Here's My Heart
-Chapter 1-
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"Kya!," came Gi's screach as Kwame threw her into the deep
water off the coast of Hope Island, causing Ma-Ti, who had been
tanning, to zoom back to reality. The five college students were
relaxing from two semesters of cramming brain-torture. It was
summer vacation at last! Knowing that they were going to be very
busy this summer, they had all agreed with Gaia that, between each
Planeteer alert that didn't go one after another, the group would
get some time to be their normal selves.

Off in the deep, near where Kwame had tossed Gi,
who was now trying to splash water him, was Wheeler, who was
piloting the Geo-Boat. Linka was with him, but she was sitting in
the other chair, simply enjoying the fresh air and the boat ride-
oh, and the cute redhead piloting it, too. It was apparrent that
whatever jokes Wheeler was telling her, Linka was enjoying them- or
was it the joke-teller? Ma-Ti couldn't tell anymore. Besides, he
had eavesdropped on Wheeler's and Linka's emotions so many times
that he knew for sure they were in love, but when it came to those
jokes, which were almost always corny, he had no idea what to
think!

Suddenly, just as he was getting
ready to take another nap, his communicator went off. Of all the
times to pick for a Planeteer alert, why now? he thought. They
may have been around the island, but Gaia took no chances-
wherever any of them went, they had to have their communicators.
He could see Wheeler zooming to get Gi and Kwame to head back to
the shore, Linka talking with Gaia, who did not need to ask Ma-Ti
to return from the ocean.