Alright, here is chapter two. In this one, there will be more Sonny and Chad (yay!) and a little bit of decision drama. Also, not to spoil anything, but there is one tiny detail in this chapter that seems insignificant to any future happenings, when really, it's super duper important. See if you can guess what it is and then remember it, 'cause we've got a long way to go with this. Okay, enjoy. :)

Chapter Two: Still Haven't Gone Public Yet

"So are you going to break up with him? I mean, Mackenzie didn't really kiss Asia. So are you?" Portlyn/Lisi prompted. She adjusted the blue and green tie hanging loosely around her neck with one hand and popped yet another piece of grape bubblegum into her mouth with the other.

My eyes were focused solely on Chad across the hall while I thought over my options again. His back was turned to me and he was talking to Tanner.

I really loved So Random. But I also was really starting to love Mackenzie Falls. I liked portraying a more realistic character that wasn't one-sided and goes to a restaurant with service so fast, you end up getting pelted with chicken bits. Not that I didn't love doing that, but I liked doing things that were different from that too. But my life was not Hannah Montana's, and I couldn't have the best of both worlds. I would have to choose.

"Katie?" I was vaguely aware of Portlyn/Lisi waving her hand in front of my face. "Hello? Katie- okay, I cannot work with this! Chris!" she shrieked.

"Cut!" Chris groaned. "Sonny!"

I jerked my head to look at Chris, finally awake from my daydreams. "What, what, what'd I miss?"

Chris massaged his forehead with his long fingers. "Sonny, Sonny, Sonny, where is your head today? Katie should not be staring at Mackenzie like that after she caught him kissing Asia! She shouldn't be looking at him at all! And besides that, even, you're missing your lines." Chris took a deep breath and drank a long sip of coffee from a mug that said "World's Best Director" on the side.

I guiltily ran a hand through my hair. "Sorry, I guess I'm just having a hard time concentrating. Can I take five?"

"Please. Take ten," Chris practically begged.

"Okay." I walked off the school set and met up with Chad by the chocolate fountain.

"Hey," Chad greeted.

"Hi," I said dejectedly.

"So, were you captivated by my hair or by how good I look in this new blazer?" Chad asked, popping the collar of his blazer cockily.

I laughed weakly.

"Still thinking about choices and such?"

"Yeah… But let's not talk about that now." I stuck a finger under the flow of melted chocolate and put my chocolate covered finger in my mouth.

Chad just looked at me with a look of partial disgust and partial amusement.

"What?" I asked innocently around my finger.

He shook his head. "Nothing." He laughed shortly. "Uh… so, I got you a present."

I wiped my finger off on a nearby napkin. "You did? Why?"

"Just because. I didn't have time to wrap it, although I did tie a bow around it." Chad pulled a cell phone with a big purple ribbon tied around the center.

"You got me a cell phone? Chad, you know I don't like it when you get me fancy gifts," I complained.

Chad ignored me and placed the phone in my hand. "And you know I never listen when you tell me not to get you gifts. And it's not like it's that fancy. Besides, I wanted to cheer you up."

I smiled a little and carefully pulled the silky, purple ribbon off with one hand.

"Now I know that you can't buy happiness and that this won't fix any of your problems… but I thought it might cheer you up."

"It did. Thank you. I'll have to remember to put all my old numbers in this soon because I always mix up the last two digits of your phone number." I laughed.

Chad acted offended. "You can't even remember your own boyfriend's number? Pitiful."

"Well we can't all be perfect," I murmured, leaning closer to him.

"True…" He leaned down and our lips were just about to make contact and-

"Hey guys!" Tanner yelled, casually stepping between us. He took the phone out of my hands and looked at it, ignoring my glare. "Hey, cool phone. New?"

"Tanner, was there something you needed?" Chad asked, clearly aggravated.

"There was actually. Chris needs us for our scene." Tanner must've found the camera feature because he held the camera up to the two of us and a flash came off of the phone. "Hey, you two look cute together."

"Thank you, now can I have my phone back?" I asked, straining to reach around him and get my gift back.

Tanner held it out for me with a smirk and I snatched it away before he could find a recording feature. "You guys still haven't gone public yet have you?"

I straightened the blue and green headband out on my head and cleared my throat. "No, and we don't plan to until it's absolutely necessary."

"Okay…" Tanner said, drawing out the word.

Chad rolled his eyes and dragged Tanner away by the shoulder. "Dude, don't stress her out more, okay? Jeez."

"I can still hear you!" I called out to him. "And don't talk about me like I'm on the verge of a breakdown!"

"Enjoy your phone!" was all Chad called back.

I laughed and was about to start entering my friends' numbers into the phone when Lucas and Joanna appeared from behind one of the piles of boxes being used as props for the moving scene.

"Ah!" I yelled, dropping my phone into a bowl of barbeque Lays. "You guys scared me, what were you doing back there?"

Joanna smiled cunningly. "Same thing you and Chad were trying to do."

I felt my eyes grow a little wider. "You two are dating?" I looked at Lucas who looked like he wished Joanna hadn't brought it up.

"You and Chad aren't the only ones good at keeping secrets." She shrugged it off and took a handful of chips out of the clear plastic bowl and wound up with two chips and my phone. The chips went into her mouth and my phone got a napkin hastily brushed across the front. "I believe this is yours." Joanna held it out for me.

"Thanks."

"So, listen, we didn't jump out from the boxes just to reveal Hollywood dirt on ourselves," Joanna said conversationally, grabbing more chips and offering some to Lucas.

"Okay, well let's hear the rest." I looked at the two of them expectantly and brushed the excess crumbs off my phone.

Joanna looked to Lucas to start.

