Chad Dylan Cooper's world came crashing down when the words 'Your Fired' rang in his ears. Mackenzie Falls was his life. That is what made him Chad Dylan Cooper, before he was just Chad Cooper. He was living in the small town of rural Richfield, California. He was the good boy who always did what he was told, and was never arrogant. But then he came to Hollywood to be Mackenzie in the new show Mackenzie Falls, he started to change with all the fame going to his head. He believed he was still the same at heart, but was totally different out. Mackenzie falls was his entire life. Nothing- nobody over ranked it. He was Mackenzie. He couldn't get over the fact that he wouldn't be Mackenzie anymore. Someone else was going to take over the job. Being Mackenzie wasn't a job to Chad, it was a.. honour. Being someone, who he wished he was all the time. And getting to know the person inside and out was even better. Even if the person you are trying to get to know is a character your playing, you still grow attached to them.
But someone else was going to be Mackenzie! Chad's Mackenzie, someone else was going to play him! What if they didn't get the role right? Mackenzie would be ruined! Chad couldn't be fried, he didn't do anything wrong…technically. All he did was ask for a couple things. He didn't think he was being unreasonable.
Chad needed to tell Sonny. She needed to know this. It was important, and Chad Dylan Cooper's girlfriend of now almost two months deserved to know this. Chad decided to walk over to the So Random! prop house, because 90 percent of the time that is where she was. The other five percent was rehearsal, then the last five was her dressing room. Chad walked the little distance over to the prop house. He peeked his head in the doorway. Sonny was sitting on the couch, looking beautiful. She was reading a book.
Stupid Sonny. Always making Chad melt. He started to move into the room. Sonny's brown head of hair looked up, and started to smile. But when Chad didn't smile back, she knew there was something wrong.
"Chad, is everything okay?" Sonny asked worried for her boyfriend. She had never seen him like this before. He was sad. What had happened? He never looked like this before!
"Sonny, I don't know how to say this to you…" Chad said. He sat down beside Sonny. She looked at him with her melting brown eyes. He didn't know how to tell her.
"Chad you can tell me anything. You know that. What's the matter?" Sonny asked again. This time she made her voice more serious, but with a tinge of sadness in her voice. She didn't know what had him so sad. She hoped it wasn't him breaking up with her. She knew it could be a possibility. But she tried to think of it not being that.
"I… I got fired." Chad said. His voice broke. Sonny couldn't believe what she just heard. Chad got fired? What did he do? ….What did he do this time?
"Chad, what did you do?" Sonny asked. She put just enough confusion in her voice.
"Well apparently I am too greedy when asking for things. I just wanted a couple things, seeing as how I am the greatest actor of our generation I thought I deserved it. Then Mr. Condor fired me." Chad said, trying to stay strong. He didn't want to cry in front of Sonny. It would show how unmanly he really was. And in Chad's case that was very unmanly.
"Chad, it will be alright. You can find something else to do…" Sonny said trying to comfort her obviously sad boyfriend.
"No it wont Sonny. Mackenzie was the only role I was really good at. The one that I really connected with. Without the show, without Mackenzie I cant stay here. I think I have to leave, Sonny." Chad said. This was hard to say for him, and probably harder for Sonny to listen to right now.
"What? Chad, no. You cant leave. There has to be a different thing you can do without Mackenzie." Sonny tried to reason with him. He would just shake his head.
"Sonny I know what I am doing, you wont change my mind. Will you come with me? I am going to New York.." Chad said. A tone of hopefulness dragged into his voice. His blue eyes sparkling.
Sonny shook her head with disappointment. "No. I have So Random!, my mom is here. I cant move Chad."
Chad looked down. He nodded. "Fine. But that doesn't mean I am not going to leave. I am still leaving, Sonny. There is nothing you can say or do to make me stay. I need to move on with my life, and if that means moving to New York, then that I will do. I need to move on. I got fired, maybe that is a sign…" Sonny knew it was hard for Chad to explain everything he was saying. She knew he didn't want to leave. She knew that he was really torn up inside. Mackenzie was his life, he became Mackenzie when he was just thirteen years old, and he connected with him. She knew he wouldn't be able to forget about Mackenzie. The only thing she didn't know was why he had to leave, when he could try to forget here…
"Are you sure this is what you have to do, Chad? I don't want to lose you…" Sonny said. Tears were starting to form in her eyes. She knew she shouldn't try and whip them away, because they would come back. She let them fall down her face, to her cheeks.
"Yes I have to leave Sonny. Hollywood, isn't home for me anymore. I need to get out of here. Try different things. I need to leave. And you wont lose me Sonny. We will still be in touch.. I promise you that." Chad said passionately.
"Okay. If this is really what you want, then go." Sonny said. It hurt her to say that right then and there, but she knew that if she loved him she should let him go, and if he loved her he would come back.
Chad wrapped his arms around Sonny, then leaned in for a kiss. He then walked out of the prop house. He went to his dressing room, started to pack from there.
Chad didn't know why Sonny wouldn't come with him. It hurt him. Hurt him bad that his girlfriend wouldn't follow him wherever he went. Maybe that was a sign too, maybe they weren't supposed to be together. But that was nonsense, they had gotten through the first two months without any problems, why start now? When Chad finished packing all of his belongings, into boxes, he looked at the time on his phone. It was nearly eleven. He got into his phone and drove home. He intended to get a goodnights sleep before he left. He needed to say goodbye to is family before he left.
Chad opened the door to his house. He walked up the stairs and got into bed. He closed his eyes, immediately going to sleep.
The next morning, Chad's alarm clock rang at eight. He laid in bed for a couple moments. Then went down the stairs. His mom was in the kitchen cooking breakfast, and his father was reading a news paper at the kitchen table. His mom smiled when he got down the stairs.
"How is my Chad this morning?" She called when he entered the kitchen.
"Not good actually. Yesterday I got fired. And since I cant live my life here if I am not Mackenzie… I am moving. I am going to New York. I am sorry I waited until now to tell you, but I needed to pack all my stuff in my dressing room last night, and I didn't get home till a little after eleven." Chad explained. His mom dropped the wooden spoon she had been using out of shock. His father looked at him with a questioning glaze. He put his news paper back down on the table and walked towards his son.
"What?" He asked.
Chad sighed. "I got fried, so I need to move. I wouldn't be able to live my life here anymore. Mackenzie means to much to me. I need to forget. I am eighteen now, I am legally able to move out. I am sorry. But I need to do this." Chad explained once again, but this time in less words.
Chad could see his mother's tears escaping her eyes. "I am so sorry Chad!" His mother sobbed into his shoulder, as he hugged her.
His father looked at him. "Well son, if that is really what you want to do, then there is nothing me and your mother can do about it. Promise us that you will be safe, and that you know what you are doing." his father said.
Chad could see the hurt in his father's eyes, even though he tried hard to hide it, it was there. "Don't worry Dad, I do. I will miss you guys. If Sonny comes here, tell her I left already…" Chad paused. "I cant deal with her telling me to stay again."
"Sonny isn't coming? I for sure thought she would be coming too." His mom said.
"No, she didn't want to. She wanted to be with her mother, and her geek friends. But I am going to go. All of my boxes are in my trunk already. I will miss you mom and dad." Chad hugged both of them. Then walked out of his home. He closed and locked the door. He drove past the Condor studio's sighing. He thought to himself that he would never see this place again.
So... do you like it? I hope you do... i got this idea from Danni1989. Who is also my sister.. ANYWAYS, i hope you like this Angst and Drama fic. MOstly Angst for the first little while. So please review!