#Chapter48

Leaving for Hawaii

Elias

Our parents took us on vacation after we finished school for the summer. They thought it would be a fantastic idea to leave at the butt crack of dawn. Hell, it isn’t even dawn. It’s night.

I slept soundly. Well, because I’m deaf and don’t have my hearing aids in my ears. I didn’t feel my phone vibrate, but ice water hit me. I jolted up to see Dad standing there with a bucket.

What the fuck?

“Get up before we miss our flight,” Dad signed.

I looked at Dad like he has two heads. I grabbed my hearing aids and put them in, turning...