So Cold
Chapter 2: Secrets
PREVIOUSLY:
"Hello."
"Hey, it's Tawni, how'd it go?"
Sonny's bottom lip began to shake, "Tawni, I'm pregnant."
"Oh god, Sonny, I'm sorry." She said.
"It's okay." Sonny sniffled, "It's not like you went out and had sex with Chad and got knocked up. It's not your fault."
"I kind of feel like it was, if I had my phone on vibrate that night I would have felt your call and you wouldn't be in this mess. I'm a terrible friend!" she exclaimed.
"No Tawni, you're really not." She said, "Thanks for being there through this, even though it's just gonna get worse."
"No problem." Tawni replied, "So how are you gonna tell him?"
"I'm not."
"Woah! You can't do that! You need him now, as weird as that sounds, you need him!"
"I don't want him around!" Sonny exclaimed.
"Then how are you going to explain this to your parents, to Marshall, to the rest of "So Random!", to the public?" she asked.
"I don't know, Tawni! I guess I could say that it's someone else's, make up some crappy story."
"What if Chad tells?"
"He won't. Trust me, he probably wants nothing to do with this baby." She said.
"You're going to have to tell someone. You need to go to a doctor." Tawni said, "How far along do you think you are?"
"Around a month or so, I guess?"
"Sonny, you're going to start showing in about a month or so, you've got to do this, you've got to tell someone. Tell your mom, she'll understand, she loves you." She said.
"I'll get kicked off the show! She'll tell Marshall! I don't want to tell anyone! Plus, if I tell someone other than you, than Chad will find out!" Sonny cried.
"Sonny, Chad will find out eventually. Won't he put two and two together when you start showing a lot and he does the math in his head? He may be a jerk, but he isn't stupid." She said.
"I don't know what to do." Sonny said, putting her head back into her hands.
"Look, I'll come over, we'll tell your mom together, you can tell her what happened, okay." Tawni said.
"Okay, I guess."
"Then all three of us will go tell Marshall and see what he wants to do."
"No one is telling Marshall!" she exclaimed.
"Telling Marshall what?"
Sonny dropped her phone to the hardwood flooring with a thud. She turned around and saw her mother sitting behind her. She looked back at the clock. The red letters screamed at her: 5:15. Her mother had just gotten home.
"Sonny? Sonny? What was that thud? Are you okay? You don' t need to go get hurt now. Sonny?" Tawni's voice poured through the speaker.
Sonny hit the end button on the touch screen with her foot, putting Tawni's voice to a stop.
"What are you not going to tell Marshall?" Connie asked again.
"Me and Tawni," she gulped, "We're not going to tell Marshall…about this new skit we came up with…big surprise!"
Sonny smiled at herself, "Nice cover up, two points for Sonny."
"Why is it such a surprise?"
"It's a new "Check Out Girls"." Sonny nodded.
"Where are they now?"
"Mackenzie Falls." She blurted out, then rolled her eyes.
"Really?" Ms. Monroe said, "So are they going to be like, 'Check out Chad Dylan Cooper, Check out his tie, Check out Portlyn's dress, Check it out, Check it out'?"
Sonny laughed awkwardly, "Something like that."
"Ooh, that sounds like fun! Tell me when you're shooting it and I'll come watch. It sounds great!" she said.
"Alrighty mom." Sonny said.
Ms. Monroe got up and walked out of the room, closing the door behind her.
Sonny fell backwards onto her bed, "Thank you!"
Around twenty minutes later, the doorbell rang.
"Oh no." Sonny squeaked. She had completely forgotten about Tawni coming over to tell her mom about the whole Chad ordeal.
"I'll get it." Ms. Monroe exclaimed.
"No!" Sonny gasped.
She ran down the stairs and grabbed the door before her mom could go get it.
"What has gotten into you?" Connie said, looking at her daughter.
"Chad Dylan Cooper" She thought sarcastically.
Sonny opened the door.
"Hey Sonny! Hey Ms. Monroe!" Tawni smiled.
"Hello Tawni, it's nice to see you. What brings you by?" Connie asked.
"Uh, I invited her over to practice the new sketch." Sonny lied.
"Okay, have fun girls." Her mother said before walking back into the kitchen.
Sonny grabbed Tawni's wrist and took her back upstairs to her room.
"Look," Sonny said, shutting her room door, "I told her we were working on a new sketch about the Check it Out girls in Mackenzie Falls, if she asks, make up some joke about Chad on the spot involving 'Check it out' got it?"
"Yes." Tawni replied, "When are we telling her about the baby?"
"After dinner."
"She might throw up."
"Way later, like at nine."
"If she goes into a fit of shock, the E.R.'s gonna be packed."
"Why do we have to tell her right now?" Sonny groaned.
