Alrighty, this is a pretty long one. XD There might be some typos, because I JUST finished typing this up, and it's really late...I just really wanted to get an update in before I go to bed. XD

Anyways, this chapter is all about Johnny's flashback. It's kind of told in Naomi's point of view, but I only did this to establish her backstory. Johnny doesn't really say all of it, but you're supposed to assume that, at some point during their time together, Naomi informed Johnny on what her family is like, you know?

Alrighty then, enjoy! ^^

Stoked and all it's characters (c) Fresh TV.

Naomi and the Mancini Family (c) me.


Johnny cleared his throat, ready for a story. "Well, it started last year, when there was a problem in the DR…"

Each of the teens leaned in, curious as to what Johnny had to say…

***

"So," Naomi's father asked casually, "what're you ordering my little belladonna(*1)?"

Her mother and father leaned in to each other from across the table and giggled as her dad took another puff from his cigar.

Naomi was pretty sure her father didn't even like smoking as much as one might think, but she was sure that he would do anything in his power to make his 'Italian Mobster' look more prominent than ever since their move back to British Columbia. Expensive suits, expensive cigars, expensive haircut. The works.

Naomi groaned loudly, but her parents were too caught up in their vacation induced gushy romance to hear her. Marcia, Naomi's 3 and a half-year-old niece, giggled at Naomi's stress. It's not like Naomi didn't enjoy her parents happy marriage, it's just…Naomi felt that they didn't need to put on "the moves" so strongly while they were eating in a hotel restaurant. With children around.

Still, aside from the constant ooey gooeyness from her parents, she was having a great time at the resort she spent summers at during her childhood. Both Naomi and her older sister, Julienne, were born in Canada, but their father, an exporter of fine chocolates and candies, married and began his business back in Italy. When Naomi's father found his new wife was already pregnant, he decided to expand his business by moving to Canada. Julienne was born when her mother was only 19, and later at the age of 28, she gave birth to Naomi. During their years in Canada, Naomi's father met with great business opportunities, and eventually hit it big. With all of his wealth, Naomi's father decided to move the family back to Italy when Naomi was only 7. But when someone in the company made a bad business move, Naomi's father had to move the family back to Canada last year, when Naomi was 14.

Moving to Italy was hard for Naomi, considering she grew up in British Columbia, and only knew a limited amount of Italian. Not that she didn't like Italy, but Naomi was happy to be back home. Her family visited Sunset Island often during her childhood, and even bought a resort home to stay at during vacations, but they began to rent it out after their move back to Italy. But since the move back to British Columbia last year, Naomi and her family began spending time at it again. Julienne (who enjoyed her stay in Italy much more and even found love, married, and had a child), her husband Adriano, and her daughter Marcia, all decided to temporarily live in the resort home while they got financially ready to buy their own home, but Naomi and her parents still spent vacations there with them.

Naomi, now 15, was spending her second vacation in their old resort home since the move back to British Columbia. Last year's vacation only lasted a week, due to her father's company mishaps. But now, the company was back on track, so Naomi's family decided they would stay at the resort home for a month. Already two weeks into the vacation, Naomi, her mother, father, and her little niece, Marcia, were all dining out at the Surfer's Paradise Ridgemount Resort pirate restaurant (her father has a thing for novelty styled restaurants) while Julienne and Adriano spent their anniversary day together.

A tall, red-haired waitress walked over to the family's table and looked at them from over her notebook. "What'll it be?"

Naomi's father took another puff from his cigar and motioned for Naomi to go first. "Okay, well," Naomi cleared her throat a bit, "could I have a strawberry and orange smoothie?" As the girl began to write her order, Naomi glanced over the menu, and added, "Oh, and could you substitute the milk for soy milk?"

The girl stopped writing and looked over Naomi. "Uhm, I'm sorry, but I can't do that…"

Naomi questionably raised an eyebrow at the girl. "But, you have soy milk on your menu…can't you just substitute it?"

The waitress looked over her notebook for a minute, and after about 20 seconds, finally said, "I'll see what I can do…"

As the waitress took everyone else's order, Naomi raised an eyebrow at her. She's got serious attitude…

"Alright, I'll be right back with your drinks," the waitress said quickly as she jotted down the orders, but before she walked away, she took one last glance over Naomi. Naomi scrunched her eyebrows together.

After waiting through several minutes of kissy kissy noises from her parents, the waitress came back with a tray full of drinks. She passed everyone's out, and when she set Naomi's down on the table, she quickly said, "We're out of soy milk. Sorry, but I made this one with regular milk," then she walked away.

