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Sonny glanced around the room to locate the perfectly styled blonde hair as she did regularly. The party lights made it much harder but she barely took her eyes off him for more than a few seconds which made it easy to track him.

He seemed to have kicked into full on party mode, talking and laughing with every person that crossed his path including a seemingly friendly conversation with Zac Efron. Amongst all of this he hadn't look at her once, not even out of the corner of his eye.

Sonny rolled her eyes at her own obsessive behaviour. "Lame," she said under her breath.

"Exactly what I was saying!" Tawni responded as though Sonny had been talking to her. The small group of girls they were gathered with laughed at Sonny's complete intentional joke.

Sonny laughed awkwardly. "I need a refill," she said, scooting away from the group and bee lining to Chad.

"Hey."

"Hey Sonny," Chad smiled swinging his arms around the girls either side of him. "What's up?"

"Oh nothing, I um..." Sonny fumbled in the realisation she had approached Chad without reason. She spurted the first thing that came to mind. "I was, uh wondering if you know where Rogan is? I just want to make sure he's ok."

Chad laughed obnoxiously looking at the girls beside him. "Um, Sonny," his shoulders bopped slightly in his apologetic shrug, "I'm a little busy with my peeps."

Sonny sighed shaking her head. "Should I be surprised?"

She turned to walk away and ran hard into Rogan's chest.

"I was looking for you," Sonny laughed.

"Sonny Monroe, So Random star was looking for me?"

"Oh shush. How's your first big Hollywood party?"

"Big and um, Hollywood."

"Not everyone is built for this, Rogan," Chad said spreading his arms. "If you're overwhelmed… maybe this scene just isn't for you."

Sonny rolled her eyes. "Chad, go and be a jerk somewhere else."

Chad looked like he was about to say something else, but stopped himself and shrugged again. "Fine." He turned and walked away from the pair disappearing into the sea of people. Sonny watched after him for a moment longer than completely necessary and turned back to Rogan.

"I'm really sorry about him."

Rogan wrapped an arm around her shoulders and steered her towards the drinks. "Relax Sonny, you have nothing to apologise for. He's just jealous."

She scoffed. "Jealous? Of what? The only time Chad has ever been jealous was when So Random…" She stopped the sentence short and shook her head slightly. "Chad doesn't get jealous, because he always ends up getting what he wants."

Rogan studied Sonny closely for a moment, before glancing across the room to where Chad was talking to a tall blonde girl, he was closer to her than what was normally appropriate for people just casually chatting, and looked almost too interested in what she had to say.

"I'm sure that sometimes he misses out on things." He said finally.

"Then you clearly don't know Chad at all." She said sadly.

"Do you want to dance?" He asked suddenly.

"What?"

"We're at a party… and, I really like this song. So we should dance."

"Oh, um… ok."

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"Allow me to make this the best night of your life," Chad said with a wink at the girl whose name was not important enough for him to remember. She giggled as he extended his hand. "May I have this dance?"

She willingly took his hand and he led her onto the dance floor, close enough for Sonny to see them but not so close it was obvious what he was doing. As they danced Chad kept his eyes on Sonny but she didn't see her look his way at all. She was happily dancing with Rogan and his blood boiled.

Chad spun the blonde who giggled as her hair fanned out around her and during this Chad skilfully moved them closer to Sonny and Rogan.

"Oh Chad, you're such a great dancer!"

"I know."

Chad burst into a little solo on the floor and a few onlookers stopped to cheer him on, despite his the less than impress repertoire. Chad was about to do his grand finally when his foot connected with something solid that wasn't ground.

"Chad that hurt man!" Rogan said.

Chad's killer smile sprung forth, along with his charm. "It wasn't meant to hurt."

"But it was deliberate?" Rogan scowled.

"Rogan, buddy. Would I do that?" Chad said, still trying his charm.

"Look man I'm sick of all your crap. That stunt wasn't funny, it hurt...and stop freaking smiling for two seconds please!" Rogan exploded. Chad raised his eyebrows and Rogan raised his fist. "That's it Cooper!"

