Author's note: I managed to do a writing however I am going to split it into parts ever since this is a really long Fan Fiction plus I decided to add Danielle 'Dani' Evans whom her face claim is a Punahou Alumna and a former Rainbow Wahine Setter Tayler Higgins except I made a change on how she is from San Francisco additionally she met Paula much more later ever since she is good friends with *Katiana 'Ana' Ponce who is a Moanalua Alumna additionally a a former Rainbow Wahine defense specialist plus she (Dani) did met P much more later additionally Spyros Chakas who is the best friend to Chaz Galloway and *Guilherme Voss as he is an outside hitter from Greece except he is from Nea Symrni which is located in the South of the capital Athens, Greece as number twenty three additionally he is also going to be in this Fan Fiction as well.
Oh and this is the very first chapter except in this first chapter alone; this chapter may have trigger warning in this chapter alone otherwise the other chapters are okay thus I may also be writing here about the Carter Family as well ever since Paula's past does felt the same way as Nick Carter's past on his relationship despite having four siblings [R.I.P Leslie] and Paula had only a younger brother additionally she also spoke about her past about her relationship with her mom back when she is in New York City before the move with her dad to Seattle; Washington State additionally the time in Honolulu, Oahu; Hawaii.
Plus they are also going to talk about their family as well to be honest especially when they are talking about the Polaroid pictures they found in the past.
As usual; the event of this story as well as most of my writing now I am doing are actually taking place back during the 2000s Era Event Setting plus all of the events I am writing mostly take place before the upside down turn on the turn with the pandemic and the untimely events on the cursed year which is the event I would normally shy away from except for 'One last walk' which I used to do the writing because the event and setting in the 'One last walk' Fan Fiction and writing does take place during the cursed year on the start of the pandemic additionally I decided to put it on hold because I would do something with other Fan Fiction more so than 'One last walk' because 'One last walk' might be a lot too realistic in addition to how it does take place during the start of the pandemic thus I decided to let it wait as I am going to do other Fan Fictions I am going do the writing just for now on this blog.
Also I am going to do more writing from now onwards ever since I got so many writing I am planning on doing lately.
Plus this is the time when they are having their break at the Beach Walk Cafe.
*Author's note: They are the first couple and best friend whom their first appearance on this Fan Fiction I did the last time:
https://realpaulaleah4everwrites05.blogspot.com/2021/05/breakfast-with-friends-chaz-x-narrator.html
Trigger warning: This story may have mention of a family member's death (Katiana's and Genesis's [late] father); loss of family member; alcohol addiction: abuse [All three form]: parental alienation; death threats; narcissism and murder. (So be careful when you are reading this story because you may not enjoy it if you couldn't tolerate the heaviness of these dark topics.)
Credits of images goes to Hawaii Athletics Department, UH Volleyball Fan; YouTube; Spectrum Sports HI and Hawaii Men's Volleyball Team for the images--images are NOT mine.
Disclaimer: This is only a work of fiction therefore there is no need to take it seriously as this actually happens in real life.
"Hey, have you guys ever take a picture with a Polaroid Camera?" Ask Katiana 'Ana' Ponce while we are having a drinking break at the Beach Walk Cafe; she is sitting in between Guilherme G-Voss to the right and Danielle 'Dani' Evans Barker who is to her left while I am sitting across the table; sandwiched between Spyros Chakas who is Dani's boyfriend on the right and Chaz Galloway who is my boyfriend to the left.
As we are having ice-cold refreshing smoothie beverages on the house; we may have breakfast earlier at *our [*the apartment I am sharing with Chaz] apartment: Spyros decided we go for a morning run and a break at the BeachWalk Cafe since both of us decided to try there. Although they serve breakfast meal there however we only come here for the drinks.
"No, I haven't but my parents had plenty of pictures they had taken back when I was just a kid and loads of them are too about Athens as well as about themselves too as well." Replied Spyros ever the one who remembers the days when he used to be so young plus the time when his parents are still really young before his mom got pregnant with him as her one and only son in addition to how they are feeling so truthfully happy and grateful for where they are coming from in addition to having a really happy and healthy relationship with each other.
"Mine too, I mean my parents had so many on SF, their days of how they used to be a couple before my mom got pregnant with me in addition I missed those birthday photos they used to have of me, my cousins as well as thanksgiving and Christmas as well as New Years Eve too as well." Adds Dani; feeling wistful as she stirs her smoothie with a straw who definitely recalls the countless pictures her parents had about her home San Francisco as well as the pictures of Dani from the time when her mom had given birth to her one and only daughter as Eleanor and Johnathan's child to the time when she is graduating high school on her final days at high school as a senior high school student who managed to gained really high grades at her class as well as being considered as a start student too.
