My dad just got out of bed, came downstairs and yelled "turn the sound off!" at me. I said "it is off." and he looked at the computer, realized i was right, made a "hmmph!" noise and went back to bed.

O_o

My family's fucked.

"Ready for the meeting?" I asked Zora. We were on our way down to the conference room to discuss the details of the Mackenzie Falls/So Random Movie.

"No," Zora answered. "This stinks. It's just a Mackenzie Falls movie featuring us. What's funny about that? We have to please these stupid bratty teenagers. It's gonna be horrible."

"I'll talk to Mr. Condor," I promised her.

"No!" my friends all shouted in unison.

"Everytime you try to fix something it ends up horribly wrong," Nico reminded me. "Remember High School Miserable?" I had a breif flashback before coming back to reality.

"You're right," I admitted. "I guess we'll just have to make the best of it.

We opened the door to the conference room and we all took a seat at the table. Everyone was there except Chad. I looked at my watch. He had exactly three minutes to get here if he wanted to make it on time.

Two and a half minutes later, Chad burst through the door.

"I'm here!" he announced.

"Good," Mr. Condor said. "23 more seconds and I would have had to fire you. Now sit down before I change my mind." Chad quickly sat down in the chair beside me.

"I had a screen writer write a sample scrip," Mr. Condor told us. He handed me a stack of booklets and I took one and passed them down. "Just skim through it and tell me what you think." I flipped through the script, reading lines here and there. It had been changed a little bit from Mr. Condor's original idea. Instead of us playing kids from a rival school, we were playing kids who were part of an exchange program from across the country.

"Here's an outline of each of your characters," he announced, handing me and my castmates each another booklet. Character Outline: Brooke. Was printed at the top of the page. I guess that was my character's name. Again, I leafed through the booklet, reading what looked important. Apparantly, Brook went to a public school in Seattle. Since she and the others were so much poorer than Mackenzie, Portlyn, Penelope, Trevor, Devon, and even Chloe, most of the cast shuns her except for Chloe, who knows what it's like to have less money than everyone else, and Mackenzie, who, as I suspected, starts to fall in love with her. At least Chad and I were getting along now. Well, mostly. There was the odd time where Chad would say something obnoxious, but he really was an okay guy.

"Anybody want to make any changes to their characters?" Mr. Condor asked. "Because if you do, please speak up now." Tawni raised her hand.

"Yes Terri?" Mr. Condor answered. He always insisted on calling her Terri since his ex-wife's name was Tawni.

"Can my character be rich?" she asked, hopefully. I rolled my eyes. Of course Tawni would hate for her character to be pooer than all the Mackenzie Falls characters.

"Fine," Mr. Condor agreed. "That might make it more interesting anyway. Brooke and Stephanie are best friends, but then when Penelope and Portlyn shun Brooke and befriend Stephanie, she has to choose between them. I love it! Very dramatic."

"And funny?" Grady asked hopefully.

"Suure," Mr. Condor answered. "Anything else?"

"Yea," Nico said, looking up from his script. "Does my character, Derek, have to be Tevor's long-lost third cousin?" I snicked. Wow. How cheesy was that? Mr. Condor shot me a look and I shut up.

"Yes," he told Nico. "There's always a long-lost family member. Anything else?" No one said anything so Mr. Condor got up to leave.

"You have the rest of the day to do what you want," he told us. "I have to go meet with some people about Pauly and Pals. They might start shooting at Condor Studios?"

"Oh my gosh!" Chad and I exclaimed in unison. "Really?" Mr. Condor rolled his eyes.

"You like Pauly and Pals?" I asked Chad, stifling a laugh.

"Well, so do you," he retorted, blushing. He stomped out of the room, trying to hide the fact that he was as red as a tomato. Tawni and I laughed.

"Let's go find Lucy," I suggested. I skipped into the elevator, dragging Tawni behind me. We took the elevator up to the twelfth floor and opened the door to our room.

"Hey Luce," I greeted my friend. She was watching Mackenzie Falls, but she quickly changed the channel when she saw us come in. I decided to let her Falls-watching slide this time...afterall, it really wasn't a bad show, "Tawn and I are going to check out the gift shop. You coming?"

"Sure!" she answered, switching off the TV and grabbing her purse. "As long as you fill me on in the movie." Tawni and I told her as much as we knew about the movie as we rode the elevator down to the ground floor.

"That's awesome!" Lucy exclaimed. "I wish I had a part in the movie."

"That would be so much fun," I said. "But you have to go back to Wisconsin in the fall for school."

"True," she said. "Plus, my mom would never let me be in a movie." We arrived at the huge gift shop and started browsing around.

"This is cute," Lucy commented, holding up an oversized Mickey T-shirt. "What do you guys think?"

"So cute!" I agreed. Tawni made a gagging noise

"Try shopping in the ladies section," she told her.

"It's unisex," Lucy informed her, but Tawni wasn't listening. She had spotted a pair of dangly Mickey earrings and was holding them up to her ears in front of a mirror.

