Author's Note: The fact that I'm on the tenth chapter of this story is absolutely amazing. I know, I've posted three chapters in 24hrs. It proves that I have nothing better to do, doesn't it? Now I am toying with the idea of posting another chapter tomorrow afternoon for me (morning to all those in the states), because it's New Year's tomorrow and I know a lot of us (including me) will have plans. So if you would like to see chapter eleven posted tomorrow, let me know in reviews! It's cool with me, I've just finished writing chapter 16. Again all the support has been phenomenal and I want to thank you all. Keep reading and reviewing!

I hadn't talked to Chad Dylan Cooper in a month and it had been fantastic. I had thrown darts at his face on a dartboard, deleted his number a few times on my phone before re-instating it just in case I needed him, managed to sustain a healthy relationship with Todd and able to relax more at work. Before, I would always be on edge with worrying about seeing him, but I didn't have that problem.

I couldn't believe a month had passed already. We were in march, with only a few weeks left to go until Tawni took us all to her island for a weekend in spring break. Everything was going swimmingly, you know, apart from the fact that I wanted to execute the star of Mackenzie Falls. He had completely overreacted about my selfless visit. I gave up a night with my boyfriend just to see him and he had yelled at me. He could go to hell. Todd sweetly decided that we should take our relationship slowly and said to me that there was no pressure to meet anyone's parents. I still hadn't met them and we were still going very steady.

Fine. I was bored.

There was no drama in my life; I was working and So Random was still proving to be a major success. I had the greatest friends and Lucy called me every single night telling me exactly what magazines were saying about me. Tawni and I were getting on so well that we could hug without anything being awkward. And the thing that should have made me happiest? I had a boyfriend. I was smitten and it was all going so well that I found myself picking arguments with him sometimes, just to have a fight. For example, he didn't phone me one night because his Mom grounded him and took away his phone. I turned that into an argument that he didn't like me and he was politely telling me to go away. It reminded me way too much of something I'd watched on Sex and the City.

I should have been grateful. I was healthy, employed, a friend and someone's girlfriend. I didn't have to worry about Chad Dylan Cooper and even Tawni's alleged romance with someone we apparently knew had quietened down. I swear, Nico and Tawni were not doing anything. One night, I spent hours analysing whether I had noticed anything between them and I hadn't. Tawni hadn't told me anything, because it was a mistake two co-workers had made because it was New Year's.

"I'm so bored," I told Zora one day while we were sitting in the Prop House. I probably shouldn't have, because she was eleven and she shouldn't be told that in the height of your teens, life can be so boring.

"Tell me about it," she replied, and that disturbed me more, because I don't remember ever being bored when I was eleven. "No one has any decent things to say anymore. I was crawling through the vents the other day and I got nothing."

"Okay," I replied, smiling awkwardly. I had forgotten that she was a bit of a stalker. Nico then came in with a sandwich and a football, playing with his new hat. That reminded me! I still had that stupid hat that belonged to James Stewart. I was going to keep it forever and Chad could just suck on that.

"It's like dawn of the dead in here," he remarked, flopping down next to us.

"We're bored," I sighed, sitting all the way back and staring at the ceiling. "I know, why don't we name some ridiculous scenarios that should never happen ever."

"I have said it once and I will say it again," Nico began. "You are one strange girl Sonny, but I'll bite, give me an example."

"Would you guys ever date someone on So Random?" I asked. Fine, I might have been looking for a little bit of drama. I watched Nico carefully, without making Zora suspicious, and I have to say, he didn't even twitch a little bit. He was either a better actor than anyone I'd ever watched on screen, or he really had nothing to do with Tawni Hart.

"Nope," he replied, and he sounded sure. "No offence, but I've heard these working romances can be very difficult. Just look at you and Chad Dylan Cooper."

"What about me and Chad Dylan Cooper?" I asked, my heart beating rapidly. I hadn't felt the same nerves in a long time. Did he know something? Oh my God, Tawni had talked! Had Tawni told them that Chad and I had a thing that one night he was drunk? That was all I could think of, there was nothing else that had happened.

