The Greatest Gift

Chapter 3

"What's wrong Twister?" Keoni sat down on the cot next to Twister.

"I… had this dream and you…. And I.. We… are you okay!"

"Yeah, I'm fine, you just had a bad dream." Keoni said giving Twister a hug.

"Oh… where is everyone?"

"Well, this morning Otto, Reggie, and Sam gave me you guy's gift. We tried waking you up but you were out cold. Then they wanted some breakfast, I wasn't very hungry at the time so I told them I'd stay here and wait for you to wake up."

"Oh…"

"Yeah, so are you hungry? I made some breakfast for us."

"Sure."

"Okay, get dressed and then come out into the kitchen."

Keoni left and Twister started to get dressed, he was a little worried that Keoni would walk in like in his dream. He got dressed and went into the kitchen where Keoni was eating scambled eggs, bacon, and toast just like in his dream. He sat down at the table and started to eat.

"Hey wanna do something together today?"

"Sure… is there some place you'd like to go?"

"Well, I kinda wanna go to the aquarium for some reason."

'Phew… as long as it's not the amusement park,' Twister thought, "Okay."

After breakfast the two of them went to the aquarium started looking at all the different exhibits. For a while they just walked around looking at the different tanks of fish and sharks and things. As they were walking around they would pass the occasional cart selling aquarium merchandise. The guy working at one of these carts turned around to talk somebody, he put his hand on the cart and was leaning on it. The brakes underneath one of the wheels slipped, causing the cart to go forward, also causing the man who was leaning against it to fall. The cart started rolling down the floor, down to the area where Twister and Keoni were standing. Twister heard it coming and turned around to see that it was going to run right into Keoni. Luckily he was able to push Keoni of the way just in time.

"What's gotten into you?" Keoni asked as the cart ran into the wall, scattering its merchandise all over the place.

"I had to save you! You almost died!" exclaimed Twister.

"I highly doubt I would have died," answered Keoni. "Are you alright?"

The one in the kangol caught his breath. "Yeah… uh, guess it was just adrenalin."

"Are you sure it had nothing to do with that dream?"

"No." Twister answered quickly.

"Wanna go somewhere else?" Keoni asked.

"Where to?"

"Hmm... let's go to the amusement park."

Twister's eyes bugged out for a half second as though confronted by a giant monkey. "Okay," he gulped.

They headed over to the amusement park. Twister noticed Keoni eyeing the rides.

"Hey let's go play some games." He started walking towards the game booths before Keoni even had the chance to answer.

Twister played a game where he had to try and knock over a pyramid of milk bottles. On his fourth try he finally knocked it over, and won a purple teddy bear which he gave to Keoni. Next they moved on to a game where you picked a rubber ducky out of a big tank and you got whatever prize was on the bottom. There were tons of other games like this at the amusement park, but they only kept the two entertained for so long. Before long Keoni was begging Twister to go on one of the roller coasters with him.

"Why don't we get some cotton candy first!" Twister said, wanting to avoid going on any of the rides.

"Fine." Keoni and Twister walked towards the snack booth, they waited as the man behind the counter was making a fresh batch of cotton candy.

"I'll be right with you guys." The man said, just then the cotton candy machine went haywire and started spewing out cotton candy all over the three of them.

"Can we go ride on the roller coaster now?"

"Alright." Twister said, peeling some cotton candy off his face.

Keoni leads Twister over to one of the many roller coasters in the park.

'Of course he picks the biggest one there is,' Twister thought.

"Won't this be fun Twister?"

"Oh yeah, loads of fun," Twister mumbled.

The ride started, and much to Twister's surprise nothing went wrong, that was of course until the last few minutes of the ride, right after the carts came down from the last loop, the cart just stopped, it seemed to be a park wide problem though as he couldn't hear any other sounds coming from any other rides.

"Oh tee-riffic." Twister said.

"Oh relax, the ride will probably start again in a few minutes."

It was about thirty minutes before the ride started again, finally they made it to safe ground though.

"I've had enough of this for one day… let's do something else." Twister said.

"Hey let's go to the water park nextdoor."

"Alright, that sounds harmless… I mean fun."

Keoni shot him an odd look, "Let's go!"

They get to the water park and go down a couple slides, they were just about to go down their third, Twister was feeling pretty good, nothing had gone wrong since they had been there. He spoke too soon though, when they were about half way down the side, the tubes broke off right in front of them, sending them crashing down into the water. When they came back up to the surface, they were in each others arms.

"Ahem…"

"Heh… sorry." Twister said letting go.

"It's okay, that was weird…"

"Yeah, I didn't mean to grab on to you like that, it just sorta happened and-"

"No, not that I meant the tubes collapsing. It's just not our day I guess, let's just go home."

After being checked out by some EMT's at the park because of their fall, they went back to Keoni's, it was a long walk back, it was dusk by the time they made it there.

When they got back to Keoni's the place was dark, apparently nobody had been there in the last couple hours. After their odd day, the boys just wanted to relax, they sat down together on the couch.

"You know how I had that bad dream last night?"

"Yeah…"

"Well I dreamed that you died in a freak roller coaster accident. It was the worst nightmare I've ever had."

"Wow, that explains a lot"

"Keoni, I don't really know how to say this but I really care about you a lot, I think I might even love you…-"

"Twister…" Keoni interrupted.

"Please just let me finish, I mean it's okay if you don't feel the same. I just gotta get this off my chest-"

"Twister! I think I love you too!" Keoni blurted out.

"What?"

"Yeah… I dunno… it's just this weird unexplainable feeling I get whenever I'm talking to you or even when I'm just near you."

"I know what you mean," Twister sighed.

Keoni wrapped his arms around Twister and pulled him close. "What's wrong?"

"I was trying to find you the perfect present, but I never did. I wanted to get you something that was only from me."

"Oh Twister, you already gave me the greatest gift a person can get, the gift of love, someone to be there for you, and to listen to you, and comfort you. All the material things I got were nice and all but secretly, for the past couple years, when I blew out the candles, all I was wishing for was you,"

The two of them leaned in and shared a passionate kiss. Twister smiled, "Happy birthday Keoni," he whispered.

"Mahalo nui loa, Malikia," replied Keoni. "There's something I've wanted to do for the longest time today though."

"Really?" asked Twister. "What's that?"

The Makani boy got up and rummaged around in his closet and emerged with a couple of life jackets. "Let's get that watercraft in the water and lay down some wake!"

"Hmm." The boy in the striped kangol counted his bruises. "OK!" he beamed. "But let's take turns driving."

"You're on," Keoni beamed back.

The End

(A/N: I hope you liked it Izzy, it kinda didn't come out the way I wanted it too, if I wasn't such a procrastinator it might have been better and longer. Happy birthday hunny, I hope you have a nice productive year with many, many more to come.)