Sonny sat down at the bar in the kitchen and Will sat a plate filled with pancakes and bacon in front of him. He picked up his fork and began to eat as Will took the seat right next to them.

They ate in silence for several minutes. Sonny couldn't help but notice that Will seemed fidgety, and a little outside of his element. He looked more than a little uncomfortable, but he didn't want to examine things too closely. To be honest he was still reeling from Will's admission about never having an overnight guest.

His mind was working overtime, just trying to figure it out. Was that a conscious choice that Will had made, or were there just that many blind men at Salem University. No… he distinctly remembered Will's words… "You're the first guy I ever 'Let' spend the night.

Sonny was so busy wrapped up in his own thoughts he had completely forgotten that he should probably be trying to make some form of intelligent conversation. He glanced up to find Will staring at him.

"What?" He asked, smiling.

Will shook his head. "Nothing.." he said, before taking a bite of his now cold pancakes.

They exchanged a few words while finishing the meal. Will slid off of his stool and picked up the empty plates. When Sonny looked up at him, he was unable to keep himself from leaning over and pressing their lips together. Sonny's lips parted on a sigh, and Will swept his tongue inside…

The kitchen door banged open and three guys pushed and shoved their way into the kitchen. Will jumped back away from Sonny, but not before the sight before them had stopped all three men in their tracks.

"Well, Well, Well… What do we have here?" Said the one that Sonny recognized as Chad Dimera. He had been introduced to him at the bar. The other two looked familiar but Sonny could not remember their names.

"Shut up Chad…" Will said evenly, walking over and putting the dishes into the sink.

"This the flavor of the week?" The shorter of the other two asked…. He groaned when he promptly received an elbow jabbed in his ribs from the other guy. "You're such an ass." He said.

Chad turned a menacing stare on the other two… "Shut it…" He warned before turning back to Will.

"Aren't you going to introduce us?" He asked.

Will stood by the sink and pretended to ponder the question for a few seconds… "Umm NO." he said pushing away from the cabinet. He reached for Sonny's arm pulling him toward the door. "Come on.." He said.

Sonny hurried grabbed the small pile of his underclothes that he had stowed in the empty chair on this other side. Suddenly he wished he had taken the time to throw the shirt and boxers on…

Will opened the door and allowed Sonny to hurry out before he closed it on all of the cat calls and whistles his stupid room mates were making.

They walked down the drive and stopped beside Sonny's car where it was parked along the curb in the cul de sac.

Sonny opened the door and tossed his clothes in. He wasn't exactly sure what he and Will were… He wasn't even sure if they were anything at all. He shoved his hands into his pockets to keep himself from reaching out to him.

"So.." He said. "Guess I had better go, I am sure that you have things that you need to do." "Thanks for the breakfast."

"Anytime." Will answered him. He wasn't quite sure what to make of Sonny. He looked soo stiff standing there with his hands in his pockets. Not at all in a good way either… Will wondered if his rigid stance meant that he didn't want to be touched. His fingers were itching to do just that… to reach out and touch him, instead he folded his arms across his chest.

"So, guess I will see you around." Sonny said as he slid behind the wheel of the car.

Will closed the door and leaned onto the frame after Sonny rolled the window down. There was something in the back of Will's mind, pushing him, nagging him to at least make sure that he was going to see Sonny again.

"Soo umm do you think that you may wanna come to the party next weekend?" He asked.. "It's Friday night, like always."

Sonny grinned at him… "Sure." He said, "I'll be here."

"Great!" Will said. "Guess I will see you then."

Sonny nodded. "See you then." He echoed, as he put the car into gear.

Will backed up and watched as he drove off. He stood there for a couple of minutes trying to gage what the hell had just happened. Sure he had seen a couple of guys, more than one time. But it was always on accident… pure coincidence. He certainly never considered himself the "dating" type. Yet he was pretty damn sure that he had just asked Sonny on a date.

Finally he turned and strode back into the house… he knew exactly what was coming and he was already thinking of ways to avoid the impossible.

As soon as the door was shut, the questions started flying at him at break neck speed. They were all laying in wait for him.

"What the fuck was that Horton?" T asked loudly.

"Wow!" Ben taunted… "I think someone has it bad…."

Chad seemed to be the only one that was in total shock.. "Did that dude just spend the night here… with you?" he asked.

