"So was that a friend from home?" Auggie curiously questioned Kali as he walked back into the dorm.
"Yah," quickly Kalani answered, not really wanting to talk to anyone.
"Is that your skateboard?" Scott from across the room asked
"Yah," Kalani quickly stashed it away under his, and started to get ready to go to bed.
It is early morning as Brad slowly pulls into the driveway; the sun has just peaked out over the mountains. Both Kalani and Brad get out of the car. They are both still wet from the night before. Kalani has a blanket draped over his shoulders. They slowly walk up the weathered stepping stones in front of the seemingly abandoned trailer that Kalani calls home. The interior of the trailer is no better with beer cans and trash lying around it appears that there was a party the night before. The phone lay off the hook in the middle of the mess. Brad makes is way slowly to the middle of the living room, while Kalani walks down the hall to the back of the trailer
"Wake up," He says as he nudges his mother, who is lying half on the bed with a bottle of jack Russell resting in her hand. Bob her boyfriend is next to her, snoring lightly.
"What?" she moans. "What do you want?" She doesn't even bother to move or open her eyes. Kalani sits and looking at her for a minute, taking it all in. He then stands up taking the bottle from her hand and leaves the room
"Are they ok?" Brad questioned as Kalani walked back into the living room, Kalani says nothing as he takes a long drink from the bottle. Brad watches as Kalani's eyes dart around the room as if looking for something before they eventually come to rest on a baseball bat propped up on the wall behind the door.
"What are you think?" Brad asks. Kalani crosses in front of him to the bat. He stops before picking it up and takes another long drink from the bottle, then throwing it across the room.
"I think it is time for a little decorating" Kalani then mumbles. Holding the bat Kalani searches the room looking at all the pictures hanging on the walls, of happier days, his eyes search through the trophies on the shelves from his sisters gymnastics to Moani and his surfing competitions, He then find what he was looking for.
"Kalani!" Brad yells, but it is too late. Before he knew what happened Kalani had smashed up the large family picture that sat above the television. Taking a breathe Kalani looked over at Brad, who looks worried and confused, Kalani smiles a bit to let him know its ok, then begins to destroy everything.
"What in the hell are you doing!" Bob yelled as he ran into the living room to see Kalani laughs in his face. "You little shit what in the hell are you doing!" Bob yelled, Kalani made two more holes in the wall then turned back to Bob.
"Cleaning, Bob," He says then goes back to breaking the recliner as best he could.
"Kalani!" then his mother screamed, he twirled around and looked straight into her eyes panting "what in the hell has come over you!"
"You couldn't answer the phone?" He asks her between pants.
"What are you talking about couldn't answer the phone, it's four in the morning." She then takes a second to actually look at him," why in the hell are you all wet?"
"THE FUCKING PHONE!" Kalani screams
"What about it?" she asked, Kalani then hits the TV right in the middle there is a loud bang. Everyone in the room froze; slowly Kalani starts to move towards his mother. Before getting too close though, Brad then came out of his shock and grabbed him.
"Stop it Kali stop it," He mellowly told him
"What is wrong with you?" his mother yelled
"If the phone isn't on the hook then no one can get a hold of you, like the police," Kalani yelled at her
"Are you in trouble with the police, is that what this is all about cause I will not be harboring no criminals here," She yelled back at him.
"Where's Moani, huh? Where's your fucking son, huh," He asked her, Brad still holding him back.
"He's with you. Isn't he?" She asked all the sudden realizing that Moani wasn't there.
"No, and if you would have had the fucking phone on the god damn hook then the police could have told you that he drowned!"
"Kalani wake up," Scott said as he nudged Kalani awake
"What the hell?"
"Man you where having a bad dream or something but damn you where yelling loud," Scott said as he made his way back to his own bed. "Just go back to sleep" Scott then turned off his light and the room again went dark. Kalani lay awake in his bed focusing on the ceiling, his mind flooded with thoughts. After lying sleepless for an hour he quietly got up and got dressed, then tipped toed through he dorm taking his skateboard with him.