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Sonny's POV

"Hey, Bella, hand over the ketchup, please."

"Sure, Sonny." Bella handed me the ketchup bottle. I nodded to her in thanks, then squeezed the ketchup onto my french fries. We were in the cafeteria with the rest of the cast (Excluding Tawni. Apparently she wasn't hungry.), eating today's lunch: Tacos with a side of french fries. Normally we have taquitos on Tuesday, but I think Howie must've been lazy or something. Either way, it didn't really matter, so long as the food was good.

Bella glanced over at the table where the Mackenzie Falls cast were eating. She frowned. "Why do they have candelabras on their table?" she asked aloud.

I scoffed. "Because they think they're better than everyone else." I glared over at the other table. Chad caught my eye from where he was eating pork roast, of all things, and smirked. Pointing at me, he mouthed, 'Sucka'. I made a face at him, then looked away, irritated.

Bella looked at me, her eyes wide. "You ok, Sonny? You don't look very happy."

"I'm fine," I reassured her, then smiled. "You notice everything, don't you, detective Bella?" I teased.

She poked me. "Hey," she said, looking hurt. "Don't mock the great crime solver!"

I laughed. This morning, when I arrived at the studio, I'd walked into the prop house to find Bella dressed up as Sherlock Holmes. At least, I think that's who she was dressed up as, I'm not really sure. When I asked her why she was wearing that costume, she told me that she was trying to solve a very important case. She wasn't wearing the outfit anymore, of course, but I still couldn't resist teasing her about it. Thankfully, Bella has a great sense of humor. Unlike some people I could name. Cough, Chad, cough.

"Yeah, ok, I won't mock the great crime solver," I said, still laughing. "But I do have to tell the great crime solver that after this we're going to rehearse our sketch."

Bella looked blank. "Sketch?"

From the other side of the table, Nico spoke up. "You know, the Romeo and Juliet sketch."

Bella and I both looked at him.

Nico held up his hands defensively. "Hey, just 'cause I ain't looking at you doesn't mean I'm not listening."

Beside him, Grady frowned. "So you were listening to them but not to me? And I just finished telling you about these awesome clown pants I found yesterday! Aw man, now I'm gonna have to start all over again!"

Bella decided to join in. "You should ashamed of yourself, Nico!" she scolded, frowning in mock severity.

Nico stared at all of us, bewildered. "Why're you ganging up on me?? I only said one thing!"

"All of you, be quiet!" Zora snapped, glaring up at us. She'd been fiddling with a miniature catapult and hadn't said a word for the past thirty-six minutes, so we all jumped when she suddenly spoke. "I'm about to launch my taco at one of those actors from the Falls!"

"You said the Falls," Grady snorted.

Zora ignored him. "To make sure it reaches its target, I have to concentrate entirely on this catapult. And I can't do that when all of you are yelling at each other!"

Everyone immediately shut up. We watched Zora place the taco on the catapult, fiddle with it some more, then pull the lever. Then we stared as the taco flew through the air and landed on the guy who plays Devon's head. (And I know that because I pay attention, not because I've seen him act on Mackenzie Falls! Because if I saw him act on Mackenzie Falls, that would mean I watch the show! And I don't! Pfft! Psh!)

Devon leapt up from his chair, and his hands flew immediately to his hair. He yelped in disgust. "Ewww, there's something in my hair, something in my hair, ahhh!!" He ran out of the cafeteria, still holding on to his head and the smushed taco.

At our table, everyone burst out laughing. I clutched my sides, guffawing. "Did you see his face?"

Bella cackled next to me. "He screamed like a girl!"

We all laughed until tears were practically streaming down our faces. Finally, I wiped my eyes and grinned over at the Mackenzie Falls table. Chad didn't look so smug anymore. He was just glaring at us. Ha. Who's the sucka now, Cooper?

Once everyone else had stopped giggling, I turned back to Bella. "Seriously, though, we're going to rehearse our sketch after this. Like Nico said, it's a Romeo and Juliet sketch. You'll be Juliet and Nico will be Romeo!"

Nico winked at Bella in what he must have thought was a suave way. "Yeah, and we're gonna have to kiss!"

Bella looked mortified. "Wha - ? Romeo? Kiss?? I never heard about this!"

"That rhymed," Grady pointed out gleefully. The rest of us ignored him.

"Of course you did. I told you about it yesterday," I replied.

Bella scrunched up her face in thought, then understanding dawned on her face. "Yeah, I don't think I was listening to you then, Sonny."

I rolled my eyes. "Well, now you know."

"But, um..." Bella leaned closer to me. "Do I really have to kiss Nico?" she whispered. "I mean, he's awesome and all but I don't really..." She trailed off.

I gave her a sympathetic pat on the shoulder. "It'll only be a peck, don't worry."

Bella didn't look very convinced. "Yeah..."

Turning, I dug in my purse and pulled out a slightly crumpled-up script. Smoothing it out, I handed it to Bella. "Here's the script for the sketch. It's going to be so much fun!" I said enthusiastically.

Bella looked down at the script, then back up at me and smiled. "I'm sure it will be." She didn't look too sure, actually, but I pretended not to see it.

"We better go, then. Marshall's probably waiting," Nico informed us.

