Chapter 37: Mistakes – Friday, July 15th, 2011

Early the next morning, Dario and Sonny met up at the Salem Gym. After putting their stuff away and stretching, they made their way to the exercise bikes. "Were you able to tell Melanie about the movie last night?"

"Yeah. I sent her a text about it from work, but she can't go because she took an extra shift tonight. I'll probably see if Gabi wants the tickets." Dario focused on his workout.

"So you're not going to go? You should still watch it." Sonny turned to Dario and without thinking checked him out. He turned away quickly when Dario's head turned towards him.

"It will be okay. Maybe we can watch it next week sometime." Dario looked up from Sonny and spotted a familiar face. He did a double take once again, and the person was gone. He tried to shake it off, but the fact that this was the second time, he figured it could not be a coincidence.

Sonny turned back to Dario and realized that he had stopped cycling. "Dario, are you okay?"

Dario turned to Sonny. "I don't know man. I've been seeing things." Dario began to look around him to see if he could spot who he saw.

Sonny began to look around as well. "What are you seeing?"

"My brother." Dario gave up and looked back at Sonny. "It's weird. I don't know why I would see him here."

"Yeah man. That is weird." Sonny did not know what to say to Dario. "Do you want to go to the doctor or something?"

"No, I'm fine." Dario focused on working out again, so Sonny let it go.

At the DiMera Mansion, Stefano, EJ, and Chad talked about their next plan of action concerning Rafe and the informant's death. "I talked to Marco late last night, and he told me that he found a strange call made the afternoon of the informant's death. It is a hidden number, and it may have been the person who killed the informant." Stefano looked to both of his sons. "I feel like I need to stress the importance that we do not talk about any of this to people outside of our family. Do you understand what I am saying?"

EJ rolled his eyes. "Yes, father. I think Chad and I get what we're supposed to do here. We're not idiots."

Chad looked on nervously and agreed with EJ. He feared that he would prove EJ wrong when they found out about Abigail. "Do we know who that witness is yet?" he asked nervously. He questioned whether he should come forward about Abigail but decided not to because he knew Stefano would have another reason to not like Abigail.

"Unfortunately, not yet. Marco is still working on it." Stefano picked up his phone to call Marco but stopped when he spotted Marco entering the living room. "Ah, Marco. Please tell me you have something on that witness."

"I do, Mr. DiMera. I know who the witness is." Marco declared. Chad tried to hide his nerves. "It's Abigail Deveraux."

"Wait. How does the Deveraux girl know about our connection to the informant?" EJ asked.

While Marco informed them of who the witness was, Stefano kept his eyes on Chad and realized that Chad knew this whole time it was his girlfriend. "I know how… Chad couldn't keep his mouth shut about it and told his saintly girlfriend!" Stefano raised his finger to Chad in disappointment. "Have you learned nothing? You sit here and lie to me, and now we have to clean your mess."

EJ stepped in and stopped Stefano from screaming at Chad. "Father. Stop. I am sure he did not tell Abigail about our connection to the informant. She is a witness, and I remember Roman saying that his witness saw us meeting with the informant in June. Chad did not say anything to her."

"Regardless, the point is that Chad knew Abigail was Roman's witness. I can see it all on his face! He's kept this from us!" Stefano turned and shook his head. "Now you know why I think Abigail is bad news, huh?"

Feeling horrible, Chad stood there in silence. He did not know what to say. He knew there was no way that he could defend himself.

At Dot Com, Kinsey surrounded herself with old high school friends. Since the news of her family's bankruptcy got out before graduation, she had a falling out with the popular crowd. Now things were different, and the popular girls let her back in with her new juicy gossip. The girls laughed at what Kinsey had to share with them. Kinsey spotted Gabi walking in. "Shhh… here she comes."

Gabi walked in and noticed that everyone she knew from high school immediately got quiet and turned towards her. Gabi wondered if she had spilled something on her clothes, so she inconspicuously looked herself over. Gabi immediately felt uncomfortable when a guy walked over and obviously checked her out. "Is there a problem?"

