Gilded Cage Chps 29-35

Chapter 29
Sonny stood there for some time, looking at the food and the porter. The only one that he wouldn’t look at was Brenda. She thought that she was doing nice for him and that he would at least be appreciative of her effort. 

Porter: Shall I send it back, sir?
Sonny: No that’s fine. Here, and thank you.

He gave the man a tip and closed the door behind him. He stood there for a long time after that just looking at the food and not saying a word. He was starting to worry Brenda. She knows that is was upset, she just didn’t know why. He goes over to the big chair and sits down. He undoes the first two buttons on his shirt and undoes the buttons on his sleeves, he puts his face in his hand. Brenda knows that it’s the way he acts when something really has him scared, either a feeling or a memory. 

Brenda: *Softly* Sonny?

He doesn’t answer, either because he can’t or more likely because he doesn’t want to share what is bothering him. She gets off the bed and walks over to the chair. He won’t look up at her, so she kneels down in front of the chair.

Brenda: Sonny, please tell me, what’s bothering you?
Sonny: No.
Brenda: *Taking his hands in hers* You have too tell me otherwise you’ll shut down and you can’t do that honey. I need for you not to shut down right now. I need you here with me. Tell me what’s wrong!
Sonny: No, no., no!
Brenda: Was it something that I did or said? 
Sonny: I’m fine Brenda.

He gets up and walks to the bathroom, he obviously isn’t fine. He slams the door and locks it,  but she can hear him running water in the sink. He splashes cold water on his face and then comes back out.

Sonny: You should be in bed, your cold is going to get worse.
Brenda: I’ll go back to bed, as soon as you tell me what’s bothering you? Did I do something to upset you?
Sonny: No Brenda, it isn’t you. It’s me.
Brenda: I don’t understand, is it about the food?
Sonny: No, I shouldn’t have gotten upset about you ordering dinner. We have to eat something.
Brenda: It’s about wanting to celebrate your birthday then?
Sonny: I told you it isn’t anything thing you have done. You know, you have been wonderful this whole trip. I want to take care of you now, though. 
Brenda: I love the idea of you taking care of my cold, but I’m worried about you.
Sonny:  I haven’t got a chance to take care of too many people in my life. When I did it didn’t really matter. Lily, my mother, Stone, I tried to take care of them all, but in the end it didn’t mater.

Brenda sits down on the bed and wrestles with the date. Did this date have something to do with Stone? If it did, she couldn’t remember what.

Brenda: Does this have something to do with Stone?
Sonny: Not really.
Brenda: I know that it’s your birthday.

Sonny sits on the bed beside her.

Sonny: Who told you that June 9th is my birthday?
Brenda: Mike told me, just recently. I never knew before when your birthday was. Why is that, Sonny?
Sonny: It figures that Mike would go and blab it. I don’t celebrate my birthday, that is all you need to know.       
Brenda: No, that isn’t all that I need to know, because your upset and I can’t stand the idea that I upset you. Sonny: It has nothing to do with you! I don’t celebrate my birthday ever!
Brenda: Not ever? Lily didn’t help you celebrate it or Maria? 
Sonny: Damn it Brenda! I haven’t celebrated my birthday since I was 18! IT WAS THE DAY THAT I BURIED MY MOTHER!

His words penetrate Brenda’s heart and she can’t help but cry. Tears flow in buckets from her eyes. Her lips are trembling, her whole body is trembling.

Brenda: *Through tears* I’m so sorry, I didn’t know! I never would have brought it up or insisted
Sonny: *Trying to calm her* Sush, I know you didn’t mean any harm.

He wraps his arms around her and tries to comfort her. In that moment, he would swear that she is more upset than he is. She buries her head in his shoulder and cries.

Brenda: I’m sorry, I didn’t know.
Sonny: Sweetheart, nobody knows, except the people that were at my mother’s funeral, the Cerullo’s and a few people from the neighborhood. Even fewer people knew that it was my birthday.  After my mom died, that day became less about me and more about her.
Brenda: Sonny, it was so long ago.
Sonny: Don’t try and tell me to get past it.
Brenda: I would never tell you something like that. 
Sonny: When did Mike tell you that June 9th was my birthday?
Brenda: A few months ago, right after he and my mother got married. Sonny, he didn’t know that your birthday was the same day that your mother was buried.
Sonny: No, he wouldn’t. He knew when she died is all. He never even came to visit her grave.
Brenda: He regrets all of that so much. If he could go back and change any of it, he would.
Sonny: Yeah, so he says. Do you guys talk about me a lot?
Brenda: Not a lot. I think that he really believes that I’m one of the few people that understands you. I’m not sure that I always do, but I seem to be able to help him understand the things that you do. I guess that’s better than nothing. He still doesn’t understand why you left, but he still loves you.
Sonny: I guess the two of you have that in common.
Brenda: No I understand why you left.

