Author's Thanks: Epilogue chapter. I just want to say thank you to everyone who has reviewed this story. It was my very first Sonny with A Chance Fan fiction and I had a miraculous time writing it, and it made me feel like I've learned more as a writer, and that I've improved my style/tone of writing. It was really great getting everyone's comments as well! And to anyone who is reading In the Music or Run, this means I will be focusing harder on these stories and hopefully improving them as well.
Thank you so much to anyone who has enjoyed this as a story!!!! It's been an honor to write it!!!
Author's Reply: To #1channyreader the reason I'm not making a sequel, is because I believe once a story ends…it ends. And it should just stay that way. The whole idea of rewriting the same type of story just several months later or years, seems a little like the spark for ideas wouldn't be there in my mind. And I need to focus on my other stories.
Author's Note: I think you'll like this chapter. (3rd person) (Giovighn is pronounced Gee-O-vine)
And um…. Pun intended when the story's title comes up. ;) No labeled parts, but there are separate timings.
Epilogue Chapter
7 months later
3rd Person Point of View
It was August 14th, and a beautiful day on the California beach. The sun rays shone on the sand and the guests in the painted white wooden chairs were in content with their murmurs. The white arch was entwined with vines with white orchids occasionally popping out. The guests' food was placed about 500 feet away from the main event under a white tent.
The groom stood prepared and of course nervous for his bride to come. The best man smiled at the groom knowing that he would be living and remembering this day for the rest of his life.
The murmurs begun to stand out now, and you could hear gossiping old grandmas of someone's family whispering to each other.
"Ooh, they are getting married at such a young age!"
"Yes, but they are legal of age…"
"You think they're making a correct decision?" A middle aged woman said joining in on the conversation.
"Well, I'm not quite sure, I just know they've known each other longer than 7 months…or at least that's what I heard…"
Their whispers were interrupted by the annual wedding march played by a group of saxophones and the piano. All heads turned to the other end of the aisle, and searched for sign of the bride anywhere. No one was walking down the aisle, not even the bridesmaids.
The groom, casually freaked out, but tried to play it cool.
Suddenly, out of the small shed that was built precisely for beach weddings, a woman middle aged came out.
Fearing that he'd be getting devastating news, the woman laughed at his wary expression.
"Don't worry!" she said to him and to the guest as well, who were back to their murmuring. "She's not backing out!! We just need five more minutes!" She said with an apologetic smile, whilst returning back to the undersized building.
"Oh my god, oh my god, I'm getting married." The brunette said in disbelief as her dark curls fell in front of her face while she shook her head.
"Hey, don't worry Katherine, he'll love you and you already know he wants to spend the rest of his life with you." A girl said coming in trying to figure out why they were running late, but assumed it was cold feet.
She smiled at Sonny. "I know, and he finally told me you were the one who got us together in the first place. Thank you, Sonny. I can't wait for the marriage, but that's not the reason that this wedding is put on hold…." She looked frantically around in frustration, "I can't find that damn veil!"
Sonny widened her eyes, and began searching for the veil around the room along with the bridesmaids who were here friends from college.
Michelle came in and asked worriedly, "Did you find it?"
"No!" Katherine exclaimed throwing her hands up in the air, while falling into the couch as if she was going to give up.
Sonny turned her head thoughtfully and smiled scarily with joy.
"Why are you smiling like that?" Katherine asked a little creeped out.
"I have a brilliant idea!"
Katherine stared at her while Sonny remained quiet. Finally, Katherine spoke.
"Well…are you going to tell me what it is?!"
"Just use an orchid!!" Sonny left the room in a quick matter only to be back in less than a minute. In her hands, was a white orchid with a stable stem.
Katherine's extremely bouncy dark brown curls with side bangs were a perfect juxtaposition with the flower.
Sonny brushed the hair on the side of Katherine's head that didn't have bangs back, and carefully stuck the flower behind her ear. Sonny left the room to go back to her seat before Katherine could respond. Taking a glance at the mirror, Katherine smiled in excitement, and stood up ready to be tied for life to Mr. Damon Cooper.
….Now the cold feet kicked in.
"Tasha!" she said calling out for her maid of honor. Tasha came by her side, and was slightly plump, but she did do the wedding cake after all, and is a very talented chef. "I'm only 23. Should I be getting married this young? And you heard people out there, they all think me and Damon are rushing…. So are we? Rushing, I mean?" She asked the blonde.
The blonde smiled at her best friend's fears. And simply whispered 3 words, "No, Katherine Cooper." Katherine giggled, while Tasha continued, "You were meant to marry this guy, okay? I've never seen you so happy."
