Sonny dragged Chad to several rides which she found thrilling and he found nauseating. He complained about eating corn dogs for dinner, she ended up getting seconds. She insisted he win her a teddy bear, he paid the cashier to just give her one, so he wouldn't have to go through the trouble. She cracked jokes with the clown after his show, Chad pretended he didn't know who she was.
By the end of the night, they were walking hand in hand down the boardwalk under the stars. It was almost perfect. Almost.
"Wasn't this fun?" she said dreamily.
He glanced at her. "Uh....I guess," he said hesitantly. "I could have done without the public restrooms, though."
"Well, I had fun," she retorted, hugging the teddybear he bought her.
"Yeah...we can do it again sometime," he said absentmindedly.
"Okay, but next time you have to actually win the teddybear for me, not buy it," she laughed. It took them both a moment to realize his words. Another date? A real one? "I mean, we are friends, I guess."
He looked at her doubtfully. "Eh...not really. I'm from a hit drama TV show, and you're....a random."
For some reason, his words hurt more than they would have the day before. She looked down, disappointed. "Yeah."
Chad was surprised. "You've never actually admitted that before," he pointed out.
Sonny realized that too. "Oh. Right. Well, what I meant was, Chad! You're such a jerk and we want our parking space back!" she joked.
He laughed. "Okay, but we get to keep the toilet paper holder!"
She smiled to herself, and silence surrounded them. "We're still enemies," she mumbled softly.
He stopped, and so did she. "Yeah. This is just pretend," he reminded himself.
"Right. We don't like each other. The way it always is." Sonny felt awful saying those words. They didn't feel right coming out of her mouth.
Chad stuck his hands in his pockets. "Well, just because we're enemies doesn't mean that," he said, trying to sound casual.
Her heart began to race. His words confused her, but she kind of wanted them to be true. "Yeah, it does," she lied.
"You really think so?" he asked, a hint of disappointment in his voice.
"I know so." Sonny avoided his eyes.
Chad took a small step closer to her and stared into her eyes until she stared back. "You don't know anything."
And, for the second time in 24 hours, Sonny found her lips melting into his. His hands slid around her waist, pulling her even closer to him, and her hands found their way to his neck.
Chad could have stayed that way forever, but it was making him uneasy. He couldn't believe he was kissing Sonny Munroe. He pulled back and backed away a step or two, avoiding her eyes. "We, uh, better get going."
Sonny was confused, but too dazed to care. "Yeah....yeah." The pair walked side by side, neither speaking a word, towards the parking lot.
The entire car ride home, they stole glances at each other without the other knowing. Chad was still shocked by his impulse to kiss Sonny, and, although he didn't regret it, he wasn't sure what would happen next and that feeling made him extremely uncomfortable. He was used to being in control and being with Sonny felt....out of control.
Sonny couldn't keep her head straight. She wondered what had happened down on that boardwalk, and why. She didn't necessarily hate that it happened, but it made her uneasy nonetheless.
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"Well, this is it," Sonny said, once they reached her door. Her heart was racing, and she tried to convince it herself that she didn't want to spend another minute with the cocky, self centered guy in front of her. Her heart didn't believe her, apparently, because it kept beating faster and faster.
"Yeah," Chad paused. He didn't really know what to say. "Listen, Sonny, I actually did have fun," he admitted.
"Yeah, I'm still expecting that toilet paper roller, Cooper!" She joked, laughing incontrollably. Sonny couldn't help it--- she always laughed when she felt nervous or uncomfortable.
He just stared at her like she was deranged. "Are you always so insane after you spend time with me?" He snapped.
Sonny stopped laughing, an angry frown replaced the smile on her face. "Are you always so mean after you kiss a girl?" she shot back without thinking.
Chad was caught by surprise. "Listen, what happened today...was nothing," he told her coldly.
"Yeah? And what about last night? That wasn't anything, I suppose?" Sonny asked, her words razor sharp.
He deliberated. "I don't know what I was thinking! It was an intense, high-drama situation and I'm just used to reacting in certain ways, from Mackenzie Falls," the words were spilling out of his mouth before he could stop them.
"So, when Chad Dylan Cooper doesn't know what to do, he just automatically resorts back to the drama snob he plays on TV?" Sonny retorted. Her heart felt like it had been dropped from a skyscraper. "That's pathetic."
Chad had never seen Sonny so genuinely pissed off. "Yeah, so don't flatter yourself, Munroe!"
"Oh, I'm not flattered. I'm disgusted!" She turned and slammed the door on Chad.
He had turned out to be exactly who she thought he was.
Oooh, some drama :o I'm still not sure where this is going, I ended up changing my original plan. Let's see! Tell me what you think I should have happen-- shoot me a message or something ;)
