Of Surfers and Cross Dressers

Title: Of Surfers and Cross Dressers

Summary: Broseph takes it upon himself to help Johnny finally hook up with Emma. However, Reef keeps interfering in his quest to find out the identity of Broseph's secret girlfriend. And why is Ripper in a dress?

Disclaimer: I own nothing of course.

Pairings: You'll find out soon!

Warnings: Humour, fluff, all the stuff I'm usually known for.

Winter-Rae: Last chapter of this short little fic. Don't worry though; I have more ideas for Stoked. So read on and enjoy!


Chapter 2: Matching Making, Managed

Lo was very content when she managed to get her dress back, however, she was now in the process of disinfecting it in the laundry facilities. And this was what she was less than impressed about, as she had no idea how to work a laundry machine. She stood staring at the machine for a good ten minutes before she finally gave in and called Emma on her cell phone.

"Emma, can you help me with something?" she asked.

"Sure, what's up?"

"I can't figure out how to work this washing machine."

Emma laughed over the phone.

"Be right there Lo."

Lo hung up and then sat on the machine to wait for her friend. Sure she was getting used to this working thing but there were a few minor details she still had to get used to. She was very grateful to have met a girl like Emma who was a great friend to help her if she needed it. Come to think of it, Lo was finding that she didn't mind working with the other teens.

'If I hadn't have thrown that party and got daddy so mad I probably never would have met Emma and the others,' she thought to herself, 'Maybe I'm not such a screw up after all. Having real friends is important too after all.'

She didn't have to wait long before Emma hurried into the room and quickly showed her how to work the machine.

"Well, it's not so bad," she said, "Thanks Emma."

"Anytime."

"So, what was the deal with Johnny and Ripper? Why was he in my dress anyway?"

"Oh that, well Lance said it had something to do with a play," the newbie surfer explained, "I guess they were doing like an homage to old time Shakespeare."

"Huh?"

"Well back in Shakespeare's day women weren't allowed to act, so men played all the women's roles as well as the men's."

"Weird," Lo mused, "Still, I would have preferred if Ripper grabbed one of Kelly's dresses instead."

Emma laughed and then went silent.

"What's up?" the brunette asked.

"Well, after you chased Ripper off I told Johnny that I thought it was so cool of him to do something like, I told him I could see him as an Othello or Romeo."

"You so like him," Lo said, "I knew it."

"No, that's not even it," Emma replied.

"Oh?"

"After I said that Johnny said that I could be Juliet."

"Aww!" Lo cooed, "That's so sweet!"

Emma smiled.

"Yeah, I guess it is isn't it?"

Lo was starting to think they were getting somewhere with the possibility of finally getting Emma with a good guy when Ty walked in. Emma blushed and Lo frowned.

"Hey Ty," Emma said.

"Hey Ella."

Lo saw Emma's face fall.

"Hello Ty," she said, with a hint of annoyance in her voice.

"Hey Lo, what are you doing in here?"

"Learning how to do laundry."

"No way? You?"

"Yes, Emma was teaching me."

Ty wasn't really paying attention to his sister at the moment. Unlike her, he did know how to do laundry and right now his clothes were dry and he was getting them out to bring back to his room.

"Oh that's nice of her," he said, "Make sure to tell her that right?"

"Oh don't worry, I will."

"Right," he said, "Later Lo, see ya Ella."

"Bye," Emma said sadly.

"He's so dense!" the rich girl said in annoyance after he was gone, "Emma he's so not worth your time, and he can't even remember your name!"

"I know," the red head replied, still looking upset, "The dryer is really easy to work, unless the dress needs to hang out to dry."

"I'll hang it up, what are you gonna do?"

"Go back to my room and be depressed for awhile, maybe talk to Fin or something."

Lo didn't know what to say so she just watched Emma leave. She felt bad for her. You'd think that Ty would have the decency to remember her name.

"What an idiot," she muttered, "He's such a loser!"

She was going over all the nasty things she could say to him when the washer finished her dress. She pulled it out and started to walk back to the staff house, happening upon Reef on the way. He had a phone in his hands which was clearly not his and he appeared to be looking through the numbers on it.

