The Hawaiian Predicament (part 14 of 30)
“Ok,” belted out Louis after he gave the crowd time to read the memo, “I say we begin the process straight-away! Now all go out there and enforce these!”
The crowd rose to their feet, as most of the men and younger women went out to the world with their new mission. Many however stayed back to get a closer glimpse of the man meat that is Louis. Oddly enough, those that stayed back all fit into the same demographic – female, elderly, and handicapped. Luckily, Louis was able to avoid the motorized scooters and walking canes and duck out the back door.
Filled with a newfound mission and purpose, Louis left the court house, the very same building he had grown so accustom to this past year. It was, after all, the place where he had changed his name twice as well as the place which catapulted his dancing to stardom in his dance team try outs.
Louis set off for home, eager to get back to Gertrude. But as he walked back home, the face he saw in his mind was not the purple vein filled face of Gertrude, but rather the slightly wrinkled, yet lovely face of his once lover – Crocker. This hit Louis hard, as he had gotten so far in life, yet he seemed to be pining for something he was, in his mind, “too good for.” King Louis XIV of France, Louis thought, would never have wanted to go back to his previous lover. He always strived for a better woman – like when he married the heir to the Hapsburg Empire. And now, after Louis had worked so hard to get the twice-widowed Gerdie (Gertrude’s nickname), he found himself longing for his old life, for his old love.
“I will not go back to the poor pathetic life of Phillip,” Louis said to himself out loud angrily, the passer-byers a little frightened by his inner conversation. “I am Louis, the Sun King of the 21st Century, and gosh darn-it all to heck, I will live my life the same way he did – grandiose and lavish.” Louis forced a smile on his face and unbuttoned the top button on his shirt, “Gertrude,” a pause for dramatic effect, “Here I come.”
The next month was a whirlwind for not only Louis and Johnny Tsunami, but for the entire country of America. Both Louis and Johnny Tsunami were extremely busy with the continuous shooting of “Johnny Tsunami 2: Take it to the Streets.” The movie had actually been shooting for so long, that critics and fans alike were hyping it up even more than they had been. In fact, Nick Lamb of The Albuquerque Inquirer had already dubbed the movie “This year’s Titanic” and he was quoted of saying “Louis’ dance moves are in a word, sinful. The masculinity, the symbolism, and the creativity he brings into his dances belong in the Smithsonian, if that was any way possible.”
Incredibly enough, with the increasing prejudice and degradation directed at Hawaiians, the fact that Johnny Tsunami was in the movie was not hurting the anticipation of the fans. The fans’ viewpoint towards the movie can be summed up in the following quote, taken from Luke Willoughby, the creator of ‘The Lizzie McGuire Fan Club,’ when he said “I’m super stoked for Johnny Tsunami 2! The dance sequences, from what I have seen, look like butter in a world full of margarine. Louis is the Zeus of dance choreography, and he has my support through and through. Of course, I would much prefer that skank of a Hawaiian, Johnny, be absent from the movie, but alas not every wish can be granted.”