YAY! ANOTHER CHAPTER!

SORRY THE "CHANNYNESS" IS MOVIN SLOW BUT I SWER IM BUILDING UP TO IT!

IT'S PROB NOT REALLY GONNA COME UP TILL WAY LATER….BUT I SWEAR ITLL BE THERE.

HOPE YALL ENJOY

:)

~SOFIE

CH 5

"Zora!" Sonny and her cast mates had been enjoying a break from rehearsal in the prop house when she walked in.

"What are you doing home? You weren't supposed to be here for a few more days!" Sonny rushed up to hug her.

"I thought I'd come home early. I missed you guys." She smiled and looked around the room as though she had been gone for a year rather than just a week. "Gnomey!" She tore across the room and grabbed the large clay gnome that sat on one of the many tables in the room. The rest of her cast mates laughed as she hugged him and then retreated to her sarcophagus.

"Well she's certainly made herself at home again." Sonny said smiling. The door to the sarcophagus opened.

"Oh right, Sonny I forgot to ask. How's the whole Tween Weekly problem going?" Sonny shrugged.

"Not good. They just added 'Smoking' to the list of things that make me a terrible person. It's getting annoying. Oh did I mention they found out how I was getting out of my apartment and to the studio this morning?"

"Yeah she was an hour late and Marshal just comforted her and let her get coffee. When I show up that late I get stuck with the back space in the parking lot and they cancel my order of Coco Mocho Coco for a month! It's not fair! I'm a star too you know."

"Yes Tawni we know. You remind us every day. And plus, you're not the one dealing with this."

"It's still cruel Sonny." Tawni pouted and slumped onto the couch.

"Same old Tawni I see." Zora smirked. "I think I'm going to go reacquaint myself with the vents." She nodded at all of them and left the room. Sonny turned to the others in the room.

"Ok so what are we doing for this week's sketch?" None of them replied. "Guys!" Nico and Grady looked up.

"Sorry Sonny. We were just going over our blueprints for our sculpture." Grady said.

"Yeah sorry, but you know this is really important." Nico added.

"Yeah and so are our jobs which we're going to loose if we don't come up with something. Tawni what've you got?" Her face brightened as she was about to speak. "And no, we're not doing your Tawni Town sketch." She frowned.

"Well fine then. Why don't you sprinkle us with your Wisconsin funny dust?"

"Ok well we could do a sketch like our 'Halloween Party Do's and Don'ts' sketch, but we could turn it into a 'Birthday Party Do's and Don'ts' sketch." She shrugged. "I know it's not much but I haven't really been able to think a lot lately."

"It's ok Sonny. I think we could work with that. Like…Do bring a present for the birthday girl, which could be Tawni, Don't bring a present for yourself." Nico suggested. Grady laughed.

"Yeah and then I could hand Tawni the present, let her open it and then grab it back." They all laughed.

"Yeah and you could say something like, 'Wow thanks! Its just what I've always wanted!' then you could look at the other gifts and say something like, 'So what else did ya get me?'" Sonny added.

"Sounds good to me. Can we have the birthday girl sitting on a throne?" Tawni smiled.

"Your not going to agree to this sketch unless we let you have a throne are you?" Nico said sarcastically.

"Yep! Nico you should know me better than that by now." They spent the rest of the break going over the details for the sketch. For the first time in a long time, Sonny was genuinely happy. Maybe it was because Zora had come home early or that she was having a blast coming up with more funny sketches to add to their show, but whatever it was, she was happy. After they had worked out a lot of the minor details they headed back to rehearsal to run it by Marshal. They worked for a couple more hours until they got another break. Tawni headed off to her dressing room to fix her make up, and Nico and Grady returned to their blueprints. Sonny however decided to head to the cafeteria for a frozen yogurt.

The first thing Chad noticed as he was getting up from his table to leave with the rest of his cast was her smile. She was smiling again. He watched as she strolled happily over to the yogurt machine. Her beautiful dark brown hair bounced lightly as she walked.