"Who's phone?" she asked.

"Broseph's," he replied, not really paying attention to her. Lo was starting to think it was 'not pay attention to Lo' day.

"What are you doing with Broseph's phone?" she asked. Reef, realizing he was caught, jumped and hid the device behind his back.

"Nothing."

She arched an eyebrow.

"It doesn't look like 'nothing.'"

"Okay, you caught me, I'm trying to figure out who Broseph's secret girlfriend is, he won't tell me so I had to take matters into my own hands. I snatched this from his room while he was napping"

Lo laughed.

"Why do you care?"

"Call it curiosity; don't you wanna know who it is?"

Lo shrugged. Reef studied her for a moment and then his jaw dropped.

"You know who it is don't you!"

Lo smiled and played innocent.

"Who? Me? I have no idea."

"Don't give me that, come on Lo, tell me who it is, this is killing me!"

"No way, it's none of my business," she said, "None of yours either actually."

"Why would he tell you anyway?" Reef asked. Lo shrugged.

"He didn't really tell me anything, I caught him."

"With the girl?"

"No, with my brother, of course with the girl!"

"Is she hot?"

Another shrug.

"I don't swing that way Reef, but if Broseph's with her, she must have something he deems attractive."

Reef laughed.

"She's a cow isn't she?"

Lo frowned.

"No wonder you're still single," she said, "If you ever called a girl a cow to her face you would no longer be able to help a woman make babies."

Reef winced. He then went back to looking through the numbers on Broseph's phone.

"This isn't helping," he said, "He's got Emma's, Fin's, Kelly's, yours...wait a minute. Kelly!"

"Huh? Who?"

"Kelly, your evil supervisor Kelly," he said, "Look, he's got her number in his phone. Why would he have her number in his phone? Oh no way! I can't believe this! Broseph is dating that witch! Man, what does he see in her!"

Lo shook her head and took the phone away from him.

"You shouldn't assume anything you know."

"Oh man, I have to tell someone!" Reef went on, "This is huge news! Catch ya later Lo, oh and if you see Broseph, tell him I know!"

The surfer boy then took off towards the staff house to go in search of someone, anyone, that he could share this news with. Lo sighed, this wasn't going to end well.


Fin was sitting with Johnny on the porch of the staff house, laughing at him. He had just finished retelling the story of why he was getting pounced on by Ripper.

"Oh wow, you really are desperate aren't you?" she asked.

"I am not!" Johnny said. She arched an eyebrow.

"Okay, maybe I am."

"You're trying too hard; asking a girl out is easy."

"Oh? And you know this how?"

Fin sighed.

"Okay, so maybe I don't know all about it, here try it on me."

"What?" Johnny asked. Fin nodded.

"Pretend I'm Emma," she said, "I think I'll be much better than Ripper. Okay, so we've just done a lot of really great surfing and the two of us are alone at the Office. Go!"

"Umm, wicked session today Emma."

"Oh I know right?" Fin said, soundly slightly like Emma when she was excited, "And I only fell off twice! I think I'm getting better."

"Oh you totally are," Johnny agreed, finding that maybe this wasn't going to be as hard as he thought, if Emma was this easy to talk to like Fin was, "You'll be surfing like a pro in no time."

"Aww, thanks Johnny, you're a really great friend."

There was that term again, 'friend.' Fin really seemed like she knew where to go with this. He swallowed.

"Thanks Emma."

"No!" Fin scolded.

"Huh? What? What did I do wrong?"

"I just placed you in the friend's zone and you said thank you, no, you have to get out of that, come on try it again. Johnny, you're such a good friend."

Johnny was at a loss for words. What could he say that would make him sound like a jerk or a complete idiot?

"Emma, I really like being your friend," he said, "But, I would like to take you out on a date sometime. You know, like a real date; dinner, movie, the works."

"That was great Johnny!" Fin encouraged, "I would totally go out with you."

"What?!"

Fin and Johnny jumped up as Emma approached them. Unfortunately for Emma, she didn't catch the part about Johnny just practising with Fin, just the part about Fin saying she'd go out with him.

"Emma!" Johnny said, "Hi, how are you?"

