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them. Just to let you know.
"Hawaii, Hawaii, Hawaii!" Ren breathed as she stepped off the plane, her body adjusting to the sudden drop to sea level. Her lungs filled with the tropical air and she could feel the tension in her muscles ebb as she walked past the concrete pillars in the airport. ~ What a great place to be! ~
Her mother and older brother followed behind her. "We made it!" Her mother exclaimed. Ren had to resist mocking her mother; she was terribly paranoid of flying. Unfortunately her eighteen-year-old brother couldn't resist the chance.
"You know you are in more danger in a car then flying on the airplane Mom." He smiled down at her, his full six foot four inch frame looming over her.
"I just don't get in an airplane that often. It is scary for me to be over the whole ocean knowing that there is nothing under me but water." She wheeled her bag up next to Ren.
"Nothing bad is going to happen. We're in Hawaii. That is a good enough fortune to get rid of anything that is bad." Ren stretched a protective arm around her mother. She was fifteen, already a full six inches taller than her mother's five foot two. She and her brother, Ty, had defiantly not inherited her mother's height. With smiling faces they all marched off to baggage claim. ~ Nothing can go wrong here. ~
Ren and her family waited for their bags to circle down the track. She impatiently fumbled with the small blue ribbon that was tied to her carry on. The other passengers of their plane seemed to be dissipating; yet they hadn't seen one of their three bags.
"They probably lost them." Ren's mother spat. She didn't have much faith in the commercial airlines.
"Mom, they probably haven't unloaded all the bags. Look, there are still all those people." Ren pointed to the other travelers. There were only about six of them, and they seemed to either to only be missing one piece of baggage or they were just waiting around greeting each other. Ty gave her a sarcastic glance and looked away, concentrating on the area where the baggage fell to the track.
"Well, ok." Ren watched her mother, with slight disapproval on her face. They had been anticipating this vacation for quite awhile, she hoped that this wasn't they way her mother was going act throughout it. Her mom replied to her disapproval with an apologetic glance. "I am sorry, I will relax. We came here to have fun, and that is exactly what we are gonna do." Ren smiled. It was nice that she and her mother could communicate things without words. Words were awkward to her, and she didn't like to speak a lot.
"So, once our bags come are we gonna get out of here? I want to see the volcano." Ty's patients were running thin; he wasn't one for waiting.
"No, Ty. I like the airport. I think it is a good example of Hawaiian culture." Ren remarked sarcastically.
"Just making conversation." There was then another awkward silence. Ren hated these kinds of things. ~ Everything I say is the wrong thing. I always destroy everyone's conversation. ~
"Maybe the volcano will erupt while we're here." Ren's mother said. Again Ren responded with a conversation crusher.
"This is the island of Kawai, there is no way that it is going to erupt. The hot spot that was the source of its pervious lava flow, and formation, is under the island of Hawaii. This area of the tectonic plate slid past the hot spot a long time ago. There is no possible way for it to erupt. Even if the hot spot were to be under this island it is not only highly unlikely that it would violently erupt, but, technically, the lava is always erupting out of the volcano, just at a very slow rate." She slowly trailed off her Plate Tectonic babble. ~ Oh please Ty, I know I am a dork, just don't say anything this time. ~
Thankfully the awkward silence slid past with no remark from her brother, but unfortunately the track that their baggage was going to come down any second now came to a dead stop.
"No." Ren voiced. "No, no, no, no, no, no, no! This can't happen! I am in Hawaii! This is not happening to me! I am in Hawaii!! They can't lose my bags in Hawaii!!" She let her hands come to rest on her short black hair.
"The bags aren't that important. After all, we only came here to have fun, right Ren?" Her mother used her silent lecture against her. "We might just have to buy a few things to last us in Hawaii." Her mom watched Ren's arms glide to her side gracefully, her confident stature returning. "Shopping in Hawaii should be fun!"
Ren sighed deeply. ~ Shopping. great. ~ Her mind replied immediately. Ren hated shopping for clothes. She was a tomboy. The only girlish qualities she willing possessed were her hair and pierced ears. ~ Well, it is in Hawaii. It can't be that bad can it?~
"Let's ask about the bags first. Maybe they can check again." Ty didn't seem willing to go shopping either. Ren smiled. She could always count on her brother think things through logically. ~ It isn't that bad. They only lost my clothes. I'm still in Hawaii. This is still a good thing. I can work with this. ~
If only she knew what was to come.
