Chapter 12: A mother's gift/ fall not into temptation
It's night time in Whoville and everyone is asleep, everyone except Koa. Koa not accepting the fact that his brother still has his gift from his mom, and the fact that he was irresponsible and lost his gift goes out and searches for it. Going back to where they once called home, he looks among the debris but can't seem to find anything of his. Finally when he was about to give up a strong wind blows, blowing some debris around. Koa notices a blue box as he walks over and picks it up. it's a small box as he opens it up. He smiles as he takes his pacifier out of the box and puts a blue string through a small hole in the back and makes it into a necklace.
"I found it mom...thank you" Koa says before making his way back to the tree right by Jojo's room. Placing his pacifier into his mouth and falling asleep against the tree. Koa is woken up by the sound of Jojo's voice calling from the window.
"Koa wake up man, we got to go meet up with Marcus them today" Jojo says running out of his room and out of the house towards the tree, looking up at Mana.
"Jojo it is still early, we still have 45 minutes till we have to meet them, so go get ready, and you might want to put on some shorts before coming out next time"
Jojo just looks down and notices he is in his boxers. Jojo groans as he makes his way back into his house and begins to get ready, Mana is already up and puts the finishing touch to his spiked hair. Mana puts on a pair a red dickie's shorts and tank top. Jojo decides to just put on a pair of blue denim jeans and a long sleeved white shirt. Combing his hair down over his left eye. He smiles.
"Ok let's go get Koa" Jojo says tying his shoes before going out the door.
"Wow your slow Jojo" Mana says already standing outside with Koa beside him.
"Shut up Mana" Jojo says chuckling a little.
They begin making their way towards Marcus' house knocking on the door. Koa seeing that his brother has his choker on his neck decides to put his pacifier into his mouth. Marcus opens the door as he greets his friends.
"Umm Koa, why do you have a pacifier in your mouth?" Marcus asks pointing to the blue pacifier.
"Oh you found it, I was about to say Koa I can't believe you lost mom's gift" Mana says looking at his brother.
"Your mom gave you that?" Jojo asks tilting his head to the side.
Koa takes out his pacifier before speaking to his two confused friends, "Yeah she gave it to me when I was little and this was the only thing I got from her so even though I am the age I am, I still use it. Don't worry I washed it" Koa says before putting his pacifier back in his mouth.
They all just shrug their shoulders as they go towards Cody and Mike's house. Doing the same thing, they knock on the door and are greeted by two confused whos, they tell them the story as they all just nod and make their way towards the mall.
"Hey aren't we forgetting someone?" Jojo asks
All the friends stop and think for a moment before saying at the same time "Pam," they all laugh as they make one final stop before going to the mall. Before knocking on the door everyone hides except Mana as he knocks on the door.
"Oh hey Mana, what are you doing here?"
"Oh I came to get you, me and the rest of the guys are going to the mall and we wanted to know if you wanted to come" Mana tells her trying to keep a straight face
"I would love to but where is everyone?"
"We are going to go meet them there"
So Pam lets her parents know that she is going to the mall with friends as she makes her way out the door closing it behind her. As her and Mana get onto her lawn Jojo and the rest of them sneak up behind her, Jojo being the first tackles her to the ground making her lay on her back sitting on top of her stomach with her hands pinned above her head.
"JOJO what are you doing?" Pam asks scared.
Before Jojo could say anything everyone else begins to tickle her playfully. Everyone enjoys torturing her as well as her enjoying the torture, a few minutes later everyone stops as Jojo gets off and helps her up. Dusting her cloth's off of the pieces of grass.
"Haha sorry Pam we just wanted to make some trouble" Jojo says closing his only visible eye and smiling.
"It is alright, It was very fun" Pam says laughing.
They make it to the mall finally, they stop at the movies to see what's playing. After buying their tickets for the karate who, they buy some popcorn and go in extra early as they find a perfect row in the middle, and the cool thing is that they all would be able to sit next to each other. Mana smiles as he whispers something into Jojo's ear before kissing him on the cheek and nods his head rapidly.
Pam goes in first followed by Jojo and then the rest of the group as they sit down, people begin to pile in and find their seats. within minutes the whole theater is full.