Bella and I nodded, then stood up. "Come on, Zora..." My voice trailed off when I realized that Zora was no longer sitting at the table. Gosh, that girl is really good at disappearing into thin air.

As we walked towards the hallway, Chad stuck out his foot in front of my path. I nearly tripped, but caught myself just in time. Then I narrowed my eyes at him. He looked back at me innocently. "Is something wrong, Sonny?" The smirk came back on his face. "I knew you were falling for me, but I didn't think you were going to actually fall." He laughed. As if on cue, the other Mackenzie Falls people laughed with him.

I ground my teeth together. Stupid, dumb jerkthrob... Without another word, I swept by him, glowering. Normally I would stand there and reply back with something witty, but I didn't have time for that. Rehearsing was way more important than arguing with Chad.

I was so involved in my thoughts that I didn't see the look exchanged between Bella and Portlyn as we left.

Bella's POV

Well. We just finished rehearsing.

...

Oh my gosh, I think I'm going to die!

Don't get me wrong. I love the sketch. Sonny is really talented at writing these things. It's hilarious, and I nearly choked on my own saliva when I read one of the lines in there. (Ew, that sentence sounds weirdly gross if you say it out loud...) But kissing? Nico?? I don't want to kiss anyone, let alone Nico!

If I have to kiss something, why can't I just kiss a snake? Because I'm pretty sure kissing a snake would be better than kissing Nico. Ew. Thinking about it makes me shudder.

It's not that I have anything against Nico. Really. It's just that he's a friend. Nothing more, nothing less. And that's the way it's always gonna be. And I'd rather not have my first kiss be with a friend.

At least Marshall didn't make us rehearse that part of the sketch...

Urgh. Well, I guess that's why they call it acting. If I want to make it in the business, I've got to learn to deal with these things.

Yup. Now, just stop thinking about it, Bella...

...Dang it, I'm still thinking about it. Ok, I have to find some sort of distraction. Ooh! I know! I can try to find more ways of getting Sonny and Chad together! Unfortunately, I'm, like, fresh out of ideas.

I guess there's only one thing that can help me now.

THE INTERNET!! (Cue the dramatic music, please.)

I left the prop house, where I'd been sitting reading a really new issue of Tween Weekly that just came in (They mentioned me in there! ME! In Tween Weekly!!) and scampered over to my room. I dragged a chair over to the computer table, sat down, and switched on the moniter. The computer screen immediately lit up.

I clicked on the Windows Explorer icon thing. Once it came up, I thought for a second about what website to go to. Finally, I typed in 'Google'.

As I waited for the page to upload, I started thinking about Google. You know, it just occured to me, but that's a really weird word. I mean, Google? Why'd they call it Google? They could've just called it Googly. That sounds cool. Google just sounds plain funny. What does it even mean?

I realized that the page had come up and immediately stopped thinking about it. Really, what's the point? I typed in the keywords 'Sonny Munroe and Chad Dylan Cooper', then clicked the Search button. Almost instantly, a whole bunch of choices popped up on the screen. I stared. Woah. A lot of people besides me must have noticed the chemistry between Sonny and Chad too, because there were a freakin' lot of Channy fansites up there.

Too many, actually. Which one would I start with?

I decided to do Eenie-Meenie-Miny-Mo to help me pick. (That always solves everything.) Then I clicked on one of the websites.

I wasn't really lucky at first. One site only had pictures, and another one was about cars. (That confused me. What do cars have to do with Channy?)

I ended up going to a Channy blog site. I scrolled down and looked through all the posts people had put on there. I hoped at least one of them might be useful. But reading the posts made my hope evaporate.

Seriously, some of the posts on here were so stupid. Look at this.

PieLover2763 said: PIE IS AWESOME. WE MUST ALL WORSHIP THE PIE.

OMGiPwnAll said: Sonny's the awesomest actress in the history of awesomest actresses, but Chad SUCKS. He isn't worthy of Sonny! Go fall over a cliff, Cooper!

cHaDdYlAnCoOpEr4EvEr said: I love Chad. And he loves me too. I know he does. When we get married and I have thirteen of his kids, I'm naming them all Chad Junior.

HotGuysRHot said: Zac Efron is so friggin' SEXY.

...Ok, first of all, who cares about the pie?? Second, if you don't like Channy, then why are you on a Channy website?? Third, um, that's kinda creepy...

And finally, what the heck does Zac Efron have to do with Sonny and Chad???

I wasn't ready to give up yet, though at the same time I was afraid of the other posts I'd find on this blog. I scrolled down a bit more and found another post.

MackenzieFallsFan196 said: Chad Dylan Cooper is so cool! If I ever meet him, I'm totally going to invite him to dinner!

After reading that, I was just about ready to close the window. But before I could do that, I stopped myself. Maybe that Mackenzie Falls fan person had a point...

Dinner, huh?

I grinned as a new plan started to form in my mind. This hadn't been a waste of time after all! In fact, I was sure that my plan would work.

Now, I just had to speak to Marshall about it and then somehow talk to Chad...

Ooh, what's Bella gonna do? I'm sure you guys have a clue. :3 Oh, hey, that rhymed! Cool! ^^ Well, if you want to guess at what's gonna happen next, feel free to do so in your reviews. See ya, suckas!