07-22-2016 (Friday)

Cristina brings Parker breakfast in bed… Morgan wakes Kiki up, kissing her – he didn’t sleep all night.  Parker asks Cristina if she’s okay; she says, more than okay (she says, she thinks she finally felt the difference between just having sex and making love).  But then she gets all embarrassed, and Parker makes her feel even worse by telling her it “was just a moment” and she has to get back to her life.  Cristina had hoped it meant something; (I think it did) but Parker says she has so much going on and it’s “all kinds of inappropriate” and encourages Cristina to keep exploring herself, saying if she just decides that she’s the one, she will never know if she is really Gay (personally, I don’t see why that matters).  I really like that they added this storyline.  

So, Kiki doesn’t look nearly as happy as Morgan is, and she makes several comments that lead me to believe this is all FOR HIM; she feels like he needs her, so she is with him.  While, she would really rather be with Dillon; the chemistry is definitely there with those two.  But it appears that she is willing to sacrifice her own happiness to keep him ‘okay.’  

Morgan shows up at work and talks with his dad, who was already there ‘getting to know’ Alex(?) the owner of Perk’s (and Cristina’s current boyfriend).  Sonny tells Morgan to be careful of those highs, and to stay on his medicine; Morgan promises he will.  Cristina tells Parker she doesn’t care about “labels” (go girl) and says she just wants to worry about tomorrow, tomorrow.  She likes her and they are here, now.  She kisses her goodbye.  

On Cassadine Island, Ava pretends to be interested in their captor – after he shot Nikolas, he figures that’s her best chance.  They start making out, lie down of the bed, and Ava reaches for a heavy book on the nightstand, grabbing it and whacking him with it (not very convincingly); still, he falls to the floor and comes up with his forehead bleeding.  Ave runs for the door, but she is stopped by another guard; meanwhile, downstairs, the four captives (Laura, Kevin, Dante and Lulu) make a plan for escape, at least for one of them.  They cause a distraction by fighting with each other and Lulu makes her way out of the room, toward a secret passage.  In there, she gets lost and trips over a skeleton.  Laura shrieks when Ava tells her the man shot Nikolas; she tells him he just as well kill her to.  He raises the gun, saying it was a pleasure; Kevin pushes her out of the way and is shot in the right shoulder.  Laura is stunned.  Morgan realizes he forgot his meds in the hotel room; Sonny offers to get them, and happens to step around the corner, just as Cristina is kissing Parker goodbye.