Chapter 12: The Challenge

Sarah drives back to the Boulders. Elliot is outside arguing with Bill. "Why did you send those pictures to Sarah!" Elliot yelled at Bill. Bill looked at Elliot then saw Sarah walking towards them."Hi Sarah. Listen about the pictures." Elliot started to tell her. "Elliot I understand. We only see each other once a year and we live so far apart." Sarah told him. "I feel like I'm going to puke." Bill said to them. Elliot and Sarah stare at Bill. "What's your problem?" Sarah asked him. "I have no problem. I was only teaching you a lesson." Bill told her. "I bet Vinny could beat you in anything." Sarah told him. Bill starts to laugh. "That has been couldn't beat me at anything." He told them. "He could and he would wipe the floor with you." Elliot then told him. "Fine. Tell Vinny I will take him on anytime anywhere." Bill told them as he walked away with an angry look on his face.

Elliot and Sarah go back to Vinny's cabin. They walk in and tell Vinny about what they did. "You guys did what?" Vinny asked them. "We told Bill you could beat him at anything." Sarah told him. "I haven't done anything like that since college. And that was five years ago." Vinny explained to them. "Come on Vinny. Me and Sarah know that you can beat him." Elliot pleaded with him. Vinny thought about for a few seconds. "I'm not doing it. I have a family now and I don't have to prove anything to that asshole." He told them as he put twenty bucks into the swear jar. "Vinny you have to take on Bill." Sarah told him. "I don't have to do anything but be a great father and husband. And a good brother-in-law." Vinny told them. "This isn't the Vinny I knew tweleve years ago." Elliot said to him. "That's because that Vinny grew up." Vinny told him. Lorraine looks at him with a 'Yeah right' look. "I didn't grow up that much but, that Vinny is gone." He then told them. Jake walks into the cabin. "What's up guys?" He asked everyone. "Vinny won't accept the challenge that Bill made to him." Sarah told him. "Dude, you would so destroy that Bill guy." Jake told Vinny. "I'm not doing it." Vinny told Jake. "Come on Vinny. You need to shut that Bill guy up once and for all." Jake told Vinny trying to get Vinny to accept the challenge. "I have nothing to prove to that guy." Vinny told them. "As a matter of fact I'm going there right now to tell him that." Vinny then said as he got into his car and left for the Boulders with Jake, Sarah and Elliot going with him.

At the Boulders Mike is there hanging with Bill. Vinny pulls up and goes up to them. "He's on the phone. Don't distract him." Mike told him. Vinny takes Bill's cell phone and hangs it up for him. "What do you want?" Bill asked him with an annoyed look on his face. "I want to tell you that I'm not accepting your challenge. I have nothing to prove to you." Vinny told him. "I knew you wouldn't. I don't know what these kids see in you. All I see is a has been that couldn't make it to the NFL." Bill said to him. "If my knee didn't tear in that game, I would of been in the NFL with you." Vinny told him. "Still using that knee excuse." Bill said to him. "Bill I'm not stooping to your level. I have a wife and two kids. I don't have time to deal with you." Vinny told him as he walked away. "See I knew it kid no heart." Bill told Mike. Vinny keeps on walking like he didn't hear him.

He gets in his car with Elliot, Jake and Sarah still in it and drives. "Vinny you should of hit him." Elliot said to him. "What does that prove?" Vinny asked him. "It proves that you have a backbone." Sarah told him. "I'm not in shape to take him on in anything." Vinny told them. "We'll train you." Jake told him. "You guys train me?" Vinny asked them. "Yeah. It will be fun." Elliot said to him. "Fun for who?" Sarah asked him. "I agree with Sarah on that one." Vinny said to them. Jake sits there with a shocked look on his face. "What's that look for?" Sarah asked him. "You and Vinny actually agreeing on something else." Jake answered. Vinny drives Jake and Sarah back to their cabin and drives Elliot back to the Boulders.