"Same here. I mean my parents have so many of photos of them as well as me and my siblings too as well; oh--those days when we are still kids . . ." Adds Chaz who is the one and only ohana member who had two siblings of an older and a younger sister, plus recalling the days of when Cambria Galloway who is his older sister as she goes to Air Force Academy as a volleyball player; track and field athletic in addition to working in the military as well as becoming a pilot in a fighter jet as well yet during those older days; when she is still very young and Chaz is barely just a baby at a few weeks old; they had so many photos when they are still really young in addition to how he found out there are so many photos of his parents Craig Galloway who is a track and field coach as well as a regional business at a pharmacy called Biopharma Sales for International Biotech Pharma Company as his mom Melinda Galloway is a Business Owner and a Hairstylist for her own Hair Salon yet they remember the countless Polaroid Pictures they had and they have taken the photos during their days when they first met each other, the time when Melinda becomes pregnant with Cambria; Chaz and *Alaia who is their younger sister [*Again, name changed due to privacy concern] and the photo when Cam and Chaz as well as Alaia are still really young. Chaz had so much fond memories looking at those pictures in their countless photo albums as well as how Melinda does hang some of the photo around their house.
"Mine too. I mean I remember my dad takes so many pictures of me at so many iconic Hawaii landmarks when we first arrived to Oahu, Hawaii; plus he still kept them somewhere in a photo album or two." I replied happily while sipping my smoothie drink: remembering how my dad takes a photo of me yet he still remembers how I look so different when I am younger as I used to look thinner and lighter before I become more grown today with a bit of weight gained yet I practice a healthy lifestyle with Chaz Galloway.
"Or maybe more," Joked Dani as we all laughed while more customers are coming to Beach Walk Cafe on both locals and tourist alike.
"Yeah; this is awesome and I still remember I had photos of me and my family as well as my parents except when I asked them; they told me they kept in a box however it maybe hard for them ever since they kept so many boxes however they will try to take a good look in each and different boxes." Replied G-Voss with a shy smile on his face before taking a sip of his smoothie drink.
"What about you, Ana?" Ask Spyros who is genuinely curious about Ana's pictures of her memories with the Polaroid pictures she had during the younger days.
"Well . . . There is a lot I can remember; I mean . . . we had such a great time as Genesis and I . . . we had a lot of wonderful moments together and . . . sorry, I just felt it is really hard for to say this but it reminds me of my late father too as well." Ana replied, trying to say the words however with all of the memories of her late father washes her; it is hard for her not to mention him without getting to the breaking point of breaking down into tears.
"Oh, I'm sorry."
As Dani offers her a piece of tissue paper from a box of of tissue, Voss ask her softly "Anybody knows what happened to her dad?"
Ana didn't answer; still sobbing quietly yet sniffing: I piped up to Voss softly: "Ana's dad lost his life in an accident."
"Oh,"
Dani explains about the loss of their (*Ana and Genesis's dad) dad from an accident where a drunk driver was driving so fast yet he didn't acknowledge about how he maybe going really fast which he didn't knew he is going to run into another car which is their dad's car and when he hits the car--he realize the man whom he is going run into is their father.
Although the driver managed to survive despite suffering several injuries; a concussion and getting tested positive for the addiction to alcohol yet he got paralyzed from the accident. When the detectives ask for his side of the story: he explained how he got drunk from a bar where he drinks a heavy because earlier he stormed out of his home because he felt a lot of anger towards his wife and his children especially his wife since she told him she is done with him and his alcoholic addiction yet he refused to seek therapy and rehab as his children are really scared of their own father yet when they spoke with their school counselor at the school where they went--they told her: "We are really scared, because our dad . . . he is like a hurricane in our own home and . . . he hurts our mommy a lot. Not just by beating her up; but also by threatening death treats to murder mom and . . . he wants to do the same to us before he take his life." After they explained the story, the counselor had managed to ask them does anybody else can take really good care of them; giving them a safe, secure and healthy environment for them to grow up: the kids managed to explain their aunt and grandmother who are living together in a house located in Portland had taken really good care of them especially there is an experience they can recall the time when the police had to arrest the man who not only abuse her in all three form of abuse in addition to how neighbors had to call 911 on the violent scene additionally the commotion between the couple except the question is 'What about the kids? Where do they live when their mom is sent to a women shelter? And how do they go to school if they are still young to drive a car?'
Thankfully; their aunt and their grandmother had decided to take the kids under wing to take really good care of them; nevertheless they also taught them the independency their parents tried to teach them however with their father's abusive nature additionally their mom is living in so much fear on his alcohol addiction this is when they decided to take them under their rightful wing to let them grow, breath and live in a safe; secure and healthy environment where they not only felt safe, comfortable and secure however they also go to therapy to speak about their experience with their birth parents as well as getting onto a long path of healing and recovery from their memories of the darkest moments they had to go through with their mom.
It may be a long path of recovery just for them alone however when they practice more of learning to love themselves; believing in themselves; giving themselves the allowance of self-compassion on accepting themselves on their own qualities, their own character; plus giving them their own comments on validation and hope additionally learning to forgive their past as their past plus moving on from their past to focus on the present day and learning to thrive in their own life as well as looking more onto their good qualities instead of feeling down and negative yet focusing on self-destruction; self-hate and the thoughts of taking their own life.
