Chapter 7
Sara could hear the water running in the bathroom, but she did not want to get up just yet. She knew it was daylight, but Lorenzo had obviously closed the blinds, and that was fine with her. Sara snuggled up against Lorenzo's pillow, loving the scent of his cologne left on the pillow. "Hmmmm . . ." she sighed with a contented smile as she began to drift back to sleep.
Lorenzo came out of the bathroom and looked at Sara lying on the bed. He quietly walked over to the bed and sat beside her, gently trailing a finger down her back.
A smile came to Sara's face and she shivered as his finger traced lazy circles on her back. "What?" she asked, putting her face back in the pillow.
"Time to get up," Lorenzo whispered as he leaned in closer to her ear, brushing her hair away from her face and smiling as she continued to hide her face. "I have a surprise for you."
"What is it?" she whispered, moving her head slowly to look at him, noticing that he did not have any clothes on. Raising am eyebrow, she smiled. "Is that my surprise?"
Lorenzo smiled. "Part of it," he said. "But you have to get out of bed to see the rest." He got up off the bed and walked over to the bathroom door.
Sara watched him, soaking in the lean, hard muscles of his body as he moved. With a sigh, and then a groan, Sara got out of bed, taking the bed sheet with her as she walked toward him.
Lorenzo took her hand and guided her into the bathroom. The lights were off and the shades drawn. There were candles on every surface and the large Jacuzzi style tub was filled with frothy, scented bubbles and surrounded by more candles. "What do you think?" he asked. "I thought you would like this better than a quick shower."
"Lorenzo," she smiled as she looked at the candles surrounding the bathroom. "It's beautiful." Turning to him, Sara reached up to kiss him.
Lorenzo pulled her into his arms and kissed her deeply as he pulled the sheet still wrapped around her body away and lifted her into his arms and carried her to the tub. He gently settled her into the warm water and climbed in with her, never once breaking the kiss. He then moved so she was sitting with her back resting against his chest. "I wish we could stay like this always," he said quietly, relaxing in the warm water.
"Mmm, me too," Sara whispered as she leaned her head against his neck.
Alex awoke early the next morning and looked over to see Jason still sleeping. She smiled and climbed carefully out of the bed, not wanting to wake him. She grabbed her robe and pulled it on as she headed into the kitchen to make a fresh pot of coffee. As she waited for the coffee to be ready, Alex thought about the night before. Jason had been great, but she had no idea what was going to happen now. Alex wasn't sure how Jason was going to feel about all of this when he woke up. Once the coffee was ready, Alex poured herself a cup and went into the living room. She had plenty of time before she was supposed to meet with her father, so she decided to take her time in getting ready.
Jason stirred and turned over, realizing that Alex was no longer beside him. Jason got up, pulled on his jeans and walked out into the living room where he saw Alex sitting on the couch. "Morning," he said as he leaned over the back of the couch and kissed her on the cheek.
Alex looked up at him and smiled. So far so good, she thought to herself. He didn't seem to be rushing to leave. "Morning," she said. "There's a fresh pot of coffee in the kitchen if you want." She watched him walk into the kitchen and then came back with a cup and sat beside her on the couch.
After taking a sip of his coffee, Jason set it down. "How's the hangover?" he asked with a slight smile.
"Fine," said Alex, remembering the two double shots of tequila from last night and all the events leading up until now. Alex felt her cheeks redden as she also remembered how forward she had been with him. "What happens now?" she asked bluntly, patience had never been one of her virtues.
"Well, it is a little too late to ask you out on a date, but . . . I would like to take you out for dinner some night," he said, knowing that he should not be surprised at her bluntness.
Alex smiled. "I would love that . . . just not Jake's," she said with a laugh. Then another question popped into her head and it was out of her mouth before she could stop herself. "Jason, doesn't it bother you?"
"Bother me?" he asked, puzzled as to what Alex was talking about. Although he had been unsure of his real feelings for her, he knew now that he wanted to continue to be with her and would do anything to make that happen.
"Well, you and my father don't exactly get along, you had a fight with your boss over me, and I am ten years younger than you. Take your pick," she said, not sure why she was pushing this, but she wanted to know what he was feeling and thinking.
Jason sighed as he looked at her, he could see the questions and doubt in her eyes. "The age thing is something to get used to. Sonny and I will be fine. And as for Alcazar . . ." he turned her face to look right at him. "I'll deal with him." Jason then leaned in and kissed her gently. The gentle kiss then became more deep and passionate.