He has been holding her against him the whole time, because she had been crying. However, even after she stopped sobbing, he still held her. Not because she needed it, because he needed to feel her in his arms. Now he pulls back and looks at her with serious eyes. 

Sonny: You understand why I left?
Brenda: Yes, I understand that you left because you felt that a life with you would be too dangerous. You wanted me to have a life that was safe and stable. You left because you loved me and you were willing to give us up to save me. I probably don’t deserve to have any man love me that much.
Sonny: Maybe you don’t think that you deserve it, but I do. You deserve all that and more. But that’s what I’ve been saying all along. I told you, when I came back last year, that I left because I love you and want you to be safe and happy.
Brenda: I know, but I also realized why you have stayed away! You left to protect me, but you’ve stayed away to protect yourself. There is no reason why you should have to go back to Port Charles and watch me marry Jax.

Her voice is starting to slow down and she yawns. Sonny leans over and kisses her lightly on the cheek.

Sonny: You are very intuitive, Brenda.
Brenda: I’m also getting kind of warm and a little sleepy.
Sonny: The tea that I gave you is starting to relax you. 
Brenda: Is it a sedative?
Sonny: No, like I said before, it raises your body temperature, which naturally relaxes you.

Brenda is trying to stay awake.

Brenda: I can’t go to sleep! We have all that food to eat.
Sonny: I wonder what happened to your soup?
Brenda: The porter must have thought we didn’t need it, after everything that I ordered.
Sonny: *smiling* Probably so sweetheart. I don’t remember the last time I saw so much food. 
Brenda: Cant’s you give me something to counteract this tea so I can stay awake?
Sonny: It’s not just the tea, you’re exhausted Brenda and your body is trying to fight off a virus. The only antidote is for you to get a good nights sleep. Now turn over and let me rub your shoulders and back. 
 
He helps her get back under the covers and starts to kneed the tension out of her back and shoulders.
He kisses he shoulder lightly, he just can’t resist.

Brenda: * In a Sleepy voice* Are you trying to seduce me?
Sonny: *Smiling* Maybe some other time, when you’re a little bit stronger.
Brenda: *Barely able to stay awake* What about the food?
Sonny: I’ll take care of the food.
Brenda: Can we celebrate your birthday?
Sonny: Yes, tomorrow in Buenos Aires. We’ll be there by the time that you wake up. 
Brenda: I would never pretend to tell you how to get over something like your mother’s funeral happening on your birthday, but I would like to at least for this one year.
Sonny: We’ll work on it tomorrow morning, that will be soon enough. 

He kisses her on the forehead.
Sonny: I love you, Brenda.
Brenda: I know. Happy Birthday, Sonny.

He watches her as she quickly falls asleep.

Sonny: For the first time in a long time, I can honestly say it was a happy one.
 
He watches her sleep for a while. She looks so beautiful and peaceful. An outsider would never guess everything that she has been through. Every thing that I’ve put her through, Sonny thinks to himself.

Sonny: Leaving you at the altar was the biggest mistake of my life, Brenda. I thought that you would be better off without me and I thought I could live without you. Now I’m starting to believe that none of that is true. I don’t think that your better off now than you would be if we were together, and I know that I can’t live without you. If I could change one moment in time, it would be the moment I left you on September 19th, 1997. I love you Brenda, and want nothing more in my life than to spend the rest of it with you. Maybe some day, I’ll be able to say all of this to you when you aren’t asleep. But I’m afraid that right now it might scare you to know how much I really love you and need you.

He adjusts the covers on her so that she is covered completely. Then he kisses her lightly on the cheek.

Sonny: Someday, Brenda.

He sits down on the chair and watches her sleep. 
Chapter 30

Brenda woke up the next morning feeling stuffed up. She had trouble opening her eyes, but when she did, she saw Sonny standing over her with a tray of food.

