Chapter 33 – A Lesson Learned

Sabrina woke up the next morning and felt refreshed. She slept surprisingly well. It was Saturday, so she knew both guys would be home. Riley had given her number to Sabrina, so Sabrina pulled out her cell phone and gave Riley a call.

"Hello," Riley answered cheerfully.

"Hey Riley, it's Sabrina."

"Oh, hey Sabrina, what's up?"
"Not much, the guys are home and I wanted to know if you wanted to do something with me." Sabrina said in her cheerful tone.

"Sure, I was actually going shopping and running a few errands, if you want to come with." Riley replied, happy to have some company.

"Awesome, I'll be ready in about an hour. Is that good?" Sabrina asked hopefully.

"Great, I'll see you then." Riley replied, still happy to have some company.

Sabrina hung up the phone, and walked into the living room where Vinny and Eric were chillin'.

"I'm going with Riley today," Sabrina announced happily.

"We wanna go.." Vinny whined, knowing it would get on Sabrina's nerves.

"Ask Riley, I'm jumpin' in the shower." Sabrina told Vinny, and started to walk off.

"You thinking what I'm thinking?" Vinny asked Eric.

"Yeah, Ms. Smart Butt needs an attitude change." Eric replied.

They both laughed as Vinny went into the kitchen, turning the water on, making Sabrina's shower water turn cold. A shrieking scream was heard from the bathroom. Ten minutes later, Sabrina came out in a black shirt that said, "I didn't forget, I just don't' care," a pair of very light jeans, and a pair of black and white Vans. She had a smirking look on her face as she walked up to Eric and Vinny on the couch.

"Don't think you are seriously going to get away with that. Thank you SO much for making my shower cold." Sabrina said playfully and defensively at the same time.

"No problem," Vinny said smirking.

Riley walked in just then. She was over at the house a lot, so she rarely knocked on the door before she entered the house. She walked in and from Vinny and Eric's face expressions she knew they had played some kind of a prank on Sabrina.

"What'd they do?" She immediately asked Sabrina.

"Made my shower cold." Sabrina said.

"Vinny! Eric! Jeeze, guys…" Riley said, shaking her head and laughing at the same time. Even in high school, Vinny and Eric always worked as a team and pranked people so she wasn't surprised at them.

"Haha, it was fun. By the way, We're going with you." Vinny told Riley.

"Absolutely NOT." Riley protested.

Vinny made his puppy dog face and whined and Riley finally gave in. They went to the mall, while Riley and Sabrina were shopping and looking at some cute clothes to buy. They went to Aeropostale, Old Navy, Hollister, Abercrombie and Fitch, and some other places. Sabrina spent some money, not a lot, though.

Afterwards they went to the food court and got something to eat. Vinny went straight to the pizza place, he loved pizza. Eric followed him, because the same place had good spaghetti. Riley and Sabrina went over to Orange Julius and got two hot dogs and smoothies. Riley got a strawberry one, while Sabrina got a banana, and a strawberry one. She loved bananas and strawberries mixed together, that was always her favorite.

The four friends walked around the mall a little bit after that, looking at everything, basically window shopping. After a few hours they decided to head back home, and Riley decided to spend the night. All four of them fell asleep in the living room; Riley on the small couch, Sabrina on the big couch, Vinny and Eric in two chairs.

Sabrina fell asleep happily again, she liked a vacation for once, and she liked Vinny a lot. She thought he was cool to hang out with. Little did she know what would be happening the next day.

The next day Sabrina woke up later than usual, she was really tired the night before. She walked out into the kitchen to find Vinny and Eric; Riley had left the house already. They were getting something to eat; obviously they hadn't woken up much earlier than she did. She walked over to them, and since their backs were turned to her, she thought she would scare them. She yelled, "BOO!"

They both jumped about twenty feet across the room, after that then denying they were scared. Vinny and Eric were guys, they were tough, and they wouldn't admit anything. Sabrina rolled her eyes and them and made her way to the fridge. She peeked in and found the perfect thing, a bowl of fruit. She pulled it out, grabbed a fork, and made her way for the couch. She sat down, and two guys plopped beside her with their small breakfast; a piece of toast. After eating, the three of them sat there, not saying a word to each other. Finally, Sabrina spoke up.

"So, what are you gonna do today?" She asked the both of them.

"Nothing, really. Just chill here I guess." Vinny said.

"Yup, same here." Eric told her.

"Ah, ok." Sabrina replied looking at the big screen TV that was on the channel Comedy Central.