Alex wrapped her arms around Jason's neck, returning the kiss passionately, not even hearing the door open behind them.
"What the hell is going on here!" asked Lorenzo as he stepped into the living room ahead of Sara.
Sara's eyes opened wide as she saw Jason and Alex break apart. "Oh My God," she said as she tried to hide a smile. She had a feeling she knew exactly what was going on as Alex was clad only in her robe and Jason only had on a pair of jeans, which left his hard chest and six-pack abs visible.
"Dad! Sara! Hi!" Alex exclaimed in surprise as she pulled away from Jason and jumped off the couch, aware that she was wearing her pale blue silk robe – with nothing underneath – and Jason was sitting shirtless and in jeans on the couch. "I thought I was going to meet you at your place," she said, trying to act like nothing was going on.
Jason tried to hide a slight smile as Alex flustered around, but that smile faded when he looked into Alcazar's cold, hard eyes. Jason stood up and put his hand on Alex's shoulder to calm and support her.
"I came to drop Sara off. What the hell are you doing here Morgan?" asked Alcazar, hating the man more and more at that moment.
"Lorenzo, stop . . ." Sara was going to say more, but the look he gave her made her stop herself. He was angry and she could see it in his eyes. Sighing, she sat in the closet chair, deciding to wait the two men out and be there for Alex, even if Lorenzo got mad at her.
Jason stepped in front of Alex, wanting to protect her from her father's anger, aware that he was only wearing jeans. "Alex wasn't feeling well last night and asked me to stay with her," he said, leaving out the fact that the reason she hadn't been feeling well was because she had been drunk.
"And why would she ask you, of all people, to stay with her? Again, why were you here in the first place?" Lorenzo asked, not liking the implications of why they were together in the first place.
Alex knew what her father was thinking and it did not look good. Alex turned to Jason. "Maybe you should go. I'll call you later," she said, pleading with her eyes for him to leave without further problems.
"Yes, Jason, maybe you should go. And believe me, Alexandria will not be calling you," said Alcazar taking a step toward Jason.
Not wanting this to get any worse, Sara jumped up from her seat and planted herself in between the two men. "Maybe you should both leave," she said firmly, making sure they could both see that she was serious.
Alex was grateful to Sara as Jason and her father continued to glare at each other. She watched as Jason broke the stare and walked into her bedroom – Alex made sure to avert her gaze from her father's at that moment – and came out fully dressed. He grabbed his jacket, and with a last look at her, he left the room. Alex had no idea what was going through his head at that moment and hoped that this did not ruin whatever it was that was starting between them.
Sara saw how uncomfortable Alex was as Lorenzo continued to stand there, probably waiting for his daughter to explain what happened. "Lorenzo, please trust me. I need to talk to Alex. You can come back in an hour or two and speak to her yourself."
Lorenzo looked from Sara to his daughter. He knew he wasn't going to win this one, so he nodded. "Alright, but I will be back here this afternoon. We are going to need to talk about this," he said, looking right at Alex. He gently kissed Sara on the cheek and left.
As soon as the door shut, Sara counted to ten before she turned to Alex. "So, was he good in bed?" she asked, a smile coming to her face.
Alex stared at her friend a moment. "Ummm . . ." she looked down and then sat on the couch. "Yeah, I guess . . . I don't really have anything to compare him to." She was still reeling from her father finding her and Jason, so she was not even paying attention to what she was saying. Luckily they had only been kissing.
"You were drunk last night, weren't you? That's why you weren't feeling well," said Sara, folding her arms across her chest. "Allie, where did you go last night?"
"A bar called Jake's," Alex said. "Jason was there and tried to stop the bartender from serving me, and I got angry with him. He left and I had some tequila. Jason was waiting outside and brought me here," she finished, knowing the underage drinking lecture was going to come soon.
"And the two of you decided to jump into bed together?" Sara asked, her eyes running down Alex's body. "Of course, after a cup of water and a cup of coffee."
"Stop it!" Alex said, hating it when Sara went into her mother mode. "I was not drunk, I was tipsy. And we did not exactly plan on this happening. We kissed . . . and I . . . I asked him to . . . to make love to me," she finished, not looking at Sara. Alex's cheeks reddened again as she remembered that, hoping that he would not think she was a child and walk away from her.
"Apparently, you're glowing," said Sara, looking at her friend and seeing how happy she was for the first time in a long time.
"I could say the same about you," Alex said. "I don't remember you being here all night and then walking in the door with my father this morning. Have a good night?" she asked with a mischievous glint in her eyes.
