Courtney hastily wiped the tears off her face and put on a feeble smile before entering the room. Carly was cleaning the room up, obviously trying to keep herself busy. When she heard the door close Carly looked up. Courtney hoped she would notice anything but the hope was smashed when she felt even more tears run silently down her cheek.
"Honey, what wrong?" Carly asked softly.
"I really don't know." Courtney said quietly and headed to the bathroom to wash her face off.
"No, no, no." Carly said and grabbed her wrist. "Whats wrong? I want to know."
"It's nothing, Carly, really." Courtney said, putting on a fake smile, Carly still didn't release her wrists.
"Courtney." Carly said, determination in her voice. "Tell me, now. You know I won't give up until you tell me the truth."
"Alright, Carly, alright." Courtney choked on her tears. "I-I appologized and Jason just hung up. I don't know what to do, Carly."
Carly watched as Courtney started sobbing and led her to a chair to sit down. It was obvious that it was harder for Courtney to say than think.
"It's okay." Carly said as she rubbed her best friends back, trying to calm her down. "I'm sure he didn't hang up. It's not like him. Maybe his phone went dead or somthing."
Courtney continued crying and when her sobs let up Carly went to get her water. She returned with a glass full of water and handed it to Courtney.
"Now tell me what ALL happened." Carly said as Courtney took a drink of the water.
"I appoligized, like I said." Courtney said, looking into the water." About everything, about betraying him and Sonny, about hitting him and knocking him out... and then I heard the dial tone. I don't know what to do to get them to stop hating me. So they can look at me like they know me. So I'm not a stranger anymore."
"Okay, okay. Wait a minute." Carly said, clearly confused. "When did you start thinking this?"
"I quess I always did." Courtney said, just above a wisper. "I just didn't know it."
There was silence in the room. Carly was happy, confused but happy, becuase she knew that Jason couldn't not forgive the woman he loves. She knew his phone had to of gone dead though, becuase Jason wouldn't of hung up on Courtney.
"Called Sonny?" Courtney suddenly asked, Carly nodded and started cleaning the room again. "How'd it go? What'd he say?"
"Oh, he was drunk." Carly scoffed. "He said things, you know, alchohol talking." Carly fell silent and stopped moving for a short while as if she was going to say something but continued busily cleaning.
"What did he say exactly?" Courtney questioned, she knew something went down and she wanted to know what.
"Does it matter? He was drunk and said stupid things." Carly shook her head.
"Sometimes when your drunk you say think that you really feel.. but never would say." Courtney said, taking a chance that what Sonny said was good.
Max opened the door and let Jason enter. He saw Sonny asleep on the couch, phone still in his hand and a empty bottle of scotch on the coffee table. The only reason he wasn't worried about the convorsation Sonny and Carly had was because he hadn't heard any yelling from the penthouse. Jason looked at the clock which read 9:45 p.m., he decided to let Sonny sleep although he did want to tell Sonny about Courtney's apoligy and ask for his advice.
He exited the penthouse quietly and ,after bidding Max a good night, entered his own penthouse. He quietly and quickly walked up the stairs and went to his bedroom, when he was walking to his bed his foot felt a sharp pang. He quickly brought his foot up and it was reveiled that he had stepped on his wedding ring that he had dropped when Courtney had called him. He picked it up and examed it, looking for any damages. When he found none he sat on the edge of his bed and looked at the ring, thinking of Courtney and all she had said. He let out a confused and frusterated sigh and got into bed, still holding on to the ring. He slipped it on his finger and looked at the ring on his finger, flashbacks of his wedding day entering his mind. He fell asleep, ring still on his finger and images of his wedding day still lingering around his mind.
Sonny was terrified, sweat dripping off his face. It was pitch black, he couldn't see but he felt like he was in a small box. He franticly kicked and hit around, everytime he made contact with a cold material. Each time his fists or foot banged against the wall it inched smaller, he eventually backed into a corner and dropped to the floor, knees against his chest and hand covering his head. He clamped his eyes, trying to make the darkness seem normal. He slowly woke up becuase of someone softly shaking him, he looked into the eyes of his wife who was laying next to him.
