Let's play the 'Owning Game!' Oh look...I lose.

A/N: Seriously you guys, I'm running out of ways to tell you you're amazing. This is definitely the last chapter until next weekend, and I'm very sad, because I will miss this story this week, and I'll miss getting all of your reviews that just brighten my day! I should really be asleep now. I'm waking up in less than 4 hours, because my friend and I are going to shoot a music video for "One and The Same"...Y'Know...I could give the link if you're interested XD, haha.

Chapter 9

As soon as Chad had closed the door behind him, he was ambushed by the cast of So Random.

"Where's Sonny?"

"What did you do with Sonny?"

"Did you hurt her?"

"If you hurt her I swear to God-"

"Woah, woah, woah," Chad cut the three off, arms held out in front of him, protecting himself from their words and commanding them to shut up. "In order: In my room. None of your business. No. And no need to threaten me," he answered, parting them like the Red Sea and walking towards the kitchen.

On his walk down the hallway, he noted that he didn't spy any of his cast mates. "Are they at the beach?" he guessed over his shoulder, speaking to the three pairs of footsteps that were treading after him.

"Yeah, they've been down there for about an hour." He heard the blonde girl answer icily.

He nodded as he strolled into the kitchen and started searching the cabinet for some aspirin. "And you didn't go with them because...?"

"Because we care about Sonny!" Grady yelled at him.

Chad was getting frustrated in his search for the medicine. "If you care about Sonny, then where were you last night when she was drunk off her ass?"

Silence.

"Did you go looking for her at all after she disappeared?"

More silence.

"Did you stop her from making one of the biggest mistakes of her life?" he interrogated them.

Nothing.

"That's what I thought," Chad said vehemently. He closed his eyes and took a deep breath. He had gotten carried away. The Randoms were going to figure out his secret. "Look, if you care about Sonny, then Blondie, get a glass of water, and another of orange juice. You," he said, turning to Nico, "Make one or two pieces of toast. And you," he said, looking at Grady, "Get a banana."

He heard them shuffle around the kitchen in silence, ashamed of their lack of concern for Sonny the night before. Chad opened a fifth cabinet when his eyes lit up as he found a tiny bottle labeled 'Aspirin.' He unscrewed the cap and shook two into his hand before returning the bottle to the cabinet. He turned around and saw Grady standing there, holding the banana, unsure what to do with it.

The Mackenzie Falls heartthrob rolled his eyes as he snatched the fruit out of the other blonde boy's hand and went to look for a plate.

A very silent and awkward five minutes later, Chad was holding a plate which contained two pieces of toast, a banana, and two aspirin. He began to walk down the hallway, back to his single room, where Sonny resided, closely followed by Tawni, who held the glasses of water and orange juice. Chad knocked on the door quietly. "Sonny?"

"Come in, Chad," she answered painfully.

"Alright, but Tammy's coming in too," he warned as he turned the knob and started pushing the door open.

"It's Tawni," the blonde girl corrected, huffing as she shuffled in after him, kicking the door closed before Nico or Grady could enter. Her eyes grew wide as she took in Sonny's top flung over a lamp, the messy bed, and Sonny wearing the enemy's shirt.

"What happened last night?" Tawni screeched in shock.

"Tawni, lower the voice please," Sonny asked kindly from her spot on the bed where she rested a hand over her head.

"Sonny..." Tawni warned her. If she didn't get an answer soon, she was going to freak.

"Nothing happened, okay?" Chad said, his eyes burning a hole through Tawni as he handed the brunette the plate with food and aspirin on it.

"Oh, and you should be lucky it didn't because I swear-"

"Just give her a drink," Chad commanded.

"Don't tell me what to do! Wh-"

"Guys!" Sonny called. "Both of you, please, just shut up for a second!" After speaking, Sonny took the glass of water from Tawni as she tilted her head back and swallowed the aspirin.

"You're a creep, you know that?" Tawni shot to Chad in a hushed voice. "How low can you get? Trying to score with a drunk Sonny? For God's sake-"

"Tawni!" Sonny barked. This caused both the blondes to look at her in shock. Sonny hardly ever got snappy with Tawni anymore. The Monroe girl sighed. She had to explain, lest Chad get mauled to death by her cast mates.

