As the limo started to drive off from the hotel Tamia found herself relaxing as she listened to the jazz music float to the back. She leaned back in the seat and closed her eyes enjoying being by herself even if she wasn’t really by herself. Tamia was asleep before they even made it through the first traffic light.

Meanwhile in the front

“Is everything okay boss?” Johnny asked. Sonny had been sitting there with a confused stare on his face ever since he hung up his phone.

“Huh?” he said looking at Johnny “oh yeah, this was nothing. Some guy calling to tell me people are talking about Carly on the streets.” He told him as he put his phone is jacket pocket.

“Your not worried?” Johnny asked concerned

“Not about Carly, more about Tamia.” He told him absentmindedly. “For some reason I just don’t feel like she’s being totally honest with us. Like when I went to go get her I could have sworn I heard her several male voices but when she opened her door it was just her and one other guy.”

“Do you think she’s dangerous?”

“That’s just it…. I’m not sure” Sonny hated to sound unsure in front of one his men, but he figured this is Johnny and he was more of a friend then an employee so it was okay. They drove the rest of the way in silence.

After they parked the car, Sonny got out and opened the door to let Tamia out. Inside Tamia was curled up on the seat, covered in Sonny’s suit jacket sound asleep. There were very few moments in Tamia’s life where she was unguarded and vulnerable this was one of them. Sonny couldn’t help but think how pretty and innocent she looked curled up on the seat unaware of everything around her as she slept. His mind immediately went to Carly. Just last nite he had found Carly and Micheal lying on the floor of his playroom asleep. It was obvious they had fallen asleep while playing and watching a movie. They were the only two people in the world he knew that could watch TV and play at the same time.

“She’s beautiful,” Johnny whispered as he picked her up out of the limo. “Yeah she is” Sonny agreed.

They rode the elevator in silence not wanting to wake her up. When they got to the penthouse Sonny told Johnny to just lay her in Michael’s room. “That way Micheal can wake her up when he gets home” he offered Johnny as an excuse.

Just as Johnny was walking down the stairs, Micheal came bursting in. Sam the doorman had told Leticia that Sonny had just gotten home and Micheal was excited to see Tamia. Sonny had promised Micheal this morning that he would bring her home with him this evening.

Michael’s face fell when he ran to the couch and Tamia wasn’t sitting there. “Where’s Mia??” he asked the disappointment evident in his face as he climbed on the couch.

Sonny went and sat down next to him and pulled him onto his lap. “Hey buddy, didn’t I promise you that she would be with me when I got home?”

“Yea” he answered still pouting

“Have I ever broken a promise to you before?” he told Micheal it was important to Sonny that Micheal knows he would never lie to him.

“No” he told him leaning back on the only man he knew as his dad.

“Well, I’m not about to start now” he told him as he started to tickle his “son”. Tamia wiped the tears that were beginning to fall as she watched from the stairs. She missed her son so much, but being around Micheal made her feel better he was so sweet and full of life. Micheal started to giggle and squirm, he loved it when his dad was “silly” with him. “When we got here Tamia was sleepy so since we didn’t know when you were gonna decide to come home she went to take a nap in your room so you would know where to find her.” He explained to Micheal.

“Tamia is here!!” Micheal said getting excited.

“Yes, sir. She’s in your bed, why don’t you go see if she’s awake,” he told Micheal. As Micheal climbed down from Sonny’s lap, Tamia slid back into Michael’s room and back to bed.

Micheal tiptoed into his room, “Mia are you still sleeping,” he whispered as he walked towards his bed.

“Hey handsome” she whispered acting like she was just waking up. “How long have you been home?”

“Not long” he said sounding like he was grown as he climbed into bed with her. Within seconds they were both asleep.

After a few minutes Sonny decided to go check up on the two of them. Whenever the two were together you would think it was a room full people judging by the amount of noise the two made, but instead there was complete silence.

He couldn’t help but smile when he opened the door and saw the two of them fast asleep, it also for some reason broke his heart. Tamia didn’t’ look as innocent as she had in the limo, now it looked as if her heart was breaking. Sonny shook his head in confusion he didn’t think he would ever really know Tamia, and wondered if Carly even really knew the person her childhood best friend had turned into.