Will held up his hands trying to ward off the questions, but they just kept on coming…

"Isn't that the guy who was with Brian at the bar the other night." T asked. "He was definitely at the party last night." Ben said, I saw them playing beer pong before Abigail got here. He said to turning to T with a grin. "That's precisely why I say someone has it bad."

"Are you going to see him again?" Chad chimed in.

"Everybody just shut the fuck up" Will hollered over the din of all of their questions.

Everyone all stopped talking at once.

"Now." Will said.. "What's the big deal?... you guys have people over all the time." He pointed out. "Ben, Abigal is here so much she may as well move in…. and T you parade enough girls through here that sometimes it feels like this must be Victoria Secret…. So you both just lay off me.."

As soon as Will finished talking, the continuous line of questions resumed.

"What's his name?" T asked.

"What's his major?" Ben added.

"When are you seeing him again?" T continued… "Why didn't you introduce us?"

Will looked at Chad for help, but he just sat back and shrugged his shoulders…

Will sighed.. he realized that if he did not give them something he was never going to get past them.

"His name is Sonny … and I don't know what his major is." Will said.

"Oh.. so there wasn't a lot of conversating going on last night huh?" Ben asked.

"Shut up." Will said, trying to move around T to get to the stairs. But T put his hand out catching Will by the arm. "Hold it Horton." He said laughing, "There were quite a few questions there that you skipped over."

"Seriously guys, Can't a guy have a personal life?" Will said.

"Dish…" T ordered, "You never cared about having a personal life before."

"Yeah" Ben agreed.

Will looked at Chad, silently pleading for him to say something. Chad grinned at him… waiting for his response.

"Fine!" Will groaned. "Yes he was the guy at the club…. Yes he spent the night…. But you jerks better not be getting any ideas.. it didn't mean anything except that we fell asleep before I could give him the speech." Will said. Feeling like a heel, his subconscious was outraged, lashing out at him, labeling him as the liar he knew he was.

"That's major Bullshit." T and Ben said in unison.

"Whatever!" Will said pushing past them. He took the stairs two at a time, until he reached the landing. He went into his sanctuary and shut the door behind him.

Will dropped onto his bed and pushed play on his Ipod. He slipped his ear buds in and pulled the pillow that Sonny had slept on close to him. He closed his eyes and thought back over the last night. He was desperately trying to figure out what was soo different about Sonny. He couldn't stop thinking about him… One measly little night…. One roll in the sheets with this guy and all the sudden Sonny has him thinking date nights, walks on the beach… hell he even thought for one brief second about flowers. He groaned in frustration, flipping on his side, laying his head on Sonny's pillow inhaling his scent.

A couple of hours later Will woke up to a soft knock on his door, somehow in his sleep he had pulled his ear buds out. He had been dreaming about Sonny… about last night… the dampness of his boxers against his heated flesh was evidence enough of exactly what he had been dreaming about.

"WTF?" He thought.. "Damn it's been a long time since that happened to me."

The persistent knock came again.. Will pulled his knees up and adjusted the blankets over his lap.

"What?" He called.

The door opened and Chad stuck his head in the room… "Can I come in?" He asked.

Will nodded, and waited for Chad to come in and close the door behind him. He sat down beside Will on the bed.

"You know we were just giving you shit?" He asked.

"Yeah" Will said.. "I know."

"You know it is because we love you, right?" He continued.

"Bullshit!" Will said. "It's because you are all a bunch of assholes."

"No really.." Chad said. "We just want you to be happy…. And I don't know… you seem different about him." He finished.

Will nodded again. "It is different with him." "I don't know why… I really can't make any sense out of it." He finished quietly.

"You Dumbass… you are totally crushing on this guy." Chad said.

"Duh!" Will said… "I am at least smart enough to know that." "What I don't know is why…"

"Well he is hot as fuck…" for one thing" Chad pointed out.

Will's pulse sped up… His fingers curled into a fist… he took a deep breath tramping down the urge to punch Chad.. "Holy hell… where did that reaction come from?" He thought to himself.

Chad's eyes widened… "Whoa there Ali." He said laughing… "It was just an observation… you know I don't even go that way."

"Ugh.." Will groaned "What the hell is wrong with me?"

Chad laughed and pushed himself up from the bed. "I have been telling you for the longest time that one of these days, you were going to meet someone that was going to stop you in your tracks… and FINALLY I am being proven right."

Chad ducked out of the door, quickly closing it behind him, just as the pillow that Will had thrown at him hit the frame.

