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Courtney knocked softly on the door of Sonny and Carly's penthouse. She was fidgeting with shame that she had come to vent on Carly after all she had been through in the past few days. But honestly who else could she go to, no one else could really relate to her feelings and if she didn't talk to someone soon she was going to explode.
Carly opened the door and yelled " Oh I'm so glad your here, I have missed having you to talk to soo much you wouldn't even believe it!! Come in come in"
Carly grabbed Courtney's arm and hauled her happily into the PH. She was so overjoyed to see her best girl friend that she over looked the sad gaze lingering in her crystal blue eyes.
"So talk, something good I am in desperate need of girl talk."
"Where is Sonny?" Courtney asked delaying her real reason for coming, she figured if she chickened out she could just talk about other things.
"At the store with Michael, isn't that great! He's stocking up on a week's worth of junk food for me. That was his deal, I can eat whatever the hell I want for one week and then back to his choice of my foods, well that what he thinks." She said with a giggle.
" Yah it's awesome."
"Yes I think so, but I also think there is something more important than my diet that
you wanted to talk about." Carly said catching on to the distance in her friend's unusually dull eyes.
"How do you do that? How do you ask me what's wrong when you just came back from hell? How do y-"
"So the life style is getting to you isn't it?"
"And how do you know what I'm thinking even before I say it?"
"What happened I thought you were getting along fine, I though you were adjusted."
"So did I and then... I don't know what it is I just feel so stressed and trapped recently and I can't put my finger on the reason, which just makes me even more irritated. And then when Jason is with me it's ok you know? He makes things better just by being there, but he can't always be there. He has work at strange and long hours leaving me alone and I mean what I wouldn't give to have a 9 to 5 kinda thing. Waking up in the same position we fell asleep, not cold and alone. But I can't ask for that, I agreed when this started I was up for it and I understood what I was getting into. I can't ask for more time with the one thing that makes this worth doing, and then this morning I got kind of upset because he forgot to say "I love you" after he canceled our lunch date and-"
"Oh honey I know that hurt, but he was probably just distracted."
"I know I think I got even more upset that I even got upset in the first place.."
Sonny walked in just then with Michael and brown grocery bags in tow.
"Aunt Courtney guess what? I'm going to make mommy pizza tonight."
Carly's eyes lit up at the though of pizza and of her son making it for her.
"And we may even have ice cream for dessert" Sonny said with a smile
"There is no maybe involved we are having it" Carly laughed as she got up to hug her husband. Courtney got up to go but before she could leave Carly grabbed her arm and whispered in her ear,
"Talk to Jason, it's the only way things will get fixed and he loves you, he'll do anything to make you happy."
Courtney smiled and hugged Carly, Michael and her big brother before she left to walk across the hall to her own, probably empty penthouse.
At that same time Carly rested her head on Sonny's shoulder so happy be held by the man she thought she might never see again. "I love you too," Sonny said reading her mind. Even as a clatter came from the direction of the kitchen and a mildly frightened looking Michael peaked around the corner Carly smiled. Sonny picked up his son and hugged him, before sweeping him off to the kitchen to clean up whatever mess had been made and finish making mommy pizza. As that delicious smell began to fill the room Carly thought to herself "This is as close to perfect as it gets" and she walked into the kitchen to be with her boys.
