A/N: Hey guys! No, I'm not dead, and yes, I'm still working on my other stories, but this popped into my head, and I just couldn't resist.
This moves along faster than any story I've ever written, but I'm glad with how it's going so far ^^
I got this idea in the middle of the night, and it's not beta-ed, so forgive any mistakes I left in there, just review or PM me if you find any.

The first chapter is sort of sad, but tell me whet you think anyway, R&R!

dedication: I simply love Zora, and there aren't enough fanfictions about her. She's funny, weird, brilliant and creepy all in one! That's why I this fic is dedicated to Allisyn Ashley Arm a.k.a. Zora. You're brilliant! ^^

enjoy!


Pride comes before the Falls

Chapter one: A seed planted

Third person POV

Sonny had always been proud. She didn't show it often, but she was, she just couldn't help it.

When she was little, she was proud of the finger-paint painting she had made. So much so that she had put it on the porch for the whole neighbourhood to see.

She was proud when she wrote her first song, she was proud when she made her first joke, when she had her own website, when she joined So Random! …

The point is, she was proud. But she had never thought of it as a bad quality, in fact, she often thought of it as the trait that gave her her self confidence.

But the day it cost her the love of her life (probably), she never hated it more.

It began the day before, in the Condor studios cafeteria, where she and her fellow cast-members were eating a late breakfast.

Sonny POV

"Oh, God, here he comes again," I muttered under my breath.

"Who-?" Nico started, but he needn't have asked.

"Randoms," The oh-so familiar voice of one Chad Dylan Cooper sounded right above her head.

"Good morning, Sonny," he greeted in a much too sweet voice.

"What do you want, Cooper," I asked with clenched teeth, already annoyed with him, as he brought his head to her right.

"I'm just wishing you a good morning. It is a sad day when a handsome, talented, smart, creative-"

Man, he was pissing me off! I know! I swore, just let me be okay! "Get to your point, Chad!" I yelled.

"-genius as myself can't wish his friend a good morning," he finished.

I was taken aback. "You think of me as your friend?" I asked him incredulously.

"Why of course I do, otherwise I would've never talked to you so much. Well, toodles," he said and walked off.

I looked at the guys for back up, but only Zora was still sitting there, pointedly ignoring me.

"Hey, Sonny?" His voice sounded again. I turned to look at him, just in time to see him roll an apple over his arm and shoulder and then bouncing it off his other elbow right into my hands.

"Catch ya later," he said and walked out of the cafeteria for real this time.

"What just happened?" I asked no one in particular.

"Bonding," Zora said from behind her trigonometry book.

"What?" I shrieked. How could she think that? Bonding? Me and Chad?

"Simple; Chad was nice to you for no particular reason, he wasn't mean to us, and he gave you something without expecting something in return," she explained, still with her nose in her book.

"But what about WIIFC? What's in it for Chad?"

"He changed," Zora said calmly, closed her book, and walked out.

I sat silently for a while. Could Zora be right? Had Chad really changed?

Later, Chad POV

I sat in my dressing room, shaking slightly. I'd never just been nice to my Sonny, and although it felt good, I didn't know what she thought.

Someone knocked. "I'm busy!" I yelled.

"It's me, moron," Zora replied as she walked in.

"Oh… Well, what did she say?" I asked, in desperate need of some good news.

"The seed is planted, and all it needs right now is some time, water and sun. Me being the water and sun being you," she smiled.

"You know, you really creep me out," I commented to the youngest star of So Random!

"I creep everybody out," she responded with a mischievous glint in her eyes. She put her fingertips together, and for a second I thought she was going to do the evil laugh.

"Well, thanks anyway, I do want to be friends with Sonny," I changed the subject.

"You're welcome," she said and glided backwards toward the vent.

Another second and she was gone.

… Who was I kidding? I didn't want to be Sonny's friend, I wanted to be more, that's why I called her my Sonny but I wasn't that dense that I didn't get that it was never going to happen.

