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"Nico, you turn on the light - I can't reach," she demanded.
"Where is it?" he whispered tentatively; Sonny could almost feel the fear he was emitting in waves.
"On the wall." Tawni responded impatiently, "Hurry up!"
Chad sighed, roughly shoving Nico out of the way and flicking on the light switch that was located directly above his head. Sonny shielded her eyes from the sudden bright light, blinking slowly so that they would adjust.
She couldn't believe what she was seeing! The Carmen Heart's room was in the spotlight, right in front of her eager eyes. She'd never been in a teenagers room before, she mused, as she stepped around Nico's trembling form to get a better look.
There was a large bed – the kind that was for mommies and daddies only – pushed into the far corner, with a thick, pink comforter lumped up at the bottom of the mattress as if it had been kicked off roughly in a haste to get up. There were clothes scattered across the bed, the floor, and draped all over a wide beige couch – Sonny had never seen that many clothes outside of a mall. Glancing up, Sonny noticed that every inch of wall space was covered in more posters of boys – some held electric guitars, while others just stood with their arms crossed over their bare chests, scowling; some even had beards!
Tawni wasted no time looking around, heading straight for the vanity table and shoving what looked like a tray of coloured powders into a plastic bag marked 'evadens,' aHeart with a tube of bright red lipstick and a black pencil.
"Portlyn has to believe me now," Tawni muttered. "Carmen wears makeup everyday, but not as much as Dokota. Dokota wears eye shadow and lipstick and blush and glitter and all this black stuff and it looks really gross!"
Sonny had to agree with that. Dokota's makeup was always smudged or clumpy, like she didn't know how to put it on - unlike Tawni, who was obviouslyan expert. Plus, Dokota liked to draw around her eyes with a black crayon, making her look a bit like a raccoon. - Sonny didn't like raccoons.
"... Does your brother wear makeup too, Chad?"
Chad wrinkled his nose in disgust. "Of course not!" he said, "Makeup is for girls!"
Tawni cupped her chin with her hand as she pondered this. "What do boys who are teenagers wear, then? We need to know because you and Nico have to pretend like you're teenagers too, and you can't to that if you don't know what they wear."
"I don't know," Chad replied, "Normal clothes?"
Tawni sighed. "That won't do, Chad. You'll just have to dress like Carmen." Tawni turned toward the mirrored sliding doors that opened to Tawni's closet. "Now," she said, "I'll choose everyone's costumes because I know the most about teenagers. Sonny, you get the makeup; Chad, you help her; Nico..." Tawni regarded his stiff posture and shifty eyes, "You can... stay there, I guess."
Sonny ventured over to the vanity table where all the makeup seemed to be, Chad following close behind. "So, Chad," she began, examining a bottle of silver nail polish, "How Heart have you had your tamagotchi?"
"Three weeks," he answered. He ran his small fingertips over the vast array of makeup spread across the table, not sure what, exactly, he was looking for. Tawni was a bossy creature, he thought, but it was worth being bossed around if he got to talk to Sonny.
"So yours is on generation three, then?"
"Well... no. I accidentally killed it last week."
"You what?" Sonny hissed. "Chad! I thought you were nice."
"I was –uh, am nice. Of course I'm nice; it was an accident!"
Oh no, what if he really wasa poor caretaker? What if he left his tamagotchi alone while he was playing with his friends? What if he didn't feed it? Or what if he didn't turn the light off while it was sleeping? Sonny realised that she didn't really know Chad Cooper at all. He could be a naughty boy – he could get in trouble. He could dig for worms in his mom's garden, he could stay up past 9 O'clock, he could colour outside of the lines!
"Are you okay, Sonny?" Chad asked, concerned, and Sonny realised she was hyperventilating.
"F-fine," she mumbled. "Just shocked that you would commit such an awful crime. Murder, Chad – murder!"
"I'm sorry," he whispered. And he really was sorry. The only reason he even got a tamagotchi was because he knew Sonny was so obsessed with them.
"Chad, I think you might be a juvenile delinquent." No one ever knew what Sonny was talking about; she read way too much – apparently she even read the dictionary.
"I'm finished! Come over here!" Tawni shouted, which was pretty stupid, Chad thought, if she didn't want to her parents to catch her sneaking around. He was truly an expert at being sneaky, and Tawni was making so many beginner mistakes! They didn't even have a lookout!
