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Back at Condor Studios, the cast of Mackenzie Falls were all laying around in their large living room area. Young actors and actresses lay sprawled on the floors, couches, tables, and anywhere else they could find. The leading actors reviewed their scripts religiously as the supporting actors groaned and sighed in boredom.
"Can't we just go outside for a little while?" A kid, named Jared who was starring on this week's episode, asked the rest of the cast. He sat up from his laid back position on the couch, in anticipation. Chad Dylan Cooper lowered his script to fix a glare at the young actor.
"No we can't," Portlyn responded in disgust. "We have more important things to be doing. Well, those of us who take our jobs seriously, anyway," She sneered.
"Hey, just because I'm not a lead does not mean I don't take my job seriously!" He retorted.
"Could've fooled me,"
"Look, Portlyn-"
"Seriously, just shut up everyone!" Chad hollered. The room went silent. "Thank you!"
"Whatever, man," Jared said. He stood up from the couch and walked over to the window, longing to go outside. The cast went back to what they were doing until the quiet was once again interrupted by the same boy. This time, however, he was laughing.
"What's so funny?" Chad asked, laying his script aside. He stood up and stretched.
"Looks like we have visitors," Jared called over his shoulder, his eyes still fixed out the window.
"What?" Chad asked. He moved away from his director chair and walked over to the window. What he saw made him roll his eyes. "Random's," He muttered.
Chad could see the blond girl, the short annoying girl, and the tall skinny boy all huddled together, shuffling towards the Mackenzie Falls windows. Chad opened the window. He heard them all laughing quietly, trying to be discreet. Obviously they were unaware that they had already captured The Falls' attention.
"Ready?" The short annoying girl squeaked.
"YEAH!" A girl's voice and a boy's voice called in unison.
"Go, go, go!" The little girl called.
Suddenly a bigger, blond haired boy and a petite brunette girl were running in the direction of their friends, holding a large white kite.
"Let it go!" The larger boy called to the brunette. The brunette then let out her distinct laugh, and suddenly Chad's heart sped up. He knew who that was. The rest of the cast of Mackenzie Falls huddled around the window as Sonny Munroe released the kite. In large black letters, obviously directed towards the Falls' cast, the kite read:
COME OUT AND PLAY!
Chad tried to suppress a laugh.
"Ugh, they can't be serious," Portlyn groaned.
"I don't know about you oh-so-dedicated actors," Jared said. "But I am gonna take them up on that offer." With that, Jared, ran out the door and headed for the exit. Everyone else stood awkwardly debating whether or not they should follow. Chad's heart was dying to be near Sonny after two weeks of separation, but he would never admit that aloud.
"Well…" Chad started. "Me too!" he blurted like a little kid and booked out of the building. There were numerous shouts of excitement as all of the other Falls actors followed him out the door. Chad caught up with Jared as they ran through the halls of the Studio. "Race ya!" Chad challenged.
"You're on!" Jared replied. The two boys began to race for the exit, setting aside their previous quarrel back in the lounge. When they turned down a long hallway, Chad shoved Jared into a wall and began laughing hysterically. Jared then rebounded and tripped Chad, sending Chad flying down the hallway on his stomach.
"Hey!" Chad called. "Foul play!"
"Foul play, my ass!" Jared hooted and continued to move for the exit.
As Chad moved to stand back up, a girl came running from behind him and pushed him back on the ground.
"What the-" Chad shouted.
"How's that for foul play?" Portlyn giggled passing Chad and then blind sided Jared and pushed him on the floor as well. "Suckers!" Portlyn reached the exit first and burst through the doors.
"I WIN!" She screeched, dancing around the parking lot.
She turned back to her cast mates to see that Chad and Jared were still racing each other and shoving each other into things, trying to win.
The two boys burst through the doors at the same time and promptly ran into a celebrating Portlyn, causing all three of the actors to fall onto a heap on the ground. As they all began laughing, not even attempting to get up, a few kids from So Random! approached them.
"Well, well, well," Grady chuckled. "Look what we have here!"
"So I take it you got our message?" Nico added.
The three actors on the ground eventually stood up, their laughter subsiding. However the cease in laughter did not last long, for the rest of the Mackenzie Falls cast burst through the same doors and all collapsed on each other, as the first three had.
"Do we always look that stupid?!" Chad gasped between laughs. He saw Nico and Grady exchange a look. Chad sobered up. "Actually, don't answer that."
"Alright, kids, break it up!" Nico joked, walking over to the fallen actors. Grady joined him and they began helping them up.
As the Falls' actors brushed themselves off, Chad looked around anxiously. Grady caught on quickly.
"Careful," He joked. "You're gonna get whiplash."
Chad glared.
"The girls went back to the park to wait for us," Grady amended.
Chad grinned and ran, following the shortcuts to reach the park.
"That boy is desperate," Grady added to Nico.
"I heard that!" Chad hollered back. "And I am not desperate!"
After dodging tree branches and fleeing squirrels, Chad Dylan Cooper finally sprinted onto the park's grounds. He jumped over a pair of little girls who were drawing in the sand. When he finally reached the fields, his eyes were immediately drawn to Sonny who was not dressed as she normally would, bright and colorful. Instead she wore an Ozzy Osbourne three quarter length shirt, red skinny jeans, and black converse. Her enormous smile read "I'm fine," but her color choice made Chad believe otherwise.
