I feel as though I should take a few moments to answer some of your questions. :)
Yes, Chey is really that much of a… turd… in real life. XD She loves to play fetch, and go on walks, and go for car rides. She follows me around everywhere. She's very vocal, and you can hold a conversation with her for hours. She loves meeting new people. She hates baths, and loves to be evil and cause chaos. She's very smart, and does tricks. Oh, and the story Tiffany told about how she got her, is actually how I got Chey. At the moment she's chasing a fly down the hall. Heh, she's crazy.
Yes, 'Chabs' was in Gummy with a Chance.
Yes, taco pizza is real (and very delicious!)!
I try and keep it as real as possible. ;P
I'm not a big fan of this chapter... it was fun to write, but ehh... I did try to incorporate everyone's ideas where I could!
Oh, and yes, I snatched some lines/ideas from the Lion King and Shrek. And I don't own SWAC, yadda, yadda, yadda...
And nearly 200 reviews? I'm so excited! Thanks everyone! :D
"No!" Tiffany shouted finally, turning to Tawni and Chad. "No one, and I mean no one drives my car, but me!"
They were leaving for the conference, when Tawni said she wasn't getting in Tiffany's car unless she could drive, which set Chad off on the fact that he still wanted to drive.
"Tawni, you don't even need to come, so if you're going to throw a tantrum, you can just stay here!" Tiffany told her.
Tawni looked shocked, and to be honest, so were Sonny and Chad – well, Chad actually just laughed.
Put Tiffany in a dress, don't expect her to be happy.
"Guys, come on, we're going to be late!" Sonny told them, climbing into the back seat. "And Tiffany, be nice!"
Chad climbed into the back as well.
"You just better not be after my spotlight." Tawni hissed at Tiffany before she climbed in the passenger side.
Tiffany rolled her eyes and walked the few feet to the car. She was barefoot right now, seeing as she refused to drive in high heels. She could barely even walk in them.
Chey bounced in after her.
They arrived, finally, and Tiffany went to park.
"What are you doing?" Chad asked her.
"Parking, what's it look like?" She answered, still sounding annoyed.
Chad laughed. "You don't park when you're a celebrity."
"Chad, I'm hardly a celebrity." Tiffany chuckled.
"You're all over the news aren't you?" Sonny cut in.
"Only because of you two."
Tawni cleared her throat.
"Oh please, you just got here, nobody even cares who you are." Tiffany snapped at the blonde.
Tawni gasped and smacked her with her purse. "How dare you!"
"Ow! What do you have in that thing, bricks?"
Chey hissed at the blonde.
"Enough!" Sonny snapped, placing her arms in between the two.
Tiffany found a parking space and began to pull in.
"Tiffany, just use the valet." Chad told her.
"I told you, no one drives my car!" She snapped as she got out. Chey perched on her shoulders, wearing a brand new, red, jeweled collar to match her Human's dress.
They entered the building only to be stopped.
"No pets allowed." A man said.
"She's my seeing-eye cat." Tiffany told him.
The man just laughed. "They don't have those! Now c'mon, out with the cat!"
"Look, no cat, no press conference, so what'll it be?" Chad told him.
The man searched the group's faces before he gave in. "Continue." He grumbled.
"Thanks, Chad." Tiffany told him, reluctantly. Chey chirped from her shoulder.
He just shrugged.
They stopped backstage, where they found some furniture to wait on.
"So, are you nervous?" Sonny asked Tiffany.
"Well-"
Tawni cut her off. "Oh Sonny, why would I be nervous?" She laughed, flipping her hair.
"A little." Tiffany added on.
Sonny just shook her head at Tawni.
"Just don't forget what we taught you." Chad told her.
Tiffany rolled her eyes, but nodded, nonetheless. What was he, her father? She knew he was just trying to help though.
"You're on in 30 seconds." Someone told them. They stood up, and straightened their clothes. Tiffany put her shoes on, and started stumbling.
"How can you guys walk in these things?" She griped, balancing herself with the arm of the couch.
Sonny helped her get her balance down, when they heard their cue.
"Please welcome, Chad Dylan Cooper, Sonny Munroe, and Tiffany Pike!" They heard Santiago say.
They walked out in order, Chad and Sonny smiling, Tiffany scowling, and Tawni prancing out behind them.
"…and apparently Tawni Hart, as well!"