"After the fight with Sonny, I couldn't come back here. I didn't want to chance Sonny coming over here, so I went to Lorenzo's . . . where I thought you would be," Sara said, looking over at Alex.
"You had a fight with Sonny? He must have had a busy night because Jason said he had a fight with him last night too, which is why he was at the bar when I got there."
Sara nodded her head and then jumped when her cell phone began to ring. "Hello. John? Hi. Oh no . . . I'll be in Washington in two hours." Sara hung up and jumped to her feet, grabbing her jacket. "We have to go home."
Alex watched Sara's actions in confusion. "What's wrong?" Alex did not want to leave now, not after what had happened with her and Jason.
"Adam's missing, he ran away from the school," Sara answered as she grabbed her jacket, purse and keys.
"Ran away? When? How long has he been missing?" Alex asked as she ran to get dressed. Throwing on a pair of jeans and a t-shirt, Alex was frantic. Adam was like a little brother to her and she didn't want anything bad to happen to him.
"John said he went missing last night. He said that it looked like Adam might have just got up and walked off the campus. They have people looking for him." Sara said as Alex came running out of her bedroom and then headed to the door and flung it open, letting out a scream when she saw Sonny on the other side. "Damn it . . . you scared the hell out of me!" she exclaimed.
Sonny took in the look in her eyes and knew something was wrong. "What's going on?" he asked. Then he saw Alexandria come into the room, and felt his blood boil. Jason had just gotten back to his penthouse and when Sonny had questioned him as to where he had been all night, all he got was a slammed door in his face. He knew exactly where he had been and who with.
"Don't even think about it Sonny. We don't have time for this. One of our students went missing from the school," Sara said as she pushed past Sonny with Alex right on her heels.
"Missing? Maybe I can help," Sonny offered, seeing the fear in his sister's eyes, a fear he had just gone through when his own children had gone missing. Although Sonny had come to talk to Sara about her involvement with Alcazar and his daughter, he knew that now was not the time.
"Alright," said Sara as she pulled a picture out of her purse. "His name is Adam and he is six-years-old . . . and he's deaf. Do you know Sign Language?"
Sonny looked up at her. "Sign Language?" he asked as he shook his head no. "But I can get some men together and keep an eye out for him." Sonny looked down at the picture of a little boy with dark hair and his two front teeth missing. "How long has he been missing?"
"Since last night . . . it seems that he just got up and walked out of the school and off the campus. Sonny, if you find him, call me on my cell phone immediately. Alex and I are heading back to Washington to see if we can track him down," Sara said as she took Alex by the hand and led her toward the car and got in.
Sonny looked at the picture again and then pulled out his phone. "Jason. Call Stan and meet me at the Metro-Court," he said and then hung up, not giving Jason a chance to say anything.
"Sara, what if he's hurt?" Alex asked in a small voice as they drove out of Port Charles and headed toward Washington. It was going to be a long drive and Alex was hoping he was just hiding somewhere on the grounds and would be found by the time they got there.
"We can't think like that Allie, we just can't. He'll be okay, I know he'll be okay," Sara said, tears flowing down her face. Please God, let him be okay, she thought.
Alex nodded her head, drawing strength from that. Why did we leave him? So I could confront my father, that sure is working out great, she thought to herself. "This is all my fault," she whispered.
"No Alex, it's mine. I told him we would be back the next day," she said.
"But I'm the one that convinced you to go to Port Charles in the first place. If we never left, Adam would be fine," Alex said and then heard Sara's cell phone ring.
Picking the phone up, Sara it the send button. "Hello? Sonny, have you found anything?"
"Yeah, he's here in Port Charles at the Metro-Court. Jason found him wandering around," Sonny answered as he looked over at Jason with the little boy.
"We're on our way!" Sara exclaimed as she hung up the phone and swung the car into a u-turn, making both she and Alex sick before flooring the car back toward Port Charles. An hour later they were back at the Metro-Court, the guard telling them that Adam had been taken back to Sonny's. Nodding, Sara and Alex ran back to the car and drove over to Sonny's. When they reached the penthouse floor, Sara and Alex rushed past the guard and into Sonny's penthouse. "Adam!" she breathed out when she saw Sonny, Jason and Adam on the couch. Carly and the children were also there. Adam turned when Jason tapped him on the shoulder and pointed toward Sara and Alex. He jumped off of Sonny's lap and ran right over to them. Taking him in her arms, Sara hugged him tightly.