Alone again… Will began to think about what Chad had said… and well yeah he ad to admit it… even if it was only to himself… this wasn't just some crush. He had nursed his fair share of crushes (Not that he would ever share that small fact with this bunch of assholes). This thing with Sonny… this was soo soo much more than that.

Sonny pulled his car into the lot at his apartment complex. His family had insisted that he live in an apartment and not the dormitory. He leaned his head back against the seat.

What the hell had he been thinking last night? He had already been harboring some over the top high school crush on Will… which would of course explain his totally out of character willingness to jump right into bed with him. However having sex with him was one thing, sleeping in his bed, wrapped in his arms, surrounded by his scent… was something completely different.

He reflected back on the keen disappointment that he had felt when he awoke alone in the Will's bed. It only took a second to realize that he had made things one thousand times worse for himself. But damn it he couldn't really bring himself to care. He wanted to be with Will, and he was resolved to do whatever he had to do to make that happen.

Finally after many minutes of self reflection he climbed out of the car and made his way into the apartment building. He had barely made it into his apartment and shut the door before there was someone banding on the door…

"Yeah, Yeah, it's open" he called already suspecting who it was.

Brian and Neil burst through the door….. "Dude, where ya been?" Brian said smiling.

"Yeah, we have been calling you for hours!" Neil added.

"My phone hasn't rang at all?" Sonny said, reaching into his pocket to double check, but his phone wasn,t there.

"Hmmm" he said shrugging. "I must have left it in the car." "What's the big emergency anyway?"

"We want the deets from last night of course." Brian answered making himself comfortable on the sofa.

"You mean YOU do." Neil added, "I just wanted to see if Sonny wanted to hang out today."

"Yeah, OK whatever!" Brian said, turning his attention back to Sonny. "So what time did you make it in?" "How was beer pong?" "Did you get shit faced?" "how much do you remember about last night?" "Come to think of it you look pretty good for a guy with a hang over." He added as an afterthought.

Sonny stood there, patiently waiting for Brian to take a breath. When the string of questions finally subsided, he laughed. Wait just a minute, one question at a time.

"Beer Pong was interesting, No I didn't get drunk.. well not shit faced anyway. And I remember everything about last night." He said quickly purposefully avoiding the question about what time he had made it home.

He went to the refrigerator and pulled out a bottle of water. He turned it up and drank almost half in one swallow. "So what are you guys doing today?" he asked.

Neil was the first to answer… "We thought we would go and shoot some hoops. You game?"

"Yeah sure, just let me change." Sonny answered. He disappeared into the bedroom and grabbed a wife beater and some shorts out of his chest. He made sure to grab some briefs before heading into the bathroom, after all he couldn't very well go and play ball commando.

When he was done he emerged back into the living room to find Brian flipping through the channels on the TV set and Neil was nowhere to be seen.

"What happened to Neil?" He asked, picking up his water again.

"He went to go and grab your phone from the car." Brian said shrugging.

"Oh… okay then, ready to go?" Sonny asked.

"Yep" Brian agreed, grabbing his water bottle and hitting the power button on the remote. "Let's go."

Sonny grabbed his wallet and started toward the door, but it flew open before he reached it.

Neil tossed his boxers and tank from the night before in his face. "Guess we know now why you weren't answering your damn phone…. Which by the way is not in the car."

Sonny tossed the clothes on the couch and gave Neil a confused look. "Well I must have left it at Will's then, come on and we will go by there on the way to the courts." He gestured for them to go first then followed them out and locked the door behind them.

Once they were in Brian's car, Neil was in the backseat, and had promptly shoved his ear buds in his ears.. effectively cutting himself off from any conversation going on in the car. Sonny was once again in his own head, trying to figure out what the fuck Neil's problem was. He had been acting strange since Sonny had told him that he was going to that party last night.

Brian spoke up pulling him from his thoughts. "Sooo.. you spent the night with him huh?"

Sonny just nodded his ascent, glancing over at Brian, trying to gauge his reaction.

"Hmm" Brian said.

"What?" Sonny asked… wanting to know what he was thinking.

"Well it's just that…. Well… that isn't really normal behavior for Will." Brian said, cautiously.

"Yeah.. Will said… first time ever." Sonny said softly.

"Just becareful okay?" Brian asked. "I don't want to see you get hurt."

Thanks man." Sonny said, as Brian pulled up in front of Will's house.