"Wait, what?" Naomi asked before she was out of earshot, causing the redheaded waitress to turn back around, "I can't drink this…I'm vegan-"

But before Naomi could finish her sentence, the girl said, "Sorry," then walked away. And without even offering to get another drink!

As Marcia began to try to figure out what the world 'vegan' meant, Naomi's mother offered Naomi a sip of her orange juice and said, "Sorry sweetie…"

Another waiter walked by, but he stopped at one of the tables beside Naomi's. "Here's your soymilk, sir."

"Oh no she didn't." Naomi stood up in her seat and called after her waitress, who was taking an order several tables over. The girl glanced up at Naomi, and told her table to hold on a second before walking back over to Naomi. "Yes, miss?"

"I thought you said you were out of soymilk?" Naomi talked sternly, pointing over to the glass that the waiter had just sat down. The girl looked over to the table, then scratched something on her notebook. "Well that was the last of it, okay?"

Naomi didn't like the girl's tone. "You know," she started, "You could have offered me something else…or asked what I wanted instead." The waitress looked up, obviously sick of her job. She was probably new. "I should tell your boss about your horrible service…"

The waitress looked Naomi dead in the eyes and, through clenched teeth, asked, "What can I get you instead miss?"

"A new job," Naomi retorted, before walking out of the restaurant, into the lobby.

Before exiting the pirate ship restaurant, Naomi passed by a large man, sitting at a table with what Naomi assumed to be his family. Naomi kept on walking, but watched as the man stood up and walked over to her family's table…

Naomi didn't mean to stir up a scene like that, but she wasn't too crazy about this restaurant her dad insisted on trying out.

When Naomi walked into the lobby, she tried to calm herself down by sitting on one of the lounge chairs, but she soon found that she couldn't get comfortable, so she walked over to the front desk, deciding to look through brochures.

"Did you just come out of the DR?"

Naomi looked up from the brochure and met eyes with a young black boy, about her age. She smiled at him, but asked, "…the DR?"

"Oh, the dining room," he confirmed, "I heard some fuss in there…is everything alright in there?"

"Yeah, I was just having trouble with one of the waitresses…" Naomi smiled at the boy again before looking back at her brochure. I wonder if there are any better restaurants around here, she mused as she flipped through the brochure titled "Sunset Island Attractions".

"Oh, jeez," the boy worriedly looked over to the dining room entrance, making Naomi look back up at him. "The owner of the hotel is eating in there right now…Looks like someone might be getting fired."

"Oh, that was the owner?" Naomi asked, mostly to herself. She realized that the large man that walked over to her family's table after she left must have been the owner. Oh no, Naomi worried, I hope I didn't get us kicked out for life, or something…

"Uhm…the name's Johnny," the front desk boy said, trying to keep a conversation going. Naomi finally sat her brochure down and offered a handshake, which Johnny took. "Naomi."

"Nice name. Are you staying here at the hotel, Naomi? I don't recognize you…" Johnny asked, looking over his computer screen, probably looking for a name.

"No," Naomi replied, blowing a strand of hair from her face, "But my dad really wanted to try the restaurant, so….Personally, I'm not a fan."

Johnny chuckled and looked back up at Naomi. "Well, most of the workers here aren't fans either…Our boss? Total. Dork." Naomi smiled, and added, "Well, I'm pretty sure the waitress who I had a problem with totally hates her job or something…I didn't even do anything."

"Red haired?" Johnny asked, and Naomi nodded. "Yeah. She can be like that…I'm surprised she wasn't fired already, actually. But, we only just started. I'm still pretty new here, actually."

Naomi smiled, but was soon pulled from the conversation as she heard her father's voice calling for her. Naomi shrugged, and looked to Johnny happily. "Well, it looks like I gotta go…It was nice talking to you, Johnny!"

"Seeya!" Johnny shouted as Naomi walked away, over to where his friend Ty, Ty's family, the Ridgemounts, and another family were all standing.

"Hey dad…Sorry about before-" Naomi started, but was quickly cut off by a woman she didn't know.

"Oh, darling, it's quite alright! Why, unless you hadn't started that whole scene, we never would have had the pleasure to bump into your family!"

Naomi blushed a bit at what the woman said. Naomi looked over the family she didn't know…There was the father she saw from earlier, the mother who just talked to her, and three children; two looked about Naomi's age, but one looked much younger.

"Sweetie," Naomi's mother started, "This is the Ridgemount family."

