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July 12th

Well, today was the day of the O'Malley family reunion. Good timing too, considering Ricky will be family soon. We drove past the Dimmsdale mini mall, where our ancestral home of Dimmsdale Flats used to be. According to tradition my great-great grandma once held the deed to the settlement, but she lost it in a duel with someone called The Masked Stranger. Then she married some bank robber and popped out some kids. What a waste.

Grandpa, Grandma Vicky, and some of my cousins were already at the park slurping on Grandma's Vicky's famous lemonade. Grandma Vicky's uncle Stephan never married, so my only cousins are through her other uncle Emory, who had two sons (Jake and Victor), three grandsons and a granddaughter (J.J, Bobby, Duke, and Vicky), and five great-grandchildren whom are all about Tootie's age (Reese, Herschel, Tiffany, Emily, and Stevie) . Yeah, us O'Malleys are going extinct.

Anyway, we joined them, introduced everyone to Ricky, and proceeded to eat.

"That's some good lemonade," Ricky commented, "How'd you come up with it?"

"Well," Grandma answered, "My family was very poor growing up, so my parents worked a lot. My twin sister was put in charge of things after my uncle Stephan went to jail, and she would force me to make lemonade for her stand. Well, one day I accidentally made a rather tasty batch, so I started to sell it, and with the money I raised I moved out. She later ended up in jail herself."

"…hm," Ricky commented as he went back to drinking some.

Grandma Vicky then smiled at me and noted how much I looked like my mom as a little girl. Mom hid her face and begged her to stop, but she ignored her and kept reminiscing. She told me how I looked just like mom did until she was eleven and her hair turned black. She also said that she was mean to the other kids and didn't have any friends, and they'd call her mean names like 'Icky Nicky'…ironically close to the nickname that handsome jerk Chip Skylark gave me (who still won't return my calls!). I hate to admit it, but aside from Ricky I don't really have any friends. I never realized it before, but I guess my mom and I have more in common than I thought. One thing's for sure though; I won't make the mistake of going soft like she did!

Anyway, Grandma Vicky reminisced some more about our family members and was showing us these old albums. She told us stories about how our ancestor Victor O'Malley was cursed by the village witch so that one kid in each generation of his line would be bad; and how her sister, uncle Stephan, and grandmother (Vicky the Kid) were all bad.

She smiled as she sighed in relief, "I'm just glad that curse hasn't been passed onto my grand-babies!"

Tootie gave our folks a funny look as they chuckled nervously. Grandpa looked over at me as I scowled at him, and he quickly looked away. My younger cousins laughed nervously and twiddled their thumbs; they knew better than to rat me out.

"What kind of lies have you been feeding that woman?" Ricky whispered to me.

"Would you rather I be found out?" I whispered back.

"Touché," he responded.

Anyway after lunch Ricky and I went to the lake and put on shark fins. It was hilarious! My sister and younger cousins ran out so fast they were hovering on the water! The adults just kind of glared at us, but whatever. After that we returned to the picnic area for cake. We mostly just ate and talked. This year was certainly more entertaining because of the fact I had someone my own age to hang around with; and that certain someone liked causing trouble as much as I did. I can't believe I'm saying this, but I think I'm glad Ricky's joining the family…it would make it kind of weird if we started dating again though.

Well, I'm going to go to my stupid therapy session now. Good thing we only have two more days. Later!

A/N: Looks like she has a rather interesting family history: messed up, but interesting. The next chapter will involve Jorgen, and how Vicky lost him. Feel free to leave a review.