Tiffany straightened up, and smiled a bit, when the flashes started going off. Reporters in the crowd were shouting out questions.
Jake stood up from Santiago's side.
"T-Tiff?" He had never seen her all fancied up before.
Chey hissed from her shoulder.
"Jake." She said his name, nonchalantly.
He stepped forward, reaching for her hand, but she stepped back. Inwardly she smiled at her success, she did not fall and kill herself with those stupid heels on.
"You look great." He offered.
She tensed, but Chad cleared his throat. The 3 real celebrities were already sitting down.
"Oh, right." Tiffany said as she took her seat.
Jake went back to his.
In order, they sat – Jake, Santiago, Tawni (everyone knows, she needs her camera time), Sonny, Chad, and Tiffany on the end. Chey was on her lap now.
The order had been decided by the group before the show. Tawni insisted on being first, and if she and Chad sat together, they'd fight, so Sonny was in between. Tiffany was glad to be on the end, seeing as she didn't want to be there in the first place.
The cameras continued to flash.
Tiffany leaned over to Chad.
"Are they ever going to stop? I think I'm going blind." She whispered.
"Don't count on it." Chad told her, his dazzling smile still facing the crowds, as he straightened his jacket.
"Alright, let's get started." Santiago began. "So, Sonny, Chad, what are you guys doing in Nebraska?"
"Vacation." Sonny told him.
"In Nebraska?" He didn't believe her.
"What, we can't visit our good friend, Tiffany, if we want?" Chad asked him, throwing his arm awkwardly around Tiffany and grinning.
Tiffany looked down at his arm, and gave off just as awkward of a smile.
"So you and Tiffany aren't dating then, Chad?" Santiago asked.
Chad instantly took his arm back.
"NO!" Chad, Tiffany and… a third voice? shouted in unison.
Everyone looked at Sonny, who grinned a toothy, awkward grin, as her eyes shifted around to each of them.
Chad smirked at her.
"Sonny, are you jealous?" Santiago asked her.
"Well – I –er…" She shot a glance at Chad.
"Sonny and I are dating." Chad told them placing his arm around Sonny and pulling her closer to him.
"Tiffany, does this make you jealous?" Santiago turned to her.
"What? No!" She told him with a scoff. "Chad and I are just friends. I'm glad he and Sonny are finally together."
"How did you two get together?"
Chey jumped in between Sonny and Chad, and sat, purring proudly.
"It's a long story Santiago, but we're together, and that's what counts, right?" Chad told him.
Santiago, flipped through his papers.
"Chad, do you like peanut butter?" Santiago asked.
"Umm…" Chad shifted his eyes and furrowed his brow. "Yeah, why?"
He ignored Chad's question and went back to his own.
"Whose cat is this, and what's its name?"
"Mine." Tiffany told him. "Her name is Cheyanne, but we usually shorten it to Chey."
The cat modestly licked her thick neck fur once.
"Chad, do you love Sonny?" Santiago asked.
Cheyanne looked at the blonde-haired boy expectantly, with an amused purr.
"Uhhh…" A blush rose high on his face – Sonny's too. "I don't not love her…"
"Yes, or no?"
"It wouldn't be inaccurate to assume that I couldn't exactly not say that it is or isn't almost partially incorrect…" Chad grinned, hoping he would drop it.
"It's a simple question… do you love her?"
Their faces deepened shades of red.
"On the contrary – I possibly more or less am not definitely rejecting the idea that in no way with any amount of uncertainty that I undeniably do or do not love her…"
Everyone stared at him.
"Oy, I give up." Santiago grumbled, as Chad nervously took a drink of the water that had been supplied to everyone.
"Are you a cat lady, Tiffany?" Santiago turned back to her.
"I like cats, but I wouldn't call myself a cat lady…" She answered.
"Hah, whatever." Jake piped in.
"Shut up." Tiffany snapped at him, before Chad elbowed her.
"Boy, Jake, she sure doesn't act like you two are together…" Santiago told the boy.
"We are not, never were, and never will be together!" Tiffany blurted, glaring coldly at Jake.
Chad and Sonny stared at her, urging her to drop the matter.
"Don't deny what you've felt for me, Tiffany…" Jake told her, standing up.
She stood as well. "I feel nothing for you."
"This is gold." Santiago whispered to Tawni with a grin as they watched the scene unfold.
