Disclaimer: So I don't own SWAC. Do you? I don't think so.
So… here's my latest installment. Enjoy! :D
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Sonny's POV
I clutched my necklace in my hand, as I always did when I was nervous and excited.
I had been invited to be on my favorite comedy show, So Random. I accepted and left my family in Wisconsin. Though I missed them and they missed me, they wanted me to follow my dream, and they promised to be fully supportive of me. The sun was beaming on me again… I missed it. Maybe faster internet was here too. Ah… I was going to love California.
Of course I was nervous too. What if my cast mates didn't like me?
"Sweetie, you'll be alright," my mom, Connie, assured me.
"Yeah…" I couldn't stop smiling.
"I just don't want Hollywood to go to your head."
"It won't."
"Well, I don't want you to have a big head."
We started walking.
"Mom, I'm not going to get a big head," I said.
"You might."
"No, I won't!"
"You have one now!"
"Do not."
"Do too."
"Prove it."
She turned me around where we saw this huge wall with the cast's faces on it, all about ten million feet tall.
"Whoa…" was all that could escape my lips. "I do have a big head…" I said, touching my hair.
After a small, short silence, I thought of how awesomenessly awesome this would be. "Cool!"
"Big fan, Allison. "I've seen you on the Internet many times. Next nigahiga," Marshall approached.
"Sonny," I corrected. "And thanks, I appreciate it. This is my favorite comedy show. I can't believe I'm actually here! In Hollywood! So many opportunities and parties and… awesomeness!"
"So… I'm guessing you'll want to meet the cast…"
I nodded my head excited, and I felt like a chicken nodding so idiotically.
"Let me show you where the cast usually is, and you can explore from there," Marshall said.
Then he turned to my mom. "Connie, I assure you that there is nothing to worry about and that you're daughter is perfectly safe in our hands."
Marshall started walking with me. My mom said a few stupid things like "Don't forget your sunscreen! Play nicely!" and things like that.
I just smiled and nodded. I was too happy and excited to have something like these embarrassing comments get to me. And plus, she was my mom. What are you gonna to do?
We went into a hall and walked down it where we found an entrance to a huge room on the right side of the hall.
"This is the prop house. Where all of the props from the shows are," Marshall smiled.
"Oh my gosh, the gnome from the gnome sketch. The Egyptian thingy from the Mummy Dearest sketch. And a hat… that I haven't really seen before." I said, stupidly. I was just so… excited. (I know… I overuse that word.)
"And later, some of your props will be in here too. Maybe a hat."
I stared at everything idiotically.
"I'll let you explore."
Marshall left the room. And I did as Marshall wanted me to do: explore.
"Hey I remember this thing from the Egypt sketch!" I opened the mummy tomb thing. "AH!"
"Ah!" screeched a girl I recognized from the show. Zora. "Don't you knock?"
"Sorry…" I said. "I'm new here. I'm Sonny!"
"Oh, that explains it."
"Well, I guess I'll leave you back in your… Egyptian thingy."
"It's called a sarcophagus!" she said.
"Yeah… okay…" I said.
I shut the door. Then almost right after, two guys entered the room.
"Why am I always the thing that has to come out of you?" Grady gestured to his egg costume, then Nico's chicken costume.
"Well, I have more of a chicken body. You have more of an… egg body," Nico said as nicely as he could.
"It's not fair. Why am I always the thing that comes out of you?"
"No, no I come out of you sometimes."
"I mean, you play the mother, I play the baby. You play the stomach, and I play the barf!"
"I thought you liked being the barf!"
"Of course I did, it's the funniest thing that comes out of you!"
"Hehe that was one of our best sketches…" Nico said.
"Easy for you to say!" Zora said through the sarcophagus. "You weren't the toilet!"
Haha, true comedy.
"Hey, I know you!" Nico picked up. He noticed me. He and Grady walked towards me. I smiled.
"Yeah," I said, without adding that I found their rant fascinating… no need to sound weird and stalker-ish. "I'm Sonny." I held out my hand for him to shake it.
"The pleasure is all mine," Nico bent down to kiss it.
"Impressive," I added. Not the type of treatment you get from a guy on a comedy show. I guess I can't judge yet though. I had never been in Hollywood before.
Grady held out his hand for me to kiss and mirror Nico. I just laughed.
We all laughed together. Aw… I was going to like it here.
"So… yeah," I said.
"Hey, actually I remember exactly who you are now!" Grady said. "You're that funny girl from the Internet!"
"Sonny… Munroe?" Nico said in a question.
"Yep…" I answered, not knowing whether it was a question or not, or even whether it was directed at me or not.
"So… how do you like it here?" Nico asked, starting a whole new conversation.
"Great. I love Hollywood," I said.
"Ah… don't get too comfortable here. With Chad Dylan Cooper next door," Grady added.
"Chad Dylan Cooper is next door?" I smiled.
"Yeah," Zora appeared in front of us magically.
"Ah!" I shrieked.
"Get used to it, Grady told me.
"And we still don't know how she does it!" Nico exclaimed.
"Anyways, Sonny, don't get too excited. Chad is much like Tawni…" Zora concluded.
