Author's note: This is the second chapter to 'A Polaroid Camera; Photographs and memories of the past' thus first chapter can be found below on the link.
Plus this is a very different writing I did for the very first time additionally this does feels like 'One last Walk' except we are going back to the 2000s Era where they used to have a lot of good Television Shows; how we used to have clam shell; flip phones as well as sliding phones and swivel phones thus the brands we used to know very well are Nokia, Motorola and Sony Ericsson which are the brands used to do a lot of good phones.
Additionally, for anyone who remembers the 2000s Eras; we also remember how we have something like really good music as well plus those forgotten brands--especially My Scene which is one of the more forgotten line which I used to love for a really long time to be honest.
In addition to doing a 'One shot' Fan Fiction on this writing; I am going to do some more writing too ever since I still remember I have a lot of the writing projects I am doing except they had been ended up being scrapped and unfinished ever since I have so much on going in my real life.
Plus I am going to write the third chapter really soon.
Link to chapter 1: https://realpaulaleah4everwrites05.blogspot.com/2021/05/a-polaroid-camera-photographs-and.html
Credits of all images goes to University of Hawaii Athletics Department; Hawaii Men's Volleyball Team and Hawaii Women's Volleyball Team plus UH Volleyball Fan; YouTube and Spectrum Sports Hawaii (Spectrum Sports HI); none of the images are 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.
After looking for a map on the bus routes for a long period of time yet reading the map in addition to going to a tour guide office where we ask them for the route on where; we decided to go to a nearby bus stop where there is a bus coming in our way. "Hey, does this bus go to Kaka'ako?" Ask Chaz as we pick up the walking pace on our foot steps.
"I don't know but I hope we can get to the bus in time!" I called as we all start walking faster then it already turns into a run.
"Come on; let's go!" Dani call, as we tried to catch the bus; thankfully it managed to stop before we get up to the bus however before that; we had to let three other people to get on board the bus.
However the old man at the front is walking really slowly; making the old lady feeling frustrated and she protested "Come on already, sir!" With so much frustration yet a group of young groms in their pre-teens remained quiet because they might be afraid of the old lady on saying something to her to snap back then she might chase them with her walking stick she is holding. A pregnant mom with her new baby is sighing/ moaning loudly yet a man glances at his vintage Seiko watch he is wearing on his left wrist while holding a black bag which contains his work documents on today's presentation and the work he needed to bring with him to the office in addition to his laptop meanwhile we look at each other with the air of tension is building up as the old man makes his way to the bus ticket booth; the bus driver ask the old man: "Do you have any money to get the bus ticket for the ride?"
"Huh?"
"You know you need the money to get a bus ticket otherwise the Bus pass card to aboard the bus to get to your destination."
"Just hurry up already!" Snapped the old woman; feeling annoyed; impatient and snappy all at the same time when it comes to how he takes up so much of the time to even get out his brown leather wallet.
"Would you please be patient?" Ask one of the grom, sounding nervous yet feeling uneasy about the old woman: feeling as if they are talking to the wicked witch of the Hawaiian Islands.
"How can I be patient?! He is taking up all of his time to get his wallet out!" She replied angrily; giving everybody the scare including the bus driver who normally couldn't tolerate this kind of attitude from different type of passengers; instantly it is the same example with how a lot of the essential workers at the medical fields on doctors and nurses as well as the emergency workers despise how the way we treated them in a negative way additionally it applies too with the people who are working at the retail business (*I am talking on ALL KINDS OF RETAIL BUSINESS to be honest which includes independent business and small business thus you had to watch out for those type of customers who acts like one of those 'Karen' attitude. [Personal note: I am really sorry if your name is Karen--I am talking about the ones who treated all of the essential workers in the more negative way for your information.] Thus please be careful and ALWAYS treat people the way you wanted to be treated--mahalo nui loa and thank you very much!) as well thus they couldn't just even take all of the impatience you had on them therefore this is reason why we are really careful about how do we treat others--nevertheless we always treat people with 'authentic/ truthful/ real/ actual/ true' kindness except if the person is treating us negatively; that's when we had to either ignore them by staying away from or tell someone if they do not stop this kind of attitude to be honest however this time the bus driver did get startled by the old lady's angry remarks.
"Just hurry up already!" Calls a guy in his late twenties while is sitting down on one of the seats on the right side of the bus.
Then this is when the groms started chattering nervously under their breath about how they wanted to shut him up yet pulling him out of the bus for being loud yet treating the old man in a negative way [unfortunately] additionally we also start chattering too as well.
