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"How could you be doing this?" Tawni asked angrily as Sonny applied her last coat of lip gloss. She was getting ready for her "outing" with Pearce, wearing a pair of faded blue jeans and a plaid buttoned blouse. But this was her sixth coat of lip gloss.

"What do you mean?" asked Sonny. "We're just going for pizza. Not a huge deal."

"Not a huge deal?! Sonny, did you forget what Chad said? He asked you to wait for him! And you agreed, and now you're going a date? And with a guy ten times more attractive than Chad, no less!"

"It's not a date, Tawni. And as for Pearce's level of attractiveness, Chad beats him out by a million. Don't worry, he even said that if I didn't want it to be a date, it wouldn't be. So it isn't!" Sonny was angry now. She had repeated this concept twenty times over to the flustered Tawni.

"But—"

There was a knock at the door. Sonny practically ran to it and swung it open in haste.

Pearce was wearing a buttoned dress shirt that matched his eyes, and his soft brown hair was flipped to the side. His dark blue jeans fit him perfectly and his teeth sparkled when he smiled. Sonny couldn't take her eyes off of him…neither could Tawni.

"Hey, Sonny," he said. "Are you ready?"

Sonny nodded eagerly as she pulled on her jacket. "Bye, Tawni. Don't burn the place down."

Tawni scoffed. "Have fun, kids. Don't stay out too late." Sonny rolled her eyes as she and Pearce closed the door behind them.

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"Two cappuccinos please, extra foam."

The lady at the coffee booth handed Chad two hot cups of liquid to him and he handed her a ten.

"Keep the change," he said with a smile. Chad was in a great mood. His day couldn't have gotten any better. Sonny was practically his, and he only had to wait three more weeks until Portlyn's "lover" arrived. Then he and Sonny could be together. Finally.

Chad slid on the cardboard slips and headed toward the set of So Random!. He hoped Sonny liked cappuccinos.

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Tawni flopped onto the couch in her dressing room and picked at her nails. Sonny was gone out, and she had absolutely nothing to do. She was just about to get up to try different hair styles when she heard a bang at the door, like someone had kicked it. She picked up a nearby baseball bat (why she had a baseball bat, she didn't know. But she didn't question it.) Tawni opened the door slowly to reveal a smiling Chad.

He raised the two cups up to show Tawni the reason why he couldn't knock. Then he said, "Is Sonny here?"

Tawni's brain malfunctioned. She couldn't tell Chad the truth, he might freak out. But she had to tell him something!

"She's…er…not here."

"What?" Chad asked. "Where did she go? Maybe I could meet her there…"

"No!" cried Tawni. Chad jumped in surprise at her sudden outburst, and she searched her brain frantically for something to say.

"She's uh…out." Great. Awesome.

"Where?"

"Why are you so pushy?" Tawni asked, crossing her arms.

"I'm not! Chad Dylan Cooper is not pushy!"

"Yes, he is. He is very pushy. And Tawni Hart doesn't like pushy, so good-bye." Tawni hoped her attempts at distracting Chad would prevail. Unfortunately, Chad caught on.

"Hey, no one distracts Chad Dylan Cooper and succeeds! Where's Sonny?"

"I don't know! She didn't tell me!" And Tawni slammed the door.

That was close.

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Chad Dylan Cooper stared blankly at the door that had just slammed him in the face. No one does that sort of thing to him! Was she crazy?

But, instead of dwelling on the stupid Tawni Hart that clearly didn't know who he was, he left the studio, cappuccinos in hand, to look for Sonny. He wasn't going to waste this perfectly good (and perfectly warm) drink on just anybody.

As he wandered around the studio, he thought about what would happen in three weeks. He could hold her hand, and kiss her with people watching. He could whisper sweet nothings in her ear, and listen as she giggled; he loved that giggle. And he could hold her close every chance he got. He couldn't wait.

As he rounded the corner, he heard a familiar laugh. His heart stopped when he saw where it had come from.

Sonny, his Sonny, with another guy? Who was this guy, and why was she using his laugh around him?!

Chad was overwhelmed with emotion: confusion, anger, hurt. Why was she here with him? What were they doing? Surely they were not on a date!

"Sonny!" called Chad. Sonny's head whipped around, and her eyes became as wide as saucers.

He ran over to her and smiled, but glared daggers at the man she was with, whoever he was.

Sonny smiled and said, "Chad! Hey, this is Pearce Connery. He's guest starring on the show this week." Pearce held out his hand in greeting, but Chad didn't take it.

Chad had been jealous before: his director complimented his co-star instead of him during an episode of Mackenzie Falls. But that lasted a few seconds until Chad straightened out and forgot all about it. But this…this was different. Chad's cheeks got red from anger, and he clenched and unclenched his fists, debating whether or not to just beat that sleeze right into the ground. He was sure So Random! would have loved a guest star with a neck brace after what Chad was thinking of doing to him…

"Sonny, could I talk to you for one second?" asked Chad, painting a mask of false sincerity on his face. Oh, how he would have liked to pour his scorching cappuccino right down that guy's-

"Sure," Sonny replied. "I'll be right back, Pearce."

"Okay, I'll be right here," Pearce said. Chad rolled his eyes and grabbed Sonny by the wrist, leading her around the corner to which he had passed only a few moments before.

"Who is he?!" asked Chad, trying to keep his cool.

"Pearce Connery, I already told you." Sonny, knowing the thoughts Chad had in his head, tried to explain: "He just asked me out to pizza. It isn't a date, I swear. He's never been here before, and I was showing him around the set before we left. Chad, please don't make this a big deal."

"A big deal? This is a big deal, Sonny! You couldn't have waited three more weeks?! Three weeks and we could have been together. You couldn't have waited that long?!"

Sonny crossed her arms in anger. How could Chad think she'd do such a thing to him? It wasn't a date; granted, he had been flirting with her a bit before Chad arrived, but it was nothing. Chad was making into something.

"It isn't a date!" she protested.

"It sure looks like one!" he countered. "Laughing, smiling, happiness all around!"

"That's something we call normal," she practically shouted. "Will you quit being jealous for two seconds so you can hear me out!?"

Chad looked at her with soft, sad eyes and whispered, "You were supposed to wait for me."

She inhaled to speak again, but Chad just shook his head and walked away, leaving Sonny upset and frustrated.

On his way out, Chad chucked both cappuccinos in the trash can. He didn't want the boost tonight. He just wanted to go to sleep; escape his nightmarish reality, and forget all about Sonny Munroe.

Did you know Sterling Knight (Chad Dylan Cooper on the show) is 20 years old!?!?!?!