Sonny and Brenda

My love for romance books came from my granny, and so did my love for General Hospital.  She called it ‘our show’ and every time I sat down to chat with her we’d discuss what was going on and what our favorite characters were doing.  

The last time I spoke to my granny was ten years ago when she’d been rushed to the hospital after a fall.  The injuries she got in that fall were extensive.  She was conscious but not really aware, and she was in extreme pain.  When I sat down at her bedside and held her hand she seemed to focus on my voice.  As long as I was talking she was calm, so I sat there with her for hours and just talked about everything and nothing until they took her off to surgery.    

While I was sitting at her bedside with my family, I didn’t know what to say through my tears so I just went back to all the conversations we’d had through the years about ‘our stories’ and the books we loved.  I spent hours talking to her about the characters on General Hospital and the different trials and tribulations they’d gone through along with some of my favorite romance novels and the stories they told.  

One of Granny’s favorite characters on General Hospital was Sonny, and she was convinced that he needed to find Brenda and make things right.  He’d pushed her away, and Granny just knew that Brenda was out there somewhere waiting on him to come back to her so they could live a happy life together.  

I decided to give them that, but in Rojo rather than Port Charles, and I’d put in some personal details while I was at it.

Years ago, I dated a man who looked alot like Maurice Bernard, the man who plays Sonny on GH.  He was taller, but he had that beautiful caramel colored skin and black hair, and when he grinned he had the sexiest smile with a dimple in each cheek.  Unlike Maruice Bernard, this man had a condition called Segmental Heterochromia, along with a white patch of hair right at his widow’s peak.  He was a strikingly handsome man with blue and brown eyes, who was quiet and guarded but when he smiled at me his dimples appeared and the sun shone brighter in the sky.  He almost always wore sunglasses, sometimes even when he was inside, because he was very sensitive to bright lights and he didn’t like it when people stared at him.  

He was a bad boy too, just like Sonny Corinthos, and when he went away like the Sonny from my book, I didn’t wait for him.  I never even considered it.  But as we all do, whether we’re willing to admit it or not, I wondered what might have been if I’d stuck by him and waited for him to come home.  

That was the premise of Sonny’s book.  It’s based on what could have been, because we’ll really never know.  But, Sonny and Brenda, at least my version of them, got their happily ever after.  And the bonus is that they had the Knights and the Kings to help them through it.

Sonny and Brenda on GH still aren’t back together, and I suppose they never will be, but the ones in my book are living a happy life.  

I’m pretty sure Granny would like my version much better.