Ren stared out the window of the airport, looking at the lush, green vegetation that was so different from the brown brush she had left behind in Nebraska. She half listened to the slow chatter of everyone around her. She was a taciturn not only by nature, but also by choice. People were not very interesting, and didn't have much important to say, in her opinion; with the exception of a few of her teachers. In Ren's eyes the only people who had anything worth noting were her teachers. She mentally taped lectures that teachers presented, when she was interested in them. She had just about every lecture that her eighth grade science teacher gave memorized. She let her thoughts wonder back to that year of studying the earth.
Behind her she was faintly able to detect her brother's voice. He appeared to be explaining about the baggage situation to the attendant. When she responded it was too quiet for her to hear. She refocused her eyes to use the glass as a mirror, reflecting the attendant and her brother. All she could really see was her calm gaze staring back at herself.
The attendant spoke for a moment more and then she heard her mother and brother respond in rhythm. "What??" Curious she tore her gaze from her own green eyes and glanced back towards the counter. Her mother had her mouth slightly agape, and Ty stood with a look of confusion on his slim face. Reluctantly she walked up to see what was going on.
"You are Jan, Ren, and Ty Burton, correct?" The attendant's dark eyes and hair gave away her Hawaiian descent. "Flying from Nebraska to stay with us here in Hawaii for three weeks?" Her accent on Hawaii distracted Ren for only a second before she heard the attendant say they were staying for three weeks.
"We're from Nebraska, we are Jan, Ren, and Ty, but we didn't plan on staying here for three weeks!" Ty's face still conveyed confusion.
The attendant went on listing their seat numbers, layovers, and many other bits of personal information about Ren and her two companions.
"Well, that is us. but, we didn't order any special care, and we are most certainly not staying for three weeks." He mother declared at the end of the attendant's listing.
"I'm sorry ma'am but it has it all listed here All of this has been paid for, and there is no changing your ticket. I will page your butler, she'll have your bags." The attendant seemed confused, but her word was final.
"Butler?" Ren asked. "We have a butler?"
"Five minutes ago, no. Now yes." Her brother stated the obvious. Their attendants voice came over the speaker, asking for someone by the name of Mekena to come and meet the Burton family. Ren wasn't sure what to believe.
Ren sat with her family in silence. It wasn't like any of them minded that they were getting a personal butler, but it was creepy that none of them knew about her and they'd already paid for it. The attendant had said that they even paid for it in cash. ~ This is too weird. ~
"You're sure you didn't buy any of this mom?" Ty still sat with his brown eyes staring, confused at the grayish carpet.
"Well, even if I did, I most certainly did not pay for it in cash. I wrote a check. I am positive." Ren could sense the tension between all of them. She started biting her nails. It was a habit of hers. Even when she'd chewed her nails so that there was not a bit of white beyond the pinkish color, she chewed them. A noisy cart carrying bags rolled past and Ren sighed.
"Ms. Burton?" A woman asked with a heavy accent. Her dark hair was pulled back in a bun and she carried three lays. "Aloha," She placed a pink lay on Ren's mother, a blue one on Ren, and a green one on Ty. "My name is Mekena. I will be your butler for three weeks. I have your bags, do you wish to go to the hotel to shower and rest after your long flight?" Ren watched her large lips form each word delicately. She was defiantly a Hawaiian. She smiled with perfectly white teeth, letting her brown eyes sparkle. Ren had to admit: She was pretty.
"Umm," Ren watched her mother's eyes grow in size, comprehending the woman in front of her, with the cart carrying their bags behind her. "Yeah, well, sure." With that said the Hawaiian woman turned back to the cart and began walking. Ren and her family stood for a moment.
Ty looked down at the two shorter women, "Cool." He began following, and Ren had no choice but to follow him with her mother.
She led them through the strange airport waving Aloha to people she passed. Ren watched all of the people walk past her smiling. Her smile was one of confusion, and looked quite fake. When they finally made it out of the airport Ren had retired her smile for a look of utter disbelief.
She had to remind herself that gaping with your mouth open was not considered very smart looking, when a limo pulled up in front of her, and Mekena began unloading their baggage into the trunk. After a second of thought, she decided that it didn't matter if she looked dumb: her chin fell.
