Ch. 2!

"Oh, that was one of the longest flights of my life!" Raven exclaimed as she barged through the door of their complimentary suite at the Hollywood Tipton. The suite closely resembled the one she had once stayed in at the Boston Tipton. There was a small kitchen and living room, with a couch that pulled out into a sofa where Cory would be sleeping. There were two doors on the farthest wall from the entrance, one lead to a bathroom and the other lead to a bedroom with one single bed. The room smelled strongly of cleaning supply but Raven and Cory were too exhausted to care. The both plopped down on the couch sighing heavily.

"Cory," Raven inquired weakly, "What time do you have to be at the studio?"

"Three" Cory replied sleepily as he laid his head on the back of the sofa and softly closed his eyes.

"Cory," Raven asked again, "What time is it now?"

Cory lazily lifted his arm to his face and calmly replied

"Two fifty five" as he yawned. He laid his head back down once more, then suddenly jumped to his feet as the words he had just spoken finally sunk in.

"Oh my gosh Raven, GET UP!" Cory screamed.

Raven jutted awake from the sleep she had set into not one second after she asked Cory what time it was.

"Five more minutes mom." She confusingly pleaded.

"Raven we have to go!" Cory screamed as he was halfway out the door.

"I'M COMING!" Raven screamed back as she rose from the couch. She quickly grabbed her purse and coat and followed Cory out the door.

Raven had been so dazed and confused from the flight that when she and Cory arrived at the studio she absent mindedly followed Cory through the wide double doors, completely forgetting about her active banishment. Not two seconds after she had entered was she carried out, legs flailing, by two buff security guards.

"Put me down!" Raven demanded. The guards happily obliged and let her from their grip simultaneously. Raven landed with a thud on the ground but quickly popped back up.

"Gently…" Raven added while fixing her appearance from the damage of her short fall.

Raven decided that the current state she was in was not cutting it and she needed a little pick me up. She figured there must have been some kind of coffee around the lot and she started off in search for any sign of the caffeinated beverage.

….

After about ten minutes of wandering and searching, Raven found herself in some kind of grocery store.

"Dang," Raven chuckled to herself "I must be really jacked up! I swear two seconds ago I was still on the lot!" Raven decided to shrug it off and searched the isles for coffee. The store seemed very small and one wall didn't even have anything on it. There were about four isles and finally in the last one Raven found a container of instant coffee.

"Sweet." Raven exclaimed as she checked out the package, just some hot water and she'd be good to go.

As Raven proceed to the checkout she was shocked to realize there was only ONE checkout station. And to make matters worse, there were TWO girls standing at the ONE checkout. As Raven got closer to the girls they seemed to look very familiar but Raven couldn't place her finger on where she knew them from. They were both dressed in khaki skirts with red and white Hawaiin shirts with matching visors. The one was tall and blonde and the other was shorter and had dark brown hair. They were both sporting ponytails that bobbed from them chomping their gum so hard. Raven put her coffee on the counter and started searching for some money in her purse when the blonde spoke.

"Uh check out this coffee!" She said picking up the container.

"The coffee?" the brunette chimed in "check out her hair!"

"Check out her eyes, when was the last time she slept?" The blonde added

"Um excuse me" Raven said annoyed "Could you please just 'check out my coffee'?"

"Ew, check out the attitude!" The brunette scoffed.

"The attitude, check out that breath! The toothpaste is in isle one." The blonde responded pointing to one of the isles.

"That's it," Raven said, that had been the last straw.

"Check out my foot, up your…" Raven screamed as she lurched toward the blonde.

The blonde gave out a squeal as Raven heard someone yell, "CUT!"

Raven looked around to see a short balding man come from the fourth wall of the store.

"Who is this girl?" The man asked

"WHAT? YOU DON'T KNOW? SECURITY!" The blonde screamed. Suddenly two similar buff guards swooped Raven up again.

"Wait, hold on" the brunette said. "I'm sure this girl meant no harm." She added calmly.

"Meant no harm?" The blonde inquired "She nearly attacked me!"

"Look, I'm really sorry!" Raven pleaded "It's been a long day, my flight here was extremely long and I didn't even get any downtime in the hotel before I had to rush my little brother over here. Then I just wanted something to wake me up and when I walked into your store I.." Raven was then interrupted by the man.

"Sweetie, I think you're a little confused, this isn't a store, it's a set."

"Well, why ya'll ain't say that before!" Raven said.

"Well we thought you were an extra, we were just rehearsing our Check It Out Girls sketch." The brunette exclaimed.

"Check It Out Girls?" Raven pondered. Suddenly it all clicked "OHMIGOD! YOU'RE SONNY MONROE!" Raven stated. She tried to move forward but the guards who were still holding her pulled her back.

"Yes, I am." Sonny said beaming. Raven then turned to the blonde.

"AND YOU'RE TAWNI HART!" She stated again

"And you're, CRAZY!" Tawni hissed as she spun around and stormed off.

"Aw, don't mind her." Sonny said "She's like that with people she doesn't really know," Sonny explained "And, people she does know." Sonny added after a little bit of thought.

Raven gave an understanding shrug to Sonny's comment before turning to the man standing there.

"AND YOU'RE.." she began before she realized she had no clue who he was. "sorry, I don't know who you are." Raven said bashfully.

"That's ok" the man said "I get that a lot"

"Oh this is Marshall. He's our producer" Sonny announced.

"Oh it's very nice to meet you Marshall" Raven said extending her hand. It didn't reach Marshall though before it was restrained by one of the guards.

"It's nice to meet you too, uh.." Marshall then realized he also didn't know the girls name.

"Oh, I'm Raven, Raven Baxter" Raven exclaimed

"Well Raven" Sonny started "It's nice to meet you. You know, I have a coffee pot in my dressing room if you'd like me to make you some." She asked.

"Oh, I would LOVE that!" Raven said. She was so excited, she was going to have coffee with one of her favorite celebrities!

There was then an awkward paused as the attention focused on the two (almost literal) elephants in the room, the guards who were still holding Raven.

"Uh guys," Sonny said "Let her down."

"GENTLY!" Raven quickly added.

The men gently put her on the ground then hurried away.

Raven then turned to Sonny as they started toward the dressing room and said

"Wow, I've been in Hollywood less than an hour and that's the second time I've been picked up two large men… I think I could get used to it here!"