Yay! A new chapter! Time to finally see what Chad's family is like. It's a little long because for some reason all of the chapters that I write for this just somehow end up being long no matter what, so I hope you don't mind. And if you're a major Twilight fan like I am, then see if you can find the Twilight quote in this. It's from the first book and it's only obvious if you've read the book a few times. Or if you have a good memory. Anyway... enjoy.

Chapter Three: The Coopers' Attitude Problems

Sonny's Point of View

As Chad and I walked up to the Cooper's front door and his house, I could see him cringing with each step we took.

"Oh come on, it'll be fine," I said reassuringly.

"Easy for you to say. You don't know what you're getting yourself into," Chad said.

"Stop being so dramatic. The cameras for Mackenzie Falls stopped hours ago. You can tone it down," I said, laughing and playfully elbowing him in the ribs.

Chad didn't laugh or smile. He didn't even do what he usually does when he didn't think one of my jokes was funny: just smile and nod.

I couldn't see what could possibly be so horrible about his parents if they raised the Chad that I fell in love with.

He opened the door for me but stood in the doorway. "Just… please remember that no matter what they say, I love you, and I'm immune to their opinions, so nothing they tell me about you can change my mind. Okay?"

I looked at him, a little shocked. One reason was because I was starting to wonder if he was just being melodramatic or if they really were that bad. The second reason was because even though I had thought it from the beginning, we had never actually said we loved each other yet. I adjusted the straps on my black dress, a little nervously. "Uh… yeah, okay."

Sensing my sudden uneasiness he frowned. "What's wrong?"

"Nothing just… you're making me nervous. I'm trying to stay calm before meeting your parents and you're making them sound like evil villains who already hate me," I said.

He sighed and ran a hand through his hair. "Sorry. They don't hate you, and I don't think they will it's just… they have a bad habit of being… judgmental."

I scoffed. "Please. You didn't see how judging Tawni was of me when we first met. We got off to a really rocky start and look at us now. We're… umm… Well we don't hate each other and sometimes we get close to being friends."

Chad shrugged his shoulders slightly and moved out of the doorway. "Okay."

I walked towards the door and when I got next to him I paused for a second. "By the way… love you too." I blushed and looked down at my black ballet flats for a second, before I forced myself to look at his reaction.

"Uh… I… I said that out loud?" he stammered.

I chuckled with nervous excitement. "Relax… I'm okay with the 'L-word.' I really do love you too."

"Okay good…" he smiled awkwardly before he finally laughed. "Okay… Let's uh, go inside."

I smiled and walked into the Cooper's house. Correction… Cooper mansion. I didn't even notice how huge it was from the outside because I was too focused on mellowing Chad out. But now… Wow.

"I feel like I'm in a hotel. Only better," I commented looking from the giant fountain ten feet away from the door, to the grand staircase that you see in old movies.

Chad groaned and shut the door behind him.

I turned to look back at him, offended by his reaction to my awestruck behavior. "What?"

He shook his head and stood right next to me with one arm around my shoulders. "Not you. My sister's home apparently," he mumbled in my ear.

Right on cue, I could hear the clicking of heels on the pure white marble staircase. "I thought I heard someone down here," his sister- she looked older than him –said, cheerfully.

"Sonny, this is my older sister, Sheyenne. Sheyenne, this is my girlfriend, Sonny Munroe," Chad said formally, still not moving from my side. I guessed this was what it was like for introductions for his family. Mine was way different. Unless it was business or a super serious occasion or something, we usually started intros out with hugs or a "hey, how's it going?"

"Hi, Sonny," Sheyenne said. She seemed nice enough. She reached out and shook my hand. She was about the same height as Chad was; she had shoulder-length blond hair and green eyes, and their complexions were the same. Yep, they were definitely related.

Sheyenne looked at Chad. "Mom and dad aren't here," she stated.

"Where are they?" Chad sounded annoyed.

She shrugged. "It wasn't my turn to babysit the 'rents. I think they're just running late from something or another. A fundraiser probably."

I looked up to see Chad's reaction. He just shook his head. "Typical… Well, when are they getting back?"

"Did I not just day I didn't know? Take a chill pill and relax. Kaylee already made dinner, and mom and dad promised they'd be here to meet your little girlfriend," Sheyenne responded.

"Yeah well they also promised me a pony for my fourth birthday but that never happened."

I suppose we've all wanted a pony at one point in our lives, but somehow I couldn't picture a four year old Chad wanting a pony. A laugh escaped my lips. They both looked at me. Okay… I guess it wasn't that funny. How could I tell? Well, Sheyenne was looking at me like I had four heads and Chad was just smiling. I really hoped my humor wouldn't die after tonight.

