AN: So this was written after the Bachelorette finale, and my emotions are kind of going crazy (REID, OMFG OMFG WHYYY) so I apologize early on if there are any majoy grammer and/or spelling mistakes.

Disclaimer: I am depressed about the ending of the Bachelorette. I sadly don't own amazing Reid Rosenthal and I definetely don't own Sonny With a Chance. The title is taken from The Last Goodnight's Pictures of You.

So this is Chapter Two: From a Distance


colourfuldaze presents:

this is the clock upon the wall
this is the story of us all
two – from a distance

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[ December 2008 ]

Christmas time was in the winter. What kind of Christmas doesn't have snow?

She sighed while looking outside the window of the dressing room she shared with Tawni Hart, yeah – that Tawni Hart.

This was her first day at Condor Studios, and her co-star wasn't exactly the kindest to her. She ignored her at all costs and merely shrugged when Sonny asked her questions. She had also met her other co-stars: Nico Harris (the one who always wears skinny jeans and a hat), Grady Mitchell (he has a weird obsession with cheese) and Zora Lancaster, the little girl who hid in the vents.

She snapped back to reality when she realized that Tawni was actually speaking to her.

"Son-nnnY. It's lunchtime!" she said in a bored voice.

She suddenly looked up at her and flashed her a grin, before nodding in reply. Tawni struts out of their dressing room and she has no choice but to follow.

She smiles at Nico and Grady, who join her towards the cafeteria.

"What do you guys eat here?" she asks curiously, while grabbing a plate.

Nico laughs at her curiousity before looking her right in the eye, "Don't. Eat. It" he deadpanned.

All of a sudden, they're both laughing and grinning at each other. Before she could reply, she sees a crowd of people walk in. They were all wearing the same uniform; the MacKenzie Falls uniform that she could recognize from anywhere. The crowd was lead by none other than her celebrity crush, Chad Dylan Cooper.

She stares at him, before Nico snaps her back to reality.

"Sonny?! We're gonna go grab some food, you in?" he asked.

Her eyes flashed back to the blonde boy, before giving a toothy smile to Nico, "Sure, let's go".

They passed by the cast of MacKenzie Falls and she heard whispers ("Who is she?!"), but before they completely walked passed, her eyes had met ocean blue ones, most definitely Chad Dylan Cooper's. [ shouldhaveletgorightthere ]

To her, time had stopped. She looked at him with curiousity, while he looked back with confusion.

But suddenly, he breaks the gaze and waves her off.

"Sonny! Let's go!" Nico said.

She looks at Nico and then back at Chad, who was now at the counter receiving lobster from the cafeteria lady.

She hooks her arm with Nico's and they walk out of the cafeteria.

If she had turned back one more time, she would have seen a blue-eyed heartthrob looking back at them.

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He didn't even know her name.

Yet he was hypnotised by her the same. She wasn't breathtaking, but she had a way of making boys swoon anyways.

Chad Dylan Cooper doesn't do infatuation. He is the one that girls are infatuated with.

He knows that she is different, he could tell by the way she acted.

He always did like a challenge.

[ let the games begin ]

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"Hey Nico, do you spend Christmas here?" she asked on their way to his car.

He chuckled at her before responding, "Nah, my family heads up to Vancouver every winter. I need to see snow!" he exclaimed.

She grinned sheepishly and looked at the Hollywood landscape before breaking the silence.

"Yeah, I was thinking how weird it would be. Christmas without snow, y'know?"

The comfortable silence shocked her, as she had only known Nico for a few hours.

This is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.



Nico Harris was the only member of So Random! (apart from Tawni Hart) that she kept in contact with.

He was the supportive best friend, the brother that she never had. He updated her regularly on things that happened at Condor Studios, although she had stopped watching their shows since she left.

He would send pictures of the cast, and sometimes even scripts of their sketches.

He tells her what happened to Chad after she left. He says how he changed back to how he used to be before she came. He was arrogant, full of himself, and stopped caring about everybody else.

But when he thinks that nobody is looking, he stares at the empty seat on the So Random table. Sonny knows that she changed him when she came, and changed him again when she left. [ younevershouldhavewent ]

She holds up the scrapbook that Marshall gave her the day she left at the airport, and tears fall when she opens up the first page.

Every page was dedicated to somebody important that Sonny had met throughout her stay at So Random. The first page was none other than Selena Gomez. It had pictures of laughter and poses that brought memories back so easily. [ theywerethebestoffriends ]

The next page was a joint page of pictures of her with Portlyn and the rest of MacKenzie Falls, whom she had actually become good friends with. Nico told her that when she left, they had stopped acknowleding the So Random cast. He said that it hurt too much for them.

She smiled a bittersweet smile when she flipped to the last page. The last four pages were all of her and Chad. They were so happy, always grinning from ear to ear. Although they got into fights constantly, it was always to hard to give it all up.

[ yet you gave it all up in the end, didn't you? ]

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She wraps her fingers around the beautiful ring that he had given her just a few months before. Every moment, every second with him had lead up to this ring. An eternity ring.

She had promised him eternity.

[ all she could do was love him – from a distance ]

But eventually, they would both forget. Right?

Cuz, I can't keep on feelin' the way I do
I can't keep on, hiding my heart from you
I got to say something before
Someone else comes through,

I can't keep on loving you,
From a distance

- Can't Keep Loving You, Elliott Yamin ;



AN: Well that's that. And um, all my feelings about the Bachelorette have been block out (for now) ah damn, alright. REVIEW PLEASE!

The official word count for Chapter Two is: 1, 347.