Chapter Five: Italian Ice

Vinny from engages in a food fight in the bowling alley after Nikki and Pauly hit him on the head with a pretzel.

Vinny returned fire, but it was Nikki who was struck with a flying cup of nacho cheese all over her hair.

For revenge, she dumped cheese all over Vinny's jacket, putting Vinny in a sour mood and causing me to ask the show's producers to scramble to find a good dry cleaner.

Then the entire group heads to dinner. Once we get to dinner, Jenni steps out because of Meilani and Vinny starts with Angelina.

I rolled my eyes and eat my salad.

Then Angelina and Vinny have a race which Vinny wins.

"I can do some good jump roping," Vinny said.

Vinny pulls out his jump rope from his bag and starts jumping rope.

"My daughter jump ropes too. She's seven. What's your excuse?" Pauly said.

Everyone laughs.

"What the fuck is that little move?" Angelina asked.

Everyone laughed at Vinny's little performance, so I decided to outdo Vinny.

I got up and grabbed the jump rope from Vinny and started doing advanced jump rope tricks.

"Oh wow," Mike said.

"I bet your seven-year-old can't do that," Vinny told Pauly.

"No, she's can't," Pauly said.

"Okay, I'm done," I said as I stopped jump roping and handed it back to Vinny, and took my seat.

"Good job, Cinta," Deena said.

"We got a bunch of island gals with us. State Island," Vinny points at Angelina.

Angelina chuckles.

"Jenni from Long Island," Ronnie said, laughing.

"Chris, where are you from?" Angelina asked Chris.

"I was born in Brooklyn but moved to Jersey when I was young," Chris answered.

"Freehold? Marlboro? Old Bridge?" Angelina asked Chris.

Everyone gets quiet and looks at each other after Angelina says Old Bridge.

"Okay," I said, ready to end the night.

- - - -

"So, Cinta, are you dating now?" Jenni asked me.

"I have someone in mind but nothing yet," I answered.

"What? No, I have so much questions now," Jenni said.

I stuck my tongue out at her.

"I'm nauseous," Nikki said.

"Are you pregnant?" Jenni asked her.

"No, I'm on birth control," Nikki answered.

"Hey, listen, you can still get pregnant. I'm birth control," Angelina said.

"I would like to get married first and then have a child," Nikki said.

"For me, I don't care what comes first," I said.

"Ooh! So you've been thinking about marriage and kids," Lauren said.

I smiled.

"I mean, that's the purpose of me wanting to be in a relationship," I said.

"Any plans?" Jenni asked Nikki.

"Yeah," Lauren said, wondering.

"No," Nikki said.

Everyone laughs.

"For me, being--I'm 28 now, but I'll be 29--I would like to get married. But if we have the same end goal, and it gets there, then I don't care if it's ten years from now, if it's next week, next year, you know?" Nikki said.

"Yeah," Deena said.

"Yeah," Jenni said.

"I agree, but I ain't waiting for ten years," I said.

"Would you have another baby?" Nikki asked Jenni.

"No," Jenni answered.

"I feel like she's gonna get pregnant by accident," Angelina said.

"God!" Jenni said.

"Well, that's what I was gonna say," Lauren said.

"Zack doesn't want one more than I don't want one," Jenni said.

"Are you on birth control?" I asked Jenni.

"No," Jenni answered.

"Oh, what!" Lauren exclaimed.

"Wait, what'd she just say?" Deena asked.

"And she's telling me there's a chance," Nikki said.

"Does he use condoms?" Deena asked Jenni.

Jenni eats something as she answers.

"No," Jenni answered.

Everyone laughs.

"You're, like, an idiot," Deena said.

"Can we get--can we get a pregnancy test?" Nikki calls out with a thumbs up.

I shook my head.

"And what about you? Are you guys already having sex?" Deena asked me.

"Yeah, but we use condoms," I answered.

"So, are you on birth control too?" Angelina asked me.

I shook my head no.

"I have never been on birth control in my entire life," I answered.

"Next round is Jenni and Cinta, for sure," Nikki said.

"Us? Pregnant at the same time, yeah, ok," Jenni said sarcastically.

"It's gonna happen," Lauren said.

"How are you and Chris's sex life?" Jenni asked Angelina.

"I like him," Deena said.

