Okay, I hope that this makes up for not writing sooner.
I wrote a little more than usual, so I hope you forgive me.
I don't know when I am going to be able to update again because I have been really busy.
Bear with me please.
It's getting really exciting and every night Chad and Sonny and even Amy come to me, telling me to finish the story.
I am going to finish it soon.
So, get ready for the ending.
I know that you probably don't want it to end, but you want to know what happens.
For that, I think there might-and I am saying, might-be a sequel.
Something to do with Ben…
Well, never mind that thought.
I haven't even finished this book yet.
Again, sorry that I haven't updated sooner, but I was really busy!
Thank you so much for all the reviews and loving the story so much; it makes me want to write more as soon as I can.
It might have to be weekends that I can update from now on.
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Okay, here is Chapter 22 of Sonny with a Chance of Bad Luck:
Chad
I barely got any of the things Jewel was saying to me because she was talking so fast, but I did get that we were going to a party in another dimension. Since Jewel knew exactly where the party was, it wasn't going to be that hard to get to. The hard part was going to get the dressing style right. Jewel told me about the kind of people that go to these parties and they don't sound like the type who wear ball gowns and tuxes.
We had to find some sort of body of water soon to get there, but had no idea where one was. From what Jewel told me-she was telling me a lot of things now-we were going to have to split up to find it. Hayden had Amy, and he took her one way while Jewel and I went other ways. My trail wasn't very easy to go through. There were vines wrapping around my feet making me fall, and thorns scraping my arms and my face as I walked by.
I was too busy trying to avoid these hazards that I wasn't watching where I was going. Apparently I was actually on a cliff, and the end of it was right in front of me. First, I felt my stomach turn, and then my feet started slipping. I was about to fall. I was lucky that I thought quickly because I managed to kick the heels of my shoes into the dirt on the cliff.
At that point, I would just be safe if I could find something to grab a hold of. I was looking for one of the vines, which had disappeared as soon as I needed them, when I slipped and fell about a foot. My hand reached out and grabbed a plant in the ground, but I could tell that it wouldn't hold me for long. I looked for something else to hold onto but there were just more weeds.
This was when I got brave enough to look under me.
There was a giant lake at the bottom of a sixty foot drop full of sharp rocks. I wasn't going to be this beautiful if I didn't pull myself up. The plant let go of some earth and I went down another inch. I tried pulling myself up, but I couldn't do it. I hadn't been working out. The plant let go a little more. I knew I was hanging on a string that was about to be pulled to its breaking point.
The plant swung back in forth like a broken bone. I slid across the cliff and a rock sticking out of it cut my chest. The adrenaline rushing through me made me feel no pain whatsoever. That is, until I slid back across the rock and it cut me again. That's when I felt the pain, and smelt the rusty smell of blood. I knew there would be blood drenching my shirt in a minute.
Unfortunately, I will never know if it did drench my shirt or not because that was when I fell off the cliff.
***
Amy
I woke up in Hayden's arms just to start seeing red again. This time it wasn't people speaking I was listening to. I knew the voice as soon as it popped in my head, and it was thoughts that were flowing into my head instead of words spoken.
Grab the plant!
Okay, what was I seeing? It was really weird not knowing what was going on but hearing the thoughts that came with it. I mean, people never think stuff like, "Okay, I'm going to go swing on the swing set and then hit that guy in the face." So, I was hearing Chad's voice in thought, but not knowing what was going on.
I was trying to speak, but nothing would come out. I wanted to tell Hayden to go to find Chad, but nothing was coming out. So, I tried what I did last time. Maybe he would figure it out.
"Grab the plant!" Okay, it worked.
That's gonna hurt…
"That's gonna hurt…"
"What is she talking about?" Who was Hayden talking to?
I realized that my eyes were closed so I decided to open them. I wasn't in Hayden's arms. I was looking at Chad. He was dangling off a cliff. He was hanging on a plant that was about to break. He was looking at a rock. The rock would cut him when he goes back. I could feel a tingling feeling in the back of my head. I didn't know what it was, but I didn't care.
The rock cut him and I saw blood trickle down his shirt. There wasn't much, but I could see that he was about to hit the same rock again. When he came back, it ripped the gash open more. Blood gushed out to about his belly button. It went in a vertical line down his shirt. There wasn't much, but it was enough to worry me.
That's when the plant snapped and he started falling. I was pulled out of the vision and felt myself running. It wasn't me, of course. It was actually Hayden. Jewel was in front of us; she was a little bit faster than Hayden, which made sense with me being in his arms.
"Watch out for the-" I was cut off because we were now flying through the air. Hayden and I were screaming, but Jewel looked like she was on a mission. She took a nose-dive into the water. She'd done some waving with her hands when we first got in the air and I imagined that she made a teleportation device out of the water.
I sucked in a breath before I hit the water. It was cool for a minute and I swirling around. I was freaking out about Chad. What were we going to do? Where was he? I didn't know if Jewel had saved him somehow or not.
This portal was different than the other one. I could see where we were going. Of course, I could barely make anything out. We were going really fast, but I could make out a sign here and a light there. I saw a hole in the water every now and then and figured that was where we exited once we got to the right hole.
