Note: I would like to say one thing really fast. There is a set of books out that have been out for a while, but I'm just getting to read the fourth one. It's a fantastic read and I think that if you like my story then you will love these. They are called The Vampire Academy novels by Richelle Mead. The story is about Vampires. It has lots of romance, action, and twists that make a book awesome! They are named: Vampire Academy. Frostbite, Shadow Kiss, and Blood Promise.
Okay, now that that is over, enjoy the…8th?...chapter of Sonny with a Chance of Bad Luck! I do not own Sonny with a Chance, and that sucks.
Chad
I got to the flower shop at 9:30. I wanted to get Sonny something to make her feel better. If she was doing better, then I would do better, too. I was starting to think that not only was I starting to fall for a girl that would never be with me but I was also sharing her bad luck.
I got a bouquet of daisies. I didn't know why, but they kind of jumped out at me. They were yellow and pink. They reminded me of Sonny's colorful personality. She really was something. I needed to get rid of this curse before I completely fell head over heels for her.
I waited for her outside on a bench. I saw her before she saw me, and she didn't look happy. She got to the door before she realized that she was supposed to meet me outside and looked around. She saw me and her face lit up. That made my stomach do flips and get butterflies.
"Hey, Sonny." I said.
"Chad, I'm sorry for last night. I should try and just focus on this luck thing for right now. I've been taking you for granted. You're the only one who's been helping me, and right now, you're the only one I can go to." she replied.
"Sonny, it's-"
"Let me finish." she interrupted. "If I went to anyone else they would call me crazy. You've seen everything that has happened to me and have proof that I'm not crazy. So, I would like for us to start working on getting my luck back. I have a hint where to start."
"Okay, where is it?" I asked. Strictly business right now. So why was I thinking about her chocolate brown eyes and her shiny hair? I just had to focus was all.
"Here. Last night when I was trying to think of where we could meet this place just came to me. I don't know how, but I think that's what Jewel was talking about. I think she meant that if I just listen to my intuition then I'll know what to do." she told me.
"Then, let's start looking around." I said.
She nodded and we walked around the corner. There weren't many people out here yet. It was a weekend and a lot of people liked to sleep in. We walked back around the corner and to the store. I suggested we go in the flower shop to see if anyone was in there. Little did she know that I had my bouquet in there ready for her.
When she stepped in front of me I motioned to the guy who worked there that this was the girl and he brought the bouquet to her.
"What? Is it free bouquet day?" she asked.
"No, this gentleman here bought these for you." he told her.
She looked at me. "Guilty." I shrugged. She gave me one of those truly beautiful smiles. I loved the way she smiled. It was like staring at the moon and the sun at the same time. It made my heart race and my face get hot, but my veins get cold and freeze up on me. Sometimes I thought a smile like that could kill me.
"Thanks, Chad." she said. Her smile was still on her face.
"You two make a perfect couple. I can tell." the man that gave her the flowers said.
"We're not together." I said. I looked at Sonny. The smile was no longer on her face. She hadn't even been paying attention to us. She was too busy looking at her flowers. She sniffed them and smiled again.
"Ma'am?" the guy asked.
"Yes?" Sonny replied.
"My name is Jonah. Is it true that you two aren't together?" he asked.
"Yes, that's true." she told him.
He looked at her curiously and then said, "Okay. You two have fun today."
We left the store and started walking. I was trying to look for anyone that Sonny's… (intuition?) had been leading us to. There really wasn't anyone worth talking to. Even though we weren't really talking or doing anything I was having fun. I felt better that Sonny wasn't mad at me for leaving her without an explanation.
She turned to me suddenly. "Chad, I'm sorry I brought you out here. This is pointless. I think I'm just going to give up."
"No. You can't give up, Sonny. If you do, then what are we going to do until the rest of our casts get back?" I asked with a smile.
"How am I supposed to even know the person if I see them?" She was now pouting. It was cute.
"Use your intuition that you used before." Certainly Sonny could use it to find a person if she did it to find the place.
"That's the thing; what if I can't? What if we're just wandering around and we happen to pass the person but I can't even tell it was them?"
"They'll talk to you, Sonny. There have to be some sort of rules to this thing. I keep thinking that we're going to run into the right person and they're going to help us." I said. She didn't look any better. I took her hands in mine. "Sonny, we can do this. We just have to work together. I have a feeling that you need me for some reason, so I'm not going to leave you. Don't worry about that."
"Chad, when did you start becoming so nice to me?"
