Free The Seduction of Molly Brown (The Aloha Stories) by Lynn Cole Page A

on vacation from Tokyo had swerved off the road and run Kim over while
she was running along The Kam . The young driver had been texting while
driving his rented blue convertible Mustang and had just momentarily lost
control of the car. An instant later Kim was dead and Molly was motherless. Noel
had wanted to kill the guy but the police and his friends held him in check. After
the funeral life went on for Noel and Molly although both felt the acute loss
of Kim at times like this.
    “I’m
really proud of you, Molly.”
    “I
know, Dad.  I know.”
    “Listen
honey, I have to leave in the morning early for a flight to Kauai, and then
probably over to the Big Island. You gonna be okay for a week or so?”
    “Sure,
I’m just planning to sleep and do some running and swimming. Nothing too heavy.”
    Noel
smiled. “That’s great. You need to take a little rest. You’ve been working hard
in school and in August you are gonna get busy again when we head over to
Stanford to get you enrolled and moved into the dorms.”
    “I
know,” Molly said, “Stanford won’t be as easy as high school.”
    “Are
you planning to get a job this summer or just rest?” Noel asked.
    “I’m
not sure… what do you think, Dad?”
    “I
think you should rest… just take it easy. This might be the last summer when
you can just enjoy the beach and home until you graduate from Stanford.”
    “I
know, that’s what I was thinking already. But it’s weird not to have a hundred
things to do in a day.”
    Noel
laughed. “You get that energy from your mom. She could not slow down or rest
much. Fun for her was training for a hundred mile endurance race.”
    “I
know, right? But I’m trying to enjoy life some. I think I may just make this
the summer of hanging out at the beach and sleeping. I think that’s Lily’s plan
too.”
    “Well,
there are worse things to do than hang out at a beach. Lily might have the
right idea. That girl spends almost all her time on the beach, doesn’t she?”
    “She
basically lives on the beach, Dad. That’s the Hawaiian way. I think she’s
coming over later tonight and we may go to the beach tomorrow.”
    “Okay
honey, I’ll be off to the airport early in the morning, but I’ll have my cell
on Kauai. You can reach me if you need me. I’ll probably be gone on the case
for a week to ten days, tops.”
    ~~~
    “I
am sooo glad that lame high school shit is over,” Lily said. She was sprawled
on Molly’s bed about ten p.m. She’d come over right after Molly had returned
from the dinner with her father.
    Lily
had been Molly's friend since Molly had moved to Sunset Beach when she was
eleven years-old. Lily was short compared to Molly, the top of her head just
coming to Molly's shoulder. Lily’s hair was straight and jet-black, falling just
below her shoulders. Molly thought Lily had perfect skin, the beautiful red-brown
that only a native Hawaiian girl can have after spending years in the waves and
on the beach. In comparison, Molly was a brunette, golden skinned, haole-giant
of a girl. She was a lithe, fit, five foot-ten young-woman, who had moved
repeatedly while her father was in the Navy but could now only recall her life
in Hawaii -- specifically her life on Sunset Beach.
    “So
what are you planning to do tomorrow, Molly?" Lily asked.
    “The
beach, I think…and read… after a run. I've been going so fast all year that I
think I need some time to just relax and unwind. Dad is gone for a week or so
and he specifically told me not to look for a job because this would be the
last summer for a long time where I don't have a ton to do."
    “Yeah,
yeah, yeah...I hear you. You've been going like crazy for as long as I've known
you. I don't think you really know how to slow down, relax, and have fun. I
mean, it is always work, work, and work. You are so driven. I don't think you’ve
even had time for sex.”
    “Lily,
you know for a fact that I am not a virgin. I had sex our sophomore year with
Miko