From Chad Dylan Cooper's Eyes

Chapter 2

West Coast Story

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Chad's POV

"Great job everyone!" One of the producers announced when we finished the last scene. I walked over to my dressing room and picked up my script.

I walked past the meditation hall, stage, etc. and to the exit of Stage 2. I'm kind of in the mood for something sweet and chocolate from the chocolate fountain just isn't enough today. I took the golf cart to the cafeteria and walked toward the fro-yo machine.

Good there's a waitress here. "Excuse me, miss, when you're done with that order I'm gonna need an extra large chocolate." I said while looking at the various toppings.

"Oh, I don't work here."

"Huh," I said without much care placing what I was looking at down before a tray hit my arm.

I looked down before looking up at the person in front of me. "Oh my gosh! I know you! You're—You're—"

I smirked inwardly. Greatest part of the job has to be the fans. I walked over to the large Mackenzie Falls poster and motioned from my own face to the large blow up of me. "Him?"

She nodded enthusiastically and I tilted my head giving the same pouty face that I used constantly on my show. One of the many things that made me the Chad Dylan Cooper. After I smiled humored and nodded, "Chad Dylan Cooper."

She pointed at the poster as I walked back over to her, "You're Mackenzie on Mackenzie Falls!"

I continued to smile and read her name tag, "And apparently you're Mage."

"Yes!" She answered nodding her head then corrected herself. "No! No." She looked at her name tag and I began to recognize her face. "Mage is my waitress character." There we go she's the new addition to Chuckle City. Hm, that's a good one actually 'Chuckle City'. "And all of this," She motioned to her large body, fat suit I'm guessing. "Belongs to Mage too. Hi I'm Sonny!" She extended her arm out to me.

I smiled back and brought my script up to my level happy I brought a head shot of myself. Man these losers were just so easy to fool. "Sonny? That's a nice name." I began to scrawl on the headshot as she rambled.

"Thank you! You know when I was younger I never really liked it but now it kinda suits me. I mean I had this one friend and her name is—"

I smiled again and passed her the photo, "Here you go." I looked into her eyes completely catching her attention and reached for the tray she had before. "See you later." Silly Sonny, it's time to get acquainted with the boundaries.

I took the tray and turned around as she turned to the picture. I have to admit she wasn't as annoying as the rest of So Random! Definitely way more likeable than Tawni. That girl can whine more than a bunch of dogs.

I started nearing the exit of the cafeteria when I heard the beautiful chime of a job well done, "Chad Dylan Cooper just stole my yogurt!"

I chuckled to myself as I continued to walk out. Sonny welcome to showbiz. You have just been introduced to the dog eat dog world I like to call Hollywood.

I grabbed the golf cart and drove back to Stage 2 sending Portlyn a text message to get everyone outside. Man were they going to scream over at Stage 1. My grin slowly went down with guilt.

She can handle those buffoons I assured myself as I parked outside grabbing one of the strawberry yogurts. Besides they're the enemy and I could care less about them. "Hey Chad!" Portlyn greeted with a grin with three others of Mackenzie Falls.

I grinned as she grabbed one more of the strawberry and sat next to me handing everyone else the rest of the fro-yo. "Guess who I got this from?" They knew who but wouldn't guess knowing I wanted to say it. Smart. "One of the dorks from So Random!" I said changing the tone of my voice to mocking when I said the show's name.

We all started laughing talking about how dumb and lame each and everyone of them was. I turned to the window looking out to where we were at. Their faces were priceless! "Look there they are!" I laughed pointing them out and we all continued to laugh.

Yeah I not only took their frozen yogurt I took their parking place! Wow, who knew them having that new girl would be so good, for us! I shook my head when I saw her pathetic look. Oh man if she didn't get it yet, she would now.

They walked away and I continued to laugh with my co-stars. "This is even better than when we won the Tween Choice Award and embarrassed them on national television!" Portlyn laughed next to me.

I turned to her and smiled. "I didn't think there would be something better than being so popular and good-looking," I paused to raise the tension. "But then that girl comes and makes humiliating them even easier!"

They all laughed and continued talking and praising me, (why shouldn't they though, I'm incredible) but I couldn't help and glance over to Stage 1 again. Half expecting her to still be there with those disappointed eyes.

