CHAPTER TWO; PER REQUEST

So, yea, I'm just gonna write a short and happily ending chapter, because you people can't stand Cliffhanger endings. A quick note to SingerForChanny, because my dad's computer was being evil and wouldn't let me log in to reply to her: I hope this makes you feel better, but you should talk to someone. Really.

On with the story!!!!!!

Chad sat in the hospital. He had been sitting in an oddly uncomfortably easy chair, every sound and movement grating on his nerves like cheese, waiting for 3 ½ hours while sonny was in intensive care. At last, a nurse walked up to him.

"Are you here with or for…" She looked at her clipboard for the name. "Sonny Munroe? Really? And her companion is Chad Dylan Cooper? Bob, is this a joke?" She looked over her shoulder at the man behind the counter. He just looked at her, grunted, and went back to his work.

Chad couldn't believe this woman didn't recognize him.

"Actually," he began peeved. "I am, in fact, Cha—"

"Whatever. Are you her companion or not?"

"Yeah." He said, and then reacted hysterically, finally letting the fact sink in that he had been waiting for 3 ½ hours in the ER and had just been asked his identity. No exactly a cause for hysteria, but, hey, it was 1 in the morning.

"OH MY GOD, WHAT HAPPENED, IS SHE OKAY!!!!!!" he yelled. The other guests and patients looked at him strangely.

"This way, please." Is all the reply her received.

Chad followed the nurse down the hall, and was finally led into a small room where Sonny lay on a twin bed in a white nightgown.

The doctor looked up.

"She'll be fine," he said. "Just needs a little rest, now. And don't let her do any straining activities for a few weeks. I'll have to make an appointment with her next month, just to check that she's healing properly, but as long as nothing goes horribly, terribly, wrong, she'll be okay. She'll be awake in a few minutes. Press the call button if you need anything." The doctor slipped out of the room, leaving Chad with the Sleeping Beauty.

Sonny chose this moment to wake up.

"Chad?" She whispered, turning her head to look at him. "What happened?" (A/N: I know, I know, most clichéd hospital line ever. Give me a break, you guys asked for a happy ending! It's hard to do that without cheesy.)

"You ran out of the studio and started driving away. Your car skidded and you ended up unconscious and internally bleeding."

She remembered why she had run out of the studio.

"You don't like me." she recalled.

"Of course I do." He told her. "I just didn't want to embarrass myself by saying…" He let his sentence trail off.

"Saying what?" Sonny inquired.

"Give me a minute." Murmured Chad, hurrying out of the room. Sonny felt her heart plunge. He didn't really like me. He was just saying that. He only feels guilty.

But when he sidled back in, she couldn't hold her hope at bay, and it rose up in her like a helium balloon.

"Didn't want to say…" she prompted.

Chad grinned. "I didn't want to embarrass myself by saying…" He slid down on one knee and pulled out a velvet box. "Will you marry me?" (A/N: wow that was unexpected. As in, I wasn't expecting to type it.)

Sonny didn't know what to say, but when the last few lines of Taylor Swift's Love Story drifted through the room, she knew what she would say.

She looked at Chad's face.

"The media will have a hay day."

"So?"

"Our cast mates won't approve."

"So?"

"I love you."

Chad swallowed.

"Yes."

The End (For real)

Hope you guys are happy with your happy ending. I wasn't planning to have Chad propose, but I guess it was kind of foreshadowed.