Plus it may brought a huge invisible weight of burden over the Ponce's family/ ohana shoulders, however during the day of the hearing: they managed to go the court and they may forgive him however they can't forget about how he didn't meant to be the man who caused the damage of the loss of a man in the Ponce's Ohana who is a great friend; a wonderful father: an awesome uncle and a terrific grandfather to his grandchildren plus an amazing son to his own family, loving grandson to his grandparents and a man whom they never forget as a wonderful; kind-hearted and awesome man.
Except for the driver's own family; they may had forgiven him however the wife decided to throw the book at him and his children who hadn't look him in the pair of eyes he have: they manage to tell their confession on their story on their relationship with their father and decided to take their mom side ever since they knew he abused their mom and them as well plus taking a life of a man with an actual wonderful; good and kind-hearted character in a car accident is not only the straw that broke the camel's back in the family; it also felt like the last straw of how the wife had gone through the experience of an abusive relationship with the man whom she called her husband and the man whom she had children with in addition they [The children of the man's family] decided to take their mother's side to see how he expose the true nature of his perilous and abusive character towards their mom in addition to being a 'so-called' good father when he is the one to be blamed for in addition to being an actual mentally ill person for hurting his wife and hurting his children numerous times until the very last straw of how the wife had made a decision to leave him in addition to living her mom as well as her sister plus to add a restraining order against him for violating and hurting her as well hurting their children too in addition to causing the accident on the loss of the a man who is Serena's husband and their father as well.
After explaining the really long story about the loss of Ana's and Genesis's loving; kind-hearted and wonderful yet strong and brave dad; G-Voss finally said with a small sigh: "Wow, I . . . I'm sorry for the loss; Ana."
"It's okay, I mean I felt that even though we lost our dad however we [On Serena, Katiana and Genesis] decided to give ourselves the time mourn over the loss of the man whom he used to our dad until when we decided to go back to our lives to be honest." Replied Ana who finally stopped crying as her tears had started to dry up and it breaks our heart so much ever since Dani, Gianna; Mags and I--we are the ones who know the story really well however this is the guys first time hearing the story from Ana about her past with the loss of their dad.
"Mm-hm; I just can't imagine this happen to one of our parents." Said Spyros softly before sipping his smoothie beverage quietly.
"Me too, I don't even want to think of this happen to one of our parents or worse: both of our parents; 'cause just no." Adds Dani, feeling terrified about losing her parents ever since she loves both of her parents, Eleanor and Johnathan so much.
"Me neither however it scares me a lot ever since I had a really rough past with my mom/mum in New York City ever since she wishes that I wasn't born and it really hurts my dad a lot actually ever since he wanted to have the baby additionally he felt so much anger towards my mom/ mum for so many reasons on she makes me look like the black sheep and a scrape goat yet my younger brother is the flying monkey and the golden child plus she is the wicked witch and a narcissist in the family."
"Sorry to hear that from you." Replied G-Voss; feeling truthfully compassionate and sympathy for hearing the personal story I had experienced back home in my birth place New York City where I was born and raised as well as my younger brother.
"Yeah, I remember you mention to me one night when we are having dinner together on just the two of us back when we are at our apartment: you did mention she only gives you hand-me downs and secondhand clothing with a lot of holes apart from the dirty school uniform she blames you for additionally you are not the one who made it dirty; it is her who ask someone to put the remains of the burned ashes from a cigarettes as well as spreading the dirt all over the white blouse; changing the length of the navy blue knee-length skirt you had to keep it clean and at knee length at all times as your mom/ mum uses a pair of scissors to cut your skirt length into a mini skirt length additionally putting dirty water into your pair of black ballet flat school shoes you had to wear it for school; cutting your white knee-length high socks into an ankle length plus painting all of your finger nails with a black nail polish to go a school with so many strict rules on the dress code yet you got punished harshly by the school as well as getting humiliated by your evil, wicked mom who tries to be a 'so-called' good mom but turns out she is an evil witch who tries to sabotage you thus she could be happy when you are dead and gone? Stupid narcissist woman for hurting you and now I know the reason why your dad decided to take extreme actions for on how she is doing such character on child abuse and parental alienation by hurting you and then she places the blame on your dad and you by using the "playing the victim" card? Wow, this is completely yet truthfully sickening and so completely out of hand for so many parents on the eight and the half billion people who are living in this world on planet earth as a human being for sure." Adds Chaz who genuinely gets livid and angry for hearing the story of how my mom/ mum tried to sabotage me yet trying to play the victim by putting the blame on me and even when she said a death wish on wishing how I wasn't born into this world really truly hurts my dad so much yet it angers him so much until to the point where he wants to take serious with the people who works with him as a team on a joint force between the Law Team from New York City and the law team from Washington State on she [The mom] needs to be in prison for a lifetime without any possibility of parole of a jail free card.
"And don't forget she hadn't feed Paula at all." Adds Dani, feeling the anger towards the woman whom she may be my birth mom however she wasn't my actual mom at all--she is a woman who doesn't even want me at all.
