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Sonny noticed the blond behind her, obviously wanting to know what her problem was. What was she suppose to tell him? That her mother was probably going to get married in a few months and that she hated him the minute she first laid eyes on him just because he had stolen her seat. She couldn't possibly say that. It was wrong, even if she wouldn't admit it. She pulled her legs tighter around her arms and placed her chin on her knee.

"If you are expecting an apology, you're not getting it." Harsh. Chad smirked. He was definitely going to like this girl.

"I'm not here for an apology."

"Then why are you still standing there?" She said, not bother to even look at him. He didn't answer. She snorted a laugh. "I didn't know Tawni liked fresh meat. She's already got her eyes on you."

"What?" Sonny nodded towards the benches on the other side of the field. The blond was sitting with her friends, having her blue eyes at the blond that stood a few feet away from Sonny. Chad ignored her and turned back to the brunette.

"Watch out though," She said with a snicker. "She'll ruin your life, if you press her wrong fancy little buttons." He laughed at the disdain in her voice.

"So I'm taking, she ruined your life." He said. "You two use to be friends, you press her buttons, and she gets angry and bye-bye goes the brunette."

She rolled her eyes. "No," She said. "It's not that."

"Then what is it?"

She opened her mouth to answer but closed it. "It's nothing. But it's... It's personal." He nodded, despite that she couldn't see him. He heard her drew out a shaky breath and wondered if she was crying. He took a step forward but he stopped when she spoke again. "Why are you still here, don't you have anything better to do?"

He sighed, knowing that the girl before him was saying the truth. "Surprisingly, no. I just want to know why you threw your food at the lunch lady." He asked, with a bit of amazement. "A bit too hardcore, but kind of rebellious. A weird combo for you."

"What's that suppose to mean?"

"Nothing - really." She wanted to wipe that obnoxious smirk off his face or rather slap it off.

"Well don't get use to it. I'm just have a really bad day and I'm usually not like that. It's just-" She stopped herself before saying anything else. She turned around and saw that he actually looked genuinely interested but then that stupid smirk appeared on his face. She scowled at him and turned back around. Damn, principal. Come and save me from Chad Dylan Cooper. What kind of name is that anyways?

"Too bad," He said with a sigh, causing her to turn around, confused. "I kind of liked that side of you." He winked at her.

"Gross, Cooper. That's just fucken gross." She huffed, crossing her arms over her chest and leaned back on the cement wall. He quietly sighed. Old habits, he wanted to say. But he didn't. He just sat down beside her and took in the silence between them. It was only minutes before the principal came outside and took Sonny.

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"A week!"

Her mother exclaimed in the other phone. Sonny sighed, wishing that she could just hang up and forget her mother. But she the consequences if she did. She was already grounded for getting suspended; she couldn't deal with anymore no-TV-and-no-computer days. She was lucky to still have her phone and her freedom to go to work. Last time she almost got fired for missing too much work, last time she got grounded.

"You're lucky I'm not going to kill you when you come home." Sonny rolled her eyes. She opened the door to the music store she worked at.

"Mom, I gotta go." She said, entering the store. "I'll be home after work. Bye." She closed her phone before her mother said anything else.

She turned around, turning the open/close sign as her boss came out of the back. "Yes, yes." Sonny turned around. Her boss, Nico, had his back at Sonny and he was talking to someone in the other room. Hiring? She asked herself. She smiled, finally. There was barely enough employees to obtain the business, probably because they raised the bills high enough for Nico to give Sonny and the others extra shifts. Thinking about it, it wasn't such a bad idea to have another shift, she could spend more time here than at home. "If it all goes well, I could hire you today."

Sonny couldn't hear the person in the other room and the other employees were coming in. Grady and Portlyn. Grady was around nineteen, he graduated from Rover High a year ago and had three jobs to get obtain enough money to get into college. Portlyn was a year older than Sonny and was friends with Tawni. Sonny and Portlyn never communicated, they obviously hated each other because to the blond. Nico was about in his late twenties, and he inherited his father's business after he died about four years ago.

"Sonny, Grady take the cashier, Sonny I need you to show the new kid around. Try to be nice, alright, kid?" Sonny sighed, placing her book bag behind the cashier stand. She gave Grady a warning look, when he looked curiously at the bag. Grady rolled his eyes and sighed, leaning on his hand, already bored. Sonny sighed again, taking her sidekick out of her bag and gave it to her friend.

"Just for a few minutes."

"Thank you, you are the best." Grady said smiling. He went straight to the games in her phone.

"Sonny?" Nico said, getting restless.

"I'm coming, I'm coming." Normally a normal boss would get all in her behind, nagging her to do things. Nico was hardly like that, sure he'd get annoyed when no one was working, but other than that he was alright.

"You sure you want to trust Grady with the cashier?" Sonny asked, as she walked toward her boss.

"You should have thought of that before giving him a game to play." He said. Sonny smiled. "Besides, I know you enough to know that you have been having a rough day. And I wouldn't want to fire you because you yelled at a customer."

"Did you at least think about the new kid first?" His mouth gaped. Obviously he didn't.

"Just at least try to be nice, I'll go warn him before I send him up." Sonny smiled, nodding, before turning back to Grady.

"I swear some day, if you says that he knows me one more time, I'm going to-" She stopped herself, when Nico popped his head out of the back room.

"Monroe, finish that sentence and I'll lower your pay check." Sonny straightened, and zipped up her mouth, smiling innocently. "Alright, Cooper. Enjoy your tour with cranky over there."

Cooper? It was as if something went dead in her mind. She slowly turned around and saw the blond that was standing beside her boss. And of course he had that cocky smirk that she hated on his face. Her mouth fell open and his smirk grew.

"Oh, I'm sure there won't be a problem." Chad said to Nico.