Hello Dearies. I own nothing of Hawaii 5-0. This is a sequel to Star Crossed Misunderstandings. I have not written many of Future Misunderstandings, but I hope to. Please feel free to offer suggestions of some of the trials and tribulations and happy times you would to see everyone experience.
As young children we idolize our parents. For little girls, there is a time when they believe no one is as wonderful as their father and boys are mean. Similarly, little boys believe that the only girl who isn't gross is their mother and she can take care of them forever.
At five years old, Dai didn't think there was anyone as wonderful as her father. Well, her Uncle Danny and Uncle Chin were close, but her father was the best. Her brothers were okay as well, except when they teased her.
Dai's brother Colin, at the advanced age of six years old, told her that of course she adored their father because other boys thought she had cooties. Dai glared at her brother, but he just laughed and called her a baby. Dai used all her little girl strength to kick her brother in the shin. Colin fell to the ground and tears welled in his eyes as he called for their mother. Dai called Colin a mommy's boy and then ran to hide in her room, irrationally hoping her mother wouldn't find her there.
As we get older, we begin to see our parents as real people with faults and not the idolized figures of our youth. For a time our parents become uncool and any physical contact, in public, between ourselves and our parents is cringe worthy and embarrassing. Almost as bad as that are physical displays of affection between our parents, publicly and privately. We believe our psyches will be scarred for life if our parents so much as kiss.
Dai watched as her father wrapped himself around her mother and held her tight. After almost twenty years of marriage her father, Steve McGarrett-Williams, was still very much in love with her mother, Victoria McGarrett-Williams. Her father also had no issue with showing the world, and his children, how much he loved his wife.
At thirteen years old, Dai wasn't phased by her father's and mother's displays of affection. However, her twin sister, Francesca, and her brothers Anthony and Colin, at fourteen years old, cringed and complained anytime their parents even got close to each other. Joseph and Alexandra, at seventeen, didn't complain anymore, but both turned away whenever their parents were affectionate. John, at nineteen years old, ignored his parents' behavior in favor of imitating it with his own girlfriend.
Dai's eldest sister Anne, John's twin, seemed to be the only other child not bothered by the affectionate behavior. In fact, like Dai, Anne smiled and seemed to admire their parents during these daily displays. Dai asked her sister once why they weren't bothered when their siblings were.
"Because we are romantics, you and I," replied Anne as their parents continued to cuddle on the couch, oblivious to being observed.
"And the others aren't," asked Dai.
"Not like us. We want what mom and dad have. That big time, once in a lifetime love."
"Who doesn't," asked Dai.
"Weirdos," joked Anne as she pulled her sister toward the stairs to give their parents privacy.
"Yeah," agreed Dai with a grin.