Thanks for sticking with me through nine episodes so far and now a tenth. This one, once again, is mainly recap until the end, so if you're one of those people who just want to read the new stuff, I suppose you could just scroll down until you find out. I'm looking forward to hearing what you think about this one. I might've gone a little bit out of character this time, but it's hard to keep them in character when you're not the one who made them up because you're not 100% sure how they would react to something. But anyway, I hope you at least have fun reading it.

Disclaimer: I still don't own Sonny With a Chance, although I did watch this episode today!

Episode #10:

Sonny and the Studio Brat

Chad Dylan Cooper Does Not Date Nine Year Olds

After everything that went down between the two of them, Sonny no longer wanted to see Chad. Even putting up with him during lunch was almost unbearable, much less the one-on-one meetings her heart craved for. Who was she trying to kid when she said she didn't like him? He was Chad Dylan Cooper, after all; who didn't like him?!

Sonny was happy when she was given a task that would surely take her mind of the blonde heartthrob. She was going to show a charity child around the So Random! set all day long. At least the little girl would be excited enough about her first time visiting a real television show. Maybe she could motivate Sonny a little bit with her enthusiasm.

Before the little girl arrived, Sonny tried to get herself into a happy mood. She and Tawni hung out in the lunch room, Tawni complaining about there not being enough pictures of her in a magazine as Sonny put together a basket of muffins for the charity girl. As the two girls sat down at their usual table, Sonny explained that she was going to be the ambassador of fun.

"'Who nominated you ambassador of fun?"' Tawni asked, looking confused.

"'Well, I did,"' Sonny replied, smiling a huge grin. "'I even have a hat!"'

She pulled out the dumbest looking hat Tawni had ever seen. It was red with the words Ambassador of Fun written in white letters. A string held the hat in place under Sonny's chin, and the thing on top spun around in circles.

Chad picked then to walk up to the table. He didn't speak to Sonny at first (since no one knew about their true feelings which, according to Sonny didn't exist anyway, they acted the same way they always did in public), but instead looked over Tawni's shoulder at the magazine.

"'Ah, hey, look at that. It's me and my cast at every hot club in Hollywood,"' he said, pointing to a page full of Mackenzie Falls cast photos. Then, he let his attention turn over to Sonny. "'Oh, and you in a dumb hat."'

He spun the topper, letting it spin around and around. Sonny didn't even look at him. She and Tawni exchanged looks and sighed as Chad sat down with them. Why couldn't he leave them alone and sit with his own cast?

Tawni tried telling Chad that she and the rest of her cast didn't care if they were invited to the clubs, but when he told her what page to look at and she found a picture of Nico and Grady dressed in cheese pants, she glared at Sonny.

"'This is why we never get invited anywhere cool!"' she exclaimed.

""Yeah, sure,"' Chad said, watching as Sonny spun the topper on her hat by herself. "'It's the pants."'

Once Sonny realized Chad was making fun of her, she rolled her eyes.

"'Chad, you are so superficial,"' she stated.

"'Yeah, all I hear from that is, 'Chad, you are so super!' blah blah blah,"' he replied, moving his fingers like they were Sonny's lips.

He loved moments like these when he could pick on Sonny. Since they couldn't be alone anymore and she was trying to prove her words true (meaning, of course, that she had no crush on him whatsoever), he found it fun to say all the annoying things to her he could. The more annoyed she got, the more he smiled. He finally understood why boys picked on their crushes when they were little kids. It was just too much fun not to.

The happy table broke apart and Chad had to stop playing his games for now. Sonny was thankful. Talking to Chad wasn't helping her keep her mind off him. As soon as he was out of sight, she started concentrating on the charity girl and what fun activities the two of them would do together.

Time passed quickly and finally, Sonny was able to meet the girl.

"'Dakota!"' she cried happily, running up with a huge basket. After all the teasing the hat had gotten her, she'd finally taken it off her head. "'Hi, I'm Sonny, I'm so happy you're here! I'm going to give you the best day of your little life!"'

Dakota stayed interested in So Random! long enough for Sonny to show her the gifts inside the basket. Just as they were walking past a sign for Mackenzie Falls, Dakota suddenly became distracted.

"'Mackenzie Falls shoots here?!"' She turned to face Sonny, her face lit up like Christmas morning. "'I had no idea. I love Chad Dylan Cooper."'

"'Yeah,"' Sonny said in fake happiness before folding her arms over her chest and staring at the wall. "'So does Chad Dylan Cooper."'

More than anything else, Dakota wanted to meet Chad. Sonny didn't want to call him. She was trying to get him out of her mind, not stuck in it. But she couldn't let a girl from a charity down.