The two of them sat there, and she knew they were going to take a shower soon. She went to the cabinets, and grabbed kool-aid, quietly, so they wouldn't notice her. They were so into the TV, they didn't even notice her leave. Vinny and Eric both liked Comedy Central.

She took the two packets of Kool-Aid, and went first into Vinny's bathroom. She opened up the grape Kool-Aid package, and then packed as much powder as she could into the shower head.

Sabrina took the packages with her, and ran into Eric's bathroom. She opened up, this time, a blue package, and packed as much blue powder as she could fit into the shower head. She smirked at what she had done, she couldn't wait to see the expression on their faces.

She went back into the living room again, after throwing away the packages, and walked up to them.

"Alright, I'm going to take a shower, or does someone wanna go first?" Sabrina asked.

"I'll go first, you always take up all the hot water," Vinny told her, and started to walk back.

"Yeah, true, I'll take a shower too," Eric told her as he handed her the TV Remote, and walked off to his bathroom.

She heard them getting ready, and then she heard the bathroom doors close. She smirked and smiled at herself, she couldn't believe what she had just done. "Oh well," She thought, the Kool-Aid will come out. She heard the water turn on, then on clicked the showers, and in about two minutes, a "Sabrina!" could be heard inside the house.

Sabrina laughed, but quietly enough to where they could not hear her. Five minutes later Vinny came out of the shower and walked over to her with a frown on his face and purple in his hair. Eric did the same, except his hair was blue. When Sabrina saw the both of them, she burst out laughing. It was hilarious. She had to admit it to herself, she got them good.

"What is in my hair?" Vinny and Eric both asked in unison.

"Why don't you smell it?" Sabrina answered back.

"I did. Grape." Vinny said.

"And mine is blueberry." Eric added.

"And what has flavors to it and it makes water turn a certain color and you had it in your cupboard?" Sabrina asked.

Vinny's mouth dropped open. "Kool-Aid?"

"Yeah, dumbo." Sabrina told them both as she rolled her eyes, took another look at them, and started laughing again. She couldn't even say anything she started laughing so hard. It was funny seeing Vinny having purple hair, and Eric having blue hair.

They both walked off shaking their heads, chuckling a little bit, and got into their showers once more. Ten minutes later, they came out with normal hair again.

"Did you like your colorful hair?" Sabrina asked them, still kind of laughing. She just couldn't stop, she thought it was too funny.

"Oh yeah, we loved it. And, don't worry, we'll get you back." Eric told her.

"Yeah, yeah," She said, shrugging them off.

Sabrina pulled out her cell phone and walked outside. She called Riley, and told her about the Kool-Aid thing, only to get hysterical laughter from the other end of the line.

"It was so funny. They came out with blue and purple hair, with frowns on their faces, and walking to the couch, and I couldn't really say anything I was laughing so hard." Sabrina told Riley.

"Yeah, I bet it was funny," Riley said, laughing a little herself.

"So, what are you doing today?" Sabrina asked.

"Not much. Just chilling, and cleaning the house. You know, the weekly cleaning." Riley told Sabrina.

"Yeah, Yeah, I know." Sabrina told her, agreeing.

"So, what are you doing today? When do you go back?" Riley asked her.

"I have one more week left here, and then I go back to California. I'm not doing much today. Hahaha, I'll probably get played a prank on, if anything." Sabrina told Riley.

"Probably." Riley said, agreeing with Sabrina.

"Well, I'm going to go for a bit. I am gonna go up to the store and grab something to eat. I'll call you later." Sabrina told Riley, and then hung up the phone.

Sabrina went to the living room where the guys were and walked to the side of the couch.

"I'm going to get some food, I'll be back in a little bit, or maybe later on, depending on what I decide to do." Sabrina told them.

"Sounds good, I want a cheeseburger." Vinny told her, smiling.

"And I want a fish filet," Eric said, adding in his order right before Sabrina walked away.

"Ok, got it." Sabrina told them. She walked into the kitchen, into the corner of the counter, and grabbed her keys. She put on her pink flip-flops, and went to go head out of the door, when she noticed her car was gone.

"Uh….VINNY!" She screamed. She couldn't imagine anything happening to her car. Her car was her baby, and everyone knew it.

Vinny walked over. "What happened?" He asked her curiously.

"My car.. it's….. it's…. GONE!" Sabrina said, with panic on her face.

"Did you leave it unlocked?" Vinny asked her.

"Yes," Sabrina told him, sadly.

"Well, why did you leave it unlocked? You know that you have a chance of it getting stolen if you leave it unlocked!" Vinny told Sabrina.

