But he seemed pleasant enough and gave me a friendly smile.Joe invited me inside and showed me into his front room. I remainedstanding and immediately... the dog ran over and made a fuss of me,licking my leg before calming down and sitting down at my feet. Theroom smelt musty and it seemed dark, despite the curtains being open.Beer cans and scraps of paper littered the floor and the few pieces offurniture all seemed to be pointed towards a large flat screentelevision. There was a tatty old couch. There have been some subtle shifts in attitudes, over the last sixty years. Ekela is from our time. His morals are just like ours. As for me, I was born in 1367. I have memories of Kikapua in his prime becoming leader for the first time. People are astonished when I say this. Sometimes I feel as if I come from an extinct culture. Life was so, so different back in the 1300's... Isabelle?" Yeah?" At the end of the year, when Mayoni marries, would you like to live here with me?" Really?! Sure! I'd. My folks spent a lot of time at the bar, and a lot of time reading on sunloungers. I didn't want to spend time with themanyway, so I was happy there were some teens to hang out with. One of the barmen was willing to slip some alcohol into our non-alcoholic cocktails, Coca Colas etc. This was before the days of All Inclusive, and he wasn't charging us for the alcohol. He seemed to favour the girls with this service!Now the barman was called, we shall say, Juan Cheng. Not quite his real name. . It was while we were eating that Dad began joking about the holiday and how we couldn't tell everything that we did while away. Then he made a comment about if the fire went out we now knew how to keep each other hot. I felt the stone heat up against my chest when suddenly Mom then blew up and said all this was his fault because he fooled around on his sales trips. Dad sat stunned for a moment and then declared his innocence placing his hand on his heart stating again that he had not had sex.