"The sexual tension actually kills us," Zora said, before he could, and we both looked at her with surprise. "What? I'm eleven, not stupid!"

"What sexual tension?" I asked her, laughing a little too hysterically. Why did I feel like I had been down this road before? "There is no sexual tension."

"Please, you ooze of it whenever he's here," she said, patting my arm. "I'll tell you why you're bored Monroe; you had a fight with Cooper and he's not here to give you that fire in your belly."

"I was just going to say that your arguments give me a headache, but Zora's onto something," Nico insisted, cowering away when I glared at him.

"I have a boyfriend, I don't need that fire in my belly," I insisted, trying to look convinced, but why the hell was she right? Why did I enjoy having a good fight with Chad Dylan Cooper? I didn't want him for anything but a fight right now.

"But you get along with him," Zora insisted, "Have you had a fight with Todd yet?"

"No, but we're still in the honeymoon stage," I protested. I heard that lasted up to a year. Wow, a year of bliss with my boyfriend, I should have been thrilled. Oh my God I was a masochist. I hated being comfortable. I hated it more than anything. I was seventeen; I should have been going through hormonal stuff and teenage drama every single day.

"It's natural, you just enjoy having an argument," Zora assured me, but I didn't feel too great about accepting advice from a ten year old. "You like passion and fireworks."

"That's great, that would suit me so well," I was glad when I heard Tawni's voice from outside. She talked very loud whenever she was on the phone. It was like she wanted people to hear her conversations. "Yes Chad, that would be great."

That was it, we all shut up immediately. Tawni Hart was fraternising with her ex and the arch nemesis of So Random.

"We can't do it in my dressing room because I share with Sonny…she's fine…anyway we just need a place to hang out for a little while and since you're taking advantage of your shiner and taking a couple of months off, I was thinking…yes, I do know it won't come cheap…you can come to my island during spring break…yes I do have an island…I will pay…so we're agreed? Great."

What were they agreed on? I was dying to know. Oh, it was the first piece of gossip I'd heard for a whole month, I was entitled to be a little desperate. I exchanged glances with Zora and Nico, and they looked just as clueless as me. We sat and pondered in silence for a minute, and then it became very obvious that Tawni was seeing someone. I had to give her some credit. She wasn't exactly a ditz when it came to getting what she wanted.

"What are you all quiet for?" Tawni asked when she stepped into the room.

"Nothing," I insisted. Tawni then cleared out the room and wanted me left in it. It had been a while since we'd had a talk, because everything was going so well. I had even bought Todd a two month anniversary gift, even though I really disagreed with the whole thing. I didn't know why I didn't want to buy him gifts, but when I was shopping, something inside me told me that it was wrong.

"Have you talked to Chad?" She asked me.

"Nope. Not for a whole month."

"Wow, I have got to give you credit for your willpower," she smiled to me. I wanted her to tell me that he had asked how I was. I wanted to know what he was saying about me, but she couldn't say anything about it obviously. I couldn't say anything about it either. "Sonny I'm seeing someone."

"I knew it!" I gasped. I had been waiting for this valuable piece of information since New Year and there it was handed to me on a plate. Tawni sat there looking ashamed and strained, and I had to try and hide the triumph from my face. "How long?"

"It's been a while now," she confessed. Oh no, she was being mysterious about how long it had been going on? It must have been a while, and that phone call obviously had a lot to do with this mystery beau. "It's getting really serious and I am terrified."

"And there I was thinking life had just gotten duller," I replied. It scared me how everything had changed in a matter of minutes. "Who is he?"

"I'm not telling anyone," she said, and she sounded decided. I could have sworn I saw a smile on her face; she must have been thinking of him. "I like him a lot. Sonny, I think I might actually be falling for him, because yesterday I walked around in sweats! I do not do sweats! And I think I'm even starting to like him a little more than myself! It is-"

"So sweet!" I gushed. "You're falling in love with him!"