"You got a pony for your fifth birthday," Sheyenne pointed out. She crossed her arms over her silky purple top.

"Not the point. They break promises like five year olds break plates."

I bit my lip, hard, to keep from laughing. Maybe it was all of the nervous energy I had, but for some reason everything Chad said was funny to me. If I didn't watch it, I'd end up laughing like a maniac over nothing and embarrassing myself.

"Except that when they 'break plates,' they blame it on someone else, and that someone else usually gets fired," Sheyenne said, finally agreeing with her brother.

"Yep, those are our loving examples," Chad said sarcastically.

I lost it and started laughing so hard, I got the hiccups. I covered my mouth with my hand but it only muffled my choppy laughter.

"Is she okay?"

"Yeah, I'm just so funny, I really crack her up," Chad said dripping with sarcasm.

I laughed harder. "Stop… it! I… can't… breathe…"

Chad chuckled under his breath. "Okay, I'm going to take her on a tour of the house and try to calm her down." He rubbed my shoulder while he spoke.

"Okay…" Sheyenne said slowly. She whispered something to Chad that made him glare at her and tighten his grip on me. I could only see this exchange through half open eyes while I still tried to get a grip on myself. After seeing this, I started sobering up a little and by the time we were halfway up the staircase, I was just trying to catch my breath and get rid of my hiccups.

I caught a glance of Chad's face and I walked closer to him. "What's-hic- wrong?" Ugh! Stupid hiccups!

"Hold your breath," he muttered.

"Huh?" I asked before hiccupping again.

"To get rid of your hiccups," he explained. Chad still looked miffed.

"What did-hic-she-hic-say to you-hic?" After I said that, I started holding my breath.

Chad's Point of View

"Nothing… Sheyenne doesn't know anything," I responded.

"What does-hic-that mean?"

"It means you don't need to know what she said, so I'm not going to tell you."

I couldn't tell Sonny what Sheyenne said because it was about Sonny and it only made me even surer that bringing her here was a bad idea.

Sheyenne had said: "For some reason, I always thought you liked real actors, with real self control as opposed to giggle boxes. Huh… what do you know? I was wrong."

Yeah, if Sonny thought she was ever going to get it out of me, then she was sadly mistaken. Contrary to what it seems like, I actually can say no to Sonny. Sort of…

After a few seconds of silence as I led us down the hallway- she was holding her breath -, she started talking again.

"So…" Sonny looked around. "Your house is amazing," she gushed. Okay, good. I thought she was going to keep dwelling on what my sister said.

Sonny's Point of View

I looked at the white walls that were covered with their family pictures. Ooh, this I had to see. I started walking over to the wall and he took his arm off my shoulders.

"Is this you?" I asked with my index finger pointing at a picture of a one year old baby in a blue birthday hat.

He laughed. "Thankfully, no. That's my older brother, Michael."

I looked at him. "Okay, any other siblings you're keeping from me? I always imagined you as an only child."

"Why, because I seemed so spoiled and conceited when you met me?" he asked with one of his old smirks on his face.

"Well, partly, but I guess I just couldn't really picture you growing up with brothers and sisters." I looked over all of the pictures of three kids, I guess, growing up over the years.

"Ah, yes, if only I had been an only child. Sheyenne is the oldest, then Michael, and then me."

"So, you're sixteen, and Sheyenne and Michael are…?"

"Sheyenne is the high and mighty twenty one year old, and Michael is the 'I'm so great at all sports' nineteen year old," Chad said, only partially joking.

I smiled and gestured towards his "Mackenzie" head shot. "And you are?"

"Well supposedly I'm just the unexpected youngest kid who's on a TV show." He shrugged.

"Just?" I walked closer to him with my eyebrows raised.

"Their words, not mine," he said.

I swept his hair to the side with my right hand and smiled. "Want to hear mine?"

"You don't want to see the rest of the house?" Chad didn't look like he really cared if I saw it or not.

"My mom left me here for like, four hours. I'll have time to see it. Okay, so… where was I?"

"Your opinion of me."

"Oh right. I think that you are the incredibly nice, talented, considerate, handsome, a good actor…"

He opened his mouth to stop me but I interrupted. "No, no, I'm not done yet. Uh, let's see… the words hot, a gentleman, unbelievably sweet-"

He covered my mouth with his hand. I jerked my head away. "What'd you do that for? I still wasn't finished," I said in an annoyed tone.

"You're just saying all that stuff," he said frowning.

"What? You think I don't mean it?"

He shrugged.

I pulled him in for a hug. Remember? I'm a hugger. "Do you think all that stuff about you isn't true?"

"I don't know. I usually only hear that from people who only like me for the fame and fortune."

