A/N: Set Post-Sectionals and everyone is getting along. I have yet to find the reason why I'm writing this. I guess I felt like it. :
I have another account here but I doubt I'd use it. Anyway, enjoy the fic.
Disclaimer: I don't own GLEE and SONNY WITH A CHANCE and MACKENZIE FALLS. But the image of Mark Salling without a shirt on, definitely is burned in my mind. Too bad I don't own him.
Chapter 1: When the best friend calls and the fashionista overhears.
ENJOY!
"Yes Chad Dylan Cooper, I heard you, Yes, I will visit you there. Yep, and I miss you too" Rachel Berry continued to listen to his best friend's babble about his work, and his daily encounter with that that Monroe girl from the rival show of his Mackenzie Falls.
He said he didn't like that Monroe girl, but Rachel Berry knew better.
"No Rach, for the nth time, I don't like her" Chad whispered from the other end of the line.
He's forgetting I'm part psychic…and a girl. Rachel thought.
"Hey as much as I love you Rach, you're not always the right one in this relationship…" she could even hear his smile on the phone.
"I know Chad, I love you too, but I got to go now, Glee practice in 5 minutes. Sorry"
"Okay Rachel Barbara Berry, I'll be waiting for you here okay? Love you" then he hung up.
"So unless that Chad you're talking to is the Chad Dylan Cooper, I won't even bother about details," Kurt gushed making his arrival noticed inside the Rachel Berry-occupied choir room.
"But it is" said Rachel nonchalantly. Kurt stared at her in disbelief.
"You're messing with me, Berry" Kurt stood before her.
"Actually I'm not, Chaddy is my childhood best friend, actually still my best friend," Rachel explained.
"YOU HAVE NO IDEA ABOUT MY BIG ADORATION FOR CHAD DYLAN COOPER! I HAVE A SHRINE FOR HIM, RACHEL!" he said, more like shrieked.
Rachel looked at him knowingly, but said, "Sorry dear Kurt, but he's straight, and like this girl Sonny Monroe I think is her name? From the show So Random,"
Kurt nodded.
"So speaking of So Random, New Directions will visit So Random for a performance, I initially had hoped to perform at Mackenzie Falls but that show just has too much drama. So Chaddy gave me Marshall's number instead and I somehow talked Marshall in letting us perform at So Random. He agreed and everything is set, we only need Mr. Schue to approve of this."
Surprisingly, Mr. Figgins agreed on a week long somewhat-field trip for the Glee Club, telling Rachel that Marshall and he are good friends in High School.
Probably both were social outcasts. Rachel thought.
"I. CANNOT. BELIEVE. THIS!" Kurt exclaimed.
Me either, Rachel thought. A very talented social outcast is the best friend of a Hollywood teen star, funny how the world goes round, no? She added to that thought.
"Hey Kurt, we have two minutes-or more (she remembered some of her glee clubbers were more often than not, late) - to kill, want to talk to Chaddy?" Rachel asked thoughtfully.
But the fashionista extraordinaire was already busy sketching outfits for his week-long stay at Hollywood and meeting with Chad Dylan Cooper. Adding, "I might as well buy a whole new wardrobe"
Rachel laughed half-heartedly.
Moments later, the rest of the club filed in, except for Puck who was absent for who-knows-why. Once everyone was on their seat, Kurt just couldn't take it anymore and proceed to the front and spoke,
"Guys, we're going to Hollywood!" Kurt shrieked and Rachel was probably dying at the moment.
"Who would what?" Mercedes asked.
"We're going to Hollywood!! Well if Mr. Schuester agrees though," the latter part of his statement added bitterly.
"Of course I'll agree, but how sure is this?" Mr. Schue said, finally arriving for practice, which no doubt will turn into a Hollywood meeting.
"A hundred," Kurt squealed. Rachel took this as an alarm that she needs to tell Kurt that,
"Kurt, can you please not tell anyone that Chad…"
"You see, Rachel here is Chad Dylan Cooper's best friend" Kurt told the other Gleeks.
"…is my best friend" Rachel finished lamely.
A round of oohs and aahs were exclaimed.
Then Rachel repeated everything she told Kurt with the exception of telling the others to not tell CDC and her were the best of friends.
But she was too late, the next day; she was bombarded by random girls with requests to meet Chad. She knew Chad was famous, but not this much. Underrated; everything is underrated here. Rachel thought.
Some Cheerios even offered to go shopping with her, which she politely declined.
By lunch, she was ready to vent out her disbelief with her fellow schoolmates, but failed miserably. Because the minute she sat down, Tina asked her what's Chad's favorite color because Tina was going to buy him a shirt. Mercedes asked Chad's shoe size because she's gonna buy him pair. And Kurt asked his pant size because he was gonna have him a custom made pair of trousers. Rachel can't help but laugh.
They were all so enthusiastic in meeting her best friend, even Quinn asked her if Chad would be okay to be her daughter's godfather. Everyone was excited, except Puck.
Her thoughts on Puck made no more progress because her phone rang.
