I'm REALLY SORRY I haven't updated in awhile! I've been super busy and I've had a major case of writers block. Hope you enjoy this chapter! PLEASE leave a review! Italics are Chad's thoughts or a flashback.
Disclaimer: If I owned Sonny With a Chance Sonny and Chad would have kissed already!
If there is one thing Chad Dylan Cooper hates it it's reading. He only reads books if he gets duct taped to a chair with a gun pointed to his head or if it has colorful pictures and rhymes like Dr. Seuss does. He even pays a nerds to tell him what the reading was about for his school work. Scripts he can eaisily handle. Books are another story entirely.
"What book should I read?" Chad turned to his reflection to determine if it would answer him. It didn't. He groaned and turned back to his overflowing book shelf gazing blankly at all the titles he didn't recognize. In fact the only reason he has a bookshelf in his dressing room is to make it look like he's smarter and classy. He would definitely prefer to have his dressing room fun and colorful like the So Random dressing rooms. He loved the carefree feel and kept telling himself that it was the reason why he liked visiting Tawni and Sonny's room whenever he had free time.
His finger flew over the spines of the books. Stupid Gilroy Smith telling me to read a book. At least I will get to be on a talk show as well as interrupting and outshining the randoms. He smirked as he imagined the look on Sonny's face when she found out that Gilroy Smith invited him to talk about his book.
Damn this is harder than I thought it would be. His finger finally stopped on a book that had a slightly familiar sounding title: A Christmas Carol. Chad pulled it out and glanced at the cover, attempting to remember why the name sounded so familiar. It took him a minute before he remembered that not only did McKenzie Falls have a Christmas special based off of it. Sonny had compared him to a character in it, Scrooge. Yeah that's right Scrooge.
He winced at the memory and the vehemence in her voice when she said it. All he did was refuse to give one cute, seven year old girl his autograph on his way to a party. How was he supposed to know she would burst out in tears right as Sonny walked around the corner?
"What's wrong sweetheart?" She said kneeling down eye level to the crying girl, but before the kid could answer Sonny was on her feet, "Chad what did you do to her?" Chad turned around to face a furious Sonny, pretending he wasn't planning on leaving at that exact moment. "I was just…" His sentence was cut off by Sonny's angry voice, "What ever you did how could you she's just a little kid?! I swear you are such a Scrooge!" Sonny turned around and kneeled down again to the hiccupping girl who whispered the problem into Sonny's ear. Sonny instantly signed the girl's paper, making the hysterical girl forget her problems, stop crying, smile, and give Sonny a bone crushing hug. By the time Sonny was released from the embrace Chad was already sprinting the other way to look up who Scrooge is and get away from Sonny.
Chad refused to read about the man who he reminded Sonny of himself, choosing to select a book by the same author instead.
Great Expectations Chad looked at the title before taking it to his official reading chair. He sat down amazed at how comfortable the chair is, having never read a book in it before. He cracked the book open and started reading, hoping to finish quickly considering he only had five hours till the talk show.
"What? Who's there?" Chad shouted sitting up. He looked at his phone ringing loudly on the table. Stupid phone waking me up! Chad's eyes widened as he realized he had fallen asleep. He looked at the time, grabbed his phone, and rushed out the door.
"Ok so Chad can you stay in here until I tell you to come out?" Gilroy asked, "Sonny and Tawni don't know you are here yet." Chad gave Gilroy an award winning smile and nodded, praying that Gilroy would leave soon so he could go on the computer and find out what the book is about.
Chad stared at the clock on the wall, the show had started about five minutes ago and he was only halfway through the Sparknotes page he had found on the boring book. He scrolled through it quickly praying there's time to finish it.
He grinned as he came on stage, waving to his fans, the article finished and safely closed on the computer. He had a whole speech prepared on the book, his only hope being that Gilroy doesn't allow questions.
Chad watched the interview as soon as he got home. He glared at Gilroy as soon as he came on screen. No one uses Chad Dylan Cooper or makes him read the first two chapters of a boring book for no reason. Pretty soon it showed him and Sonny backstage. His eyes widened in shock and his mouth fell open. Now not only had Gilroy lied to him, but he also recorded a very private moment! He breathed a sigh of relief when Tawni interrupted the scene. He laughed at her antics and promised to send her coco-moco-coco lip gloss as thanks.
Running to his computer Chad found the two pictures he needed and printed them out. He shoved them in frames and rushed to his wall, crashing into Sonny on the way.
"Hey Sonny, catch the interview?" He asked curious if she had seen the despicable thing Gilroy had done. "Unfortunately," She replied in a tone that was usually only reserved for the McKenzie Falls cast. He smirked handing her a frame and telling her to follow him.
He grinned as Sonny placed Gilroy's picture on the wall. He followed suit placing the frame he was holding right beside Gilroy's.
"Really Chad? Really?" Chad looked over at Sonny and smiled nodding his head. Personally he thought Charles Dickens made a nice addition to the wall, even if he has been dead for the past 140 years.