Chapter 16: National Champ

Vinny answers the door.

"Oh shit." Vinny said as he saw who was at the door.

"Hey Vinny." Elliot replied.

"Do you want to hit me some more or what?" Vinny asked him.

"No. And I'm sorry for hitting you last night." Elliot told him.

"That's all right. I'm married to Lorraine she hits me with that damn purse all the time." Vinny told him.

"What's wrong with Mike?" Elliot asked him.

"Oh, me and him just got into an argument. He tried to tell me to let go of Matt." Vinny explained.

"Well Vinny, he is eight. And you're going to have to let go sometime." Elliot told him.

"Does everyone have an opinion on this subject? He's my son and he's too young." Vinny told him.

"I'm just telling to back off now or he'll hate you forever." Elliot told him.

"Elliot when the time is right I'll back off." Vinny told him.

Matt comes down the stairs.

"Hey Elliot." Matt said to him.

"Hi Matt." Elliot replied.

"Dad, can me and Uncle Mike go rappelling on Thursday?" Matt asked him.

"I don't think so." Vinny replied.

"Please?" Matt pleaded with him.

"No." Vinny replied.

"Come on Dad, please?" Matt pleaded again.

"Fine, you can go." Vinny said to him.

"Really?" Matt asked him.

"No. You're too young." Vinny told him.

"Dad you let Danny play football at the age of six." Matt said to him.

"In football you're not dangling over a cliff." Vinny said to him.

"You let Brian skateboard at eight." Matt said to him.

"No. Your Uncle Jake taught him skateboarding when I was away on a business trip." Vinny told him.

"And you let him continue to skateboard when you got back." Matt explained.

"Matt you're not rappelling and that's final." Vinny told him.

"This isn't fair. You let Brian and Danny do whatever they want." Matt said to him.

"That's not true. I wouldn't let them do drugs or drink under age." Vinny told him.

"Besides that." Matt replied.

"Matt, I'm not letting you go rappelling and that's that." Vinny told him.

"I hate you!" Matt yelled at him as he stormed upstairs.

"I think the time to let go is right now Vinny before you lose him." Elliot told him.

"You really think so?" Vinny then asked him.

"Yeah. It's now or never." Elliot told him.

"You're right. I'll consider letting him go rappelling with Mike on Thursday." Vinny told him.

"Can you do me a favor?" Elliot asked him.

"For your family I'll do more then enough favors." Vinny told him.

"Can you check up on Andrew like every hour or so tonight?" Elliot asked him.

"Sure. Why?" Vinny then asked him.

"Me and Sarah are going out tonight. She has something to tell me and I have something to tell her." Elliot told him.

"Surething Bro." Vinny said to him.

"Thanks. Your the best." Elliot told him.

"Tell my wife that." Vinny told Elliot as he was leaving.

Elliot shakes his head and laughs.

"I'm serious Elliot. Tell my wife that." Vinny told him again.

"I will when I see her." Elliot said as he closed the door and left.

It's that afternoon. Matt is still mad at Vinny. And Mike and Vinny haven't spoken since that morning. A red Dodge Viper pulls up in front of the cabin with Ohio State license plateholders.

"Oh no. It's your nephew Tom." Vinny said to Lorraine.

Tom gets out of the Viper with his National Championship Ohio State jersey on withjeans, sneakers and sunglasses on. (I hate that I wrote that OSU won the National Championship. I'm sorry risingstar9328 and fellow Michigan fans out there. It just plays into my story.)

"I swear if he brings up OSU winning the National Championship I'll kill him." Vinny told her.

"Vinny behave yourself." Lorraine warned him.

Vinny walks into the cabin.

"Hi Aunt Lorraine." Tom said to her giving her a hug.

"Hi Tom. It's so good to see you." Lorraine told him.

"Where's Uncle V." Tom asked her.

"He's in the cabin." Lorraine told him.

"I really wanted to show him this National Championship ring I have." Tom said to her showing Lorraine the ring.

"That's a really nice ring. Explain what the National Championship is again?" Lorraine asked him.

"That's the NCAA Divison 1A Championship." Tom told her.

"How many 1A colleges are there?" Lorraine asked him.

"More then enough." Tom told her.

"I don't think Vinny has one of those rings." Lorraine told him.

"Michigan didn't win the National Championship when he played there." Tom explained to her.

Vinny comes out of the cabin wearing one of his Michigan Bowl Games jerseys.

"Real mature Vinny." Lorraine told him.

"What is that the Rose Bowl jersey?" Tom asked him.

"No. Outback Bowl." Vinny replied.

"You like my championship ring?" Tom asked him showing Vinny the ring.

"I guess they give those out to anybody today." Vinny replied.

"Vinny don't be a jerk." Lorraine told him.

"It's all right Aunt Lorraine. Uncle V is still mad I went to OSU instead of Michigan." Tom replied.

"I understand that your Dad went there and heis from Columbus, Ohio but, you had a chance to play for the Wolverines." Vinny explained to him. ( Idon't know where Bud is from they don't tell you. So I made him from Columbus, Ohio where the Buckeyes play.)

"Uncle V you can't be happy for me?" Tom asked him.

"Hey I'm happy for you. Wohoo." Vinny said sarcastically.

"There's that sense of humor again." Tom said to him.

"You know you got your sense of humor by hanging around me too much when you were younger." Vinny told him.

"I know. My Dad doesn't have a sense of humor and is a workaholic. And my Mom has a dry sense of humor." Tom told him.

"Your mother scares the hell out of me." Vinny told him.

"She scares the hell out of me at times." Tom then said to him.

"You do know that 96 isn't a linebacker number right?" Vinny asked him.

"I wear number 96 because of you." Tom told him.

"Me? What do I have to do with you wearing that number?" Vinny then asked him.

"You started me off in football even though it was Grandpa Tom that got me into that sport. Anything I needed you got for me. If my team needed a sponsor you were right there and my parents didn't even have to ask you." Tom told him.

"Again your mother scares the hell out of me and your Dad is a good guy." Vinny told him.

"This is my way of saying thanks. So, thanks." Tom said to him.

"Anytime kid." Vinny said to him extending his hand for a handshake.

"Come Uncle V." Tom said to him with his arms opened for a hug.

"I'm not hugging a Buckeye." Vinny told him.

Tom hugs Vinny anyway.

"If anyone asks you we never did that. A Wolverine nevers hugs a Buckeye unless they're dating." Vinny told him.

"Come on Uncle V, you know I only date OSU women now." Tom told him.

They walk into the cabin.

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