Chapter 7

"Will you be my girlfriend?" Kono asked hopefully.

"Yes. Yes, of course!" Cath was ecstatic, and there were tears in both the of woman's eyes as they kissed again.

"Good." Kono said as they parted.

The two woman continued their walk down the beach, holding hands, laughing, and splashing each other with water every so often.

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Cath woke the next morning to Kono tapping her forehead and softly calling her name.

"Cath... Cath... Caaaattthhhh..."

"Mmmmm stop that." Cath said swatting at Kono's hand.

"Come on get up." Kono pleaded.

"It's too early for that."

"It's 10 am come on, I'm bored." Kono whined. "I'll tickle you."

"Unless you want to be seriously injured I wouldn't suggest that."

"Then get uuuuuuppppp. Fine, I'll sit on you" Kono said moving over to sit on Cath's stomach.

"Umph, seriously." Cath said opening her eyes, "but I don't see how this is a bad thing."

"Sleeping beauty can open her eyes!" Kono mock gasped as she repositioned herself so she was facing Cath with a leg on either side of her waist.

"Oh shut up."

"I'm still bored." Kono stated.

"What do you want me to do about it?"

"I don't know. Think of something to do."

"We could go to the beach."

"We did that yesterday."

"We live on a tropical island there's not much else to do."

"True," Kono agreed, "Ooooohhhh I have an idea!" Kono clasped her hands together.

"What?" Cath asked skeptically.

"You can teach me how to ice skate."

"Kono, I don't know about that."

"Come on we'll have fun, and you can laugh at me when I fall on my ass."

"I haven't skated in years."

"Muscle memory. Come on." Kono whined.

"Fine, but just because it's you."

"Yay!" Kono exclaimed while kissing Cath.

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Kono was right about the muscle memory thing, it took a minute but Cath was easily gliding across the ice as if she had never stopped skating. Kono was shaky and held on to the wall for awhile until Cath grabbed her hand and pulled her off the wall.

"Caaaaath." Kono squealed.

"Oh come on. I got you, you're not gonna fall."

"Positive?"

"Positive." Cath said taking Kono's other hand and skating backwards.

After awhile Kono got the hang of it but kept a tight grip on Cath's hand just in case. Every once in awhile Kono would lose her balance and Cath would quickly make sure she didn't fall. The whole thing felt natural, the past two days had felt perfectly natural and exactly what they both needed.

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As Cath and Kono were walking out of the ice rink they planned the rest of their night.

"I say we pick up a pizza and a case of beer and just veg on the couch for the rest of the night." Kono suggested.

"That sounds like an amazing idea." Cath agreed.

As Cath went to walk to the drivers side of the car Kono grabbed her wrist. Cath looked at her and tilted her head. Kono pulled her close.

"Thank you" she whispered

"For?" Cath replied

"For being you, for today." Kono said and kissed her softly.

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Cath and Kono were snuggled up in the couch, half the pizza gone along with 4 beers, and a movie playing on the tv even though they were making out more often than paying attention to it.

They both jumped when Cath's phone went off suddenly. Cath picked up her phone and checked the screen.

"It's just Steve, I'll ignore it." Cath said as she hit the decline button.

As they went back to kissing there was a knock at the door. "Ugh!" they groaned in unison and Cath got up to see who it was.

"Steve?! What are you doing here?" Cath questioned.

"I just..."

"Wait no let me guess, you want another chance." At his slight nod, she continued, "I've already told you no multiple times. Just move on, I already did."

"Cath come on... Wait you moved on?"

"Yes, that's what I said."

"Is that why you're not letting me in because he's here."

"Even if SHE wasn't here I still wouldn't let you in."

"Sh... She." Steve looked like he was going to pass out.

"Ya, she."

Suddenly Steve flipped out. "SHE, SHE. WERE YOU LYING TO ME THE ENTIRE TIME WE WERE TOGETHER!"

"Steve calm down! No, I wasn't lying to you. People can like both sexes." Cath tried to calm him down.

"OH QUIT IT WITH YOUR POLITICAL CORRECT BULLSHIT!"

"STEVE!"

"I...I'm sorry...I just." Steve stuttered.

"I get it this is difficult to understand, but you just have to let it go."

"Hey, everything okay?" Kono said coming up behind Cath and putting her arms around her waist.

"K... Ko... Kono." Steve stuttered in surprise.

"Oh hey, boss." Kono replied nonchalantly.

"Steve you okay?" Cath said when Steve seemed like he was going to faint again.

"NO!" Steve shouted suddenly.

"Boss calm down." Kono said.

"How could I possibly be calm right now." Steve said.

"You could try being a decent human being." Cath said.

"Well, why don't you try being in my shoes right now. What if you worked with Five-0 and I started dating Danny? Huh?"

"I would say that if that's what makes you happy then go for it."

"Then you're a better person than I am. Kono, you're fired." With that, Steve walked away.

Cath shut the door and turned to face Kono. "Are you okay?" She said reaching for Kono's hand.

"No, stop." Kono pulled her hand away, "If it weren't for you this wouldn't've happened."

"Kono." Cath took a step closer, and Kono a step back.

"I knew the second I found out about Steve that I should've never come back, I would've been heartbroken but I would still have the job I love. I'm leaving."

"Kono, please." Cath grabbed her wrist as she walked by and looked into her face with tear filled eyes, "Please, don't leave."