Author's Note: Geez, this took forever. No, it's not really a huge, important chapter, but I've been really busy with schoolwork and Academic Decathlon and WoWAY and all kinds of junk that kept screaming at me "PUT OFF WRITING WISHES!" Plus, I'm working on two other stories: a Crocker story and an Anti-Cosmo story. My THREE FAVORITE CHARACTERS shall each have their own story!! Okay, anyway. Sorry for the wait and thanks for sticking with Wishes!

Pt. 10 - Aloha, Amanda

When Amanda woke up to find blinding light in her face, she immediately assumed she'd left her blinds open, covered her face with her blanket, and tried to go back to sleep. It took her only a few seconds to realize that she wasn't in her own lumpy bed or under her own matty blanket, and when she did, she jolted, throwing the silky blanket off of her and sitting up to find herself assaulted by blinding rays of sunlight that streamed in from a large, open, glass doorway.

"Geez, kid, I thought you were going to spend your whole vacation sleeping!"

"Va-vacation?!" Her eyes adjusted to the light, and she focused in on Norm, who wore a half-way unbuttoned Hawaiian-print shirt and stood leaning against the doorway with his arms crossed.

He moved away from the wall and came to stand over her bed. "That's right," he said shortly, smiling broadly. "Now get dressed," he said, snapping once.

Amanda looked down to find herself suddenly wearing a loose, white sundress. Automatically, she slung her legs over the side of the bed and stood, lost for words. Vacation...? What- Then she remembered. She had wished to go on vacation! But she hadn't said anything about it to Norm...! Well, he must have heard her... but that left only one wish-!

"Hey!" Amanda was snapped out of her reverie with a jolt as she realized she was standing in the room alone. "Norm!!"

She hurried out of the glass doorway and into the sunlight, then gasped.

"It's..." Everything was silent for several moments, until-

"Beautiful, right?" came an unfamiliar voice to her left.

She spun to find a tall, dark-skinned boy standing in the grass leaning against a large palm, then blushingly followed his gaze out into the blue ocean. It was beautiful, she thought, eyes glazing over. The sand was so white, the exotic plants around her all the colors of the rainbow, the sky brilliant blue with occasional flecks of white cloud that could have been painted there.

"Yeah," she said, smiling and looking back to the boy, who walked toward her.

He wore swim shorts, sandals, and a seashell necklace, and had long, bleached-blonde hair and smooth, toned muscles. He smiled, and she noticed that his teeth were a little crooked- unlike Norm's, she noted. As he came to a stop in front of her, she noticed that he had light brown eyes that were slanted at the corners.

"I don't think I have seen you around before. Are you a tourist?" he asked, gazing at her light skin. He had an island-ish accent.

"Er, yeah- vacation. I'm on vacation... vacationing..." she stammered.

He laughed. It was a clear, outgoing laugh, not unkind. "Have you been to Hana before?"

Hana? Hana, Hawaii? So that's where she was. "No. I've never been to any island before."

"Ah," he smiled again, "a main-lander." He moved closer, and said good-naturedly with a gleam in his eye, "Well, my lovely main-lander, welcome to our home. I hope you will allow me to show you arou-"

The boy was interrupted as a voice called out, "Hey, Little Miss Sleeps-A-Lot, are you-" Norm cut off as he emerged from a wall of growth to find Amanda standing next to a tall boy he didn't recognize. He narrowed his eyes as the boy looked at him and smirked, then put on a solemn expression and looked back at Amanda, who blushed awkwardly.

"I didn't know you had a boyfriend. I apologize," the boy said as Norm approached them.

"Boyfrie- who, Norm...?! No- he's not my-"

"Who are you?" Norm asked, crossing his arms and looking down on the young man- the boy was shorter than him by about six inches.

"I am Ki'lua. And you? 'Norm,' correct? I am your neighbor. I live in that direction... though it is strange that I have never seen this house before, as I have lived here all my life." The boy looked up at him with a polite smile that did not reach his eyes.

Norm looked the boy over with suspicion. Something wasn't right about him...

The boy looked back to Amanda and smiled broadly. "I hope your name isn't really 'Miss Sleeps-A-Lot,'" he laughed.

Amanda's eyes went wide and pink flushed around her cheeks, then she giggled. "No, no! My name is Amanda. But you can call me that if you really want to!"

Norm raised a brow as the two laughed together. Amanda, cracking jokes (badly, he might add)? Giggling like a little girl? There could only be one explanation for her bizarre behavior... she liked the brown-eyed boy.

Somehow, though the air was quite warm, Ki'lua and Amanda felt a chill and shivered.

"Amanda, let's go," Norm said, gripping her shoulder and steering her toward the beach.

"But-" Amanda protested-

"You'll have time to flirt with the locals later," he snapped, surprising her.

"Another time, Miss Sleeps-A-Lot!" Ki'lua called out teasingly as Norm and Amanda walked out into the blinding sunlight.

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Author's Note: I'd like some requests for drawings from my story, so if y'all would like a scene drawn, let me know, okay...? Pretty please??