An A/N Alright guy today is August 15th and it's my dad's birthday! (And Joe Jonas but my father was born first lol) So my mom is slowly lifting me off my punishment and I was aloud an hour on the computer! (She told me that more than an hour ago so I'm not supposed to be online anymore…oh well.) Usually when I'm aloud on the computer I just write stories but there is another story stealer and I attempted to get rid of her. Well that didn't work. She claimed i was stealing her stories so i just want to let you guys know that these are mine and i write them myself i swear! I don't steal stories i promise!
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Chapter 8
"Alright now who wants some Caribu?" Tawni asked as everyone started to calm down.
"W-Why are you so obsessed with Caribu?" Sonny stuttered. Even though her body was in the parking lot with everyone else her mind was elsewhere.
"Because I need good coffee now let's go!" Tawni grabbed Sonny's arm and started dragging her to her car.
"Tawni let go! I don't want to go to Caribu!"
"Yes you do." Tawni forced Sonny in the passenger seat and hopped in on the other side. Tawni started the car and they drove off, Sonny glared at the window the whole ride there and wouldn't speak. They eventually got to Caribu and Tawni parked the car right in front of the entrance. Neither of them moved from their seats.
"Look Sonny I'm sorry for dragging you to Carib…"
"No Tawni, that's okay. A little coffee might help." Sonny smiled weakly to Tawni.
"Help what?"
"Oh nothing." Tawni Hart was a lot of things, dumb was not one of them. She could tell that something was on Sonny's mind that was bothering her, and Tawni was going to find out what it was. The random girls proceeded to make their way into Caribu to order their drinks. For Tawni, it was an iced mocha. For Sonny it was a medium hot chocolate with extra marshmallows. The two slid in a booth and silently sipped their hot drinks. Sonny found the silence quite awkward and she prayed a distraction or something would happen soon.
"Sonny, check that guy out." Tawni barely whispered. Sonny turned around and saw some black haired dude ordering a cup of coffee.
"Which one, the one we ordered from or the guy ordering a drink?"
"The guy ordering the coffee," Tawni stated as if it was obvious.
"You can't even see his face!" Sonny exclaimed.
"I can just tell."
"Whatever," Silence came over the small coffee shop again while the mystery dude waited for his drink.
"Do you think I should ask him out?" Tawni stated randomly. "Should I introduce myself?"
Sonny turned around to look at the mystery man again. His straight black hair reminded Sonny of Joe Jonas's hair. The man had pale skin like Edward Cullen and brown eyes like her own. Wait a minute…Sonny looked over the guy a second time and her eyes widened.
"Tawni we need to get out of here." Sonny instructed, immediately grabbing her purse and heading out the door without looking back. Tawni quickly followed, again wondering what was on Sonny's mind. Once Tawni reached the car and got in she found Sonny ducked down hiding.
"Sonny what are you doing?"
"Is he looking?"
"Is who looking?"
"The guy you were crushing over!" Tawni looked away from Sonny and searched for the guy still in the coffee shop. His leather jacket made him stand out in the empty café. She found him engrossed in conversation with a Caribu employee.
"No," Sonny slowly got up looking everywhere just in case Tawni was lying. Seeing that the cost is clear she sighed in relief.
"Why did you do that? Do you know him?" Tawni gasped. "He is your ex isn't he?" Sonny looked at Tawni like she had just gone insane.
"What?"
"Is he your ex?"
"No!"
"Then why are we sitting here in my car drinking coffee instead of sitting in there," Tawni pointed to Caribu "drinking coffee?"
"Tawni that guy inside is Rick." Sonny's eyes were full of fear as she said his name.
"Oh cool! Who's Rick?"
"Really Tawni, do you listen to anything I say?"
"Oh…that Rick."
"Yeah that Rick! What's he doing in California? His name is jinxed. You say it and he appears…like Voldemort!" Tawni rolled her eyes at Sonny.
"Yeah we could call him he-who-must-not-be-named or you-know-who if you'd like." Tawni stated sarcastically.
"You read Harry Potter?" Sonny gasped.
"Sonny I'm offended that you think I can't read!"
"Tawni I didn't mean it like that I just didn't kn-"
"No I didn't read Harry Potter. Too long, that book is too thick. I dated Rupert."
"Rupert?"
"Yeah Rupert he plays Ron Westly."
"Oh Tawni I think you mean Weasly."
"No." Sonny looked at Tawni confused. She didn't remember a Westly in the book.
"Wait Tawni," Sonny stopped Tawni from turning on the engine. Tawni turned towards Sonny to see her staring at a silver SUV parked three spaces to the right of Tawni's car.
"He never changed his vehicle." Sonny whispered quietly.
"What was that?" Tawni couldn't hear what Sonny said.
"I said he never changed his car…" Sonny looked out the window deep in thought. "Hold on for a sec." She told Tawni as she exited the vehicle. She slowly walked towards the SUV and hid outside the car on the passenger side. Rick was still busy talking so he never noticed a brunette teenager sneaking towards his car. Sonny tried opening the door but it was locked. Crouching back down she checked on Rick again…he was still busy, good. Sonny peered into the vehicle and found lots of empty beer bottles and a pack of cigarettes along with various other things that Sonny couldn't clearly read the label. Sonny spotted a cell phone in the passenger seat and wondered if he had used that phone to call her…only one way to find out. Sonny pulled her phone out and went to her recent calls and called her last caller. The phone inside the SUV lit up and started vibrating. Yup, he did. Sonny moved over and now peered into the back seat, the sight back there made Sonny's eyes sting with tears. In the back seat was a 15 year old girl, her brown hair was everywhere and there were cuts and bruises all over her body. Blood stains covered an outdated So Random shirt that had Mandy instead of Sonny on it. Sonny didn't really know who the girl was but she knew that Rick had beaten her up.
