Island Boyz (2002)
“A zillion pin-prick stars sweep up and over the island. The moon is five hours gone and the morning birds have yet to gather.Seventy-six degrees and no breeze. Not a whisper.Jimmy Smith and Rats Aoki, both seventeen, wait in the early-morning darkness for a truck to take them to the pier. They sit on the rocks along the old coast road, a dark and peaceful sea lapping at their feet.But for the whispering water, it is dead silent. No cars have come or gone since they walked there from their dusty... homes just inland. Its the third week of their summer job.They talk quietly.Hey, Jimmy. You like hear one awesome story?About what?Okay. Had one boat, ah? Sampan. Was loaded.Wait wait wait. This a story or is it true?True. My uncle told me um when he came our house last night.Oh. Okay go on.Like I said, had this boat and was loaded.With what?Tst, I getting to that. Shuddup . . . Okay . . . Was coming home from five, six days fishing out past Kauai. They was bringing back ahi, yeah? Hundred, hundred-fifty-pound kind.MoreLess
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