A/N: Happy 4th of July! And, of couse, congrats Kevin (: This chapter is for maggie bc i promised her i would finish something. Trying out a new format, tell me if you like it.

Disclaimer: I don't own anything.

Chapter 2

April 10

Starbucks Coffee

9:38 AM

I stared at the perky, smiling barista, resentment boring into her eyes.

"I…I guess I heard wrong," she stuttered, quickly trying to get out of the situation.

"Yeah, you did," I spat back, bitter that she had even brought him up.

Tawni and I walked over to the bar, waiting for our Frappuccinos to arrive. As soon as I gave her my name, the barista proceeded to ask if I was Sonny from So Random. Then she asked if it was true that Chad and I were sleeping together.

"Looks like the coffees not the only thing steaming here," Tawni joked to me, the only one laughing. After I gave her the death stare, she promptly shut up.

"Look, it's not that big of a deal, Sonny. People always recognize you when you're famous," she lectured me. "Especially when you look as good as I do in this," she added with a hair flip, and I remembered why I tried to limit my time alone with her.

"Yeah, ok, Tawni," I grunted. "People don't go up to you and ask if you're sleeping with Cooper, now do they?"

"Whatever, Sonny. You just have to accept it as part of the business," she sighed. "Someone with your anger issues isn't gonna make it very far."

"Anger issues?" I repeated in shock. "I do not have anger issues!"

"Definitely not. And I'm the one whose secretly in love with Chad. Oh, wait, that's you!" She argued back.

"What?!" I exclaimed. "I'm not in love with Chad!"

"If that's what need to tell yourself," she hummed.

She grabbed her Frappuccino and started walking out the exit. I slid into her car beside her, and we left to return to the studios and start the hell that was formally referred to as "Trust lessons."

April 10

Yoga Studio

10:21 AM

I sat in the back of the room, silently sulking and willing the moments until the instructor arrived to slow down.

My resolve was unsuccessful, though, as he walked through the door. As I looked him up and down, though, I thanked God for not answering my plea. He was gorgeous.

"Hello, everybody, I'm Greg," he said in his low voice. I could practically hear every girl in the room swoon; even Zora, at 11, was drooling. "I'll be your instructor for the next few weeks. If everyone could grab their mat, and get with their previously assigned partners."

We floated up, towards the mat in the center of the room. I accidentally bumped into Tawni, too fixated on Greg's beauty, but for once she didn't mind.

"He's cute!" She exclaimed as we waited to get our mats, and I nodded in agreement. "I wonder how old he is…"

"Don't get your hopes up," I sighed in sorrow as I saw him lean over to kiss some blonde girl in yoga pants that had just walked in. Now it was the guy's turn to drool.

April 10

Yoga Studio

10: 30 AM

Snapped back to reality, I walked over to where Chad was already sitting on his mat, texting someone.

"Chad," I spat out as I laid down my mat.

"Sonny," he returned, putting away the phone.

"Chad."

"Sonny."

"Chad."

Our faces inched closer together as the name fight continued on, glares hardening and all energy focused on each other.

"Whoa, whoa, guys, break it up," said a male voice, and I turned around to see Greg and the mystery blonde standing right above it. "I sense bad energy between you two. These trust lessons will help you two heal your broken relationship," he preached.

I looked skeptically at him, and both Chad and I rolled our eyes. He muttered "Whatever," under his breath as Greg walked away, shaking his head at us.

"Now everyone, it is time to start the lesson. This is my assistant, Amanda. We will be demonstrating the exercises then helping everyone recognize the full potential of each exercise," he started, proceeding to explain to us the "falling mechanism" we all learned in first grade for the next 20 minutes.

After he determined that we were properly trained in the trust lean, we were allowed to get up and try it ourselves. Chad jumped up first, shouting "I'm not falling."

"Um, excuse me?" I asked.

"I said, I'm not gonna be the one who has to fall. I'll be the catcher," he answered smugly.

"No," I refused. "How do I know that you are even gonna catch me?"

"Sonny," he said, looking at me like I was 5. "We are at trust lessons. The entire point is to build trust. Don't you think that would be destroying trust, if I were to drop you, not building it?"