'Chad is the man' was flashing on her phone screen. For some weird reason, Chad talked Rachel in changing his name on her phone from Chaddy to that.
She picked it up but can't hear a thing because of the noise the students in the cafeteria was making she was about to tell Chad that she'd just call him later but then she accidentally pushed the speaker button rather than the end.
And Kurt happens to know Chad's voice a mile away.
"That…is…" Kurt said shakily.
Rachel nodded.
Kurt then whispered to Santana to let the cafeteria simpletons to shut up because CDC's on the line.
"For all Cheerios who won't shut up, I'll cut all your tanning privileges. And the jocks that won't shut up will lose all their chance with my Cheerios" Santana gruff.
There was a significant tone down of noise.
"The rest, if you won't shut up, there will be a complementary slushie facial every morning courtesy of the Cheerios, the jocks and the Glee club," then silence, you could hear a pin drop.
"Wow Rach, you have AWESOME friends, they did that for you to hear me? WOW" Chad whispered, not knowing he's on speaker phone anyway. Rachel nodded not minding that Chad wouldn't see it. Santana flipped her hair.
"So Chad, why'd you call?" Rachel asked, signaling everyone to be silent. Everyone on the table nodded. Mike and Matt signaled to the other tables as well.
"I'm just gonna ask if you're on for Hollywood?"
"Yes Chaddy, Mr. Schue agreed on it so I might see you in a week or so. And I also kind of… leaked that info already."
"Really? To whom?" Chad asked.
"To my Glee –", Quinn and her vicious hormones shot Rachel a murderous glare.
"I mean friends…and the whole school" the latter part almost inaudible. Quinn smiled.
"That's okay Cherry," Rachel didn't notice Puck's annoyed expression when Chad mentioned her pet name.
"Is it that Rachel-not-famous-girl-from-that-bean-of-a-town again, Chad?" a faint voice appeared in the background.
"Yes, Tawni, it's Rachel-who-will-be-famous-maybe-even-more-than-you-could-ever-be," answered Chad as a matter-of-factly.
Ooh, Tawni, figures. Kurt thought.
Rachel looked up to see her fellow female gleeks, Kurt included, clutching their chest and whispering a silent 'aww'
"Well I've googled her and I'm redirected to this Myspace page with videos of some grandma slash librarian dressed in the dark singing stupid songs! SUCH PITY, anyway, I'm off for some fro-yo, toodles"
The entire cafeteria, Chad included, heard Rachel's sobs.
"Hey Rach, forget what Tawni said okay? You're more beautiful, talented and understanding than she could EVER, EVER BE," gushed Chad.
"Thanks Chaddy," Rachel could practically hear the entire William McKinley High School's female population's hearts melting.
"Got to go, Mackenzie rehearsal Love you Rach," Chad said and even before he hung up.
The entire cafeteria gasped simultaneously.
"So how many people exactly gasped, Rach?" Chad asked, smiling idiotically from where he is.
"Half of the population of WMHS?" Rachel said sheepishly.
"I've been on speaker phone the entire time, aren't I?"
"YEAH," Kurt, Tina, Mercedes, Santana, and Quinn said all together. Brittany was busy explaining to Mike how Ballad was a male duck. (A/N: I never got how this was conceptualized, REALLY, enlighten me, please.)
Chad chuckled.
"SO EVERYONE CAN HEAR ME?" he said, a little louder this time knowing Rachel's acquaintances were hearing him.
"Uh-huh Chaddy, so might as well—"
"Hey everyone, I'm Chad Dylan Cooper,"
"…hang …up… now" she shook her head yet attempted to hide her grin.
A round of 'we know' echoed. A hearty laugh from Chad followed suit.
"Watch out Rachel for me okay?" A lot of 'Sure' were answering him back.
"Okay that's enough Chad, you're going to be late for your rehearsal," Rachel said thoughtfully.
"Yes Ma'am, but because I'm so amazed to hear that awesome gasp of WMHS, I LOVE YOU RACHEL BARBARA BERRY!" Let's just say Chad hung up satisfied…and deeply amused.
"Show's over, get on with your lives," Rachel snapped, but no one seemed to listen.
"Slushie. Facials" Santana hissed, and everyone went back to normal.
"So Cherry, about that Tawni girl, I couldn't agree more with her about your style, because sweetheart those sweaters and button downs must go, but you and your music being a pity is just so wrong," Rachel glared then beamed at Kurt with that statement.
"How about another makeover?" Offered Kurt.
Rachel had this pained expression on her face remembering the events and aftermath of her last makeover.
Seeing this, Kurt whispered,
"This time, no sabotage"
Rachel nodded, evil glint in her eyes, evident.
While the both of them plotted the makeover, and the female population of WMHS envied Rachel dearly, no one noticed Puck leave the room angrily.
Not a single soul.
A little rushed, I know, no dialogue from Puck or Sonny yet. Sorry. Next chapter is either Chad's side of the story or their trip to Hollywood already. What do you guys want?
-staaars. :