"Hawaii, Hawaii, Hawaii!" Ren breathed as she stepped off the plane, her body adjusting to the sudden drop to sea level. Her lungs filled with the tropical air and she could feel the tension in her muscles ebb as she walked past the concrete pillars in the airport. ~ What a great place to be! ~
Her mother and older brother followed behind her. "We made it!" Her mother exclaimed. Ren had to resist mocking her mother; she was terribly paranoid of flying. Unfortunately her eighteen-year-old brother couldn't resist the chance.
"You know you are in more danger in a car then flying on the airplane Mom." He smiled down at her, his full six foot four inch frame looming over her.
"I just don't get in an airplane that often. It is scary for me to be over the whole ocean knowing that there is nothing under me but water." She wheeled her bag up next to Ren.
"Nothing bad is going to happen. We're in Hawaii. That is a good enough fortune to get rid of anything that is bad." Ren stretched a protective arm around her mother. She was fifteen, already a full six inches taller than her mother's five foot two. She and her brother, Ty, had defiantly not inherited her mother's height. With smiling faces they all marched off to baggage claim. ~ Nothing can go wrong here. ~
Ren and her family waited for their bags to circle down the track. She impatiently fumbled with the small blue ribbon that was tied to her carry on. The other passengers of their plane seemed to be dissipating; yet they hadn't seen one of their three bags.
"They probably lost them." Ren's mother spat. She didn't have much faith in the commercial airlines.
"Mom, they probably haven't unloaded all the bags. Look, there are still all those people." Ren pointed to the other travelers. There were only about six of them, and they seemed to either to only be missing one piece of baggage or they were just waiting around greeting each other. Ty gave her a sarcastic glance and looked away, concentrating on the area where the baggage fell to the track.
"Well, ok." Ren watched her mother, with slight disapproval on her face. They had been anticipating this vacation for quite awhile, she hoped that this wasn't they way her mother was going act throughout it. Her mom replied to her disapproval with an apologetic glance. "I am sorry, I will relax. We came here to have fun, and that is exactly what we are gonna do." Ren smiled. It was nice that she and her mother could communicate things without words. Words were awkward to her, and she didn't like to speak a lot.
"So, once our bags come are we gonna get out of here? I want to see the volcano." Ty's patients were running thin; he wasn't one for waiting.
"No, Ty. I like the airport. I think it is a good example of Hawaiian culture." Ren remarked sarcastically.
"Just making conversation." There was then another awkward silence. Ren hated these kinds of things. ~ Everything I say is the wrong thing. I always destroy everyone's conversation. ~
"Maybe the volcano will erupt while we're here." Ren's mother said. Again Ren responded with a conversation crusher.
"This is the island of Kawai, there is no way that it is going to erupt. The hot spot that was the source of its pervious lava flow, and formation, is under the island of Hawaii. This area of the tectonic plate slid past the hot spot a long time ago. There is no possible way for it to erupt. Even if the hot spot were to be under this island it is not only highly unlikely that it would violently erupt, but, technically, the lava is always erupting out of the volcano, just at a very slow rate." She slowly trailed off her Plate Tectonic babble. ~ Oh please Ty, I know I am a dork, just don't say anything this time. ~
Thankfully the awkward silence slid past with no remark from her brother, but unfortunately the track that their baggage was going to come down any second now came to a dead stop.
"No." Ren voiced. "No, no, no, no, no, no, no! This can't happen! I am in Hawaii! This is not happening to me! I am in Hawaii!! They can't lose my bags in Hawaii!!" She let her hands come to rest on her short black hair.
"The bags aren't that important. After all, we only came here to have fun, right Ren?" Her mother used her silent lecture against her. "We might just have to buy a few things to last us in Hawaii." Her mom watched Ren's arms glide to her side gracefully, her confident stature returning. "Shopping in Hawaii should be fun!"
Ren sighed deeply. ~ Shopping. great. ~ Her mind replied immediately. Ren hated shopping for clothes. She was a tomboy. The only girlish qualities she willing possessed were her hair and pierced ears. ~ Well, it is in Hawaii. It can't be that bad can it?~
"Let's ask about the bags first. Maybe they can check again." Ty didn't seem willing to go shopping either. Ren smiled. She could always count on her brother think things through logically. ~ It isn't that bad. They only lost my clothes. I'm still in Hawaii. This is still a good thing. I can work with this. ~
If only she knew what was to come.