The guy gave her a smile. "No problem at all, miss sweet thang." The guy gave her a wink and left.

Gabi looked at Kinsey and noticed she was surrounded by girls they graduated with. When she looked at them, they began to laugh at her. She could hear some of them call her a slut and a whore. She quickly realized that Kinsey told everyone they knew that she had slept with T. She made her way to Kinsey, who gave her an evil look. "What the hell did you do, Kinsey?"

"I just told everyone the truth about what you really are? Miss goody moral Gabriella Hernandez is actually Miss very easy slutty Gabriella Hernandez. I hope T wore a condom!" Kinsey and the other girls started to laugh at Gabi.

Gabi grabbed Kinsey's arm and pulled her away from the other girls. She tried to fight the tears that wanted to come. "I don't get this. I thought you were cool with me hanging out with T. Why would you do this to me?"

Kinsey massaged her arm where Gabi had pulled her. "Cool with it? I knew that you lied to me when you said it was only to make Will jealous. Last night confirmed it to me you little puta." Kinsey gave Gabi a smirk. "See, I did learn something in Spanish class. Here's the lesson you need to learn: Stay away from other girls' boy toys."

"You're a bitch!" Gabi had enough of the embarrassment and rushed out the door. She felt so betrayed by her friends.

Melanie walked out of the elevator at Salem University Hospital and accidentally bumped into Nathan. "Oh, sorry." She looked up into Nathan's eyes and quickly felt the draw that she had always felt with him. She told herself that she needed to get over Nathan because she was not good enough for him. She also reminded herself that she was with Dario.

"No, I'm sorry. I really should watch where I am going." Nathan hated that he could not get over Melanie so easily. Even now all he wanted to say was how he still loved her. Nathan noticed the way Melanie was staring at him. "Is something wrong?"

"No… I'm fine." Melanie quickly looked down.

The elevator door opened again causing Nathan and Melanie to awkwardly go their separate ways. Sami walked out and headed to the conference room for her first board meeting. She stopped when she spotted Will. "Will, what are you doing here? Stefano send you out on an errand?"

Will took a deep breath before he spoke. "I am running errands, but I stopped by here for my lunch break hoping to talk to you." Will realized it was time to talk to his mother about everything. He figured his father had already talked to her about it. He hoped that his mother's reaction would be different than his fathers. Either way, he wanted to get it over with.

Sami felt happy that Will wanted to talk to her, but the timing was off. "Will, I have a board meeting in a few minutes. Is there any way you can just wait here for me. We can talk after it's over. If anyone at DiMera Enterprises starts to give you flack about not coming back, let them know that I have you out on errands." Sami gave her son a hug.

Will felt a bit let down. He had mustered all this courage to come out to her, and now he had to wait a little longer. He feared he would change his mind, but he had no choice. "Okay. I'll wait."

Sami smiled and rushed through the hallway doors to get to the conference room. Abigail and Sonny walked in through the same doors talking about Abigail's situation with Chad. She put her arm up and stopped Sonny from moving when she saw Will standing by the nurse's station. "It's Will. You should talk to him."

Sonny was not sure if that was a good idea. "What about your problems with Chad?

"It's okay. Hopefully Chad will let me explain everything and will forgive me. Talk to Will. This is your chance to fix things." Abigail pushed her cousin along towards Will.

Will turned around and saw Sonny walking towards him. Will felt his body tense up because it felt like forever since he and Sonny talked. Will decided to turn back around.

Sonny decided he had to make the first move to figure out what happened between Will and him. "Will, I've been trying to call you. Is everything okay?"

Will turned around and gave Sonny a strange look. "I'm the one that has tried to call you over and over again. You never answered my calls, texts, or voicemails."

Sonny scratched his head. "I've left messages on your phone as well. Are you not getting them?"

Will looked Sonny over and realized he was serious. "No… I did not get anything saying you called or left a voicemail." Will looked around realizing he might have to wait forever for his mom. Placing his hand around the back of his neck, he asked, "Any way we can go somewhere and talk privately?"