If I couldn't be her boyfriend, I'd have to settle for the next best ting.

In the meantime, prop house, Sonny POV

"Hey guys," I said as I walked in.

Grady and Nico were playing some video game while Tawni was checking her reflection in a cooking pot. … Why was there a cooking pot in the prop house?

The game was paused immediately, and Tawni redirected her attention to me, which made me feel sort of uncomfortable.

"What's up, guys?" I asked in a nervous voice.

"What's up, is that we know your little secret," Tawni said.

"What?" my voice was getting high again.

"You like Chad," Grady accused.

"What? No! I do not like Chad!" I protested.

"Then prove it, I dare you to kiss Chad, look him in the eyes and tell him truthfully you didn't feel a thing." Tawni's voice was menacing.

"What? No! I will not kiss Chad!" They didn't actually think they could make me do that, did they?

"Fine, then you're off the show. Until you do it, I'm going to make sure you won't be doing anymore sketches." Apparently Tawni was the spokesperson, since all the guys did was nod and look angry.

My mouth fell open, They couldn't do this to me! … And yet, they just did. Damn.

"Oh, fine, I'm going to do it right now!" I said angrily, and stomped out the door, closely followed by my co-stars.

We made our way swiftly to the McKenzie Falls set, where I walked onto the ongoing scene, grabbed Chad by the front of his clothes, and crushed my lips to his.

I hadn't thought I'd feel anything, much less this much emotion. Our lips danced together, and Chad put his arms around my waist. One of my hands rested around his shoulders, while the other grabbed hold of his hair in an attempt to bring his closer to her.

And that's when I realized it. I didn't want to let go. If the world ended right there, I'd be perfectly happy, because nothing else mattered, but that I was kissing Chad, and that he was kissing back.

I was getting lost in the kiss as Chad gently bit my lower lip.

But then reality slapped me in the face. For months I had told everyone I didn't like Chad, that I hated him even. I wanted so badly to break the kiss and tell my friends and the whole world that I'd finally fallen for Chad Dylan Cooper… But I was proud. I didn't want to be wrong, and I didn't want my friends to look at me with disgusted expressions…

'Time to girl up, Sonny' I told myself, and broke the kiss.

Only now did I realise how quiet it had gotten on the normally busy set. I swallowed hard and tried not to think of the heartache I was already feeling, of the heartache I was going to inflict on the boy I loved.

I pulled out my best acting skills, cleared my face and looked Chad right in his beautifully blue eyes.

"I didn't feel anything," I said quietly, turned around and walked out. My heels being the only sound on the otherwise quiet set.

Ten minutes earlier, Chad POV

"Mr. Cooper, you're up," a stage hand announced.

I got ready to give another excellent performance, and got out there.

It was a monologue this time, but three minutes after the director had yelled 'action', my Sonny and her crew stomped in. I wanted to say anything, but Sonny looked so cute, being all angry. That was the main reason I like getting on her nerves, she just looked so beautiful.

I prepared myself for a long speech about something I did wrong, but the next moment, my beautiful, cute, funny… my Sonny had crushed her lips to mine, and all reason melted from my brain.

I don't know how long the kiss lasted, it could have been three seconds, but it could just as well have been three hours. I loved this feeling, it was like nothing I'd ever felt before.

Unconsciously, I put my arms around her petite waist, and felt her hand in my hair, and the other on my shoulders. Hungrily, I bit her lower lip, and tried not to moan as her tongue slid over my teeth, requesting entry, which I gladly granted.

And then she was gone. She had broken the kiss. In her eyes I could see the lust dripping away, being replaced with worry and finally, guilt.

All this happened in less then a second.

"I didn't feel anything," she whispered, her sweet breath tickling my face. She turned around and walked out, her heels making the only sound in the otherwise silent room.

A/N: Tell me what you think! don't worry, there's a second chapter, but I just couldn't resist letting you sit on the tips of you chairs ^^

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Anne-Lilian