The
next morning Alexis woke up to the smell of fresh coffee and fresh
pancakes coming from her kitchen, which couldn’t be right since
she didn’t have one single eatable thing in her fridge. Alexis
got out of bed, wrapped her robe around her body before heading
downstairs.
Sonny: “Good morning sleepyhead!” He welcomed her, as
he was busy setting the table for two.
Alexis: “Morning…” She replied not understanding
what was going on.
Sonny: “Just take a seat…” He replied heading into
the kitchen.
Alexis: “What in the world is going on…?” She asked
herself, as she sat down at the table waiting for Sonny to reappear
from the kitchen.
Sonny: “And today’s special: Strawberries…”
He replied before setting the plate with the strawberries on right
in front of Alexis, which made Alexis go a few weeks back in time
to when they’d had breakfast together the last time.
*** FLASHBACK ***
Alexis: “Oh, my God. That is so good. Oh, sheer heaven.”
Sonny: “You make a chef's heart proud.”
Alexis: “You know, I don't know how you do this. I mean, whenever
I try to cook…I mean, I know you know because you've been a
victim of my cooking, but I just don't get it. I don't get how you
time everything all at once. You know, I just do things in the kitchen
and it just, you know, it just burns. Why do you keep staring at
me?”
Sonny: “Do you have to, like, analyze everything?”
Alexis: “Yes. Mmm.”
Sonny: “That's a turn-on right there. There's nothing, you
know, that's sexier than a woman biting on a strawberry.”
*** FLASHBACK ***
Sonny: “Alexis? Where were you right now?” He asked, as
he took a seat next to her.
Alexis: “What do you mean?”
Sonny: “You were really far away…”
Alexis: “I just took a trip down memory lane…” She
replied smiling, as she took a sip of the coffee Sonny had just
poured for her.
Sonny: “Oh…Why don’t you concentrate on staying in
the here and now – with me?” He suggested, as they created
eye contact.
Alexis: “Can I ask you something?”
Sonny: “Sure – anything…” He replied taking
a sip of coffee.
Alexis: “Why are you here?” She asked making it very clear
to him that she didn’t remember him having slept beside her
last night.
Sonny: “I just wanted to make sure that you were OK –
and partly I also felt that I needed to make sure that you got something
to eat. We can’t have you fainting again – now can we?”
He smiled, as he placed the coffee cup back on the table.
Alexis: “I guess not…How is Carly?” She asked wanting
him to stop making it all about her.
Sonny: “Carly’s fine as far as I know! But we were talking
about you…”
Alexis: “We were? There’s really not that much to talk
about – I fainted, and now I’m OK!”
Sonny: “You didn’t just faint!”
Alexis: “Why are you acting like this? And why would it concern
you if I fainted or not?”
Sonny: “Why?”
Alexis: “Yeah!”
Sonny: “Because I care about you, alright? Am I not supposed
to care about you anymore – is that it?”
Alexis: “It would sure make it easier…” She added
under her breath, as she walked to the window to look out.
Sonny: “Come again…?” He replied when he couldn’t
gather what she’d just said.
Alexis: “I need to get dressed…” She replied hurrying
past Sonny, and upstairs to her bedroom to escape the effect he
was having on her so early in the morning.
Sonny: “What the hell is wrong with her?” He asked himself
out loud, as he cleared out the breakfast table knowing that Alexis
wasn’t in the mood to eat.
Upstairs Alexis had just finished getting herself dressed in a pair
of blue jeans, a black blouse together with a pair of black sandals.
She didn’t know what to make of Sonny’s sudden change
in behavior. It was as though Carly didn’t exist anymore, which
she did.
Alexis: “How can this be the same Sonny Corinthos, who stood
in my livingroom a few weeks back and agreed with me that we should
just stay friends, and that he should go back to Carly…?”
She asked herself, as she went back in time to that exact moment.
*** FLASHBACK ***
Alexis: “Fact…The fact is things are different. So we
need to act accordingly.”
Sonny: “Do we have to figure it out all…”
Alexis: “Yes, I do, I'm sorry. You know me. I'm in my head.
I think, I think for a living, I think for a hobby. I think while
I'm sleeping, I can't stop thinking. I like things to make sense.
And I…I'm very logical. You know, I'm very left-brained; in
fact, I don't think I have a right brain at all. Whenever I try
to go with the flow…And I have…You know, I get massacred
every time.”
Sonny: “So what are you thinking right now?”
Alexis: “I'm thinking that there are so many thoughts at the
same time that it's just too hard to pick just one.”
Sonny: “OK, so what do you want me to do?”
Alexis: “Let's just be honest with each other.”
Sonny: “Well, I'm trying to be honest. I'm trying, you know,
to respect what's between us and take you into consideration.”
Alexis: “I guess there's just a bunch of ‘I don't knows.’
