The relationship between Sonny and Catherine start in the hot month of August and continues throughout the fall and winter season. Both like the company of each other or maybe it’s the sexual they both feel towards each other. Sonny begins to take her out where his friends are. He also starts to bring her out with his friend’s girlfriends as well. She’s happy that he is showing him off as his’ and he is happy that he has the girlfriend who everyone loves and gets along with. In December, with the holidays around the corner, Sonny asks Catherine if she would like to go to see the Christmas tree in Manhattan with his friends in a few days. He tells her that if she were to come, Mathew, his friend, will also bring his girlfriend, who Catherine knows through most of her girlfriends. Mathew never bought his girlfriend out with his friends for some unknown reason. Catherine loved the idea of seeing a beautiful, enormous lighted tree outside in the city that never sleeps with her love. Her love that initiated that he wants her to go with him.
The night everyone is supposed to go see the tree, Sonny comes to Catherine’s house to pick her up. He takes her to his house where his friend is waiting in his car with his girlfriend. Catherine sits in the back with Lydia, Mathew’s girlfriend. There was another friend that was also coming with them to Manhattan, who was already sitting in the front passenger side. Sonny ended up sitting next to Catherine in the back, the whole time touching, tickling, and holding her. She is content, even with the fact that everyone is there with them and they had no privacy. She is pleased that she means something to him where he brings her out with his friends and that they also like her enough to hang out with her.
Eventually after entering Manhattan, everyone sees the tree and decides to get the infamous chicken and rice across the Hilton hotel. While the girls stay in the car with Mathew, Sonny and the other friend goes to get five plates of food. After ten minutes, they come back with hot containers of food for everyone. Sonny never talked while eating, so of course he finished quickly and went outside for a cigarette and his friend followed. “Oh my god, what are you guys doing here”, a voice comes from the right side of Lydia’s window. Everyone turns and sees a mutual friend of both Catherine and Lydia, Lauren. Lauren looks intently at Catherine when she asks the question because she knows that she rarely goes out with Lydia. “I called Catherine and asked her if she wanted to come with us to see the tree and then we decided to get some food”, answers Lydia.
Catherine was still unsure of what to say because no one knew that she was dating Sonny. She knew in her heart no one would like the fact that she was with someone that she had no future with. But she realized at that moment a bigger truth. She was ashamed to be with Sonny because he had nothing going on for him; no career, no education, and an alcohol problem which he wasn’t willing to get help with. Catherine just shrugged and replied Lauren, “why not see the tree instead of sitting home”. Everyone is now back in the car, ready to head home. Sonny takes his seat next to Catherine in the back while Catherine is physically sitting next to him. Mentally she is thinking that no one can know about the two of them. She didn’t want to answer anyone if questions were going to be thrown at her as to why she was with him. She looks at Sonny one last time that night and then stares straight ahead for the rest of the ride home.
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good. I think because it has a lot of backstory to give, the action gets a bit lost for me. Up until the moment when they are touching in the back seat, it's mostly backstory. That's fine, but in a longer story you'd probably have given us most of that information already, and so you would be able to start this scene at a more dramatic moment--when he comes to pick her up or even when they're already in the car. I also think it's hard to read the final moments at this point--the girl knocking on the window seems to be the pivotal point to her pulling away fro Sonny, but at least in this scene it's not quite clear why. If you plan on filling us in later or earlier that's fine, but right here it seems unclear.
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