Not On the News

Yes, I'm alive, and I'm BACK! Who missed me? Anyway, this isn't really that good, but with Biology and Spanish II and Honors English and Honors World Geography and Accelerated Geometry, I'm kinda freaking out. So, my apologies to anybody who was getting anxious out there. :

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"…and finally, are things getting heated between rival shows So Random and Mackenzie Falls? Sources say that teen stars Sonny Monroe and Chad Dylan Cooper have more chemistry together than is welcomed from their fellow colleagues. More on this story later, tonight at seven."

Sonny carefully clicked the power off, eyes wide and mouth open. She cautiously turned to her mother, who was sitting beside her with a what-did-I-just-hear expression clearly evident on her face. The entire living seemed to be waiting with baited breath for the inevitable explosion that was going to burst from Mrs. Monroe. What happened next was actually much worse.

"Sonny," Mrs. Monroe said calmly, in the voice she only used when she was trying to sound emotionless. But down under, Sonny knew that her mother was bubbling inside with malicious anger and was holding it in for the perfect time. "Do you want to tell me anything about what's going on between you and this boy?"

Sonny flared up at once. Defiance was almost an instinct when it came to this. "Nothing is going on between me and Chad, okay Mom? God, why does everybody keep saying that?"

And she made a huffy show of storming off and banging up the stairs, then slamming the door and knocking things around. Her poor mom had always been under the impression that her daughter had an evil violent streak when furious, so it was her reaction to stay down in the living room and stare at the TV for a few long and thoughtful moments.

After a while of banging around her room, Sonny decided she was safe from her mom for the rest of the night and sank down on her bed with a groan. She splayed herself across the width of it so that her legs hung off one end and her arms and head hung awkwardly down the other.

She hated to think about what was going to happen at work tomorrow. No doubt her So Random crew would be furious with her for that horrible news story. And not to mention Chad's reaction…ugh. He would gloat nonstop about this, she was sure. She grabbed a pillow from her side and smothered her face with it, screaming loudly. All that her mother heard downstairs was a muffled shriek.

Sonny sat there for quite a while, and suddenly she sat up, a new plan forming in her mind. She grabbed her cell phone, dialed Chad's number, (not that she knew it by heart or anything,) and waited anxiously, drumming her fingers on her thigh.

He picked up on the sixth ring. "Hello?" came his obnoxious voice. She refrained from rolling her eyes.

"Chad, it's me, Sonny," Sonny said hurriedly. "Listen, did you just see the Channel Seven news?"

She heard him laugh. "Oh, yeah, that one about us. Did you like it?"

"I – what? What do mean?"

"Like, did you enjoy it? I put a lot of hard work into that, you know. It's not easy getting stories like that on the news for an additional five minutes, you know," Chad informed her in a 'duh' tone.

"You did that?!" Sonny said, outraged. She clenched her fists. "What'd you do, bribe them?"

There was a silence on the other line, and Sonny scoffed. "I can't believe you, Chad. Well, actually, I can. But why would you do something like this?"

"Mackenzie Falls viewings were dropping. I had to get people more interested again, you know. Hey, do you wanna guest star on one of my shows?"

Sonny made an angry scoffing noise. "Chad, what is wrong with you? If you wanted to get your viewings up, you didn't have to embarrass me!"

"Yeah, I know," Chad said soothingly. "But without nationally humiliating you, it wouldn't be as much fun."

Furious, she hung up her phone, and violently snatched the remote control from her bedside table. She forcefully jabbed her finger on the 'on' button, and hastily began scrolling down to the news channel. Her face appeared on screen right beside Chad's.

"…eyewitnesses even say that the two have gone out several times. Close friend James Conroy, who has gone out with Sonny Monroe in previous times, says that he'd never seen anybody so 'in love.'"

Sonny's mouth dropped as James' face appeared onscreen. "I was really jealous," he admitted. "They way they were looking at each other – it made me want to throw something."

The reporter's face appeared back on the camera, with a cute picture of Selena Gomez up in the right hand corner. "Selena Gomez, rumored to have worked with the two tween stars before, recalls how the couple acted when they were together."

"You two are…perfect for each other!" The clip showed her shouting at them in exasperation. "I'm outta here!"

"Could there really be something between the new Romeo and Juliet of Hollywood? We'll just have to wait and see how things progress."

Sonny dreamt of squishing Chad's head between her fingers that night. (Reader please note that by all accounts, she actually did dream about him.)

The next day at the studio, people were pushing and shoving to get to the front of the mob. For there, standing face to face, yet on opposite sides of the cafeteria, were Sonny and Chad, shrieking at each other like they were thousands of miles away.

"…not my fault that your show sucks, so why'd you bring me into this?! You know as well as I do that I'd never go out with a jerk like you!" Sonny screamed, her face red and her hair in disarray.

"Well why are you being so defensive?! It's not like it's a bad thing that you have all of this publicity!" Chad shouted, making wild hand gestures.

"It is a very bad thing, Chad Dylan Cooper! Why can't you ever respect my privacy? I mean, even when I'm nowhere near you, you go and mess my life up!"

"What about it could I have messed up more?" Chad demanded. Sonny turned bright red, and the vein in her neck throbbed, and there was a deathly, suspenseful silence, and suddenly she was charging across the room, and Chad was screaming like a little girl, and there was a blur as she flung him down to the floor, and mutters behind hands as she pinned him by his wrists.

"You're so irritating!" Sonny yelled in his face, though trying her hardest not to let the spit fly out of her mouth. "Why can't you sabotage my life like a normal person would?"

"In case you haven't noticed, I'm not normal, and neither are you!" Chad yelled back, trying to lean as far away from her barbaric expression as possible.

"Oh, so now I'm some freaky little TV star, then huh?"

"Well, since no other girl has ever pinned me down before, I'm gonna have to say yes, Monroe. You're FREAKING ME OUT!"

"UGH!" Sonny bellowed. "YOU KNOW WHAT? I HATE YOU!"

"WELL I HATE YOU MOR-MPPHH!"

And suddenly they were locked together at the lips, and his arms were around her waist, and she was grasping his hair in her fingers, and they were oblivious to everyone watching them, and people were taking out there phones and recording them, and a few people on top of their game were already sending it to channel seven news, but Sonny and Chad didn't care, that is, not until later when they were sitting in front of the TV with their arms around each other, watching the news.

"Hey, my hair looks good in that shot," Chad remarked, observing himself onscreen.

"What are you talking about, Chad, I'm covering half your body," Sonny told him, leaning her head on his shoulder as they watched themselves embrace on the television. They both sighed contentedly.

"You know I don't hate you right?" Chad asked out of the blue.

"Well neither do I as you already know," Sonny laughed. "I only hate you sometimes."

"Sometimes?" Chad asked, raising an eyebrow.

"Yeah, like now."

"Now?!"

"Well, you're not kissing me-"

And you know the rest.

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You know how at the beginning I listed all my classes? Well, believe it or not, I'm actually pretty popular, not a nerd at all. It's just this whole secret life as a writer that makes me sound like a geek every once in a while. No, actually I'm quite stupid, but that's probably because of all the mercury I ate when I was a baby. Why do I keep talking? Okay, well bye, I'll try and update as soon as possible, and the next chapter is called Not Over Shoes.