Sonny with a chance
Chad Dylan Cooper was America's top, cutest actor on the teen drama show Mackenzie Falls.
Everywhere he went every person knew who he was.
Girls would gasp and sometimes faint. Boys would call "Yo! CDC!"
Chad of course always winked at the girls and flexed the peace sign at the boys.
Yet he never took much notice of it, he was always wondering about a certain teen on the rival show So Random! Sonny Munroe.
She had just moved from Wisconsin about five months ago, Sonny seemed to have the right name for her. It defiantly suited her. As he found out when he first met her in the cafeteria after she "gave" him her tray of Fro-Yos.
For some reason every time he saw her in, as he called it, Chuckle city, he felt like something twang in stomach. He had to admit she was kind of cute, dark chocolate hair with milky brown eyes, slight peachy coloured skin, and sweet heart lips.
When he met her in the cafeteria he remembered her dressed as a diner waitress, she took one look at him and her mouth dropped. Not like that didn't happen very often.
Of course they did have their fights and arguments a couple of times. Yet they didn't make him dislike her, it made him like her even more. In fact he had huge crush on her.
Deciding he had nothing better to do he went over to her dressing room she shared with a fellow Random, Tawni Hart, the vain blond on the show.
As he was about to knock on the door and barge in he heard a man's voice that sounded angry.
"Alison! You said you were going to send your cash over so where the hell is it!"
Chad peeked through the door looking into the mirror. He couldn't see a man but he saw Sonny tears running down her face. Who the heck is Alison? Chad thought. He noticed Sonny was looking down at the table; she must have had her cell phone on speaker for some reason.
"I told you Terry I don't get paid until tomorrow." He heard her squeak.
"You better be telling me the truth brat! You know what happens when people lie to me." There was a crack that sounded like a whip's.
Sonny's eyes widened, she gingerly lifted up her sleeve that revealed a sickly bruise on her arm.
Chad's jaw dropped. How dare this, Terry hurt his Sonshine! (Cute nick name huh?)
There were more cracks coming from the phone, Sonny started breathing heavily, her face turning pale. Suddenly, to Chad's horror, she collapsed.
Terry seemed to grunt with satisfaction and the phone cut off.
Chad hurried over to her. "Sonny?" she didn't stir.
He gently rolled her on to her back, supported her head with one arm and slid the other under her knees. He lifted her up and carried her out of the studio to his car.
He laid her down on the back of the double seats, buckled the seatbelts and drove to his mansion he shared with his brother. Tory Ben Cooper.
An hour later they arrived he stopped the car, picked Sonny up and carried her to his bedroom, where he laid her on his four-poster-bed. His room had a buttercup yellow carpet with cream coloured walls, with a walk-in-closet.
He sat on a tanned sofa chair and sat gazing at her until she woke up.
Several minutes later, he noticed her eyelids flickering open.
Her head turned left to right until her eyes laid on him.
"Chad? WH-where am I? Where's my phone?"
Chad sighed. "Sonny, who was that guy?"
Sonny's face froze, "what guy?" she said quickly.
"Don't pretend you don't know! You know who I am talking about, that guy, Terry!" He said the name bitterly.
Sonny closed her eyes, tears leaked out from under her eyelids.
"He's my Mom's ex. She ran away to Europe but forgot all about me. Leaving me to give my wages to him so he can spend them on booze, drugs and cigarettes. If I don't..."
She started to sob. Chad's heart shattered at the sight of her crying. He sat on the bed and pulled her gently into an embrace. Her head against his chest, tears spilling into his shirt.
He laid his chin on her head and gently rocked her; eventually he tugged Sonny on to his lap and lifted her face tenderly.
"Sonny, we have to do something."
Sonny froze with fear.
"You know we have to, you can't live the rest of your life in fear."
"Chad, Terry will kill me if he found." Sonny whispered, "He might as well, I was forced to work so he wouldn't beat my mom for her cash. Apart for the show and my fans, I've got nothing to live for." Tears escaped from her eyes.
Chad lifted her chin with one finger, "Sonny, don't you ever say that. "
"Why? My own mother left me, her ex beats me for my wages and I pretend to be happy with a plastic grin on my face. No one cares about me."
"True, true, true and false,"
When Chad said that last word he locked his lips with Sonny's, kissing her heavily.
When they parted Sonny was utterly speechless.
"I care." Chad whispered winking at her. Sonny smiled a real truthful smile.
The two headed back to the studios since they both needed to get back to work. Chad escorted Sonny to her dressing room.
Chad held Sonny's hands in his, pressing his forehead against hers.
"Now Sonny, you promise to be brave through this?"
"Yeah but only if you'll stay with me, Chad, I feel safer with you now."
"You'd have to kill me to stay away from you." Chad said smiling.