IT'S ANOTHER TURBULENT WEEK FOR SONNY AND CARLY

Sonny comes upon Mike and Carly in the park as Mike is asking Carly to get money from Sonny to pay his gambling debts.

The fur began to fly when Bobbie came upon Roy and Carly flirting with each other. Mother Bobbie was not amused. Sonny jumped in the fray and tried to explain Carly was only trying to make him jealous, a charge with Carly denied by retorting, "In your dreams, Sonnyboy." Then Roy admitted he was just trying to teach Carly a lesson and he wasn't serious. Mother Bobbie was still not amused, while Sonny found the whole thing hilarious. His dimples were proof of that. Once Sonny and Carly were sitting at a table together she claimed she'd been flirting with Roy because he reminded her of Jason, a claim that did not please Sonny one little bit. However, they ended the evening by Sonny escorting Carly back to the Brownstone.

Into the already trouble-ridden relationship of Sonny and Carly, more trouble came into it in the form of Mike Corbin. He's in debt big time due to his gambling and he asked Carly to go to Sonny and get $40,000. The catch is he doesn't want her to tell Sonny it's for him, because Sonny would go ballistic if he knew Mike was gambling again. Mike pulled out all the stops to get Carly to agree. If Sonny finds out there could be a mob war. He also told her that Sonny misses her, but he'll never admit to it because he's too afraid to open up to anyone because he doesn't want to get hurt. A blame which Carly laid directly at Mike's door for what he did to Sonny when he was a child.

Sonny showed up right in the middle of Mike's pitch for money, and Mike left without getting an answer. Then Carly probed Sonny about how he feels about his father. He confided in her about some of the things Mike did to him as a child because of his gambling, but said he'd forgiven Mike because Mike is no longer that man. Which prompted Carly to agree to get the money for Mike, not wanting him to know the truth about his father.

On Friday, as Sonny prepared dinner for Michael and Carly he confided in Alexis that he intended to ask Carly to move back in with him. Alexis questioned Sonny's decision to spend the rest of his life with a woman he doesn't love, and Sonny declared he's been in love and love doesn't work for him. But when Carly and Michael arrived Sonny couldn't help it and slipped that he was glad to have Carly back in the penthouse, if even for a little while.

Over a pasta dinner that Baby Michael loved by the way he was shoveling it into his mouth with his hands, Sonny and Carly discussed attending pre-school with Michael on his first day of school. Then they put Michael to bed together. Afterwards, Carly got down to the nitty-gritty. She told Sonny she'd found a house and needed a $40,000 down payment. Sonny was not pleased about the news that Carly wouldn't be moving back in with him, after all.

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