Chapter 14: Retaliation
It's the next morning and Vinny is in football mode because it's Sunday and he has NFL Sunday Ticket. Joey and Tony are also still there. "It can't be Sunday all ready." Lorraine said to Vinny. "If College Football was on yesterday it must be Sunday." Vinny responded. "If today is Sunday that means church is today." Lorraine told Vinny. "And that means what to me?" Vinny asked her. "I thought you were Italian?" Lorraine then asked him. "What's your point?" Vinny then asked her. "You're Catholic then." Lorraine replied. "I haven't been in a church since my dad's wake. And haven't attended a mass since I was 8." Vinny told her. "Great you're going to Hell." Lorraine said sarcastically. "No. Just because I don't go to church doesn't mean I'm going to Hell." Vinny explained. "I believe it does." Lorraine replied. "Not, if you donate five thousand dollars ayear to your local church. Which I believe is an automatic bid into Heaven." Vinny responded. "You're proud that you don't go to church and all because you donate money to your local church you believe you're automatically going to Heaven." Lorraine said. "That's what I just said." Vinny replied.
At the Baker house Tom is making breakfast. "Dude, one word no eggs." Jake told him. "Two words too bad." Tom replied. Vinny knocks on the front door and Mike answers it. "Hey Mike." Vinny said as he walked in. "Vinny what are you doing here?" Tom asked him. "I want to apologize for my actions yesterday. I shouldn't have taken Jake to the skate competition when I knew he was grounded and I'm sorry about the water guns I left lying around for Mike and Sarah to use against Tina, even though that was hysterical." Vinny told him. "I want to apologize for what I said to you yesterday. I was out of line." Tom told him. "Lorraine's nagging your ear off isn't she?" Jake asked Vinny. "There's also that. She wants me to go to church today." Vinny responded. "Aren't you suppose to go to church on Sunday?" Mike asked. "Not, when you have NFL Sunday Ticket and when you donate money to the local church once a year." Vinny then replied. "We just got back from church." Mike told Vinny. "That sucks." Vinny said laughing. "What sucks is that you're going to Hell." Jake replied. "As long as it's warm all year long I don't care where I go." Vinny then replied. "Now you're definitely going there." Mike told him. Vinny goes to walk into the kitchen and slips on Jake's skateboard. He goes to grab the counter to keep his balancebut, grabs the bowl of pancake batter instead. It falls on him and gets all over him. Tom, Jake and Mike are laughing at him. "Sorry Vinny." Jake said. "It's all right. I needed to take a shower anyway." Vinny replied. "You look good Vinny." Tom tells him. "At least I didn't twist my knee again." Vinny said while getting up. Sarah comes downstairs and sees Vinny covered in the pancake batter. "That's a great look for you Vinny." Sarah said to him. "I know right?" Vinny asked her. "Did you think of an answer yet?" Jake asked Sarah. "Answer to what?" Tom asked him. "It's just something Jake asked me last night and no I haven't found an answer to your question yet Jake." Sarah replied. "I need to go home and take a shower. I'll see everyone later." Vinny said as he was leaving. "I didn't want to say anything about that smell but, since Vinny's leaving it's starting to go away." Sarah said as Vinny walked out the door.
Later that day Vinny gets a phone call from his Aunt Marie. "Hello? Hi Aunt Marie. No I didn't go to church today. I had better things to do today. Like watch football. I'm not going to Hell! You and Lorraine are starting to think a like. Apologize for what? Are you kidding me? All right I'm sorry I said that you and Lorraine are starting to think a like. I'm glad that made you feel better. How's Raymond doing? That's great and he did that all in one week. Oh, it was all in one day. Aunt Marie even though I love hearing how Ray's doing, I hate to change the subject but, how's Robert doing? You tell me everything that Raymond does and all you have to say about Robert is he's doing fine? I didn't raise my voice to you. Trust me I didn't raise my voice. I'm sorry I raised my voice and I won't do it again. You have to go see how Raymond's doing? I'll talk to you later then. Bye Aunt Marie." Vinny said as he hung up the phone. 'Thank god Raymond is actually good for something' Vinny said to himself. "Who was that?" Lorraine asked him. "Take a wild guess." Vinny told her. "Your Aunt Marie." Lorraine said. "Hey you guessed it with one try." Vinny told her. "What happened she took a break from checking on your cousin Ray and his family?" Lorraine asked him. "Yeah. She ended the conversation because Debra was going to make dinner for the kids and she thought they looked sick enough so, she went over there to cook for them." Vinny replied.
At the Baker house Mike and Mark were playing videogames and Jake was listening to his walkman. "Jake I have an answer for your question." Sarah told him as she removed his headphones. "What is it?" Jake asked her. "I just hate Vinny because of who he is." Sarah replied. "Why did you move my skateboard?" Jake then asked her. "I saw Vinny coming through my window and thought it would be funny if he slipped on it." Sarah replied with an evil smile on her face. "Did you tell dad to make the pancakes also?" Mike asked her. "No, that was just a bonus." Sarah responded. "I can't wait to see what you guys do to each other tomorrow." Jake told her. "What's tomorrow?" She asked him. "Duh, it's Halloween." Mike replied. "Your and Vinny's favorite holiday. You guys can play mean pranks on people and not get in too much trouble for it." Jake told her with a smirk on his face. "I have to come up with something big for him." Sarah replied. "Bigger than what you did to Mrs.Shenk last year?" Mike asked her. "Much bigger." Sarah replied with a sinister smile on her face.