"Agreed; and she never buys me anything at all--not even books; new clean clothes for me to wear additionally proper shoes: art supplies and toys as well--it really angers me to talk about my mom/ mum." I added as my voice dripped with venom from my mouth.
"Tell us about it, your mom/ mum is just as terrible as Jane Carter--the mom to the Carter family on both Nick and Aaron as well as Bobbie Jean 'BJ', Angel and the late Leslie Carter; poor Leslie, she actually deserves to live to be honest." Said Spyros who felt a lot of real shivers when he hear those words from me.
"I know, I can't believe she tried to manage Nick and the Backstreet Boys however I'd think she needs to leave Nick alone as sadly Aaron falls into this rabbit hole on a black vortex on being controlled by his evil mom." Said Ana who normally would shun anything with celebrity gossips however hearing the story of my past about my mom/ mum does brought her a lot of anger too as well as the sympathy of how she thinks no child/ keiki would have to go through the same experience as what I am going through in addition to how parents must learn to be a 'genuine' and 'truthful' good parents by teaching them good examples on both by their words and their actions as from a child's/ keiki's point of view--their parents behavior are definitely their values and beliefs in addition, coach Elliot Ptasnik who is my coach and the head coach for swimming and diving team at the University of Hawaii had told me parents have to learn to give their kids a proper constructive criticism to help them build up their experience on making the mistake instead of giving them a destructive criticism to hurt their child yet causing a traumatic experience which no one wants to go through as a grown adult yet when the kids grow up--they can either become happy and successful adults who are living and thriving in their lives yet helping to build others up by treating others with respect, kindness; gratitude and earning their trust or become difficult and problematic adults who couldn't move on from their traumatic past yet they lash out in pain, hurt and rage in addition to blaming their parents for what they had done to them yet causing them to become an adult who couldn't adapt to the adult world ever since they felt a lot of trauma they had go through from the roots of their past.
"Plus why the hell would the rest of the family blamed Nick for the death of his sister Leslie Carter who died from overdose? He isn't the one to be blamed for additionally this lolo guy who thinks he is the one who got raped by her; thinking she is bipolar except I'd think the actual victim here is [the late] Leslie who got raped by this crazy lolo moron in addition to his drug addiction and all he did is doing Instagram Live Streams on smearing Nick's name and talking about such nonsense of make-up stories that he only made it up by his own image of delusions he have in his delusional mind." Chaz said with a lot of actual frustration, anger on why did the rest of family blames Nick for the death of his late sister Leslie and sadness when he spoke about [the late] Leslie however he gets truly angry, frustrated and livid when he is talking about Aaron Carter who is the guy who does nothing but creating a lot of false stories on a false narratives yet he didn't mention any names however when he said 'This crazy lolo moron'--I'd think he is referring to Aaron Carter and his attitude to be honest.
"I don't know and I don't think he is the one to be blamed for; it is his parents and that guy are the ones to be blamed for her death for sure; poor sweet girl." Replied G-Voss who felt a lot of true sympathy for Nick and his late sister Leslie yet acknowledging on how he wasn't the one to be blamed for as well.
And I powerfully/ greatly agreed; I felt as if he does his research about it in addition to how I did my own research as well as how everybody had did the same and now it does really changes Dani a lot ever since she told us one of her biggest secret is she used to be a fan of the Backstreet boys, the Carter brothers on both Nick and Aaron Carter however after doing the research in addition to finding out that Nick is the one who is now doing better in his life while he is thriving as well yet he is now married to the beautiful Lauren Kitts Carter and now having a family with three beautiful children.
Plus this is the reason why everybody loves the Backstreet Boys more in addition to giving a lot of genuine respect to Nick Carter and his wife Lauren.
"Exactly and I couldn't stand his attitude [Talking about Aaron Carter's attitude--if you do not understand what I am talking here.]; he is just lolo--man, just lolo." Pipes up Dani who uses the Hawaii pidgin word 'Lolo' for crazy ever since his character had been scaring everybody (Unless if you are one of those people who wasn't startled or fazed by his character--think again.) yet all he did is speaking about his brother Nick with nothing but instant jealousy; anger and rage.
"Neither do we; nobody can. He is just like that guy who knows that he is going to be successful by words but not so much by actions--he does need to get an actual help." Said G-Voss who does felt as if he is all bark and no bite or rather, all words are spoken but no actions are done. (Plus Elliot would consider it as 'All words on excuses unfortunately but didn't put in all the time and effort to work and doing it by action' to be honest.)
"Shaking my head, I knew why people just Mariah Carey(ed) him on 'I don't know him' plus Nick doesn't have time for his toxic attitude or wanting to continue to build a bridge with him ever since he put a restraining order against him for wanting to get his wife and his younger sister Angel Conrad [Formerly Angel Carter] too had to the same plus Mike who is [The late] Leslie husband had too to put a restraining order after he made such delusional accusations." I said, feeling as if I am putting in so much research on 'The Carter Family' as well as doing so much reading plus remembering how my dad told me in addition to seeing 'the woman whom he married as his wife and the woman I called her "my mum" as she had two children' and Jane Carter had so much in common to be honest--wanting to building their life up additionally considering themselves as a 'good parent' however they actually bring down their children and sabotage their life as well.