Jewel grabbed Hayden's hand and he had mine. I'd come out of his arms when we fell, but he'd been holding my hand the entire time. We went straight towards a hole and this time we came out wet instead of our normal dry. It also felt like my lungs were on fire and that I was holding my breath for a long time. I guess I hadn't realized that I had been holding my breath.
I was left crouching on the ground and gasping for air.
"Are you okay, Amy?" Hayden asked.
Once I was finished coughing I nodded. He took my hand and helped me up. I looked around for Chad but I couldn't see him anywhere. I started to panic. "Where is Chad?"
"He should've been here." Jewel said. "I'll be right back. I'm going to go look for him." She jumped into the lake without a second glance.
"I hope she gets him out." I said to Hayden.
"You really like him, don't you?" he asked, his face thoughtful. In fact, I couldn't tell what he was thinking, just that he was thinking hard about whatever it was.
"What are you talking about? I don't like Chad." Hayden looked at me like I was calling him stupid. "Okay, a little crush. But I've seen how Chad talks about Sonny. And I think, I'm not sure, but I think that I saw Sonny right before he fell in his mind."
"Must be hard to see someone you like falling for someone else." His face went grim. My heart broke just then. I couldn't believe that I'd forgotten about the fact that Hayden had to give up his love because of some stupid rule. I reacted before I thought. I took Hayden into my arms. He tensed up at first, and then he relaxed. We stayed like that for a little bit, but then Jewel came back and I let go of him.
Chad was with Jewel, but he didn't look good. He fell to the ground and coughed up a little water. I ran over to him and held him up. "Are you okay?" I asked.
"How bad is my chest?" he replied.
I pulled up and looked at his chest. He had two lines on the right side of his chest that turned into one line on the left. It wasn't bleeding very badly now, but it still looked bad. His ankle was swollen and bruised. "It's not that bad. What happened to you?"
"Well, I was walking and I slipped off the cliff, and to stay on it I was trying to hold onto a-"
"I know that already. What happened to you after that? In the water?" I interrupted. He gave me a weird look. "I saw it in a vision. Now, what happened?"
"We don't have time for this." Jewel said with a serious face.
"We have plenty of time for this. Don't you even care if Chad is okay?" I said.
"Of course I do. It's my job." she replied to me. To Chad she said, "Are you okay?" When he nodded she added, "Great. Let's get going."
For some reason I felt as if I had just been slapped in the face. Jewel started walking, but Chad and Hayden looked at me. Chad put his hand on my shoulder and said, "I'm sorry about that, but she's right. I'm fine, and, really, I could care less if I was okay or not. I just want to find Sonny and get her away from that creep. Even if she doesn't love me back."
He then walked off and caught up with Jewel. I could feel my cheeks getting hot and red. There were tears rimming in my eyes and I had no idea why. Hayden walked behind me and picked me up. I wiped my eyes and looked at him. "What are you doing?"
"You just looked like you could use a little pick-me-up." He smiled and winked at me.
***
Sonny
The party was something I couldn't have imagined. It was a giant barn with a lot of people in and around it. There were hay bales everywhere and people basically swimming in it. There were a lot of people with the same earrings on, even the guys. Not everyone had these, but a lot did. I'd been sipping some beer-yuck-while Ben went to find some of his old friends.
I'd been sitting all alone for a while, and I liked it that way. I was getting a lot of time to think to myself. I hoped that Chad would come to get me away from this creep. It was obvious that I couldn't get away on my own because I had no idea where I was and if I revealed that I knew what was going on, Ben would wipe my memory clean.
As I sat and thought about everything that was going in my life I noticed a group of guys goofing around getting closer. They were jumping in hay bales and stuff and I don't think they noticed that I was sitting there. I didn't want them jumping on me so I just got up. I decided to walk outside and see what was going on.
It was weird how Ben used magic to make our outfits. Mine happened to be black jeans with a black shirt and, surprisingly, a red vest. I'd never seen him make anything before, but I never figured he would make anything with color considering how much he liked black. He didn't change a single thing about his outfit except that he was now wearing a red shirt under his leather jacket to match me. I guess it was his way of saying that he was with me.
I found myself getting away from everyone else at the party who were outside. They were all sitting next to a bonfire and doing, like Ben said, stupid things. Some were throwing things at each other and others were trying, but unsuccessfully, to set fire to things. There was a stump a ways a way from them that I sat on. From there, I could see the clear full moon and a very tiny looking bonfire.
I sat, taking in the moon and all it's wonder. It made me happy to know that there was something here that Chad or my mom might be seeing. Maybe Chad was here and looking at this same exact mood. I kind of wished that he was at this party, just looking around for me, and not knowing where I could be.
I saw movement out of the corner of my eye. I looked over to it and saw nothing at first. It took me a moment to realize it, but the same guys who were goofing around near me in the barn had followed me out here.
"What do you want?" I asked.
I saw one of them from the moonlight as he stepped away from the tree they were behind. From what I could tell, he had spiked hair and eyes that were so blue they could glow in the dark. He was something that's not human. When he smiled, as he was now, I could see that his teeth were some of the whitest I'd ever seen.
