A/N: Alrighty so I have decided that in addition to the many many multichapters I already have going I'm going to start writing another one! Except, this one's different. I'm going to set my ipod to shuffle and whatever song comes up I have to write a oneshot about. So each chapter will be a one shot with no relation whatsoever to the chapter before it. Some might be Channy, some migh be friendship, who knows? Anyway, I challenge you to try it also! BTW I don't really like this chapter, I think I didn't really write it as well as I could've.
Disclaimer: I do not own SWAC or For Good from the Broadway musical Wicked
Sonny's POV
I walked onto the stage with Tawni, Nico, Grady, and Zora for the very last time. Over the few months I'd been here, it seemed that each sketch was even less funny than the first. Eventually I guess Mr. Condor decided it would be best just to end the show. Can't say I agree with him, but there's no use trying to change his mind.
I've heard it said, that people come into our lives for a reason. Bringing someting we must learn and we are lead to those who help us most to grow if we let them, and we help them in return.
I was really going to miss everyone, but I have to admit I was going to miss Tawni the most. We'd grown really close almost like best friends. And I couldn't stand not being able to see my best friend everyday.
"Tawn," I said as we sat in our dressing room for the last time, "I'm really going to miss you."
By now I had cried so much that I had used all my tears, but I still felt the prickly feeling of being on the verge of crying.
"I'll miss you too Sonny," she admitted looking at the ground, "You're the closest thing to a best friend that I have. I know we can keep in touch and all, but it really won't be the same."
I nodded in agreement and looked ahead at the wall. Just trying to take a mental picture of everything, so I would never forget it. I started to drift off into thought.
Tawni, as self centered as she was, had taught me a lot. She'd taught me what it's like to be famous from when you were born. She told me about having a super star mom, and having that mom as her agent. I learned that even the ones who have it good, have it bad. She really helped me to appreciate my life. I had a mom and a dad that loved me, even though my dad stayed in Wisconsin. My brother stayed too, I thought I had it bad when they refused to come. When I talked to Tawni about it, she helped me see it in a different perspection. She showed me how great my life is, compared to hers. Her mom was a super star and although she loved her, she was always busy. She'd never met her dad, apparently she was the result of a one night stand. And her sister died in a plane crash fifteen years ago. I never believed you could learn anything from friends, until I met Tawni. I thought friends were just people who kept you happy and who you liked to be around.
Well I don't know if I believe that's true. But I know I'm who I am today, because I knew you.
"Why don't we get our last fro-yo?" Tawni asked solemnly. I agreed and called out to Zora, "Wanna come?"
She agreed and we all walked down to the Commissary together in silence. None of us were happy enough to speak. I was going to miss Zora too, I really was. She'd taught me some things too, for instince she taught me cold cut catapults work with cheese. And she also taught me how to be a good friend, she'd taught me things I didn't know an eleven year old girl could teach. She really was someting different, and I was lucky to meet her.
Like a comet pulled from orbit, as it passes a sun. Like a stream that meets a boulder, halfway through the wood.
What if my real purpose for coming to So Random! wasn't just to make tweens laugh, what if it was to meet the cast.
Who can say if I've been changed for the better but, because I knew you, I have been changed for good.
Tawni's POV
As we walked together in silence on our very last fro-yo run I started to think about someone other than myself. I started to think about Sonny.
She was a good friend, she'd showed me how horrible I was to people. Of course, I wasn't just going to change my ways but Sonny made me want to. I'd never told anyone, but I secretly used to like Chad. After so many failed attempts at getting him to like me I gave up. Then Sonny comes along and she doesn't even have to try to get him. She was everything I had ever wanted to be. She was kind, naturally pretty, always positive, and just all around friendly. I found it hard to be that way and I was so hoping her kindness would rub off on me in time, but now Mr. Condor had taken away that time.
It well may be, that we will never meet again in this life time. So let me say before we part, so much of me is made of what I learned from you. You'll be with me like a hand print on my heart.
I had no idea where life was going to take me now, or if I would even still be an actress in a few years. I knew that it wasn't going to go the way it had been before Sonny. She showed me all these other different careers that I'd never heard of. Lawyer, accountant, producer, doctor, hairdresser, the list goes on. I actually wanted to be something else now, after so long in Hollywood I wanted to move to Wisconsin and be an accountant or doctor. Sonny really changed me, I don't think there is anyway to thank her for everyting.
And now whatever way our stories end, I know you have re-written mine by being my friend.
As we reached the Commissary doors I stopped. "What if we can convince Mr. Condor to let us continue the show. All we have to do is write a really funny sketch!" I exclaimed, happy with my own idea.
Sonny and Zora's faces lit up and they nodded furiously. "Oh, I know let's do a parody sketch. We could Tween Titans or Louisiana Banana!" Sonny exclaimed clasping her hands together excitedly.
"What?" I asked putting my hands on my hips, "Louisiana Banana?"
"You know! Hannah Montana!" she replied as she pulled me by the wrist down the hall. Zora followed quickly behind.
I laughed inwardly, she'd also shown me a real person. All the people I knew were fake Hollywood wanna-be's. Sonny was real, she was innocent and sweet. It was too nice.
Like a ship blown from it's mouring by a wind off the sea, like a sead dropped by a sky bird in a distant wood.
We walked with a spring in our step to the Prop House where we found Nico and Grady half heartedly making a house of cards.
"Guys! We have the perfect way to get our show un cancelled," Zora exclaimed running up behind them. Thus causing Nico to jump and bump into Grady who in turn knocked over their house of cards.
"And that would be....." Nico said giving Zora the evil eye.
"Write a really really funny sketch, just to show him we still got it!" Sonny announced as she sat on the sofa with a pad and pen and began writing something.
"Alrighty, what should it be about then?" she asked looking at us all expectantly.
"I know! I know! It should be about a group of kids who find a magic banana. The magic banana has to be brought to a shepherd or the world will be covered in a cloud of cotton candy," Grady said smiling at his own idea.
Sonny and I exclaimed a glance and I shrugged. "Worth a shot I guess," I sighed plopping down next to Sonny.
Who can say if I've been changed for the better, but because I knew you I have been changed for good.
We worked for a long long time on the sketch but in the end it turned out to be pretty funny. Just as we were finishing up Marshal and Mr Condor walked in.
"Great news kids! We decided not to cancel your show," Marshal anounced with a huge toothy grin.
We all exchanged looks before bursting into laughter. Sonny got up, still laughing, and handed Marshal our sketch.
"You kid's still got it! I want this to be the first sketch in our next show," he laughed as he and Mr. Condor walked away.
Sonny and I walked back to our dressing room, talking and laughing about everything that happened on the show.
"Thanks Tawni," she said as our laughter died down.
"For what?"
"For everything, everything you've ever showed me and done for me. You're my best friend," she said stopping in front of our dressing room.
"Oh well I am an excellent teacher," I joked, "and thank you too."
I have been changed, for good.