Now I know why Nick decided to end ties with his mom/ mum and he decided to consider to file a restraining order against his younger brother especially after he [Talking about Aaron C., Not Nick C.] wants to get his wife Lauren as well as his first child.
Even I can relate to Nick Carter so much as well; we both come from a mom/ mum who are full of character of arrogance and obsession additionally wanting to make a successful life for their child however instead they truly sabotage and destruct their child's life and it hurts them plus there are the first type of people who managed to break free from the past by seeking proper counseling from a professional as well as choosing an environment to surround themselves with the good people who brought good energy and a positive spirit; the second type of people are the ones who may not currently able to break free from a toxic past in addition to seek the help however they tried to look for other ways to counsel themselves and building themselves as the third type of people are the ones who sadly turned to drugs and alcohol and some may managed to survive; some unfortunately didn't managed to survive however there so many are trying to turn their life additionally there is also a forth type which the person may be fully sober except the person couldn't hold onto the urge then he/ she had left a letter on how they explain they truthfully love the ones whom they had an actual good relationship in addition to how they forgive the ones who had a terrible relationship however when it comes to the people whom they unfortunately they have a toxic relationship: it may be a different story and it may be out of the question.
Plus after reading the letter, when their loved ones read their letter--sadly they may have to be prepared for the unthinkable and a devastating blow to them.
Dani: "Same here, he is nothing becoming a person who is just as toxic as his mom/ mum and your own mom/ mum ever since she treated you in a very negative way with her poisoning and toxic yet trashy way as a 'so-called' mom/ mum yet not only I'd think she is jealous of you yet she thinks she can make plans on she cheats on your dad yet she thinks your dad is flirting with another woman however the question is . . . does your dad cheat on your mom/ mum?"
"I . . . I don't know . . . I had to ask my dad for the story ever since he told me he wanted to share the story ever since I have been growing and he really wanted to share the story with me on email to be honest for the reason that he wanted to contact me on the story through email."
"Okay but why email not phone call instead?" Ask Spyros.
"He wanted to do phone calls however with the phone bills; he decided to do it by email anyway thus it easier for us to contact the whole story on email ever since it is hard for us to simply just do it by talking on the phone unless if he has plans on going to Honolulu from Seattle, Washington. However he is so busy with so many stuff except I did truly remember he told me he wanted to go back to Honolulu one day mostly when he wanted to take a break from all of his law stuff." I replied to his question with a smile.
Dani: "Awesome, we really couldn't wait to see him in person additionally I hope one day he is ready to share the story with us when we had enough money to go to Seattle altogether ever since my mom wanted to go to Washington State and one of my aunt on my mom side is living there with three of my cousins additionally one of my cousin had told me she is going to be graduate from the University of Washington next month!"
"Me too, I'd think a trip to Washington State is so much fun ever since I always wanted to go there with Voss to see what the environment looks like in addition to how a change of scenery of how different Hawaii and Washington looks like!" Adds Ana.
Spyros: "Same here; I hadn't experience it before thus it is going to be so much fun to experience what does it feels like to be in Washington State. Plus who is going to be our tour guide?"
Paula [Narrator, main character]: "I am, I'll definitely bring you around Seattle. For outside Seattle, leave it to my dad." I add with a chuckle.
G-Voss:"Sure, awesome; this is going to be sweet!"
Chaz: "Cool, I can't wait to meet your dad ever since you had met my family; do you?"
"I don't know if I can remember; sorry."
"It's okay, it's cool. Anyway--I couldn't remember either but I'd think you did ever since Alaia can't stop talking about you." He replied with a laugh then I laughed.
We all laughed together after taking a dark turn on talking about the past--we do need the laughter and feeling of the lightness after having to face the heavy and dark memories we had spoke about.
"Me too, oh: I miss her so much." I replied as Chaz gives me a hug happily; wrapping his arms around me.
"Oh, I miss her too."
"Guys, I'm sorry to break this party but how long are we're here?" Ask G-Voss who is now looking down at his white G-Shock watch which now said 13: 41 which is the 24 hour format for 1: 41 p.m in the afternoon.
"I'd think we come here around . . . eight in the morning?" Ask Dani who looks at her Motorola Razor Magenta Pink Flip Phone and it says the same.
"Well, you do know we got up at six in the morning despite some of us have a hard time getting up early in the morning and thankfully we managed to have breakfast at seven in the morning and then we only left at 8:05 or later in the morning." Ana piped up while looking at her white Baby-G Watch she got from Genesis on her senior high school year as a birthday gift.
"I'm not so sure if we left at 8:05 in the morning for the run, I'd think it is mostly much more later because we take a long break at our apartment from this morning's breakfast." Adds Chaz, feeling confused looking at his Sony Ericsson T303 silver sliding phone.
