THE VOICE INSIDE

AN: Hello strangers ;D Haven't updated this in a while, so I thought I'd better hurry up :P Ok, so the guy I mentioned in the last chapter, things are ok with him now! But I just feel so self-concious whenever I'm near him now because I just KNOW he's thinking 'She so likes me!' Urgh, I hate that! :(

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Previously:

"BECAUSE! Sonny Monroe, funny girl from So Random, is my girlfriend!" Chad practically screamed.

And that's when all hell broke loose.

Chapter 10- The Scoop

This has got to be the scoop of the year.

I spun around to see several reporters, one of them Santiago Heraldo, all crowding towards us.

Suddenly lights started flashing crazily. A mob of around eleven reporters each fought their way to talk to Chad, all eager to get the first comment of this revelation.

My eyes flitted to Chad to see him staring at the media with wide eyes and an open mouth at the reporters in front of him.

"So you confirm that Sonny Monroe is your girlfriend?"

"How long have you been dating?"

"What attracted you to her in the first place?"

"Do you think she's the one?"

"What does Sonny have that hundreds of other girls don't?"

The media suddenly caught sight of me too and some ambled over to me when they had no response from Chad.

"How does it feel to be the girlfriend of Hollywood's hottest star?"

"Does Chad treat you right?"

"Where was your first date?"

"How long have you been dating?"

"Sonny! Sonny! Did he ask you out?"

"Have you met his parents yet?"

"Sonny! What attracts you to Hollywood's bad boy?"

I looked over to Chad to see him being ambushed too, both of us stayed silent on the spot, letting the blinding flashes of cameras take over us.

Ferguson suddenly stepped forward. I'll get the punk back for talking to me like that. "I'll tell you what's going on. Chad asked out that tramp—"

I didn't have time to hold Chad back that time. Before I knew what was happening Chad had squared his jaw and thrown a hard punch at Ferguson, hit him square on the jaw.

The media that were originally around me shuffled over to the boys to film their encounter.

Ferguson stumbled back a few steps, his hand coming up to cover his face and coming away with blood. Then Ferguson squared up to Chad too, ambling forward with his fist at the ready.

I sped over trying to get between the two but I wasn't quick enough and before I knew what had happened, Ferguson had launched himself at Chad, throwing his body to the floor. Chad landed on his back with a thud and quickly kicked Ferguson and pushed him off of him.

The media ate it up, some of them coming too close to the fight. I motioned them away with my hand and prepared to get myself in between the fight. The boys were still tousling on the floor, I ran towards them trying to peel the pair apart when Chad, still caught up in beating up Ferguson, pushed me back, hard, onto the concrete.

I fell with a smack, hitting my face of the concrete, hard.

I touched my lip with my fingers to come away with warm blood.

Chad immediately pushed Ferguson off of him, rushing over to me. "SONNY!"

Of course the media were having a field day, the lot of them quickly flashed their cameras at me, knowing that Chad making me bleed was a complete accident.

I looked up to see Chad trying to run over to me, only for Ferguson to grab him by the back of his leather coat and push him away.

"Sonny! Are you okay?" I saw Nico pushing his way past the Paparazzi, immediately rushing to me. What the hell is going on?!

I breathed a sigh of relief at someone coming to take me away from this mess.

Nico finally reached me, kneeling down to my height, he quickly wrapped two strong arms around me, trying to get me to safety. He pulled me up to full height and I relaxed into his quick hug. I tried to ignore the two boys tousling to my right, the media were almost unsure of who to take pictures of; me sitting on the floor, bloody lipped and pushed by Chad, or the two boys still fighting violently.

Chad seemingly caught sight of Nico, giving Ferguson another chance to punch him in the face.

I winced.

Skyler suddenly zoomed onto the scene, seeing the two he charged over to them, pushing his way through the paparazzi. He stepped between the two stars, only for Ferguson to hit the boy hard in the jaw. Skyler glowered at Ferguson, the suddenly charged at him too.

Chad's eyes quickly flitted over to me, only to see Nico hugging me to him, trying to comfort me.

Chad's face went red, apparently his mood worsened as he stormed over to Nico and shoved him away from me. "Stay away from Sonny." Chad scowled, shoving Nico again. That punk is not going anywhere near my Sonny right now!

"Chad STOP IT!" I screamed, pushing myself between him and Nico.

Nico breathed through his nose, obviously irritated. "At least I wanna take care of her, you were standing there scrapping while Sonny was lying on the floor, obviously hurt." What a moron. He didn't just need to be Random to be her boyfriend, he needed a personality transplant.

More flashes. More and more and more.

Skyler and Ferguson had finally stopped fighting, finally realising the ever-growing herd of paparazzi in front of them.

"Sonny I'm sorry—" Chad started.

I cut him off with a wave of my hand. "Let's get out of here first."

Everyone silently nodded in agreement.

"Chad! Why are you and Ferguson fighting?"

"Sonny! Sonny! How do you feel now Chad's abused you?!"

I grabbed the microphone that was being pushed under my nose and growled. "Chad did not abuse me. He would never hurt anyone!" I thrusted the microphone back at the lady and stormed off through the sea of reporters.

