Johnny Kapahala: Back on Board Page #3

be almost ready to wear the logo.

Oh, really?

Did he do something impressive?

I hear you have to be impressed.

Man, Jared just says that

to scare off the posers.

Look, man, Chris is 12. His mom

doesn't even know that he's here.

He'll be fine, bro.

I mean, isn't that why you're here?

I don't get that kid.

I mean, he knows that everyone's

stressing this week, you know?

With the shop and the wedding?

Now he's pullin' this.

Maybe it's his way of dealing, bro.

I mean, it ain't easy to move

to a new place.

And it can't be easy

to suddenly have a new parent.

All I'm sayin' is you know Chris

is going through things

that you did when you

moved to Vermont. All right?

- Yeah, yeah. You're right.

- So what'd you do back then

- to feel better?

- Hung out with you.

That's what I'm talking about.

Yeah, and we became boys

'cause we loved riding boards

more than anything else.

No doubt. No doubt.

All right,

let's go make friends.

That's what I'm talking about.

You on the right page.

Hey, Chris!

- What's up, man?

- What are you guys doing here?

Hangin' out. Skating.

If that's OK with you.

- So surfer boy's gonna drop in.

- Yeah.

- Yeah? You sure you can hang?

- Go big or go home, right?

- You know it.

- You ever actually skated like this?

- It's not exactly cruising.

- Hmm. I don't know.

- You, uh, think we can handle it?

- Yeah, I don't know, bro.

Looks pretty gnarly.

If we stack, we quit. Deal?

- Hey, you know what? He's your nephew.

- Cool.

Sweet.

Yeah, OK.

This should be comedy.

You're up, Sam.

Go for it, brah.

Whoo! Yeah, boy.

- That was awesome.

- Told you.

- Wanna see how we skate?

- Yeah, let's do it. Let's do it.

Yes.

Yeah.

Yeah, Dirt Devils. Yeah!

I'm sorry, bro.

I didn't even see him leave.

- Man, this is not good.

- Yeah, tell me about it.

Is that him? That's him.

Pull over up ahead, yeah?

Gotcha.

Chris! Chris.

Come on, man. Wait up.

Wait up. Wait up.

Come on. Hey, listen.

Listen, I'm sorry, man.

Leave me alone!

Go! OK? I'm walking.

Walk all the way home?

I don't remember.

Oh, well, no. You have

to tell her the story sometime.

- Whoo!

- Oh! Hey! Chris!

- Wow. I'm, uh, sorry, guys.

- Chris?

Come on, Chris.

- Just leave me alone, OK?

- Dude, I'm sorry.

- Why did you have to follow me?

- I was just trying to help.

Man, they already think

I'm just some little lame kid.

You know, this was my chance to show 'em

my skills and you blew it for me.

- Dude, those guys are cool with you.

- What? They're cool with you.

Come on. You surf,

you snowboard and now you're, like...

- You're like some Tony Hawk.

- What can I say?

I mean, we got a great

skate park in Vermont.

Hey, it doesn't snow all year.

I tried, Grandpa. I really did.

Chris just doesn't like me.

- Ah, Pono, it's not that.

- You know, I don't just get him.

You know, the kid's got the best room

on the best beach. He lives with you.

There's nothing bad about his life.

I'm sorry, Grandpa.

I'm out of ideas. I don't know

what to do with him tomorrow, I...

Tomorrow, I'll handle Chris.

He's my responsibility, not yours.

I'm sorry I laid that on you.

And now

that your mom and dad are here,

the store's gonna get opened in time.

There's one thing left I need you to do.

You're gonna like this.

- Need one of these?

- Yeah. Thanks.

Heard the swells are mellow.

Well, I'll ride anything,

as long as it's water.

I'll get this. I tried surfing once,

back in California.

- Mmm. And, uh, what happened?

- I chipped a tooth.

Yeah. It wasn't pretty.

Well, it must not have been too bad

'cause, you know, you look OK.

- I mean, um, you look good.

- Thanks.

So, uh, you gave up surfing?

Yeah, I guess I just

got comfortable on dirt.

My dad doesn't like it so much. There's

not a lot of safe places to board.

But hey, surfing's cool.

I mean, you know, if I knew what I was

doing, I'd probably really get into it.

Oh, well, we could...

I mean, I could teach you.

- If you want. Uh, if that's cool.

- Are you always this slow?

I'll grab an extra board.

All right, now jump up.

Is that right?

- Oh!

- Paddle, paddle, paddle.

There you go. Paddle.

Up!

Paddle! Paddle! Stand up.

Great!

- Stand up.

- Come on! I'm doing it.

- Yeah!

- Look, I'm up!

- Yeah! All right, girl!

- Yeah!

That was awesome.

Thanks.

- You're a great teacher.

- I am?

Gimme your hand.

OK... What are you doing?

When you're ready,

I'm gonna turn you into a dirt head.

Teach me, OK?

- You gotta sorta push it.

- No, wait. I got it.

Hang on. OK...

- You know, you could do worse.

- What?

For a family.

- No, my family's back in Philly, man.

- Cool, cool.

Just saying that it's nice

to know people love you,

- even this far away from home.

- This ain't my home.

Come on. You've always

said you liked my dancing.

Man, I hate that runt guitar.

Look, it's early and, uh, my grandpa's

just getting started up there.

- Way I see it, you need me.

- Why?

'Cause I can drive.

What do you say? We could

go see a movie or something.

We could give Val a call and all go...

- No!

- No to what? No to a movie,

- or no to Val?

- Dude, just forget it, all right?

You can go hang out

with your... your girlfriend.

What do I care?

- There you go.

- Thanks, bro.

No, I am determined, bro.

I'm gonna get this kid to like me.

Excuse me, have we met?

I mean, bro, aren't you

Johnny "It's all good" Kapahala?

- You don't care if people hate on you.

- I do when they're part of my family.

- No, man, there has got to be a way.

- Dude, don't!

Told you.

- I just got an idea.

- That's the magic of brain freeze.

Hold on.

-

- Oh! Ow! Ow! Oh!

Knock it off! No!

Come on.

I don't wanna go anywhere with you guys!

All right.

Go ahead. Hey, yo, J,

you wanna watch our new video?

Ah, yeah. Good idea.

You know, we should roll by Dirt Devils.

Jared and Spidey and the guys

would be into seeing this.

It's their kind of humor?

You know, me personally, bro,

- I can't stop laughing.

- Gimme that!

All right, here's the deal.

You spend the day with us,

- doing what we want to do...

- And we destroy the file.

I believe that's a yes.

You guys know

that blackmail's a felony, right?

Staying at home on a day

like this is a crime.

You guys are in so much trouble

when we get home.

- You don't even wanna know.

- Wow, J. Your uncle is so cool.

You know what? Can you just chill,

for, like, five seconds?

- Don't worry, all right? It'll be cool.

- Yeah, seriously.

OK, brah. Stupid surfboard.

- Oh, whoa! This is so cool!

- Hey, guys.

- Hey.

- What's up?

Whoa, wait a minute, Val.

You, uh, you live here?

Yeah. I mean,

it's kind of embarrassing. It's so...

- Totally sick!

- Well, I was gonna say big.

I mean, my dad owns a lot

of property and businesses and stuff.

- He likes to own things.

- That's cool.

- You wanna see something way cooler?

- Sure.

- Come on.

- Cool.

Here they are.

- Yeah.

- Oh.

- What do you all think?

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