Several "Nice to meet you"'s were heard from the family, and Naomi smiled over at them. "Dear," Naomi's mother perked up again, "We've invited the Ridgemounts to come over to our house for dinner tomorrow!"

Naomi wasn't as excited as her mother and father were, but she smiled anyways. Naomi actually felt a bit embarrassed by the whole waitress thing, but it seemed that everyone else brushed it off long ago and decided to become friends.

After several more minutes of conversation, both families said their goodbyes, and were on their way.

***

"Yo, Johnny."

"Ohay, Ty."

Johnny was lying out on his beach towel by the pool. It was one of his few days off, so he was trying to relax as much as possible. The son of the hotel's owner towered over Johnny and asked, "Are Ripper and Lance on their break today, too?"

"Yeah, but they're surfing right now…I think they're trying to show off to the seniors," Johnny replied as he sat up, "It's about that 'Office' thing again. They're working their hides off, but I don't think the seniors are impressed…"

Ty sat down next to his friend and thought about it for a moment. "Maybe I should go grab my camera…If they're trying really hard, they might catch a really good ride, and I could get some sweet footage…" After a few more moments of silence, Ty looked at Johnny hopefully, "Hey, dude…My family made new friends yesterday and are going over to their house for dinner today."

Johnny looked a bit surprised, "Oh, you mean that Naomi girl?"

"I guess?" Ty shrugged, "Well, it's gonna be totally lame if I'm by myself. Wanna come? I doubt dad'll mind…"

Johnny smiled, and figured that it'd be cool if he could become friends with that Naomi girl. "Sure, dude. I'd love to go…When are you guys leaving?"

"Right now. Go get dressed."

***

It took about 45 minutes, but when the Ridgemount limousine finally pulled up to a neatly decorated beach house, Ty and Johnny actually started to get excited.

"Alright family, we're here!" Mrs. Ridgemount stated excitedly, getting out of the limo as fast as possible, and clutching onto her husband's hand tightly. George and Lo got out next, but neither of them looked very excited. George was completely sucked into his Gameboy DS game, and Lo was busy texting one of her many friends on her cell phone.

Once Ty and Johnny walked out of the limo, the driver drove the limo out of sight, and the entire family moved up the steps to the door. After only one ring of the doorbell, an excited Mrs. Mancini opened the door and walked up to the Ridgemounts with open arms. "Welcome, welcome to our home guys!"

The wives squealed with each other, the husbands shared a firm handshake and pat of the shoulder…while the Ridgemount kids (plus Johnny) stood there awkwardly.

From another room, a young woman's voice called, "Mom, is that the Ridgemounts?" Julienne walked out from behind an arched doorway, holding a tired Marcia in her arms, but she smiled when she saw the large family standing in their entryway. "Hello there!"

Julienne's husband, Adriano, soon walked into the room as well, and many more introductions were made. Eventually, everyone settled down and made their way into the living room and onto the couches. It took Naomi about 10 minutes until she finally walked into the room. "Oh, uhm…" Naomi stood there awkwardly, "…hello everyone."

The Ridgemount adults offered their hellos, but the kids only made small hand gestures and waves. Naomi glanced quickly over everyone, but made a double take when her eyes ran over the familiar face of Johnny, the front desk guy.

"Why don't you kids go have fun? We've got a playroom, just at the top of the steps…Naomi?" Naomi's mother offered, trying to give the adults some privacy to talk.

"Alrighty, follow me guys," Naomi stated, taking Marcia from her older sister and carrying her up the stairs. The other kids followed quietly until they finally walked into the large playroom.

"Woah, nice room you got here," the youngest Ridgemount, George, complimented, already making himself comfortable by sitting on the couch and turning on the large flat screen TV. Lo followed after her younger brother and sat next to him, never taking her eyes off of the text she was trying to write.

As Naomi set Marcia down, Ty walked over to the large set of windows at the opposite end of the room, and opened the curtains. "Woah!" Ty exclaimed, "Johnny, come look at this!" Johnny, following Ty's request, walked over to the window and looked outside, taking his turn to gawk at the view.

"Dude! That's practically a private beach you guys got here!"

"Yeah, and look at those surfers. I totally should have brought my camera! They are catching some sick waves out there!"

Naomi walked over to the two, laughing. "You really like it down there?" she asked, getting a nod from both of them. "Did you guys bring swimsuits or anything? Because my sister has a surfboard, and I'm sure she wouldn't mind letting you guys use it…"

"Aw man," Ty exclaimed again, "I didn't bring my camera or my trunks!" Both Ty and Johnny sighed at the view of the beach, imagining how great it would have been if they'd brought their swimgear.