I'm feeling a little embarrassed because I'm used to being in control
of my feelings and I'm really not. But I will be once the dust settles.
What I do know is that I care about you deeply and…”
Sonny: “Alexis, I respect you. I'll do whatever you want.”
Alexis: “Thank you.”
Sonny: “OK, just so I'm clear, you're still my lawyer?”
Alexis: “Yes.”
Sonny: “Alright. Because, you know, if that's a problem…”
Alexis: “No.”
Sonny: “I can get somebody else. They're not going to be as
good as you are, nobody can be, but I don't want to make you uncomfortable.”
Alexis: “You're not, you don't. I mean, you won't.”
Sonny: “Alright.”
Alexis: “I'm not giving up. I'm just breathing. Go home and
be with your wife. I'm fine.”
Sonny: “Alright.”
*** FLASHBACK ***
Sonny: “There you are…Are you OK?” He asked when
Alexis entered the livingroom again, as Sonny got up from the couch.
Alexis: “Yeah…Listen I need to tell you something!”
Sonny: “What?” He asked, as Alexis kept on hearing Jax’s
voice saying that if she didn’t want Sonny to know about her
lump she needed to push him away.
Alexis: “I know that the fact that you’re here proves
that you care about me just as I care about you.”
Sonny: “That’s right! I want to help!” He explained,
as Alexis walked to the fireplace and turned around to face Sonny
saying
Alexis: “But the truth of the matter is that everything changed
between us when we slept together, and nothing we do can change
that. So I think that the best thing for the both of us would be
for you to go back to Carly and try and live your life…”
Sonny: “…Without you in it? Alexis…I appreciate what
you’re trying to do – I really do but I can’t be
with a woman when I know it’s wrong.”
Alexis: “Wrong? How do you mean ‘wrong’?” She
asked not understanding what he was getting at.
Sonny: “You could probably say that I had a revelation yesterday
– I saw who Carly was, and I didn’t feel as though I could
live with someone like that.”
Alexis: “And I’m someone that you could live with? You’re
doing it again!!” She yelled at him trying to get him off the
subject of them being as Kristina put it ‘meant to be’.
Sonny: “What am I doing again?” He asked not understanding
why she was getting so upset.
Alexis: “I’m not about to become your consolation prize
Sonny! I’ve got better things to do than to evolve into the
‘perfect woman’ for you.”
Sonny: “I’m not asking you for that!! I’m just saying
that I didn’t like the woman Carly had become or the person
I had become when I was with her.”
Alexis: “You were the one, who went back to her! You were the
one, who said that you’d never gotten over her! What happened?
You change your mind?” She asked sarcastically wanting him
to leave so that she could meet her destiny alone.
Sonny: “What’s going on here? One minute we’re having
breakfast together, and the next you’re attacking me? What’s
wrong?” He asked, as he neared her with his arms stretched
out to her.
Alexis: “Don’t touch me…” She replied, as she
walked away from the fireplace, and to her desk to avoid him hugging
her.
Sonny: “You won’t even let me touch you! Now tell me Alexis…Is
it me or is it you?”
Alexis: “It’s the fact that every, single time I think
that I’ve turned my life around a man usually comes along and
blows it all to hell! First Ned and now you; Sonny!”
Sonny: “Are we talking about the same thing here?”
Alexis: “Yes we are! You went back to your wife without giving
it a second thought, and now I’m just supposed to what? Leave
everything, and just leave my life in your hands?”
Sonny: “I’m not asking you to leave your life in my hands,
but I am, however, asking you to trust me with your heart, and allow
me to make an effort in making you happy.”
Alexis: “Do you think this is some kind of soap opera? You’re
a mobster, I’m a lawyer – we’re completely opposites,
and we have been from the first day we met.”
Sonny: “You don’t mean that…”
Alexis: “Try me! When you went back to Carly you merely proved
a point that Ned and Jax have been trying to tell me for years now!”
Sonny: “You’re listening to Jax and Ned’s opinions
about me now? You know that they’re biased!”
Alexis: “They both lost Brenda because of you, but still you’ve
done everything in your power to gleefully tell Jax that Brenda
was married to him when she died. You even attacked him at Chloe’s
funeral! How is that connected to being the kind of man I’d
want?”
Sonny: “A lot of stuff was going on back then. Jax had just
returned from Europe – where he’d tried to find Brenda
– and I was lashing out at him for that – nothing else…”
Alexis: “Nothing else? I want you to leave Sonny…”
Sonny: “Alexis…” He replied walking towards her but
she simply put up her hands with tears in her eyes yelling
Alexis: “LEAVE!”
Sonny: “Fine. But I’ll be back very soon…” He
replied, as he walked out of PH2, and when the door closed Alexis
placed her hands on the door silently asking God if she’d made
the right decision.
