Chapter 17: Big Brother Vinny.
It's the next afternoon and Joey and Tony have left. Kate and Tom aren't home yet so Vinny decides to cook dinner for the kids. Vinny starts to cook spaghetti, meatballs,pepperoni and garlic bread. "Vinny where did you learn to cook?" Jake asked him. "My dad and my Auny Marie but, mostly my dad." Vinny replied. "Good thing Vinny knows how to cook." Mike said to Lorraine. "Why?" Lorraine asked him. "Because you couldn't cook if your life depended on it." Mike told her. Vinny is laughing to himself. He puts the sauce on simmer and walks away to check on the garlic bread. Lorraine sees this and puts the sauce on high. "Don't touch that." Vinny tells her as he walks towards the sauce. "I thought you wanted the flame on high?" Lorraine asked him. "When you first put it on the stove. Then you leave it on simmeruntil it's almost done. You know what just get away from the stove and let me do this." Vinny explained to Lorraine. "I'll set the table then." Lorraine replied. "You do that." Vinny responded. Lorraine sets the table and it's dinner time. Everyone comes down to dinner and they sit down. At dinner Sarah is quiet and that's unusual for her. "What's wrong Sarah?" Lorraine asked her. "Nothing. Why does everyone have to worry about me?" Sarah said as she left the table and went to her room. "And now my day is complete." Vinny said. "I know ithasn't beendinner lately without Sarah getting mad at something." Jake replied. They are done with dinner and Vinny is trying to control the chaos of the Baker house. "Jake where are you?" Kim screamed. Vinny goes upstairs to see what's wrong. "Jake ruined my math homework." Kim explained. "I'm sure he's around here somewhere. When you find him don't kill him because I don't want to file a police report. They're always annoying." Vinny replied. Kim goes looking for Jake in his room. Vinny hears something in the upstairs closet. He opens the door and sees Jake hiding from Kim. "Don't tell Kim I'm here." Jake pleaded with him. "I won't say a word." Vinny reassured him. Kim comes out of Jake's room. "Who were you talking to?" Kim asked Vinny. "No one." Vinny replied. "It was Jake wasn't it?" Kim asked him. "I swear it wasn't." Vinny replied as he was pointing to the closet. "Thanks for nothing." Kim said as she went to the closet and opened the door. Jake is a sitting duck. Jake comes out of the closet and jumps on Vinny's back. "Get off my back. You know I have a bad knee. And your weight isn't helping at all." Vinny told Jake. "I only weight 130 pounds." Jake replied. "130 plus 30 maybe." Vinny responded. "I'm not fat." Jake told Vinny. Vinny has Jake on his back and is going down the stairs. "Jake get off of Vinny!" Lorraine yelled. "I don't mind." Vinny said. Vinny walks over to the couch and flips Jake over his head and tosses him on the couch. "Your fat ass blew out my knee." Vinny told Jake with a laugh. "I'm not fat." Jake told him again. Mike comes over after seeing this and wants Vinny to flip him onto the couch also. "Please Vinny?" Mike asked with a sad look on his face. "Your brother made my knee give out." Vinny replied. Mike walks away with a depressed look on his face. "Wait, what's that in your hair?" Vinny asked Mike. "What is it?" Mike asked. When Mike walks over Vinny puts him in a headlock. Jake now puts Vinny in a headlock. They start to rough house. Nigel and Kyle grab onto to Vinny's legs. "This isn't fair. It's four on one." Vinny told them. "Vinny stop. God, your worse then a little kid at times." Lorraine said trying to put a stop to the rough housing. "Fine. Jake let go of my head." Vinny said to Jake as Jake released Vinny from the headlock. Mike is now free from the headlock Vinny had him in and Nigel and Kyle get off of Vinny's legs.
Sarah sees them rough housing and remembers when Charlie use to do that with them. She nows thinks that Vinny is trying to replace Charlie.
Vinny is watching the Ohio State tape that his knee was torn. "Here it is. Now if you listen closely you can hear my knee snap." He tells Jake and Mike. They are quiet and they can hear Vinny's knee snap. When they hear this they all groan. "What are you guys watching?" Lorraine asked as she walked into the room. "Vinny's knee explode." Mike replied. "Vinny you know this film grosses me out." Lorraine tells them. "Then don't watch it." Vinny replied to Lorraine. They rewind it and watch it again. "Oh my god!" Lorraine yelled when she hears the snapping of Vinny's knee. "How can you guys sit here and watch it?" Lorraine asked as she was leaving the room before they played it again. Vinny goes up to Sarah's room to see if she would like to watch his knee snap. He knocks on the door. "Come in." Sarah said not knowing who it is. "Get out." Sarah said when she saw it was Vinny. "What's wrong with you?" Vinny asked her. "None of your business now, get out!" Sarah yelled at him. "I just wanted to know if you wanted to watch the tape of me blowing out my knee with me, Jake and Mike." Vinny told her. "I don't." Sarah said to him. "What is it that you hate about me?" Vinny asked her. "I don't have to tell you anything you're not my big brother! And you will never be my big brother no matter how much you try to act like Charlie!" Sarah yelled. "What does Charlie have to do with any of this?" Vinny asked her. "I saw you rough housing with my brothers. Charlie use to do that all the time before he left for college." Sarah explained to him. "I didn't know that." Vinny said to her as he was leaving her room. "Now, you do!" Sarah yelled as she slammed her door in Vinny's face yet again.