"I wouldn't put it past you," I rebuffed.

"Sonny, I promise I won't do anything to hurt you," he said sincerely, and for some reason I believed him.

"Fine," I agreed, and we got into the proper position as Greg had demonstrated.

I rigidly stood there for a minute, too scared to fall. Scanning the room, I saw partners falling into each others arms all over the room. I decided that I was being stupid, and I started to fall.

April 10

Yoga Studio Floor

10:41 AM

"What. The. Hell Chad?!" I screamed as soon as I felt the wood floor below me.

"Oops," he snickered. "Guess I wasn't ready after all."

I stood up, glaring at him with every ounce of hate I could muster. I knew trusting him was a mistake.

"Whoa, guys, what happened?" Greg said as he ran over after hearing our argument.

"He dropped me!" I complained, pointing to Chad. I tried to stay mad, but having Greg in such close proximity made it hard.

"Chad, the point of trust lessons is to build trust within your partnership, not to build hate," Greg lectured. Chad had crossed his arms over his chest, and was now glaring at him with unusual resentment, too much for simply being yelled at.

April 11

So Random! Conference Room

8:56 AM

We sat in the conference room, waiting for Marshall to finally show up. The room was completely silent, with the exception of Zora spinning around in her chair.

"So…" started Tawni.

She exchanged looks with Nico and Grady before Nico finally blurted out, "Man! Sonny, what happened?"

"What do you mean?" I asked, having no idea what he was talking about.

"Yesterday," Grady answered. "You almost bit Chad's head off!"

"Not that we are complaining," Nico quickly added.

I sighed. "Guys, it was nothing. Chad just dropped me on purpose during that stupid trust exercise thing."

"No kidding," Tawni rebutted. "Didn't mean you had to kill the guy."

"What do you mean?" I asked. "I wasn't that mean! Besides, why are you defending him? He's Chad."

Tawni rolled her chair over towards mine. Leaning towards my ear, she whispered, "Humiliating people generally doesn't make them attracted to you."

April 11

So Random! Conference Room

9:16 AM

I was still fuming from their joke when Marshall arrived 20 minutes later. We were supposed to discuss ideas for upcoming skits, and my cast mates simply couldn't leave their joke alone.

"You know, Marshall," Tawni started. "I was eating dinner last night when an idea just popped into my head for the next skit! I think you'll really like it."

She smiled evilly, locking eyes with Nico and Grady before going on. "It's actually based on real life events. Like a parody."

I groaned inaudibly as Marshall encouraged her to go on.

"Well, it starts off with a face off between two characters who hate each other. And then they are assigned to be partners in these lessons!" She describing, clapping her hands together and smiling ear to ear as I turned bright red.

"I think that's a great idea, Tawni!" Marshall commented.

"You know what I think would be an awesome twist?" Nico fake-asked. "The two characters should actually be in love with each other!"

"You guys are the best! We'll have to get started on this right away," said Marshall.

Yeah. The best.

April 13

So Random! Set C {Filming}

12: 39 PM

"Sarah!"

"Chuck!"

"Sarah!"

"Chuck!"

Tawni and Nico walked towards each other across the stage. Tawni had a vest and skinny jeans on, while Nico was outfit in a preppy blazer and dress pants. They glared at each other, imitating openly me and Chad.

I was going to kill them.

Zora came running up to them. "You two," she barked, pretending to be some studio official. "You will be partners in those Trust Lessons that we are starting."

They protested as extras started to fill into the background, taking our their mats and sitting on the floor. Tawni and Nico continued to glare at each other as they sat down.

Suddenly, Grady walked in to play the instructor, Greg. He started talking, but I wasn't listening; some girl had just walked up and told me Mr. Condor wanted to see me immediately.

Shit.

April 13

Hallway outside Mr. Condor's Office

12:46 PM

I ran down the hallway leading towards Mr. Condor's room. His reputation for being mean was undeniable, and I wanted to do anything to stay in his good graces.

"Chad?" I said, stopping short after seeing the blonde leaning outside his door.

