I don't even know what this is, to be honest. It started out as a line, and that line turned into a paragraph, which eventually became a oneshot, and somehow it evolved into a proper story :P

Me don't own SWAC, the characters, or any of the lines from the show that I may use at any point in this story. Well, have fun reading!

Chasing Sunshine

Chapter One: Missing

Chad Dylan Cooper was bored. Mr Condor had decided to give everyone a month's break after all the drama that followed the Tween Choice Awards, and it was only the third day of this aforementioned break, but Chad already hated it because he had nothing to do. He was lying on his bed in the master bedroom of his massive mansion, and flicking through television channels, looking for something decent to watch. His eyes widened when an image of Sonny suddenly appeared on the huge TV screen, and he stopped channel-surfing. He sighed – he hadn't seen her since their oh-so-dramatic breakup, the day after the awards… Not that he cared anymore, of course. He began listening to what the entertainment news channel had to say about her nevertheless.

"America's television sweetheart, Sonny Munroe, has mysteriously gone missing." At this point, Chad let out an involuntary gasp of shock, but caught himself and continued to listen to the woman on the screen speak, "No-one knows for sure where she is at the moment, or why she suddenly left. Police have been searching for her since she was reported missing one week ago. A source close to her says she'd been depressed ever since her rocky relationship with Hollywood's bad boy, Chad Dylan Cooper, ended, and she's been driven to suicide by it, but no proof of this has been found."

One week ago. One week after the break-up.

That couldn't be true, could it? Chad couldn't help but feel a little worried. What if there was some truth to this? What if Sonny hadn't been able to handle living without him, and had actually gotten so depressed that she killed herself? He hoped she hadn't, because sure, he liked his image of being a sexy badass, but the idea of being imprisoned for indirect murder wasn't exactly very appealing. That would either do wonders for him, or kill his career completely, and he wasn't prepared to take such a risk.

The reported continued, "Other sources tell us that her ego got the better of her, and she couldn't bear to see Mackenzie Falls winning a Tween Choice Award over So Random, or watch her boyfriend win instead of herself."

Now, that sounded a little more believable. He rolled his eyes, and sighed. Egotistical bitch. The girl was no better at handling defeat than Chad himself!

The woman spoke again, "A source close to Sonny believes that after breaking up with Chad, Sonny found out that she was pregnant and decided to escape from the spotlight to avoid her good-girl image being destroyed. Of course, Chad would've known about this, but with an image like his, he doesn't have anything to worry about!"

Chad knew that story was total fiction. They'd done nothing of that sort, and she couldn't possibly have been pregnant – unless, of course, she'd been cheating on him. That was a possibility, and so he decided that he was glad they'd broken up; a decent person like Chad Dylan Cooper would never want to date her if she was like that.

And only to add insult to injury, the TV channel was showing a part of one of Sonny's mini-interviews, from the day after 'Channy' broke up, in which she was whining about how selfish he was. Chad had seen it that very day and was cursing her afterwards. (He regretted that now, however, in case something bad had actually happened to her.) The fact that they'd broken up was irrelevant, but there was no way she could just go and talk about him like that in public. Well, she could, because she was Sonny. She was annoying like that.

But none of that mattered. The bigger question was, where had she gone?

Chad didn't know, and he kept telling himself that he didn't want to know. For a moment, he'd managed to convince himself that he didn't care at all. But he knew he had to find out, otherwise the curiosity would probably just kill him. And maybe, just maybe, he still did care about her a little…

Well, that's all. Let me know what you think so far! Leave a review, PM me, I don't mind as long as you give your opinion. :)

-Sarah :D