Marshall and a few other adults were waiting by the side and ushered us in, keeping the paparazzi from hounding us.

"Kids, are you okay?" Marshall asked quickly, checking us all over. How the hell did the paparazzi even get through?!

I gave a chuckle. "Yeah I'm fine, Chad's got one hell of a punch though."

Chad sheepishly stepped towards me. "Sonny I am so sorry." What the hell did I do?

"Chad, it's fine. But sometimes people are gonna call me names and you'll just have to leave it."

"Ferguson, Skyler, are you kids alright too?" Marshall asked, concerned.

The two boys nodded nonchalantly.

"I have a good mind to kick you off the show for what you said about Sonny." Chad said dryly, watching Ferguson carefully. Or hit you into next week.

Ferguson looked at his feet, awaiting his punishment. Oh great. Here it comes. Ferguson YOU'RE FIRED! Man I hate him.

Ugh. That's not what I wanted to happen. "Chad you—"

"But I won't. And you have Sonny to thank for that." Stupid Sonny making me a softie.

Ferguson's eyes widened, coughing. "Uhm … thanks dude." Woah, maybe dating this Sonny chick could work out okay.

"But if you ever call her names again, you will be kicked off the show, understood?" And kicked by me, personally.

Ferguson nodded. "Yes." How was I supposed to know you were in love with a Random?! Idiot!

"Good, now go before I change my mind!" Chad commanded, his voice cold.

Ferguson followed Chad's orders, nervously walking away.

Skyler swallowed. Here it comes ... 'how could you make all of us look bad in front of the press?' The thanks I get...

Much to his surprise Chad did a weird handshake with him. "You had my back dude, thanks."

Skyler grinned. "Any time. And … since when have you been dating her?" Make sure you don't sound disgusting, you don't want him hitting you.

"About twelve hours. Make sure that the Media get no interviews with anyone from our cast. I want this staying on the DL."

"DL?" Marshall asked me quietly. Kids and their weird lingo...

"Down low." I affirmed with a grin.

Skyler nodded. "You got it. But this doesn't mean we have to start … uhm … being nice to Randoms does it?" God forbid!

Chad scoffed. "Psh, no! Just Sonny." Being nice to all Randoms?! I may be a softie now, but not even Chad Dylan Cooper could be nice to those morons!

"Hey!" I whined, folding my arms across my chest.

Chad chuckled. "Sonny, you're lucky you have that." Stupid cute whining.

Skyler rubbed the back of his neck nervously. "Well, I'll just go and tell the rest of them then." Run awaaaayy from the flirting! Skyler left awkwardly.

"Sonny you're bleeding!" Marshall noticed, immediately grabbing me by the shoulders to inspect it.

I wriggled away from him. "I'm fine! It's just a scratch."

Chad's eyes widened immediately, rushing over towards me. "Oh crap. Where can I find a first aid kit?" This is all my stupid fault.

Marshall nodded. "Good idea I'll fetch one."

And before I could even protest again Marshall has run off, sweating.

I rolled my eyes, running a hand through my hair in frustration.

"Sonny, come to my dressing room, we need to talk about ... what happened." Chad asked quietly, conviction in his voice.

I shook my head. "Nothing did happen, it's not like you did it on purpose."

Chad breathed through his nose. "Please?"

Chad didn't even take my hand, he turned on his heel and stormed away, leaving me to jog to catch up with him. It was only a few corridors before we reached the two white doors leading to his dressing room and I held in a breath as I entered behind him.

"Do you want some ice for that?" I asked, motioning to the blue bruise blooming on his jaw.

Chad quickly checked the bruise in the wall mirror behind him and sighed. "Sonny, I just pushed you. Aren't you mad at me?" She is such a weird girl.

He just hit his friend because they called me one bad name! How could I be mad at that? "Chad," I started softly, I stepped towards him and put a hand on his cheek. "You didn't do it on purpose."

Chad stepped away from my touch. "Sonny, that's not the point! Everyone thinks I hit girls!" Chad snarled through gritted teeth. And you! I'm a puff and now they think I'm abusive, it was one word; why couldn't I have just warned him off?!

I shook my head defiantly. "I know you don't."

Chad growled, obviously annoyed at my lack of catching on skills. "What about my fans?! They're going to hate me." And you, you'll hate me eventually...

I giggled. "Well if they can forgive you pushing a puppy, I'm sure they can forgive you for accidentally hitting me."

Chad winced at the word hitting. "I'm really sorry. I just got carried away and I thought it was going to be Ferguson that I hit and I didn't mean—"

Chad was rambling at a mile a minute so I stepped forward and pulled him forward and into my arms. His rant immediately ceased as he fitted his head in my neck.

If he wasn't so immune to showing his feelings, he'd probably be crying into my neck.

"I know the truth." I whispered soothingly in his ear, rubbing his back.

Chad gave a bitter laugh. "I can't believe I've resulted in getting this mushy."

I giggled too, pulling back a little so that I could flick his ear.

"Ow! Did you just flick me?" Chad asked incredulously, rubbing his sore ear.