"Sonny," he smirked, smiling. "You're here."

"Yeah," I answered. "Lucky me," I added under my breath.

"You are lucky actually," he rebutted, coming over to stand next to me. "I'm here."

"Chad, I'm all for looking at the glass 'half full,' but having you here can not be interpreted in any way, shape, or form as lucky," I retorted.

His mouth dropped slightly in shock before he could stop himself. "Well, that's your choice, then," he finally said. "You don't want to know why we are here, it's not my problem."

He started to walk away and I began to worry. It was Chad, and it was completely possible that he was playing me. But what if he really did know why were here?

I decided I couldn't take the chance of not knowing. "Chad," I called, walking up to him and conceding defeat. "Why are we here?"

"Beats me," he answered. My eyes narrowed at him as I hit him square in the chest, and then left to go sit across from him.

April 13

Outside Mr. Condor's Office

1:03 PM

I could feel him watching me, but I refused to look. For the past 15 minutes, Chad and I had been waiting for Mr. Condor to finally see us, him sitting on one side of the wall (staring at me) and me sitting on the other side (looking anywhere but him).

"You know, So--" Chad started to say before I cut him off.

"I was just gonna say sorry," he said after a moment. "I was an ass."

"No kidding," I replied. We sat in awkward silence for a few more minutes before he got up and came to sit next to me.

"Can I help you?" I asked after he sat down.

"I'm good," he said, apparently taking me literally. He looked around between saying, "So. How's life?"

"Life?" I repeated, not believing that Chad was actually trying to make small talk. "Life's…awesome?"

"Good," he mumbled, and more silence set in.

"So…" I started, uncomfortable in the quiet atmosphere. "How's Mackenzie Falls?"

"It's good," he answered. "This week I found out my step brother is actually a pop star in disguise. He goes by Hayden Martinez."

"I know I've asked this before, but what is your show even about?" I asked, confused.

"Well. There's me and my half brother, and we play basketball. And then my best friend. He hooked up with my girlfriend, after I hooked up with his half sister/my girlfriends' best friend. And my step brother is actually a musician. And there's some new girl on it who hosts her own web show, and sings all these weird songs with her Glee club," he explained.

I looked at him strangely for a moment. "Don't you get it?" He asked, and I shook my head no.

"It's ok," he sighed. "Truthfully, I don't either."

April 13

Outside Mr. Condor's Office

1:28 PM

"34, 35, 36..." I counted.

"9...10...11..." Chad tallied simultaneously. We had been waiting so long for Mr. Condor to finally see us that we decided to calculate the number of tiny squares on the ceiling above us. On the entire floor. Chad counted the number of hallways, while I counted the number of squares per hallway.

He walked back, coming to a halt next to me. "There are only 13 hallways."

"And there are 44 squares per hallway…" I added. "So that means there are--"

"572 squares," Chad cut me off, finishing his math before me.

"Show off," I teased, hitting him.

"Hey, not only am I beautiful, rich, and talented, but I'm a math whiz," he bragged, jokingly.

"Yeah," I agreed after I saw the tiny black square sticking out of his jacket. "You also happen to have a cell phone calculator."

"Whatever," he conceded, shaking his head. We sat against the wall in silence for a few more minutes.

"Do you think it's weird that we just spent the last 10 minutes counting the ceiling tiles?" Chad randomly asked.

"I find it weirder to be talking to you normally," I blurted out before I could stop myself.

Chad smiled at me. "You know I can be a nice person when I try," he chuckled.

"I noticed," I replied. "Too bad you're too lazy to try most of the time."

He smiled, agreeing with me. "Oh, Sonny," he chuckled quietly, as if he was enjoying a private joke with himself.

Snapping out of it, he leaped up onto his feet. "Come on. We've been waiting long enough. Let's go find out what Mr. Condor wants."

I stood up, glad to finally finish waiting. Chad grabbed the door handle, and we walked into the room.

Sitting in Mr. Condor's lab was a twenty something, rail thin blonde, who was in the midst of tearing off his shirt.

now review please. someone try and pick out all the show refernces within Chad's description of mackenzie falls (: