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Neither Sonny nor Chad paid attention to the tabloids anymore. They each had their own reason for avoiding them, though.

Sonny stayed in Wisconsin the whole summer. Her excuse was that Hollywood was getting a little too crazy for her, and that she needed the summer break away from all that "madness". Lucy and her Mom were very happy to hear the news, and didn't question Sonny any further. She had an enjoyable summer, though, and forgot all about the incident at the party... well, that was after Chad stopped trying to call her. That was, until she was on her way to the airport. She grew sadder thinking about the turn of events, and honestly, she wasn't quite ready to go back to Condor Studios. After the party, she decided to ignore all tabloids. She didn't want to see pictures or videos of her crying, she didn't need to read the details, she truly wanted to forget all about it.

Chad never left Hollywood, unless he was promoting something. He never really took any vacations anymore, and he had lived in southern California his whole life. He remembered parts of what happened at the party. He remembered having sex with some girl (who probably was not Sonny, he figured); he got yelled at by his parents for that one. That was all over the tabloids, and that's what made Chad stop reading them. His summer was mostly spent with Trey, Max, and Jason. Sonny wouldn't pick up his calls for about a week, so he stopped trying to call her. Obviously she was ignoring him for some reason. He really hoped she wasn't the one he had sex with, because he knew their friendship would've definitely been over if they did have sex.

He sighed as he tried remembering those events. It was a little past 3AM, and he still wasn't asleep. He never kept any drugs at his apartment, and his friends were all busy, so he couldn't see them. He reached over and opened his bedside table's drawer and grabbed a few sleeping pills. He grabbed his bottle of water and drank the pills down. He placed the bottle back on the table and placed his head back on the pillow. He continued to lay there for a long time before he grabbed a few more sleeping pills and took those. Finally, sleep overtook him.

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Chad groaned as his cell phone rang. It felt like he hadn't slept that well. He reached over and grabbed his phone. "Hello?" he muttered, sounding tired and exhausted.

"Chad! Where are you?" It was the director from MacKenzie Falls.

"Home... what time is it?" he murmured.

"It's almost 3PM..."

"WHAT?!" Chad exclaimed, sitting up in bed.

"Thankfully, we were able to do some other shoots today. We're done filming for the day. Please, show up on time tomorrow so we can finish the episode."

"Okay," Chad muttered before hanging up. He stared down at his bed in disbelief. How could he have not woken up? He usually wakes up around six or seven AM on a regular basis, even if he had been out all night. He opened his phone and checked the date. It was September 1, the day before So Random! was supposed to be back at set...

He was going to pay Sonny a visit at her apartment.

After showering and getting dressed, he grabbed his keys, phone, and wallet before heading out to his car. True, he had only been to Sonny's apartment once, but somehow, he remembered exactly how to get there. It was around 4PM when he finally arrived to her apartment, and sure enough, he saw her car in the parking lot. He parked close to her apartment and quickly hopped out. He practically jogged up the stairs and to the front of her apartment. He quickly knocked on the door.

A few seconds later, Sonny opened the door. Her eyes widened slightly before she narrowed them. "Chad," she spat out.

He just stared at her, his mouth slightly open. "Sonny?" he softly said.

She continued to stare at him, becoming more and more aggrivated. "What?"

"What..." He couldn't quite form the words. What was going on here? He was so confused. Why was Sonny so mad at him?

"Chad, if you're just going to stand here and not talk to me, again, you might as well just walk away while I'm still not angry."

"Why are you mad?" he finally asked.

She scoffed, raising her eyebrows. "Seriously?"

"Sonny, I don't-"

"I used to like you, Chad," she blurted out, an angry expression on her face. "And not just as a friend. I used to like you more than that. I thought maybe that someday we could go out." She shrugged before letting out a low laugh. "Aah, silly me, thinking I could go out with you... I don't know what happened, Chad. For a while, you were just arrogant Chad, but you actually had a soft side. Then you were just angry, always yelling at people, and you became so mysterious. I thought maybe it was just a phase that would last a week or two. Nope. It lasted months.

"But, we finally started to get closer again..." She let out another laugh. "I wasn't surprised to find out you fucked some girl at that party."

"Sonny, it's not-"

"It's not what, Chad?" she asked angrily. "First off, you leave me for who-knows how long, and then I try to find you, and this guy comes up... ugh, he claimed to be a friend of yours, and I wouldn't be surprised if he was, but anyway... I go looking for you, this guy comes up and points you out, and I see you all touchy-feely with this girl, and you two are grinding hips, and your shirts are basically off..." She sighed, looking down.

Chad was speechless. He stared at her for a moment before quietly asking, "So... we didn't have sex?"

She stared back up at him, anger filling her eyes. "NO WE DIDN'T HAVE SEX!" she screamed.

Chad flinched. He did not expect her to have an outburst like that.

"Is that what you wanted?!" she snapped.

He quickly shook his head. "No, Sonny!"

"Oh, was I not good enough for you?" she exclaimed. "Suddenly I wasn't fuckable, so you decided to go look for some other girl to have a one-night stand with?!"

"I would never take advantage of you like that, Sonny."

"Oh, so you thought it would be okay to do something like that with her? Actually, she did seem pretty fine with it..."

"It's not like that!" he exclaimed.

"THEN WHAT HAPPENED?!" she screamed, tears brimming the edges of her eyes. She sniffed, not wanting to cry in front of him.

He just stared at her. He never, not in a million years, imagined to have a conversation like this with Sonny. It was killing him, and he knew this was all his fault. "I..." Again, he was at a loss of words. "I really don't know, Sonny."

She bit her bottom lip, a few tears escaping down her cheeks. "Fine." She shrugged, wiping her tears away, avoiding Chad's gaze. "If and when you ever figure it out, maybe we can talk. For now... just stay away from me, Chad."

She softly shut the door, leaving Chad standing out there. He was confused, angry, upset, bewildered... He knew nothing between him and Sonny would be the same. He reached out and placed a hand against her door. "Sonny..." he murmured sadly. He sighed before walking off and back to his car.

He never heard Sonny's sobs or her constant cries for Chad.

A/N: Thank you all so much for the reviews!!! This chapter was a bit hard to write... thankfully, I have an idea for the next chapter, so maybe that'll be longer. If you have any ideas, suggestions, etc., please don't hesitate to tell me! I love to hear ideas :)