"Bu-"
"No buts, either you marry him or I will." Tasha joked.
Without saying another word, Tasha stepped in front of all of the bridesmaids, and laughed at the glare that Katherine sent her for that statement.
The only thing that could make this wedding better is if Chad was actually sitting by Sonny. But he had taken the honor of being the Best Man to Damon, and although he was happy for him, he wanted to be with his girlfriend during a wedding.
Sonny sat a little bored at the wedding while fiddling with her nails. Her mom sat next to her, and kept glancing back and forth at Sonny and Chad, as if she didn't notice. Sonny, ignoring her mother's glances, looked at Chad with a 'So…' on her face, showing her boredom. He responded with a roll of the eyes and a smile. She really just wanted to take Chad away and place her next to him in a chair…. And… well her mom could sit somewhere else. But a wedding was a place where your boyfriend sits next to you, and you hold their hand and steal a glance and kiss right after the groom and bride kisses. Yea, it was kind of hard to do that since Sonny herself was not in the actual wedding…just a guest. It's not that Sonny minded that though, she barely knew Katherine except for the few times she met her with Chad.
She straightened her blue simple short strapless dress with a dark tinted silver thin belt around the waist, and then the marching theme began. After seeing the movie 27 Dresses about four times, she decided to test the theory of looking at the groom's face. In Damon's eyes, she could see them shine once Katherine began walking down the aisle and his smile stretched far out and reached his eyes. Just seeing him like that, she could daydream of Chad's face when she walked down the aisle…. Hey, a girl can dream!
"We are gathered here today to join Damon Matthew Cooper and Katherine Anna Giovighn in holy matrimony…"
The 'I do's' were said, and so were the vows, and within each word you could see their love was so real.
"You may now kiss the bride." The priest said, closing his book in completion of the ceremony. Damon cupped Katherine's face, and before Sonny could see the kiss while everyone applauded, she looked directly at Chad who was looking back at her, in…hmm…hunger.
The newlyweds walked hand in hand and walked down the aisle to the party where it would start. Sonny waited behind waiting for the wedding area to clear out, as was Chad.
When there were only two old unimportant ladies sitting in the chairs and most of the people had gone to the party, Chad and Sonny rushed over to each other.
Sonny threw her arms around his neck, and kissed him passionately, while he quickly responded kissing her back…hungrily. Over the months that they've been together, they had gotten more and more physically attached.
Sonny pulled away and laughed throwing her head back, "I take it you missed me too?" She asked a smirk playing on her lips.
"Oh just a tad," Chad reacted playfully.
She smacked his left bicep and scoffed.
"Well, as much as I'm enjoying this, and believe me I'm enjoying it a lot…" Chad interrupted himself smiling charmingly at her, but continued on, "I think we need to get back, I have to make a speech about love."
She narrowed her eyes at him, "Was I inspiration?"
"Oh no…."
She widened her eyes surprised, and let out a small soft voice, "What?"
"Just kidding, Sonny. You should know by now… when I say no, I mean most definitely."
"Oh really??" She said skeptically.
"No." He said, joking around.
She scoffed again, "Let's go get that speech said, k?"
"No." He said again. She rolled her eyes, and took his hand to walk to the white tent where the tables were set up.
Them being the last ones to go inside, were not expecting all eyes to turn to them. Feeling awkward they shifted in their positions uncomfortable with the glances. It's not like they were late…were they?
Finally Chad spoke, "Are we late?" he said looking directly at Damon.
Damon rolled his eyes, "Yea, by 10 minutes."
"O-ohh…" Chad stuttered. "We were um…"
Both of their faces turned beat red and Sonny tried to hide her face by looking at the ground and letting her hair fall in front of her eyes. The guests who were seated were either snickering, or didn't find their lateness amusing.
"Psh, you know what…it doesn't really matter." Chad said his voice getting slightly high and pitchy. "So, speeches?" He said looking at all of the guests, and clapping his hands together, suggestively.
The guests nodded in agreement, and Sonny searched and looked for her seat and sat, looking up at her boyfriend, preparing to be amused by her boyfriend's speech.
"So?" Chad asked taking a seat after his speech, smirking to his girlfriend whose mouth was dropped open.
"That-That was…" Sonny began stuttering.
"Amazing? Yea, just one of the very fine works of CDC." Chad said throwing his head back as if to admire himself.
Sonny tensed, and then narrowed her eyes suspiciously at Chad, "You had someone write it for you, didn't you?"