"Baby, you were yelling." said a concered Carly.
"God, Carly." Sonny said shakily. "The walls they-they were-"
"It's okay, baby, its okay. Come here." Carly said softly as she took Sonny into her arms. "Don't worry, baby, I'm here. I'm here."
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Carly jolted awake, looking around to see that she wasn't in the penthouse bedroom comforting Sonny, but still on the yacht. She rubbed her temples and looked over to a restless Courtney who had tears streaming down her face. Carly sighed and reached for her cellphone that Faith gave her and slowly dialed Sonny's number. After only one ring she heard the phone pick up.
"Hello?" Sonny said shakily.
"Sonny?" Carly said, noticing the fear in Sonny's voice. "What happened? Are you okay?"
There was a short silence but Sonny finally answered.
"I had a-a nightmare, I quess." Sonny said, still shakey. "I-I was in a closet or something, everytime I tried to get out it would get smaller. Then-then you woke me up, told me everthing was okay. Then I-I actually woke up and you called."
Carly sighed, she somehow knew that that Sonny had a dream like that so she wasn't suprised. She wasn't frusterated or happy either, to be truthful she didn't know how she felt.
"Carly, I'm sorry that I got drunk." Sonny said, sincerly. "I didn't mean to drink that much. I didn't relize I did."
"You didn't mean what you told me either, right?" Carly asked quietly, hoping he would tell her he didn't mean it. She heard Sonny sigh but he didn't answer. "Right, Sonny? You were just saying unrational things becuase you were drunk. You don't really feel that way, do you?"
"What do you want me to say, Carly?" Sonny snapped, getting frusterated mainly because his gigantic headache. "I don't say things I don't mean, even when I am drunk."
There was a silence as Sonny popped an asprin in his mouth and washed it down with some water.
"If there is one thing I've relized during all this is how much you mean to me." Sonny said softly after another few seconds of silence. "Carly, I know that you don't like me anymore but-"
"Sonny, you know thats not true." Carly cut in.
"Don't interupt, Carly." Sonny said. "We've gotten through so many things before but we still end up loving each other again at the end. I love you, Carly, I still do even after you betrayed me with my enemy. It's all still there, it won't go away and it's getting unbearable. So I'm doing something I hope I don't regret."
"Sonny, just don't-" Carly said.
"Carly, I putting my heart out there. All for you, you have a choice to take it or not." Sonny said firmly.
"You don't respect me, Sonny." Carly said, after a few seconds. "I can't stand it. I need a man that gives me respect, especially after all the years of being treated like a possession that you own."
"Just, give me one more chance." Sonny pleaded. "If I fail this time you can, you know, go back to Alcazar and I won't even be upset about it becuase I'd know I brought it upon myself."
"What happened, Sonny?" Carly asked after a short silence. "I was usually the one begging you to forgive me, to give me another chance. What happened that now its the other way around?"
"I'm missing us, Carly. I'm missing telling you that I love you and you telling me that you love me." Sonny said. "When you disappeared and for those few hours that I though something happened to you.. I just- its terrifing, Carly."
"But now you know I'm okay now, Sonny." Carly said.
"Yes, I do but that doesn't change how scared I was." Sonny said. "If something happens to either of us, I don't want you going thinking that I didn't love you or me thinking you didn't love me."
"What about Sam, Sonny?" Carly asked, feeling tears coming.
"Sam.. she was your replacement but she can't live up to you. No one can, no one ever will. Sam.. she doesn't matter." Sonny growled. "I love you, Carly. Thats what matters."
"I love you too, Sonny." Carly said after a few seconds of silence, tears welling in her eyes.
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(A/N) So much CarSon, so little time! Thats why I've decided to from 20 minutes a week for the cellphones to 90 minutes, LMAO. I actually am pretty content with the "I love you"s. I didn't feel like it was too rushed in the story so I'm actually satisfied, I think Sonny said some things he wouldn't of in the show (it'd be differant if I owned the show, though! LMAO) but I quess its okay. Please review! BTW: Thankyou all so much for all the reviews! I really appriciate them!