When we finally went inside I was surprised though when one of the workers called me over. "What's up?"

"You got a message Mr. Cooper." A blond production worker with a headset on her head said handing me a slip of paper and walking off.

Please meet us, the cast of So Random!, for a peace picnic at the cafeteria in an hour so we can all finally settle our differences! We'll even return your Tween Choice Award.

I stared at the paper blankly. Wow, could they be any more obvious. They were trying to trap us to get back at us! Those dimwits were in for it now! Because Chad Dylan Cooper does not get tricked.

I smirked as I began thinking of various ways to stop them. No Chad Dylan Cooper doesn't get tricked, Chad Dylan Cooper does the tricking.

I walked back to the rest of the crew and grinned at Portlyn. "Hey Portlyn we're going to need some crazy glue. We're going to show those losers what it means to mess with Mackenzie Falls." She smirked and walked off to get someone to get us the glue.

"So," I turned to the rest. "Who's got a camera and Tween Weekly's email?" I paused and then laughed, "Oh right, me!" I remembered my plan and smirked pointing at one of my costars. "You, go get a screw driver." This was going to be great.

It was perfectly set up. It was even greater when we hid and watched them walk to the dining hall with scowls. Our Tween Choice Award was in the blond guy's hand. When we were sure they were inside we came out from our hiding spots and smirked at one another.

Suddenly a snap was heard and I grinned ecstatically. Good thing I placed a camera inside to capture everything.

I laughed as I ran and heard, "We're stuck to our chairs!" And then the victorious, "Mackenzie Falls did this!" They know my work well.

I ran inside and grabbed the statue, "Woohoohoo!" I posed while holding it to make sure they knew we won. "Peace out suckers!" Then I ran around them laughing and outside. Time to send it all to Tween Weekly.

The next day came with the stench of victory still there. When I went into my dressing room I gladly saw on my computer the embarrassing pictures and video. You gotta love the internet.

We continued shooting like usual but we were all grinning in our triumph. Of course everything was perfect. Perfect breakfast, perfect embarrassing propaganda, perfect shooting.

All that mattered now wasn't the stupid tiny hint of guilt I felt yesterday because of the new girl; it was the camera and acting. "Sh, time for talking's over." I said my line with only the finesse a great actor like myself can pull off.

"What's the matter with you?!" Portlyn exclaimed.

"What's the matter with me what's the matter with—" I stopped realizing that wasn't her voice. "Those words didn't come out of your mouth." The director yelled 'cut' and annoyance came back knocking at my door.

Scratch my thought about her not being as annoying as the rest, she's worse. I turned to face her, "Wha—" I laughed lightly. "Sort of in the middle of a shoot in here." I explained as simply as I could for her. This girl obviously doesn't get it.

She was unfazed though…weird. "And now you're sort of taking a break." She turned to Portlyn ignoring me for the moment, which again shocked me. "Protlyn you got great legs, let's see how they move." She made that little motion of walking with her fingers and I looked at her curiously.

I turned from the turning actress to the clown in front of me. "Okay well," I turned noticing Portlyn walking. "Stay sad…sweetie!"

Now I'm really mad. How dare she walk into my studio and not only interrupt my shooting but also order me around. "What is your problem?" I ordered this time.

She looked at me with crossed arms, "What's my problem? My problem is that everything my friends …and Tawni told me about you guys was true!" I could only blink bored. Great a sob story. "You Mackenzie Falls people are jerks! And you're like the head jerk! Like the mayor of Jerksville." Is she serious? She must have seen the video. "The head ambassador of Jerkaslovakia."

I couldn't help but laugh and nod as I stopped her endless ramble, "You saw the egg salad video. Yeah, I also direct." I'm not just a pretty face you know.

"We were trying to make peace," She said in a disgusted tone.

Well isn't that just the lie of all lies. "Please, you were trying to trap us." I grinned again at her with an all knowing look. Did she really take me for a fool? ...Hm, I guess she does if she thinks I wouldn't have noticed it was a trap in the first place.