Well, that was blunt and to the point. The way she said it kind of hurt. It was as if she couldn't believe that I was capable of being nice to…anyone. I dropped her hands. I kept telling myself that I could do this, but with the constant letdown I kept feeling around Sonny, I was starting to doubt myself.
"I didn't mean it in a bad way, Chad. It's just that, before you were never so nice. Sure, you helped me out every once in a while, but you never did things like this for me." she said. I couldn't look at her yet. I turned my face more toward the other way and she put her hand on my shoulder. "It's really sweet. I like this you."
She liked me like this? What could I do next!? Line things up, and I would help with anything she wanted. I would be her slave boy if she wanted me to. The more she liked me, the better. I had a feeling that things weren't as bad as I thought.
"Well, I guess we should get going. If you like me helping then I am not going to let you give up. That would involve me not helping with anything anymore. Let's head back into the store. Maybe we needed to stay in there for a while instead of just looking around. What if the person is supposed to go in later?" I asked.
Her face lit up. She looked like she was getting excited because of my idea. "Let's go back into the flower shop! I think you may be right."
"Come on." I said. To my complete surprise, Sonny grabbed my hand when we took off toward the flower shop. She was laughing while she was running, and I was enjoying her sounding so happy. We made it into the shop, and this time there was a woman standing with Jonah.
"We were wondering why you left so soon. Come have a seat." the woman said and pointed to a couch. "My name is Bailey. This is my husband, Jonah, but you know that already."
"Yes. How are you?" Sonny asked.
"I'm very good. Thanks for asking. So, you must have talked to Jewel." It was a statement, not a question.
I nodded. "She kind of…scared us."
"That sounds like Jewel. She's always making some sort of appearance." She shook her head, like it was something she didn't approve of. "I'm the first person you need to meet. I am from a great line of supernatural beings. My mother, Fawn, was a fairy. She bred with another fairy, which was uncommon. Fairies, since they work with humans most of the time, tend to marry them.
"Fawn didn't see it like that. It was partly because of her life. My job is to tell you a story. Every person that you are going to meet is going to tell you a story, and it's your job to figure out what we're all getting at." she explained.
"Okay, I get it." Sonny said. "So, what happened to your mother?"
"Make sure you pay close attention. You, too." She said this to me. She turned to Sonny. "You need him. Keep him close. It will take both of you to figure this out. Sometimes only one of you will figure out the riddle, or even be there to hear it."
"Not a problem." Sonny said. She smiled at me as she said it.
"Not at all." I winked at her.
Bailey rolled her eyes but she went right back into the story. "Fawn had been trained ever since she could walk and talk how to be the perfect fairy. You couldn't give too much away, or keep too much to yourself. Her mother, Laila, wanted only the best for her. When a fairy is brought up, they are trained all the time. There's almost no time at all for themselves.
"They had a school all to themselves in their dimension. That somewhat had to do with the fact that there are fairy hunters. The school guarded the fairies because there were a number of them together. If there is more than two, the hunters have a hard time killing them. In that school, they were taught everything they needed to know.
"They had to learn different languages for different species and fairies are basically disguise artists. They put on outfits to look like the species they are helping. Fairies actually look like humans, and that's why most of the time humans are who they help.
"Fawn was taught everything she needed and her mother wanted her to marry a human. If a fairy marries a human, they make a fairy baby. If they marry another fairy, they make a human baby. It makes no sense. So, Fawn had been pushed to marry a human as soon as she could get one to fall in love with her, which wasn't hard.
"When she graduated she went straight into work. She worked as hard as she could for two years. They finally decided she had a vacation coming. She stayed at home. She was so tired she didn't even feel like going anywhere. One night she felt a little better so she went to a club. That was where she met my father, Alston.
"They met when she broke her heel and Fawn fixed it for her. She thanked him and they spent the rest of the night together in the club. They made plans for the next day, and then the next week after that. Fawn was falling for Alston. She knew it was something her mom would look down upon, but she couldn't help it.
"When she went back to work, there was a human who needed her assistance. Little did she know that her boss was working with Laila to set her up with a human. They knew how lonely this human was and assigned my mom to him. They made her stay with him whenever he wanted her. This ruined a lot of her dates with Alston. She couldn't tell him that she had to work because she never had the time to.
"One night, my grandmother told Fawn that she knew about the human. She said that she knew he was falling for her and that they would be a good couple. She didn't know that my mom was with my dad. When my dad didn't hear from my mom, he gave up on her.
"My mom got a little time off one night when her human fell asleep early. She went back to her world and found my dad, but he wouldn't have anything to do with her. He wouldn't even listen to her. She became discouraged and gave up, also.