Sonny: Good morning beautiful!
Brenda: I feel anything but beautiful.
Sonny: I take it your not feeling any better?
Brenda: Just a little.
Sonny: You slept the entire night, that is a good sign.
Brenda: Yeah, but I kept having these weird dreams.
Sonny: What kind of dreams?
Brenda: It was like a fairy tale and I was the princess. It was during the time of King Arthur and Camelot. There were these two knights that were fighting over me. They kept professing their love and one knight was bringing me all of these jewels and gifts. They just kept on fighting and finally, I stopped paying attention to them. There was this peach tree, on the banks of a crystal clear stream. I could see it in the distance just beyond the arguing knights. Suddenly, all I wanted in the world was a peach from that tree, but I couldn’t get the nights to stop fighting for long enough to listen to what I wanted. I kept telling them that all I wanted was a peach from that tree. Finally, there was another person there, he wasn’t a knight, he was more like a stable boy or something. He brought me a peach from that tree and I knew that he was the man for me.
Sonny: Because he was the only one listening to you?
Brenda: I don’t know, it was a dream and they never make sense.
Sonny: So did you live happily ever after with the stable boy?
Brenda: I don’t know, that was when I woke up. My guess would be no I wouldn’t have gotten a happy ending.
Sonny: Why not?
Brenda: Because princesses can’t marry stable boys with out first going through a lot of trials and tribulations. The king never approves 
Sonny: Oh, I see.
Brenda: You think I’m silly don’t you?
Sonny: Not at all, here I brought you breakfast. Sorry, no peaches though.
Brenda: You do, you think my fairy tales are silly!
Sonny: I could never think that something that is important to you is silly, Brenda. I just prefer my fairy tales to have a happy ending is all.  Here I brought you some cold medicine.
Brenda: I thought that you believed in herbal tea as a cure all.
Sonny: I do, but I also think that some over the counter decongestants won’t hurt.  

He hands her some recognizable cold pills and a glass of water.
   
Brenda: What else did you bring me?
Sonny: Some fruit and juice.

He hands her the tray and Brenda starts eating happily.

Brenda: This is good.

 Sonny watches her eat and a smile spreads across his face. Brenda stops eating and looks up at him.

Brenda: What?
Sonny: You just look so cute when you do that.
Brenda: Do what?
Sonny: Get enthused about the little things, like fresh fruit.
Brenda: It’s really good.

Sonny smiles again. Brenda finishes eating and puts aside the tray.

Brenda: Sonny, can we talk about yesterday?
Sonny: *Becoming uncomfortable* What’s there to talk about?
Brenda: Sonny, I want you to know how I am about yesterday.
Sonny: Brenda, you don’t have any reason to apologize.
Brenda: I shouldn’t have insisted that we celebrate your birthday. I should have known that you had a good reason to act like that day doesn’t exist. I will never make you celebrate your birthday again. 
Sonny: I hope that you do make me celebrate my birthday. 
Brenda: You do?
Sonny: Yes, you promised that we would celebrate it today!
Brenda: Yeah, I remember you said we could celebrate when we got to Buenos Aires. I’m going to hold you to that. I don’t know about the future though.
Sonny: Well, I would like to hope that you will be around every year from now on, but I guess that is hoping for too much. Brenda I realized something last night.
Brenda: What’s that?
Sonny: I realized that I had spent the last 10 plus years holding on to the past in a very negative way. I thought that I was honoring the memory of my mother by holding on to that date. I wasn’t, but I was afraid to let go of that pain. You showed me that I could let go of it and be happy, you helped me to move past it. From now on, I’ll still think of my mother on June 9th, but I’m also going to celebrate that day.
Brenda: I’m glad I could help. 
Sonny: You really did.
Brenda: So how are we going to celebrate?
Sonny: I don’t know, but I’ve got to warn you, I’ve got a lot of lost time to make up for!

He gives her a dimpled grin.

Brenda: Remember I’m sick. If I can’t keep up you might have to leave me behind.
Sonny: Not a chance! You’re the one that started this, you’re not going to get away with not finishing it!
Brenda: I guess I wouldn’t miss your birthday celebration for all the world! I want us to have dinner at the best restaurant in Buenos Aires!
Sonny: Actually, the hotel that we’re staying in has the best seafood in town!
Brenda: Good, because I won’t have far to go when I wear out!
Sonny: Do you really feel that bad?
Brenda: My throat hurts and I feel a little stuffed up.
Sonny: Maybe you should rest for tonight, because I’m not going to let you, "wear out!" I’m going to show you the time of your life!
Brenda: maybe I should, how long before we get to Buenos Aires? You said that we would be there by the time I woke up.
Sonny: We are about to get to Santa Rosa. 
Brenda: Where?
Sonny: We are a little bellow Buenos Aires, the storm forced us to drop down south.
Brenda: Is that good or bad?
Sonny: It will make us a little late, but  that means we will get to cross the Pampas.
Brenda: The famous grass lands of Argentina?
Sonny: Yes, in fact we should be just about on the edge of the Pampas right now.

