AN: SO, THIS IS OFFICIALLY THE LAST CHAPTER OF "EVERYTHING IS TEMPORARY". The sequel has already been started, it is called 'The Many Ways to Fall'. The warning for this chapter is... IT WILL BE SAD. I WAS CRYING WHILE TYPING THIS. Get out your tissue boxes because this one will HURT. Also, the regular warning applies: MILD LANGUAGE.
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Disclaimer : The usual, I don't own anyone. Title belongs to David Cook.
OH. And I just hit the 1500 mark for this story, and this makes me REALLY happy considering that this is my FIRST fic. TYSVM!
The last chapter is Channy-centric, where MOST secrets will be revealed, and hearts will be broken. Seriously, what's a good story without angst? :D
This may even reach 3000 words, so WOOOT.
ALRIGHT, here we goo. Do you have your tissues? Good. good.
This chapter is titled like the sequel. Cause I like the title. ;)
[ Everything is Temporary ] Chapter S I X : The Many Ways to Fall
when all you know seems so far away
and everything is temporary
s i x – the many ways to fall
[ c o l o u r f u l d a z e ]
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You have to learn when to give up, when to walk away,
Even if it hurts...especially if it hurts.
She tried to forget, she really did. She put their differences aside because she cared about him, but she had trusted him and he let her down. She was still hurt, even though it was so long ago. Maybe it was time to let go.
"This can't be fixed, can it?" she heard him ask her.
She looked at him so lovingly, yet her face was filled with bittersweet emotion.
His eyes were filled with the determination that she had loved so much.
"No, I don't think it can" she answered.
She watches him as his movements become more serious, more definite.
He looks at the wall before replying to her, "Just tell me when you'll walk away".
She chuckles at his comment before looking at him seriously.
"I don't think I can", she answered honestly to the heartthrob.
"I'll do it then" he whispered, watching as her face suddenly turned into one covered in disbelief.
He grins at her and says the words that he had said so long ago: "I'll do anything and everything as long as your happy".
( She didn't notice that his smile didn't touch his eyes anymore. )
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"Hey, Sis. Are you listening?" Joey spoke, waving his hand over Sonny to get her attention.
She flashing him a sad smile and gave a slight nod, although they both knew that her thoughts were anywhere but with him. She hears him sigh as he walks away.
She closed her eyes, hoping for a moment of silence in what had been an intense week.
"Sonnnnnnnnnyyyyyy" she heard faintly, before she peeked an eye open and saw Tawni Hart standing directly in front of her.
"Hi Tawni" she muttered.
They used to be the best of friends. Even though they were completely different people, they had found a way to get along in the end. But it took one night which turned into weeks, then months. One night that had changed Sonny and James, because they knew what was happening since the very beginning. Just because it was a 'mistake' doesn't mean they couldn't have stopped it.
"I'm so-" she said, before Sonny interrupted her.
"Don't apologize, please. Not again" she said, with tears threatening to fall down her already stressed face.
The usually self-absorbed Tawni would have walked away from her already. But they both knew that she wasn't the same girl that she had been two years ago. Within the span of four months, she had unknowingly lost the two people who had meant the most to her.
She slided down beside her former best friend and stared at her. Her eyes were red from crying, her hair was messily tied in a bun, and she was wearing track pants.
"Where's his jacket?" she asked softly.
Before she heard a response, Sonny's cellphone rang.
[ r i n g t o n e ] I can't keep on loving you, from a distance.
"Hello?" she heard her ask.
Tawni watched as her eyebrows started to furrow in confusion.
"James? Yeah I know but.. but still.. Ugh yeah, I'll meet you in ten minutes".
She got up and her eyes matched with Tawni's.
"It's time for all of us to move on, the past is something we can't change."
( No words had ever meant more to her in her life. )
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He knows her well enough to know her decision before she even makes it. As much as he tries and tries he knows that nothing he could do could change it. Somehow he knows that even if things turned out different, the outcome wouldn't have changed at all.
"I already know what her choice is, James" he told him bitterly.
He envied James Conroy. He never thought he'd see the day when he would freely admit it. Chad Dylan Cooper was JEALOUS of James Conroy. He was jealous because James was the closest person to Sonny right now, other than her family. He was jealous of James freaking Conroy.
"She hasn't even made it yet, Cooper" he answered.