"How can you say that, after all we've been through together?" Jake asked, her, putting on a dramatic face and falling to his knees.
Chad rolled his eyes.
"Will you quit with the drama thing?" Tiffany snapped. She turned and walked back to her seat.
"I just want to know one thing." Jake said. She stopped and turned slowly to him.
"Why do you hate me now? What did I do? I know you're normally so nice and easy to get along with… what did I do?" Jake asked, confused. "I've never done anything wrong."
That's it.
There it went.
She lost it.
"You know what, Jake? I've never felt like I could stand on my own two feet. You know that. I've always been terrified of the fact that yeah, I just might be alone someday, because everyone I have ever known in my life has ditched me for one reason or another… but you were different." She edged dangerously close to him, her eyes hardened to stone.
"So how-" She cut him off, continung.
"There was a time that you were always there for me – constantly. There was a time when I believed every word you said. And we… we did everything together. And I loved every second of it. And you know what? I started thinking that maybe – just maybe; I wouldn't always have to be alone." Her voice was tinged with pain, as she used her hand signals to emphasize her words.
"You don-"
"But no, I'll never be that lucky. Because you turned against me too – just like everyone else has." She turned away, her eyes falling to the ground.
"Tiff, I'm s-"
She spun around, enraged again.
"To make it worse you did it like a band-aid – you didn't just pull it off quick and easy. Yeah, it still would've hurt, but you did it the hard way – you peeled the band aid off slow, made me suffer." Her voice was almost a snarl as she spoke – full of confusion and anger.
"I didn-"
"I've only ever had two constants in my life. Two! And one of them isn't even a Human, but you know what? I know that she is a true friend, and she would never, never turn her back on me like you did." She looked over at Chey, who jumped down and came over to her, placing her paws on the girl's knee, and looking up at her with those beautiful gold eyes.
"I still don't see how that could make you stay mad at me." Jake said.
Her head snapped upwards in disbelief. Her hands were balled up into fists, as she took a dangerous step forward. Chad got up and placed a hand on her shoulder.
"I think you got your point across." He told her.
"You said you'd always be there for me!" She shouted at Jake, her voice ringing throughout the room. "But you're not."
She swallowed, not taking her eyes off of Jake, before she turned, nodded at Chad, and walked off the stage.
Silence followed for a few moments.
"What a diva." Jake scoffed, returning to his seat next to Santiago.
"Happens to the best of them." Santiago said, shaking his head. "Fame does that to people."
"She's not even famous!" Tawni cried.
"You haven't seen the news recently." Santiago told her. She narrowed her eyes.
"Santiago, Jake, you can't say that about Tiffany!" Sonny told the guys. "She has been nothing but nice to Chad and I since we got here. She's treated us like family."
"Yeah." Wow, even Chad had her back? "Sure she's annoying, and bugs me to no end, but she's like the sister I never had!"
Everyone stared at him, again.
"Chad Dylan Cooper, is caring?" Santiago sounded astonished. "Sonny has made you soft."
"I told you he was stealing Tiffany away from me!" Jake shouted. "I bet he made her say all that!"
Sometimes, sometimes… a cat's gotta do what a cat's gotta do…
Like a streak of black lightning, Cheyanne flew at the boy, tackling Jake to the ground. She hissed in the boys face as he screamed. Her fur fluffed out, making her look three times her normal size.
"Chey!" Chad clapped his hands together, trying to get her attention.
She instantly jumped off of Jake, and raced over to Chad, where she perched on his shoulders.
Her tail lashed as she glared and growled at Jake, who was standing up, looking horrified. "You don't mess with my human!"
"See!" Jake shouted, a finger pointing. "He's got that stupid cat trained to attack!"
"Whatever!" Chad shouted back at him. "If you weren't such an idiot, she wouldn't have done it."
"Guys, calm down!" Sonny stood up. "I think we should go now. I hope you got what you were looking for." The last comment was directed towards Santiago and Jake.
"We did." Santiago smiled maliciously.
Sonny grabbed Chad's arm, and they walked offstage. Tawni smiled and waved to the cameras, as she followed.
As soon as they stepped off stage, Sonny held her hand up to Chey.
"I bet that felt good, taking him down like that." She smiled.
Chey grinned, and gave her a look like "Ohhhhhh yeah." Before she touched her paw to the girls hand in a hi-5 – or as Tiffany usually called it, Chey-5!