Sonny walks over to the window and looks out.

Brenda: What do you see?
Sonny: Come here and look!
Brenda: What?

Brenda walks over to the window and peers out, the sight that she sees almost overwhelms her.
Rolling plains of tall exotic green and gold grasses stretch out as far as Brenda can see. The grass gently swaying in the wind, and the sheer size of the fields have an almost hypnotic effect on Brenda. 

Brenda: I’ve never seen anything like it in all of my life, it goes on forever!
Sonny: Not forever, just almost forever. I’m glad that the train had to come this way. 
Brenda: Me too, I would have hated to come to Argentina and have missed this. Watching this really is relaxing.
Sonny: Enjoy it while you can sweetheart, things are about to change.
Brenda: You think we’ll have trouble finding the village of those men that died in the warehouse?
Sonny: I hope not, I know a guy in Buenos Aires that can help us. he can find just about anybody, anywhere. What I’m talking about is the pace of our lives is about to change. Buenos Aires is unlike any place that you’ve ever been, Brenda. The pace is fast and the terrain is varied. You can easily cross from one social level to a much lower one as easily as you cross the street and the streets here can be mean.
Brenda: You’re not trying to scare me are you? Because I’ve come to far to turn back now.
Sonny: I’m just telling you what to expect. You’re not going to be as protected as you have been on the train. Don’t get me wrong, there are a lot of beautiful things about the city. However, there are some really ugly parts as well.
Brenda: I’m not afraid right now, should I be?
Sonny: Not really, we’ll probably not even leave the hotel except to go site seeing. I shouldn’t have mentioned any of the rest.
Brenda: No, you were right to be honest with me, full disclosure, that’s all that I ask for.
Sonny: You’ve got it. Now, lets enjoy the view while we can.
 
He stands behind her and wraps his arms around her waist and they watch as the plains roll gently by. A wave of peace and serenity washes over Sonny. Brenda also is experiencing strong emotions, she feels secure and contented, as if for a short period of time,  she is completely safe from the outside world. 
Chapter 31
 
Brenda looked around the lobby of the Hotel de Leon, where she and Sonny were checking in. It had a grand style to it, huge spaces with lots of wood and glass. It was the type of place where real crystal chandeliers were suspended from the high ceiling and masterpiece paintings hung on the walls  
Sonny was at the main desk, checking them in and Brenda was standing off a little ways away taking in her surroundings. Sonny turns and calls to her

Sonny: Sweetheart, do we want one key or two?
Brenda: *Moving a little closer to the desk* You might as well get two, that way we can each have one.
Sonny: *To the desk attendant* You heard the lady, two keys.
Desk Attendant: *With a note of disapproval* I see. 

He actually gives Brenda a dirty look.

Desk Attendant: *To Sonny* Will you be requiring any "Special" services, sir?
Sonny: No, I will not! May we have our keys?

The attendant hands Sonny the keys.

Sonny: Will you send our luggage up, please?
Desk Attendant: Yes sir.
Sonny: Come on, honey.

Brenda follows him to the elevator. Sonny pushes the button and they wait for the elevator.

Brenda: What was that all about?
Sonny: What do you mean?
Brenda: That desk attendant was practically rude to me!
Sonny: He didn’t say a word to you, sweetheart.
Brenda: He was giving me dirty looks!
Sonny: He is probably a little confused because a married couple requested a suite with two bedrooms.
Brenda: We have separate bedrooms?
Sonny: Yeah, are you disappointed?

He gives her a sultry look.

Brenda: No, I’m just a little surprised that you would go to all the trouble.
Sonny: I got kind of tire of sleeping on the chair.

The elevator arrives and they step in.

Brenda: What was the attendant asking about "Special" services?

He ushers her into the elevator.

Sonny: He wanted to know if I needed an escort service.

Brenda’s mouth drops open, just as the elevator door closes.

