CPOV

The next morning at nine o'clock I was up and out of bed getting dressed for a cleaning day. Oh joy! I knew that Sonny was looking forward to seeing her younger siblings and I didn't mind. The only part I hated was that we had to clean up although it wasn't too dirty; it wasn't the cleanest. I walked back into our bedroom and found Sonny wearing one of my old t-shirts and a pair of red sweatpants. Even though it was just sweats she still looked great in them.

Sonny had already had a shower and I had taken one after her so now we were ready to get down to business. "Good morning, Sonshine." I gave her a big hug then led her downstairs. I already had the mop, broom, vacuum, dust rags, and all our cleaning utensils set out. "I hope this is what you were looking for."

Sonny laughed, "Alright take one of these dusters and wipe of the surface of all the objects. I'll clean the windows. For thirty minutes we didn't say anything while I whipped off all the surfaces in our living room. After both of us had finished she took the vacuum and began to vacuum the carpet while I swept and moped the kitchen floor.

By lunch time we were half way done. Sonny looked exhausted and like she wanted to pass out. For lunch Sonny threw together a few pieces of bread and ham to fix us ham sandwiches. After all that work they tasted really good.

Now we finished cleaning the inside of the house when we had to go outside and clean the yard. "Alright, Chad. You are our lucky winner. You get to mow the yard. I'll pull the weeds out of the garden."

I had some knowledge she might have forgotten, "You don't need to do the windows. They got cleaned a week ago." She smiled realizing that we had just marked off a major To Do from our To Do List.

When I finally found our old lawn mower, seeing as we never used it anymore since we always hired someone to clean our house, I turned the key and backed it out of the garage. When I got around the front yard I began mowing. After a minute I heard Sonny yell, "CHAD! CHAD!" I stopped the mower and turned around to look at her laughing, "You don't have the mower on silly." When I looked at the path I thought I was mowing I realized it hadn't done any good. I turned the lawn mower around and got back to the beginning, "Okay so how do you get the mower to work?"

Once again Sonny laughed, "You hit the orange button. When I looked down I saw that there was an orange button above the key slot. It had a big M on it. I felt really stupid now. "Okay so I guess you never had to mow your own lawns, or clean you house when you were younger?" I looked at her and said, "Nope. I was always directing movies." She laughed for the third time then turned back around to finish weeding the flowers.

After finishing mowing the yard we went inside. Our work for the day was done. Once inside, I sat down on the couch and flipped on the TV turning it to the sports channel hoping to catch a baseball game. Sonny walked by me and began to head up the stairs. "Where do you think you are going?" I asked. She yawned, "I'm going to take a shower really fast. Then I am going to meet Tawni and Zora at Sal' Pierce for dinner. So I hope you can fix something for yourself or call in something to eat."

After about an hour of baseball I got bored and headed upstairs to our bedroom. Sonny was standing in front of the full length mirror twirling in a dark blue dress. It was a halter and had a V neck in it. She looked stunning. When she saw me in the mirror she began to blush, "Do you like it or is it too much?" I laughed. She always cared about what I thought, "It looks wonderful on you." She walked away from the mirror and into our master bath. After a few minutes she came back out and had her makeup on and earrings in. Before she could leave I gave her a kiss and walked her downstairs. After sitting on the couch together for a few minutes the door bell rang. Sonny jumped up to get it but I beat her to it. "Hello. You two look great." Tawni and Zora stood in the door frame. Tawni flashed her white pearls at me and Zora squealed, "Sonny!" Right after that Sonny shimmied past me and out the door waving back a goodbye before getting in the passenger side of Tawni's car.