Hours later @ Tatiana's PH

The group had just come up from dinner, and the girls were in the kitchen making coffee.

"So how did you and Tati meet??" Lucky asked

"I was running behind her one morning, made her nervous and she tripped over a rock and bruised her ankle. We've been running together ever since" he told them. "Look I know you guys are probably worried about her, but you have nothing to worry about. I've known from the minute I laid eyes on her that I was falling in love. Now I just have to convince her"

Just as he finished the girls walked out of the kitchen. Liz went and sat next to Lucky on the couch, Gia next to Nikolas on the couch across from them. And Tatiana went and sat with Johnny on the over sized chair at the end of the couches. They sat and made small talk. Liz talked about how excited she was to start work, they talked about Gia's new job and they all avoided the subject of Sonny. But Tatiana could tell with each lapse of conversation it was the question on everyones mind.

"Somebody ask already??!!" she during a lapse of conversation. "I know ya'll want to know."

"Know what??" Nikolas asked

"How Tati knows Sonny, and what happened this afternoon" Lucky told Nikolas "and she's right we do want to know, at least I do"

"me too" Liz agreed "I just didn't want to pry"

"Well it all started on a cold dark rainy night in october..."Tatiana started but was stopped when her sister threw a pillow at her "Ouch"

"Tell the truth Cornball"

"Fine I was just trying to add a dramatic element to it" Tati stuck her tongue out at her sister "Anyway Mikey or Sonny as ya'll call him and I have friends since I learned to walk and best friends since like age 2. We did everything together. At least until Deke came into Adellas (she pronounces it Adeya's) life. Deke was a hateful person, and soon Mikey became a distant person, no longer wanted to hang out, didn't want me to come see his mom. But after awhile I broke through that. Reminded him that this was me he was avoiding. The one person besides his momma that would love him until the end of time. For a while things were cool and then he became mean. He would yell at me, break plans and call me names. Just as things were getting real bad my papi, that's my dad, asked Gia and I to come visit him over the summer. So we could get to know the rest of our family."By now Tatiana and Gia are crying. Johnny has his arms wrapped around her waist. "and he told me that for all he cared I could go down to Georgia and never come back. That he didn't like me anymore and hadn't liked me for awhile but figured I'd be an easy lay someday. And I still didn't learn. But when he blew me off on my 16th birthday, that was it. Mikey and I had spent every birthday together since I was 4. So I did what he wanted, I left. I had planned to leave that summer but left that weekend instead. Never came back home and hadn't seen him until the we had lunch with Hannah and AJ"

"HuH??" Gia said.

"Remember when Hannah was going on and on about her wedding, well I felt someone watching us and when I turned to look it was him and Johnny" she said pointing at him.

"Why didn't you say something??" gia asked

"Like what Giana??" she asked "look thers the the guy that broke my heart and didn't even know it"

"you have a point" gia said

"thank you"

The group resumed thier small talk until about 1:30 am when they started to get sleepy. "i don't know about ya'll but I'm tired. You guys can stay here there are 2 extra rooms"

"Thanks I'm sleepy too." Liz said as she helped Lucky up and lead him in the direction that she was pointing to. Nikolas and Gia followed, they had never slept in the same bed before but they were too sleepy to care.

Johnny pulled her close to him, he didn't want the evening to end. And thought it might be to forward to assume he too was spending the night. They both sat there loving the way they were feeling wrapped in each others arms. Before long they were asleep.

About an hour later, Tatiana woke up. "Come on Johnny, lets go to bed. You can't possibly be comfortable in that chair."

"with you in my arms. I'm comfortable anywhere" he told her.

"Okay come on romeo" she said as she pulled him up. When they got to the room, Tatiana went to her drawers and pulled out a tank top and shorts. "you want a tshirt" she asked him

"Nah I'm cool" he said unsure of himself, he always slept in just his boxers.

Tatiana kept her back to him and changed. He couldn't help but watch her. When she was finished she brushed her hair and pulled it up into a ponytail on the top of her head. She turned around and went over to the bed "I know you don't sleep in that suit" she told him as she climbed under the covers.

"your right I don't" He told her, he began to take of his jacket slowly.

"would it be better if I turned around" she asked "or would you like help??" she asked as she sat up.

Johnny felt his mouth go dry "help?" he managed to ask.

"Yeah, help" she said as she knelt in front of him and began taking his tie off and unbuttoning his shirt. He captured her lips in a kiss as she slid his shirt off first and then his pants. Johnny slid out of his shoes, took off his sock and stepped out of his pants. Never breaking contact for more than a couple of seconds.

He pushed her back on the bed, and covered his body with hers. She held him closer loving the way his body felt against hers. After a few minutes of some heavy kissing and petting the couple stopped.

Tatiana laid on her side, and Johnny slid up behind her and wrapped an arm around her waist. They were back asleep in no time.