ABC of Seduction
Summary: "I know how men operate and I can prove it. If you want it to work out with this guy than you have to do exactly as I say." "What if doesn't work?" "Then I'll quit." "You're really that confident?" Channy. Rated T for a reason.
Disclaimer: I own the world so I own this show! MUAHAHAHA! *Sigh* Just kidding… I don't own anything… Sterling is hidden in my basement somewhere, though. :P
A/N: I couldn't resist… :p I had to post this soon… I'm so sorry… Last chapter I forgot to say, as JateLexzieLit and iOutspoken mentioned in theirs reviews, that this story was inspired by the movie 'The Ugly Truth'. I also wanted to say that the style of writing will be a little different and by different I mean that this story might have some cuss inside and maybe talk about sexual themes but that's just it and the themes won't be rated M so don't worry. :) Oh! Almost forgot! Chad might sound a little more bold than usual…
Anyways! Hope you enjoy it! :D
Chapter 1
"You're such a jerk." Sonny Monroe spat angrily.
"And you're such a diva." Chad Dylan Cooper argued back.
"I am not a diva!" she told him through clenched teeth.
"Yeah and I'm the queen of England." He replied sarcastically.
Sonny glared at Chad for a while. God! She hated him so much that it didn't matter anymore why they were fighting. Speaking the truth she didn't even know why they were fighting at that precise moment.
"Are we done here?" she asked crossing her arms annoyed.
"Oh! We're beyond done." He answered mimicking her.
Sonny knew that was her cue to leave but none of them had intentions to do so. They need the second round.
"Good!" she said.
"Good!" he smirked.
"Good!"
"Good!"
"So are we good?" Sonny asked cocking an eyebrow.
"We're so good."
With that both of them turned their backs and went in separate way. Sonny continued walking with her arms crossed and with her usual bad mood after her daily bickering with Chad. She couldn't understand how someone could be such a jerk and a sweetheart (even if rarely) at the same time.
"Stupid Chad." Sonny muttered through clenched teeth. "Stupid - ow!"
Sonny winced in pain rubbing her stomach and glaring at the food cart standing in the hallway. Sonny assumed that Hayden must have forgotten it again, he tend to forget that stupid cart everywhere since he started dating Tawni and sometimes both of them mysteriously disappear for large periods of time.
Sonny knew that they were probably making out in some janitor closet or something like that but she didn't care about it unless Tawni was late for their rehearsal or in this case when Hayden forgot the food cart and she bumped into it.
"Are you ok?" someone asked behind her.
"Of course not! I bumped into this stupid thing!" Sonny replied in her bad mood not even caring who she was talking with.
She felt a warm hand on her shoulder and finally turned to the person. Her eyes widened with surprise and she forgot Chad and her bad mood immediately. Standing in front of her was the cutest boy she had ever seen.
"I-I…" Sonny managed to say blinking several times.
The boy smiled at her and Sonny lost herself in his beautiful and warm hazel eyes. His messy brown hair and relaxed attitude captured even more Sonny's interest. His worn out jeans, All Stars and a plain white tee told Sonny he was different from all the guys from the studio.
"Hi, I'm Andrew." He introduced.
"Sonny Monroe." She replied.
"I hope you feel better." Andrew told her worriedly.
"Yeah… Slightly." Sonny replied flustered.
Andrew smiled making Sonny's heart melt with all that warmth.
"Hey let me see your phone." He told her.
Sonny was in such in a stars-truck she didn't even pay attention to what Andrew was asking. She just nodded and took her cow phone from her pocket handing it to him.
"I'm studying medicine and my dad is a doctor so if your pain remains you can give me a call." He explained saving his number on her phone.
Andrew gave her phone back.
"So if you're studying medicine what are you doing here in this studio?" she asked realizing what he had just said.
"I moved to LA two days ago to study here and I'm staying with my cousin Hayden, he told me to meet him here but I've been waiting here for an hour now and I haven't seen him yet."
Who would know Hayden had such a good-looking cousin. Sonny thought smiling to herself.
"I'm ninety-nine per cent sure he's with Tawni right now." She told him smiling sympathetically.
"Tawni Hart, right? He doesn't shut up about her." Andrew laughed.
"Sometimes I think we need to throw a bucket of water to separate those two."
Andrew and Sonny continued walking side by side talking animatedly. They wandered around the stage 3's hallways until Sonny heard her phone going off.
"Excuse me." She told him politely.
Sonny took the phone from her pocket and saw a new text.
Sonny! Where are u??? The rehearsal has begun ten minutes ago!!!
-Tawni
"Damn." She muttered shoving her phone into the pocket again. "Sorry Andrew I gotta go."
"What's wrong?" he asked.
"Nothing I just have rehearsal and I'm already late." Sonny explained and ran to the set turning back to wave goodbye to him.