"I know.." Sabrina sighed sadly. Her S2000 was her baby, and now it was gone.

"Let's go look for it. Go out to my car, I'll be there in a second." Vinny told Sabrina.

"Ok," Sabrina told him, going outside as she was told to do.

Vinny went over to Eric sitting on the couch. "We're going to look for Sabrina's car," Vinny told Eric, as he winked and smiled.

Eric laughed. "Ok, good luck." Eric told him, as Vinny started to walk off.

It wasn't but ten minutes after lecturing Sabrina and riding around their block they pulled up to the back of Vinny's house. "Oh, look what I found," Vinny said, smiling.

"MY CAR!" Sabrina screamed. She jumped out of Vinny's Supra, and over to her S2000. She opened the door and examined it. Nothing was wrong with it. Nothing was missing, broken, or anything. It was perfectly fine.

Vinny watched Sabrina as she examined the car, then looked back to him. "Did you..?" Sabrina asked him, now putting the pieces of the little puzzle together, and thinking that he had hid her car.

After asking Vinny, Sabrina got no reply but a smile and a laugh, which she knew was an absolute 'yes.' She immediately ran over to him. "Oh you bum!" She said, playfully hitting his arm.

"Lesson learned here. Don't leave your car unlocked." Vinny told her.

"Ok, ok, ok," Sabrina told him, rolling her eyes.

"I mean it. I don't know if your brother told you this or not, but you got a pretty damn nice car there. And, someone would love to have it, and strip it down, then dump the body in a ditch or river somewhere. So, from now on, you need to lock up your car." Vinny told her. "By the way, here ya go," He said, pulling keys out of his pocket and handing them to her.

"Why did you have my keys?" Sabrina asked him, dumbfounded.

"Sabrina, don't be blonde." Vinny told her, getting into the car. "How did you think I got your car moved?"

"Ohhh yeahhhh," Sabrina said, finally realizing why he had her keys. She could be a little slow sometimes. Once into the car, she pulled out her cell phone, and made another call to Dom. She knew they were constantly worrying about her, so she wanted to make some phone calls to them to let them know that she was okay.

"Hello?" Jesse answered the phone.

"Jess!" Sabrina said, excitedly.

"Sabrina?" He asked, not sure if it was her or not.

"Of course!" She replied.

"Hi! How ya doin' girl?" Jesse asked her, making conversation.

"Great here, and you?" Sabrina asked him enthusiastically.

"Good, thanks. Everyone's doing fine. The babies are fine. Everyone is just fine." He told her.

"Oh," Sabrina said, then asked, "Has Adam tried to come over anymore?"

"Yeah, once, and Dom told him if he comes around again he is going to get a punch by Dom. Being the chicken Adam is now, he hasn't come around since. Just told us to tell you to call him." Jesse told Sabrina.

"Pfft! Call him? Yeah, ha!" Sabrina said, kind of laughing thinking about calling Adam.

"I know, really." Jesse said, sarcastically.

"Anyway, just thought I would call to check up. Tell the others I said hi for me, will ya?" Sabrina asked him.

"Sure," Jesse told her. "Take care and see you soon! We miss you! Love you!"
"Love you, too!" Sabrina said, "Bye," and then hung the phone up.

Vinny looked at her and raised his eyebrow. "May I ask what was so funny?"

"Yeah, Adam stopped by and Dom told him if he comes around again Dom's going to beat him up, then he tells Dom to tell me to call him. Yeah, like I am really going to call him. Ha, yeah right." Sabrina said, sort of laughing again.

Vinny looked over and smiled. "Not only Dom will be after him, but you got Eric and I behind ya, too."

"Oh gee whiz, I have protectors." Sabrina said, sarcastically.

"Yup," Vinny said, not really catching on that she was being sarcastic about the whole deal. She thought it was kind of weird.

"Hey I was being sarcastic you know," Sabrina told him.

"Hey, it's true you know," Vinny said smiling.

They both walked into the house and told Eric about the whole Adam deal. Eric just smiled and laughed, and agreed with Vinny saying they both would be behind Sabrina, also.

Whether Sabrina wanted it or not, she had lots of people around her who cared for her and loved her. Even though she liked it at Vinny's place, she couldn't wait to get back home. She missed everyone, even though she would never admit it.

Sabrina watched a movie on the couch with Vinny and Eric, and ended up falling asleep on Eric's shoulder. He picked her up, and put her in her bed, and then closed the door.

A/N: You know the drill, read and review please! By the way, does anyone have any ideas? That would be helpful, I'm kind of/sort of having a writer's block, I don't know what to do next. Thanks!Acura!