"Those are so pretty," I said. "You have to get them." Tawni and Lucy took their items to the cash register while I tried to decide on which chocolate bars to get. I ended up choosing and Aero bar, a Kit Kat, and a bag of Peanut M&Ms. On my way to the cash register I spotted some pink, purple, and blue, Mickey Mouse, "Best Friends Forever" necklaces. I picked them up off the shelf. Tawni would probably refuse to wear her blue "Forever" necklace, but Lucy and I could always wear our Purple "Best" and Pink "Friends" necklaces. Tawni and Lucy had already purphased their itemswhen I got there so I waited behind an elderly lady who kept buying lottery tickets and using her winnings to buy more. Eventually, she ran out of money and I got to buy my snacks and necklaces. The cashier handed me a reciept and I went to go catch up with Tawni and Lucy.

"I've got a surprise for you guys," I said, reaching into my bag. I handed the "Best" necklace to Lucy and the "Forever" necklace to Lucy, putting the "Friends" necklace on myself.

"Thanks, Sonny," Lucy said, doing up her necklace and giving me a hug. I looked over at Tawni who was studying the necklace in her hand.

"Do it up for me Sonny?" she asked, to my surprise.

"So you'll wear it?" I exclaimed.

"Do you not want me too?" Tawni asked, sounding hurt.

"Of course I want you too," I told her. "I just didn't think you would." I fastened the necklace at the back and gave her a hug.

"Get off me," she shouted, hitting me with her purse. I let go and we walked over to the elevator.

"We should order lunch," I said, once we were on our way up.

"Definitely," Tawni agreed. "I'm starving." We got off the elevator and walked down the long, carpettedy hallway towards our room. Chad opened the door just as I was about to put my key card in the slot. He was dressed in a pair of navy blue swim trunks and, not that I like him or anything, but daaaamn!

"You going down to the pool?" I asked, trying not to look at his abs.

"No, I'm dressed like this for ice skating," he said sarcastically.

"Well, we were just about to order some lunch," I told him. "Then we were gonna hit the pool. You might as well eat with us and then we can all go down together."

"Alright," he agreed. Chad had stupidly let the door close behind him, so I had to use my key card to get in. I grabbed the room service menu off the counter and skimmed through it. I decided on a hamburger and pushed the room service button, handing the menu to Tawni.

Once we'd all ordered what we wanted. We took turns getting hcanged in the bathroom. I was just tying up my bikini top when the food arrived. We ate quickly and then headed down to the pool where we sat on lawn chairs and tanned for half an hour so we wouldn't get cramps from swimming after eating. After our thirty minutes were up, Chad stood up and did a cannon ball, splashing everyone within twenty feet.

"Chad!" Tawni screamed. "You got my hair wet, you idiot!" She stormed off towards the hotel.

"You better go apoligize," I told him. "Otherwise, she'll be a pain to live with for the next week and a half." Chad got out of the fool and reluctantly chased after Tawni. When they didn't return after ten minutes, Lucy decided to go looking for them, leaving me all alone.

"And then there was one," I muttered to myself. I sat down on the pool deck and dangled my feet into the water. I close my eyes and tilted my face up towards the sun. It was such a nice day out.

"Excuse me," a voice said, interupting my peace and quiet. I opened my eyes and saw an unfamiliar teenage boy standing in the pool in front of me. He grinned happily when I opened my eyes.

"It is you," he exclaimed. I noticed he had a British accent. "I'm such a huge So Random fan. I watch you on TV every week." He held out his hand and I shook it.

"Sonny Munroe," I introduced myself. "But you knew that."

"Zach Mendler," he told me. "But I knew that." I laughed, remembering how I'd said the exact same thing when Nico and Grady had introduced themselves.

"You have a beautiful laugh," he said, smiling. That's when I realized just how cute he was. He had shaggy brown hair that curled up at the ends, chocolate brown eyes and a smile that may even be more hypnotizing that Chad Dylan Cooper's.

"Wanna go for a simw?" Zach asked, still smiling that perfect smile of his. I nodded eagerly, my ponytail bouncing up and down with every bob of my head, and slipped into the water. It felt great on such a hot day so I emersed my head in the water, immediatly regretting it. My makeup was probably running all over my face.

"Shit," I muttered, trying to fix it. I turned to Zach. "Tell me the truth. Do I look like a raccoon?"

"A very cute raccoon," he answered, chuckling. I blushed. This vacation just got a little more interesting.

Funny story about those necklaces. I bought the same ones for me, my friend, and my sister (back when i actually liked her...haha jk! she's pretty cool. we're just not as close as we used to be) at the gift shop outside space mountain and put them in the basket of my brother's stroller (wow! just realized how long ago that really was!) but they fell out before we got on the monorail and that was our last day at magic kingdom and i couldn't find them at any other park and i was so upset, but then on our last day in Florida, we went to Downtown Disney where they have this amazing Italian ice place and I found the necklaces again in the world's biggest disney store! I still have mine, but i'm not friends with the girl i gave the blue one too anymore...

Anyway, changing the subject, you know what the weirdest feeling ever is? When you put on a pair of non-skinny jeans after wearing pretty much nothing but skinny jeans for three years. I haven't worn jeans like this since I was a size 0! LOL! But they're soo roomy! MY LEGS DON"T TINGLE ANYMORE! NO MORE SPS! YUSSS! hahahahahahahah! i'm really hyper right now! bladkhoadhiehioehohd wow im a retard. peace out suckahs!

Oh and i put pix up on my website (not of my jeans) so go to ra4chel(.)piczo(.)com and click on "Summer Daze" to see them.

peace out suckahs