Alex was so glad that he was safe and she quickly looked him over to make sure he had suffered no injuries and was amazed at how calm he was. Once Sara put him down, Alex hugged him and then sat on the floor in front of him and began to sign, talking out loud so that everyone else could hear. "How did you get here?" she asked him.
Jason watched in amazement as Alex talked with the little boy.
Crouching down beside them, Sara's eyes widened as Adam began his tale of how he had snuck out of the school and took a bus all the way to Port Charles, and had even paid the driver from his allowance that he had been saving up. "Adam!" she scolded as she signed to him. Adam looked down at the sharpness of her signing, and Sara immediately regretted how abrupt she had been. Raising his face to hers, Sara smiled at him. "I love you so much Adam, and it scared us when we found out you were missing," she said and signed.
Adam signed that he was sorry. He looked at Sara and then Alex, then the other people in the room and back to Alex again, using puppy dog eyes that he knew always got to her. Alex laughed and rolled her eyes as she watched Alex's hands and facial expressions. "Yes, we will feed you and stop yelling, but don't you ever do this again or I will ring your neck," she signed back.
"Alright, I have to call John and let him know that we found Adam," said Sara. She looked at Alex. "Stay with him a moment while I make the call." Sara got up, nodded to Sonny and Jason and then walked into the kitchen with them behind her. "Thank you so much . . . both of you. You have no idea how it means to me that you were there and found him. He could have been sick or worse."
"I'm glad we were able to help," Sonny said, knowing what Sara had been going through and seeing how much she cared about the little boy. "We actually didn't have to do too much though; he kind of just walked up to Jason and started signing at him. I had told Jason what you told me about him not being able to hear, so he knew this was the kid you were looking for."
Sara couldn't help it as she walked up to Sonny and hugged him, and then Jason was next, which obviously made him uncomfortable. "We've got to get him something to eat. Is there a Chinese place near here?"
"You are not feeding that kid Chinese food," Sonny shook his head. "I will cook something for all of us." He walked away muttering something about wishing the people in his life would eat healthy for once.
"He likes Chinese," Sara whispered to Jason so that Sonny would not hear as he rummaged through the fridge and started pulling out vegetables and the makings of a salad.
Jason held up his hands. "Get the kid to convince him, there's nothing any of us could do to change his mind."
"I guess I'm going to have to get the Chinese when Allie and I take him home. We're going to have to go with him . . . probably for good."
"For good?" Jason asked, his eyes searching out Alex and finding her sitting with Adam, a bright smile on her face. "I thought you came here to find your family and get to know them?" he added. He knew that if Sara left, Alex would too.
"Sonny wants me to stay . . . Lorenzo wants me to stay, but Adam ran off. He'll do it again," Sara said with a sigh.
"Does he have any family?" Jason asked as an idea started to form in his mind. At this point, he would do anything to keep Alex from leaving.
"No, they died a couple of months ago in a car accident."
Jason nodded his head, thinking that maybe his plan might be reasonable to her. "Have you ever thought about adopting him?" he asked. "I could see how much you love Adam."
"I have . . . quite a few doctors have told me that I cannot have children so, it would be natural to adopt," Sara said, and then realized that she had said too much. "Please, don't tell Sonny about my not being able to have children . . . or Alex."
Jason nodded his head in promise. "I won't say anything. But it seems as if you have thought about this before."
Sara nodded. "Jason," she took his arms and led him out into the hallway. "All the judge has to do is sign the papers and Adam is mine." Just then her phone rang and Sara saw that it was John. She had almost forgotten about calling him. "John, he was here in Port Charles and we have him. What? He did? Thank you so much John!" Sara hung up the phone and looked at Jason with a wide smile on her face. "John convinced the judge to push up the paperwork in light of what happened and Adam is now mine."
"Congratulations," said Jason. Just then they heard Sonny calling that lunch was ready. "We should head in before he comes looking for us."
"Oh, and Jason," said Sara as she stopped him from going into the apartment. "I love Alex like she was my own sister. Don't hurt her."
Jason looked down at Sara in surprise. "I don't intend to," he said seriously as he opened the door for her. They walked in and Jason went right to Alex before she could enter the kitchen. He grabbed her hand and pulled out into the hall and into the stairwell. "We need to talk," he said.
"Okay. What's going on?"
"I don't care what Sonny or your father says . . . I want to be with you," he said.
Alex looked up at him. "I want to be with you too Jason," she said, rising on her toes to kiss him.