"So, you say your sister surfs?" Ty turned to look at a nodding Naomi. "…is she any good?"

"Am I any good?" Julienne asked happily, walking into the room to grab a sleepy Marcia. "Want me to show you just how good I am?"

Johnny and Ty looked at each other, then back at Julienne, before simultaneously yelling, "Bring it on!"

***

"Duuude!" Ty yelled as he watched Julienne do tricks on her surfboard. The Ridgemount family, Adriano and Marcia, and Naomi's own family all cheered Julienne on, watching her do flips, spins, and hanging ten. Johnny turned over to Naomi and laughed, "Your sis is awesome! Do you surf too?"

"Nah," Naomi shrugged, smiling up at Johnny, "I'd like to learn, but it's just one of those things I never got around to." They both turned back to Julienne. "Well," Johnny cleared his throat a bit, "Maybe you could come hang out with me and Ty, and our two friends Lance and Ripper too. You could come to the hotel beach with us one of these days, and I could teach you how to surf or something."

Naomi sat down in the sand and smiled up at Johnny again, "Aw, really? That'd be totally cool! Maybe I'll ask about it." Johnny cheered for Julienne as she finished up her session, then sat down next to Naomi, "You definitely should!"

When Julienne walked back onto the beach, Marcia ran up to her mother and made grabby hands at her. Julienne picked up her squealing daughter and ran up to everyone, who was still cheering for her. Ty walked up next to Julienne, and began complimenting her on her session. Johnny watched every move Ty made, and began to chuckle. "Dude, I think Ty's got a thing for your sister…"

Naomi heard Ty saying, "I wish I brought my camera!" over and over, and began to laugh as well. "Most definitely." Lo overheard the conversation, and sat down next to Johnny, her eyes still plastered on her cell phone. "Ew, you think? I can totally blackmail him for it…" Naomi laughed at the girl. She hadn't really gotten a chance to talk to her, or the youngest Ridgemount yet…

Once the sun began to set, everyone left the beach and headed back to the house.

"We should stay in touch, Mancini!" Mr. Ridgemount exclaimed, sharing another firm handshake with Naomi's father. He offered Mr. Ridgemount one of his imported cigars before everyone made their goodbyes.

"Oh, hey, Naomi…are you able to come hang with us at the hotel one of these days? You can bring Julienne along if she wants to come," Johnny reminded Naomi. "Oh, dude, yeah!" Ty butted in, "Julienne, you should totally come surf at the hotel! I could get my camera and tape a session of yours and-"

"Sorry kiddo. Gotta watch on little Marcia," Julienne cut Ty off, motioning over to Marcia, who was sleeping in Adriano's arms. "But, I'm heading out that way tomorrow…Marcia's got a doctors checkup. I could give you a ride out there if you like, Naomi…"

Naomi and Johnny both exchanged happy looks, before Naomi responded, "Yeah, that'd be great, sis!"

"Alright, family, time to go!" Mrs. Ridgemount called out, and everyone began to head out the door. "Thanks for having us, again!"

"Remember to bring your swimsuit, Naomi!" Ty called out, and both he and Johnny waved goodbye to the girl. Naomi smiled, before closing the door and heading back to her own family.

***

"Guys, I'd like you to meet Naomi Mancini."

Julienne had woken Naomi up at around 8 to get dressed and ready for the beach. About an hour and a half later, she met up with Ty and Johnny. Ty had arranged with his father for his friends to have the day off so Naomi could hang out with them, which Mr. Ridgemount agreed to happily. Mr. Ridgemount and Mr. Mancini were good friends now! And maybe even business buddies.

"This is Ripper and Lance," Ty introduced Naomi to the two lounging surfers. Naomi made a small wave to the boys. The blue haired 'Ripper' stood up and took a good look at Naomi. "Say, a girlie. It's not too often one comes over to us so willingly." Naomi raised an eyebrow questionably.

The other one, named Lance, stood up next to Ripper and nudged him in the rib. "Dude, it's the blue hair. It's a turn off."

"Oh come on, it's not that bad, okay? I wanted a change for once. Besides, I look weird as a blonde…"

"And blue is so much more normal."

"Maybe it's just you that's repelling the chicks. I should get a new best friend."

"Oh yeah? I think it's just the whole 'ripper' thing." Lance looked over at Naomi, who was absolutely confused, "Do you want to know how he earned the nickname 'Ripper'?" Naomi shook her head, but Lance went on, "It's because he can't last a day without blowing the pants cannon at least 15 times. At least! And I don't mean that subtle crap. You can smell this stuff from a mile away!"