"Trap you? You've obviously been watching your show too much." The production workers were moving the set behind us as she spoke and the lights dimmed. "You know not everything is cut throat and gossipy, sometimes people do things because they're trying to be nice."

My head was tilted and I looked into her eyes like before. "Do they Sonny?" The lights were cut. "Do they really?" Perfect. I took a step forward and put a hand on her arm. "Look it was sweet of you to set up that picnic. It was way sweet." She looked at me with a smile now and I couldn't stop myself from noticing how the light shined off her eyes. "But the bad blood between our two shows has run too deep for too long to be healed by a bowl of egg salad and even the best of intentions." I took one of her hands in both of mine from her crossed arms and brought it between us and I noticed the slightest darkening of her skin. She looked at our hands before back to me, "Just because you wish for something, doesn't make it so." I tightened my grip on her hand and again noticed another thing about her, her skin was incredibly soft and her hands felt great in my own.

"Oh Chad Dylan," Sonny began.

"Sh," I brought my index finger to her lips while my other fingers lightly touched her chin. I smiled lightly as I repeated my line. "Time for talking's over. I must go." I slowly drifted back enjoying her dazed look and gently let her hand slide between mine. "So run, run back to your show." I let her hands drop now and waved walking backwards to the others as she was still dazed. "And put your sweet little dreams of peace to rest."

And that's why I'm the best.

Unfortunately it didn't end there like I'd wanted. She came back to my stage again later as I was being prepared for another scene. "Musical chairs?" Her stupid, silly, childish idea only proved that she did belong over with those losers. "You're challenging us to musical chairs?" Wow this girl was in over her head.

However with the most serious look she answered, "You heard me."

Wow. "That's a game for children between the ages of four and seven." Does she even realize that?

"Which makes it suitable for you." She smirked.

Ugh, I'm getting tired of this. I motioned for the make up artist next to me to leave before turning my attention back to Sonny. "Look," I said standing. "I don't know how much free time you have over there in 'Chuckle City'." I made my way to the buffet table and she followed. I grabbed a water bottle and turned back to her. "But over here on Mackenzie Falls we have some serious acting to do." And with my hand I shooed her away.

"Oh my gosh. You really are a drama snob, and you do think you're better than us."

She's starting to learn. "No, not better. Just different…in a better way." I paused realizing how that sounded and shook my head. "We act." I summed up knowing that was enough to explain.

"Okay, I see what's going on here. You're afraid we might be better than you in something." Wow does she have it wrong.

I picked up my script again. "I'm not afraid of anything."

"Except musical chairs."

"Especially…musical chairs." I trailed off with a scoff. She's delusional that's it.

"Fine!" I turned back to my script. I refuse to waste more of my time on Sonny. "We win we get our parking space back, we get your table, and you have to buy us a new toilet paper roller." I signed something as she pouted with crossed arms.

I shook my head after signing, "No, we're not doing that."

She then did the most immature thing she could have done then…she made clocking sounds. "Did I just hear afraid?" I laughed lightly rolling my eyes. She then raised her voice and bocked louder.

"O-Okay! Cut it out!" I shouted at her. She only went louder! "Stop it." She did. "You're acting like a fool."

She grinned, "Actually I'm acting like a chicken. I'm not afraid to act like a fool!" This time she made her arms like wings and flapped them around while bocking some more.

"Cut it out! Cut it out!" She stopped for a bit but then kept going again. "Stop—Stop it! There are people starting to stare."

I walked around her and toward my seat again but again she followed and bocked! I turned back to face her and raised a finger, "Will you just quit your bocking!?"

"Fine!"

"Yeah, fine we'll do it!" How about that huh!? "Okay? And when we win, you have to go on your show and say that Mackenzie Falls is better than So Random!" Let's see how enthusiastic you are when you finally admit your defeat.

"Fine! But when we win you'll have to go on your show and say something nice about So Random!!" She's seriously insane if she thinks she can add to hers.

"No. No. No, no, no. We're not doing that. You already told me your terms, you don't get to keep adding stuff." I told her matter of fact. Again she bocked! "No, no! Those were my terms! You can't just use my terms!" I tried to turn the top off the water bottle but she was getting even more annoying and I snapped. "FINE I'LL PLAY YOU AT MUSICAL CHAIRS!"