"Uh, I think I'm gonna stay for a little while longer. I'll have to catch up with you guys later." His cast members shrugged and started to leave.

"You promise you'll meet up with us later though right?" Port pouted at him and trailed a finger up his chest to his shoulder.

"Yeah, sure. See ya." She hurried away to the rest of the cast as his eyes found their way back to Sonny. One of the cafeteria ladies was standing in front of the yogurt machine and refusing to let her through.

"Look, I told you the rumors weren't true! I will apologize to your granddaughter personally if you want! I never wanted anyone to be mad at me." The cafeteria lady just shook her head at Sonny. Sonny groaned in aggravation. Even though he knew she was mad at him, he felt himself walking towards her anyway. Maybe if he tried to help her she would talk to him.

"They're not true! How many times do I have to say it?" The cafeteria lady smiled when she saw Chad.

"Is there anything I can get for the greatest actor of his generation?" She said sweetly.

"Actually, I'd like you to let my friend here get herself a yogurt. Do you think that's possible?" He put on his most charming smile. The cafeteria lady scowled at Sonny and stepped aside. After a moment of silence Sonny turned to Chad.

"Thanks, you didn't have to do that." He smiled.

"It's no problem." She picked an empty cup and began to fill it. "So how's it going with all this rumor stuff?"

"Well it's not exactly a walk in the park if you know what I mean." She laughed. God her laugh was beautiful. "I just wish the press would drop it already! Or I'd at least like to know who's doing this to me." She pulled a spoonful of the yogurt to her lips and paused. Was she actually talking to Chad? The same obnoxious jerk she hated? It was weird. Like…really really weird. On the bright side, it had been a total of 5 minutes, and neither of them were trying to kill each other. At least not yet.

"Yeah I know what you mean." Now here's the part where you decide whether or not to say what you want to say to her… "I've actually been thinking… about what you said to me the other day. Reminding me about the whole 'puppy shover' thing I had goin', and I shouldn't have been so hard on you. I'm….." Might as well say it. Can't turn back now. "I'm sorry." Uh oh. What's that look she's giving you?

"What?" Is he seriously apologizing? Is the Chad Dylan Cooper….apologizing? "I don't believe this. THE Chad Dylan Cooper is apologizing. Wow. I didn't think you had it in you. But…thank you." She smiled. She smiled.

"Hey come on. You gotta give me more credit than that Monroe! But that's just one of the many things that make me so….."

"Obnoxious?"

"I was gonna say adored, Sonny."

"Is there a difference when it comes to you?"

"And you're saying this to the guy who just got you yogurt? How ungrateful of you Sonny."

"Oh, I'm sorry. I don't remember ordering this yogurt with a side of ego." He laughed.

"Mock all you want Sonny, but guess who's face will be on the cover of Tween Weekly when your little side story blows over?" She rolled her eyes.

"I don't actually have to guess do I?"

"Look I'm just saying that it will blow over Sonny. Everything in Hollywood eventually does." He took a step closer to her. "I just want you to know that I'm here for you. No matter what. I—"

"Are you quoting lines from your show?" She said narrowing her eyes at him.

"So you do watch it!"

"Actually I caught my mom watching it. It took me 15 minutes to pry the remote out of her hand."

"Just admit it Sonny. Its hard to resist me. So hard that you find yourself staring out your window at night thinking of me." He smirked.

"You know you're insane right?"

"And you know I'm kidding right? Well mostly. It really is hard to resist me. At least that's what it said in Tween Weekly last month when Portlyn and I finally got together on 'The Falls.'"

"There you go again!" Sonny yelled.

"What?" Chad asked confused. Her smile was gone.

"Acting like you care about what's wrong with me as an excuse to talk about yourself. I cannot believe you Chad! I don't know why you even pretend to care!" She stormed off leaving Chad alone. He watched as she walked away from him. Maybe I didn't go about that as well as I thought. Why cant I just be normal around her? Why do I act like such a jerk? He pressed his hands into his pockets and strolled off.

Sonny slammed the dressing room door behind her.

