A.J. Llewellyn - Phantom Lover 12 - The Cannibal King's Husband by Administrator

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Chapter Six

“O

ch…I miss the wee willie winkies.” I awoke with a mad laugh hearing our friend Aloha’s Scottish accent on our satphone.

We’d narrowly escaped a series of

southwestern sea storms as we made our way

from the Cook Islands to Samoa. We were half

way there, two hundred and fifty miles to go. For three days, we’d had no Internet and no

phone service and everybody clamored to hear a

voice—any voice— and any news of the world. Aloha spoke to both boys who asked after all

their animals. Aloha and his husband Johnny who

were looking after our mountaintop home and

were running our school in our absence.

When I took the phone from Kamaha again,

Aloha gave me a quick rundown on things, which I

repeated verbatim to Kimo. He never handled

phones if he didn’t have to since they messed with

his psychic wiring.

“I’ve spoken to Sammy and Tutu in Scotland. They know intuitively that you’re okay, but they

worry when they don’t hear from you,” he said. “We’ll call them right now.”

“I’ll call them too in case you lose the

connection again. There was a giant earthquake in

Indonesia and it’s affected a lot of the islands in

the South Seas with bad storms,” he continued. “Yeah, tell me about it!” I paused. “Aloha, is

everything okay with the school? Any

unusual…visits?”

“None. We’re geared up to reopen in June for

summer dance camp. All the repairs are done to

the buildings. A few parents have called…but

none of your Kahuna mucky-mucks.”

Kimo seemed pleased when I repeated this to

him.

“They think we’re on a frivolous vacation,” he

said when I ended the call. “Good. Let them think

that.” He grabbed the boys into his arms. “Who

wants to climb the mast and look for mermaids?” “Me!” they both shrieked.

The boys were enthralled by everything we

taught them and they loved climbing the mast in

the afternoons to watch the sunset and to report to

us below on deck on everything they saw.

Though they never spotted the sea dragons or

merfolk Kimo claimed to see, they had developed

a very good eye for sharks, rays, eels and fish of

all kinds and particularly loved watching whales

following us.

My mini-healer had to be distracted each time

we caught a fish so he wouldn’t revive it and it

became a game between Francois and Luis to see

who could distract Baby Kimo the best.

The chill between Nohea and us was so thick at

this point I feared we would never recover our

warm friendship with him. The chasm between us

seemed endless and continually widening. After

the first night of hearing him with Luis, we never

heard romantic sounds coming from his cabin

again. It took a few days to figure out why. Early

one morning as I was fooling around on deck with

Kimo, we spotted him sneaking out of Luis’s

cabin.

Luis seemed to be in much better spirits, you

might say, cocky since he was now the captain’s

bed buddy. Francois became quiet, taking refuge

with me and Kimo and soon the two camps

became quite distinct though no words were

spoken aloud.

“I wish he’d chosen Francois,” Kimo grumbled

one morning when Luis flat-out refused to do

something Kimo requested. “Luis was unpleasant

before. Now he’s simply unbearable.”

A fight broke out on deck that same day

between Luis and Francois over the Internet.

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