"Is that what it is?" She asked me, looking disgusted. "Because it is becoming ridiculous! You know I spent a whole weekend with him there and I wanted to see him again! I didn't even put my make-up on for one whole day and he didn't even care! He said he loves me inside and out!"

"Aww Tawni you're in love!" I cooed. It was probably the most romantic thing I'd heard of in a long time. The spoilt selfish princess had actually fallen for someone. Okay, take away the 'spoilt' part. The girl I thought couldn't love anyone more than herself was actually in love with someone else.

"Is this what it feels like?" She asked me. "Sometimes I can't eat or sleep! It's horrible!"

"It's like the time you started caring for me!" I smiled, putting my arm around her. I was surprised to find that she was actually trembling. "Tawni, why is it a bad thing?"

"Because I am terrified," she confessed to me in a low voice. "With everyone else I was so sure that it was going to go up in flames so I didn't have to worry about any attachment, but with this guy, I don't want to think of breaking up with him. It sucks too, because I never even looked at him before."

"You'll be fine," I assured her. "You're Tawni Hart and he says he loves you inside and out. Not a lot of guys say that if they're not serious."

"I don't know how you do it with Todd, the constant insecurity of it scares me to death," she said, shaking her head, and then she smiled at me. "Thanks. I needed to tell someone."

"So when can I meet the guy who's stolen your heart?" I asked just as she was about to walk out of the Prop House.

"Who knows? You might have already met him," she winked, before walking away. Damnit, never in my life did I think Tawni could master mystery and subtlety, and she had learned it just when I wanted to know something crucial about her.

I was trying to work out who this guy could be on the way home. He could really be anyone, because the So Random cast had been fortunate enough to have met a lot of people. Tawni had charmed a lot of people since I'd met her, so I really had no clue about this guy. Was he famous? Or was he an extra I'd met? No, he couldn't be normal, could he? She did say that she hadn't noticed him before, so it was plausible.

As I tried to become Sherlock Holmes, I became increasingly aware of a man behind me. I could hear him walking closely behind me, you know, when you can just sense it without having to look behind you. I didn't like having anyone directly behind me in case I fell and they saw me fall and they laughed and I died of humiliation, so I walked a little slower so that the guy could walk past me and I wouldn't be embarrassed if I fell. He didn't move past me.

I felt him walk just as slowly as me, so I started speeding up again. It had to be a joke; someone obviously wanted to play some kind of prank on me. I stole a glance of the stranger behind me and I felt chills go through me when I saw that it was that guy I'd seen a couple of times; once outside my apartment and once standing just outside my work. Oh God was he a stalker? Was I encountering my first stalker? I had never had a stalker yet and I wasn't sure if I wanted them. They sounded like mean people, especially when you heard the stories of when they kept hair from your brush and stuff.

I didn't know what to do. I didn't think it was a smart idea to run because the guy might have realised that I was aware of what he was doing and chase me, but my walking at a normal pace was I setting myself up for something? I walked a little faster than I normally did and prayed that I would hurry up and be home already. My heart was beating out of my chest and I had to beg myself not to cry. I had to beg myself to try and remain as calm as possible. He still remained behind me, walking just a few steps away. I hated the fact that the street was practically empty. Why hadn't I let Tawni give me a ride home instead of insist on walking so I could phone Todd? He wasn't even picking up his phone so I was basically setting up my own stalker!

When I got inside my apartment block, I didn't hear him behind me, so I ran upstairs and unlocked my door quickly. I threw myself in and locked the door immediately. I tried to remain calm, but I could feel my eyes watering and my hands shaking. I turned on every light in sight and immediately headed towards my window. He couldn't see me, but he was just standing outside the building and smoking a cigarette.

I quickly took out my cell and frantically made a call.

"Hi. I know we've been fighting and you haven't been outside for a couple of weeks since your accident, but I really need you to come over right now!"