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Chapter 26: Leaving Lake Winnetka

"Where's Mike and Matt?" Charlie asked Vinny.

"After they got back from rappelling they fell asleep and haven't woke up since." Vinny replied.

"Mike is always asleep." Jake said to him.

"He works hard I can't blame him." Vinny told him.

"I work hard." Jake replied.

"You work at a skateboard shop." Vinny said to him.

"It's harder then it looks." Jake told him.

"You're always behind the register reading a magazine when I come in." Vinny then told him.

"I'm not always reading a magazine." Jake said to him.

"When I come in you always are." Vinny replied.

"Like your job is so hard." Jake said to him.

"It's so hard that I need people working under me so my company doesn't go belly up." Vinny told him.

"They do the work. You just sit on your ass." Jake then said to him.

"And I make over six hundred million dollars a year doing it." Vinny then said to him.

"I work seven days a week and I wouldn't see that much money in my lifetime." Charlie said to them.

"Charlie you know that you own the garage and you can take a few days off." Vinny said to him.

"I want to be loyal to my custumers." Charlie replied.

"Do you spend time with your sons?" Vinny then asked him.

"Of course I do. When I have the time." Charlie told him.

"Charlie you're going to work yourself to death. Take a few days off." Jake said to him.

"I can't." Charlie told him.

"Ann works as an artist. I'm sure she makes enough money." Vinny said to him.

"She does but, I like working at the garage." Charlie told him.

"I understand. It's your garage and you put your blood, sweat and tears into that garage." Vinny said to him.

"Exactlly. Just like you did with DiMirandas." Charlie said to him.

"I put my blood, sweat and tears into my shop." Jake said to them.

"Noone said you didn't." Charlie said to him.

"I'm just saying." Jake replied.

"Okay, Jake we get it." Vinny said to him.

"Hey guys." Tom said to them as he walked in.

"Hey National Champ." Vinny said to him.

"Uncle V, are you going to call me that everytime you see me?" Tom asked him.

"Well, that's what you are and nobody can take that away from you." Vinny told him.

"You're something else Uncle V." Tom said to him.

"Hey Tom let's see that ring again?" Jake asked him.

"Sure thing Uncle Jake." Tom said to him as he showed Jake his ring.

"I don't believe you have one of those rings Vinny." Jake said to him.

"And I don't believe you went to a Division 1 College." Vinny replied.

"That's not cool." Jake said to him.

"Yeah, Vinny I didn't go to a Divison 1 College either." Charlie said to him.

"I'm sorry I offended you guys. It isn't my fault that me and Tom both received football scholarships to Division 1 schools." Vinny told them.

"If I continued to play football I would of got a scholarship." Charlie told him.

"Charlie I needed football to get into college. That's all I had. You were into cars and that's what you do. You had something to fall back on in case football didn't work out." Vinny explained.

"Weren't yousmart in high school?" Jakeasked him.

"I was smart but, I only did enough to get by." Vinny told them.

"Come on Vinny." Jake said to him.

"I'm serious. I never studied and got like 85's in every class and 99's in Italian." Vinny told them.

"You had an advantage in Italian." Jake said to him.

"Which was?" Vinny then asked him.

"You're Italian." Jake replied.

"That's sterotyping." Vinny said to him.

"So, you sterotype everyone especially the Spanish." Jake told him.

"That's because they stole the Italian language and called it their own." Vinny explained.

"Just because it sounds similar doesn't mean they stole it." Charlie then said to them.

"Then why does Spanish and Italian sound almost the same?" Tom asked them.

"I'll tell you why. Because the Italians stole the Spanish language." Sarah told him as she came into the room.

"Don't you have speeding tickets to give out?" Vinny asked her.

"Here we go again." Jake said to himself.

"I'm on vacation. And don't you have to whack somebody and dump them in the lake?" Sarah then asked him.

"Yeah. Hold still while I get my gun." Vinny said to her sarcastically.

"Do you guys ever stop?" Charlie asked them.

"Uncle Charlie it's funny when these two go at it." Tom told him.

"It's going to be really funny when I put my foot up his ass." Sarah told him.