"A whole lot worse thanks to you!" she replied, and then looking at Fin she added, "I thought we were supposed to be friends!"

"Emma wait!" the two called as Emma ran into the staff house, crying.

"Oh no," Johnny said, smacking his forehead, "I'm such an idiot! Emma! Wait!"

He hurried after her just as Reef came running up the steps.

"Fin! Guess what I just found out!"

"Not now Reef," the blonde replied, "We have a crisis on our hands."

"But I have big news! Huge news! Colossal news!"

"Okay, fine!" Fin said, "Out with it already."

"Wait a minute, what's going on?"

"Never mind," the blonde said, "Tell me what you know."

"You first."

"No, you first!"


"Emma," Johnny said, knocking on the door softly, "Emma, come on, talk to me please."

"Why don't you go and talk to your new girlfriend."

"Emma, Fin is not my girlfriend, no way."

"I saw you two on the deck, you were asking her out!"

Johnny sighed.

"Please Emma, open the door so we can talk. I can explain all of this."

He waited and was sure that she wasn't going to open the door for him. Not that he blamed her. However, he heard the lock click and Emma opened the door. Johnny felt horrible for making her cry; she looked so upset with him.

"Seeing you two together," she choked out, "was the straw that broke the camel's back you know?"

She then walked over to her bed and sat on it. Johnny entered the room too but sat on the sofa across from her, not wanting to invade her personal space.

"What happened?"

"Why is it that one of the guys I like can't remember my name?" she asked, "Is it that hard to remember? And then everyone else keeps going on and on about how I could do better than him. And when I decide to try and do just that, the other guy I like goes and asks out a friend of mine? Is it just because I waited too long to see what was going on? So now karma has decided I should be alone? Cause I don't think that's really all that fair."

Johnny quickly registered that she said he was the other guy she liked. He was thrilled of course, but was thinking hard of a way to answer her without coming across as a jerk.

"Emma," he said, "The reason why he can't remember your name is he's an idiot to not see how great, amazing and sweet you are. He just doesn't see that you could be the best thing that's ever happened in his life...like another person I know. I wasn't asking out Fin either. She was helping me practise, same with Ripper and Broseph earlier today."

Emma sniffed.

"So there isn't a play?" she asked. Johnny laughed.

"No, there isn't," he said, "Sorry."

"Why did you need to practise asking girls out?"

Johnny felt his face heat up once again.

"Every time I try to ask you out I get so nervous," he said and as he went on he started to speak faster and faster to testify to his nervousness, "And then everyone kept telling me to just go for it, and Broseph already has a girlfriend so he said he could help and that since you guys were almost related I should be happy he wanted to help me. Then Ripper jumped at me and you guys walked in and Reef went all detective on us and..."

Emma got up and pressed her fingers to his lips.

"Slow down," she said with a smile, "I think you lost me at everyone telling you to go for it."

"I knew you liked Ty," Johnny said, "I'll even admit, I was jealous of him. But if you were gonna be happy with him I was willing to back off. But then I saw how he could never remember your name and how much that upset you, and it ticked me off. Here you are, the nicest girl I have ever met, and he's not even bothering to get to know you. If you guys did start dating and you were happy I would be fine with it. But Emma...I don't think he can make you happy."

"And you could?" she asked.

"I want to try."

Emma hugged him tightly and buried her face against his chest. Johnny wrapped his arms around her and rested his cheek on her head.

"It'll be okay Emma," he said, "I promise."


Just outside of the girl's room; Fin, Reef, Broseph, Lo, Ripper and Lance were listening to said conversation. Lo, Fin and Broseph were trying to keep the other three from laughing and thus ruining the moment for Emma and Johnny.

"You wanna get out of here and grab something to eat?" they heard Johnny ask Emma.

"Yeah, all of this stuff has really made me hungry."

"Crap," Fin whispered. The six of them all booted it down the stairs and tried to look as casual as possible on the sofa's in the living room of the staff house. Johnny and Emma came down the steps soon after and saw them.

"Hey guys," Emma greeted.

"Hey Alberta," Fin replied, "So, do we have a new couple here or what?"

Johnny rubbed the back of his head and Emma blushed. She then slipped her hand into his and lent her head on his arm.