"'Just watch me dial my cell phone,"' she promised, already punching in Chad's number.

Of course, the phone went straight to the answering machine. Sonny waited through the message, hoping she'd hear a beep at the end so she could ask Chad to call her back. The recording made her rethink that plan quickly.

"'This is Chad Dylan Cooper. Sorry I can't come to the phone right now cuz if you were important enough, you'd have the number to the phone I'd answer."'

Sonny hung up her phone, gave Dakota a huge smile, and did the one thing she knew all little kids loved:

"'Let's go get some ice cream!"'

Dakota kept acting sad all day. Whenever something didn't go her way, she'd sigh and tell Sonny she was used to disappointment. Feeling bad for the girl, Sonny tried to call Chad again.

This time, his phone rang.

"'CDC here."'

"'Really, Chad?"' Sonny asked, rolling her eyes.

"'Sonny?"' Chad's voice sounded surprised. "'Oh, man, I answered the wrong phone!"'

Sonny chose to ignore that comment.

"'Look, I need a favor,"' she said instead. "'I have the sweetest girl here and she really wants to meet you."'

Part of the reason Sonny didn't say right away how young Dakota was was because she wanted to hear Chad's reaction. Was he really still looking at other girls? Were they really giving up on each other?

"'Ohh, tell me what she looks like!"'

Apparently he was looking at other girls and, yes, they were giving up on each other. She shrugged her shoulders, telling herself it didn't matter. She was fine just being friends with Chad. She could handle being friends.

Unfortunately, Dakota couldn't handle it. She wanted to meet Chad and she was willing to do whatever it took to get what she wanted. As she later revealed to the So Random! cast, she wasn't really from a charity; she made up one using the letters C-H-A-D.

Dakota was more obsessed with Chad than Chad was.

By that time, the So Random! cast was ready to get rid of their guest, but when they found out she was the daughter of Mr. Condor, the owner of the studio, they realized they had to do whatever she wanted or else their show would be done for. It was left up to Sonny, the only one who ever talked to Chad, to make sure the two of them got to meet.

When Sonny came running up to him in the hall, begging him to please meet the girl, Chad wouldn't have agreed to it if he hadn't wanted something from her. There were pictures online of her cast mates hitting the coolest club, The Basement. He wanted in.

"'Ok, I will do whatever. I just need to get into The Basement,"' he informed her, not listening when she tried to explain who the girl was.

If Chad didn't want to know, then she wasn't going to force him to listen to her. Sonny agreed to get him into the club-

Then walked back to the prop house and found out The Basement wasn't real. Her cast mates had pretended to make a club so they could become more popular than Mackenzie Falls.

"'Do you think you could build it again?"' she asked them.

Keeping it a secret from both Chad and Mr. Condor (who, for some reason, asked if he could come to The Basement as well), the So Random! crew rebuilt the fake club. Tawni led Chad in with a blindfold over his eyes. The first thing he saw upon taking it off was Sonny dancing with a little girl.

"'Chad,"' she greeted him in a cheery voice.

"'Sonny,"' he replied curtly. "'Alright, let's get this over with. What's the punch line to your funny little story?"'

"'Chad, Dakota,"' Sonny said, pointing to the little girl and letting her take off her blindfold. "'Dakota-,"'

"'CHAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"'

Sonny picked up Dakota so she could feel his hair, walked her to the back so she could see how perfect it was from back there, then took her to the front again as a song she liked started to play.

"'Let's dance,"' she ordered, putting her hands on Chad's arms.

Chad wasn't quite sure what to do. Sonny was still holding Dakota up, so he had no idea where to put his hands. Finally he decided on letting them rest at her sides, right below Sonny's.

It was weird dancing with Dakota and Sonny at the same time. Chad and Sonny made faces at each other while Dakota wasn't looking until Sonny couldn't take it anymore. Claiming she felt like a third-wheel, she set the girl down and walked away.

Chad tried to escape, too. He danced with Dakota for a few more moments then said he wanted to dance with someone who wasn't her. He looked at Sonny as he spoke and she glared back, so he walked over to two other girls instead. They rejected him when they saw Dakota sitting on his leg.

Just as Chad was about to tell Dakota off, Mr. Condor entered the room. He tried to tell his boss what was going on and how annoying the girl was being, but that was when he got a surprise.

"'Daddy!"' Dakota cried, running into Mr. Condor's arms.

"'Oh……Daddy?!"'

Chad turned to find Sonny, but she was already walking up to him, a huge smile on her face. He was the one who hadn't wanted to know anything about the poor charity girl.

"'Yeah, there's your funny little punch line,"' she told him, trying not to laugh.

