Chapter 3 - Vandalism and Verification

"I'm not dating Chase, I thought he sent me flowers, what?" Sonny replied, overwhelmed.

"Told you." Chad crossed his arms triumphantly.

"Never mind, I don't want to understand." Sonny said, and went right back out of the room.

Chad found Sonny sitting on the couch in the prop room, staring at a sandwich in front of her. He walked over and sat next to her silently, giving him a closer look at her face.

"Sonny, what's wrong?" He asked softly. He realized she had been crying.

"Why do you care?" Sonny mumbled.

He avoided the question. "Was it that Chase kid? I knew he was bad news-"

"No, it wasn't him. Marshall thinks I…vandalized." She said, horrified.

"You're kidding, right? You don't even jay walk." Chad laughed.

"That's what I said!" Sonny cried. "Now I'm banned from the Makenzie Falls set. Not that I've enjoyed spending my time there…ever."

"But?" Chad could tell there was more. "You'll miss coming to yell at me?"

"It still hurts that they think I would do something like that." Sonny looked away as fresh tears sprung to her eyes.

Chad hesitated, then pulled Sonny into a hug. "I believe you." He paused. "Which counts as like, ten people because I'm Chad Dylan Cooper."

Sonny pulled away laughing. "I can't believe I'm saying this, but thanks, Chad."

"Anytime." He smiled and wiped her tears away.

They jumped away from each other as the door burst open, Melanie standing behind it, fuming.

"What are you doing here?" Sonny jumped up and pointed at her accusingly.

"The real question is, what is Makenzie doing here when he should be at the Falls, falling for me?" Melanie glared at Sonny.

"What are you talking about? Our characters are second cousins." Chad pointed out.

"She's the one who said I vandalized her car!" Sonny cried.

"Which I did to keep you away from Chad, and clearly failed." Melanie folded her arms across her chest. "I saw him bring you flowers this morning."

Sonny turned to Chad. "You really did bring me flowers? That's so nice." She smiled, then gasped at turned back to Melanie. "You have to tell Marshall the truth!"

"And if you don't, I will. Now get out." Chad smiled pleasantly.

"This isn't over." Melanie growled as she turned around and flounced back out of the prop room.

Sonny looked curiously at Chad. "Why are you being so…nice lately?"

Chad contemplated his options: tell her the truth, or avoid the question yet again.

He took her hand. "Sonny, I have to tell you something." He started. "When Carter-"

"Chase."

"Whatever his name is got here, and I saw the way he looked at you, and the way you looked at him, and you pushed me out of the room, and I felt…" He searched for the right word. "Jealous."

Sonny stared at him, shocked. "You felt jealous? Chad Dylan Cooper?"

He slumped back in the couch disappointedly.

"You did all that stuff because you wanted me to pick you over Chase?" Sonny asked.

"No, I did all that stuff because I wanted you to pick me over every guy in the whole world! Because I love you!" Chad cried, then realized what he said.

A smile spread over Sonny's face. "You love me?"

"Yes." He grinned.

"I love you too." She smiled back.

The mummy case behind them swung open, slamming against the wall. "NO!" Zora ran out of the room yelling repeatedly.

A/N: So I was watching Sonny with a Secret today, and begging the TV the whole time not to spew out my plot...it did. -_-. I swear I came up with all this in my mind before watching that! Anyways, this is a little short but I wanted to reward you guys. I got 412 hits today! The first day I posted this story, I got 205, so it doubled, which makes me super happy :D. And you guys were so nice about my rubbish second chapter that I felt the need to redeem myself. I might update again tomorrow, but probably not because I have to go get my registration packet (blehhhh school) and do some other errands and pack and then I leave for ten days! So probably no updates for a while, sorry :[. I still love you!