"Alright. So, Sonny, me and you have to wear these things..." She held up two of Carmen's more provocative bras, one pink and lacy, and the other deep red with a good amount of padding. "Chad, you and Nico should be okay in your clothes, just put these belts on..." Tawni handed a thick, bright blue belt with an oversized, glittering buckle to Chad, and a plain white one to Nico.
"Sonny and Chad, did you get the makeup?"
Chad nodded.
"Good. We can leave now, Nico." Tawni tugged on Nico's hand, yanking him out the door. The four children tip-toed down the stairs, whispering and giggling excitedly. Once in Tawni's room, they put on their clothes – Nico, too terrified to argue, strapped the white belt across his stomach, while Chad insisted that teenagers didn't wear belts. He knew this because his brother liked to wear his jeans as low as possible, and when Nico had bent over to get the cereal from the lowest cupboard, Chad saw a little too much.
"So..." Sonny began awkwardly once she'd secured the bra in place, "What do teenagers do?"
"Well," said Tawni, "My sister has a boyfriend, so that means that if you're going to be a teenager, Sonny, you need a boyfriend too. Nico will be my boyfriend, won't you Nico?" Nico gulped and nodded.
Chad must have been listening to Tawni, because suddenly he was behind Sonny, pulling her into his arms. He was so much taller than her, but then again, everyone was – everyone except Tawni, of course. She was surprised that it felt nice, which was weird of course, because Chad was a boy, and shouldn't he have cooties? Sonny didn't know exactly what cooties were, just that they were bad, and that most boys had them. But surely not Chad, not if his hug felt this nice.
"I'll be your boyfriend," he offered, and Sonny blushed.
"Okay," she said shyly, trying to hide her smile.
Tawni wrapped her arms around Nico, who looked like he'd rather be anywherebut here. "Tawni..." he mumbled, trying to manoeuvre his way out of her grip.
"Yes, Nico poo?" Tawni batted her eyelashes the way she'd seen Carmen do when she wanted something from her boyfriend.
"Tawni..." he tried again, "We're going to get in trouble. Maybe we should –"
"—No! We shouldn't do anything! I'll be Carmen, and you be Chad's brother. You're taking me to dinner at Mc Donald's, and then we're going to my birthday party." Tawni tightened her grip around Nico's waist, and looked into his eyes. Nico was petrified by the fiery determination in her stare, and turned to his best friend for help, but apparently he was enjoying the game a little too much. He and Sonny now stood facing each other, wrapped in a tight embrace. Ew, he thought, they really were acting like teenagers. He had to admire Chad's bravery here, in holding a girl so close.
"Chad, Sonny!" Tawni screeched. "Me and Nico are going to dinner at McDonald's and then you'll meet us at my birthday party. Stay in here – the kitchen will be McDonald's. Don't forget to put the makeup on," and with that she pulled Nico out of the room.
"Chad, do you think that because we can't be boyfriend and girlfriend in real life, our tamagotchis could fall in love?"
"Hmmm?" Sonny's hair smelled nice. Yeah, he definitely like-liked her. Maybe more than the Justice League. Maybe even more than soccer.
"Our tamagotchis," she repeated, twisting out of his arms, "Can we connect?"
"Oh! Um, sure, hold on..." he dug around in his pocket for a bit before pulling out the black and silver egg shaped toy. Sonny immediately snatched it from him – this was the moment she'd been waiting for, and she had to make sure Tanya wasn't a masketchi. Sonny breathed a sigh of relief when she saw the large spiral eyes of a Memetchi.Well, Memetchi's were a little clueless, but at leas they were cute.
"Hello Tanya," Sonny said to the toy, smiling stupidly.
"Can I see Sam?"
"Y-yeah..." She pulled the pink lanyard out from under her shirt, and held the small screen up to her face, just to admire Sam a little more. Mametchi's were so gorgeous. Sonny guessed that maybe Chad wanted to make sure that Samwasn't a Masketchi , and the thought was so ridiculous that she had to laugh. Her laughter soon died out, though, and a sickening feeling washed over her when she saw the figure displayed on the screen: an egg with wings, slowly moving up and down.
"NO!" she screamed, "No, no, no, no, NO! He's DEAD!"
How?
Why?
Who?
Not her. Sonny Munroe was the best caretaker in the world. Someone had to be behind this. Someone must have un-paused her tamagotchi.
Sonny let out a shrill wail, and broke into sobs. "H-he was on g-g-generation... seven... s-seven!" Chad just looked at her, dumbfounded, and more than a little taken aback by her melodramatic behaviour. Histamagotchi died all the time. It really wasn't a big deal. He opened his mouth to tell her this, but was silenced by an accusatory finger.
