"So, did you meet Sonny at an event or something?" Lori asks her boyfriend, then sips her wine.

Jason has his hand on her knee and he replies while shaking his head "no, actually" Lori tilts her head with a smile as she waits for him to explain "Addison and I actually dated back in college."

"You two dated?" She then eyes me, then him, then me again and then back to him. Her posture straightens as she looks between us.

I quickly spit out "it was a long time ago Lori, we were only Freshman in college then."

She nods taking it in "but you must've still been friendly if you know who Sonny is. I mean, unless he went to college with you as well?" She eyes Sonny.

He shakes his head "No, I've only known Addison for almost a year now."

"I can't believe it's almost a year." I smile at him. I never try to think about it. Although it's the first time we met, it was also the same night as my rape. I'm nervous for that upcoming anniversary.

But Lori pulls my attention back to the awkward situation at hand "then how do you all know each other?"

Jason and Sonny both look to me, letting me be the one to come up with what I want to say to my boss. I first say to her "well, it's a long story but uhm, you remember that girls night when they asked me how Sonny and I met and you changed the subject, realizing I was uncomfortable."

She nods "Yeah, I figured it had something to do with that life changing event you mentioned when I was interviewing you for your position. I think I've put two and two together now." She nods towards Sonny, knowing that he's a detective for Special victims "you don't have to get into that."

I exhale and grin towards her, thanking her for saying that "thanks, but I kind of do. So, yes, I was raped and Sonny was the detective who took my statement but Jason fits into this because it was actually his half-brother who raped me."

She squints, not having a clue that he had a half brother. She looks at him and looks upset "why didn't you tell me you had a brother?"

"First, half-brother. And I never told you because I only found out this year after it happened and he was a rapist and a murderer."

She shakes her head "but your father is the Governor? How do people not know about this, this is insane."

Sonny chimes in "like she said, it's a long story."

Lori shakes her head "I uhh- well yeah, I guess it is. Alright well, this just turned into something pretty awkward. I'm sorry" she stands "I'll be back in just a minute."

Sonny, Jason and I all look at one another with no words. Eventually, Jason says "so I see a ring on your finger, did you two get engaged?" He smiles.

I smile when I turn to look at Sonny as he answers "we are!"

"Well congratulations, that's amazing!" Jason stands so he can give us both a hug.

We both thank him as he hugs us and then we all sit back down "should you go check on her?" I ask Jason, a bit nervous she hasn't returned. I look over my shoulder to see if she's on her way back yet.

But before he could answer, Lori comes around the corner "sorry, I needed to refresh my drink. Alright, so just to clarify here" She sits back down next to Jason "Addison and Jason dated in college. Fast forward and Jason's half-brother who he never knew existed raped Addison and that is how Addison got to meet Sonny?"

I go to say something back but Jason beats me to it "I mean, there's for sure a hell of a lot more involved but we shouldn't really get into that right now."

"Well, why not? I'm still very confused." She returns.

Again, before I can say something, Jason speaks "because talking about it now would be dredging it all up again for Addison and I don't think we should be doing that." His voice is firm, and I'm grateful for him for thinking of me "She seems to be in a really good place and all that stuff is not good dinner conversation."

Lori's eyes goes wide with realization as he says all this and she whips her head over to look at me "Oh my God, I am so sorry Addison! I wasn't even thinking. I am a terrible, terrible person." Her hand rests on top of her mouth.

"It's alright." I say with a small shrug.

She shakes her head "no, really. I am so sorry, I didn't even think about it that way. Wow, I feel so bad." Her hand goes to her heart "please forgive me? Oh my God, this is terrible."

I assure her "hey, it's alright. You know now how we all know each other and about my past and that's it, we're fine. I promise, I'm okay."

She gives me a thankful smile but also shakes her head "you are the nicest person, again, I am so sorry."

"It's fine" I promise "why don't we change the subject and you guys can tell us how you two met?" I put my hand into Sonny's and he wraps his fingers around it.

I worry for a second that the name Charles will come up, but Lori bows her head and says "a dating website. I know, totally cliche" She then adds on.

"Not at all" Sonny adds "its one of the easiest ways to date now a days."

"I was just looking for some fun and hooks ups, you know after everything that happened. But Lori changed all of that. She really gets me." Jason says, swooning as he looks at her.

I see then, how much he truly adores her and how happy Lori is. I say to them "that's wonderful. I'm really happy for you Jason." He smiles at me "you too, Lori."

The man who was making dinner comes out and tells us dinner is ready. We all go into the lovely dining room. The four of us have enjoyable conversations, and surprisingly all the awkward tension I was feeling was let go sometime during dinner.

After dessert, we are all laughing at a story Lori told and when we begin to come down from the laughter, Jason asks "can I get anyone another drink?"

"I'll take one more" I say, looking at my empty class.

He nods, stands and takes my glass "Sonny, will you give me a hand?"

I give Sonny a glare who actually gives one back this time but he agrees and gets up to help him with the drinks. Lori then says to me "I hope you know that everything you said here tonight will not leave this apartment. I am so sorry I made you come out and tell me what happened that way."

"Well, thank you. But it's fine, really. I haven't talked about it much, besides with Sonny because of all the pitiful looks I know people would give me. But it feels good to tell people about it and then to assure them I'm okay. Because I am." I explain.

"You're more then okay." She smiles "I'm so lucky to have you on my team."

"Thanks" I return "I'm lucky to be there. And I must say, I'm really happy for you guys. Jason seems so happy, and he deserves that, as do you."

"He does seem happy, doesn't he?" She gushes, looking through the open door frame to see if he comes back. She leans closer to the table signaling she's going to tell me something quieter so I lean in as well. She says "one of the reasons I wanted you two over was because you're engaged and so in love and I was hoping Jason sees all that he'd get the idea to propose."

Before I can respond, the two men then come back to the room with all our drinks and we leave and go back to the living room to catch up and finish our evening. When we leave, they both walk us to the door. "Although it started off weird, tonight was a great evening. I am so thrilled for you two!" Jason says as he opens the door for us.

"Thank you Jason, that means a lot to me." I tell him, actually meaning it. Before the rape, Jason was an important person to me. We had a past. And tonight made it seem like we may be able to have a future friendship. I give him a hug as Lori and Sonny hug as well.

We switch "thank you for having us over. You have a lovely home and we had a great time." I tell her.

"Thank you for coming, you're a great friend Addison." She returns "I'll see you on Monday."

"Bye guys!" We wave as we leave and they shut the door behind us. "That was-" I don't even have a word for it as we reach the elevator and press the button.

Sonny wraps an arm around me and pulls me to his side "yeah, it was weird."

We don't say anything more until we are on the street and begin walking home "I mean, this is just a coincidence, right?" I finally get to ask out loud to him.

"What do you mean?" He asks back.

I sigh "what are the odds that my ex boyfriend, the brother of the man who raped me and the son of the man who hates us is now dating my new boss. I mean, they said they met on a dating website. That seems totally plausible."

He kind of laughs and returns "why would it not be plausible? I think you're thinking too much about it babe."

I argue for the sake of arguing "am I? I mean, he flat out told me he was going to fight for me. I mean, he then said he would stop, he knew I was happy but come on. This is too weird to be a coincidence."

He replies "I think that's all it is Adds. Nothing that happened in there made me jump into detective mode. They both seem really into each other."

I nod, agreeing to that "yeah, I guess they did." I then hit his arm gently and smile "Lori even told me she's hoping he proposes to her!"

"See" he smiles back "they're just in love, like we are. But not as cute."

"Definitely not as cute." I agree, and we chuckle as we continue our walk home.