Chapter 19: Drinking Buddies

It's the next day and Vinny sees Mike on the dock.

"Hey Little Bro, what's going on?" Vinny asked him.

Mike doesn't respond. He doesn't even look at Vinny.

"Stop being a jerk." Vinny then said to him.

Mike gives him a 'What did you just say?' look. "Me? I'm not the one who got bent out of shape over someone telling me what was good for me." Mike then told him.

"I knew that would get you to talk to me." Vinny replied.

"You always knew how to make me talk. Even when I was in theworse mood you would say something that would make me laugh or scratch my head wondering what you just said." Mike said to him.

"That's because I care about you. You know that you're my favorite younger sibling of Lorraine." Vinny told him.

"Who do like the most out of all of us?" Mike then asked him putting him on the spot.

"Lorraine." Vinny replied without hesitation.

"I know that. She's your wife." Mike then told him.

"Out of all you not including Lorraine?" Vinny then asked him.

"Yeah." Mike then said to him.

"I think it would have to be Charlie." Vinny told him.

"Charlie? What about me?" Mike then asked him.

"Charlie doesn't bother me. And I'm happy when I see him because he knows a thing or two about football." Vinny told him.

"I thought I was your favorite?" Mike replied.

"You, Mr. Stuntman, Mr. Give Me A Headache, Mr. Big Shot?" Vinny then asked him.

"You don't have to be rude." Mike then told him.

"You're the little brother I never had. Plus Ann is hot, I like looking at her back end." Vinny told him.

"Only you could say something like that." Mike replied.

"That's what makes me, me. If you don't like it then tough shit." Vinny told him.

"That's what I like about you. That don't give a damn what anybody thinks attitude." Mike told him.

Vinny lights a cigarette.

"Vinny, let me get one?" Mike then asked him.

"Your sister would kill me." Vinny told him with the cigarette in his mouth.

"I'm over eighteen." Mike then said to him.

"No." Vinny replied taking the cigarette out of his mouth.

"You took me drinking when I turned twenty one." Mike replied.

"And what did you learn that night?" Vinny then asked him.

"I can't out drink you no matter how much younger I am then you." Mike replied with a sigh.

"And you never will." Vinny then told him.

"I just said that." Mike then told him.

"I'm just reminding you." Vinny replied.

"I still can't look at Jack Daniels without feeling sick." Mike said to him.

"I have an idea. Let's go drinking tonight." Vinny then said to him.

"I don't know." Mike said to him.

"Come on. I promise I won't embarrass you like I did when you were twenty one." Vinny told him.

"All right I'll go." Mike said to him.

"That's my Little Bro." Vinny said to him.

"Let's go drinking with Elliot." Mike then said to him.

"I don't know. If Lorraine found out she would kill us both." Vinny replied.

"She doesn't have to know." Mike said to him.

"Fine. We'll go drinking with Elliot." Vinny said to him.

That night Vinny, Mike and Elliot meet at the Lake Club Bar. After about an hour or so of drinking they start to get hammered. Actually Mike and Elliot start to get hammered. Vinny is reminded of his colllege days.

"This is nice. Us guys just hanging out." Elliot said to them.

"It is. Too bad Jake and Charlie aren't here." Vinny replied.

"What about Bud?" Mike then asked him.

"Okay I wish that Bud was here also. And I wish Danny, Brian, Andrew and Matt were over twenty one so they could of joined us." Vinny said to them.

"Vinny, I have some news to tell you." Elliot said to him.

"What?" Vinny asked him.

"Sarah's pregnant." Elliot told him.

"You must be drunk." Vinny then said to him.

"Maybe alittle but, Sarah is pregnant." Elliot told him.

"Who's the father?" Mike then asked him.

"It's Vinny's nephew Don." Elliot replied.

"Now, I know you're drunk." Vinny told him.

"I'm serious." Elliot said to him drunk.

"Let's get him home. Come on Mike." Vinny said to Mike.

Vinny looks at Mike and sees that Mike feel asleep at the bar.

"I have to find friends that can hold their alcohol." Vinny said as he and Elliot got Mike to Vinny's Z.

Vinny calls Jake. When Jake gets there he is with Lorraine.

"Holy Crap." Vinny said as he saw Lorraine getting out of Jake's car.

"Vinny, why would you go out drinking?" Lorraine asked him.

"I had to do something." Vinny said to her.

"Give me your keys." Lorraine told him.

Vinny gives her his keys.

"Who's watching the kids?" Vinny then asked her.

"Sarah." Lorraine replied.

"That whore." Elliot said to her drunk.

"Jake get Elliot into the car before Lorraine kills him." Vinny told him.

Jake gets Elliot into his car before Lorraine kills him and takes him back to the Boulders.

Vinny puts Mike in the back seat of his Z.

Lorraine gets into the Z.

"How come Mike and Elliot are drunk but, you aren't?" Lorraine asked him.

"I drank like a fish in college. I can drink with the best of them." Vinny told her still sober.

"And why did you drink with Elliot?" Lorraine then asked him.

"He needed to get away from everything." Vinny replied.

"You had to get Mike drunk too?" Lorraine then asked him looking in the back seat at Mike who is passed out.

"It's not my fault he can't hold down his alcohol." Vinny then told her.

They get back to their cabin. Vinny gets Mike to his feet and pushes him into the cabin. He then puts Mike on the couch.

"Hey Sarah." Vinny said to her.

"Hey Vinny." Sarah replied.

"Elliot told me the funniest thing today." Vinny said to her.

"You went drinking with Elliot?" Sarah asked him.

"Of course. Do you know any other guy named Elliot?" Vinny then asked her.

"What did that asshole say now?" Sarah asked him.

"Before or after he called you a whore?" Vinny then asked her.

"Before." Sarah said to him.

"He told me that you and my nephew Don had sex and now you're pregnant with his kid." Vinny told her.

Sarah laughs nervously.

"He was drunk. He didn't know what he was talking about." Lorraine told him.

"He was drunk. And you know what. Ann has a nice ass." Vinny told her.

Lorraine slaps him in the back of the head.

"What?" Vinny then asked her.

"You shouldn't be looking at Ann's ass." Lorraine told him.

"Vinny's drunk. He doesn't know what he's saying." Sarah said trying to stick up for Vinny.

"I'm not drunk. I'm sober. It takes alot more then eleven shots of Jack Daniels to get me drunk." Vinny told her as he went upstairs to bed.

After Vinny goes upstairs Sarah and Lorrainejust stare at each other.

"That was close." Sarah said to Lorraine.

"You think? Thank God Elliot was drunk." Lorraine replied.

Mike burps and turns over on the couch.

"He's going to be hungover tomorrow." Sarah said to her.

"Who Vinny?" Lorraine then asked her.

"No, Mike." Sarah told her.

"I'll take care of him." Lorraine told her.

"What are you going to do?" Sarah then asked her.

"I'm going to make sure Mike never gets drunk again." Lorraine told her with a smile on her face.

Sarah leaves. Lorraine goes up to bed.