"You," Sonny hissed, seething with rage, "You killedhim. I know it was you." Who else could it have been? Sonny was well aware that Tawni knew nothing about tamagotchis, and poor Nico would never ever do something so horrible. Chad had mentioned that he had accidentally killed his last week. Yeah. Accidentally. Sure...
"What?" he yelled, "You think I would do that! Why would I do that? I really l – "
Chad was interrupted by the door opening to reveal a very worried Tawni and Nico, with Carlisle in tow.
"What is all the fuss about?" Mr. Heart asked, "What's wrong with Sonny?"
"You didn't break up with her, did you?" Tawni asked, her hand covering her mouth.
"Her... tamagotchi died," Chad mumbled, embarrassed.
"He wasn't just a tamagotchi! He was... my b-best f-f-friend! Oh, Sam!" How was she ever going to live with this?
"Bel-lahhh," Tawni whined. "You know teenagers don't play with tamagotchis. Stop ruining the game!"
"So it was you then!" Sonny screamed, jumping to her feet. "You hatetamagotchis –"
"—Well, Carmen says they're stupid and childish, and she is a teenager, so she must –"
"—And you didn't want there to be any distractions from the game. All you care about is proving to Portlyn that Chloe is better than Dokota, and getting Nico to be your boyfriend. You don't care about me or Sam or Edwa –"
"Enough, Sonny," said Mr. Heart sternly. "I'm calling your parents."
"Sorry Mr Heart," Sonny mumbled, ashamed and on the verge of tears again. It had been a very emotional night, you see: she had hugged Chad Cooper, lost her precious Sam, and now she was in trouble with Mr Heart. There was a tense silence before Tawni turned and walked out the door
She didn't dare look up as she heard three sets of footsteps slowly retreating and finally the door was closed. That left her alone with Chad again, who still said nothing.
"I'm sorry for blaming you," She said quietly. "I know that you would never do something like that. I-it's just that you said that last week you killed yours, a-and I thought that you might..." Her words trailed off when she felt him sit down beside her, and she blushed at his proximity. Slowly, he leant towards her and placed a small kiss on her right cheek. Gross, Sonny thought, but it wasn't really – it was actually kind of nice, though she'd never admit that to anyone.
"It's okay, Sonny. I forgive you."
The next day, Sonny sat on the old sofa at her father's house, playing with ChadDy, her new tamagotchi. When Sam had died, she'd lost all her gotchi points and all the items she had bought from the corner shop, so she needed to win games, and fast.
"Yes!" she whisper-shouted when ChadDy won the fourth round of bump. Maybe she'd actually win the game and get eight hundred points, just like Portlyn.
She was contemplating exactly how much gloating would be allowed before it would be considered rude when the doorbell rang. Assuming it was just one of her dad's fishing buddies, Sonny barely looked up. She heard her dad answer the door, and a women's voice drifted into the room:
"I'm sorry to intrude like this, Mr. Munroe, but Chad here insisted that we come over. I think he wants to talk to your daughter." Sonny's ears perked up at the mention of Chad's name. Was that his mother talking?
laughed, and said, "No problem, come inside. Sonny is in the living room, just around the corner – you won't miss it."
Sonny quickly fixed her hair, and sat up straight, realising that Chadwas about to walk into the room. She hoped he didn't look at her tamagotchi's name – what if he found it weird? A small figure appeared around the corner, and he was there, in her house, in her living room, dressed in his soccer uniform and covered in mud.
"H-hi, Sonny," he said nervously.
She smiled. "Hi, Chad."
"W-we didn't connect last night, so I thought maybe we could now."
"Right now?"
"Yeah."
The two stood awkwardly for a few moments before Chad finally pulled out his black and silver tamagotchi. Sonny patted the couch next to her, inviting him to sit down, as she prepared her tamagotchi to connect. The two pushed the infrared censors together, and a small star-shaped creature appeared next to ChadDy on the screen.
"That isn't Tanya..." Sonny said slowly.
Chad smiled sheepishly. "Yeah, well, after Sam died I felt really bad, so I killed her."
Sonny shook her head, smiling slightly; Chad was such a boy.
Later, when Chad and his mother had left, Sonny looked through her friend list. She came across a Hotodetchi, an adorable star shaped toddler. Underneath were the letters S-O-N-N-Y Sonny and ChadDy, she mused – now they simply had to fall in love.
Sonnly smiled, and new that she really did like like Chad. Who would have thought playing teenagers, could lead to this?
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