Simply Sonny: An SVU love story

Chapter 61: New

After dinner, the MC comes back on stage to thank every group for their donations and for the work they've been doing in the communities. When he's done talking, the doors open to the silent auction and the dance floor is open. When Sonny is done talking to Diana he comes over from behind and wraps an arm around my waist, "wanna go put some bids in?"

I look at him over my shoulder but then nod. He takes my hand and we walk over. The first two are very lavish and we joke about our offers, "I mean, I could totally use a speed boat. What do you think, 300$?" I pick up the pen as if I'm going to write that down.

"Make it $250, it's a year old." He jokes back. I pretend to write down our information and we continue walking and looking at all the bids. We come to the table with my company's cruise tickets and Sonny picks up the pen, "what do you think we could offer for these? $1000?"

"A thousand? That's a lot of money Sonny." I return in a whisper.

He shrugs, "I guess but if we win this could be our honeymoon and then it'd be a really good deal."

"We don't need to go on a fancy honeymoon, I don't care about that," I tell him. We've talked a few more times about dates and he's slowly convincing me to have that New Year's Eve wedding. However, we never talked honeymoon. I always just assumed we'd take a long weekend upstate or maybe fly to Florida for the beach for a weekend.

"Come on, we need to make an offer on something. This is perfect." He argues kindly.

I shake my head, "if you're gonna make an offer then make it like $500. We can't spend too much money on this, we still need to plan the actual wedding." I remind him.

"Okay," he nods and starts to write.

When he's done he slips the paper into the box and turns to me with a smile. I ask, "how much did you bid?"

"$502" He winks.

"That two dollars is coming out of your Thursday cannoli night fund." I tease him. He chuckles and we keep walking and looking at the rest of the items.

As we walk back into the main room, Sonny stops at the edge of the dance floor, "dance with me?"

"To this?" I ask back, listening to whatever current pop song is playing that I don't know. He nods and smirks, lifting his arm up for me to take, "are you serious?" I question more. He just keeps himself positioned the way he is and I decide to suck up whatever embarrassment I might have and agree. I take his hand and he wraps his fingers around mine. He pulls me close to him and I let him lead us in a slow swaying motion.

"I have an idea" He pulls just a bit away to meet my eyes. I keep his stare as he says, "whatever the next song is, that'll be the song we do our first dance to." I laugh and shake my head a little thinking he's joking. He says "I'm not joking."

"What if it's something weird like the cotton eye joe? Or like a rap song?" I ask him with my mouth hanging open just a bit.

"We'll come up with a dance if we have to. Come on, it could be a lot of fun!" He tries to push the idea onto me.

I squish my nose and want to say no but it does actually sound like something that could be fun. I grit my teeth as I say, "okay, fine." He beams with pleasure at his idea winning me over and we continue to sway slowly to the upbeat pop song still playing. When the song starts to come to an end, the DJ gets on the microphone and calls to all the couples. I perk up a little, figuring we might actually get a song that's decent for a wedding song. Sonny's face almost matches my surprised one and we smile at each other as we wait to hear the song. The song changes and after hearing a few notes I sigh with relief and utter lowly, "I love this song."

Sonny whispers, "I know" as we continue to dance, now more in the middle of the floor.

"Did you do something?" I ask him curiously.

He shrugs the shoulder that my left hand is resting on, "I may have stopped by the DJ booth when I went to the bathroom before."

"You sneaky jerk, you planned it!" I tease him, not actually upset about it. He just keeps a smile on his face and leads me. When the song is close to ending I try and get on my tip toes, already a bit taller due to my heels and I whisper into his ear, "let's get married on New Years."

He pulls away and his eyes are glistening with joy, "yeah?" He asks. I nod to confirm and his lips are quickly against mine. He pushes hard where I can't kiss back and when he pulls away he quickly says, "I can't wait to marry you."

"Me, too," I reply, feeling as if things might actually turn around for me. He kisses me again and leads me off the floor as the song ends. We grab another round of drinks and sit back down at the table. We talk with a few people but as the wine starts to hit my head I slip my heel off my right foot and begin to use it to rub it against his calf. He doesn't skip a beat as he talks to Lori and Liam. I throw out a comment to act as if I'm engaged in the conversation but I decide to up my game just a little. I put my shoe back on and grab myself another glass of wine, only this time when I return I sit more across from him then next to him and start up a conversation with Cheryl. After a few minutes, my shoe is back off and my foot is back to rubbing at his lower leg. I begin to slowly inch it up towards his knee and spend some time going up and down there. With still no evidence of him being affected by this, I push my foot up further, rubbing it against his inner thigh. His eyes flicker over to mine for only a few moments before he tries to focus again on the conversation. I smirk, agreeing with whatever Cheryl just said and return my foot to his inner thigh. I can see the muscles in his face tense as he tries to focus on what's happening above the table but I keep the pressure on as I literally put some pressure against his thigh, making his leg move.

He coughs and says out, "I need another beer, can I get anyone anything?" He stands up and stares at me, hiding a smile. As everyone declines his offer he moves to walk towards the bar. I do my best to discretely put my shoe back on and excuse myself from the table. I meet Sonny at the edge of the room as he waits for me, leaning against the wall, "what are you doing?" He asks coyly.

"Nothin'" I simply respond, hoping he's getting my message. This is a bit of new territory for us and I'm interested to see how he takes it.

He leans down and says lowly into my ear, "sure felt like something to me. Wanna get outta here?"

"Yes," I nod as I answer and we both smile wide.

He takes my hand and walks quickly to the table. We say our goodbyes using Sonny's job as or excuse, "they're going to announce the winners, you don't want to stay to see if you won anything?" Lori asks as she hugs me.

Sonny answers as they hug, "they'll call if we win. I really should get home."

"Addison, we're going out after. You should stay, come out with us." Cheryl calls out from where she's seated.

Lori smiles and nods, agreeing to the idea. I try and gently put them down, "no, I'm going to call it a night. But thank you for inviting us tonight. It was a lot of fun. I'll see you guys on Monday." We wave as we leave, and the moment we get into the lobby area, Sonny lowers his hand from my waist to my ass and squeezes it just a bit.