"Not the face," Chad ululated, lifted his arms over his head.

"Stop!" Sonny grabbed Rogan's elbow. "Rogan, I think maybe you should go home and cool off."

"You're on his side?"

"No, I just think it's a good idea," Sonny said, remaining calm.

"And I think this party is a good idea. I'm not leaving." Rogan jerked his arm out of her grasp.

"Well I am," Sonny said, the tenderness instantly leaving her eyes. She turned on her heel and stormed towards the exit.

Chad resurfaced to see Sonny walking away. He looked to Rogan who was definitely not going after her. His smile reappeared, he checked he wasn't within arms distance. "Nice one...whatever your last name is," he said dismissively as he started after Sonny.

"It's Hathaway!" Rogan called out, but the music drowned it out.

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"Sonny!"

She was walking as quickly as she could to her car, digging through her bag for her keys. If she had heard Chad, she'd taking to ignoring him.

"Sonny!" He broke out into a jog. As he caught up to her, he grabbed her shoulder.

She stopped and spun around "What?"

"He shouldn't have spoken to you like that."

Sonny folded her arms and raised her eyebrows. "You ran after me to tell me that?"

Chad bit his lip. "I wanted to make sure you were ok. He was a real jerk to you."

"It takes one to know one I guess." She said, before turning away from him. She just wanted to go home and forget the party ever happened. She'd known it was a bad idea to come in the first place.

"Wait. What's that supposed to mean?" Chad started quickly following after her.

"Are you kidding me?" She stopped abruptly and faced him. "Seriously Chad?"

"I… I don't…"

"Oh my gosh." Disappointment crossed her face. "Just go back to the party."

"What did I do wrong?"

She shook her head at him and went to continue walking when Chad stopped her again.

"Wait."

She sighed in exasperation, but let him talk.

"Do you like Rogan?"

She stared at him, mouth slightly open as she tried to find a way to answer his sudden question.

"I…"

"Because if you do I'll stop right now." He said.

"I don't know. Ok? I don't know."

A smile crept its way onto Chad's face. He nodded. "Alright then."

They just looked at each other for a moment.

"Do you want to go to the Patio?" Chad said. "I mean, that party's a bit of a drag and if you're not there to save me and Rogan goes all crazy again, well, the face you know."

Sonny's eyebrows lowered. Chad laughed, reassuring himself.

"..or you could just head home like you were going to," Chad nodded as he started backing away.

"No, Chad wait. The patio actually sounds like a good idea right now," Sonny half smiled.

"Hazelnut Latte calling your name?"

"You know it!" Sonny laughed, walking toward her car.

"Hey, leave your keys with the doorman for Tawni and we'll just go in my car," Chad smiled.

"Ohmygosh, Tawni! She doesn't even know I've gone!" Sonny's eyes widened.

"Sonny, it's ok. Just leave her a note." Chad instinctively placed a hand on her shoulder. "And mention that she should make sure Rogan has a lift."

Sonny looked up into his eyes and nodded. "Good plan."

Chad took Sonny's keys from her and went and spoke to the doorman, telling him to look out for Tawni Hart and let her know where they'd gone.

As they were driving to The Patio, Sonny suddenly felt weird. She hadn't been alone with Chad like this since… well, since they'd broken up. She glanced over to the driver's seat where Chad was absently drumming his fingers on the steering wheel along to the song playing in the background. He must have sensed her gaze because he glanced in her direction briefly. She gave him a hesitant smile and looked out the window. The lights flew by and she pretended to ignore the fact that she knew Chad continued to glance over at her.

"This is a little strange isn't it?" He asked.

She let out a nervous laugh. "I suppose, yeah."

He pulled up into the car park. "Alright, well, how about we don't think of ourselves as exes or anything like that. We're just…. two friends who haven't spoken in a while and want to catch up. Ok?"

"Ok."