Part 9 - Dreams Do Come True

It was a twenty minute drive from the turn off going toward the south east shoreline of the island. It was mainly just clay dirt road and jungle on either side of us and at that hour of the morning it was a pretty scary drive. It felt like they were fugitives running away to some secret hideaway, just like the movies.

The sun was coming up when they reached a T-junction and they could see the traces of cloud with a thin line of light around it. The sky was starting to come alive with colour. The dark, black sky, now turning slowly from blue to grey as they turned left and carried on. The jungle was now only on their left and Matt could see the shoreline on the right. With their car windows down, they could feel the morning breeze blowing cool air into their faces.

There it was just as the sun came up on them. The clouds were shades of white and grey with the suns morning rays in its background showering the sea and the beach with orange light. The waves were crashing on the beach with a light breeze just coming in from the west that made him gasp and stare at the beauty of the morning.

"Matt, it's over here", Hassan shouted. Hassan had made his way up a small hill and was waving to him to make his way there. Admiring the view, Matt didn't realize Hassan had walked quite a distance and he needed to catch up.

"Ok, Ok, I'm coming. The view is awesome Hassan! Fucking awesome!", Matt shouted back at him, not doing so well at containing his excitement.

Hassan just laughed as he waited for Matt to reach him.

"If you think that's great, see this view", he shouted back as Matt was almost up the hill. He was panting making his way up that hill but as soon as Matt reached the top and saw the bungalow below him, he was blown away. The bungalow was old and run down, to say the least. The main structure was still solid but everything else had dueled the harshness of the weather and lost.

"It needs a lot of work but it'll do", that was all Matt could say.

"Yeah, but I know some people who can do it reasonably cheaply", Hassan
answered.

"lt's perfect Hassan, exactly what I was looking for. Thank you", saying this while still admiring the potential the bungalow had and his mind raced with plans being drawn up in his head.

He postponed his trip back that day and spent the next few months in Langkawi renovating and refurbishing the bungalow. After 6 months, the bungalow was ready and it was exactly how Matt imagined it. He called it the Lighthouse Bungalow.