Ren stared out the window of the airport, looking at the lush, green vegetation that was so different from the brown brush she had left behind in Nebraska. She half listened to the slow chatter of everyone around her. She was a taciturn not only by nature, but also by choice. People were not very interesting, and didn't have much important to say, in her opinion; with the exception of a few of her teachers. In Ren's eyes the only people who had anything worth noting were her teachers. She mentally taped lectures that teachers presented, when she was interested in them. She had just about every lecture that her eighth grade science teacher gave memorized. She let her thoughts wonder back to that year of studying the earth.
Behind her she was faintly able to detect her brother's voice. He appeared to be explaining about the baggage situation to the attendant. When she responded it was too quiet for her to hear. She refocused her eyes to use the glass as a mirror, reflecting the attendant and her brother. All she could really see was her calm gaze staring back at herself.
The attendant spoke for a moment more and then she heard her mother and brother respond in rhythm. "What??" Curious she tore her gaze from her own green eyes and glanced back towards the counter. Her mother had her mouth slightly agape, and Ty stood with a look of confusion on his slim face. Reluctantly she walked up to see what was going on.
"You are Jan, Ren, and Ty Burton, correct?" The attendant's dark eyes and hair gave away her Hawaiian descent. "Flying from Nebraska to stay with us here in Hawaii for three weeks?" Her accent on Hawaii distracted Ren for only a second before she heard the attendant say they were staying for three weeks.
"We're from Nebraska, we are Jan, Ren, and Ty, but we didn't plan on staying here for three weeks!" Ty's face still conveyed confusion.
The attendant went on listing their seat numbers, layovers, and many other bits of personal information about Ren and her two companions.
"Well, that is us. but, we didn't order any special care, and we are most certainly not staying for three weeks." He mother declared at the end of the attendant's listing.
"I'm sorry ma'am but it has it all listed here All of this has been paid for, and there is no changing your ticket. I will page your butler, she'll have your bags." The attendant seemed confused, but her word was final.
"Butler?" Ren asked. "We have a butler?"
"Five minutes ago, no. Now yes." Her brother stated the obvious. Their attendants voice came over the speaker, asking for someone by the name of Mekena to come and meet the Burton family. Ren wasn't sure what to believe.
Ren sat with her family in silence. It wasn't like any of them minded that they were getting a personal butler, but it was creepy that none of them knew about her and they'd already paid for it. The attendant had said that they even paid for it in cash. ~ This is too weird. ~
"You're sure you didn't buy any of this mom?" Ty still sat with his brown eyes staring, confused at the grayish carpet.
"Well, even if I did, I most certainly did not pay for it in cash. I wrote a check. I am positive." Ren could sense the tension between all of them. She started biting her nails. It was a habit of hers. Even when she'd chewed her nails so that there was not a bit of white beyond the pinkish color, she chewed them. A noisy cart carrying bags rolled past and Ren sighed.
"Ms. Burton?" A woman asked with a heavy accent. Her dark hair was pulled back in a bun and she carried three lays. "Aloha," She placed a pink lay on Ren's mother, a blue one on Ren, and a green one on Ty. "My name is Mekena. I will be your butler for three weeks. I have your bags, do you wish to go to the hotel to shower and rest after your long flight?" Ren watched her large lips form each word delicately. She was defiantly a Hawaiian. She smiled with perfectly white teeth, letting her brown eyes sparkle. Ren had to admit: She was pretty.
"Umm," Ren watched her mother's eyes grow in size, comprehending the woman in front of her, with the cart carrying their bags behind her. "Yeah, well, sure." With that said the Hawaiian woman turned back to the cart and began walking. Ren and her family stood for a moment.
Ty looked down at the two shorter women, "Cool." He began following, and Ren had no choice but to follow him with her mother.
She led them through the strange airport waving Aloha to people she passed. Ren watched all of the people walk past her smiling. Her smile was one of confusion, and looked quite fake. When they finally made it out of the airport Ren had retired her smile for a look of utter disbelief.
She had to remind herself that gaping with your mouth open was not considered very smart looking, when a limo pulled up in front of her, and Mekena began unloading their baggage into the trunk. After a second of thought, she decided that it didn't matter if she looked dumb: her chin fell.
