Sonny Falls
What if Mandy never left So Random!, and Sonny was never asked to join the cast? What if, instead, it was Portlyn who left Mackenzie Falls? And what if, being the huge Falls fan that she was, Sonny auditioned for a part on the show? Well, you get…Sonny Falls!
Prologue
"Oh. My. God. Mom!" yelled a very excited Sonny Munroe from the lounge in the small apartment she and her mother shared in LA.
"What's wrong honey" shouted Miss. Munroe, panicking.
"Nothing's wrong, mom, everything's right! That bitch, Portlyn, she threw a Diva Fit and quit the Falls, and they are holding open auditions for a new cast member. They said preferably a brunette, with brown eyes and a big smile! That's me, mom! That has to be me! I want to audition for Mackenzie Falls!"
"That's great honey, but don't get your hopes up. Mackenzie Falls is a very popular TV Show, and there will no doubt be millions of brown-haired brown-eyed girls with big smiles who also want to be on their favourite TV Show."
"What are you saying?"
"I'm saying that you only have a very slim chance, next to none, and is it really worth auditioning only to be crushed when you don't get the part?"
"When I don't get the part? You mean, you don't think I'm good enough? Aren't you the one that always says that you'll never win if you don't try 'cause you're too afraid of losing? Aren't you the one that says to always follow my heart, no matter what, 'cause that's the only way I'll ever get anywhere? What happened to that?"
"I know, I know. Listen, Sonny, I'm not saying that you shouldn't do this, but I am saying that you really need to think about it. If you do get the part, what about school? What if it doesn't work out, or the show is cancelled, and you have no options because you quit school before you got any qualifications?"
"There's a schooling programme at the studios. And there's no way that they would ever cancel the Falls. If it's not working, they just fire everyone, and get a whole new cast. Since the show began two years ago, this is the fourth cast. Well, Mackenzie is still the same guy, the absolutely-gorgeous-but-completely-stuck-up Hollywood bad boy Chad Dylan Cooper."
"Okay, then, I'm still not convinced, but if this is what you really want, I guess I'll stand by you."
"You don't need to be convinced, mom. We can deal with all that stuff if I get the part. As Grandma would say, don't count your chickens before they hatch!"
"Yes, but when you're grandma said that, she was actually talking about chickens!"