"Bingo." Tawni said, giving Sonny a thumbs up.
"This is going to be terrible!" Sonny said.
"It might not be as bad as you think, come on." The blonde said, taking Sonny's hand, leading her down the staircase.
As they entered the kitchen, the fresh smell of food filled the air. As if on cue, nausea overwhelmed Sonny.
"Oh no." she squeaked.
"Keep it down Monroe, just like the time in the Kindergarten play, breath through your nose and don't think about it." Sonny thought.
"What's up girls?" Ms. Monroe asked.
"We need to talk to you for a second, so can we borrow you?" Tawni smiled.
"Sure thing, let me cut off the burner first." She said.
Ms. Monroe soon followed them into the living room. Sonny and Tawni sat down on the couch and Ms. Monroe sat on the recliner.
"Sonny, if you would." Tawni said.
"Uh…" Sonny said, her chest rising and falling rapidly.
"What is it?" Ms. Monroe said.
"Come on." Tawni whispered.
Sonny whimpered helplessly, "Uh, um."
"Well?"
She couldn't take it anymore.
"I'M PREGNANT WITH CHAD COOPER'S BABY!" she yelled, before running upstairs, slamming the bathroom door and emptying herself into the toilet.
Ms. Monroe sat in shock, her eyes wide, and her mouth agape.
"Ms. Monroe, are you okay?" Tawni asked.
Connie nodded slowly, "I-I just don't understand…since when have Sonny and…I thought they hated each other…two people that hate each other shouldn't randomly decide to reproduce."
"I didn't really know either until Sonny told me what happened. To be honest, I'm going to let Sonny tell you the story, because I don't think it's my job to, or my business." She said.
Connie nodded slowly again, not looking up from the ground.
"I'm going to check on Sonny, okay, do you want me to bring her back down here, or do you want her to stay upstairs?"
"It doesn't matter. I'll stay down here."
"Okay."
Tawni rushed upstairs and knocked on the bathroom door.
"Sonny, are you okay?" she asked.
"Yeah…" Sonny replied hoarsely.
"Can I come in?"
"Yeah, it's unlocked."
Tawni opened the door and walked in. Sonny was sitting in the floor next to the toilet. Her elbow was propped up on the porcelain rim and her head was rested on her palm.
"I don't want to have a baby." Sonny said, on the verge of tears.
"There's nothing you can do about that now." Tawni replied, handing her a washcloth to wipe herself off with.
"Chad's going to want me to abort the baby, so why don't I?" she said.
Tawni gasped, "No way! Sonny, you may not love the person you made that little baby with, but when your maternal instincts kick in, you're going to fall head over heels for Chad Cooper's baby. Plus, that kid's still alive inside you right now and if you had an abortion it would…yeah."
"I could never do that, no matter what. I don't know what I was thinking."
"Sonny?" Connie said, knocking on the door.
"Come on in mom." She said.
The mother and the daughter just looked at each other before dissolving into tears. Sonny got up and ran to her mom, engulfing her in a hug.
"I'm so sorry mom! I would have never done it if I could take it back!" she cried, "I'm sorry!"
"It's okay." Her mom sniffled, "There's nothing we can do about that now, now all we can do is worry about you and your baby's safety."
"Yeah" Sonny agreed.
Connie let go of her daughter, "Does Chad know?"
Sonny shook her head, "And he's not going to."
"He has to, Allison!"
"Mom, don't call me that!"
"Well, you better tell that boy."
"Why, it isn't like he's going to do anything about it. He won't help out. He's an egotistical jerk!" Sonny exclaimed.
"You never know that." Connie said.
"Mom," Sonny began to cry harder, "He's going to ruin my entire life worse than he has already! Please don't make me!"
"Sonny, you are going to tell Chad that you are having his baby, supportive or not, he needs to know."
Sonny nodded, "I'll tell him sometime tomorrow, if I can."
"Thank you." She replied, "I'm going to set you up a doctor's appointment in the next few days, tell Chad, if he wants to, he can come."
"Ew."
"Oh, the time for ew has passed sweetheart, you're stuck with him forever now." She said.
"I know." Sonny said.
"I'm going to finish dinner," Ms. Monroe said, "Sonny, be careful going down the stairs."
"Yes 'mam."
As soon as Ms. Monroe's footsteps could be heard from the stairs, Tawni looked at Sonny, who was now sitting on the edge of the bathtub.
"When are you going to tell him?"
"I'm going to lie and say I did."
"What? You can't do that!" Tawni exclaimed.
"Yes I can! It's my baby, and if I don't want him around it, then I have the right to say so!"
"It's Chad's baby too, Sonny." She continued, "You never know, he might want to have a part in his son slash daughter's life."
"Whatever, it's my decision and neither you, or my mom can do anything about it." She said.
"I guess you're right."