"Wow, what is this guy's problem?! He needs to learn to how to chill; stay cool; calm and learning to be patient with the old man!" Snapped G-Voss who is normally staying calm as a buddha; cool as a glass of an ice-cold lemon water with slices of lemon additionally a lot of ice cubes and being so composed as whenever before the big night of the volleyball game of either the first game night or the second night of an encore of the volleyball game as normally locals call it 'Hana Hou' Night; he would always try to meditate and doing a lot of stretching of preparation.
"Yeah, he just thinks he can say whatever he want yet I surely think that lolo kane wouldn't get the aloha for being a loud mouth to the old man, poor old man--I just wish I can give him an actual hug yet having an actual sit down conversation with him while I serve him a cup of hot tea of whatever kind of tea he wants." Adds Ana who genuinely feels sorry for the old man yet she thinks he deserves nothing but so much respect and kindness from us young people despite how there are people who [sadly] thinks they can treat old people in a negative way ever the empathetic one of our ohana.
"He is such a loudmouth jerk for treating *him!" Pipes up Dani who felt genuinely sorry for the old man too ever since she had seen and heard those scenarios countless times back in her home town San Francisco whenever people aboard a Tram back in SF. [*Author's note: The old man they are referring to]
"And an awful bully to *him. I felt sad for the old man." Said an uneasy Spyros whom is now placing his pair of hands into the pockets of his pair of Under Armor black shorts.
Ana: "Tell me about it, Spyros--unfortunately there are people who treat us in a very negative way these days." She moans sadly with a sad sigh, feeling wistful for the old man.
"Honestly; I want to shut this guy up instantly." Whisper Chaz to me; referring to the guy who yelled 'Just hurry up already!' earlier as he shakes his head while the old man managed to get his wallet out and paid for the bus ticket.
"Tell me about it, Chaz." I whisper back while the old man managed to get his bus ticket and quietly finds a seat at the row of the priority seats which is normally reserved for women who are traveling on the bus with young children or pregnant women; the elders or the handicapped.
"Mm-hm."
As he squeeze my hand softly with a good squeeze; I look at him and he gives one of his sweet and unguarded; raw; real; relaxed and unbiased smile on his face.
I return him the same smile as a reflection to his beautiful, real; raw and receptive smile.
Whenever we smiled at each other; we are very much like a mirror to each other.
The others managed to get up without a hitch and when it is our turn; we did managed to get our bus tickets and ask if the bus does go to Kaka'ako; however the bus driver looks confused when we are planning on going to Kaka'ako area. "Why do you kids want to go there?"
"Oh, we want to go to Tree House for the Polaroid film." Answered Ana while we are looking for the seats.
"Oh, okay--I thought you kids might be going there for the Pow Wow Art which is something you shouldn't miss it out when you are going there." He replied, while talking excitedly about the Pow Wow Kaka 'Ako art they had there.
"Oh okay; we'll definitely take a look when we have the time; mahalo nui loa for the information, sir." She replied while walking really slowly as her left hand is holding on the pole to walk slowly at the same time to search for us.
"No problem and be careful; Miss because the bus is moving now and so I recommend to watch your steps as carefully as possible."
"Okay, thank you; sir." Calls Ana while carefully take the steps to where we are sitting down.
By the time when she managed to get a seat carefully as one of the groms is willing to give Ana his seat kindly, she sits down and explained to us about why are we actually going to Kaka'ako for.
"Actually, I believed that the place we are going for is also famous for their Pow Wow Kaka'ako art you truly see it on several different buildings to be honest." She piped up while we listen to her.
G-Voss add his point by saying: "I did mention that earlier too, it is awesome; I surely wanted to see them a lot."
"Me too, I mean . . . it would be awesome to see how art can speak a thousand words just like a picture." I added.
"Wow, cool--my friends told me about this a lot and now I definitely want to see them thus I heard about it so much." pipes up Chaz with a wink.
Ana and I--we wink back at Chaz in return.
"Cool but what is a 'Pow Wow' art?" Ask Dani who is genuinely curious about the 'Pow wow' art.
"Yeah, we are so new to it thus those two can give us the inside information." said Spyros who is wondering what is 'Pow Wow' art.
"Pow wow art is actually an art event where it normally takes place at Kaka'ako where are we heading now thus this is an event where normally hundreds of both local and international artists does their mural art and other forms of art on many different kinds of building additionally it can be found there." Replied Ana who is explaining about the Pow Wow art event.