"It's my fault Chad and I ended up here. And it's my fault my top is on his lamp," Sonny confessed, squeezing her eyes closed, not wanting to see her friend's reaction. She took a deep breath as she rushed the next part. "Apparently-I-was-drunk-so-then-I-started-making-out-with-Chad-and-one-thing-lead-to-another-and-we-ended-up-on-the-bed-and-Chad-stopped-it-from-going-any-farther."

Tawni just stared at her. "What?" she asked after a while. "All I heard was "Drunk, making out, Chad, and bed. Those are not good words to hear together in a sentence, Sonny."

"I said, Chad stopped it from going any farther. He wasn't trying to 'score' as you so...elegantly... put it," Sonny told her friend.

This caused the blonde girl to gasp. "So that would mean that you-"

"Yeah," Sonny groaned, looking at her food, her face turning the shade of a clown nose. She was so embarrassed. She looked up, however, when she heard...laughter?

Tawni was doubled over, laughing. "So, what you're trying to tell me, is that you, Sonny Monroe, good girl from Wisconsin, wanted to...wanted to..." The girl couldn't even finish her sentence, she had broken into full-blown laughter at the thought of innocent little Sonny wanting to sleep with Chad Dylan Cooper.

"Glad you're so understanding," Sonny spoke sarcastically, rolling her eyes as she took a bite of the toast. "Where are Nico and Grady?"

"Out in the hall," Chad answered, as Tawni was still snickering.

"Do you think they were listening?" she asked him.

"We were!" she heard a muffled response from the other side of the door.

"Well, at least I don't have to retell the story," Sonny shrugged, trying to get over her humiliation. She took another big bite of toast, her stomach growling.

"The only thing funnier than what you just told me," Tawni told Sonny, "is that Chad is being nice. He's caring!"

"Am not!"

"Are too!" another muffled protest came from the hallway.

"Am not!"

"Are too," Sonny grinned, taking a bite of the banana.

"Sonny!" Chad complained, his eyes clearly telling hers, I thought you said you wouldn't mention it.

She shrugged. "They're my cast, I have to side with them."

"Yeah, even if it is against her boyfriend," Tawni teased.

Sonny choked on the banana she was eating. Quickly drinking some water, she was able to stutter. "W-what?"

"Oh geez, you two, I was just kidding," the blonde girl insisted, looking between the two wide-eyed teens in front of her.

"We can't stand each other," Chad stated, like a fact out of a history book rather than something he actually believed.

"Yeah! Can't stand each other," Sonny agreed, nodding her head for emphasis.

"Mm-hmm," Tawni uttered in doubt. She could see that something between them had changed. The tension in the air now wasn't just that of pent-up sexual desire. There was something else now, even if the two of them couldn't see it. "Sonny, when you're done with breakfast, get ready for the beach, I'm ready for day two!" she ordered, prancing out of the room. Whenever she closed the door behind her, she joined Nico and Grady in their eavesdropping.

"You said you wouldn't tell anyone!" Chad whined like a two year old.

"Oh shut it Chad, you're annoying when you whine. My cast won't tell anyone, really. Isn't that right, guys?" Sonny answered, raising her voice on the last part.

The three Randoms against the door looked at each other with a panicked 'Oh crap, what do we do?' look. The sighed as they replied in unison. "We won't tell..."

"Go away guys!" Sonny called. She heard their feet shuffle down the hallway and doors close as the boys went into their room to get ready, and Tawni went into the girls' room.

"So, thanks for the breakfast," Sonny smiled at Chad. "I feel a lot better."

"Ahh, no problem, Monroe," the blonde replied, trying to return to being suave and cool.

"So, um...can you pass me my top? Y'know, so I can get ready...and give you your shirt back," the comedian said awkwardly.

"Oh! Yeah!" Chad answered, springing up and handing her the bikini top. "The bathroom is through there," he pointed. "Unless you'd rather just change here. Nothing I haven't seen before," he added with a smirk in his voice.

"Chad, I'm sober now. Good try though," Sonny rejected, face tingeing pink as she walked to the bathroom.

"It was, wasn't it?" Chad appreciated his clever remark as the door closed.

So there you go! Some more non-angsty Channy :) Hope you enjoyed! I didn't want to leave you all with a cliffhanger for the week, that would just be mean! Please review, and I'll see you next weekend!

Love, Kelsey ;D