L A S T P E R S O N O N E A R T H :: C H A P T E R 5
Synopsis: "I wouldn't kiss you if you were the last person on Earth!" Sonny and Chad are given a rude awakening: their homes are gone, their families are gone, and so are their jobs. They're the last people on Earth. Channy multichapter. R&R!
Rating: T for safety and/or future chapters.
Disclaimer: I don't own SWAC, only this story's plotline.
(AN): This story takes place after Chad guest-stars on So Random!. Disregard any future episodes on the show.
This is a fluffster chapter. But sorry, no kiss. Soon, my friends, soon. So if you aren't a fan of fluff, be prepared to skip several paragraphs.
Also thank you for all the kind reviews! They are very appreciated.
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"I make you nervous, Monroe?" Chad teased, grinning when he saw a blush creep up her cheeks.
"Ha, I do!" Chad laughed, instantaneously stopping when he saw the sad expression painted on her face.
"Y-yeah…" Sonny mumbled, regretting what she had said as tears welled up in her eyes. She blinked quickly, trying to get rid of them before Chad noticed. Unfortunately he did, and his face fell as he brushed the back of his hand across her cheek.
"Sonny, I didn't mean it. I was just kidding." He pleaded.
"Chad, I'm not indestructible. You can break me. You can't say anything to me and assume I'll understand." Sonny whispered,
"Sonny, I'm just… insecure about girls. Girls are supposed to fall all over me. I'm not used to feeling anything back for girls. And it just makes me say and do stupid things that I don't mean."
"Are you trying to say…?" Sonny suggested, raising an eyebrow.
"Yeah. You make me nervous too." He smiled sheepishly.
.:.:.:.:.
"I'd never gone with the wind, just let it flow.
Let it take me where it wants to go
till you open the door, there's so much more.
I'd never seen it before.
I was trying to fly but I couldn't find wings,
but you came along and you changed everything."
- Taylor Swift, Crazier
One Week Later…
Chad and Sonny lounged around her dressing room, sipping Cokes that they found in her mini-fridge. If they tried hard enough, the whole situation was just like an elongated sleepover.
They had grown bored rather quickly. Sonny's panic attack was the first and last of the week, so they had been lucky in that way. But in another sense, nothing has happened. Nata. They had nothing to do all day, so most of the time they just watched reruns of their shows and read old magazines they never finished.
Chad sighed in boredom, "Sonny, let's get outta here. I'm sick of the same routine: waking up, pitying ourselves for our alone-ness, making food, going to sleep, etc. It's getting old."
"Where do you suggest we go, Mr. Cooper?" Sonny smiled, setting down her laptop to follow Chad wherever he planned to take her. She would go anywhere with him.
"Hmm. You know the waterfall on the Mack Falls posters?" He asked.
"Of course." Sonny replied without a thought, ignoring the smirk that grew on his face. Oh yeah, he assumed she exiled everything Mackenzie Falls.
"I know where that place is. It's really just a meadow, but if you did deep through the surrounding forests you can get to the waterfall." He told her, grabbing his wallet and opening the door. There was really no sense in it, all for he had in there was his license, but he didn't want to be morally incorrect and have a cop come out of nowhere and arrest him. Not a good idea.
"Let's go." Sonny agreed, shutting the door behind her as they walked out to the parking lot.
Chad and Sonny arrived a half-an-hour later. They stepped out of his sleek black Porsche, closing the doors and walking to each other's sides. Chad led her through a few bushes and they were greeted by a beautiful, green meadow. Sonny sat down and patted a seat next to her. Chad complied, sitting down and lazily putting an arm around her waist. Neither of them had said anything about any feelings they had for each other, but over the past week they both had sort of assumed the other fancied them.
"So how are you holding up today?" He asked, brushing her bangs out of her hair modestly. Her eyes met his instantly, provoking a smile to form on his lips.
"Better. I'm better. How are you holding up?" Sonny smiled sweetly, her chocolate brown eyes lighter then ever before.
"I'm fine." Chad replied, showing no emotion as usual.
Sonny sighed, "Chad, I don't understand. Why aren't you taking this hard? I've…well, freaked out, for lack of better terms. And you're always there to comfort me, but you never show any feelings yourself."
