A Wave Of Desire

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Makai

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"Come on, Makai, just tell me." The begging and pleading started as soon as we got up on Sunday morning.

"Nope. It's going to be a surprise." I always had the same response for him.

This was how it all went.

"Makai, will you tell me where we're going today?" Ocean leaned over me and kissed my cheek when he turned off the alarm for the morning.

"Nope." I answered immediately and stole a quick kiss on his lips.

"Please, tell me where we're going?" He begged again, teasing me in the shower as I rinsed the soap from my hair.

"Nope." I pushed the water out of my eyes, hugged him, then quickly left before I could be seduced by his sultry ways.

"I promise I will still be happy and act surprised. Just tell me where we're going." He begged while we got dressed.

"Nope." I looked appreciatively at his semi naked form before I rushed out of the room to make breakfast.

"If you don't tell me where we're going, I swear I won't help you make breakfast." He stood there with his fists on his hips.

"OK." I went back to making breakfast.

"HA! HA! HA! Ocean, you know that is not a threat. He is probably relieved that you're not helping him." Ryan laughed as he came into the room.

"Fine. Then if he doesn't tell me then I will make him let me help with breakfast." Ocean was trying his best to get me to tell him where we were going, but I was holding my ground and not letting him know at all.

"Go ahead and help."

"Damn you." He rolled his eyes and got to work, even though I hadn't told him yet.

He tried again when we were eating, the four of us together at the table while my parents had already left to take care of Brittney business.

"Come on, Makai, just tell me." 

"Nope. It's going to be a surprise." He looked slightly annoyed, but also like he was having fun as well. This was fun for me too, seeing him act like this and me saying no. It was a cute little game.

"Ugh! You two are so sweet that you're giving me a cavity." Ryan rolled his eyes as he looked at Ben. I could tell that he wanted to experience something like this too. He and Ben hadn't had the chance for this yet. At that moment I looked at Ocean and winked. He knew what it meant.

"Hmm. Too sweet, huh? Well, I guess you wouldn't want this then?" He pulled the envelope out of his pocket and held it out toward him.

"What's that?" Ryan went to take it out of his hand, but Ocean pulled it back at the last second.

"Yeah, you won't want this at all. I think we need to do something else, Makai. This is not going to work at all."

"What the hell. Give it here. I want it. Let me see it." Ryan was so childish at times. It was actually kind of funny.

"Oh alright, here." With a smirk, Ocean handed him the envelope.

Together, Ben and Ryan opened the gift that we had prepared for them. I watched as their eyes scanned the papers and lit up like Christmas trees. When both of them had eyes the size of dessert plates, they turned to look at me and Ocean, their jaws hanging open.

"Th..this is a joke, right? This isn't real." Ryan asked us.

"Nope. It's all real. We're giving you a weekend away. I would have gone for a whole week, but I think if my mom found out that I contributed to the delinquency of two of my fellow classmates, she would actually kill me." That seemed to make us all laugh. 

"This is more than enough." Ben said as he looked it over. "This is amazing. Why would you do this, though? What's the purpose?"

"You're our friends. And you've done a lot for us lately. We wanted to do something special for you too. So, you get a weekend away. And Makai is paying for it all."

"Yup, it's coming out of my trust account. Go crazy and splurge. I will cover it all. I want you two to have a good memory of this trip. Go out and see the city. Eat at restaurants. Get room service and never leave the room. Whatever it is you want to do, do it."

They seemed to be flabbergasted by this surprise. I was glad that they were happy and that we could do something for them. This was something that made me feel so much better. It was nice to give back to the people you care about.

Ocean stopped pestering me after that. Probably because it was time for us to leave. He didn't have to ask me where we were going anymore, since we were actually going there. He just rode in the passenger seat of my car as I drove us into the city.

"Will you sing for me, Ocean?" I asked him, the music playing softly on the radio.

"Makai.." He was not expecting those words to come out of my mouth. "After everything that I did?"

"You didn't mean to do it. And you can't bespell me, my love. I am already head over heels in love with you." I batted my eyes at him for a quick second before putting my eyes back on the road. "You don't need to put magic into it. And you only sing when we're alone. Those can be the rules. The tricks that we need to focus on."

"A..are you sure? Would it really be safe?" I could tell that he really didn't want to hurt someone again. But I wanted to rebuild his confidence in himself. He needed to know that he wasn't a weapon or anything like that. He was just a guy with an amazing voice.

"Yeah, I'm sure. Please, Ocean, sing to me. I love it when you sing."

Finally, he did as I asked. All he was doing was singing along with the different hits that came over the radio, but it was still perfection. I stopped hearing the plain, ordinary and ugly voices of the radio, and only heard my sweet, sweet Ocean's voice. He was literally the most perfect singer I had ever heard in my entire life.

This had to be even better than the other Sirens. They couldn't sing this well. It was impossible. Could it be because he was a male Siren? Could it be because he was different than the others? I don't know, but I knew his voice was my heaven.

Ocean sang away on the drive. He got so into it that he didn't even realize when the car started to slow down, or when I turned into the parking garage. He only realized that something was off when the light significantly dropped, and he started to look around.

"Where are we?" He looked confused.

"We're almost to our destination." I smirked at him. This was going to be fun. Ocean definitely didn't know where we were because he had not been paying attention. I couldn't wait to see what his reaction was going to be. 

"OK, but what is that destination?" He still didn't know.

"You'll see."

I still refused to answer him as I parked in the spot that was designated for our condo. It was one of two and they were both marked with the unit's number so that people would know that they weren't meant for them.

When I shut the car off, Ocean was still looking all around the garage trying to figure out where we were. These spots were really good ones. Aside from the handicapped parking spots, they were the closest ones to the elevator. Mom and Dad had to have paid a fortune for these spaces. And for this condo. 

"Come on, Ocean." I called out to him as I got out of the car. I was rushing over to his door to open it for him. Despite having told him to come on, I was glad that he hadn't gotten out just yet. I wanted to treat him special right now. "Let's go, my love."

"You're being an idiot." Ocean snapped at me. That meant that he was embarrassed but I could tell that he was still happy as well.

Now that we were out of the car, we grabbed our bags and hurried over to the elevator. I pressed the button for our floor and waited for the elevator car to start moving.

"This isn't a hotel." Ocean noted as he looked around us and through the glass doors of the elevator.

On the side with the garage, it was just a solid door, albeit ornately decorated ones with a black and white marbled pattern. On the opposite side though, was glass with that black and white marbling framing the panes. We were able to see into a lobby and the walkways on each floor as we went up and up to the twelfth floor.

"Nope, this is not a hotel." I answered him as the elevator dinged. We had reached the top floor. The only stop above this one was the roof, but there wasn't a button for that.

"So where are we?" He was still confused.

"We're home. Or rather, our future home." I pulled him out of the elevator and walked him over to our door. "Welcome to our condo." That look on his face right now, that was precious and perfect, and just what I had been waiting for this whole time.. I wanted to see that more than anything else in the entire world.