Chapter 2 Date Night

"Why can't I go out? Leticia's here." Sam argued.

"After the way you behaved this morning, you're lucky you aren't grounded till you are 30 years old."

"Dad! That's not fair, I apologized. You shouldn't spring stuff like that on a girl before she's had her coffee."

Sonny tried not to laugh. "Leticia has her hands full with Kristina and Morgan, I want you here to keep Michael company."

"Oh, so I'm not even officially babysitting? So like I'm not getting paid?"

"Samantha…" Sonny growled.

"Okay, okay, sorry, but Michael won't like this any better than I do."


"I don't need a babysitter. I'm almost 10."

"Leticia's in charge Michael, and eight months doesn't equal almost."

Michael sighed. "Sam hates me. She's gonna be piss…"

"I don't like that word Michael."

"Sorry, she's going to be cranky all night. Can't I go to Gramma Bobbie's and hang out with Lucas?"

"It's a school night Michael and I don't know how late Dad and I will be."

"So that's a maybe?"

"I'm pretty sure that's a flat out no." Alexis mussed his hair. "If you want you can hang out in your room and read, but I bet Sam could be persuaded to play a video game with you."

"We can play Nintendo? On a school night?"

"If you finish your homework before we leave AND if you promise to go to bed on time. Remember, Leticia is here, so I will know."

"Oh man, thanks Mom. You're the best." Michael ran to his desk and began working furiously on his math.


"Did anyone ever tell you, you are beautiful in the moonlight?"

"Just my husband…he's always saying things like that."

"Well he's right. You are beautiful in the moonlight, in the sunshine, in the dark."

"Why Mr. Corinthos, you're making me blush."

"You're beautiful when you blush."

"I'm sensing a pattern here." Alexis teased. "So what you're trying to say…"

"Is that you are beautiful."

"Ah…well you aren't so bad yourself."

"What do you say we ditch your husband and sneak upstairs?"

Alexis bit her lower lip. "Do we have to ditch him…I sort of like him."

"Sort of?"

Alexis wrinkled her nose and nodded.

Sonny stopped. "Sort of!"

"Well, actually I really like him quite a bit."

"Quite a bit?"

Alexis giggled. "The truth is I'm madly in love with him. Sorry."

"Oh, well, then we shouldn't ditch him." Sonny swept her into his arms.

"Sonny! What are you doing?"

"Taking you upstairs, I booked the honeymoon suite."

"It's after ten Sonny, I have court in the morning." She protested.

"Well, I guess we could…" Sonny set her back down and started to disrobe.

"Okay, okay, let's go upstairs." Alexis pulled his jacket back around his shoulders. But before he could swoop her up again her phone went off. "It's the kids, give me a second. Why aren't you in bed?"

"Mama?" Sam said in a small voice, a whisper. "Can you and Daddy come home please?"

Mama and Daddy weren't typical words in Sam's vocabulary. It set the hair on her neck on end. "What's wrong baby?"

"There's someone here, she...please come home…"