"I like him too. I just--you know we're going to do therapy first, and then we're going to figure that out," Angelina answered.

"Oh, so you're just kinda, like, dating," Jenni said.

"Yeah. I want to start the therapy process when we get home, and then we'll discuss that," Angelina said.

"I feel like last night; you guys weren't on edge. You were laughing. You guys had your guards down," Deena said.

"First night, did it look like Chris and I were on edge?" Angelina asked.

"You came in hot the first night, right? 'Cause you and Vinny were like, down here, and then you're like-- [exhales]," Jenni said, demonstrating how Angelina threw a drink in Vinny's face.

"Because he was getting freaking annoying. Like, he didn't even give me a second to sit down, and then he's starting with me already," Angelina said.

"You're an easy target," Lauren said.

"Yeah, He really—he literally gets bored, and he knows you'll feed into him," Deena said.

"You're right. Maybe I shouldn't allow him to do it anymore," Angelina said.

"You're right," Lauren said.

"Don't entertain it. Like, let him sit there and cry," Nikki said.

"Oh, my God, he's gonna cry?" Angelina asked.

"I don't think you can do it," Nikki replied.

"Are you capable? 'Cause I can see—look at her, look at her," Jenni said.

"You like it," Lauren said.

"No, I don't like it," Angelina said.

"They both like it," I said.

"She's like-she's like, 'Vinny, stop.'," Nikki said.

"She's like, "Vinny, stop." But doesn't ignore him," Jenni said.

"I swear. I'm putting it in the fucking table right now. No, I'm putting it on the table right now. I will not react to Vinny starting tonight," Angelina said.

"What's the bet, though? 'Cause we need to make a bet," Jenni said.

"You have to jump in the snow in your bikini," I said.

"Ooh. You bring your bikini? We'll find one. All right, what do we want to do, 24 or 48 hours?" Jenni asked.

"Just do 24," Deena answered.

"24," We all said at the same time.

"What's, like, the results for her?" Lauren asked.

"Like, if she wins?" Jenni replied.

"If she wins," We all said.

"Is there anything you've ever wanted to do to me?" Jenni asked Angelina.

"Ooh," Lauren said.

"Something to you," Angelina repeated.

"You get one shot," Jenni said.

"One shot. Throw you in the water," Angelina said.

"What water?" Jenni asked.

"In the pool," Angelina answered.

"Fine," Jenni said.

"All right, fine," Angelina said.

"Wow. That's high stakes. I am impressed," Lauren said.

"Full 24 hours, I said.

- - - -

I stood on the deck and watched as the guys snow-tubing.

The guys continuously escalated into more dangerous maneuvers.

"He's going over. Oh my gosh," I said.

"He's going fast," Angelina said.

"Jump off!" Nikki yelled.

"He's going over," Vinny said.

"He's gonna make it!" Ronnie said.

"Oh, my God!" Nikki exclaimed.

"Fuck," Jenni said as Zack went over the snow wall and nearly ended up in a frozen lake.

"He went over," Mike said.

"Oh wow," I said.

"Oh, my God!" Lauren exclaimed.

"He went over, I swear to God," Pauly said.

Everyone chuckled.

"Zack?" Nikki called out.

"Zack?" Jenni calls out.

"Are you okay?" Pauly yells.

Zack jumps up, and everyone cheers.

Then everyone decides to group tub.

Then Angelina and Vinny decided to race.

Then Vinny starts throwing snowballs at Angelina after Angelina wins the race.

"Ooh. Violence," Jenni said.

Deena and Lauren laugh.

"I won," Angelina exclaimed as she lay in the snow, but she didn't react to Vinny.

"I'm gonna pee," Lauren said, laughing.

"My belly hurts," Deena said.

"I beat Vinny," Angelina said, walking back to the group.

"I like these little—I like these little—These activities," Pauly said.

"Yeah," Nikki said, playing the snow. "It's a change of scenery, for sure," Nikki added.

"Plus, we brought a little swag to the Poconos," Pauly said.

Vinny walks over to me and starts swinging my arms around as I give him annoyed look.

"Smile," Vinny said.

I put a fake smile on.

Vinny pulls me into his arms and hugs me.

"Are you not happy?" Vinny asked me.

"I'm annoyed; actually, tired," I answered.

"Do you want to go back to the room?" Vinny asked me.

"Yes," I answered.