Chad brought himself to a walk, not wanting to seem so obvious in his desire to see Sonny. He shoved his hands in his pockets and approached her.
"Hey Munroe," Chad said, trying to pull off an even tone, when he was a few feet away from her. However, Sonny saw the excitement dance behind his eyes.
"Chad!" She squealed, surprising herself by attacking him with a hug. Chad hesitated, but soon wrapped his arms tightly around her. Sonny buried her face in his chest, forgetting that she had spectators surrounding her. As Sonny allowed herself to relax into Chad's tight embrace, Tawni cleared her throat, feeling uncomfortable.
Chad and Sonny quickly separated, both bowing their heads in an attempt to hide their blushing faces. Jared soon approached the group.
"Sonny, girl, what's up!" He said, enthused. Jared was one of the few actors from Mackenzie Falls who Sonny deemed to be "normal," because he actually treated her like a human being. Sonny laughed and they did a kind of secret handshake.
"Not much, kid!" Sonny answered. "What's up with you?!"
"Nothin', dude." He replied, trying to bring his breathing back to normal after his run. "How are you?"
Sonny's smile faltered slightly, not enough for anyone to notice, or so she thought. "I'm great!" Her eyes trailed to Chad's. When she saw his look of disbelief, she quickly averted her gaze elsewhere.
Soon after the remainder of Mackenzie Falls arrived at the fields, Grady shouted, "Who wants to play some football?!" while jumping around with a football in his hand.
Grady, Chad, Nico, Jared, a few other Falls boys, Sonny, and Portlyn all gathered together to play pass. Grady threw the ball as far as he could, and all of the others ran in the direction of it, trying to catch it first. A tall, muscular, Mackenzie Falls boy, who went by the name Cole, snatched it out of the air. He immediately threw it as far as he could in the complete opposite direction. Again, everyone raced for the ball, this time Sonny caught it. She laughed in delight, and then punted it across the field. Grady was in the perfect place to catch it, so he yelled, "I got it! I got it!" Unfortunately, everyone ignored him, and still attempted to get it before he did. As the ball came back down to earth, Grady snatched it, and fell to the ground with it, holding it tight in his grip. He then curled up in the fetal position in order to make sure no one else could grab hold of it. Jared and Cole jumped on top of Grady, trying to pry the ball from his grasp.
"No!" Grady whined childishly.
"Look, G, give it up," Nico laughed, coming over to help Cole and Jared.
"No!"
Cole, being a much stronger person than the others, attempted to pull Grady up by his ears.
Sonny left the game, laughing at the scene playing out between them all. She walked over to a large rock that was shaped into a hap-hazard rectangle, and sat down on it. As she caught her breath her cow bell ring tone went off, announcing that she had received a text. She opened it, and sighed. Not responding, she locked her phone and put it back in her pocket.
"So why is little miss Sonshine, not so sunny?" Chad joked, coming to sit on the ground below her, leaning against the rock.
"Very funny," Sonny said sarcastically.
"I'm not stupid you know,"
Sonny snorted.
"Hey!" Chad said in defense. He turned around to face her, and saw her cow print cell phone sticking out of her pocket. "Well if you aren't going to be nice, then neither am I." With that, Chad snatched Sonny's cell phone out of her pocket and took off with it.
"Chad!" Sonny squeaked, and ran after him. "Chad, seriously, give it back!"
Chad stopped running and held the phone over his head. Sonny tried jumping up to reach it, but failed. "I saw you get a text. Is this what's making you so cloudy today?"
"I'm Sonny, see!" She gave a bright smile that could have deceived anyone. Anyone except Chad Dylan Cooper. "Sonny, not cloudy."
"Liar," Chad said, sounding like a child. Sonny rolled her eyes.
"Since when do you even care?" Sonny spat back, crossing her arms.
"I don't," Chad lied. "I'm trying to have a fun and enjoyable day off, and your enormous rain cloud is ruining my day," He immediately regretted his choice of words.
"Oh, I'm so sorry to rain on your damn parade!" Sonny yelled, automatically jumping into a defensive mode. At this point Tawni began to approach the bickering teens. "God, it's always about you, isn't it?" Sonny scoffed. "I just came back and you're already hounding on me! I was so excited to be back and finally return to being happy after the hell I went through for two weeks! What the hell is wrong with you?!" She screeched, her voice cracking.
Tawni came over to Sonny.
"Sonny, this is why we don't play with Mackenzie Falls kids," Tawni said, as if speaking to a small child. "Give me the phone, Chad." Tawni adopted an authoritative tone.
Chad handed it over in defeat. Chad felt awful. He hadn't meant to turn this into a fight. He was trying to make her smile.
"Good," Tawni said. "Now walk away," She added with venom in her voice.
"Sonny, I" Chad started.
"Walk!" Tawni interrupted, pointing past Chad's shoulder.
"Hey, I-"
"Go!"
"Okay, jeez," Chad gave up. He walked away, shoulders slumped, mumbling something about "stupid Random's."
Tawni handed the phone back to Sonny.
"Thanks," Sonny whispered.
"Maybe we should have that talk you were telling me about earlier?" Tawni suggested.
"Well, I was planning on waiting 'til a while later, because I wanted to spend time with everyone," Sonny replied.
"Obviously things don't usually go as we plan around here, do they?" Tawni countered.
"Guess not," Sonny sighed. "Fine. Let's talk."
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-Rage