"Her father was always working, so he was never around. He came home to find his daughter a crying mess one night. He asked her what was wrong and she told the whole story, knowing that her father didn't care who she fell in love with as long as he was a good man.
"He said to her, 'Haven't I told you that you never give up on something you want? That just brings you nothing but sadness.' She knew he was right, but what else could she do? She'd already tried to talk to him and he wouldn't listen. Her father said that if she couldn't get it to work then it just wasn't meant to be.
"She took a liking to the human. At least, she told herself that. He proposed to her one day. She knew she would be able to stand him for the rest of her life. If her mom wanted her to marry a human, and she couldn't get my dad to come around, then she would do it. They spent a lot of time planning out the wedding.
"It would be in this world, and she wasn't excited in the least bit. This worried her father, but Laila pretended not to notice. All Laila ever thought about was herself. She wanted a fairy grandbaby so bad that she would crush her daughter's dreams just to get it.
"The ceremony was going along fine. Fawn was just hours away from her wedding and she couldn't find her father. What she didn't know was that her father was going to talk to my dad. When he found him, he explained everything to him. Why Fawn hadn't been able to spend time with him, and how she was about to marry a human because of it.
"Alston decided to come back with Fawn's father and fix this mess. When they got back, they were almost too late. Fawn and the human were just about to kiss. Alston ran in the doors and screamed, 'No!'
"Fawn jerked away from the human and ran to Alston. She demanded to know what was going on. Alston told her about her father coming to her and explaining everything. He said that he had never loved another woman more than he loved her and the reason why he'd ignored her was because she hurt him so much that it pained him to see her.
"She felt bad about everything that had happened, but she couldn't stop the wedding. She'd already had friends from all around the dimensions to attend the wedding. She had to go through with it.
"Her father had an idea. He told them that her friends came for a wedding, but it didn't matter who she married. They both decided to get married right then and there."
Bailey stopped and picked up a picture of a beautiful woman that had her eyes and a man that had her hair. "And that's the story of my parents. You had better be off now. You aren't supposed to stay any longer than the story. It's one of the rules. Good luck on your quest!"
She rushed us out of the door and into the street. I turned and looked at Sonny. She was looking back at me and she said, "That was an amazing story. Do you know what it means, though?"
"I have an idea." I said to myself. She didn't hear me because she was too busy thinking. Sonny absentmindedly grabbed my hand and started to walk toward her apartment. She was saying things to herself but I couldn't hear her.
"What are you mumbling about?" I finally asked, curiosity getting the best of me.
She looked at me and said without any hesitation, "Come stay the night with me. It's another one of those intuition things."
I waited for a moment for her to start laughing, but she never did. "Okay, I guess." I said. I knew it was alright with her mom, so what harm could it do? We didn't say anything for the rest of the walk to her apartment because we didn't have anything to say.
Her mom was at the hospital with her aunt again. Sonny grabbed a Capri-Sun from the fridge and some ibuprofen. I guess she had a headache. She was really trying to figure this out. I wanted to tell her what Melissa and Calvin had told me, but I was afraid to.
She sat down while I was getting a drink, and she must have been tired because she fell asleep by the time I turned back around. "Dang, Sonny, how much do you sleep?" I said. I didn't feel right staying there with her asleep, so I decided to leave. I walked over and started writing a note on a piece of paper I found in the kitchen.
I was in the middle of it when Sonny got up. "Chad? What are you doing?" she asked, looking at the paper.
"I was writing a note telling you that I was leaving, but now that you're up I can just go." I replied.
She shot up so fast you would've thought that she was sitting on a needle. No, not even that. A hot needle. "Chad, you can't leave me! Every time you leave I have the worst nightmares that you aren't ever going to come back. It may seem weird, but the reason why I was so interested in that story is because I'd dreamt it. I was Bailey's mom and you were…well, you were her dad.
"But I couldn't remember it until she told us. Please stay with me. I know it's kind of weird for me to feel as though you're the person I'm eventually going to marry, but I need you right now. Just promise me that you won't leave." Sonny explained.
"Okay, calm down. I'm not going anywhere. You have my word." I told her. She looked happy and sat back on the couch. I turned on the TV and sat next to her, putting her head on my shoulder. She was asleep again soon, and snoring, for that matter.
She thought I thought it was weird because she had a dream about us being together. I personally thought it scared her. She'd never felt that way about me until all of this started happening. Little did she know that every night since she asked me to fix her bad luck with her, I'd been dreaming of the same thing.
"Little to you know, Sonny. Little do you know." I whispered.