Sonny jumped out of the car… "Be right back." He said before he jogged up to the door. He knocked on the door and waited.

Chad pulled the door open, and looked surprised to see Sonny on the stoop. "Back so soon?" he asked stepping aside and allowing Sonny into the house.

"Umm yeah. I think I left my phone." Sonny said.

"Just like a girl…" T said coming into the living room. "That's the oldest trick in the book." He continued, giggling.

"No really…" Sonny said.

"Don't mind T" Chad said, giving the other man a menacing look. He motioned to the stairs. "He's in his room."

"Thanks." Sonny said climbing the stairs.

When he got to Will's door, he was unsure of what to do, but decided to knock before he barged in.

He rapped softly on the door. "Yeah? What?" Will mumbled from the other side of the door.

Sonny opened the door and stuck his head inside. "Hey!" he said.

"Sonny!" Will said moving quickly off the bed, he advanced until he could reach Sonny, pulling him further into the room, wrapping his arms around him.

He immediately covered Sonny's lips with his own, asking for entrance and gaining it quickly. He deepened the kiss and pulled Sonny closer to him.

Sonny wrapped his arms around Will, fitting their bodies together. He returned the kiss with as much passion as Will was kissing him. He was giddy on the inside, he had only been gone for what maybe a couple of hours and Will was kissing him like they had been apart for days.

He allowed himself to get lost in that kiss, forgetting the reason for the unplanned visit, forgetting that his friends were downstairs waiting for him, forgetting everything except what was going on in this very second.

Will's mouth left his, his tongue forging a trail down the column of Sonny's throat. Sonny arched his neck, giving Will room to maneuver. He could not control the low moan that broke free of his lips when Will sucked softly on the skin just below his ear.

Will's fingers made their way under the edge of Sonny's shirt, drawing random designs on the skin of his hips, teasing the waist of his shorts.

Sonny shivered, pulling back, trying to catch his breath. His heart felt as if it was going to pound out of his chest. He laid his forehead against Wills. Opening his eyes he gazed into the depths of Will's eyes. Sonny swore they were as blue as the sky on a clear summer day.

"Hi!" he said shyly.

"Hi!" Will said grinning back at him. He pulled his hands from under Sonny's shirt, running his hands up Sonny's arms, traveling until they were cupped around his neck. He pulled him in for another kiss.

"HEY!" came a call from down stairs, "Did you find your phone?" The voice was coming closer…. Breaking through the fog. "Sonny, your friends are down there." T said coming through the door…

"Woah!" he said… "I knew you weren't looking for a phone." He laughed.

Will looked at Sonny, confused. "What about a phone?" he asked.

"Oh, I thought that… I mean…. I think I left my phone here this morning." Sonny said.

"I haven't seen it.." Will said. "Sorry I guess I kinda attacked you when you came in."

"It's okay… I kinda liked being attacked." Sonny said.

"Yeah?" Will asked.

"Ummhmm" Sonny agreed

Will moved forward and pulled Sonny back to him, kissing him softly on the lips.

"Dude!" T said… "Well your friends are downstairs, when you uh find your phone then." He said hurrying out the door.

Will laughed, "Sorry about him…he's kind of a spaz sometimes."

"Yeah I have a couple friends like that." Sonny said.. "Looks like you may be about to meet one of them."

They looked around the room, until they found Sonny's phone under the bed. Where it had slipped from his pants pocket as they flew off the night before.

Will handed it to him, and kissed him one more time before leading him down stairs.

They made it down to the living room, and sure enough there were Sonny's friends, making themselves comfortable with Chad and Ben.

"Hey Sonny, we asked Chad if they want to shoot some hoops with us, if that's okay with you?" Brian said.

"Sure." Sonny said, turning to Will.. "Will you come too?" he asked.

"Absolutely!" Will agreed.

"Awesome!" Sonny answered grinning. "Oh by the way.. This is Neil, the afore mentioned friend." Sonny said.

"Hi." Will said, rubbing the back of his neck. The first thought in his mind… "How was he going to tell Sonny, that he and Neil had already met… thank God that was way in the past… two years ago in the past.. to be specific.

"Hey! What's up?" Neil said in response.

"Let's go play some ball." Chad said ending the awkward moment that had taken hold of the room. He gave Will a pointed look.

"Yeah let's go." Will said, ushering everyone out of the house.

TO BE CONTINUED….