I rolled my eyes. "Hello? This is your girlfriend talking, not some fan who kisses you in a random restaurant." After he didn't respond for a few seconds, I hugged him tighter. "You don't see yourself very clearly, you know."

"Okay, but you're the only one out there who's ever… I don't know…"

"Well I guess I'll just have to start saying it more often until you believe me."

"So… the rest of the house…?"

"Fine…" I pulled away but kept one arm around his waist. "Do you guys have a pool?" I asked.

"You know the Coopers. We've got three," he said with fake enthusiasm.

"Question?" I said raising my free hand in the air.

"Let me guess. You're wondering why we have so many pools."

"No, what I'm wondering is why you sounded so entitled to stuff like this when we first met, and now you're acting like you hate having so much stuff?" I was genuinely curious. How much of Chad that I knew in the beginning had been fake?

"Oh Sonny, don't you recognize an act when you see one?" he asked laughing.

"But which part is the act?"

"You have a lot of questions tonight," he commented.

"And tomorrow you can ask all the questions when you come to my house, but for now, it's my turn," I stated.

"The part that I really care about all this stuff is the act. It's easy to get sick of it all when you grow up with it and people treat you like you're royalty. People just sort of expect the Coopers to act that way because… I don't know. I guess because that's how our crazy parents act." Chad shrugged.

We started walking down the hall again.

"Hmm… interesting… I like you better when you're not acting."

"Yeah, me too." He stopped in front of a flamingo pink door with a gold crown painted on the door. "I suppose you can guess whose room that is."

I grinned deviously. "Yours?" I asked innocently.

He ruffled my hair and faked a laugh. "Funny, Munroe. No, that's Sheyenne's room."

"Oh, okay," I said, still joking.

"Thankfully, Michael and I are safe from the wrath of Sheyenne in the morning because our rooms are located way at the other end of the house."

"Not a morning person, huh? Neither is my mom. And boy, don't set her off in the early morning otherwise you're in for a day of head-biting and snapping from the grump that is Connie Munroe." It was true. One wrong word and my mom would be touchy and grumpy all day long, practically.

"Does she get mad if a picture looks at her funny?" Chad asked, fighting a smile.

"No… Why?"

"Sheyenne does. She's a little delusional in the morning." He laughed.

"Who isn't?" I asked dramatically.

Suddenly, someone at least a foot taller than Chad emerged from what looked like a TV room wearing nothing but red board shorts and black flip flops. This had to be Chad's older brother Michael. He had blue eyes like Chad, with light brown hair that covered most of his eyes as his only separating difference. He looked like he just came from one of the pools.

"Hey, so this is the girlfriend you haven't shut up about." By the way Chad rolled his eyes and sighed, I knew that this was Michael.

"Yes. Sonny this is Michael, my older brother. Michael this is Sonny Munroe, my new girlfriend," Chad said, slipping a hand around my shoulder. Coincidence that he did this whenever I met one of his relatives?

"Hi," I said enthusiastically before shaking his hand.

"Hey. So you're from his rival show, So Random, right?" he asked, not hiding the amusement in his voice or expression.

"Uh-huh. Yep, I'm the new girl on there." I nodded.

"Sonny's the one who helped save Mackenzie Falls," Chad explained.

"Ah, that one… So when's dinner?" I guess Michael got bored quickly with introductions.

"Who am I, the cook?" Chad asked.

"No, Kaylee is," Michael stated.

"Then ask her. And ask her if she knows when the heck mom and dad are supposed to be back," Chad said. "They were supposed to be home by now to meet Sonny."

"And what am I? The maid?" Michael asked before walking off down the hall.

Once he was out of earshot I smiled. "You seem to get along better with Michael," I commented.

"Well it usually is easier to get along with someone who just thinks they're the greatest at sports as opposed to someone who thinks she's the greatest thing to hit the Earth and isn't afraid to tell you ten times a day."

I opened my mouth to respond but was cut off by the sound of a front door opening and two laughing people walking through the door.

"We're home!" bellowed a female voice.

"Ah and there are the root of the Coopers' attitude problems. Come on and you can meet my parents," Chad said starting for the stairs.

"Okay," I tried to say eagerly. I followed him back down the hall and to the stairs. No turning back now. It was time to meet the Coopers.

Okay, so next time we will meet his parents and see what a dinner with the Coopers is like. Did you find the quote? If you didn't, scroll back up and take a look at Chad and Sonny's conversation when she's trying to compliment him. It's when she says: "you don't see yourself very clearly, you know." I couldn't help adding it, and because I'm all about being precise when I quote things, I can tell you that this is from Twilight, page 210. Anyway, I hope you liked it. Thanks so much for all the great feedback, and keep reviewing. Okay, bye!