..my name is TJ...yours? Ryleigh I tell him and his face brightens up while he says a beautiful name for such a beautiful woman. Blushing intensely I...could feel my eyes dance across his face. He asks if I would like to join him in the corner booth so we can get to know each other a little better and I agree. Grabbing our drinks we both order another round to follow us to the table. The evening progresses and TJ and I get to know each other from grade school crushes to adult life. However, right now I could refuse my daughter nothing. "You, uh, look like a very hot young lady, Melissa." My daughter shook her head, eyeing me with disgust, giving her arm to Carbone. I went through the ritual of bending toward Melissa to offer her the negotiated kiss on the cheek. However, as soon as her father's back was turned, she planted a full, red-lipsticked kiss on my lips, then playfully pushed me toward the door."Let's go," she chirped. "This is gonna be fun."Under the moonlight,. He was from Hana, on the windward side of the island of Maui, and was one of the very few natives of nearly pure Hawaiian blood left in the islands. His grandmother had claimed, with great pride, to have been raped and impregnated by none other than Bully Hayes himself, last of the freebooters who had once roamed the South Pacific. The story may even have been true, for there was a touch of the pirate in the make-up of Wikiwiki.Not that it was readily apparent. His protective coloration was. Like the days before, they had done nothing of worth all day long, just the usual chores of keeping ship set and on course. They hadn't done anything exciting since crossing the Redline, and from what the maps say they wouldn't be doing anything for the next few days, being that the next island was a week away.After a year at sea, Luffy and his crew had come to realize this was a part of life at sea. Long Pockets of boredom, waiting for the next fight or adventure. But, for the past few months.