"Sonny!" Tawni yelled she had pulled her car up beside the SUV to let Sonny have a quick escape. Sonny looked up to see Rick making his way out of Caribu. Quickly running around the back of Tawni's car Sonny threw herself into the passenger seat as Tawni hit the gas. They got back to Condor studios in seconds and the parking lot was empty, everyone had already gone back inside. "That was too close Sonny."
"Yeah sorry about that Tawni, but thanks for saving me back there." Sonny couldn't get the girl out of her head, she never saw the poor girls face because her hair was covering it but she felt the need to help the poor girl.
"No problem Sonny, us random girls need to stick together!" Tawni playfully hit Sonny's shoulder earning a smile from Sonny. They slowly made their way back into the studios, picking up a few fallen pictures or tables along the way and putting them back in there proper places. Eventually they made it back to the prop house to be greeted by the rest of the So Random cast and Chad.
"Where were you Sonny I was worried sick! One minute you are here and we are all laughing then I turn my back for one second and poof you are gone!" Chad ranted.
"Relax Chad; I was just getting coffee with Tawni."
"Well next time I'm coming with you Sonny. You never know Rick could have been at the coffee shop and he could have hurt you."
"Pssh but he wasn't! So everything's like okay." Sonny's voice got higher as the sentence went on.
"Sonny is there something that you are not telling me about?" Chad demanded advancing towards Sonny.
"What no, nooooo," Sonny held the no for a long time giggling after the sentence as her voice got high again. She started backing up but eventually hit a wall.
"Sonny,"
"Chad,"
"What happened at the coffee shop?"
"Nothing,"
"Sonny,"
"Chad,"
"Why won't you tell me I'm your boyf-…I'm your friend that's a boy. Practically your boyfriend,"
"Wouldn't that make us her boyfriends too?" Nico asked pointing to himself and Grady.
"No just me."
"Why just you,"
"Because I'm TV's Chad Dylan Cooper,"
"Well I'm TV's Nico Harris."
"You're not as cool as Chad Dylan Cooper."
"Wow Sonny you've got a lot of boyfriends." Zora smirked when she interrupted the two. Chad and Nico glared at each other while Zora stood in between them smirking.
"Why are you smirking?" Tawni asked.
"No reason," Zora stood still smirking…Tawni wondered why she didn't tell Chad about Rick. Did she not want him to worry? Chad was already worrying though. A mooing rang through the silence and Tawni rolled her eyes Sonny's ring tone. Sonny checked her phone to find two unread text messages.
Hey Sonny I'm going to be working late tonight so can you sleepover at a friend's house?
Love Mom.
Usually Sonny wasn't worried about her mom working late, but usually Rick wasn't in town. The second message was from an unknown number.
Sonny I have someone very close to you and if you don't hurry you may never see her again.
-Rick
What is this? A bad episode of Mackenzie Falls, an episode of Pretty Little Liars, is this a dream? Sonny started to laugh uncontrollable and everyone stared at her as if she was crazy. Who knows maybe she was going crazy.
"This isn't real! This is a dream! You're not caring Chad, and Tawni's not being nice. Summer wasn't lying unconscious in Rick's car and Rick wasn't at the coffee shop! This is a dream!" Sonny kept repeating this is a dream, trying to convince herself that it was.
"Sonny calm down." Tawni forced Sonny onto the couch; this was too much drama for Sonny to handle. "You saw Summer?" Sonny's eyes filled with tears at the mention of her name.
"I don't know," Sonny's tears flowed down her cheeks as she remembered the girl in the SUV. "It could have been her Tawni! I could have saved that girl in the car, but I was too afraid of Rick to pick the lock."
"Sonny stop beating yourself up over this that might have not been Summer and you can't pick a car lock!"
"I know…"
"Sonny listen to me…that might not have been Rick's car. Okay that was not Summer in the back just some girl with issues now let's go and practice our new sketch." Sonny smiled a weak smile and left with Tawni to practice the new sketch. She knew what Tawni said was not right, that was Rick's car and she hoped that seeing him at the coffee shop today will be there last encounter.
After they practiced there new sketch the So Random cast called it quits for a day and they all left for home. Sonny decided that if she slept over at someone's house she'd put them in danger so she asked Marshal if she could sleep in the prop house tonight and he agreed and left for his date with his 'lady friend'. Sonny had prepared a make-shift bed on the couch and locked the prop house doors.
"There," she said as she finished scanning and locking the prop house. "I am now safe." Her phone started buzzing, (yes buzzing because Tawni made her put her phone on vibrate and Sonny forgot to take it off.) and Sonny hurried to pick it up.
"Hello?"
"Sonny, I just wanted to see if you're okay." Sonny rolled her eyes, sometimes her mom could get a bit protective.
"Yeah mom I'm fine, hey mom the weir-"
"Sonny I won't be coming home for a couple of days and I need you to send me some money." Connie interrupted. That didn't sound like Sonny's mom at all.
"Mom,"
"Just for a business trip honey," That didn't sound convincing.
"Is Rick with you?" Sonny demanded. The other side of the line fell silent. "Mom?"
"Yes sweetie?"
"Is Rick with you?" The line went silent again.
"Little Mommy has to go now." A voice said and then the line went dead. Sonny stared at her phone in shock. Rick had her mom she had to do something! Sonny sat on the couch deep in thought and she almost fell asleep when evil cackling was heard in the distance. Oh boy!
