I'm so sorry I haven't updated in almost two weeks! Want to hear why? This is a good excuse, believe me.

I've had the rest of this story (yes, all the way till almost the end) written out. I've had it all done and ready to post for almost a month now! Thing is, I'd written a completely different chapter 8 at first, and then changed my mind and rewrote everything because I'm an indecisive perfectionist like that. So, I wrote out the 'Hold Up' chappie, and then did the next one ('Telling The Truth'), after which I was attacked. By none other than the villainous, horrible, writing devil: writer's block. That's why it's taken me so long to post this. I now plan to post the chapters I had written from before after this one. I was struggling to find a way to link the alternative chapter 8, which is going to be chapter 11, with the end of the existing chapter 9 (and in the process of all this struggling, I did make a mental note to plan my stories better in the future). So writing this filler was a challenge for me! But not to fear, I'll be updating quicker now, because, as I mentioned so many times already, I've had most of the future of the story written out for almost a month. So I guess I'll give you guys a chapter a week; sound good? And we're in for some seriously frepic drama coming up… YAY! *random thunderous applause in the background as I jump up in happiness* Enjoy! :)

And hey! We've reached chapter 10! This time, I made a little two-tier cupcake to celebrate. That's one cupcake, and then a smaller cupcake chilling on the top of it xD

Now It's Our World

Chapter 10 – Prison Again

Chad's POV

The girl that's sitting there waiting to see me is none other than… Tawni. Wait, Tawni? Why is she here?

"Hey, Chad," she says, standing up and stepping towards me as Gobbledegook leaves the room.

"What do you want?" I ask, angry and bored. It's not like I haven't got enough drama in my life, that she's here to create more and make things worse.

"I wanted to apologise. I shouldn't have been so mean to you," she replies calmly, "Can we start over? Maybe we could go to being back to how we were two years ago?" Seriously? She wants to start over? Nuh-uh.

"Tawni, look. I don't even want to know you, let alone be in any kind of relationship with you." I say firmly.

"What about our daughter, then? She's going to have to grow up, never knowing what it's like to have a father who cares about her, all because you went off only thinking about yourself! You're… You're no better than your own dad!" Tawni yells dramatically. This so dramatic, it's like a bad episode of Mackenzie Falls! CDC here. Don't diss my show. Or a good one? Nice save there, kid.

"Tawni, do you have any idea how Sonny would feel if I left her for you? I can't put her through that. Anyway, I don't like you, and I never will," I say. Woah. I'm good. "And our 'relationship' – I'm not sure if I should even call it that – is nothing like my parents', so don't even try to compare it to them. You don't know the real story."

"You know what; just forget I said that. I'm here to say I'm sorry. Forgive me, Chad," she says, and slips her arms around my neck, "You know you want to." She's standing close. Uncomfortably close. I'm not enjoying this at all.

"Tawni, I don't –" She cuts me off with her hand over my mouth, and winks seductively. Blegh.

"Chad?" A familiar voice says. Tawni steps away from me, and I see that Kiara, my best friend, is standing in the doorway, looking a little confused. "Am I interrupting something here?" whe asks.

"Thank you!" I yell, randomly running and hugging her. She rescued me from being almost raped by Tawni again!

"Uh, you're welcome?" she says, still confused as Tawni stalks out of the room, defeated.

"So, what are you doing here?" I ask, as we sit down on the chairs.

"I'm here to get you outta this mess!" Kiara replies, "So you gotta tell me. Chad, what the heck is going on?" she asks, in sudden shock.

"Too much…" I reply, and sigh. Well, it's true. My life is a whirlpool of confusion right now. There's a knock at the door, and Karan walks in.

"I've found some more information regarding the whole drug case," he says seriously.

"What is it?" I ask eagerly. I just hope that information includes the fact that Sonny wasn't really taking drugs – if she was, I'd need to find her immediately.

"Oh! Chad, I know something about that too. See, Sonny wasn't really on drugs," Kiara adds, "And, hey Karan."

"Hi. Yeah. So, you said that she fell asleep while you were looking for a hotel, right?" Karan says. I nod. "Well, on the way there, someone may have shot her." Someone shot her? "But they wouldn't have shot her with a gun. It's more of a device type thing – it doesn't hurt the victim; just implements the effects of whatever the user fires from it," he adds.

"So, she was shot with drugs?" I ask. This is all so confusing!

"I assume so, since you said she didn't actually take any drugs," he replies calmly.

"Whatever happens, though, I'm going to do what I came here to!" Kiara says.

"And what might that be?" I ask.

"Get you outta here, duh!" she says, and grabs my hand, dragging me out of the visiting room and down a hallway.

"Kiara! Leave me alone, you crazy bitch!" I yell, as she laughs.

"Come on! I'm not gonna let my stupid best friend rot away prison. Dude, I love you!" she says as we slow down, and stop running. I chuckle, and glare at her.

"Oh, yeah, you love me, and that's why I haven't seen you in over a year," I say.

"Hey, in my defence, that was a really important project," she glares at me.

"Yeah, sure it was."

"No, but seriously, it'll take me to new heights! It'll take me from being just another journalist to an A-list Hollywood director!"

"Great. You'll be directing my next movie then," I state simply. That's really not a bad idea!

"Ha, ha." Kiara laughs sarcastically, and a phone rings – probably hers. "I gotta take this. I'll be outside; come if you want!" She walks out, and starts talking on her phone. I remain standing where I am.

"Chad!" A familiar female voice calls. I turn around, and find myself attacked by Sonny, who literally jumps on me.

"Hey, Sonshine," I say. I gotta admit, though, that sounded a little too calm for this kind of situation.

"Chad, please, help me!" she pleads, sounding more worried than I've even heard her, "They say they're arresting me for taking drugs, but I'm not like that!" She suddenly starts to cry, "I don't know what to do!"

"Well, for starters, you can try to calm down," I say, hugging her as she stops sobbing and starts to become calmer.

"What do I do?" she whimpers slightly. Why is she so sad about all of this? I mean, I'd be angry if I were in her place; I'd probably have beaten up a few cops and run off. Yeah, I'm a total badass.

"I don't know… But don't worry. I'll get you out of here," I reassure her. There's a sudden loud bang nearby – I'm not sure what it is, but it doesn't matter to me. There's a sudden shooting pain in my left arm…

Everything slowly starts to move out of focus, into a sudden blur that fades to blackness…

That was, indeed, just a filler. More drama to come – I promise!

Peace & Reviews :D

-Sarah ;P