AUTHOR'S NOTE: "Two Weeks Notice" – A Channy Fan-fiction. I don't own Sonny With a Chance, its characters, or its plots. I also don't own any RENT lyrics. However, I use them. I do own what I've written in this fan-fiction, save the previously mentioned. No infringement intended. Rated T, just in case. Here's chapter one:
Chad Dylan Cooper and Sonny Munroe are more than clearly attracted to each other. But past wounds, hurt feelings, and the love-hate between the two have built up a wall that founded itself on the very first day of their acquaintance – the day Chad Dylan stole Sonny's yogurt. It's true she'd seen previews of his show previous to her joining the cast of "So Random;" however, they were simply previews for an over-dramatic show she'd never watched with an unattainable hunky star she'd never planned on meeting. Following her acquaintance with the triple-named "tween" drama star, their relationship – if you could call a barely-friendship such a thing – involved nothing more than insults, sarcasm, sass, faux-offense, and the combination of Goods and Fines. But somewhere between the charmed smiles from Sonny and the eye-twinkling from Chad, the two had become something more than just two people that had shared (unwillingly from one side) yogurt – they'd become each other's crushes.
To tell Sonny or Chad that they were in love with the other would result in denial and prepared, lengthy explanations including reasons as to why a relationship between the two would never work – you can ask Selena Gomez, if you don't believe it. She encountered first-hand their high-pitched "no" and false laughs. But Selena's not a dumb, Hollywood bimbo – she could see through Sonny's amateur acting attempt and Chad's inability to filter what his brain sends to his mouth. She saw before the stars themselves that their previous ignorance of each other wouldn't last. But even to this day, they don't believe her words.
However each has admitted their feelings in some way or another. In fact, right in front of Selena they both admitted to finding a quality of the other attractive. On another occasion, they sat under the stars together (granted, it was for another reason irrelevant to their relationship, but it was nevertheless a show of it), plotted together, and Chad pretended to be going out with Sonny to get an ass hole of a co-star off her back (and Tawni's) once and for all. But all these signs were seen as acts of friendship; favors, if you will. Nothing more.
Their relationship is a game. Back and forth they play – pushing to feel something more than friendship, a spark – never realizing that through the process they're falling in love. But what happens when one of the two does, in fact, realize it? When they finally admit to themselves that the other is more than just a friend (if ever they were a friend in the beginning)? Do they reveal it to the other? What if it's too late?
Who do you think you are, leaving me with my guitar? Hold on, there's something you should hear – it isn't much, but it took all year.
Sonny Munroe was softhearted. She acted hard-hearted more often than not, but her intentions were always good – as they were when she went to go knock on Chad Dylan Cooper's Mackenzie Falls (or Mac-Falls, as it was more recently referred to as) studio. He hadn't answered his phone the two times she'd called today (with a ten minute interval in between), or the six times she'd texted him. She'd been informed on a previous occasion that he had two phones, and only his most vital contacts had the exclusive number. It had offended her a bit at the time, but now it was simply annoying. What she had to talk to him about wasn't a life-or-death situation, – though the number of exclamation points she'd attached to the latest text message may have posed otherwise – however it was of some importance that Sonny got in contact with Chad before the day ended. Or before the next two weeks ended.
The wall of banned actors from the Falls' studio was numbered five less since the camp-out in the woods that the two shows had embarked upon not long ago. It didn't lack the much-outdated picture of Zac Efron that sat up there longer than those of Sonny and her co-stars had.
Sonny knocked on the door, not sure that anyone inside could hear such a small sound. "It's Sonny," she shouted from outside, hoping someone inside would hear that. "I'm looking for Chad, is he there?" A few seconds later, Chad appeared on the other side of the door, opening the portal from between them.
"C. D. C. At your service," he said in a less-than-serious tone. Sonny almost rolled her eyes as he bowed, and gained a few laughs from his Mac-Falls co-stars. He was garbed up in his show's uniform, unnecessary since they weren't shooting today (the schedule was posted outside the door).
"I'll make this quick," Sonny offered, not wanting to be late for lunch – it was Meatball Monday. "I'm moving back to Wisconsin." She bit the inside of her cheek, not really sure to how he would react to this. Usually she could predict his sassy comebacks, or his sarcastic wit, but this news had to have hit him unexpectedly. And responses in situations like this one – though she'd encountered very few with Chad – were unpredictable.
Chad just furrowed his brow, almost completely unaffected by this news – or so he played it off to be. "O-kay," he elongated, and then added – in a tone Sonny knew well – "Is that all?" Was he serious? This was huge news. How was he so… okay with it?
"I'm sorry, can you repeat that?" Of the thousand times Sonny had played this conversation over in her head, of the thousand times she'd prepared herself for every possible response he or her co-stars could give, she'd never expected either group to be so emotionless. Even Tawni had left the room with the possibility of actual, human tears in her eyes. In a contest of knowing Sonny between Tawni and Chad, Sonny was almost ninety-percent sure that Chad knew her a little bit better, and openly cared for her a little bit more (even if he had a weird way of showing it), so how could Tawni be more unrefined in the situation?
Chad sensed that what he said was not what Sonny had expected. He amended, "What I mean is, is there anything else you need to tell me?" His tone was as charmed as his Mackenzie character. It pissed her off when he started acting, and thought she fell for it, but she held back her temper.
"No, I'd say that's just about it. I leave in two weeks. Chances are, I'm not coming back." Sonny didn't want to go into details as to why she was leaving, and, to be honest, she didn't know that many. Her mom was done living here – she missed the family back home. Almost all of Sonny's extended family lived within Wisconsin, and the two had skipped the annual family reunion because Sonny had a busy workweek. Then when her uncle was in the hospital because of cardiovascular issues, they were unable to visit because Sonny had to go on that talk show with Tawni. Her mom had been amazingly tolerant for the past year, but Mrs. Monroe's brother's passing was the straw to break the camel's back. They were breaking the contract, handing in a two-week's notice, and heading back to Wisconsin.
Chad's expression had changed, as it did every time he realized that real life was unscripted, and no rewrite could change the words already spoken. No throwing out a script and rewriting a new one if you didn't like the ending. There was only what was in front of him. "Oh." He looked down at his shoes, perfectly shined. Sonny knew the tone he had, as she knew his many others. Genuinely upset. But Chad was one of those people who people who didn't show his own emotions well. "Two weeks." Sonny nodded, unsure of what to do. At this point with her "So Random" co-stars, she'd hugged an over-emotional Grady, who then sought comfort in Zora as Sonny moved on to hugging Nico. Even though it wasn't goodbye just yet and she still had two more shows to go, it still felt like one.
But Chad wasn't someone she – or anyone, really – usually hugged. Their conversations usually ended with a series of fake, one-word arguments that weren't really serious, but left Sonny feeling shitty afterwards. So after a few more, awardly silent seconds, she turned on her heel and left him standing outside of his studio, still staring at his feet, all the while hoping he'd stop her with just two simple letters:
No.