"Did somebody run in to Chad again?" Tawni smiled. "What did he do this time sweetie?" Sweetie?

"I thought he was trying to be nice but he was just being so…..Chad! Ugh I just wish he would leave me alone1 or that I wouldn't get sucked in every time he opened his stupid mouth! I honestly don't get why he pretends to care!" She let out an aggravated sigh and threw herself into one of the chars by her vanity.

"Now you see what we've all had to put up with since he first got here." She turned to the door when Nico walked in.

"Hey I heard a door slam. Did Sonny run into Chad again?" Tawni laughed.

"See?" Sonny explained once again.

"That low life jerk needs a reality check." Sonny laughed.

"That's what I told her, Nico." A moment later Grady showed up.

"Geez that door slam was so loud, its almost as if Sonny ran into Chad again." Nico and Tawni turned to him with identical expressions. "Oh. What happened?" Sonny was about to open her mouth when Zora's face popped out of the overhead vent.

"Lets just cut to the chase here people. Chad was Chad, now Sonny's mad." Sonny smiled up at her.

"Thanks Zora."

"Well, is there anything we can do to help?" Nico asked.

"No. I think I'd rather just go out for a while. I need to clear my head. But thanks guys." Her cast gave her sympathetic smiles and she headed out the door. Sonny made her way out of the studio, keeping her hear down in case of a random paparazzi attack, and walked silently to her car. She turned and looked at the building behind her for a second, then opened the door to her car and stepped inside.

One of the things Sonny loved about LA was its closeness to the beach. It didn't take long after she had gotten in her car that she reached a small stretch of beach she knew wasn't common to tourists. She parked her are and stepped out into the fresh salty air. She breathed in deeply. It was amazing that she could feel so relaxed almost instantly. Once on the beach she took off her shoes and made her way down to the water. A soft breeze whipped around her. She dug her toes into the soft cool sand and watched the tide come in and splash over her ankles. What was she going to do about this? The press was hounding her every chance they got. Chad had told her the same thing her mother had. It will all blow over soon. She stood for a long time staring out on the moonlit horizon. Hopefully soon would come quickly. But right now, it seemed as far away as the edge of the horizon she gazed upon.

It had gotten really dark. Someone at the studio might worry if she was gone. for too long. She slowly walked back up the beach and got back into her car. She didn't bother drying her feet. A little sand want going to hurt her car. She figured she'd stop off at the studio to pick up tomorrow's script and maybe grab a different pair of shoes.

When she arrived, most everyone had already gone home, with the exception of a few workers and the security guards. Sonny opened the door to her dressing room, Tawni had left it unlocked for her, and grabbed a pair of sandals that were lying nearby. She strolled lazily across the room to her vanity and shuffled through some of the papers on top of it. She almost didn't notice the box that fell on the floor. Carefully she knelt down and picked it up. There was no card taped to it and no name of who it was from. Al it said was 'Sonny.' She began to unwrap it. What could it be? Who could possibly be giving her a gift? Slowly she opened the lid of the box and let her mouth fall open. Her eyes dazzled at the sight of what was inside. In her hands now lay the most beautiful necklace Sonny had ever seen. A beautiful diamond inlaid into the top right hand side of a circle with 3 more smaller diamonds along the side. All around it were what looked like rays of the sun. On the back on the rim of the circle was her name in beautiful letters. She turned the pendant over again and shifted it around in the air. The small amount of moonlight coming in through the window bounced off the necklace and rays of white light glittered across the walls.

Sonny checked to see if there was anything else inside the box. On the bottom lay a small piece of paper. Inscribed in the same lettering as her name was on the necklace were 4 words.

4 words that took her breath away.

Because I love you.

OOOOH! OH SNAP!

WE OT OURSELVES A TWIST1 AND AN ADORABLE ONE AT THAT!

IM SO HAPPY WITH THIS CHAPTER! AND I HOPE U PPL LOVE IT TO CUZ IT GETS EVEN BETTER AFTER THIS!

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~SOFIE

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