His ocean blue eyes had locked with the ones that had been filled with fiery anger the last time they had met. Now, his eyes were only filled with melancholy and misery.
( so this is one of the many ways to fall )
He gave him an apologetic smile and said one word.
"Exactly".
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If somebody told him that he would be at a hospital to see Chad Dylan Cooper, he wouldn't have believed them. If someone told him that he would be best friends with Allison Munroe, he would have glared at them. But if somebody told him that the one person who he loved more than life itself would cheat on him with a blonde-eyed heartthrob, he would have punched them in the face.
"He knows what your decision is" he told her softly.
Her big brown eyes that had been filled with tears for the last week had caught his once more.
"I haven't even made it yet, James" she muttered.
He then repeated what the blue-eyed boy had told him just a few minutes ago within the four walls that they called a hospital room.
"Exactly".
Maybe it was at that exact moment where she had decided to let him go.
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It was a mistake; yet look how much it had cost them. Would his father be proud of him if he knew that he was letting her walk away? Was it the only choice he had? The one night that had turned into months – it had ruined his life. He couldn't even think about it anymore...
(AN: here is it, I actually decided to put it in. FLASHBACK: The real reason why Chad had cheated on Sonny, sorry if it's a disappointment!!)
He was walking through the streets of Los Angeles when he saw the first magazine. He purchased it right away and quickly flipped through the pages that had his and Sonny's pictures on it.
He read the headline and sighed, it had been so long yet sometimes the media still did attack them.
"How long before he ruins her youthful innocence?" - like he would ever.
'Sonny Munroe, the shining twenty-two year old who had just completed the fifth and final season of So Random, has producers and directors lining up at her feet for movies, and even top record companies wanting her to produce a CD.
Munroe, who may be the kindest and most humble person to ever step foot in a Hollywood Studio, had recently been seen stepping out with none other than MacKenzie Falls' Chad Dylan Cooper, the twenty-three year old bad boy who is known for meeting girls and breaking hearts.
With a bright career ahead for Allison Munroe, what influence could Chad Dylan Cooper affect? Would he change her, just like he had changed all the others?
Will the heartthrob from MacKenzie Falls break the heart of the sought-after Allison Sonny Munroe?'
The media had been looking badly upon her since they had admitted that they were dating. Sonny Munroe may be the only person in the world that they actually cared about. She was kind to them, and they tried never to write harsh things about her.
He knew that all he would do is bring more negativity, which was the last thing she needed.
His father had once told him that if he loved somebody, he would do everything in his power to keep her happy. The media would only keep hurting her. All he wanted to do was protect her.
He didn't even care about is reputation anymore, she had changed him so much in the five years that he had known her. She was all that he had.
( she was all that he had, and all he wanted to do was keep her as the lone shining star in Hollywood )
He already knew what to do before he took out his cellphone. She was much better off without him, wasn't she?
He took out his phone and dialed the number that seemed to right at the moment.
"Hey, Tawni? You wanna hang out tonight?"
He was only one person, trying to keep her happy.
She was all he really had anyways.
( They both knew that she would shine even brighter without him. )
"I did it for you" was the most clichè thing he had ever heard. Yet those were the only words that he could utter when she saw them.
In time, the pain it took to stay,
became greater than the pain it took to go.
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It was a mistake; yet look how much it had cost them. Was she truly willing to take the chance, knowing that he was Chad Dylan Cooper? Does he even know how much he had hurt her?
(AN: Okay, so that's that. This is Sonny's flashback now.)
She had walked into Selena's party with Nico and James, because Chad had told her that he was busy that night. She had complete trust in him, but she couldn't help but be suspicious. This was the fifth time that he had blown her off this month.
In all truth, Chad had been acting different for the past couple months.
"Hey guys, I'm going to head out. I think I might go catch a movie, you want to come?" she asked them.
"Ooooh naw, I think I just saw Portlyn!" Nico replied to her, already walking towards the brunette.
She just grinned at him before James replied to her.
"Only if we get to go to Papa John's. I haven't had pizza in FOREVER" he said as she laughed.
They both walked to his car and drove to the closest Papa John's. She spoke about how Chad had been ignoring her often, and he told her about how he barely saw Tawni these days.
The conversation was easy and they quickly got to the pizza parlour.