Chad faltered in his voice and swallowed loudly. He looked around and then pressed his face closer to Sonny's. "Shh," he whispered. Sonny was about to gasp but he cut her off, "It's not like I don't know what love is, trust me I love you, okay? But, if love is indescribable than how was I supposed to write a whole speech on it?!" He whispered.
She rolled her eyes. "If you just said things along the lines of that, you would've been fine."
He rolled his eyes as well, "Well, maybe you should've told me that."
"Maybe I wanted to hear my boyfriend's objections on love, and if he thinks it's 'indescribable'," she said putting quotation marks around the word, "Then how does he know he loves me?!" She whispered as well.
"Sonny, I may have not written the speech, but the guy who did was right. It's all in the words," he said taking her hand to caress while he spoke in a soft voice.
He pondered for a moment deciding that she was right, love isn't completely indescribable. "Love is strong. I mean, it's gotta be strong because it can cause a wedding…." He smiled at her, " It caused you and me. And you wonder how I know I love you?" He paused and then smiled once more only more sincere, "I know I love you, because when I look at you, everything just seems to get a little better. Whether you're smiling, or being yourself… I know that, whenever we're together, there's just…something in the air that wants to pull me closer to you, hold you…love you more."
She smiled, despite of her glassy eyes and pressed a hand to his cheek so that she could put her lips against his gently.
"I love you, Chad." She laughed. "You have an immense talent with words."
He chuckled. "Why thank you m'lady."
"Has anyone seen Sonny or Chad?" Michelle asked looking around while the guests were all standing and chatting under the white tent, but the night was beginning to fall down on them.
"I'll look for them, Ms. Cooper. I just came about 10 minutes ago, I needed to talk to Sonny." Tawni said sweetly, putting a hand on Michelle's shoulder in reassurance.
"Thank you, darling. Tell them they're supposed to come in after the bride and groom start their dance." Michelle said frustrated at her son for disappearing.
"Of course." Tawni said, and then managed to walk away.
Tawni had her own personal girl reasons for needing to talk to Sonny, but she wanted to take precautions for her best friend and find the two hormonal teenagers herself. Rather than have Chad's mom see something she wouldn't want to in case.
When she saw that they weren't under the tent at all, she proceeded to the where the wedding was held and saw that it was vacated as well.
"Oh my god." Tawni said in disgust, turning her head away once she opened the shed's doors. Sonny and Chad sprung apart, which was kind of hard to do since her leg was wrapped around his waist. Chad had been shirtless (he still had his tuxedo pants on), and Sonny still had her dress on…thankfully.
"T-Tawni!! Hah, wh-what are you doing here?" Sonny asked stuttering and trying to fix her hair at the same time.
Tawni rolled her eyes, "You are so lucky it was me who found you guys, rather than Ms. Cooper who was looking for you guys in the first place."
At this, Chad breathed out a sigh of relief for the fact that his mom had not found him with Sonny like this.
"Anyways, she said that you guys have to dance or something after the newlyweds." Tawni said remembering his mother's words. "Oh and Sonny, Ian and I broke up…k bye!!" she spun around and tried to rush out of there, without being questioned.
Sonny blinked once, before sprinting after Tawni. Dang… Tawni was a faster runner than she thought. But eventually she reached Tawni over by the beach.
"Tawni…" Sonny started sincerely.
Tawni turned around, and laughed, "What?"
Sonny looked at her full of care.
Tawni's eyes brimmed with tears, and her voice faltered, "What? Sonny, I'm fine…I-I…I'm fine."
"Then why are you crying?" Sonny asked, knowing her best friend wasn't 'fine'.
"I-I just… I thought he was different, you know? I mean, he didn't do anything… it just… it wasn't working out. He didn't really…seem to understand me." Tawni said thinking of how to make this make sense.
"It'll be okay, Tawn. Maybe not right now…but eventually it will be okay." Sonny put an arm around Tawni and sat down with her.
"Why don't you come back with me to the dance or party thing? I've got to do that dance… and who knows….maybe you'll meet someone!" Sonny encouraged.
Tawni smiled, "….oh alright."
Walking back, Sonny learned something. Chad was right. Love is strong. And that may not always be a good thing for some people… But there are different kinds of love. There's family, friendships, and relationships. And Sonny discovered that she had all of those, and for that she was thankful.
"Hey, is Tawni okay?" Chad asked by her side.
Sonny fake-gasped, "Are you caring?"
"Your friends are my friends," Chad protested.
"She'll be okay…" Sonny said. "But first we must dance."
She held her hand out and Chad quirked his eyebrows playfully and put his hand in hers… "Yes… we must."
One more thing.
Love is also silly.