"Yes, and it normally takes place during the Valentine's day week ever since they would love to share their original, unique and wonderful art with their own creativity plus this is one of the more popular events too with locals and international citizens ever since they can watch the process of how the artist made the art in person yet they can get the opportunity to know the artist on how they do this art mural additionally where do they normally drawn their art inspiration from in addition to how they actually get it started plus how they fell in love with art in particular plus they are also popular with photographers as well ever since they fall in love with how the artist would share their creativity on their art when they are doing the mural of their art on a building." I add with a genuine smile on my face ever since I remember how we wanted to go there with Gianna and Mags however with all of the studying and our busy; hectic and full-on schedule--we had very little time to plan on going to Kaka'ako to take photo of their art additionally sharing the photos and the story with our friend on how we went there plus letting them acknowledge this is a 'must-see' are when they are going sight seeing in Honolulu.
"Cool, I don't know if we have something like this back at home in Greece however I need to pay more attention. Thank you for the information; ladies." He replied with a genuine smile on his face.
"Me too, I would love to see this happen in Brazil thus we had something like this however it wasn't by Pow Wow--but mostly by local artist." Adds G-Voss who is excited to see the Kaka'ako mural art they done at there.
"Awesome--however first; we need to go to TreeHouse for the SX70 Film."
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When we arrived to TreeHouse; they had so many items which are relevant to film photography as well as Polaroid photography as well.
"Aloha, how can I help you?" We are greeted by Edmund who is working at the store.
"Hi, aloha; do you have the film for the SX70? Because I found the SX70 camera at my mom's/ mum's home the other day when she is cleaning out her attic however I didn't brought the camera with me; sorry." Replied Ana to Edmund while sitting down on a bar stool where the glass counter does have rare yet one of kind films and Polaroid cameras as well as Kodak films and their cameras.
"Ah, a Polaroid SX70 Camera? I'd think I'll check the store room ever since we got so many Polaroid film we had for so many different types of models which is much more harder to find these days ever since people had to end up buying them from either Ebay or Amazon."
"Cool, thank you; mahalo."
As he goes into the store room, we look around the store. "Wow, there are so many rare Cameras and films!" I exclaimed while walking around the store.
"I know isn't it? It is just amazing like a film photography heaven!" Adds G-Voss with a smile on his face.
"Yeah and look at their photographs!" Said Danielle while she is looking at the photographs which are taken with either one of the film camera or a vintage Polaroid Camera just like the SX70, 600: SLR 680 or a SLR 690.
Plus there are photographs which are too taken by Fujifilm's Instax Mini camera.
"Amazing; I wonder which one of the photo is by the SX70." I added while walking to position myself next to Dani.
"Me too, I am searching for it." Adds Spyros who is now looking at the photographs with us.
"Wow, so many different cameras!" said Chaz while looking at the various models of the cameras in the glass counter.
"I know, isn't it? So many of them are very different as I known some of them are much older models." Replied G-Voss while the both of them are looking at the glass counter on the different models of the camera.
"Cool and do they have the newer models?" Ask Chaz.
After a long wait, Edmund who finally found a box of the stock on the SX70 Polaroid Film.
"Are those . . . the SX70 Films?"
"Yes; do you want how many film?" He replied.
"One would do."
"Sure, however I'd recommend getting two because you may never know when are you going to use it."
"Awesome."
"Plus what are you paying by?"
"Cash and I can ask my friends for your information."
"Cool, however I am going to give you a discount because you ask for a film on one of the more older and difficult to find Polaroid Camera yet may I know the current condition of the SX70 you found?"
"Oh, I don't know the current condition of the SX70 I found back at home however did you want me to call my mom?"
"No, no; that's okay--I am just asking the question and how much is it again?"
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After paying for the two SX70 Polaroid films as we exit from the Kaka'ako Treehouse; while walking back to a bus stop where it is located at Ala Moana area ever since it is going to be a really long walk which is going to take forever for us to get there however we got to be patient when we are walking to a nearby bus stop.
I ask Ana "Why would he give us the discount for the film? Because some of us did brought the emergency fund to be honest as a 'Just in case of emergency cash'."
"Actually, I'd think he wants to give us a discount ever since we are buying the film for one of the older Polaroid Camera model." She replied to me.
"Cool."
"So what now?" Ask Chaz.
"Now we give it a test drive."
