This chapter is bit of a filler chapter, but I needed two get down with this year before I can move on to the movie Enjoy~

Honolulu, March 2011

Melody and Stone wanted at the Hideaway for Sam and Alex to celebrate Alex's thirty-first birthday and so far they have been here for half an hour waiting on them. Melody was eating a chicken burrito that caused Stone to snicker remembering how he had met Melody and how Alex met Sam. He was on his second beer and was rubbing Melody's leg as her eyes darted across the bar. She really didn't want to be here, but it was Alex's birthday and he wanted to come here. Who was she to denie him on his birthday?

"Relax Melody. I won't let anything happen to you while I'm here," Stone whispered kissing her forehead. Melody relaxed slightly after his kiss. She knew she was being paranoid, but she couldn't help it. She couldn't relax if there was alcohol in the room and there was plenty of that going around in the bar.

"I know, but I just can't help it," Melody sighed grabbing his hand and holding it. Stone smiled at her as two other joined them at the table. She kept glancing at the door wanting to make a run for it, but didn't when Stone squeezed her thigh. Melody and Stone looked up to see who joined them at the table.

"So Hopper's missing his own celebration," Raikes asked looking at the Stone who was now frowning. Alex should have been here before Raikes and Beast. Stone was starting to wonder if he needs to send a search party for his brother.

"Man I hope he has a good exscuse for dragging us all out here and making us wait for him when he wanted to celebrate here for old time sakes," Beast stated as he and Raikes got beer. They glanced at Melody who relaxed more when they sat at the table. They remember last New Year's when Alex had accidently hurt her while he was drunk. They made sure not to get too carried away around her if they decided to have a drink.

"Stone, you he could just be spending the night with Sam like we did on our birthdays," Melody pointed out with a sly smile as her hand trailed up his leg. Stone glanced at Melody and smirked before turning back to the two in front of him. Beast and Raikes glanced between the two and smiled, they wanted to have a relationship like they had or even a relation like Alex and Sam. They seemed to always be happy except when RIMPAC was around and Nagata was around Alex. Those two hated each other when they first saw one another. Stone didn't know what to do with his brother during RIMOAC and it strained Alex's relationship with Sam because of her father.

"So we celebrate without him," Stone shrugged. This was just like his brother. He left everyone waiting at the bar for him knowing Melody was still freaked out around people who consumed a lot of alcohol. She was only OK around Stone because he never drank so much that he was drunk. Melody frowned, but put the cake she had baked for him on the table.

"Hey, there's my cake," Alex smiled sitting next to Stone. Stone frowned and was about to say something, but stopped when Melody grabbed his arm. Everyone sung Happy Birthday to Alex laughing when he glared at them when they said Alex instead of Hopper.

"I prefer to be called Hopper," he growled at him making all of them laugh. They were in a good mood now that Alex had showed up and Stone wasn't going to set up a man hunt for him. "Melody I love your cake. Its do much better than the cupcake Stone always got me," Alex winked at her. Sam finally saw what Melody was eating when they showed up and laughed.

"You can get a chicken burrito here and I can't," Sam pouted looking at the half eaten burrito in her hands. Melody sighed and handed her burrito over to Sam who grinned and started eating the burrito. Stone glanced at Melody who had gotten the burrito because she missed lunch because when was doing a thorough examination of her plane. She heard a strange noise the day before and decided to spend that day looking for the source. Stone didn't understand a word she said when she met with him to leave the base. Melody shrugged and laid her head on his shoulders and yawned. Krissy kept calling her throughout the night about the wedding that was next month. Krissy started to take a short nap during the day while Melody was working and Stone was getting tired of the phone ringing at night and Melody always told him to go to sleep while she stayed up for the next couple of hours calming Krissy down and once she had to drive to the apartment they were staying at till they were married. They had finally found a house and they were playing to move in when they got back from the honeymoon. Stone decided they would fix up the house during the week they were gone.

"So how are the wedding plans going," Sam asked when she had finished the burrito. Melody glared at her and Raikes groaned. Melody had forced Raikes into helping them and Melody had even gone to her and Beast's place and dragged her to the truck and brought her to Krissy's place and made her help. With three of them going through everything was making progress and was almost done. They should finish up by the end of this week.

"The plans are going well it's just that Krissy is starting to second guess herself and calls me at night every night when I'm asleep," Melody sighed. Raikes looked up at hearing about the phone calls. Krissy has yet to call her and was starting to wonder if she would. She had starting to stay with Beast in a two bedroom apartment since Christmas. Melody gave Raikes a wink making Raikes blush because she knew Melody knew where her train of thought was going.

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