"Exactly and we did end up coming up here . . . at nine in the morning?" Ask Spyros after he looks down at his black Sony Ericsson T707 Clamshell phone as he looks around the now noisy and crowded cafe.
"Actually you guys arrived here at nine o' five in the morning." Announced a good-looking waiter who did recognized how long we been sitting down here for a long period of time ever since we had been here; talking about Polaroid pictures on our past and the darkest memories we had to face in our past.
G-Voss: "Nine o' five? Wow, I guess we been here for hours; man."
To the waiter: "Sorry about staying here for too long."
"Nah, it is cool; it is so nice to see how you guys are staying here for a long period of hours." He replied with a genuine smile.
"Sorry, we didn't mean to stay here for too long because we know this is not an actual bar." Dani replied who felt embarrassed yet she tried to blink her eyes in a fluttering way to the waiter, as Spyros looks away to the window scenery on how people are passing by the cafe.
"I know; this is an actual cafe but it is fun to see how you guys stayed here much more longer than the actual customers we normally have they stayed here only less than two hours and then meanwhile you guys stayed here for a really long time." He continued speaking to everybody despite Spyros is looking at the scenery outside; Voss and Galloway are talking to each other about the surf session: plus the only ones who are actually listening are us ladies as we made eye contact with the waiter's equally beautiful; stunning and wonderful pair of awesome, lovely and romantic dark chocolate brown eyes.
"Wow, a long time." Ana echoed his words while I am staring at how the customers are coming to the Beach Walk Cafe.
"Really long time." I echoed both of their words; shocked to see how customers had flooded in the cafe ever since we are so focused deeply in our conversation on Polaroid photos and the memories of the past as well as talking about the darkest memories.
"Okay . . . so you guys want to stay here for lunch?"
"No, I'd think we are ready to leave to be honest but thank you for your awesome smoothies." Replied Dani as she flashed a smile towards the customers while both of us Ana and I exhaled a sharp breath however the boys are too busy focusing on whatever they are doing.
"Uh . . . sure; you guys want ice-cream instead? We can take away for the six of you if you are ready to leave." He replied; wanting to offer the genuine hospitality they offer at their cafe.
"I don't know." Replied a nervous Dani while she playing with a strand of her long brunette hair.
"Maybe we should take it ever since they notice we are the ones who stayed here for a really long time or a long period of time." Pipes up Voss ever the notice how long we had stayed.
"Sorry but I need a bathroom break; do you where is washroom?" Ask Chaz, who is getting up from his seat.
As the waiter shared the direction of the washroom, Voss ask us "So you guys want ice cream?" As I scratch my upper right arm and Spyros quietly stared at the window without saying anything: Ana got up and stretches both of her arms as carefully as possible.
"I would normally say 'No' though with the hospitality they offer; I would definitely say 'yes' for once." I answer with a smile; exclaiming my finger nails on how my UV Meant To be lucky; good luck charm in a nail polish form [G-Voss likes to think of it like a 'Good luck Talisman' kind of form in a nail polish bottle.] is starting to chip away slowly even with a layer of the sheer white base coat to strengthen the nails before the actual layer of nail polish in my lucky color and lucky nail polish on UV Meant To be from China Glaze Neons Collection and a clear fresh layer of top coat had been applied carefully; it gets chipped after two weeks or so.
"Sure, I guess that makes the two of us then." Replied Voss with a genuine warm and bright smile on his face which reminded of how the vibrant and flamboyant Rio De Janeiro of Brazil; the two worlds on "Old meets new" world and awesome city of Honolulu, located on the island of Oahu; Hawaii or the sweet and romantic Paris looks like after the cold; gloomy; miserable and disappointing yet cleansing; sweet in addition to sympathetic rain; the bright sun with their light does comes out with a beautiful, stunning and fantastic yet vibrant rainbow shining just above in the clear blue skies additionally on a seldom point--double rainbows as a bonus brownie point to everybody.
"Three because I want to try it too as well; I hadn't know how good their ice-cream is thus I'd think this is the good time for me to try it out." She added with a smile of her own while I visualize a welcoming sight of the beach on the clear blue sky with the fluffy white clouds in different shapes and form; the cream color soft sand when my two feet step on and the various shades of white, turquoise; teal; sea greens and blues of the sea whilst I am smelling the salty sea breeze through my nose and I let my long black shiny hair flows with the direction of the wind as I pushed back my hair.
"How about you, Spyros?" Ask Voss as he continues stared out of the window; watching the scenery: wondering about how Dani had a crush on the good looking, handsome waiter who noticed we are the one and only group of customers who stayed at the Beachwalk cafe for a long period of time.
"Hey, Spyros; Voss is asking you a question." I called while Chaz got back from the washroom he is going.
"Huh? Oh, sorry; what you are asking me?" He ask, feeling confused and dazed just as when he got up and out; feeling awake from the bed where he is sleeping in while he is feeling awake from waking up at his bed.
