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"Thank you so much for this Carly" Lucky said as they walked towards the banquet room.
She shrugged, "hey, you're family"
The truth was Lulu had approached her with the idea...and Carly saw how excited she was. It was the first time she had seen her really happy pre-abortion...compound that with the fact that Lucky had a tough year...Maxie, the drugs, and then finding out he wasn't going to be the father...Carly figured the least she could do was lend him the room at the Metro Court for the night.
"Wow" she heard as the doors opened.
When she saw the look of it; wow was right. She had offered Lucky the Metro Court party planner, but he had said that he already had someone. To say it wasn't what she had expected would have been the understatement of the century. The chandeliers were dimmed, instead the whole place seemed to bit lit by hundreds of tea light candles...crisp white linens adorned the tables with sterling silver cutlery. The fresh aroma of dozens of long stem red roses filled the air...the string quartet's melody filled the air..and for a second she could feel the salt water on her cheeks...there on the docks in her red evening gown...
"Do you like it?" came her cousin's voice waking her out of her stupor.
She composed herself, "it is gorgeous...I am sure Sam is going to love her engagement party...I can't believe she let you plan it all by yourself"
"Well Jax helped me find a planner...yep, I do have to say he has great taste"
Carly felt her stomach flip flop, "that he does...that he does"
An hour later the guests milled through the doors. She saw him walk through the door with Alexis on his arm. Carly rolled her eyes and grabbed another glass of champagne and decided to find her husband.
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"It's perfect" Alexis told her eldest daughter looking at the engagement ring.
Sam beamed, "I know...the ring is perfect...look at this place it's perfect...but most importantly...the guy is way perfect"
They turned to look at Lucky who was getting the customary hugs from Lesley and Bobbie. Just then the lights dimmed, and Luke Spencer was in the middle of the dance floor with a microphone.
"I know, I know...you are probably wondering who gave me the microphone...but I promise to keep it brief. Once in a lifetime someone comes along, and your love may not make sense...it may not be pretty and wrapped in a bow...but when you know...you know. When she is your best friend, your confidant, your lover, your biggest defender, when she challenges you to be a better man...and that is what Lucky has found in Samantha...I mean I wasn't too keen on the fact that she is a Cassadine...but since Legs is her mother...I will let it slide. Here's to two crazy kids...who are even crazier about each other"
Everyone clinked glasses joyfully...except four people that for a moment let every single one of Luke's words hang.
Fortunately for Alexis; she hadn't time to think as the DJ turned on a salsa beat and Luke grabbed her.
"Luke what the hell" she said as he pulled her onto the dance floor.
He shook his head, "it is customary for the father of the groom and the mother of the bride to SALSA" he said flinging her around.
Soon she came in sync with him, until he spun her backwards into another man's arms. She felt strong arms steady her and start to sway with the beat...she immediately fell into a smooth routine with him. When he swung her around she noticed the familiar dimples. He didn't give her a chance to protest as he quickly started the dance to the fast, sensual beat. They danced in silence, there bodies moving perfectly in time with each other.
Carly watched the dance and fought back the tears...in an instant she was out the door on the cool terrace. Jax noticed and followed suit.
"Are you okay?" he asked his accent like honey to her ears.
She rolled her eyes and turned around, "are you okay with that...with them being together all the time?"
"Sonny and Alexis?"
"Of course Sonny and Alexis...c'mon Jax you haven't noticed how buddy buddy they are?"
He tried to calm her down, "there friends Carly...and co-parents...that's it"
"How can you say that...knowing how they were before...just friends...remember?" she practically spat.
"I trust her Carly...I know she will never betray me with him" he said honestly.
The poignancy of his words cut her like a knife and she chuckled bitterly, "like I did?"
"I...I didn't mean" he started but she had her hand up already.
She tried to walk away but he grabbed her arm gently and spun her around her coming into his embrace, "don't do that...don't walk away like we didn't matter...because we did...you made the choice Carly...not me...you chose Sonny" he said letting her go and walking away.
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The song ended and Sonny held her for a second longer, "I see we remembered how to dance"
"I never forgot" she said the crimson rising to her cheeks.
Just then Nikolas excused himself to dance with his aunt, and Sonny went off for a sparkling water at the bar. Luke was there nursing the bottle of Jewel of Russia vodka.
"Now here is someone I can toast with, bartender get this man a-"
"Glass of mineral water" Sonny finished turning back to Luke, "scotch and Lithium...not a great mix"
Luke shrugged and held up his drink, "to the Cassadine's"
Sonny laughed, "I know you must be drunk if you are toasting anything to the Cassadine's"
"That is where you are wrong...as much as I hate those blood suckers...you can't deny how gorgeous the women are" he said his eyes going to Alexis and Sam.
"I'll drink to that" Sonny laughed tipping his cup.
"It's funny...I always thought Liz was the one for him...until I saw the way he looked at Samantha...he told me once that after the baby mess came out that he looked at her...and he knew that she would change his life...it was instant. That's how it was with me and Laura, you know...one conversation, and..." he said trailing off.
There was a moment of silence, "we should all be so lucky to have the love of our lives also be our best friends, our confidants" he rambled before putting down the bottle.
"I better get going...Mrs. Spencer awaits" he said as he walked away.
Later that night Sonny lie in his bed...Luke's words haunting him.