"Oh yeah," she said, "For sure."

"Way to go Johnny!" Ripper cheered while Lance gave him a thumbs up.

"Nice one Emma," Broseph agreed. Johnny, who wasn't used to getting so much attention, glanced down at Emma, who was smiling up at him. She looked so nice when she smiled.

"You guys hungry?" Emma asked, "We were gonna grab something to eat. Why not come with us?"

"Don't you guys wanna be alone?" Lo asked.

"It's all good," Johnny said, "But this weekend when I take Emma on a date you're all gonna have to take a hike."

Emma laughed, suddenly thrilled with the idea of going on a date with Johnny.

"I'm starving!" Broseph said, "Let's go."

"Wait a minute!" Reef said, "Broseph, I know who your secret girlfriend is!"

The afro wearing teen arched an eyebrow.

"Okay then," he challenged, "Who is it?"

Reef puffed out his chest, looking very pleased with himself.

"It's Kelly!" he announced. While everyone gasped in shock, Broseph burst out laughing.

"Oh dude, you could not be more off," he said, "That's too funny."

Reef stammered in protest.

"But, your phone...her number!"

"It's called prank calling bro,"

"But who is it?" Johnny asked, "You said that if Emma and I got together you would tell us."

"Oh that's right," Broseph said, tipping his chin with his finger "I forgot about that. I hope she's not mad at me for making a deal like that."

"I most certainly am not."

Reef's jaw dropped as Lo walked over to the male surfer and kissed him passionately on the lips. All of the others had similar reactions to this gesture.

"You and Lo!" Emma said, "No way! That's so cute!"

"I know right," Lo replied, "He and I totally hooked up last week."

"What?" Reef stammered, "How? Why?"

"I think he's in shock mates," Ripper laughed.

"I am not," the brunet replied, "But seriously, how did that happen?"

Lo waved him off.

"Maybe another time," she said, "I don't want to steal Johnny and Emma's thunder. Now let's go get something to eat, I'm in the mood for some junk food."

"Right on," Broseph said as he placed an arm around her shoulders and led the way out of the staff house. The others followed after them with Johnny and Emma bringing up the rear.

"Johnny?"

"Yeah?"

The red head curled a strand of hair behind her ear.

"Fin and Lo said that you go out of your way to help me, and I was just wondering, why?"

"It's not going out of my way Emma," he replied, "I wanted to help you out. I think you'd do the same for me right?"

"In a heartbeat," she replied, "But is there a time you helped me that I don't know about? If so, I wish you'd tell me so I could thank you."

"You don't have to Emma," he said, "It's not a big deal."

"Oh no," Ripper said hanging back with them, "You only hacked into the computer, switched around Emma's evaluation file with that Martha chick's so she would be fired instead of Emma. And had you have been caught, you would have been fired along with Emma anyway. But yeah mate, not a big deal at all."

"Ripper!" Johnny said, "Shut up man."

Emma gasped.

"You did that? For me?"

"Umm, yeah."

"Aww!" she said, jumping into his arms and latching her arms around his neck, "Thank you, thank you, thank you! I could kiss you for that Johnny!"

"Well he is your boyfriend now," Lance pointed out, "So you could always do that."

Johnny glared at him and Emma giggled.

"You're right!"

As Johnny held onto her Emma brought his face towards hers and lightly kissed his lips.

"I think I see tongue," Ripper teased.

"You do not!" Johnny said, feeling his face heat up once again as he set Emma down. She was still smiling and looking forward to having their time alone without Ripper or Lance to tease them.

"Leave them alone guys," Broseph said, "Their entitled to making out now if they want."

"Oohh, that means we are too," Lo said, "Anytime and anywhere we want."

The afro wearing teen grinned.

"Best day ever," he insisted.


Winter-Rae: YAY for Emma and Johnny! So yeah, you can pretty much assume that in any Stoked fic I write Johnny/Emma and Broseph/Lo will be a pairing. As for Reef and Fin. Who knows? I might just try to annoy you all and pair her up with Ripper...lol. And yes I will write up how Lo and Broseph hooked up eventually, no worries! Anyway, thanks for reading. Cheers!