"I'm sorry; I am asking you the same question on 'do you want to try their ice cream or not' ever since Ana and Paula are planning on trying them out." He answered; feeling truly confused while we look at him and winked at him as to ask 'Want to to give it a try?'.
"Yes, I am going to give them a try so it is a 'yes' from me to you."
"Awesome, what about you two?"
The only ones who hadn't answered Voss's question is Chaz and Dani--the two people who are from California ever since Dani is from the Northern part on San Francisco and Chaz is from the Southern part of California also known as SoCal at San Diego.
"Oh yeah, I surely want to try them out." Answered Chaz with a genuine smile on his face.
His real, unguarded and relaxed smile reminds me of a cool cup of an ice-cold, and refreshing smoothie beverage or ordering a sweet plus cool ice-cream from Lappert's ice cream or a shaved ice from Matsumoto Shave Ice in Haleiwa you would have during the hot and long sunny spring and summer days after a long hike at a hiking trail of Manoa Falls, Ka'ena Point: Makapu'u LightHouse Trail; the famous and iconic Diamond Head Lanikai Pillbox; Kuli'ou'ou Ridge Trail or the more difficult trail on the Koko Head Trail Hike.
"I'd think I want to give it a try to thus how can I say 'No'?" Dani answer as we normally know she is a huge fan of Ben's and Jerry's Ice Cream ever since whenever we had a game night or a movie night or a sleepover night; we would [always] try to [remember] buy a tub of Ben's and Jerry's Ice Cream in Dani's favorite ice-cream flavor.
"Okay, I guess all six of us are trying it out then." Announced Voss as he gets up from the chair on where he was sitting down originally.
"Oh dear, I guess we are going to miss out the surf session then." Moans Chaz; feeling disappointed about how we are going to miss out the surf session we are planning for today.
"I know, it is hard for me to miss out a good surf session however it's okay if we miss it out--I mean you are not the only one who had to miss the good surf session today thus I felt the same way however with the all the talking we are doing today at here--I don't we do have the time to go surfing except we can try again to squeeze it in tomorrow." I replied to Chaz with a genuine sympathy smile on understanding how we do wanted to go surfing today however we always ended up losing the time in getting lost in the long, deep; raw and unbiased yet actual plus truthful conversation about our own personalities, the deepest and darkest personal insecurities we had to go through in our life; talking about our own biggest fears on what do we have in particular on either something common or it might be an internal issue we truthfully had to go through in our lives, our day to day lives plus what kind of new activities are we doing as well as hearing both the good and the bad news from one of us on what particular event we have to share with our friends [Unless if the business is very personal then it is really private.]
I placed my hand on his left shoulder blade then when he looks at me with his equally beautiful, precious; lovely; stunning and amazing yet wonderful; terrific; awesome: cool: fantastic and fabulous pair of dark chocolate brown eyes is placed a stare onto my face with a stunning unguarded; truthful yet acknowledging smile across my face; he started to smile slowly and replied softly thus he can only let me hear his voice which does felt familiar now with the frequently asked question of 'Are you okay?' plus his voice does sounds sweet and soft just like when you eat and taste a sweet and fluffy pink cotton candy when you are at the crowded yet colorful and vivacious Santa Monica Pier at Santa Monica, California where I used to live with my ex boyfriend plus ex player of Hawaii Rainbow Warriors Men's Volleyball Player Outside hitter number seven Austin Matautia who is now a UCLA Bruins Outside Hitter as number 23.
"Yeah okay, I understand." He replied to me with a smile on his face.
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After paying for the drinks and the ice-cream moreover the complimentary mineral bottled water; we all walked outside and stand outside as customers enter in and out of the Beach Walk Cafe.
"Ana, you mentioned about the Polaroid pictures; did you mention anything about the Polaroid camera?" I ask Ana while I let my transparent plastic spoon get a small scoop of Cookies and Cream ever since they told me they luckily have cookies and cream ice cream flavor.
"No, but I do remember my mom/ mum Serena had told me the other day she had a Polaroid SX70 she found it while she cleaning up the attic on giving away the baby clothes she had on us {Both Katiana 'Ana' and Genesis] as well as the items we had kept for a really long time plus she remembers the camera is still there and however when she found the camera; she knocks on something else on a box and when she opens the box; it turns out to be a photo album of our pictures she used to take photos of us along with my late dad before he passed." She replied to me while she let her spoon to take a small scoop of Mint Chocolate Chip before letting her tongue to feel the coolness of the mint flavored ice-cream with a single piece of a chocolate chip.
[Author's note: Yes, we bought the ice-cream in a cup with a transparent plastic spoon on our favorite flavors.]
"Oh wow, did your mom/ mum found the camera?" Ask Chaz who is now taking a small scoop of Vanilla ice cream happily with his transparent plastic spoon while turning to take a clear look at Ana's face.
"Yes, she did and she found the photo album as well however when it comes to the film for the Polaroid SX70--it may not be easy to find the film unless if we can find it online on Ebay or Amazon for a decent price."