"Fine!" She exclaimed back to normal. "See you at noon!"

"Yes you will!!!" I seethed breathing in deeply and raggedly. I looked her from below then up, "You smell like ham."

"I've seen you're acting," She paused doing the same to me. "That makes two of us." She turned and stomped away.

I was left open mouthed. Some mediocre comedian just insulted my acting! No one insults my acting!

I looked down to the ground. This girl is something else. I closed my mouth and blinked a few times. Even more no girl ever made me think so much.

Noon came and we walked over to the dining hall. They really are losers. They're actually practicing. Sonny chanted as they did, "We're walking, we're walking, we're walking, walking, sit!"

They didn't notice us until the blond hurt himself and they all stood up from their crouch. "Well," He said. "If it isn't Chad Dylan Pooper!" No wonder they're show sucks. They have people like them doing the comedy.

"Easy G, easy. Save it for the chairs, save it for the chairs."

I rolled my eyes and walked in with my costars trailing behind. "Look, let's just get this over with. Gotta get my teeth bleached in twenty minutes." I'd be surprised if some of them even ever saw a toothbrush. "Did you know there's 80 different shades of white?"

Time passed by until it was only the two of us facing off. Oh this would be great. Time to show little Miss Sonny to show Chad Dylan Cooper some respect. "Looks like it's just you, me, and one more thing your not gonna get." I mocked.

She stayed stubborn though, "You're acting pretty confident for someone who's going to lose."

I fake laughed. "At least I can act."

"Can you Chad, can you really?" She used my line.

That threw me off for a second before I snapped out of it and kept my head in the game. Wow…I'm getting worked up over a kid game. "See that? She's giving it right back to 'im!"

"We might actually win."

"We can have a new toilet paper holder by sundown!"

The So Random! cast began chanting and I studied her face. It remained stubborn but paid no one else any mind but me as she challenged me with her glare.

"Ow!" She exclaimed tumbling down. It surprised me that her 'friends' groaned 'No' rather than help her. Sonny was on the ground holding her ankle in pain. "Ow, it's my ankle! It really hurts! I think something snapped!"

Man that looked like it hurt. "Oh man, that looks really serious." I seemed to be the only one who cared though. I walked around the back of the chair while looking at her. "We better get you to a doctor. Just take my hand." I extended my hand out for her and she looked up reaching for it.

One second later I found my body connecting with the ground and her sitting on the chair once again repeating what I said and did, "Peace out suckers!"

I looked up at her from the ground incredulous, my hair probably a mess. "You tricked me!"

"No," She shook her head before running her hands through her hair. "I was acting."

She's something else, I muse. "Not bad," I say actually impressed. "Maybe there's a spot for you on Mackenzie Falls." As I say and think that I see Portlyn next to me. "Yeah after Portlyn disappears in a mysterious ballooning accident." After all if someone as interesting like her will be on the set she should be playing my character's love interest. Even if Portlyn has to leave.

I probably shouldn't have said that though because Portlyn walked out crying. Oh well, I'll apologize later. Maybe.

Sonny shrugged, "Thanks but my home's right here in Chuckle City, on a show called So Random! So," I watched her honestly intrigued. "I don't think I'll be going anywhere Chad Dylan Cooper." The four next to her gasped and she narrowed her eyes annoyed. I looked at them confused, but was actually bemused by her reaction. "Really, we're doing that again?"

Everyone walked out of the room some time later and I stayed, sitting in the winning chair. Once again I was thinking about the bouncy brunette. She's certainly not what I thought she'd be. Or as annoying as I thought. Actually I find myself slightly wanting her to be closer to us at the Falls. Well actually to me.

I sighed running a hand over my face and stood up. I still had to go and keep up my end of the deal. I smiled walking out of the dining hall. Amused, that I actually think musical chairs really isn't that bad of a game.

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Moody1656: There it is! Chapter 2 and I'm really happy with it! I'm sorry that it's like the whole episode rewritten but the point of this story is what Chad's thoughts throughout everything are. I hope you enjoyed it and I'm going straight to work on chapter 3 so I can later do 4 when it's out and wait till next week for episode 5! Please review!