Chapter 13: Tempers Flaring.
The Shenks leave after the water gun fight. Vinny walks into his house and is still laughing. Lorraine looks at him like she's about to kill him. "You find this funny?" She asked him. "Hell yeah." Vinny replied. "You planned this?" Tom asked him. "Yeah." Vinny replied. "Dude, that was great." Jake told him. "You planted the water guns underneath the sink?" Mike asked him. "No, Tony did that." Vinny replied. "It was too easy." Tony said. "That was great how you knew Sarah was listening to us and you knew she would try to get to the water gun before you did." Joey told him. "I knew you were a jerk!" Sarah yelled. "I'm the King of Pranks. You can't out do me." Vinny told her. "Vinny this is not funny." Tom said. "I guess you don't have a sense of humor." Vinny replied. "First you take Jake to the skate competition and now this." Tom said getting angry. "You don't understand the fine art of a prank." Vinny told him. "Vinny I had my doubts about you. Now I can see that I was right about you!" Tom yelled. "Right about what?" Vinny asked. "You are irresponsible, juvenile and not the right husband for Lorraine." Tom explained. "I might be irresponsible and juvenile but, I am a damn good husband!" Vinny yelled. "Look you two cool it." Lorraine said trying to calm everyone down. "Tom, I think that we should leave." Kate told Tom. "Great idea." Tom said. Tom, Kate and the kids go back to their house. "Can you believe your father?" Vinny asked Lorraine in disbelief. "Don't act like you didn't do anything." Lorraine snapped. "What's your problem?" Vinny asked. "The way you and my dad acted tonight." Lorraine replied. "Me?" Vinny asked. "Yeah you." Lorraine said. "I didn't do a damn thing!" Vinny yelled. "You setup my sister and my brother to get in trouble." Lorraine told him. "It was a harmless prank." Vinny stated. "Vinny they soaked Mrs.Shenk and then Mike accidently squirted my dad!" Lorraine yelled. "That was pretty funny." Vinny said with a chuckle. "How do you find humor in this?" Lorraine asked. "I don't look at the negative in that sort of stuff. When I find something funny I laugh." Vinny explained. "You're sleeping on the couch tonight." Lorraine explained to him as she went upstairs.
At the Baker house Tom and Kate are arguing with Sarah and Mike about their punishments. "You can't ground us for what happened tonight!" Sarah yelled. "Yes we can." Tom replied. "We didn't do anything!" Sarah yelled. "Then who soaked Mrs.Shenk with the water guns?" Kate asked. "Vinny set us up!" Sarah explained. "He wasn't the one who pulled the triggers on the water guns." Tom told her. "You can't blame Vinny for that. We were the ones with the water guns in our hands." Mike told Sarah. "Stop defending him!" Sarah yelled at Mike. "You stop trying to blame him for all your problems!" Mike yelled back. "He's the cause for all my problems since we met him." Sarah explained. "How?" Mike asked. "You wouldn't understand! No one would!" Sarah yelled as she went up to her room. Jake goes to Sarah's room to talk to her. He knocks on her door. "Go away!" Sarah yells with tears in her eyes. Jake walks into her room and asks her "What's wrong?". "Why should I tell you?" Sarah asked him. "Because I'm your brother and I want to know why you're crying." Jake replied. "I'm not telling you anything!" Sarah yelled at him. "Why are you mad at me!" Jake asked. "You sold me out to Vinny so you could go to the skate competition!" Sarah yelled at him once again. "I said I was sorry." Jake explained. "That won't work Jake, not this time." Sarah told him. "Fine! You want everyone to feel sorry for you because Lorraine married Vinny and Vinny took your favorite sister away from you!" Jake yelled back. "She isn't my favorite sister." Sarah told him. "Then why didn't you act this way when Bud married Nora?" Jake asked. Sarah couldn't think of an answer for that question. "That's what I thought!" Jake yelled as he left her room and slammed her door. Sarah thought about the answer for why she hated Vinny but, didn't hate Bud. She didn't sleep at all that night trying to think up an answer.
Back at Vinny and Lorraine's house, Vinny is trying to sleep on the couch but, can't because him and Lorraine never went to bed mad at each other before. Vinny goes up to his and Lorraine's room and walks in. "Lorraine we need to talk." Vinny told her. "It's five in the morning." Lorraine told him as she looked at the clock near their bed. "I want to apologize for everything that happened tonight." Vinny told her. "Yeah right." Lorraine replied. "Look at me." Vinny told her. "I don't want to now." Lorraine replied. "Then just listen. I don't know why I do the things I do. I guess that just the way I am. And you are a part of my life and I love you very much and it gets lonely on that couch at night." Vinny stated. "You never said that to me before." Lorraine told him. "I love you?" Vinny asked. "No, I'm a part of your life." Lorraine explained. "Well, you are and so is your family." Vinny said. "Repeat that last part?" Lorraine asked him. Vinny takes a deep breath and repeats what he just said "Your family is a part of my life too.". Lorraine is in shock and so is Vinny because he just shallowed his pride and admitted that the Bakers are a part of his life. "Come on in bed." Lorraine told him. "Thank you. You know that you are a goddess right?" Vinny told her. "Not now. I'm too tired." She told him. "I had to try." Vinny replied as he went to sleep.