I laughed, fake-pouting. "Aww, did poor Chaddy Waddy get hurt?"

Oh no she did not. Chad pulled me back closer to him with one arm, then softly moved my hair back to flick me in revenge.

"That's enough abuse for one day don't you think Mr Cooper?" Came a curt voice from the doorway. Nothing like scaring kids.

The two of us both spun back around to see a fuming Mr Condour seething at the doorway.

"You two, with me, now!"

And with that he spun on his heel and marched off back to his office.

"I'm getting fired." Chad mumbled to himself, running a hand through his hair. I can't believe I'm getting fired. God forbid resorting to being a comedian!

I quickly slotted my hand under his arm and put it around his waist. "Whatever happens, I'll still be your girlfriend." I offered weakly, taking a few steps forwards to follow Mr. Condour.

Chad gave a weak smile. "You promise?"

I laughed into his shoulder and headed down the familiar corridors. "I promise."

"Good, that's one less thing to worry about." He muttered to himself, using the hand that wasn't around me to trail his hand over the familiar walls of the studios.

"You think he'll fire me too?" I asked, unsure.

Chad took his hand from the wall and rubbed his eyes. "You don't pull a chair out for that guy and you're fired. I'm sorry." She is going to hate me.

I stopped suddenly, spinning him around and peeling his hand from his eyes. "Chad, if that does happen, then this is not your fault, okay?"

Chad scrunched his eyes. "Sonny, you don't have to—"

I hushed his snarl and smiled. "If I get fired, I get fired. We still have each other, right?"

Chad nodded tentatively, putting his arm on my hip to motion us to keep moving. Shouldn't she be hitting me or something?

Okay so that probably wasn't true. Chad would get another job in a heartbeat, but a comedian from So Random? Probably not so much. Then once he'd got his life of luxury back, he'd dump me like a bag of cold sick.

Because that's what Chad Dylan Cooper was like.

The rest of the walk was silent, a silent conviction that one of us was most likely to be fired.

"Come in!" Commanded an annoyed Mr. Condour through his door.

I didn't know how Chad had the courage to even knock, there I was, cowering in fear.

Chad sucked in a deep breath, squeezing me hand one last time before dropping it and tentatively entering the room.

"Ah! Mr Cooper." I heard him greet coldly, I followed behind him blindly, to see his chair face away from us. "Miss Monroe, how nice to see you too. Sit down." This will be interesting.

I scrambled for the seat in front of his desk while a casual Chad just slid into the chair next to mine.

Mr Condour spun in his chair, and boy was his expression not pretty.

"Do you know what I'm here to talk to you two about?" He asked slowly, tapping his fingers irritatingly at the door. Let's see if I can get Mr. Arrogant to beg me for his job.

"I can probably guess, sir." Chad admitted softly, rubbing the cut on his forehead.

"And you Miss Monroe?" He asked, glaring at me.

I swallowed thickly. "Uh ... I-I think s-so."

"Well let me remind the two of you." Mr. Condour snapped, grabbing the remote and flicking on the TV.

The screen came on and a female reporter, standing in front of a Tween Weekly poster sign was standing centre stage.

'If you've just joined us your watching Tween Weekly TV! Our biggest headline today is the brand new ... possibly violent ... relationship of Chad Dylan Cooper and Sonny Monroe.'

I took a quick glance at Mr. Condour to see a blank mask on his face, he quickly took a glance at me, then paused the remote.

"So, care to explain before I show the rest?" Mr. Condour asked, looking particularly at Chad. This punk better have a good explanation.

Chad's face stayed straight without falter. "Ferguson ducked and Sonny was in the way. I'd never purposefully hurt her or any girl for that matter, sir." Never ever.

Well that's not what the media thinks sunny Jim. "Oh, really?" Mr. Condour asked slowly, picking up the remote and unpausing the TV.

'It's been confirmed that the cute couple ARE in fact dating as confirmed by Mr. Cooper himself'.

The clip of the reporter cut off and a video of Chad, shouting at Ferguson, with me standing quietly in the far left-hand corner. "BECAUSE! Sonny Monroe, funny girl from So Random, is my girlfriend!"

Mr Condour paused the clip and leaned forward in his chair. "Is this true Miss Monroe? Are you dating Mr Cooper?" Let's see if she has the guts to admit it.

I gulped, looking over to Chad for help.

"I asked you Miss Monroe." Mr Condour chided, folding his arms.

"Uh ... yeah, about that..." I started, rubbing my hands in my lap nervously.

Man was this guy intimidating.

"ARE YOU?!" Mr Condour yelled, spitting at me in the face.

"YES we are!" Chad screamed for me. He can fire you. Don't say anything stupid Chad! Why the hell did you just yell at him?

Mr. Condour growled. "I didn't ask you!" How dare he interupt ME!

"Well don't shout at her then!" Chad yelled back even louder. Only I can shout at Sonny.

I had a feeling that that Chad was really going to regret saying that.

AN: Haha! I'm in an amused mood ;D Sonny Get Your Goat on Sunday, but I here there's no Channy :(

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