I know it's really late at night, but I wanted to get this out right after I finished it. My only explanation for the slight delay is that I wanted to write out a scene in chapter five (you'll understand later), and I ended up writing all of chapter five and part of chapter six before finally getting back to just writing chapter four already. So, without further ado, here is chapter four.

Chapter Four: Fifteen Minutes

Chad's Point of View

The next day, every time we made plans to meet up and work more on the scripts, one of us had to cancel because some rehearsal or live taping came up. It didn't help, either, that Sonny was keeping the fact that she was helping Mackenzie Falls out a secret from the rest of So Random.

The time we both managed to keep was 10:00 P.M. The studio would be closing at midnight, but that gave us plenty of time to work, and then pick up and work somewhere else if necessary when it got too close to midnight.

But why couldn't we just work somewhere else in the first place you ask? That would be because Sonny insists that Zora likes to stay late in the studio and do whatever it is Zora does, and Nico and Grady like to rollerblade on the empty sets. She wouldn't tell me which one though. So because of that, she insists we work in the studio until like 11:45, fifteen minutes before they shut down the studio for the night. Okay…

I was already in my dressing room, reading fan mail when Sonny walked in. I glanced up from yet another letter from a girl who's "totally in love" with me. "What, you don't knock?"

She rolled her eyes at me and sat down on the end of the couch. "I assumed you'd be in here, and that we were in enough of a rush that you wouldn't really care. Once again, you prove me wrong." She mumbled the last part under her breath, but I caught it.

"So have you picked our scenes yet?" she asked, pulling out a laptop and opening it up.

I set the letters aside. "No. We've only written one script and half of the other."

"Isn't that enough to choose from?" Sonny opened the word document that was our second script on her computer.

I sighed dramatically. "Fine. Where's the original copy of the script for the first one?"

"You have it. It's on your desk or something." She waved her hand in the general direction of my desk. "I gave it to you yesterday, thinking that you would have chosen a couple of scenes to do by now."

"Calm down, I've got it." She's so paranoid sometimes. It's like she thinks I'm completely incapable of doing anything that doesn't directly benefit me.

I grabbed the original copy that Sonny handwrote yesterday and started skimming through it. I had to admit, she did have pretty good handwriting… and writing skills for that matter. But…

"Hey, you do know how to do all of the dramatic stuff in the scenes don't you?"

She half glared at me. "Yes, Chad, I can act."

Of course she turns my harmless question into an insult. "I didn't ask if you could act. I asked if you could do drama."

She frowned as she typed out extremely quickly. "I'm assuming so."

"Then could we run through a scene just to be sure?" What could it hurt? Might as well make sure we weren't going to crash and burn because of her acting limitations.

She groaned. "Fine. Give me the script." I sat down next to her on the couch and held it between us. "This scene," I said pointing to one of the pages.

She gathered her hair into her hands like she was going to put it into a ponytail but then let it fall onto her shoulders as she read over it. Hmm… her hair smelled like flowers. Nice.

"Who starts, since it seems like you like to call all of the shots in this department," she asked, dripping with sarcasm.

"Just start at the top of the page," I directed.

She took a deep breath and looked like she was getting into character. Finally she looked at me with those big brown eyes. "I don't want this moment to ever end."

I shook my head once to clear my thoughts. My very confused thoughts. "What?"

She gave me a weird look. "What do you mean 'what'?" This is from the script. I'm pretty sure you wrote this part too."

"Uh, right… okay…" I looked quickly at the next line. "Why not? I thought you said this was the worst day of your life." I just had to focus on the words, and not on what I was just thinking of.

"That was before…" she trailed off and looked back down at the script quickly before looking back at me.

"Before what?" I read off the page.

She put one hand on my arm. "Before I realized I loved you, you idiot."

Neither of us looked back down at the script. I kept looking into her eyes. Okay, this was weird. I was starting to… feel something different about Sonny. It was like I was looking at her for the first time. She was actually really pretty… and funny. She was always doing things for other people even if she never got anything in return. What was this?

At that moment, I glanced at her hand still resting on my right arm. Oh my gosh! I just figured it out! I was pretty sure that I… liked Sonny. Maybe even… loved…

She furrowed her eyebrows in a really cute way. Ugh, what am I saying?

"Are you okay?" she asked.

Other than the fact I just realized I fell in love with someone who's on Mackenzie Falls' rival show? Oh, yeah, I'm fine. "Yeah, I'm fine. Uh… let's just get back to work."

She gently slid her hand off my arm and went back to work typing on her computer.

I took a deep breath and let it out slowly trying to gather my thoughts. First things first… what was I going to do about this? I couldn't just suddenly walk up to her and tell her I had recently acquired a crush on her. She'd either run away screaming, or think it was all just some sick joke and laugh in my face. I mean, it was kind of laughable… Not falling in love with Sonny, I think anyone could fall in love with someone as nice as she is… What I mean is that it's kind of laughable that I fell in love with someone who used to be enemy and who I tricked the very first time I met her. Go figure.

