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You Belong With Me
Chapter 5: White Horse
CPOV
Sonny ran away crying. I had absolutely no idea what I did. I ran after her, calling out, "Sonny! Sonny!" She didn't listen. I lost her in a sea of people, with no hope of finding her.
I spoke with Marshall, who told me where she lives. I drove there, hoping I would see Sonny sitting on her couch crying so I could tell her I was sorry and that she could punch me if it would make her feel better. No, instead I found Ms. Munroe crying on the couch.
"Uh… Where's Sonny?" I asked cautiously from the doorway.
"She l-left for W-Wisconsin," Ms. Munroe said.
After a lot of kissing up, I convinced Ms. Munroe to give me the address of Sonny's Uncle's ranch. I raced back to my house and packed everything that I would need. Soon, I was at the airport.
The plane ride was quite boring. I watched episodes of So Random on my Iphone to pass the time. I especially liked the hottie EMT sketch and the Mackenzie Stalls sketch.
I finally reached Wisconsin at around 8 o'clock. I reached the ranch at 9.
I walked up to the small ranch house and knocked on the door. A man in his thirties answered. He had brown hair and green eyes.
"Hi, is, uh, Sonny here?" I asked nervously. He looked at me skeptically. For the first time I noticed I was still in my Mackenzie Falls uniform.
"Who wants to know?" He asked.
"A really, really sorry friend," I said.
"She's right upstairs, first door on the right," The man said moving aside so I could walk through. I didn't though. I could see a balcony connecting to a room that looked to be the first one on the right. A barn was also visible under a canopy of trees.
"Do you have any white horses?" I asked. The man looked confused.
"Yes, in the barn over there. Why?"
"Oh, no reason," I said, "It's getting dark. I think I'll just come back tomorrow."
The man slammed the door shut and I sprinted for the barn. I found a pure white stallion apparently named Platinum.
Platinum easily came out of his stall and I managed to slip on his blanket and saddle without fuss. Then, I slipped the bridle over his head. I gathered a few small pebbles off the ground, stuffed them in my pocket, and mounted the horse.
The balcony to Sonny's room overlooked a beautiful garden. After snagging a rose from a nearby bush, I rode over to just underneath the balcony and threw the pebbles at Sonny's glass door.
SPOV
I awoke to a tap tap coming from my balcony door? This is weird. I opened the glass door and stepped out into the nighttime summer air. Oh, gosh. When I looked down I saw a blond boy with blue eyes and a red rose in hand riding Platinum.
"What do you want?" I asked bitterly.
"You to come back to Hollywood," Cha said, "care for a midnight ride?"
"It's 9 o'clock," I spat. I was considering it, but Chad hurt me.
"I've got time to kill," he said smiling.
"No," I said. His smile fell immediately.
"What?"
"I said no. It's too late for you now. This isn't a fairytale. You can't just come here riding Platinum with a rose and expect that I'll forgive you. Life isn't some cliché romance movie, it's real, and sometimes, reality hurts, but you can't expect a rose and a horse to fix everything," I shouted, tears streaking down my face.
Chad threw the rose to the ground and hopped off of Platinum. Using a nearby tree, Chad climbed onto my balcony.
"Go away," I commanded, a fresh flood of tears streaking down my red cheeks.
"No," he said. He hugged me tightly. When he let go, he kissed me on the lips. It was like the whole world disappeared. Short, but long. In that moment, I knew we were Romeo and Juliet, without dying I hoped.
We broke apart smiling.
"So, are you going to come back now?" Chad asked. My smile fell.
"No," I said, "I'm never going back."
I made to walk back in my room, but I was stopped by a hand on my wrist.
"Why?" he asked. I could see heartbreak in his eyes.
"It's complicated, Chad, but it doesn't matter. I'm not going back," I said, crossing my arms for emphasis.
"Then I'm staying here," Chad said.
"No, you're not!"
"Yes, I am!"
"No!"
"Yes!"
"Fine!" I blurted out. I meant to say no again but I accidentally said fine.
Chad kissed my cheek before saying, "fine," and climbing off the balcony to pick up his luggage bags. I turned around to walk in my room, but froze. Mark was standing in the doorway smiling.
"How much of that did you hear?" I asked.
"Everything from 'what do you want?' I knew he was up to something. Ten minutes ago that boy came and asked if you lived here and if we had a white horse. He must really like you to go through all that trouble. And he can stay in the other guest room," Mark said grinning. I guess he saw Romeo and Juliet in us too. Except, in this love story, Romeo is a conceited jerk and Juliet is a stubborn comedian.
How was it? I was trying to prevent what I like to call 'Cliché Drama Condition', CDC for short. Reviews greatly appreciated!