"Do you want a face full of fist?"

"At least after I'm done with you, your black and blue face will match your black and blue hair!"

As Lance and Ripper bickered on, Naomi turned to Johnny and Ty, who were shrugging. "Say Johnny," Naomi smiled, "You ready for that surf lesson?"

Johnny smiled and grabbed his surfboard, while Ty offered Naomi his own. While Ty readied his camera, Naomi took off her cover-up. The second she began to lift up her shirt, Lance and Ripper stopped arguing in order to gawk. The gawking soon stopped, however, when they both realized Naomi wasn't wearing a skimpy bikini, but instead a 50's style one piece. Lance sighed, "Aw. Nothing to see here…"

After a few hours of surf lessons, Naomi had only accomplished falling on her face, and belly flopping about 50 times. Ty laughed as he recorded each of Naomi's bluffs, and Johnny couldn't help but chuckle as well. Finally, when the sun began to set, Naomi gave up, and the three walked back over to Lance and Ripper, who had started a fire.

Ripper strummed chords on his guitar and played a small tune for his friends. Naomi eyed the guitar, and stood up. As she walked over to her bag, Johnny watched her pull a small instrument out of the duffel bag, and walk back to the bonfire. Ripper snorted a laugh when Naomi sat back down and stopped playing his song. "Is that a ukulele?"

Naomi raised an eyebrow and began to play a tune. "Yeah, why?" Ripper motioned for Naomi to hand him the instrument, which she did after a moment's hesitation. "I'm not all that good yet, but I think it's a cool instrument." Naomi sat next to Ripper and watched as he toyed with the instrument.

"Ripper is always playing the guitar…everyday around the bonfire. He only knows like, two songs though," Lance mused aloud. Ripped shot his best friend a glare, "Hey, watch it-"

Boink!

"Ah!" Naomi squealed, not realized what the noise was at first, but she soon registered that it was the sound of a guitar string snapping. Well, actually, a ukulele string snapping.

"Oh, man, I'm so sorry!" Ripper said in his Australian accent. Naomi nodded, "No, it's alright…I got more at home."

And just when Naomi said 'home', Julienne's voice rang out through the darkness. "Hey, Naomi! I gotta take you home now!" Naomi sighed and took the ukulele back from Ripper. "Maybe I can teach you how to play if we ever hang out again, Ripper." Ripper nodded and smiled as Naomi put the instrument away.

"Alright, well, it was awesome hanging with you guys! We should do this again before I go back home!"

Johnny looked up at Naomi. "Oh, that…wasn't your house?" Naomi picked up her bag and straightened her cover-up out. "Yeah, but it's just our beach house. I'm going back home in about a week and a half…"

"Aw man, well we all should hang out again before you leave!" Ty agreed. Naomi smiled at everyone. "Alright, I'll try. Seeya guys later!"

And with that, everyone said their goodbyes.

***

Halfway through Johnny's story, several people came and went. Reef's customer finally showed up, so he had to leave. Lo got bored, because she already knew the whole story, and she decided to leave, but Ty eventually appeared and listened to the story.

"Woah dude," was all Broseph had to say.

"Yup," Johnny finished up, "We all hung out with her a few more times after that, but once she went back home, we all kinda got out of touch."

"That was a long story," Fin said, laughing a bit, "I really hope it was worth it. So you sure it's the same girl?"

"It's gotta be. I mean, unless I got the name wrong…" Johnny wondered. Ty, who was sitting next to Johnny, confirmed, "No, I'm pretty sure it's the same girl. I mean, it was around this time last year that she was on vacation. So, maybe she's gonna live out here for the entire summer instead of just for a few weeks!"

"Yeah, that'll be cool!" Johnny was getting excited. He and Ty, and even Ripper and Lance, all enjoyed the times they spent with Naomi, so they were all happy to be seeing an old friend.

"Hey you slackers!" Baumer yelled over to everyone, "Why aren't you working? Your breaks ended, like, 15 minutes ago!"

Everyone groaned and stood up.

"Oh man, I can't wait for tonight! This Naomi sounds really cool!" Emma squealed happily, and everyone else agreed.

"Move it people!" Baumer yelled again.

So everyone went back to work, anticipating the end of the day, when Naomi would arrive.


*1 - Belladonna - Italian for "beautiful woman".

Yeah, that was pretty long I guess...I do plan on most of the chapters being even longer than this, so...

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