"Good thing we came early" Koa says to Mana as the lights begin to dim. For some reason the theater is extra cold this time around and Jojo looks to his side and notices Pam has her arms wrapped around her. Jojo lifting the arm rest to the back as he brings Pam closer to him and wraps her in his arms. The movie begins to start as the theater falls quiet.
"But Jojo what about Mana" Pam whispers
"This was his idea really, I told you he doesn't care if I do anything with a girl as long as it is not another guy" Jojo whispers into her ear.
About two hours later the movie is over and they make their way out of the theater all talking among each other about how the movie went.
"It was a great movie" Mike says doing some karate motions with his hands
"I know but I think we could do better" Marcus says cracking his knuckles and dropping into his fighting stance.
"Oh why don't I take a picture of you guys in your fighting stance" Pam says holding up her camera, they all agree as they get into a line and get into their fighting stance. Pam quickly snaps the picture smiling afterward.
They leave the mall and notice that there is a teen club that has a sign that says 18-22 this night only. They look at the time and notice that they have enough time to stop in and dance a little. Walking into the club they notice a bunch of people from school as Pam sees some of her friends.
"Hey Pam come over here real quick" one of her friend's say, so Pam walks over and greets her friend, then they begin to chat among each other.
"Hey Christie what's up?"
"Here have a drink" Christie says holding up a beer.
"Oh no I'm fine" Pam says shaking her hands in front of her.
" Come on Pam if you are really my friend you would drink with me"
"But I don't want to though"
"Why not all the cool people are"
"I don't care Christie I don't want to drink"
"Fine then you aint cool no more and we aint friends no more"
Pam feeling heartbroken and hurt that her friend said that walks back towards Jojo them.
"Fuck this, let's go guys" Jojo says wrapping his arm around Pam's waist and they all leave the club. The friends decide to go to their hill as they look up at the sky. Jojo takes Pam by the hand and takes brings her with him.
"Jojo where are you guys going?"
"I got to talk to her privately" Jojo says before going several feet away from them. Jojo notices tears in Pam's eyes as he places his hands on the side of her face and uses his thumbs to wipe the tears away.
"Pam look at me, I am glad that you didn't drink, if you did you would have made us upset because we don't drink, look at Mana he is 20 and he still doesn't drink"
"B...but I don't have friends anymore" Pam says whimpering a little
"That's bull shit Pam and you know it, If you didn't have friends would we have backed you up two days ago, would we have invited you to come with us to the movies?" Jojo says staring deep into her eyes using one of his hand's to push his hair back so that he can look deep into her eyes with both of his eyes.
"But Jojo, Mana loves you and you love him" Pam says
"yeah so?"
"And you still kissed me?"
"Yeah Pam, like I said Mana doesn't care what I do with a girl as long as it is not with another guy"
Jojo takes Pam by the hand as he heads back towards the hill. Koa puts in his pacifier as he takes out speakers for the who pod, Mana then attaches his who pod to the speakers and begins to play a slow dance song looking up at Jojo he nods.
Jojo knows what Mana is thinking and simply smiles and nods back before looking at Pam and pulling her close into him he wraps his arms around her waist and slowly steps side to side. All the friend's just look at this and cannot help but smile.
"Do it Jojo" everyone cheers as Jojo looks at Mana with a concerned look, Mana just shrugs his shoulders and sticks his tongue out and smiles. Jojo knowing that Mana won't get mad brings Pam in close to him and locks lips with her. Jojo has his only visible eye closed as Pam has both her eyes closed. Everyone including Mana begin to ooh in approval.
After the song is done Jojo and Pam finally break the kiss, Pam catching her breath as Jojo just has a smirk on his face.
"I told you Pam, I got the greatest friend's in the world, and we will never fall into temptation to the world" Jojo says
"No matter how hard the wind blows, the mountains will not bow" Koa says putting his pacifier around his neck again
"Aia No I Ka Mea E Mele Ana" Mana says smiling
"What does that mean" Pam asks
"It means let the singer select the song in whowaiian" Marcus says
"The quote that goes along with it goes like this, You are in control of your life, be open to advice but trust in yourself to decide, Cody you finish it off" Mike says looking at his brother.
" We each have our own rhythm, learn to dance to yours" Cody says smiling back at his brother