DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN SONNY WITH A CHANCE, ITS CHARACTERS, JACK JOHNSON, OR BETTER TOGETHER!
apology
Sonny and Chad broke apart and mirrored their costars; they were as shocked and Tawni and Portlyn were.
Sonny broke the silence and began to plead with Tawni. "Tawni, I would say it's not what it looks like, but I guess it is. And I'm sorry! But I really… love Chad."
Tawni looked disgusted. "Sonny! How could you? How could you betray me, betray Nico and Grady and Zora? I thought we told each other everything!" A tear ran down Tawni's cheek, but she swiped it away and sprinted to her dressing room.
"Tawni! Wait!" Sonny turned to Chad. "I have to go after her. I'll text you." Chad nodded and Sonny ran to save her friendship.
Chad turned toward Portlyn, his eyebrows raised.
"Chad! I come looking for you so we can rehearse, and this is what I find! You with a… a… a Random. How could you cheat on me? I thought what we had was special!" Portlyn cried dramatically.
"Portlyn?" Chad said. "We were never together!"
Portlyn whipped her head around and stormed out of the room.
As she was leaving, she slammed her shoulder into Nico's, who was entering the Prop House with Grady.
"Um, ow!" Nico looked angry. "Can you believe her?" he said to Grady.
"I know! She's so full of herself!"
"Good call, G," Nico replied.
Grady looked up. "That wasn't me. That was Chad." It took a minute for Nico and Grady to realize what had happened.
"Chad?" They had the exact same looks on their faces.
"Why would you say that about Portlyn?" asked Grady. "Wait, why are you even here?"
"I was talking to Sonny," Chad said distractedly. "I gotta go." Chad left for Sonny's and Tawni's dressing room without another word.
Nico and Grady exchanged a confused glance before sitting on the couch to play their Y Box 4000.
* * * * * * *
Meanwhile, Sonny was trying desperately to convince Tawni to open the dressing room door.
"Tawni, I'm sorry!" Sonny pleaded. "It just happened! I mean, I didn't freak out on you when you told me you liked Hayden!"
"Hayden didn't star on our rival TV show! Hayden wasn't the archenemy of our entire cast! And Hayden wasn't a shallow, self-absorbed, conceited jerk face!" Tawni shouted back.
"Tawni, I know you hate Chad, but don't call him that!"
"Why not? You did, remember, diva?" Sonny was painfully reminded of her ruined interview with Santiago Heraldo.
"Tawni, that's so unfair! You know what happened!"
"Sonny," Chad said as he came up from behind, putting his hand on Sonny's shoulder. "Just give her a while. She's probably just in shock or something."
Normally, Sonny was pretty stubborn. But there was something in those big blue eyes that made her agree with him. "Okay," she said. "Why don't we go to the cafeteria, get some lunch?"
"Alright. What are you in the mood for? Steak? Lobster?" he asked as he dazzled her with his perfect smile.
"Sure, I'm up for anything," she said with a grin. He put his arm around her waist and guided her to the cafeteria.
* * * * * * *
After the best filet mignon Sonny had ever eaten, she and Chad returned to the dressing room.
"It's probably better if I do this alone," Sonny told Chad.
"Okay, I'm going to go rehearse. I'll call you."
"Okay, bye." Sonny stood on her tiptoes and pecked his cheek.
Chad blushed, smiled shyly, and walked back to the Falls. Sonny turned her attention to the locked dressing room door.
"Tawni? Can you please just let me in? I need to talk to you."
The door opened just the slightest bit and Tawni peeked out. "Is he with you?" Tawni asked with disgust.
"No, it's just me." Sonny replied.
"Fine," Tawni said as she opened the door wide. "You have ten minutes."
"Thank you," Sonny said as she entered the room and sat down. "Tawni, I'm really sorry. I never meant to betray you, and it's really hard for me to be with Chad and not have your approval because I really think I might be in love with him and I really want that to be okay with you because deep down we both know that we're best friends even if you won't admit it." After her apology speech, Sonny was out of breath.
"Sonny, I'll accept your apology."
"Tawni, thank you, I—"
"If… If you tell me everything that has happened between you and Chad."
"Well, oka—"
"And… everything you've thought about Chad since Gotcha!."
"Okay. I'll tell you everything," Sonny said. She was happy to have her friend back.
