Michael Corinthos and Starr Manning

== BACKGROUND== STARR MANNING IS A BEAUTIFUL BLONDE WHO JUST WENT THROUGH A TERRIBLE LOST. MICHAEL CORINTHOS IS A TYPICAL MOB PRINCE. AS SOON AS THEY MET THEY CLICKED.

MEETING
STARR AND HER FIANCE COLE THORNHART WERE DRIVING THROUGH PORT CHARLES WITH THEIR LITTLE GIRL, HOPE, WHEN THEY WERE HIT BY ANTHONY ZACCARHA. BOTH CARS CRASHED. STARR GOT OUT WHILE COLE AND HOPE WERE STUCK. STARR ASKS ANTHONY FOR HELP AND HE SAYS THAT HE CAN'T BECAUSE SONNY CORINTHOS WAS AFTER HIM AND THAT HE SHOT HIS TIRES OUT. STARR WAS RUNNING BACK TO THE CAR WHEN MICHAEL SHOWED UP AND HE PROMISED HER THAT HE WOULD SAVE HER FAMILY. AFTER MICHAEL COULD'T DO THAT HE COULDN'T BRING HIMSELF TO TELL STARR, WHO HAS BEEN KNOCKED OUT. STARR IS DEVASTATED AND WAS DETIRMINED TO MAKE SONNY PAY.

PRISON
STARR GOES AFTER SONNY WITH A GUN AND IS ABOUT TO SHOT HIM, WHEN MICHAEL SHOWS UP. STARR BACKS OFF OF SONNY AND MICHAEL PRESSES CHARGES. STARR IS SENT TO PRISON AND HER DAD IS NOT HAPPY. HER DAD, TODD MANNING, MAKES A DEAL WITH SONNY THAT IF MICHAEL DROPS THE CHARGES THAT HE WOULD KEEP HIS MOUTH SHUT ABOUT SONNY'S GIRLFRIEND, KATE HOWARD. MICHAEL DROPS THE CHARGES AND STARR IS RELEASED FROM PRISON.

FOURTH OF JULY
ON THE FOURTH OF JULY MICHAEL TAKES STARR TO THE QUARTERMAINE'S AND WHILE THEY WATCH THE FIREWORKS THEY KISS AND THEY DECIDE TO TRY DATING TO SEE HOW IT GOES.

TELLING THE PARENTS
MICHAEL'S MOM, CARLY CORINTHOS-JACKS, AND STARR'S MOM, BLAIR CRAMER, IS FINE WITH IT, BUT THE DADS AREN'T. TODD IS SPECTICAL ABOUT IT AND SONNY DOSEN'T LIKE THE IDEA AT ALL BECAUSE OF HOW STARR PULLED A GUN ON HIM. KATE TELLS SONNY THAT SHE THINKS ITS GREAT AND THEN SONNY SEES THE BRIGHT SIDE.