"Excuse me, what Division 1 College did you go to? Oh wait, you didn't that was me and Tom." Vinny said to her.

"You got lucky." Sarah said to him.

"It was talent not luck. You're lucky my cousin Robert was a Lieutenant in the NYPD and gave you a good recommendation." Vinny told him.

"That was your cousin. You had nothing to do with it." Sarah told him.

"I had to call in some huge favors." Vinny told him.

"Yeah right. All you did was call your cousin and because you guys are so tight he did you a solid." Sarah told him.

"He actually did you a solid." Vinny corrected her.

"Samething." Sarah replied.

"She went to college for Criminal Justice. That's how she got her job as a cop." Jake said to him.

"How do you think she become a Sergeant?" Vinny then asked him.

"She was a good Detective." Jake replied.

"Thank you Jake." Sarah replied.

"When you needed references who did you ask me to call?" Vinny then asked her.

"Your cousin Robert." Sarah said in a low tone.

"And who else did you use?" Vinny then asked her.

"Joey and Tony." Sarah then said in a low tone again.

"What did they do again?" Jake thenasked Vinny.

"They were retired FBI agents. And worked as Head Of Security at my HQ in New York City." Vinny told him.

"Didn't you use Vinny as a reference also?" Charlie then asked Sarah.

"Yes." Sarah sighed.

"So, Uncle V got you your Sergeant job?" Tom then asked her.

"He helped alittle." Sarah told him.

"Alittle? You would still be a Detective or at least a Sergeant for a year if it wasn't for me." Vinny told her.

"And in a month you're taking your Lieutenant test." Jake then said to her.

"I think I'll wait until after the baby before I take that test." Sarah told him.

"Gives you an extra nine months to study." Vinny told her.

"I know that's why I'm doing it." Sarah snapped at him.

"You must be pregnant. You all ready have the mood swings." Vinny then said to her.

"I'm not moody." Sarah replied.

"Pretty soon you'll get the morning sickness and then the cravings." Vinny then told her.

"I'm never getting a girl pregnant." Tom said to them.

"As long as you're going to marry her it's all right. If you have sex with a girl and you don't want to marry her wear protection. I always did." Vinny told him.

"Tom don't listen to your Uncle Vinny." Jake said to him.

"Yeah. Don't have sex until you're married." Sarah told him.

"Like you?" Vinny then asked her.

"You always do that. You always get on my case for no reason!" Sarah yelled at him.

"Don't give advice that you can't back up." Vinny replied.

Sarah gets up from the couch and leaves the room.

"You always have to do that." Jake said to him.

"Do what?" Vinny then asked him.

"Start with Sarah." Charlie told him.

"I'll go apologize." Vinny told them as he got up from the couch and went to go apologize to Sarah.

Vinny catches Sarah before she could leave.

"Sarah, wait." Vinny said to her.

"What do you want now?" Sarah asked him annoyed.

"I'm sorry for saying what I did in there." Vinny apologized to her.

Sarah crosses her arms like 'Yeah right.'

"I'm serious." Vinny replied after she crossed her arms.

"You're actually seriously?" Sarah asked him as she saw the look on hisface.

"Yeah, I'm serious." Vinny said to her.

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

"Come on. Please? I'm really sorry." Vinny said to her.

"I guess I accept your apology." Sarah said to him.

"You guess? It's either 'Yes' or 'No' ." Vinny said to her.

"Yes, I accept your apology." Sarah said to him.

"That's great. Now, let's go back inside and I'll even do you a favor." Vinny said to her as he walked back inside.

"What's the favor? Vinny! Get your ass back out here and tell me the favor!" Sarah yelled to him.

Vinny tells Elliot that Andrew can spend the night at his cabin so him and Sarah can spend the last night at Lake Winnetka together.Andrew goes back to Vinny's cabin and the next mornging Elliot somes to pick him up. As Vinny packs his Z he looks at the lake.

"I hate this place." Vinny said to Matt.

"Whatever." Matt replied still tired from rappelling.

Matt gets into the Z and falls asleep in the passenger side. Vinny just shakes his head and smiles. Mike goes back with them to Evanston and stays at Vinny's house.

The End.