Whoa, I can't believe I managed to squeeze this out tonight! I really wanted to send it out before I went to Demi Lovato's concert tomorrow :D So excited. Anyways, don't fear, there should still be one more chapter to come after this one. I still love you all!
Enjoy!!!

Chad cussed under his breath kicking the wall before resting his forearms on it and hiding his face from the rest of the world between his fists.

"Chad," Portlyn entered quietly.

"Portlyn, not now, okay? No, I didn't get that on tape," Chad ripped the pen from his pocket and threw it across the room to Portlyn who caught it in her hands. "Stop bothering me about it. Just let it go."

Portlyn stood quietly for a moment flipping the pen over a few times in her hands. "I didn't know you loved her," she whispered and placed the pen back down on the table before leaving.

Chad looked at the pen, fists clenched tight. He knew he could only do one thing with the film – there was only one thing it was good for now.

***

Sonny held her head in pain as she ran back to the set of So Random.

Finding the open stage door first, she ran through, desperate to find a friendly face. She saw Marshall out on the stage in his usual dressy attire. The rest of the cast was standing on the opposite side of him.

"Marshall!" Sonny exclaimed. She ran out onto the stage and gave him a big hug.

"Hey kiddo, you're late, wait." Marshall pulled her away and apprehensively inspected her. "Did you just call me Marshall?"

"Yes, that is your name, isn't it?" Sonny stared strangely back at him.

"You're back!" Marshall exclaimed pulling her into another hug. Suddenly, the entire audience roared with applause and cheers. Sonny looked up at the crowd and her jaw dropped.

"We're…filming now. Aren't we?" she waved softly at her fans, some who were still wearing the 'Safety for Sonny' shirts. "Do you have any aspirin?" Sonny held her head in pain.

"I'll get you some after we close. Would you like to say goodnight?" Marshall whispered.

By now, the whole audience was chanting Sonny's name. The crewmen did their best to quiet the crowd down, but the only thing that worked was Sonny's voice. "Hello, um, thank you for coming out to view So Random tonight. This has been a really hard month for me, but when I see what great fans we have and what great friends I have," Sonny pulled her cast mates into a hug, "I remember that there is still good in the world. So Random would be nothing without all of you. Thank you, drive safely, and have a great night."

***

"All right, so I called your doctor," Connie paced back and forth in the So Random prop room. "He's on his way. What happened? What made you remember?"

Sonny was seated in the middle of the sofa with Tawni to her left, Zora to her right, and the boys hovering over them. Marshall was pacing around the room as well in the opposite direction from Mrs. Monroe. "Well," Sonny thought back. Her headache was raging, and she could not remember everything from the previous month clearly. It was more like looking back into a cloud. "I was with Chad and then he kissed me."

"He kissed you?" Mrs. Monroe raged.

"Yes, he was all over me, too. It was disgusting!" Sonny cringed. "He kissed me because…" she faded off. "Oh…my…gosh."

"What?" Everyone shouted at once.

"I made a huge mistake, I need to find him." Sonny stood from the sofa but was quickly yanked back down by Zora and Tawni.

Connie walked over and placed a hand on her daughter's shoulder, "Sweetie, Dr. Chris gave me strict instructions that you needed to be seated until he comes. He wanted you to lie down, but I convinced him sitting was fine. Apparently, we need to worry about the impact of all your memories coming at once on your brain. So just relax, there will be time to go back and speak with Chad tomorrow."

"But, mom, you don't understand, I really need to speak with him."

"No. Sonny, you're staying here."

***

Dr. Chris had told Sonny to get a full night's sleep and to make an appointment for the next morning to reevaluate her success. He had said never in his thirty years of practicing, had someone ever made a full recovery as she had appeared to. But as Sonny lay in her bed, she found she could not fall asleep. The thought of Chad's lips against hers would not escape her thoughts. She could only imagine his head pressing against hers and hers against his. She could not believe she would submit to that from Chad Dylan Cooper, even though she knew what he had done for her and what she had said to him previously.

The more she rolled around in bed, trying to find a position that would allow her to doze off, the hotter the temperature in her room felt. When she finally had enough of the overwhelming heat, she stood slowly and walked over to the window to allow some fresh air in. Once the window was opened, she sat on the ledge for a moment, holding her head. The cold air seemed to help the pain, but she was still a bit dizzy. Dr. Chris had forbidden her to take any medication which would block the pain. Although no one wanted her to be suffering, the most important thing was to get her through the night with her memories still intact in the morning.

Sitting upon the ledge, she heard soft footsteps out on the street. Squinting, she saw a person passing by. She knew who it was immediately, and taking a step of faith, called out his name.

"Chad," she whispered harshly, trying not to awake her mother. Chad looked up, shook his head, and continued walking. "Chad!" She said with a bit more force but still in a whisper. Before Chad could respond, he saw Sonny crawling over the edge of her windowsill and slowly descending down the vine posts to where he was at.

