She smiled, apparently hearing the right answer. “Well of course I wanna keep seeing you, ya big dummy. I’ve never had orgasms like the ones you gave me last night. I definitely want some more of that,” she chuckled as well.
Her giggle was infectious, and I smiled widely in response. I walked over to her, and gave her a bear hug, with a loving kiss to the lips. When we parted, we both knew it was time for me to go. I told her that I would call her, and fly back to her very soon. I got ready to go, and left her with another of those passionate kisses, the kind that almost pulled me back in the door.
I returned to my new home, in Moloka’i, and was on cloud nine the whole time. When I returned my boat to my slip, I noticed something funny. The mooring next to mine was now occupied, with that huge boat of Howard’s. I walked up to it, and yelled out, “Ahoy!”
It took a minute, but Howard found a window and looked out to see who it was. Seeing me, he came out of the cabin onto the deck, and waved me over. “Come aboard James. It’s good to see you my friend.”
I was definitely puzzled as to why he was here, but didn’t much care. At this point he was my only friend here, and a good one at that, from what I could tell. We went into his cabin, and sat in our spots. I took the same stuffed chair, while he preferred his couch.
“James, I like your choice of port. This is truly a beautiful place to setup shop. O’ahu was nice, but this is serene.”
“Well thanks, Howard. I’m glad you like it.”
“You are probably wondering why I am here, huh?”
“The thought had crossed my mind,” I replied with a grin. “I mean, I know we both can appreciate the finer things that can be distilled, right?”
“Haha! See, that’s why I like you. Actually, I have a proposal for you. I know you said you just started looking for places to setup a new charter service, and I would like to help you out. I have a line on a plane for sale. The pilot is retiring, and just wants to get some extra money to help with moving back to the somewhere in the Midwest.”
“I’m listening,” I said, encouraging him to go on.
“Well I don’t know too many specifics, but he said it’s a 1957 ‘Beaver’, whatever that means, and has been very well taken care of. I must admit, I have a self-serving interest in helping you with this. I have some friends that want to come here to visit me, for a very special vacation. They want to travel to one of the smaller islands, that aren’t inhabited, for a couple nights, and camp on the beach. If I help you get this plane, would you be able to help me out? I tend to have visitors like this every now and then, and could really benefit from having a business partner that could fly us around, as needed.”
I gave it some thought. I would need to get registered here, and get a good set of some maps and things, but there was no reason I couldn’t jump-start my service with some exclusive clients such as this. I looked at him, smiled and said, “I think it sounds great. Obviously I have official stuff to take care of, to register both myself and the plane with the State, but also research the maps of the area and such. When are your friends coming?”
“They get into Honolulu next week.” He must have seen the shock on my face, so he went on. “Sorry for the short notice, but I’m really stuck here and could use the favor.”
“OK Howard. I can get to work on the paperwork stuff tomorrow. Get in contact with your guy, and tell him I want to look at this plane of his. If it is a sound machine, I will consider buying it. Now, how about we have some drinks and talk about something less important?”
He chuckled, “Sounds like a great idea.”
So that’s what we did. We had a few drinks, and I ended up falling asleep on my own couch, having not made it all the way forward to my berth. The next day proved to be a truly miserable day. Damn Howard and that dark Rum of his. I was going to need to stick to my own drinks from now on. Not only was I hungover, but working with the government folks was slow and tedious. They needed me to fill out a ton of papers, and they needed a lot of proof of my previous experience and pilot’s license. Thankfully I had the license covered, but my flight logs were all back in VA. I decided to call Shawn.
He and I had a short discussion. He filled me in on the new boss, and I told him about my new setup.
“So Shawn, you wanna come out here and work for me again? Can’t promise much pay to start with, but I have extra room on my boat you can stay in and the location more than makes up for a temporary pay cut.”
“You know, that sounds like a pretty good idea. This new guy, well he’s not bad, but he’s not great either. He already told Jenny and Tammy that he doesn’t really need them around, as he has his own office people to handle stuff. He really only needed the planes, a mechanic to keep them working, and some pilots. He hired two new pilots to fly for him, one man and one woman. Both of them are assholes, and I mean that in the nicest possible way. They both have their noses pointed up so high in the air that I am shocked they can still breathe.”
I started laughing a bit at his description. “Tell you what, talk with the girls and see if either of them is interested in moving out here. I know that Tammy has a husband and kid, so that might be tough, but Jenny was single right?”
“Yeah, but I will talk to both anyhow. Tammy might be up for moving, actually, as she just told me yesterday that she caught her lazy ass husband fuckin around on her. While she was working hard, he was sitting at home banging the neighbor. Get this, the girl was only nineteen. Fuckin’ scum, if you ask me.”
I had to agree. “No shit. Well talk to them, and let me know. I am on Moloka’i right now, and already have a line on a plane that I need to check out. I could use the help around here, and some familiar faces might be nice. Also, I need you to send me all my flight logs from the office, so that I can register here in this state.”
“Ok I will get those right now. James, don’t go looking at that plane until I get there, ok?”
“Sure thing buddy. I will send you some tickets for a flight tomorrow, and we can work out the details then. Also, let me know what the ladies want to do.”
We hung up, and I felt a lot better, knowing that at least my friend Shawn was going to have my back out here. The next day started off uneventful. I had sent him the ticket e-receipts the night before, so he should be flying somewhere over the Pacific by now. I briefly talked with Howard about Shawn coming, as well as his friend and the plane. He assured me the plane was sound, but I told him I wanted to check it out with my friend to help me.