Will and Sonny arrived back at the loft. They find Jeremy and Glen sitting on the bed facing each other playing cards. Jeremy gets up and jokingly hits Will on the back of the head. "Thanks for the call to let us know everything was okay, you butthead" he says. " Ouch! Will utters as he rubs his head, sorry it slipped my mind. Besides for all you know I could have found him just before I called you." Will says in his defense as he takes a seat. "But you didn't did you" Glen piped in. "Et tu Glen" Will says looking over at him. "Well I'm just saying" Glen says raising his shoulders, as if to say, I don't know why I said that. Sonny walks around the bed and sits on the side behind Jeremy.

"So I gather things didn't go well with mommie dearest? Jeremy says. Glen punches Jeremy's arm. Jeremy that wasn't very nice. "What?" Jeremy says back to Glen, truly confused as to why what he said that was wrong. Glen looked at him in disbelief. "Duh, wire hangers" Glen whisper. "Oh right, shit, Jeremy says turning around slighting to look at Sonny, I am sorry dude I didn't mean it like that." Sonny smiles, "I know what you meant, don't worry about it" he says. "As for your question, no it didn't go well. I came down on her pretty hard, not so hard that I will apologizes but hard. "Seriously guys I don't know what to think about how she feels.

She keeps throwing "I am doing this to protect you" crap at me, and I don't know what she really means by that." "Well, Will jumps in, for starters she is protecting you from me, and my bad family, and my bad influence. Will continues, I don't know Sonny, maybe she really does, in her heart, think that I turned you gay." "Will that's ridiculous, Glen says, she is grown woman, she couldn't possibly believe that in this day and age. no offense Sonny." "None taken" Sonny says, but he's right Will, there is no way she thinks that. In fact, I confronted her about the whole protecting me shit, and boiled it down to her using, protecting me, as a euphemism for me not being gay." "So what are you going to do?" Jeremy asked. "Well, Will came up with an idea that we are going to try, and I stress the word, try, he says looking at Will, and see how that goes" Sonny says. "What is it?" Jeremy asks. "Enough of this, crap, Sonny says as he quickly jumps up, so he doesn't have to explain it to Jeremy, who will tell him it sucks, and he just doesn't want to hear that right now.

"It's your last night here so we should at least go out to dinner" he says. Jeremy let's the question go unanswered. "So what are we up for? Sonny asks. "Well I know it won't be fancy since none of has much money" Will says with a laugh. "Got that right" Sonny says. "Why don't we just order from the pub, Will suggest, and eat it here in the apartment, maybe my grandma will give us a five finger discount" Will says. "Sounds good to me" says Jeremy. "Me to" Glen occurs. "Cool, Will says as he stands up, I will go down and place the order." "I'll go with you" Glen offers as he walk over to Will and they leave.

"Okay, Jeremy starts, what's this plan Will has that you don't seem too fond of, or do you just not want to talk about it." "Well, Sonny says looking at Jeremy, I will sum it up in one sentence." "We are suppose to pretend we aren't seeing each other whenever my mother is around." "Well that's just stupid" Jeremy says, then realizes how that sounded. "I'm sorry Sonny I seem to have my foot surgically sewn into my mouth today, I didn't mean that they way it sounded." "I get it, but it is a good thing you apologized or we would have hit the mat on that one" Sonny says.

Sonny proceeds to explain the reasoning behind Will's thinking. "Well the part about not discussing him with your mom, and letting what she says roll off your back, that is sound advice." "But, and this will sound silly or gushy or something stupid like that, but Will makes you happy, and not being able to share that with someone, like your family is going to suck. What, are you suppose to turn it off once you are in the house?" Jeremy asks. "Listen to you, Mr Sentimental, Sonny says poking Jeremy and laughing. "Seriously Sonny, Jeremy says, let's say you and Will have a great day, you really enjoyed yourself and you come home, and you can't tell anyone, or share it, I mean it Sonny, that is going to be hard and depressing." Sonny hadn't thought of that. He realizes Jeremy is right. He is going to have to forcefully suppress his feeling, about a lot of things. If his mom badmouths Will, or he has a funny story to tell about he and Will, he will have to hold it in. He thinks about how many times a day he thinks about him, or says his name, can he turn that off every time he walks in his own house. He realizes he may not have thought this plan through very well.

"Look Sonny, not to bring up horrors from the past, but do you remember what brought us over here in the first place, you holding back, keeping everything bottled up inside. Sure this is different in that they are happy thoughts, things you want to think about, but the same rule applies, you can't be yourself, you can't express yourself, you have to keep secrets, again, Jeremy stresses the again. Can you really do that all over again?" Sonny falls back on the bed. "What am I doing to myself, Jeremy?" Sonny asks. "Sonny I am really sorry to say this, and you can get as mad as you want, but you know it is true. You aren't doing a thing to yourself, your mother is doing this to you, the whole thing."

Before they even hit the bottom step to the pub Glen fires his first question. "So, how is he, really?" he asks. "I don't know, we never even talked about what happen at the house, and that is my fault." Will admits. "So then what happen, Glen asks. He immediately sees Will turn red. "Okay besides that" Glen says. "Well we, or I should say I, talked about all the pressure he is under, and how it wasn't fair to him to have to go through all of it, so I made a proposal." Will explained it to Glen whose immediate response was, "well that's just stupid." "Well, thank you for the vote of confidence" Will says truly angry. "I'm sorry Will, really I am, that was a blunt way of putting it and that was wrong, but the sentiment is right." "You are asking a lot of him. You expect him to completely block out a major part of his life, the happiest part, whenever he is home, is that fair to him?" Will still holding his anger at Glen's statement, walks up to the counter. "Hey grandma" Will says. "Hay is for horses young man" she responds. "I'm sorry that was rude, hello grandma." "That's better, now what can I do for you?" Caroline says. "Well I have a deal to offer you" Will starts. "Oh boy this should be a good one" Caroline says. "Let me guess you have some oceanfront property in South Dakota" she jokes. Will smiles, "No I sold that to grandpa Roman, last week" Will joust back. "But seriously, here is the scoop. It's Glen and Jeremy's last night here and we wanted to take them out to dinner but since we can barely rub two nickels together, I thought that if I painted the front of the pub, like you have been saying you want to get done, you could maybe scrounge us up some burgers and stuff." Will says waiting for the axe to drop. "Deal" Caroline says. "Really?" Will says a bit surprised she took to the idea so fast. "I been wanting that painted since forever, so your on, and I will even throw in dessert." she says. "Awesome, thanks grandma, I really appreciate it." Will says.

Glen looks at Will who he can tell is still mad about his comment. Reaching for his arm Glen says, "I am sorry Will, I shouldn't have said anything, this is between you and Sonny, I had no right to pass judgement on what you decide." Will turns, "no you're right Glen, I didn't look at it that way, I am just mad that it had to be pointed out to me. I feel so fucking selfish right now." "Will you're not selfish, you were doing what you thought would be easier on Sonny, but as close as you two are, right now I don't think any of us can understand what Sonny is dealing with. "I just think that to put an additional burden on him at this time is not a good thing." Glen says. "You're right, I will talk to him about it tonight" Will responds.