Sonny smiled at Will's wanting to talk. "Yeah. I can take my lunch break, and we can talk."

Will cautiously smiled back. He missed hanging out with Sonny. "Cool."

Sonny walked over to Abigail and informed her that he was taking his lunch break. He walked back to Will and put his arm around his shoulder. "Let's go."

Abigail smiled as she watched the two walk into the elevator.

At the Brady Pub, Caroline and Victor stood at the bar talking about Will and Sonny. Caroline quickly wiped down the bar. "I've been able to keep Sonny away from Will. Sonny still thinks that Will lives here. I'm surprised they haven't been able to get in touch with each other."

Victor smiled. "Well, I had a part in that. I fixed Sonny's phone so that Will's phone calls and messages went to my phone. Sonny's calls to Will do the same. They don't have a clue, and I think that Sonny and Will are starting to resent each other for it all."

Caroline smiled at the news. "At this point, I am counting on Gabi to bring Will back to the right side."

"I'm hoping my plan will help bring Sonny to his senses tonight as well." Victor smiled. "We should toast to Will and Sonny finally coming to their senses."

"That sounds nice." Caroline quickly poured two glasses and handed one to Victor. "To Will and Sonny coming to their senses."

Adrienne walked in and spotted Caroline and Victor toasting together. She quickly realized that they were cahoots and rushed past T and Josh, who sat at a nearby table. She called out to them in an intense whisper, "I cannot believe you two! The both of you have been working hard to keep Will and Sonny apart because they're both gay! What is wrong with you? How could you do this to your own family?"

Before Victor or Caroline could respond, Gabi walked into the pub and spotted T. She had texted him earlier wanting to know where he was and he told her. As soon as T saw Gabi, he stood up to greet her. "Hey babe."

Wiping the tears from her face, Gabi walked over, grabbed the closest drink, and threw the drink in T's face. "You're a jerk! Go screw yourself!" Gabi turned around and left.

Adrienne, Victor, and Caroline stood there wondering what they had just witnessed. T stood there drenched and confused as to why Gabi was so upset. He grabbed a napkin and wiped his face.

Sonny and Will made their way to the pier taking turns trying to call the other. They took a seat on the bench after Sonny tried to call Will. "It's not coming through. Let me try calling you." Will waited for Sonny to end his call, so he could dial Sonny's number.

After a while, Sonny realized Will's call was not going to come through on his end. "Yeah. It doesn't work for me either."

Will ended his call and put his phone on his lap. "I wonder what that's about." Will looked into Sonny's eyes. "I'm sorry I thought that you turned your back on me when I needed you most."

Sonny grabbed Will's arm and continued to look into Will's eyes. "I'm sorry I thought you wanted nothing to do with me. I almost gave up on trying to talk to you."

"I'm glad we know that it's our phones that hate us," Will joked. Will looked down at his phone when it made a sound. He saw that he received a text from Chad. In the text Chad asked if they could talk, but Will ignored it. After putting the phone in his pocket, he turned his attention back to Sonny. "It was Chad."

Sonny did not want to keep Will from Chad. "Do you need to go?"

"I live at the DiMera Mansion now, so he can wait until I get home tonight. Besides I'd rather make up with you." Will smiled at Sonny and noticed him smiling back at him. Will thought about how he had repressed all his feelings when he was with Chad because he could not act on what he wanted. With Sonny it was different. "Did I say make up? I meant make out." Will pulled Sonny into a kiss, surprising Sonny.

Caught off guard, Sonny pushed Will off for a second. "What about Chad?"

"Chad's not gay and never will be… so let's stop talking about Chad." Will pulled Sonny into another kiss. Sonny wrapped his hand around Will's head and pulled Will closer. Will really was a good kisser, and Sonny really did miss making out with someone.

Still crying, Gabi walked onto the pier from the Brady pub and spotted Will and Sonny making out. She threw her hand over her mouth and watched in horror. She was in complete shock.