Chapter 9: Odd Man Out
When Vinny and his family return to his cabin. Matt is asleep in the back seat of the Z. Vinny picks him up and carries him into the cabin.
"Hey guys." Mike said to them as they walked.
"Hi Mike." Vinny said to him.
"Mike how are you doing?" Lorraine asked him as she gave him a hug.
"I'm good. Hey, Vinny do you know that you don't have anything to eat here?" Mike asked him.
"I know. I didn't go food shopping yet." Vinny replied going up the stairs to take Matt to his room.
"I told you Uncle Mike." Brian said to him.
"Be quiet." Mike said to him as he threw a couch pillow at him.
"Hey. You can't do that to me." Brian told him.
"Vinny can I throw couch pillows at Brian?" Mike yelled up the stairs.
"I don't care if you hit him with couch pillows. But, if you hit him for real with any part of your body you'll have to answer to me." Vinny told him.
"Thanks Vinny!" Mike yelled back up the stairs.
"Remember he said that you could only throw couch pillows at me." Brian said to him.
"I know." Mike replied as he threw another couch pillow at Brian.
"You're worse then my Dad." Brian told him.
"I am not. When your Dad was younger when he first moved to Evanston he acted like an eight year old." Mike told him.
"No way. I would believe you if you said he acted like a thirteen year old but, not an eight year old." Brian said to him.
"Believe it. Anything you did up to this point in your life, your Dad has done and probably did it better then you." Mike explained.
"He never tried skateboarding." Brian said to him.
"That's probably the only thing you do that he already didn't do." Mike told him.
"That makes no sense at all." Brian told him.
"As long as it makes sense to me." Mike told him.
"You're just like my Dad." Brian said to him.
"Thank you." Mike replied.
"That's not a good thing." Brian told him.
"Why not? Your Dad acts like he's twenty two again. I wish I was twenty two again." Mike said to him.
"Uncle Mike you're twenty eight. That's not as old as fourty three. Or as old as thirty seven." Brian said to him.
"I heard that Brian." Lorraine told him as she went up the stairs.
"Sorry Mom. You're not thirty seven. You're twenty one." Brian said to her.
"That's better." Lorraine told him.
"Good night Uncle Mike." Brian said to him as he went up the stairs.
"I'm following you up the stairs. I need to get some rest after driving from LA to here." Mike told him.
"Good night Uncle Mike." Brian said to him again.
"Night Brian." Mike replied as he walked into his room.
It's the next afternoon. Vinny has a baseball glove on his left hand and a baseball in the other and is looking for Matt.
"Hey, Baby have you seen Matt anywhere?" Vinny asked her.
"I think him and Mike are outside." Lorraine told him.
"Thanks." Vinny said to her as he kissed her on the cheek and walked outside.
He sees Matt and Mike.
"Hey, Matt you want to throw the baseball around?" Vinny asked him.
"Not thanks Dad. I'm going to be hangingout with Uncle Mike today." Matt said to him.
"Matt we can hangout anytime. You and your Dad should play catch." Mike said to him.
"It's all right Mike. If Matt wants to hangout with you today it's fine with me." Vinny told him.
"You sure Vinny?" Mike asked him.
"Yeah. You and Matt have fun. And if you guys want to go anywhere today I'll let you guys take the Z." Vinny told him.
"Dad no offense but, I like Uncle Mike's car better." Matt told him.
"He has the same kind of car as me. A 1986 Nissan 300 Z only in Metalic Silver." Vinny explained to him.
"I like silver better then red." Matt replied.
"Matt take it easy on your Uncle Mike he's not as young as he use to be." Vinny told him sarcastically.
"I'm younger then you Big Bro." Mike said to him.
"You might be younger then me Little Bro but, you don't feel as young as I do." Vinny told him as he walked back into the cabin.
Mike laughs at that comment and shakes his head.