A/N: Finally another chapter!
Thank you Totaldramafan04 for reviewing the last chapter. I decided not to add in Anne Maria for Vito's entrance, but I did introduce Scott more.
Enjoy!
A couple weeks later, Zoey was in her house staring out the window. It was drizzling, but the sky was beginning to clear. Once the rain stopped, she saw Mike step outside his house. His hair was slicked back, and...he wasn't wearing a shirt? He was sporting six-pack abs and visible muscles on his arms. He had a necklace around his neck. He wore blue sweatpants and the same grey sneakers he always did. He began to walk down the street. Toward where Zoey knew Scott lived.
Zoey quickly went to put on her red rain boots and grab her jacket before leaving the house, not thinking to tell her mother, and follow Mike. "Hey, Mike!" she called out to him.
Mike looked at her briefly, and sent her an unimpressed frown before continuing, not replying back. He walked all the way up to Scott's house.
Scott was sitting on a log in the front yard of his dinghy house, trying to whittle a stick to no avail. His orange hair was cut short. His t-shirt had been white at some point, but it was now covered in dirt and other unidentifiable substances, and it was too big. He also had dirt on his face. He looked up when Mike approached his house. He spotted Zoey across the street and sneered at her.
"Ey, what're you looking at?" Mike's voice was strange. It sounded foreign, like Svetlana's, but not the same.
"That weird girl Zoey, behind you." Scott pointed at her.
Mike turned around and frowned at Zoey. "Ain't that Mike's neighbor? Dang, Redhead's not much to look at." He shook his head before looking back at Scott. "Ey, who are you?"
"Scott. Who are you?"
"I'm the Vito." Vito crossed his arms.
"Huh. You live around here, Vito?"
"Oh yeah, Mike's been around for a while." Vito shut his mouth just after he said it.
"Who's Mike?"
"No one, yo."
Scott narrowed his eyes at him. "I don't think we'll be friends."
"Oh yeah? How do you know?"
"I don't hang out with weirdos."
Vito grabbed him by the shirt. "Mike is not a weirdo. He's not as cool or hot as me, but he's alright." He shoved him back. "Don't talk trash 'bout him. Got it?"
Scott fell onto his back. "Ow! I'm telling my Pappy! He'll teach you!" He scrambled up and ran into his house. The door nearly broke as he shut it behind him.
"Not man enough to fight back?" Vito laughed.
Zoey finally decided to cross the street. She tapped Vito on the shoulder. "Why'd you push Scott, Mike? He didn't do anything to you."
Vito turned around and faced her. He seemed so much taller to her for some reason. "Ey, nobody tells me what to do, 'specially not you, Pasty. And the name's Vito." He began to walk back towards Mike's house.
Zoey frowned and felt a few tears coming to her eyes. That was so mean of him. Why would Mike say that to her, even in character? She didn't understand.
She went back across the street and walked home. She definitely didn't like Vito.
I made Vito a bit protective of Mike. At such a young age, I think it makes more sense for his character.
Please review, and see you next time!