They walked inside and she could hear her heart breaking at the view in front of her. She looks at James with tears starting to form and his eyes were filled with anger and confusion.
"Your fucking kidding me" he whispered angrily, before she pulled him behind the washroom wall.
"Okay so.. I know this looks bad.. but I mean, maybe they're just meeting?" she whispered bad, trying to be optimistic.
Before he could respond, they both hear Tawni's voice: "This has been going on for four months, Chad".
"FOUR FUCKING MONTHS, REALLY CHAD? REALLY?" boomed a voice, before she realized that it was her own.
She watches as they jump with shock and when they see her and James, their faces are equivalent to her own.
"Sonny.. I.." she hears him mumble, before she finds herself interrupting him.
"I've made excuses for you Chad. Everyone pointed the signs but I TRUSTED YOU. But I'm done. You've obviously forgotten about me, so whatever. And really, of all people. Tawni? My best friend? Really? I NEVER WANT TO SEE YOU AGAIN. Get the fuck away from me, Cooper" she yelled angrily.
Before she walked out, she overheard James yelling at Tawni too.
"I trusted you. I FUCKING TRUSTED YOU. You could've just broken up with me. It would have been so much better than this. This isn't even the worst part. TAWNI, SONNY WAS YOUR BEST FRIEND. THE ONLY ONE YOU PROBABLY WILL EVER HAVE. Your. BEST. Friend" he yelled, before dragging Sonny out of the pizza parlour.
Before she could even breath, he suffocated her in the most comforting hug she had ever had.
"It's only you and me now, Sis" he whispered.
( They were the ones that were left in the dust. )
He thought of her even though he was hurt too.
Chad and Tawni had broken her, but James had only helped make her even stronger.
It is immensely difficult knowing what you once had,
and that it can never be the same way again because of one little mistake.
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(AN: So, time has passed – a month to be exact. So just say that Chad is superman and he heals really fast. Chad is out of the hospital and back in business. He hasn't seen Sonny since she visited him at the hospital.)
He was filming for his next movie, called The Many Ways to Fall. He chose to star in it because he felt a certain attachment to it.
During his break, he had recieved a text from none other than Sonny Munroe.
' meet me strbucks near my house.
- sonny '
He drove there during his break, and found Allison Munroe sitting in the darker side of the cafe.
"Hey" he said, before sitting down.
"You already knew, didn't you?" she mutter quietly, although he heard her loud and clear.
"Yeah, I did" he answered.
They sat in uncomfortable silence before he spoke, "I just need to hear you say it, Sonny".
He continued, looking at her right in the eye.
"Look me in the eye and please, tell me that you don't love me anymore. That's all that you need to do. It's all I need to hear" he told her, even though the voice in his head was screaming at him to stop talking.
She sat there with tears threatening to fall as the silence engulfed them once more.
She looked into his blue eyes (maybe for the last time) and she watched as tears started falling down his eyes. Chad Dylan Cooper was crying.
"I. Don't. Love. You. Anymore", she whispered, with her voice cracking a little bit more at each syllable.
He lets go of her hand and gives her a bittersweet smile.
"You won't hear from me again" he told her, wiping away her tears with his thumb.
"I told you Sonny, I'd do anything and everything for you. Really".
They ignore each other and look the other way, but they both know it wasn't supposed to end this way.
Then he walked away from the brown eyed girl who he would have died for.
( He walked out of the store – and her life – for the final time. )
If he had turned around once more, he would have seen Allison Munroe weakly reaching out to him.
Same old story that everybody knows,
it's one heart holding on,
one heart letting go.
AN: Nine pages of angsty Channy. Gosh, this is the longest I've written in a LONG time. So this is complete, and hopefully you guys stick around for the sequel. I'm going on vacation on Friday, and won't be back until the 19th. Updates will be next to none until then, really.
Most of it is flashbacks, and I'm writing up the sequel, which follows them after a couple of years, in which Chad kept his promise and Sonny had lost touch with him. It takes a special event to bring them back together, and even then, love is never a guaranteed thing.
Summary of The Many Ways to Fall:
There are times in your life where you walk away from what may be the best thing that has ever happened to you. Is there a way to go back? To fix a love that should have lasted forever? When he finds himself stuck with her for a week, will he fight for what he walked away from? Or will his promise get in the way?
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