CHAPTER FIFTY-ONE

GROOM’S ROOM, QUEEN OF ANGEL’S CHURCH:

Sonny(as Mike enters)What are you doing here, Pop. Shouldn’t you be getting ready to walk Carly down the aisle to me? I really appreciate you acting like the father of the bride for her. And I hope after Carly and I are married you’ll treat her like a real daughter. You two have had almost as rocky a start as her and I have had.

Mike: I’m here to make sure this is what you really want to do, Michael. Are you sure marrying Carly is what you really want.

Sonny: Why would you ask me something like that.

Mike: Because this reminds me too much of your wedding to Lily and that ended in disaster.

Sonny: Mike, this is nothing like my marriage to Lily. I was forced to marry Lily, but I want to marry Carly.

Mike: Do you really? Or do you just feel obligated to marry her.

Sonny: Mike, you weren’t around me much as a kid, but even you should remember how stubborn I was. And I’ve only gotten moreso as I’ve grown older. Why would I be marrying Carly out of an obligation. Our baby is dead. There’s no obligation.

Mike: What about Jason?

Sonny: What about him?

Mike: Didn’t you promise him to look out for Carly and Michael. Is that why you’re marrying Carly. Because you think you owe it to Jason.

Sonny: Mike, claiming I got Carly and Michael out of the Quartermaines was only for Jason was a convenient excuse for me. Jason’s call was a godsend for me. It looked like I wouldn’t be allowed to raise my own child and there was nothing I could do about it. Then Jason called and gave me the ammunition I needed to get what I wanted. I have news for you, Mike. Jason never asked me to look after Carly and Michael, I just said he did to get what I wanted. The only thing Jason asked me to do was to get Carly and Michael out of the Q’s, so they could go and live at the Brownstone with Bobbie. After that my obligation was supposed to be over.

Mike: Just what are you saying?

Sonny: That everything I’ve done is because I wanted to do it, including marrying Carly.

Mike: What are you saying, Michael? Are you saying you’re in love with Carly.

Sonny: Mike, why do you have to bring that word into it. The last thing I want to be is in love. You’re starting to sound just like Robin.

Mike: Did she say something about this?

Sonny; She accused me of being in love with Carly.

Mike: So is it true?

Sonny: I’d be a fool to be in love with her when I know very well she’s in love with Jason and she told me she would never love me. It would be hell being in love with someone who didn’t love you back.

Mike: Are you saying you are?

Sonny: I’m not saying anything and you‘d better not say anything to Carly, either, if you know what‘s good for you. Now I think it’s time you left so I can finish getting ready.

OUTSIDE QUEEN OF ANGELS CHURCH:

Tammy: So what did you want to see me about? Can we make this quick. I don’t want to miss watching Sonny getting married.

Chloe: Now that we’re out here I don’t know where to begin.

Tammy: How about at the beginning.

Chloe: Tammy, this is going to sound crazy, but I think you’re life is in danger.

Tammy: What makes you think that?

Chloe: During Sonny and Carly’s wedding rehearsal when I looked at you, it was like I was looking at a corpse.

Tammy; Gee, you sure know how to flatter a girl.

Chloe: No, you don’t understand. I was having a psychic vision of your future. If you don’t listen to me, death is your future.

Tammy(trying hard not to laugh)A psychic vision? Who put you up to this? It was Sonny, wasn’t it? He thought it would be cute pulling my leg, like this. Or was it Mike.

Chloe; No one put me up to this. Tammy, I have psychic powers. I have these psychics dreams that keep coming true. I dreamt about the first victim the Sex Toy Stalker killed as he was killing her.

Tammy: I don’t mean to put you down, honey, but you’re talking to a non-believer here. I don’t believe in any of that mumbo jumbo. And I pity anyone else who does.

Chloe(grabs Tammy by the arms and starts to shake her)I’m telling you the truth. You’ve got to listen to me. If you don’t you’re going to be the Sex Toy Stalker’s next victim.

Tammy: I don’t have to do anything. Now let go of me. You gave me your warning, now leave me alone.

Bobbie(comes out of the church) Chloe, the wedding is about to start. We need you inside.

Chloe: Tammy, if you don’t take my warning seriously you’re going to die.

Tammy(watches as Bobbie and Chloe disappear back inside the church)What a kook! Psychic visions! Oh, brother. (she starts to head back inside the church)

Helena(steps in front of her)Not so fast, Ms. Carson.

Tammy: What do you want?

Helena: I told you I’d make you pay for trying to thwart me. You really should have listened to Ms. Morgan. She was right. You’re going to die.