Sonny's Point of View

I opened my eyes tiredly; barely able to keep them open. I was laying down on Chad's couch with a dark blue flannel blanket draped over me. I heaved myself up to a sitting position and on the other end of the couch, Chad was typing away on my laptop.

I swallowed a yawn and stretched my legs out, feeling a little sore. "What time is it?" I asked groggily.

He looked over at me and smiled a little. "Oh hey, you're up."

"Yeah… How long was I out?"

"Oh, about two hours, or so."

"Two hours?" I asked, rubbing my forehead. My hair probably resembled a rat's nest.

"Yeah, you fell asleep sometime after eleven. When I tried to wake you up, you bit me, so I let you sleep." He glanced at the computer clock on the bottom right hand corner. "It's like 1:30 in the morning."

I felt myself blushing slightly. "I… bit you?"

He laughed and set the laptop down on the coffee table. "Not extremely hard, but you did leave a mark." He sounded amused.

Oops. Why the heck did I bite him? Perfect. Now he probably thought I was a savage freak or something. Not that I care what he thinks or anything…

"Did you do something to provoke me?" I asked laughing. That's right… just laugh it off, Sonny. Best way to get over embarrassment…

He smiled and shook his head slightly like he knew something I didn't.

"What?" I brought my knees up to my chest and pulled the blanket over me. I leaned my head on the tops of my knees.

"Nothing… I just tried to pull you up off the couch and you bit my hand, so I laid you back down and covered you up. You seemed pretty dead set on staying here." He smirked at me. "You obviously like it here more than you let on."

"I've just had a hard time sleeping lately, that's all. I'm tired. So… how much have you done?"

"Oh, we're already done. I was just responding to some emails I got from fans. Do you care?" He gestured to my open laptop.

"No, go ahead." A yawn overtook me, forcing me to close my droopy eyes. I left them closed for a minute or so until I felt someone's presence close to me. My eyes snapped open and there was Chad, right in front of me. Of course!

"I thought you fell back asleep or something." He laughed, pushing his hair back with his right hand. I noticed a two inch long pink mark on the back of it. Stupid me! I just had to go and bite him.

I shook my head, foggily. My lack of sleep for the past few nights was catching up to me. I turned myself so my legs were hanging over the side of the couch. I was going to say something, but my exhaustion won that time. The last thing I remember was looking at a sideways view of his flat screen TV.

Chad's Point of View

She turned away from me, opened her mouth to speak most likely, before slumping sideways towards me. I caught her in my arms and realized instantly she was already asleep. Sheesh… How much sleep did this girl get? Obviously not nearly enough.

I gently set her back down to a laying down position on the couch and covered her up again. I brushed the hair out of her face, except this time, she didn't make an attempt to bite my hand off. She just sighed.

I looked at the clock on her laptop again. Wow… it really was late… early… whatever…

Sonny's Point of View

I opened my eyes, feeling a lot less tired. Not remembering my surroundings, I rolled over and landed on the floor with a thud. Ouch. But that did wake me up.

Now why did I feel like I was forgetting something…? Oh no!

I jumped off the floor and shook Chad who had fallen asleep sitting up on the couch.

"What?" he snapped with his eyes still closed.

"What time is it?"

"Why do always ask me that question? If I don't wear a watch when I'm awake, what makes you think I wear one when I sleep?"

Ignoring his question, I snatched his cell phone off the coffee table a few feet away and read the time. No!

I grabbed a pillow off the floor that had been moved once we got settled last night and wacked Chad with it. "Wake up! We're going to be late for the meeting!"

"What meeting?" he mumbled.

"The one where we try to save your show!" I leaned closer to him. "The one that we have fifteen minutes to get to!"

That got him awake. He sat up quickly. "Fifteen minutes?"

"Yes!" I stood up and scrambled around putting all of our printed out copies of scripts and episode descriptions into my bag. I froze. "Oh no… I have nothing to wear! I laid out what I was going to wear in my bedroom yesterday morning; I don't have time to go get it!"

Chad sighed and walked into a closet while I continued freaking out and pacing. When he returned he handed me a Mackenzie Falls school uniform on a hanger. Complete with plaid pleated skirt and tie. "When did you… How did you…"

"Just get dressed!"

"Right!" I took it from him and ran into his closet. It was bigger than my bathroom at home.

Ten minutes later, we both staggered out into the hallway. I was still trying to slip on my other shoe and Chad was still tying his tie. I looked at the black clock hanging on the wall. Shoot!

"Chad, we've got less than five minutes!"

"Then what are we standing here for?"

We sprinted the whole way there and paused outside the office for a few seconds.

"How do I look?" I asked.

"Perfect." He smoothed down my hair quickly and I brushed some lint off the shoulder of his jacket. When we were both presentable, we pushed through the door and put on our biggest smiles. Show time.

Okay, well I hope you liked it. It was fun to write. Can you tell I'm getting tired? Anyway, since I already have chapter five written, do you want me to post it later on Saturday, or leave you in suspense until Sunday? And just so you know, I won't post until Sunday if you guys don't ask me otherwise. Keep reading and reviewing! Bye!