"Stuck-up and snotty," Nico said.
"Wh-? She seems so nice!" I said.
"Wait for it…" the rest of the cast said in unison.
Momentarily, Tawni walked in. "Who am I like? Someone beautiful? A model perhaps? Or a goddess? Aphrodite?" Before you knew it, she was applying mascara and lipstick.
Ah… I could tell what they meant by stuck-up and snotty…
But you know, I was too excited, I hugged her. "Hey Tawni! I'm so excited to meet you! You're my role model! I love you! At Wisconsin, I have a group of my friends and I think of you as one of us! I'm so excited! I'm so going to change my status to 'Hanging with Tawni Hart' because I know that we're going to be great friends! Yay!"
"Why am I being touched?" Tawni yelped.
"Sorry, I'm a hugger!" I smiled.
"Easy Tawn, she's new here," Nico said.
"Did you just call me Tawn?" she outraged.
"Um… no?" Nico said in a question.
Then Marshall came in. "Hey kids!" he greeted. "I see you've met Sonny, our new cast member."
Tawni pulled Marshall aside. I could hear their conversation, which hurt me a bit, but it didn't mean anything, I concluded.
"NEW member?" Tawni half-whispered.
"I told you Tawni. Remember I gave you her picture a month ago?" Marshall said.
She looked as if she was having a flashback. I could just picture my face on a dartboard with devil horns and a mustache posted in her dressing room, and with one look in her eyes, I knew it was true.
"Oh… yeah… I thought that was just a way to get anger out," Tawni said. Then she turned to me in a creepily warm way, "Welcome aboard buddy!"
"That's the spirit!" Marshall said. "Why don't you show Sonny around our studio?"
"No!" she said.
"Let her talk, Tawni."
"Um…" I started. "I guess I'd like that."
"Okay, fine. C'mon Shelly," Tawni said.
"It's Sonny."
"Yeah, that's what I said."
"No you—"
"Bu-bu-bu-bu!" she said, signaling me to shut up.
I just followed her.
"This is where I eat," she said as I got a small glance of a table with food like grapes, crackers, cookies, nothing too fancy, but something to be grateful for.
"This is the makeup area," she said as I saw some skilled people do a Teen Gladiator's hair, along with someone's makeup in a Mackenzie Falls outfit.
"And this is my dressing room," she said as we entered a new room with scattered photos everywhere of her. "Where I chillax…"
"So… where do I chillax?" I asked.
"Um… I dunno…"
Then she started working out on the treadmill on the other side of the room. ("I Wanna Be A Billionaire" just came on the radio! I love this song! Just thought I'd let you know… xD)
"Are you sure?" I asked her.
Then she got off of the treadmill and did some stretches that looked like she was about to kick me.
"If I didn't know any better, I'd say that you were about to kick me," I stuttered.
No reply.
Marshall came in. "Hey girls."
"Hey," I said.
"Hey Sonny. Um… why is there a bunch of gym equipment on your side of the room?"
"My side? Sweet!"
"Yeah, it will be when the exercise equipment is gone… I'll order it out for you."
"Sweet!" I repeated.
Marshall walked out of the room. I started squealing out loud, though I noticed that Tawni was silent… angry.
"Um… Tawni? Well, what if we keep your Gym equipment and I'll… make do," I said. It sounded like a question.
"Make do?" she asked, mocking my question-like statement expression.
But that's what we do… right? We mock for fun, we laugh, we're comedians.
"Yeah… that's what I do. Make do," I said, coolly, and tried to sit on this weird, exercise contraption. I could imagine myself looking like a fool.
She started glaring at me uncomfortably and I couldn't feel comfortable on the cold metal in general.
"I'm not making do… am I?" I asked.
"Nope," she said.
So… Tawni and I weren't the best of friends. More like complete enemies. One thing led to another, and it led to fights and yelling and arguments, which ultimately led to my very first sketch. I remember the night as if it were yesterday.
"Thank you everyone!" I said on stage. "I would like to say a thank you tonight."
The crowd quieted down.
"I'd like to thank Ch-. I would like to thank Cha-," I stopped myself. For some reason, I couldn't say Chad. It had been so long. He wouldn't even recognize me. And does he even like this show? I stopped, and decided to apologize to someone. Might as well clear up something that was happening NOW than dwell on the past.
"Sorry I have a stuttering problem," I saved. "I would like to thank Tawni Hart, the prettiest, funniest girl on the show for such the warm welcome. And Nico. And Grady. And Zora. I love all of you guys and thanks for welcoming me with open arms!" I announced. "And I'd like to say sorry."
"Welcome to Hollywood!" someone shouted.
I extended my hand to wave good-bye in the direction where the voice came from, when I totally hit Tawni in the face. My first instinct was to grab my necklace, which I did, then helped Tawni up.
That's right Sonny, I said to myself, smiling. Welcome to Hollywood.
But I got my first REAL Hollywood welcome the next day.
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Ooooh! A cliffy!... though you all probably know who it is. :P But don't worry I'm working on the next chapter as fast as I can.
I'm so sorry that I haven't been posting up chapters as much, but I will do my best! :D
So… in a few words…
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