Chapter Six

Laughter exploded from inside the living room where the eleven teenagers (ranging from age sixteen to nineteen) sat watching what Christene had recorded outside. Upon hearing this loud, youthful laughter, the six parents and one childless Rake entered the room to see that was so funny to their children. The teens were gathered on the floor in front of the television set, with the footage on the screen on pause.

"What's going on in here?" Asked Gina with a grin
"Christene was just showing up the tape pf what she shot outside!" Answered Ava as she wiped a tear away from her eye
"Well if this is anything like her last one, I want to see this." Bam said as he walked over to the couch with a smile
"Yeah! Nick, go rewind it!"
Nick looked at jade "Why do I have to rewind it?"
Jay threw the remote to him, nearly hitting him in the head with it "Because you have the remote!" She said with a laugh before giving her sister a high five

Nick rolled his eyes and then pressed the button on the remote that rewound the tape. All of the adults gathered around to watch the tape, and the teens situated themselves again to where they would be more comfortable. Jade and Jay each took a seat on either side of Dyllan, sitting a half an inch away from actually touching him. They peeked around his back at each other with a matching grin before turning their heads back towards the screen. Dyllan leaned back and placed his hands on the floor behind him. He knew that the twins had a big crush on him but he would never act upon it for a few reasons. One of his reasons being that he didn't want the twins to wind up tearing each other to shreds if he decided to pursue one of them and not the other.

Stacey sat close to Jason but they still gave each other enough space to be comfortable. It had been a while since their last, and rather sloppily-drunk, attempt at letting their raging hormones get the best of them, but neither of them had even spoken about it to their friends or parents. They were the type of couple that wasn't a couple, who wouldn't, for any reason, kiss and tell. The last time someone found out that they had been necking in secret, turned out to be a night they would always remember, but for very bad reasons. (And Christene was still holding the tape for ransom) From that point on, they and anyone else wasn't sure what to think of their relationship what wasn't a relationship.

Brianne was seated in between Ava and Ava's cousin Samantha. Samantha had taken her usual spot of half in Nick's lap and half in front of him. Brianne looked over towards Christene and sighed. Even though they were best friends, she still could not get over the fact that Christene had started seeing her ex-boyfriend Darren. She was happy for the two of them and thought they had made a cute couple, but seeing them together often put her into an awkward place emotionally. She looked over further and saw Darren lightly touch Christene's cast with a "poor baby" pout. Brianne turned her head away and looked at the screen.

As everyone began to watch the tape, they began to laugh ant once. The tape was of Rake's leg providing pleasure for Rake Jr. in the driveway, all made much more comical with the added voiceover done by Jason. The clip reminded five of the men about the picnic scene from their old "CKY" days, since it was very similar to it. Dico even couldn't believe, very proudly however, that his son was so good at imitating one of his own voices. All of the adults agreed then that Jason DiCamillo was very much the chip off the DiCamillo block, in every way imaginable. This produced an annoyed groan of sheer disgust from the lad himself.

"Aw! Does that man I'm going to be bald before I'm 30 too?"
"Hey, it's not my fault you got mostly my genes." Was his father's retort "You could have been smart and taken some genes from your mother to prevent that part, but no… you had to turn out just like me." He finished with an exaggerated tone to his voice

That's when everyone, Jason reluctantly at first, began to laugh again and started sharing stories and comments of how much the teenagers compared to their parents. During a brief break in the conversation, someone had brought up the point of how much Rake Jr. was like the real Rake. All but Rake enjoyed that comment.

After a little while Jess showed up with mail in his hand and greeted his daughters. He looked at his younger brother and tossed a small package towards him.

"What's this?" Questioned Bam, looking at the package in his lap
"What do you think?"
"But my birthday isn't until tomorrow."
"So? Just open the damn thing, asshole." He said with a slight laugh in his voice. He looked over at Ava and motioned for her to come up to him "Hey Av, this came for you in the mail." He said as he handed her an envelope
"Ooh! Who's it from, Daddy?" She took the envelope and kissed him on the cheek before walking away
"I don't know, it's your mail."

Ava eagerly tore open the envelope, leaving a few small pieces of it on the floor by her feet, and pulled out a folded letter.

"Oops…" She said as she nudged the paper with her socked toe "Sorry Aunt Gina. I'll pick 'em up eventually."
"You'd better pick the paper up. You don't…"
"Right I don't see you leaving little pieces of paper on my floor." Ava said in her aunt's tone of voice as she began to read her letter "Oh!" She smiled brightly "It's from Wolfgang!"
"Wolfgang?" Jess asked with a smirk
"Um… oops… I um never told you and mom about him, haven't I?"
"No you haven't." He said while folding his arms across his chest, his smirk still present on his face "Who is he? Someone I should know about? Yo Bam, I think we need to get out bats out just in case." He teased
"Why? Another one of Ava's no-good0boyfriends coming around? Didn't those boys hear what we did to her last boyfriend?" He chuckled before making a motion with his arms as if he were swinging a baseball bat
"Daddy! Uncle Bam!"
"What? Well that boy should have known better, not to go breaking my daughter's heart like he did. So who's this "Wolfgang" kid?"
"Wolfgang's not a kid, Daddy, he's this guy at school and… shut up! You're embarrassing me!"
"Oh I am not! I just want to know who he is. That's all."
"He's my boyfriend, all right?"
"A boyfriend?" Bam asked, going up to his niece "Who told you, you could have one of those?"
"Uncle Bam! You're terrible. I know I haven't told you or mom about him, but this is exactly why I didn't. You always embarrass me, or do something to drive the guy away. And I did not appreciate you and Uncle Bam going after Bobby with those bats, and banging his car up with them. I could have handled that situation myself." She turned her eyes towards the letter and began to read "He's coming here to visit me before the new semester starts! Why didn't he just tell me over the phone?"
"Where is he now?" Stacey asked while snatching her sister's letter away
"Hey!" Ava took the letter back "After the semester ended he went back home to Finland for the summer."
Bam arched an eyebrow "Finland, huh?"
"Yeah he's a foreign exchange student. Oh, Uncle Bam can I borrow your Lambo to pick him up at the airport?"
"My Lambo? No way."
"You Hummer?"
"No!"
"Your Mercedes?" She asked with a pout
Bam groaned, not being able to resist his niece "Alright you can borrow the Mercedes to pick him up. But you go straight to the airport, pick him up, and come straight back here, you got that?"
"Yes. Thank you! So can I have the keys?" She extended her palm
"What? Now?"
"Yeah his letter said that he'll be here around 3:00 today and it's going on 2:30 now. So, keys?"
"They're on he hook."
"Great! Thanks!" She gave him a hug around the neck and a kiss on the cheek before bouncing away to get the keys