Chapter 9: Time Alone
After Vinny helps Kate with her Italian. Vinny goes to Marie's room to see if she needed help with her homework.
"Do you need help with any homework?" Vinny asked her.
"Actually I need help with my homework in Sex Education." Marie told him sarcastically.
"Very funny Marie. You get that sense of humor from me." Vinny told her.
"I thought so also." Marie said to him.
"If you need any help with your homework just give me a call." Vinny said to her.
"I will except for when I need help with math." Marie said to him.
"You know me all too well." Vinny told her with a smile.
Vinny leaves Maries room and walks into Brian's room. Brian's asleep and has his covers half off of him. Vinny puts the covers over him, shuts off his light and takes the book he was reading off of him. (Just because I rag on skateboarders doesn't mean I think that they're stupid.) Vinny reads what the books title is.
"The Lord of The Flies. I remember reading this book in high school my sophmore year." Vinny said to himself as he put the book on Brian's desk.
He leaves Brian's room. And goes downstairs. The doorbell ring, Vinny answers the door.
"Hey Mr.DiMiranda." Derek(Kate's boyfriend)said as he opened the door.
"Hey Derek. How's everyone doing?" Vinny asked him as he walked in.
"Everyone is fine. How's everyone here?" Derek replied.
"We're doing good." Vinny told him.
Kate comes downstairs.
"You ready to go?" Derek asked her.
"Yeah. Let's go." Kate said to him.
"Cool. Bye Mr. and Mrs.DiMiranda." Derek said as him and Kate went out the door.
It's two hours later. Vinny and Lorraine are sitting on the couch watching TV.
"Dad?" Matt called from his room.
Vinny gets off the couch and goes to Matt's room.
"Yes Matt." Vinny said as he walked into his room.
"Why is Brian mad at you all the time?" Matt asked him.
"It's because I missed alot of his skateboard competitons and I never missed any of your or Danny's football or baseball games." Vinny told him.
"Why?" Matt asked him.
"I don't know." Vinny told him.
"Why?" Matt asked him again.
"Again I don't know." Vinny told him.
"Why?" Matt asked him a final time.
"Are you going to stop asking me 'Why?' if I tell you an answer other then 'I don't know'?" Vinny asked him.
"Yeah." Matt replied.
"Something always happens when Brian has his skateboard competitions. It never fails." Vinny explained to him.
"Like what?" Matt asked him.
"Something happens with one of my Head Quarters and I have to deal with it. Like today when your Uncle Bud couldn't figure out how to work the fax machine." Vinny then explained.
"Oh okay." Matt said to him.
"Good night Matt." Vinny said as he turned off Matt's light.
"Good night dad." Matt said as Vinny left the room.
"You going to bed?" Vinny asked Danny.
"No." Danny replied.
Kate comes home from her date with Derek.
"Does Derek need a ride home?" Vinny asked her.
"No. His brother picked us up from the movie." Kate told him.
"Oh okay." Vinny replied.
"Night guys." Kate said as she went upstairs.
"Night Kate." Vinny and Lorraine said at the same time.
"Finally some alone time." Vinny said to Lorraine.
Just then Mich jumps on the couch and sits in between them and puts his head on Vinny's lap.
"I'm not petting you." Vinny told him.
Mich looks at him and whines.
"Vinny look at that face." Lorraine told him.
Vinny starts to pet Mich who jumps off the couch and gets his tennis ball and places it in Vinny's lap.
"I'm not throwing the ball." Vinny said to him.
Mich nudges the ball into Vinny's hand. Vinny throws the ball and Mich just looks at him and places his paw on Vinny's knee.
"Go find yourself a nice female dog." Vinny said to him.
Mich walks away and falls alseep on the floor.
"Now we're finally alone." Vinny said to Lorraine.
Vinny puts his arm around her and they continue to watch TV.