Sonny finishes his homework and heads down for dinner. Tonight it is just Sonny, his dad and his mom. "So how was your first day...meet anyone? Justin asked. "Yeah a few people." The teacher had me sit next to this other kid and asked him to show me around." "We had to share a science book since they didn't have any left for me" "But they are getting me a new one tomorrow." So did he?" "What?" Sonny asked. "Did he show you around?" Oh yeah..he is a cool guy." "He introduced me to his friends." "Abby was one of them." "He is Abby's cousin too." "What is this boy's name?" Adrianne asked a bit forcefully. "Will Horton." Adrianne puts her fork down. "Sweetheart...I don't think it would be a good idea for you to be friends with that boy." "Why not?" "Well his family is a ...Justin help me here." Justin looks at her..."I don't know what you are searching for? "They are not good people...just not people you want to hang around with." "But he is Abby's cousin...he is her family...and you like her." "Yes dear but they are our relatives from our side of the family." "This Will Horton is not a member of our family too." "So I would prefer you not associate with that young man." "I don't understand...what is wrong with him...he was cool with me...he even shared his lunch with me...he let me join his group of friends." "Yes well maybe you should stay away from them as well." "What happen with your lunch?" I forgot it at home so Will gave me one of his sandwiches." "That was very nice of Will...he sounds like a good person" Justin says. Adrianne give him the looks. "Abby is one of his friends." "Sonny I am not going to argue with you about this." "Just stay away from the Hortons." Sonny puts his fork down. "May I be excused?" "You hardly touched your dinner." "I'm not hungry." "Well try to eat a little more." "I am not hungry...can I please be excused." "Fine you may go." "Did you do your homework?" "Yes it is done." And with that he leaves the room.

"What was that about?" Adrianne says to Justin. "What was what about?" "You contradicted me in front of our son." "How did I do that?" "By saying that that young man sounds like a good person." "After I told them they are not." "Adrianne the boy gave our son half his lunch ...that doesn't sound like a bad person to me." "So you think it perfectly okay for our son to hang around with people like the Hortons?" "Adrianne not every Horton is a bad person." "Might I remind you that we are Kiriakis's." "Not exactly a name held in high esteemed in this town." "Suppose some family told their child to stay away from our son because of some of the things Victor has done." "It is not the same thing." "That young boys mother and father are disgusting and I won't have our son being associated with them." "Well I think you are wrong." "You are not forbidding our son from being friends with Will Horton." "At least not until he has done something to warrant our concern, and from what Sonny said it sounds like he has been very nice to him." Adrianne takes her napkin off her lap and places it on her plate. "I have lost my appetite." "Well try to eat a little more." Justin say repeating what she just said to Sonny. She turns and stomps out of the room.

Justin has finished his dinner and goes up to talk to Sonny. Knock..knock. "Yeah" comes from the voice inside. "Sonny it dad." Sonny gets up from his desk and goes to the door. He opens the door. "So are you going to tell me to stay away from Will too?" Justin closes the door. He leads Sonny over to the bed and they sit next to each other. "Look Sonny your mom is just trying to do what she thinks is best for you." "How from not letting me have any friends because she doesn't like them or their families." "In this particular instance I think your mom is incorrect in her opinion." "So you can be friends with Will Horton." "But and I am not telling you to lie ...just try to avoid talking about him to your mom." "If you have a story or want to talk to someone about him...come to me." "Is that okay?" "Thanks dad." Sonny says as he hugs Justin. "Dad he really is a cool kid...a little shy but he is cool." "Well good I am glad you found a friend on you very first day." "Now did you really do your homework?" "Honest I did." "Okay then." "Well I am going to try to smooth things over with your mom." Justin kisses Sonny on the forehead. "Good night." "Good night dad..and thanks."

Will is laying in bed thinking about what his mom said about staying away from Sonny. He decides he is not going to do that. So he is going to have to tell his friends not to tell anyone that he is friends with Sonny. He will try to keep it a secret. He wonders if Sonny's family the same way about him. Maybe Sonny can't even be his friend. He will just have to see what happens tomorrow.