Chapter 32
Sonny is making reservations for them to have dinner in the hotel restaurant. Brenda comes out of one of the bedrooms just as he hangs up the phone.

Sonny: I made dinner reservations downstairs, for 8:00, is that too late?
Brenda: That sounds fine.
Sonny: So what do you think about this place?
Brenda: It’s nice, not as nice as the train though. It’s different from the train.
Sonny: Well, not many people get to experience the luxury of traveling on something like the American Orient Express, but this place has its luxuries as well. It’s one of the nicest hotels in town, maybe even in the whole country. The Spa downstairs is world famous, but for some reason you don’t like it here?
Brenda: I didn’t say I didn’t like it here, I just said that it’s different from the train. On the train, it was just you and me. I felt like we were almost in our own world. Now it all seems so much more complicated.
Sonny: In what way?
Brenda: We walk in the door and the desk attendant asks you if you want an escort service?
Sonny: I don’t know what he thought I needed, but he was wrong. I guess they get a lot of business men staying here alone that need that sort of thing, but I’m not one of them! I guess the desk attendant figured that since we wanted separate bedrooms we aren’t, you know?
Brenda: We aren’t! We aren’t even really married!
Sonny: *Giving her a hot look* That never stopped us before! Anyway,  I did warn you that this city has a pace all it’s own!
Brenda: Yes you did. Maybe I’m just a little tired.
Sonny: Why don’t I call down and make you an appointment at the spa. You can get a massage, manicure, facial, the works!
Brenda: How are you going to pay for this? I’m sure that your cash supple isn’t endless.
Sonny: That’s what they invented Platinum Gold cards for!
Brenda: If we use credit cards, won’t the authorities use them to track us down?
Sonny: We aren’t using them, Santiago Martin is using his credit cards.
Brenda: That’s credit card fraud! They might not be able to arrest you for anything else, but that’s illegal!
Sonny: I wish! Anything that we charge on these cards, I’ll just pay off later. Brenda, some times my life is so lacking in excitement that I can’t believe it’s my life!.
Brenda: Are you trying to tell me that your life is boring?
Sonny: I never dreamed that my life could be so dull.
Brenda: We are standing a deluxe suite in a four star hotel in Buenos Aires! You find that boring?
Sonny: Not at all, but that’s because your here with me. I’ve been to this city before, I’ve crossed the Pampas. I’ve seen it all and done it all, yes visiting Buenos Aires would normally be a bore.
Brenda: How can you say that , this place is so different form any place I’ve ever been before. This isn’t like Paris, New Orleans, or even like Puerto Rico!
Sonny: I know it’s not. Your excited about this place?
Brenda: I guess I am kind of excited. I’m still a little scared, because I know that we aren’t safe here like we were on the train, but I want to see what this place has to offer. I can’t wait to see it all!
Sonny: Well, believe me, there really are some places that you don’t want to see. But I’ll try to show you as much of the rest as time permits. You see, when you get excited about someplace, I start to see it in a whole new light as well. That happened today, when we were crossing the Pampas, it was amazing!      
Brenda: See, your life is exciting!
Sonny: Only when you’re in it, baby!
Brenda: I think that I had better go to the spa now! You’re starting to get that look in your eyes.
Sonny: What look?
Brenda: That one where you start trying to put me up on some pedestal. Now, what are you going to do while I’m gone?
Sonny: I thought I would go check out the casino.
Brenda: Trying to get ideas for your own place?
Sonny: Not a bad idea, but my friend works at one of the tables down stairs.
Brenda: Oh, so that’s why we’re here? I though it was for the atmosphere.
Sonny: Both.
Brenda: What exactly can this friend of yours do for us?
Sonny: He has access to computer data bases. He can search for just about anyone in the country. I have names of the men that were killed. I know how many of them were from Argentina, I’m hopping they were from the same village. If they were, then I can go there and maybe find some information on who hired them.
Brenda: How do you know their names and what country they were from?
Sonny: You don’t want to know.
Brenda: Yes I do!
Sonny: I stole a copy of the FBI file.
Brenda: Sonny!
Sonny: I know, it’s illegal and if I’m caught they would have a good reason to send me to prison. It was all I had to go on though, besides there wasn’t much in it. Just names of the deceased and their country of origin. 
Brenda: Where are they now?
Sonny: The FBI has them, they’re waiting for their families to claim them! That’s one reason why I have to find their village. I need to find the information about who hired them, but I also have to inform their families about their deaths.
Brenda: Why do you have to do it?
Sonny: Because I care and it’s partly my fault. When I close my eyes, I see that warehouse Brenda. I have to finish this, it’s the only way that I can put those images out of my head. It’s the only honorable thing to do.

