arrive?" Sora asked chekcing her watch. They had plan to save money, and to be more fficient that Izzy would be driving an eigth seats van, which his father had borrowed him. Tai sigthed some fishes swimming near the concrete wall, the sea seemed calm and a temptating refrsh for all that heat. He glanced to the ferry-boat's sides where he could read : McKinley 180. Familiar noises got his atention back, he looked to the other side and saw Kari, TK, Ken and Yolei coming.
"Run Kari, your brother wants to eat you alive." - Sora shouted laughing.
"Yes I do. Girl, you have about two hundred missed phone calls from me what hapenned?"
"Well, hello for you too." she complimented ironically. Tai took his sunglasses off and looked to TK on rage glance they simply said: I know you have been banging my sister.
"Didn't you hear her phone calling?"
"Who? Me?" TK asked pointing his indicator to himself.
"No, the pope! Of course I'm talking to you."
"Geez, Tai." Ken hissed.
"So much drama..." Kari said with a boring voice. She wasn't taking Tai serious, no one of them was. They thougth it was just one more "big brother's defending his sister nature call". However, they were wrong, Tai truly was angry.
"I feel like you make me a clown sometimes, if I call it's because I'm worried about you. And don't you play the Poor Girl trick on me, I know very well that you are no longer living on Yolei's apartment I ownder where have you been sleeping... you tripsie."
"Woow!" Sora screamed.
"Let us clame down! OK! " TK adverted pullling Kari from the waist to him.
A horn noise kept the figth from going any further, Izzy had arrived and with him, Davis. Sat near Izzy, the brunette spiky haired boy had some sadned eyes. His eyes crossed with Kari's that were equally getting sadder, he deflect his glance though.
" Sixties style, someone has gone vintage." Ken commented. The grop started entering the van, Tai pulled Kari's shirt and whispered to her ear.
"I'm sorry Kari, but you..."
"Let me go." she said shaking her arm. "You just called me a tripsie."
"Fine. Know what? If you were still dating tht guy on the fornt seat this would never had hapenned."
"Know what? Fuck you..." - she answered.
Form the back seat Kari wa sheld by TK, he was trying to confort her but she only looked to Sora discussing to Tai, and the stressing part of it all was that Davis, on the front seat clearly could hear them.
"Everyone has this kind of problems.!" he told her. TK's timing couldn't have been more perfect, as Izzy horned the van and another car responded. The blonde look to his rigth and saw Matt on his car near the van.
"You see, there it goes mine." Kari couldn't do anything but lagh.
"Ok, Matt is here too what means that only Mimi is missing." Sora cracked.
"That chcik is going to arrive rigth on the schedule." Yolei shrugged. An oficial started to order the entrance on the ferryboat. Some cars passed on their front, including Matt. They passed all their tickets to the front seat, and Izzy handled them to the official. The van got on board of the McKinley Ferry-Boat, not only was the pavement large and sturdy, as the ships bridge on anctual bridge above them, a majestic steel bow which TK was ansious to try. The view should be indescribable from up there.
"Mimi just texted me, she's saying that she's on the line to enter the ferry-boat. I'm giving her the van's description." Yolei informed the group typing on the phone.
"What she's walking by her feets? That's really an awkward event." Tai uttered on a mumbling voice, his shoulder got tackled by Sora's hand:
"You really are a pest today." she said.
"Do you want to go outside?" asked TK .
"I don't think we can yet, just when the boat starts the trip." Kari replied melancholically, She also wished to get out of th evan. If the all vactions where about to be a bunch of days with Tai shreading her apart, always trying to control her and her ex-boyfriend's image all over the place, the best thing to do was to get out and get back to home before it was too late.
"Do you think Matt doesn't want to come inside because of you?" Kari murmured laying her head on TK's lap, he instinctively put his hand on her head and did her a gentle caffuné. TK only sighed in hopes Kari got the hint as he didn't want to talk about it.
"It's even hard to believe that he made it..."
A bang on the door anounced Mimi's arrival. The strawberry blonde girl opened the van's door with a big smile on her face.
"Oh my God! We're all here!"
"Scream louder, people in China didn't hear you..." Tai mumbled.
"Izzy, honey, be a sweetheart and put my bags on the trunk." she kind of ordered him on her elegant way. She entered the van complimenting everyone with kisses and long-time-no-see hugs.
"Sora, I bought you a little present, and got something for you other two too! Kari how can you have jeans with this heat? Gosh girl get a skirt..."
For five minutes there was silence on the van, only Mimi's mouth moved on her adventures about New York and Los Angeles.
"Girl, shut up! Save it some for the vacations."
"Oh, you're rigth. Sorry!"
The ferry's hornk sounded trough the air. The van felt a sligth bump form the motors, on the engine room, starting to workand putting the ship on movement. The megaphone on the bridge made some noise before it anounced:"This is captain Takagashimume, we've now commenced our trip. All the passengers have the rigth to leave their vehicles and circulate trough the ship. We remeber you to watch out for valuable objects and to respect all the safety norms. Above all, please have a nice trip!"
"That's our cue to leave!" TK said taking Kari by the hand, heading to one of the doors.
"Where are you two going?" Tai asked suspicious.
"Away from you!" the brunette protested. The couple exited the van, next to them Matt's car was stading still, and its driver smirked. Both passed between the cars, like if they were challenging a labyrinth, but finally got to their point. The stairs to the upfloor sigths.