But her laughter was cut short when Mr. Condor started yelling at her for bringing his daughter to a Hollywood club. When Chad thought he was in the safe zone and started to rub it in Sonny's face, Mr. Condor rounded on him. He and Sonny took several steps backwards as the yelling went on, only stopping when Sonny accidentally bumped into something behind her.

The walls of the fake club fell one by one. Everyone ran around the room, screaming, and Sonny found herself clutching at Chad. To her surprise, he didn't push her away. Maybe he was too scared to notice. After all, he had no idea the club was a fake. He probably thought it was really falling.

After everything was said and done, Mr. Condor believed Sonny had made the club just to do something nice for his daughter since she couldn't get into a real club. The two of them left together.

Chad wasn't so easy to get rid of. He wanted to put the pictures of the fake club online and totally embarrass the So Random! cast. Tawni threatened to put up pictures of him dancing with Dakota. Sonny stepped between the two of them, ordering them both to delete the pictures.

The pictures got deleted, Sonny suggested dancing, and the fake club became alive again. She stayed in her spot between Tawni and Chad as she danced and was surprised when neither of them left right away.

Maybe, despite everything she and Chad had been through, they could still be somewhat friends. Or maybe she would just have to go crazy trying to figure out what the two of them were.

Either way, she smiled up at him as they danced. She missed hanging out with him and was loving every moment of the dancing. It seemed like he was too; he smiled back at her and it wasn't even in a mean way.

In Sonny's book, they were back at the friend level.

***********

Sonny was getting ready to leave that night. She was in her dressing room, gathering the last few things she needed before heading home. Tawni had left hours ago and Sonny hadn't heard anyone walking around in the studio for awhile. She thought she was there alone.

That's why she jumped about a foot in the air when there was a knock on the door.

"Who is it?" she asked, pressing her ear to the door. If it was some kind of murderer who had been spying on her and decided to strike while she was alone, she wasn't going to be stupid enough to let them in.

"CDC at your services."

CDC? Sonny only knew of one person who had those initials, and she had no idea why he would be standing right outside her room. Still, the voice did sound familiar, not raspy like she pictured a murderer to sound like, so she pulled open the door.

Sure enough, there stood the one and only Chad Dylan Cooper, leaning forward so one hand could rest on the doorframe, the other holding a huge bouquet of-

"Roses?" Sonny's voice sounded surprised even to her own ears. "What are the roses for, Chad?"

"I was thinking about everything we've been through lately," he answered, his eyes on the roses, avoiding Sonny's. "I thought about how mad you got after our last conversation and how wrong I was to interrupt your date with James. I shouldn't have done that unless I was going to say something to you to justify my actions, like I wanted to be your boyfriend and didn't want him to be. But I didn't tell you that; I got your hopes up and then crushed them and-,"

Sighing loudly, Chad extended his arm, offering the roses to Sonny. She took them slowly, still not sure if this was really happening.

Chad seemed to read Sonny's mind and knew she wasn't exactly sure what was going on. He sighed again, this time louder.

"I'm sorry."

Sonny couldn't believe her ears. Chad was apologizing? The Chad Dylan Cooper who called himself the greatest actor of all time and who didn't have any flaws was saying he was sorry?

Chad looked at Sonny, trying to read the expression in her eyes.

"So," he said when he couldn't tell what she was thinking. "Are we cool?"

He'd showed up with roses and an 'I'm sorry,' on top of that and didn't think Sonny would forgive him?

She smiled as she put the roses to her nose, taking in a long sniff. She loved the smell of flowers and she closed her eyes, trying to let it all soak in. When she opened them again, she saw Chad was still staring at her, waiting for her answer.

"Oh, we are so cool," she told him, giggling softly.

Chad returned the smile. Seeing Sonny standing there, the roses matching the blush in her cheeks, did something to him. He wanted to kiss her more than any of their other alone moments.

But he knew he couldn't, not after apologizing for not dating her. Kissing her would once again bring her to the dating road and he'd be putting his chances of ever being friends with her in very hot water.

No, it would be better to get away as soon as possible, before he could give in to his desires.

"Good," he said, taking a step backwards.

"Good," Sonny replied, the roses lowering to her chest so she could talk easier.

"Fine," Chad continued their game.

"Fine," Sonny shot back.

And then, he decided to change it up a little bit.

"Have a good night, Munroe."

"You too, Cooper."

He was half way down the hall, Sonny was standing in her doorway, but since the set was so quiet, he didn't have to shout for her to hear his next words.

"I'll see you tomorrow?"

"You can count on it."

It was that promise that let Chad have good dreams for the first time since he and Sonny had started fighting. He liked the dreams better than the tossing and turning all night long.