Post #2514831 in Summer of Magic, a roleplay on RPG

When Keo left his bed partner sleeping and satisfied, it was well into the night and into early morning and he didn’t have a wink of sleep. He propped open the window to air out the room and felt that the morning was cool and dark for a while yet. His partner shifted in bed to curl around the lingering heat Keo left, but did not awake. His partner would be amenable to another round in addition to the two they had earlier, but Keo pulled on a shirt to cover the hickeys and finger-shaped bruises and left without leaving a number. The morning was his alone.

The reception desk was empty. Too early for someone to come in to man the desk, but Keo knew that it was most likely going to be Lea coming in before her classes. The last time when Keokolo had left this German chick in bed, Lea teasingly threatened to tell his parents about his dalliances. Keo laughed it off and threatened to tell her parents about her illicit boyfriend, besides his parents didn’t care as long as it wasn’t their guests Keo was having sex with.

This morning, Keo spoke to no one, not even the bus driver. The window was left open and he let the wind comb his hair into his usual disarray instead of the finger-pulled shape of last night. He dozed a little on the trip and woke just before his stop, the beach.

He headed straight for the water, where the tides are pulled back and the white sand was unmarked and perfect. He stretched away any lingering lethargy from the night and began to run along the waters, making the first feet marks of the day. The sky was lightening, but the sun hadn’t risen. The coastline was empty of tourists and the day was full of potential. He let his mind clear, focused on the steady rhythm of his feet and the quiet just before daybreak, the only noise the breeze through the palm leaves.

By the time he was doubling back, the sun started rising and people had started milling about and invading his calm. The ruined illusion of solitude was inevitable. He threw a smile at an old couple who was admiring the sun rising together, their arms around each other and they were bundled together, relaxed.

There were a group of five young adults setting up a volleyball net, the long poles stabbing into the sand like a conqueror’s flag on a new land. He winced at their loud chatter disrupting his once quiet morning. One of them spots him and hollers a greeting at him. He braves a smile and says, “Aloha. This is quite early for you to play a game.”

A brunette girl with a shirt that says ‘I <3 New York’ responds brightly, “We were planning to spend the day on the beach and wanted to get a great spot before anyone else got here.” Another girl complains at the hour they had to get up. One of the boys interrupts to ask if Keo was a native of Hawaii.

“What gave it away? Was it my tan?” Keo says playfully.

The last girl, holding a volleyball, reprimands the boy, “Calvin, just because someone says ‘Aloha’ doesn’t mean they’re from Hawaii.”

Keo shrugged, watching them as they watch his broad shoulders rise and fall, “I am a native here. In fact, the Kealoha hotel where I work is holding an event tonight around 7 at the Pink Pearl restaurant. We have a lovely singer who does old ballads and hula dancers and you can have dinner and a mai tai and relax after a day out in the sun. It’s a great cultural experience, if you’re into that kind of thing.” Always working, he sells the idea to them with his usual smile, and just for kicks the wind makes his hair whip about like he was some sort of runway model. “Just tell them Keo sent you and they’ll give you a discount.” That’s a lie. As soon as his name is mentioned, their employees will know to give these guys the higher end and higher priced menu.

The young adults looked at each other and shrug and came to an agreement. The ‘I <3 New York” girl seems to be their spokesperson and says, “We’d love to! Where abouts is this place?”

Keo asks them for a pen and writes the details with permission on the arm of a girl named Shirley. He gives her directions with an air of intimacy and concludes with a big wink, “I look forward to seeing you tonight.” She coyly invites him to play a bit of volleyball because they were short a player, but Keo tells them that he’s going to be late for work.

It was about another 10 minute jog to get to the other part of beach where his family’s hotel sat grandly on the beach side. He made his way to the front end of the hotel because the waterfront property, with an unobstructed view of the Pacific Ocean, was barricaded from general tourists to provide their guests an exclusive access to the beach. The front was a lush with green and finely trimmed by their gardeners. He greeted their concierges who were already hard at work. They admonish him for coming in underdressed and they send him straight to the back to get showered and changed into something respectable.

Ever since he got his business management degree, makuahine and makuakane have pulled him from his scattered duties around the hotel and put him mainly in supervising. Today he was to go to their boutiques and have them pull a coordinated thing with their spa department.

Not even halfway into his shift, a customer starts to yell at Melani--one of their customer service representatives at the boutique--that ‘not only was the service shit, there was no way she was a size larger, it must be the outfit that is wrong’ and all manner of fussy things that made Melani looked like she was on the verge of tears. Keo gestured for Wini to take Melani to the back while he dealt with the obnoxious ape of a woman. Keo flirted and complimented her in equal turns about different outfits and gave her a legitimate discount coupon for a free drink and dessert at one of their restaurants. It made him fume on the inside that he had to be polite for this bitch, but he was good at his job and she left satisfied even while she was admonishing him for hiring such an inept employee.

He checked up on Melani and Wini and told them they did well and to take it easy. Melani was usually very good with dealing with irate customers but her pet dog had just died and she was feeling a bit fragile. Keo left pursing his lips and sending out a text to his friends they all just had to go to the luau tonight. It was time to do some planning. It wasn’t a mature thing to do, but they had to do something to fight back to these obnoxious haole.

"Kye? Ku`uipo, do you want some more of that fruit?" Malie said with a kind smile. "I'm just going to go to my office to finish some accounts. I don't mind if you turn on the TV in the living room. Or if you haven't had lunch already, I can make you something?"

Translations:
Makuahine = Mother, Mama
Makuakane = Father, Pa
Ku`uipo = Sweetheart (OOC: tried to find a different source because sweetheart may be intended for a lover instead and I didn't wanna have Malie call Kye a baby instead)

Snippet #2514831

located in Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii, a part of Summer of Magic, one of the many universes on RPG.

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