He waved back and she smiled to herself. Sonny couldn't believe how lucky she was and when she turned the corner, making sure Andrew's wasn't seeing, she stopped.
Sonny started twirling around making her 'happy' dance.
"Sonny!" Andrew called making her stop immediately.
"Yes?" she asked hoping he didn't see anything.
"You dropped your wallet." He replied showing her small pink wallet with smiley faces on it.
Sonny smiled and took it from her hand.
"Thank you." she told him.
"Well, see ya around then."
She nodded.
"See ya."
Andrew shoved his hands into his pockets and walked to the opposite direction Sonny was going to, probably to look for Hayden. Sonny walked to the set and Tawni ran to her mad.
"Where have you been?" Tawni spat.
"Around." She replied smiling goofily.
"What's wrong with you?" she asked cocking an eyebrow suspiciously.
Sonny giggled.
"You won't believe the cutie I've just met." She told Tawni earning a big smile.
"Hayden told me about Andrew." Tawni commented during lunch time.
Sonny poked the edible green thing on her plate and then looked at her friend.
"He's really nice." she told her smiling.
"But not as cute as Hayden." Tawni said.
"'Kay…" Sonny replied shrugging.
As Sonny mentioned his name again, Andrew himself entered the cafeteria. Perfect timing. She thought smiling and waved at him he waved back blankly as he walked to the frozen yogurt machine and Sonny sighed dreamily.
"Girl! You've got it bad!" Tawni said mimicking what Sonny had told her a few weeks ago.
"I know!" she replied sighing.
Other person with perfect timing entered the cafeteria. Chad Dylan Cooper. Sonny glared at him for a while and then she started poking the green thing again.
Chad smirked when she saw her. Usually he wouldn't push Sonny's buttons twice in such a short period of time but what he heard Tawni said was priceless. He walked to their table and he could see Sonny looking at him by the corner of her eye.
The blond heartthrob placed his hands in the back of Sonny's chair and leaned down so he could whisper in her ear.
"I couldn't help but hear your little conversation." He told her.
Sonny glared at him.
"So… Who's the guy you have the hots for?" Chad asked looking around trying to guess.
"Yes… Like I would tell you." Sonny replied blankly.
"Oh! C'mon, just a clue!" he begged smirking.
Sonny looked at Andrew for the corner of her eye. She knew Chad too well to know she couldn't trust him. Yet she was dying to rub on Chad's one million dollars face the perfect boy she had just met.
"Well then," she replied surprising Chad, who didn't expect Sonny to give up so soon "he's smart, handsome and really nice-"
"Seems like you're describing me." Chad commented interrupting Sonny.
"Believe me, I'm not." She replied coolly.
"Proceed." He told her smirking amused.
"He's studying to be a doctor and unlike you he's really modest." Sonny finished.
"Yeah… He's gay." Chad replied shrugging.
"What?! No he's not!" Sonny spat defending Andrew "Two minutes ago you asked me if I was describing you!"
"That was until you told me he was studying to be a doctor." He told her.
Sonny just looked at him confused and Chad sighed in annoyance.
"That means he's going to stick his fingers in people's -" He explained.
"Oh! Gross!" Sonny interrupted him by smacking him on the chest.
"Just saying!" Chad said raising his hands in defense "Only gays would like to do that."
Sonny rolled her eyes and got up leaving the edible green thing in her plate shaking. She walked out the cafeteria leaving Chad back smirking.
He followed her. Chad could leave her alone now… After all he had just started. He saw her entering into her dressing room and entered behind her. Sonny sighed annoyed.
"What do you want now Chad?" she whined turning to him.
"So… The butt boy asked you out?" he asked ignoring her question.
"Not yet, we just met and by 'we just met' I mean this morning. I want to take things slow." Sonny answered sitting on her vanity. "Why am I even talking with you about this?"
"You even sure he's going to ask you out?" Chad teased.
Sonny glared at him and took her phone from her pocket. She looked in her contact list and pressed 'call'. Chad looked at her confused.
"What are you doing?"
She didn't reply and her phone started ringing. He understood what she was doing.
"What are you doing?! Why are you calling that guy? He's supposed to call you!" Chad hissed.
Sonny shushed him and after a few rings someone finally picked it up.
"Andrew." The voice answered loud enough for Chad to hear.
He stared at her in disbelief.
"Hi Andrew this is Sonny." She replied smiling and then looked victoriously at Chad. "We met this morning." She added.
"Hey… Everything ok?" he asked. "How's your stomach?"
Chad walked to Sonny and leaned against her phone so he could hear better.
"Couldn't be better!" she replied smiling "I'm just calling you to let you know how much I enjoyed to meet you this morning."
"Hum… Thanks…" he said.
"I think we should go grab something to eat sometime…" Sonny told him.
"Oh!"
"The Arcade is really good and we can also play some games if you want to. So… What do you say about Friday?"