Will is turning down the street the school is on..he is sort of nervous that maybe Sonny will ignore him because he family doesn't like him or doesn't want Sonny to be friends with him.

As he is walking on to the school yard he sees Abby but doesn't see Sonny. Would they not let him go to school here just because they don't like me Will thinks. Just then someone runs up behind him and puts their hands on his shoulder and yells AAAHHHHHH. Will jumps a bit..and turns to see T standing there. "Oh hey T." "You didn't chat with me last night." T stated. "I saw you on." "Oh sorry I was doing some stuff for my science project." "I wasn't even paying attention." I must have had a screen over my contact list." "Sorry man." "It's cool..I was chatting with Susie Chapman." "I think she likes me." "Hey would you ask her if she does." "I'm not asking a girl if she likes you...get Abby to do it...she's a girl." "Hey Will." Will turns around quickly and strikes T in the chest with his backpack. "Hey watch it you faggot." "Will turns back and looks at T...take that back T." T knows when he has gone to far with Will. All it took was once for T to say something about Will's mom and he wore a black eye for week. "I'm sorry..I didn't mean it." Will just stares at him. T backs down and walks away. Will is beat red with anger. Sonny puts his hand on Will's shoulder and Will immediately calms down. "Don't listen him Will he's just a jerk." Will can feel himself regaining his composure. He follows T with his eyes. Once he is completely calm he turns back to Sonny. "Hey don't you have to get your science book?" "Oh yeah I forgot." "They told me to go to library to pick one up." "Where is it." "Oh I'll show you...come on." They both start walking toward the door. T is watching them. "Will why do you hang around that kid?" "T?...well I have known' him since 1st grade." Will continues as they enter the school. "No one would talk to him because he was such a jerk...but I felt bad for him..so I started talking to him." "Once he had a friend he got better." "And I have been his friend ever since." Will bumps shoulders with Sonny as he about to turn a corner. "Oh sorry...it's this ways." Sonny just ignores the bump. "But he so mean to you." "I know...but he knows when to shut up." "He and I got into a fight once on the way home from school and ever since then he will usually watch what he says." "Sometimes he will do what he did today but he will apologize if he knows it was bad." "Well maybe he shouldn't do bad things at all." "That's just T." Okay here is the library. You can go get the book and I will wait here and walk back with you. Sonny comes out about 3 minutes later. "I thought it was going to be new..this is used." "Yeah we never get new books." "This one has all writing in it." He shows it to Will. "Here swap me ..I will take yours and you can have mine." "It has just a little writing in it." "Before Sonny can say no Will swaps books and puts Sonny's book into his own backpack and they start walking back toward class. "You didn't have to do that." "Nah it's okay..I don't mind the writing." "Sometimes I read it..and it is funny." They walk back to class in silence. A few of the girls make a point of saying hi to Will as they walk down the hall. "Wow a lot of girls like you." Will blushes but doesn't say anything. When they arrive at the room and walk in there are only a few students sitting. "Good morning William...Jackson." "Good morning sir." "Jackson I would like you to take the same seat you had yesterday." "If you have any questions you can ask William." Sonny looks at Will..."Cool." Will smiles back at him.

As they sit there waiting for class to start Sonny and Will talk about what they watched on tv last night. What bands they like...what there favorite movie is. Sonny points out a girl staring at Will. Will doesn't look. They continue to whisper back and forth. "Hey you want to walk home together today?" "I am not sure." Sonny remember what Abby told him about the two house thing. So he stops talking about it. The classroom starts to fills up. Sonny quickly tries to get one more question in before class. "Hey my dad said he might get tickets to a Cubs game...do you want to go." Just as Will is about to answer the bell rings and the school day start. Will is glad he didn't have to answer. But he will have to at lunch if Sonny remembers and he is hoping he won't. But just in case he has to come up with a reason he can't go, even though he really wants to. Then he thinks he will talk to Abby about it first since Sonny is her cousin.