Chad looked down nervously, biting his lip as if he were hiding something.
"I don't have anything to go home to, Sonny. You're the only friend I would miss, really the only person I would miss. So I'm not upset. I have everything I need right here." He said sweetly.
"How about your dad, Chad? Why wouldn't you miss him?" Sonny asked, gazing deep into Chad's eyes. They were visibly coated with an uncomfortable hurt, and Chad tore his eyes from her gaze, looking away abruptly.
"We don't talk very much. I moved out." Chad answered, rubbing the back of his neck nervously.
"How could you not tell me?" Sonny asked, flabbergasted.
"I didn't want your pity." Chad stammered, not wanting to set her off. The panic attack already tested her current emotional boundaries and he didn't want to push it.
"What are you talking about? It's not pity when you're genuinely sorry for somebody." She exclaimed.
"I didn't want you to have to watch what you say just because my dad left me all those years ago! I moved on after a lot of thinking, and now I've forgiven him. I don't you to hate my dad. He's not a bad guy, he just felt differently about several things than I did. If you were ever to meet him one day I wouldn't want you to be filled with hatred. He was there for me, Sonny. There were just times when he couldn't be and those grew more frequent to the point where I was doing everything on my own." He explained, a pained expression on his face as he relived all the fate that had caught up with his family.
"You can tell me anything, Chad, so you could've told me that." She urged him.
"I suppose I could have." He reasoned, looking into her eyes apologetically.
"Yeah. We know that now." She agreed bitterly.
"Let's take a walk." Chad told her, taking her hand and pulling her up as he lead her through a wooded trail. She walked next to him, allowing the back of her hand to brush his occasionally. It sent chills down both of their spines.
"Sonshine, it's not that I don't trust you. I really do. But I don't want you to think of me any differently just because of what's happened to me. The past is the past. I'm still that guy you met when you came here from Wisconsin, this wasn't everything recent. You just never knew back then. It doesn't change anything. It's not that big of a deal, Sonshine." Chad said. Sonny accepted his answer, seeing the sincerity in his words.
They took a sharp turn to the right, now off the trail as Chad took her hand to keep her near him. All he needed was to have her lost in a random forest she didn't know her way around.
"I understand, Chad. You don't have to explain yourself."
"I'm still the same asshole, Sonny." Chad muttered softly, ashamed.
"That's not true–" Sonny began. Chad cut her off with a finger on her lips.
"Yes it is. I'm the same person, I haven't changed." Chad told her.
"But–"
"No buts. I don't want to lead you on," her face fell. "No, no, not like that. I don't want to trick you into thinking I'm some sweet guy. I still have the same personality I had before all of this went down."
"You don't know that. Even I've changed since this all happened." Sonny admitted.
"How so?" Chad raised an eyebrow.
"I mean, I'm so used to having things handed to me. But I've been on my own guardian-wise this week. I've dealt with making food food, shelter, and surviving my first panic attack all without my mom. It's been hard for me, I have no idea how you've done it all your life," Sonny explained, stopping a few feet from a cliff overlooking the famed waterfall Chad had spoken about. "This is beautiful."
Chad smirked, releasing her hand to use his to pop an imaginary collar.
"Well, it was on the famous Mackenzie Falls poster." He boasted proudly, not sensing what was coming next.
Sonny smirked, raising a fist in victory. "You said FALLS!" And with that, she pushed him off the side of the small cliff, sending him spiraling into the water instantly.
He surfaces several seconds later with an angry expression plastered all over his face. His hair clung to his face as his shirt did to his perfectly defined washboard abs. It made him all the more attractive – she had no idea what there was to complain about.
She'd rather experience the beauty of him up close, though, so she conjured up a plan on how to get down there. Chad loved a challenge, so all she had to do was appear nonchalant about the situation.
"Munroe! You get down here right now!" Chad yelled, treading to stay afloat. The loud noise from the waterfall nearly drowned him out, and she pretended not to hear his plea.
Sonny giggled. "What was that, Cooper?"
"Get down here!" He screamed, determined for her to hear over the noise.