 He never stopped amazing her, so many people thought of him as nothing more than a heartless hood. Brenda knew that wasn’t true, he had a empathy for those in pain that went beyond the feelings of most people she knew. He had his faults, she would be the first to admit that. He reacted in strange ways out of fear and he tended to carry around unnecessary guilt for far longer than was healthy. But he cared about people, people he didn’t even know. He also had honor and loyalties, the fact that he would travel half way around the world for these men that he didn’t even know moved her. It reminded her why she loved him. 
He saw her looking at him with this almost dreamy expression and it kind of made him uncomfortable.

Sonny: What?
Brenda: You just reminded me of some of the reasons that made me fall in love with you in the first place.
Sonny: *Gives her a seductive look* Give me a couple of hours in a candle lit room and I can remind you of all the others!

He drapes his arms loosely around her neck and shoulders. She quickly takes his arms off of her.

Brenda: I’m serious! Here I am trying to pay you a compliment, letting you know that I respect your sense of honor, and all you can talk about is getting me alone in a dark room for some casual romp? 
Sonny: I didn’t say anything about a dark room. I said a candle lit room, only no vanilla candles. I can’t stand those. I also didn’t imply anything casual. I’m talking about physical and emotional fulfillment, the likes of which I doubt either one of us has experienced in a long time.  

He gives her such a passionate look, that makes  Brenda weak in the knees, and she almost faints. 
Brenda: You’re Impossible Sometimes!
Sonny: So I am, I won’t deny it! You love me, does that mean you that you are ready to leave your gilded life and run away with me?
Brenda: I thought that’s what I’m doing! 
Sonny: Yeah but in the end, you’ll leave and go back to Jax. He doesn’t deserve you, you know that?
Brenda: Maybe not, but he does claim to love me with his whole heart.
Sonny: You know that’s one thing I’ve never understood. I could never even think about loving another woman the way I love you. Brenda, you are my first love and the love of my life. I could no more put that love aside than I could stop breathing. Once you experience that kind of feeling, it can’t happen again.  Yet that is what Jax is claiming has happened to him, he loved Miranda with all his heart. he claimed that she was the love of his life, now he claims that you are the love of his life? I don’t understand how he can just cast her aside and love you with his whole heart. You can’t do that, when you love someone you give a piece of yourself to them that you can never get that back. At least that’s the way I feel about you.
Brenda: The only answer that I can give you is that people love in different ways. You can’t judge it or question it anymore than you can get inside another persons head. If Jax tells me he loves me with his whole heart, who am I to question him? 
Sonny: But you can’t return that love, not completely.
Brenda: No, but I do the best that I can with what I’ve got.
Sonny: You’re pretty amazing, do you know that? If Jax had half a brain he would marry you!
Brenda: I think that is the long term plan.
Sonny: I don’t mean in the long run, I mean he should have married you months ago.
Brenda: I’m really starting to think that marriage isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
Sonny: You’re way to young to be that cynical. Have you really given up on spending the rest of your life sharing undying devotion with one person?
Brenda: No, but I’ve given up on trying to have the perfect wedding. I’ve gotten tired of planning the perfect reception, trying to find the perfect church or other place that doesn’t already have some type of personal history attached to it. Most of all, I’m tired of trying to find a new style of dress. I’m running out of options in that department. 
Sonny: Why don’t you let Jax plan everything?
Brenda: Are you kidding? We would end up getting married on a beach somewhere!
Sonny: *Slyly* He already did that, with Miranda!

Brenda impulsively pulls him to her and kisses him passionately. What seems like minutes latter they pull apart.

Sonny: Not that I’m complaining, but what was that all about?
Brenda: Isn’t that the name of the game? "Lets see how far we can push Brenda!"

Sonny pulls her to him and kisses her once more, even more passionately than she had kissed him.

Sonny: Sweetheart, I don’t play games.

He gives her an intense, piercing look that goes straight to her heart and soul and sets them both on fire.

Brenda: *Flushed* Then I guess you won’t know what to expect from me.

She turns and quickly leaves the suite

Sonny: *Out loud* I never know what to expect from you Brenda. That is usually more than half the fun.

He checks to make sure that he has a key and then leaves the suite to go look for his friend.

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