Lucas shoved his hands in the pockets of his khaki uniform pants for Mackenzie Falls. "Well we thought we'd try to remind you of some important points to remember when you make your decision to leave or stay with us."

My face fell. I hadn't thought about that situation for a record four minutes until they brought it up again. "Okay, let's hear it then," I said in an emotionless voice.

"Well, for starters, your so-called 'friends' at So Random kicked you off the show without even talking to you and with hardly any proof at all that you did anything to them. We Mackenzie Falls kids would never do that to you." Joanna widened her eyes and nodded her head for emphasis. "And you know, I think even Portlyn could learn to love you…"

I rubbed my left arm and shifted my weight from my left foot to my right. I could tell my expression was doubtful because Joanna rushed to continue on.

"And… you said so yourself that they always made you feel insignificant over there," Joanna stated, placing one hand on her left hip.

"I said I felt that in the beginning…" I defended.

"Alright, but you did say that you never felt like you fit in with your So Random friends," Lucas pointed out.

Joanna nodded in agreement.

I laughed nervously. "Umm, thanks for the help guys… Uh, you know what? I really should go… go over my lines now." My excuse was lame but I needed a way out and if anything, they'd take the hint and go.

Joanna smiled understandingly. "Gotcha… See you at lunch. Come on, Lucas." Joanna took his hand and they walked off towards the meditation room. A room I have still yet to be in again since the first day…

Lunchtime…

"Well, that was an interesting episode," I commented as Chad and I walked to the Commissary. We were running a little late to lunch so everyone else was already eating.

"What makes you say that?" Chad questioned.

"Katie and Mackenzie broke up and made up twice in an hour-long episode and Lisi ran away from home to be on Broadway." I raised an eyebrow. "You're honestly telling me that you don't think that's a bit weird?"

"Yeah, but that's just how our show is." He shrugged.

I sighed. "They should've kept us as the writers."

"I know we were so much better."

"Yeah, we were." I agreed.

We both started laughing and walked into the Commissary.

Once we got our food from Brenda, we started for our usual table.

I pulled my chair out, prepared to sit down.

"Sonny!" I heard four voices call out to me from across the room.

I froze and swiveled my head to the direction of the voices. Oh no…

"Sonny, do want to sit with us today?" Tawni asked, pulling out the empty chair next to her.

My mouth opened to give them a gentle rejection… or maybe it was to accept their invitation… Either way, nothing made it out of my mouth. I looked desperately at my friends from So Random to my friends from Mackenzie Falls. They were all staring at me, waiting for an answer.

"Sonny, who are you sitting with?" Samantha asked after swallowing a mouthful of shrimp.

I bit my lip and looked between the two again. The only thing that made it past my throat was a distressed, indecisive squeak before I pushed in my chair and ran out of the room.

Ugh! I couldn't take much more of all of this choosing. Didn't these people realize that?

The door opened up behind me and I knew who it was without having to turn around.

"This is ridiculous! I'm not eating in there again until this whole mess is cleared up! You can't make me," I said, vehemently.

"Yes, well perhaps finding somewhere else to eat is in order then," Chad suggested.

"Yeah, okay. Where should we go?"

"Well we could go to Subway and you can get that meatball thing again." Chad grimaced. "And I'll just get something with chicken this time."

"You said you liked it," I accused.

"I said it was okay, not that I ever wanted to eat it again." Chad pulled two pairs of dark sunglasses out of his blazer pocket and handed the more girly looking of the pair to me.

"Your loss." I shrugged nonchalantly and slipped the shades over my eyes. "So who's paying?"

"Sonny, really? We're still having this conversation?" Chad took my hand and started leading us towards the exit. "I'm the guy in the relationship and that means I pay for everything for the both of us. Get it?"

"But it feels like too much like a you-give-I-take kind of relationship when you always pay and give me new phones." That much was definitely true.

"But that's not how it really is. And besides, didn't we already agree that you're saving for college so it's okay for me to just go ahead and pay?"

"No, you came to that decision and I was forced to agree."

"So you admit you agree?" Chad smirked and opened the door to the parking lot.

I rolled my eyes. "Fine… I guess I agree."

Chad patted me on the head with his free hand, looking like he was trying not to laugh. "Good girl."

I opened my mouth and made it look like I was making a move to bite his hand. "Watch it, drama snob."

"Same to you, drama snob-ette." Chad put on his pair of sunglasses as we arrived at my truck, the only vehicle we could really drive around inconspicuously in public.

I narrowed my eyes and rested my hand on the driver's side door dandle. "'Drama snob-ette'?" I repeated. "Really, Chad?" I smirked.

"Yes, really. New word; just made it up. Nice, I know." Chad put his hand on top of mine like he was going to try to move my hand and keep me from driving my own car.

I looked from his hand and back to his face. "You're not driving. If I can't pay, you can't drive."

Chad laughed. "Relax, I was just going to open the door for you," he said, unconvincingly.

"Uh-huh…" I nodded my head and smiled, like I bought it.

Whether or not Chad was using this as a distraction to keep my mind off of my pending decision, it was working. I hadn't thought about it once since we started "arguing" over who got to pay.

It really took my mind off the obvious fact that things were only beginning to get complicated, and that this was only the beginning of the hurt feelings I'd be causing…

A little bit of foresight at the end there (whoops, I just spoiled it. Oh well). Chapters four and five are when it really starts to get good, so bear with me with one more giving-you-information, building-up-to-the-drama chapter. Okay? Great. Tell me what you thought by hitting that poor little review button underneath this and telling me what you liked, loved, didn't like, thought was funny, etc., etc. I'll update soon-ish, 'cause I'll be a little busy for the next few days, but I will try my hardest to get chapters done. Thanks for reading and have a good Monday. :)