"Oh I don't know about that because I felt uneasy about how the person who sell the item on Ebay ever since my mom doesn't felt impressed about how I tried to buy the rare Mac Cosmetics Barbie Collection they had been sold out so quickly from Mac Cosmetics thus I ended up going to Ebay however . . . my parents aren't too happy especially my mom mostly for the reason that she doesn't like how sometimes the seller on Ebay can be so fishy at times." Said Dani while she is eating her Strawberry flavor ice cream from the white cup.
"Oh, guess I had to remind my mom about that."
"Did you end up getting the parcel from the seller?" Ask Voss, sounding curious about did she managed to collect the parcel from the seller.
Dani ignores his question while shoving in more ice cream in her mouth; Ana kicks his ankle plus he protest "What? What did I just say?" as she glares at G-Voss with her 'Don't try to make the other person feeling too uncomfortable by taking advantage of this person' expression on her face ever the mother hen and the mother bear figure of our friendship circle. {Or as I like to call it 'My second ohana on away from home' kind of family where you can actually/ truthfully feel when you are with a group of people who are becoming your "hard to find plus harder to keep and maintain a strong friendship" 'close-best friends' for real in several ways then you consider them as your second family to feel that ohana vibes you have when you are away from home.}
"Voss . . ." I moan his name as if I am hearing an embarrassing joke from him about me and Chaz about how he understands all of my secrets that only he knows in particular and no one else.
Meanwhile the two boys remained focus on finishing their ice cream; Chaz on his scoop of Vanilla ice-cream and Spyros on his scoop of Mac Nut and dark chocolate ice cream.
(Macadamia Nut because they are originated from Australia however they are brought to Hawaii thus today--Mac Nut are really popular in Hawaii additionally the more well-known Hawaiian Host company is one of the companies that does chocolates with the mac nuts inside the chocolate plus it is popular too with other companies such as Honolulu Cookie Company where they also do pineapple shaped biscuits in so many different types of flavors in which some contained the Macadamia Nuts as well as Big island Candy with their own biscuits too as well. Correct me if I am wrong thus I might need to do more research during this time of the writing.)
"Sorry, I don't mean to ask that stupid and dumb question; and I'm really sorry about asking that dumb question to you; Dani." He apologizes to Dani, feeling genuinely guilty about bring this question up out of nowhere ever since Dani did brought up the whole personal Ebay experience on how she trying to buy the rare and exclusive Mac Cosmetics x Barbie Collection earlier.
"Oh it's okay, I did managed to get the parcel however I just don't think I want to ever hear about anything with the whole personal experience on what it consider to be also my last experience with Ebay shopping just as if this is my first and personal experience." Replied Dani with a giggle while she takes another scoop of her ice-cream before shoving it into her mouth.
"You can say that again, there are so many sellers who tired to give you the good offer however they tried to ended up scamming you and that is just stupid not to mention awful plus terrible." I added while remembering how my dad is very careful whenever he shops online on Target, Kmart or Amazon.
"Not to mention lame and awful; sorry to hear that from you, Dani." Replied Spyros with a sympathetic look on his face; feeling genuinely sorry just as when he felt as if he ends up causing the damage on her favorite make up product she did used so frequently from the drugstore which she bought it with her own money ever the one who actually loves make-up compared with the other girls on the two 'of us' on me and Ana.
"It's okay," Replied Dani with a shy smile on her face as he turned to look at Spyros while she blushing.
"Anyway, back to the Polaroid camera; how can we find the film for the SX70?" I ask Ana; changing the subject from the Ebay back to how we need to find the film for the Polaroid Camera.
"Good question, how are going to find it?" She echoes my question as when she is reading her own mind.
"Good question; I have no idea where to look at." Answer Chaz while he is taking the remaining scrap of his Vanilla ice cream.
"Same here," Adds G-Voss.
"Maybe we can look into TreeHouse." Pipes up Spyros who remembers there is a store which does films for the much more older camera models in addition to anything relevant to film photography.
"Huh? What do you mean? And where is that store located?" Reply Dani who had finished her ice-cream.
Ana: "I think the store is located at an area call Kaka'ako if I can recall where the store location is."
Paula: "Good thinking; I'd think this might be at the same location as with H-Mart where Chaz and I go down there sometimes."
G-Voss: "And the Pow Wow art, don't forget."
Ana: "Awesome, maybe we can go down there."
Paula: "Yeah; but the question how are we going there? There is no way we can go there without a car."
Chaz: "And none of us have a drivers' license thus we don't know how to get there."
Spyros: "I don't know but can we actually bike there?"
Ana: "Oh, I don't know Spyros: it might take about a whole day for us to cycle from Waikiki to Kaka'ako when we ride our bicycles."
Spyros: "Oh."
Dani: "I guess there is one option instead."
Ana: "And that is by taking the bus to Kaka'ako."
Plus this is when we go around to look for bus routes maps in addition to walking towards a bus stop to wait for our bus.