"Hum… Friday… Wow…" Andrew replied.
"Would Saturday be better?"
"Actually Sonny… The thing is that I haven't really settled in here in LA -" He started.
Before he finished Chad took the phone from her hand and hung up. Sonny looked at him mouth opened.
"What the hell are you doing?" she asked.
"Saving you. He was blowing you off." Chad explained.
"He wasn't blowing me off!" Sonny argued back trying to reach back for her phone.
Her task was unsuccessful since Chad was taller than him and held it over his head.
"Don't do it ok!" Chad told her "He'll be expecting you to call him and when you don't he'll call back."
Sonny gave up and he Chad handed her the phone.
"How do you know?" she asked looking suspiciously at the phone.
"Because I know how men operate. If you want it to work out with this guy then you have to do exactly as I say."
Sonny looked over at him in disbelief and Chad continued.
"You've probably already done irreparable damaged with your psycho-aggressive-control freak phone call, it might even be too late and even if you save this situation, you may be known as Sonny the desperate girl from the TV."
"I'm not desperate!" she argued back and then she looked worriedly at him "Did you think I sounded desperate?"
Chad sat on the orange couch and looked at her amused.
"You just asked desperately if you sounded desperate." He replied shrugging.
Sonny sighed and her phone mooed. She was almost pressing the button 'answer' when Chad stopped her.
"Ok," he told her quietly "although you don't want to admit, you know that I know what I'm talking about." Chad said pointing at him.
Sonny looked at him.
"I told ya he was going to call." He added smirking making her sigh.
"Ok, what do I say?" she asked.
"Pick up the phone and say 'hi Mike'."
"Why w-" she started but Chad cut her shortly.
"Just do it!" He insisted.
Sonny glared at him and finally answered the phone. Chad, like he did previously, leaned against the phone so he could hear their conversation.
"Hi Mike." She said.
"Oh… No… This is Andrew."
"Oh my God! I'm so sorry!"
"Perfect!" Chad whispered smiling.
"Hum… Who's Mike?" Andrew asked.
Sonny covered the phone so Andrew couldn't listen.
"He's just a guy I'm seeing. Nothing serious." Chad whispered.
Sonny nodded.
"He's just a guy I'm seeing it's nothing serious." She repeated.
Chad showed her a thumb up.
"Oh! Ok…" Andrew laughed nervously on the other side of the line.
"Hang on a second." Chad hissed.
Sonny looked at him and he nodded with his head. She said a muted 'Oh!'.
"Hang on a second." She told him.
"Sure." He replied.
She pressed the hold button and turned to Chad. He just yawned and Sonny looked impatiently at him.
"Now what?" she asked.
"Let's make him wait. If he hangs on for more than thirty seconds you may actually have a chance." Chad explained "No one's gonna wait for someone who was trying to blow off." He added.
"I hope you're right about this." Sonny told him sighing.
"Just give me some time and I'll make this guy your bitch." Chad said smirking confidently.
"I don't want a bitch, he's not a bitch." Sonny quickly replied "He's a well rounded guy capable of mature emotions and to love someone things you know not of." She finished shrugging teasingly.
"Maybe not but I do know about lust, seduction and manipulation, things you know not of." Chad argued back.
Sonny narrowed her eyes and looked in the opposite direction.
"Sonny I'll make you a deal." Chad said making Sonny turn to him "If you do exactly as I say and you get this guy you'll have to say that I'm the best actor of our generation every time we see each other for a whole week."
"What if doesn't work? What do I get?" Sonny asked cocking an eyebrow.
"Then I'll quit."
She looked surprised at him hoping to see him starting laughing and say 'sucker' but he didn't even blink.
"You're really that confident?" she asked.
Chad just nodded and looked at her phone to see for how long Andrew was still holding.
"It has been holding for more than thirty seconds." He replied smirking.
Sonny checked her phone and looked back at Chad.
"Alright deal." Sonny gave up sighing "Now what?"
"Now this," Chad said taking her phone from her hand and hanging up. "Make an impression."
He started walking to the door.
"Now move on, we've got work to do." He told her.
"But… What about…" Sonny began pointing at her phone still in Chad's hand.
"In five seconds he'll call back, c'mon." Chad replied gesturing with his hand to make her follow.
"What are you? A psychic?" Sonny laughed at her own joke but has she finished speaking her phone mooed again.
She looked at Chad in pure amazement and he smirked.
"Amazing!" she muttered still a little shocked as Chad pushed her off the dressing room.
A/N: Gah! Finished it… :P Hope you liked it! :) And for those who didn't know about this story I had a promo story for it. It's on my profile with the trailer and link to the actual trailer in YouTube (but unfortunately they decided to mute my video… :( I'm really sorry!).
Sorry for using the B-word in the first chapter, I thought I could use puppy or doggie instead but that wouldn't sound very much Chad…