Chapter two
Bam gazed out the window to try to figure out what could have been making "all of that noise" out in his driveway.
"What the fuck? Is that Dico all ready?"
He walked out of the door and saw a familiar, young man approaching the house with a big grin.
"Jason!" Bam shouted to the seventeen year old "Is that you making that noise?"
Jason laughed (which sounded remarkably like his father's laugh) "No that's my dad's new dog. He had to bring him over to show you."
"New dog? Since when did he get a dog?"
"Just a month ago. He woke up one day and said he was going to the pound to tease the dogs. And when he came home he…" Jason looked over his shoulder once he was interrupted by a deep throated, growl-like "woo woo woo!" sound "He had that dog." Jason finished, almost not missing a beat
They heard a car door slam and looked toward the driveway.
"Rake Jr.! You get back here you stinky dumbass dog!" Dico shouted as he tried to catch up with a dog that just ran out of the car
A big reddish-brown, shaggy-haired dog ran past Bam and Jason, barking (or more appropriately "woo woo-ing"), and ran over to some grass. The dog immediately began rolling around on the grass, letting out a "woo" every few seconds. Dico decided to let the dog roll around, and went up to his son.
"Phew." Dico laughed "That damn dog is hard to catch."
Bam started laughing as he watched the dog roll around "What did you name him?"
"Rake Jr., of course. As soon as I smelled him in that pound, I knew he was the dog version of Rake."
"Smelled? Don't you mean saw?"
"Oh no, I mean smelled . Go ahead, go up to him and take a big whiff. He's the stinkiest fucking dog ever. And doesn't he look just like Rake?" He finished with a laugh
"I'll take your word about his smell, Dic." Bam said as he looked at the dog "Yeah, now that you mention it, he does look like Rake!"
"And of course you heard that bark of his." Jason chimed in "Sounds just like Dad's "Rake" voice!" He laughed as well
The three of them continued to laugh over the dog. They almost didn't even notice once Dico's daughters came up to them.
"Oh hey. There's the twins." Bam said, looking towards the girls "How have you been?" he asked as he gave them each a hug
"We're fine." The twins said simultaneously
Bam smiled "Don't you two ever speak at different times?" He teased
They smiled "Yes, Bam." They laughed, having spoken together on purpose that time
"Is Ava here? I brought my skateboard." Jade said
"Yeah she and Stacey are both inside. Why don't you two go in and say hello?"
"Ok Bam." Janice said. She looked at her sister and whispered "How much do you want to bet that Stacey's been baking again?"
"Oh that's probably a safe bet." Jade smirked as they headed toward the house
Right as they had reached the door, Dyllan walked out, almost running into them.
"Oh hey girls." He said with a smile "Jade, Janice." He gave them each a nod as he said their name
"Hi Dyllan!" They said at the same time with a giggle at the end
"I hope you know, Dyllan…" Janice sang sweetly "That you and my dad are the only ones left on earth that I'll ever allow to call me by my full first name." She grinned
"Oh yeah? You really don't mind that I don't call you "Jay" like every on else?"
"Of course not Dyllan. I like the way you say my name."
"Oh, um, ok." He looked up past the girls toward Jason "Yo! DiCamillo!" He walked past them and went outside
Jade playfully slapped her sister on the back of the arm.
"Jay you are SO in love with him, it's not even funny!"
"You love him too and you know it."
"Yeah that's true but I don't gush all over him with every single thing that he says to me, like you do."
"Shut up!" She said, sticking out her tongue
Jade and Jay entered the house further in search of the two Margera sisters they had come to see. Not much to their surprise they found Stacey in the kitchen. She sat on a stool reading a magazine.
"Hey Stace!" Jay greeted
Stacey looked up from her magazine with a smile "Oh hi! I didn't hear you two come in."
"Yeah we're kind of sneaky that way." Said Jay as she pulled up a stool "Ooh…" She eyeballed the cooling cookies
Stacey chuckled "You can have one. Another batch is in the oven baking."
"Thanks." Jay reached over and grabbed a cookie and began to eat it with the infamous DiCamillo touch
Jade rolled her eyes and then looked at Stacey "So, your sister around? I was hoping to go skating with her."
"Yeah, the last thing I knew, she was upstairs in one of the guestrooms."
"Ok, thanks." She patted Jay on the back as she walked by, nearly causing her to choke "Enjoy your cookie, sis."
Jade walked upstairs and stopped by the closed door of one of the guestrooms. She could hear Ava's voice through the door, which gave away that room as the one that she was in. Jade opened the door and walked into the room. Ava lay across the bed, looking up toward the ceiling with a smile, and talking to someone on her cell phone. Her eyes were bright and glittered as she spoke. Jade stood by the bed and cleared her throat as she gazed down at Ava. Ava jumped, startled by Jade, and sat up.
"Hold on, Wolf." She placed her hand over the phone and looked at Jade "I'm on the phone." She said with a "parent" tone
"Who with?"
"Just… someone I met at college."
"A guy?'
"Maybe." She grinned
"It's a guy!"
"You don't know that!" She said, blushing
"Well how many girls do you know named "Wolf"?"
"Oh you heard that?" Jade nodded "Ok my parents don't know about him yet, but I've been seeing this guy at school, Wolfgang. He's a foreign exchange student from Finland and man is he ever gorgeous!"
"Wolfgang, huh?" Jade smirked
"Yeah." She giggled "I've never met any one like him before. So, what did you want?"
"Oh I just wanted to know if you wanted to go skating with me."
"Oh sure, just give me a second to hang up."
"Ok I'll meet you downstairs." Jade smiled and then left the room
She went back down to the kitchen where Jay and Stacey were still sitting and talking. She sat down on a stool and gave them an "I know something you don't know" look.
Jay looked at her and smirked "Spill it!"
"What?"
"I know when you have something juicy to say, so spill it bitch!"
"Ok. I walked in on Ava when she was talking to someone on the phone."
Stacey looked up at her intently "Yeah, and?"
"Go on."
"I found out that she was talking to a guy from school."
"Av never told me about any guy!" Stacey said with a slight squeal
"Yeah and it turns out that she's been seeing this Wolfgang guy."
"WOLFGANG!" They howled in unison
"Yes, Wolfgang. He's from Finland, and apparently very, very attractive."
"Ooh… sounds like sis has gotten lucky!"
"Stacey!"
"I didn't mean that! "
The three of them looked up once Ava entered the room. She waltzed over to where they sat and pulled up a stool. She then picked up a cookie and ate it into the shape of a heart. The other three girls looked at her with a grin as she sat there looking at her heart-shaped cookie. Ava glanced up at them.
"What?" She asked, not knowing that she was still smiling
"Av, I've never seen you like this before." Stacey said to her eighteen year old sister
"Like what?" She ran her finger around the edge of her cookie
"Ava it's so obvi-fucking-ous." Stacey stated "You're in love."
"I am not. I don't know what you're talking about."
"Sure you do. You know you can't hide it, it's written all over you. My big sister is in love. So, this Wolfgang must be something special, huh?"
Ava looked down and blushed "Yeah he… wait how did you..." She glared at Jade "You told!"
Jade laughed "I couldn't help it! They would have beaten it out of me if I didn't!"
"Yeah ok. So are we going to go skate or what?"
"Oh yeah sure. Let me get my board out of my dad's car."
Jade got up and walked toward the door, and Ava went back upstairs. Once both girls had their skateboards, they went outside and over to the ramp to skate.