Chad's head told him to just keep walking, but his heart forced him to stay to make sure she finished unharmed. Even he knew it was unsafe for Sonny to be doing this in her state of mind.

"What do you want, Monroe?" He growled once she touched the ground.

"Look, I need to tell you something," she stepped closer to him.

"Yeah, I guess I do need to tell you something, too," he loosened staring at the ground.

"I'm sorry," they said to one another in unison.

"What? Why are you sorry?" Sonny looked at him shocked.

"I'm sorry I was avoiding you all day yesterday and then today, and I'm sorry I made it so hard for you to talk with me. And I'm sorry for making it look like I was taking advantage of you back there. You have to know I would never have kissed you if I didn't think you wanted it too."

"I know, Chad," Sonny assured. "And that's where my apology comes in. My doctor said," Sonny rolled her eyes to make it look like a forced apology, "that I should probably go back to whomever I was with when I regained my memory and say I was sorry for my reaction. Apparently, when memories come back all at once, the amnesiac is like to get either incredibly violent or incredibly angry."

"Well," Chad smirked, "I should consider myself lucky that you didn't get violent then. I might not be standing here right now."

Sonny looked back at her house for a moment to make sure her mom did not know she was gone. "I do need you to answer something for me, though." Chad agreed. "Why did you befriend me? I need to know what you were up to."

"Sonny, I'm hurt."

"Chad, seriously. I know you. What was your reason for being so nice to me?"

"Are you sure you want to know?" Chad felt the pen in his jeans. Sonny nodded hesitantly. "You have a computer in your room, right?" Sonny nodded again. Chad signaled for her to climb back up the vine wall into her room. He waited for her to go first so he could catch her if anything when wrong. As he finished his own ascent, he groaned. "This was so much easier when Mackenzie had to do it. Of course, I was hooked up to a rope system which did over half the work."

Sonny pointed to her computer and watched nervously as Chad inserted the memory card and the media player appeared on the screen. She watched in shock as the clips of the horrible past month played on the screen. She saw herself crying, humiliated, scared, desperate, and in trouble. Some of her biggest fears were spoken from her own mouth, perfectly caught on tape by Chad's hidden camera. She looked like a fool.

"So, this is what the great Chad Dylan Cooper thinks is fair game. I think you need to leave," Sonny determined.

"Sonny, wait. Before you make me leave, at least give me a moment to explain. I think you owe it to me."

"Owe it to you? Do you not understand what you did to me?" Sonny wanted to lash out at him with everything she had, but her headache could not withstand shouting and she did not want to risk getting her mother intertwined with this.
"Sonny, please."

"Fine, but make it quick."

"When I first found out you lost your memory, I confess, I did think, 'Oh, this is the perfect opportunity to humiliate Monroe and the whole So Random cast.' I was going to blackmail you forever or else I was going to take this video and sell it to every major publisher across America. But it only took me about a day to realize it was wrong. Unfortunately, I had told Portlyn about it all, and I couldn't back out of it."

"You poor thing."

"I know, Sonny, I realize I was being a child about it, and I'm sorry. That's why I'm going to do this," Chad pulled the memory card out of the computer and snapped it in half. "Portlyn has another copy, but I will bring it to you tomorrow and break that one for you too."

"How do I know there aren't others?" Sonny battled. "How do I know I can even trust you?"

"Because trust is what you do best, Sonny Monroe. You can read people like open books. So please, just flip the page and see that I am being honest."

"Chad Dylan, you do think I'm dumb, don't you?" Sonny cornered him down with a smile on her face.

"Sonny," Chad sighed. He felt like everything he had just said was a waste. "You know I don't think that."

"No, you think I am so dumb that I am just capable of forgetting everything you put me through? You think I am so dumb that I would be able to see your intentions and just be okay with it? But what's the worst, is that you think I'm so dumb that I would simply forget everything you did for me while I was amnesic and just stay mad at you forever."

"What?" Chad asked confused. Maybe she had been hit in the head a little too hard.

"Chad, even though I can't think a more despicable act someone could commit, I know there were plenty of times we hung out when you did not have that stupid pen in your shirt. Don't think I wasn't aware it was there. I may not have known there was a camera in it, but it was so weird that you always did have that exact pen sitting in your shirt like some huge nerd. So I will believe you if you tell me there is only one other copy out there. Besides, Chad Dylan, if you ever leak any of those things to the press, ever, I'll have to tell them how you eat Lucky Charms every morning so you can save up enough box tops to get the Super Nova Action Figure with mail-in order."

"My mom told you about that?" Chad panicked. Sonny nodded with a devilish smile.

"So don't even think about going anywhere with my secrets," Sonny pulled him towards her and wrapped her arms around his back. "Thank you, for everything. I don't know how I would have managed without you." Suddenly, she pulled away from another surge of pain streaming through her head.

Chad led her back to her bed and helped her to crawl in.

"We're going to be okay, right, Chad?" Sonny asked as Chad put his first foot out the window.

"Definitely, Monroe," Chad declared after a moment of concentrating. "We're going to be great."