"Make me." She challenged, smirking down at him.
He smirked back. "If you don't come down and join me, when we get home I'll tell everyone that you think Hannah Montana and Miley Cyrus are the same person."
"That's what you thought, Chad." Sonny rolled her eyes.
"And only you and your cast know that. The other casts in the studio don't. After all, what people don't know won't hurt them."
"I'm not moving." Sonny declared stubbornly.
Chad chuckled, "Always the stubborn one, eh, Monroe? Listen, either you come down on your own, or I'll come up there and drag you in myself."
"Alright, alright, I'm coming!" She groaned, jumping down in a cannonball with a terrified screech. She surfaced to see Chad swimming over to her, his wet blond head bobbing to the surface as he met his target. He smiled in victory.
Sonny hadn't been very reluctant, for she had wanted to dive down and join him since he brought up the waterfall. But she'd give it to him this once.
He grinned in appreciation, causing a light pink blush to spread across her cheeks. If he hadn't been looking so deeply into her eyes he may have noticed.
"You look cute," he complemented, running a hand through her damp curls.
Sonny tilted her head to the side, "So do you."
"I always look cute," he bragged, causing her to roll her eyes. "As do you." He added, marveling at his ability to lift his ego and another person's at the same time.
"Well thanks." Sonny smiled.
"Well you're welcome." Chad mocked her in a high-pitched 'Sonny' voice he conjured up.
She hit him on the shoulder playfully. This turned into a full-out water splashing fight, both of them turning their heads to the side as they attacked each other.
This led to other water games. They talked underwater and made the other decipher what they said; most of the sentences were jabs about the other's show. They showed off their sick nasty back flipping and handstand skills. Chad couldn't deny her natural ability for water gymnastics. They'd even played Marco/Polo, allowing Chad to wrap his arms around her waist when he caught her, as if he hadn't been looking underwater the entire time to find her.
It left them in an unbreakable laughing fit, both of them as doubled-over as the water allowed them to be. Their laughter eventually died out, and the two let out breaths they didn't know they were holding, their breathing turning into slight panting.
"Let's go back, Sonshine. I think this has been enough action for today."
Sonny nodded in agreement, dragging the both of them out of the water and back on to the trail. Within minutes Sonny and Chad were sprawled across the grass, Sonny lying across Chad's chest as they silently looked up at the passing clouds.
"Look, it's a heart!" Sonny said, pointing to the perfectly-shaped heart cloud above their heads. She grinned, excited about her discovery.
Chad swerved his head in the other direction, looking for another cloud shape to beat her newest challenge, the heart. Oh how much he wished he could say, "I heart you", but he knew he never could. That would be far too cheesy for their relationship status: friends. Insert Chad groan here.
Chad smiled, "That one's an elephant." He pointed across the sky.
Sonny scoffed. "No, Chad, that's obviously a tiger."
"Elephant." He fought back.
"Tiger."
"Elephant!"
"TIGER!" Sonny screamed, giggling.
"Fine!" Chad gave up.
"Fine!" She yelled, victorious.
"Good."
"Good."
"So are we good?" He asked, a smile playing at the ends of his lips.
"Oh, we're so good." Sonny laughed, feeling Chad's chest rise up and down quickly as he laughed as well.
She could get used to this.
Hey! So I'm not crazy about the ending, but other than that I'm pretty proud of the chapter. It had a bolder streak of Channy, which a lot of you seemed to want. And yeah, no kiss :/ booo. Sucks, huh? It'll come eventually, my friends. Remember, a kiss = nearing the end of the story. We're only on chapter five and we have like five chapters to go. So no kissy quite yet.
So I'm sooo excited for the next chapter, there's more yummy Channy action. And guess what? I've typed and corrected Channy so many times that now if I time Gronny or Chawni it autocorrects it to Channy(: that made me really insanely happy. Channy forever and Chawni for never!
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Dogs – Loved it!
Cats – Ehh it was alright.
Fishies – Yuck, this was awful.
Socks – I wasn't going to review but since I saw this I am.(:
I'll post the next chapter tomorrow if I get a sufficient amount of reviews by then. Bye bye.
-S3r3ndipity