"Aw, sweetheart, don't be like that. Don't you want to play?" he said.
"I don't think so." I replied. I turned to walk back to the bonfire, but he was in front of me in an instant. I didn't know how he did that, and to be honest, it scared the crap out of me. This was someone I definitely didn't want to mess with.
"Sure you do. Why don't you wait just a little longer?" His smile turned sour and he grabbed my hand. I tried to pry it from him, but he was so strong that I couldn't even budge. "You have such pretty hands, and arms, and a very pretty body."
The other four guys that were with him came out from behind the tree and were behind me now. I only knew they were there from glance, but even that glance told me that they were as big and strong as this guy was. The guy who had my arms made me look at him and I could now see the fangs he had.
"Oh, you think you're going to scare me with those plastic little toys?" I asked. I was trying to play like I wasn't scared of him, but on the inside my stomach was reeling. Who knew if vampires did exist or not? I was in a world where "fate" decided where you go in your life and where fairies were your guardians.
His eyes turned dark and looked straight into my eyes. "So, you think these are little toys, huh? Why don't I show you what these can do?" he asked.
"That's okay. I really don't want to know what they can do." I said, trying to pull away. It wasn't working. Suddenly, he took my wrist to his mouth faster than I could see. He paused just so that I could see where he had my hand. I could see that he was enjoying this from his eyes, and then I felt the pain in my wrist.
It didn't hurt for long. The pain was replaced with pleasure. I could still feel the tiny pressure on my wrist that was really pain, but the endorphins the bite was releasing made the pleasure overpower the pain. I found myself falling backwards, but what's-his-face caught me.
"I think she likes it. Look at the way she's grabbing Gabriel's hair." someone said from behind me. That guy that bit me must've been Gabriel because I realized after that other guy said something that I was grabbing his hair. What he failed to mention was that I was actually pulling Gabriel closer to me.
After a moment, Gabriel stopped and pulled away from me. At first I wanted him to latch back onto me and drink more of my blood, but then my sense came back to me and I decided that it was a good thing that he let go of me.
I pulled away from him, and actually got away, because he obviously expected me to not know what was going on. I did, however, and started running toward the party. Gabriel caught me before I could even get three feet away from him. He pulled me back into the woods and told the other guys to go keep watch.
"I'm sorry that I have to do this, but you just won't cooperate." Gabriel said, and then he bit my neck. The endorphins came back and I felt so good it wasn't even funny. I felt like I could go to sleep. In fact, I could hear sleep calling me and I wasn't going to fight it until I saw Chad.
Handsome, wonderful Chad. At first, he was just holding me, but then he looked at me and frowned. "What's wrong?" I asked.
"Sonny, you're so pale. Are you okay?" he replied.
"Of course. I don't know why I'm pale. I missed you." I said.
"Sonny, stop. I'm serious. What's wrong? Something is definitely wrong. Stay here. Don't let it get to you. If you do, you will never see me again." he told me.
That was when I came back to reality. I caught Gabriel off guard by hitting him in the nose. It was extremely painful when he broke away from me and it had me doubled over. I shut my eyes tight and held my breath, waiting for the blow that was about to hit me, but it never came. Something had happened, but I was so drained of blood that I didn't even look up. All I did was fall over and pass out.
***
Chad
We managed to get to the party somehow. I wasn't really paying attention to much. I just followed everyone else by looking at their feet. I was thinking about Sonny and how I had to find her. This wasn't about my luck anymore. It was about my being in love with Sonny.
There. I said it. I was in love with Sonny. I put my ego and my reputation away so that I could admit it. I desperately needed to get to her before she forgot or risk spending the rest of my life alone. I knew that if Sonny were never to come back then I would never be with anyone else. Then again, there were plenty of people who said that and wound up falling in love with someone later and starting a very happy and successful life.
I wasn't really paying attention when everyone stopped, so I wound up bumping into Jewel. Hayden had gotten a little ahead of me, but he was to my right. I felt someone grab my shoulder, and I knew that that would be Amy trying to make sure I wouldn't fall from the bump. Jewel turned and looked at all of us.
The way she was looking at us made me want to go and crawl under a rock. It wasn't like her to look at people like that. The sensitive and nice look in her eyes was absent and seriousness took it's place. She meant to take down her brother this time. That's why she'd been so rough on Amy earlier. I could see Jewel's point that we needed to get there fast, but I also didn't see why she had to treat Amy like that.
"I've thought about this for a long time. I think I know how we need to dress. Everyone needs to stay still. I think I can conjure all of our outfits at the same time if I concentrate enough and that will get us to them faster." Jewel explained.
I knew that in order to stay still I was going to have to close my eyes and think about why I was doing this. I'd been moving a lot lately and usually when I moved a lot it made me want to keep moving. It was hard to stay still, but when I thought about being in Sonny's arms it made me as still as a statue, never wanting to move from that spot.
When I opened my eyes I was decked out in black leather and blue velvet. It was the same for all the others, only they had different colors. Jewel had a very hot and daring pink velvet mixing with the leather. Hers was kind of shredded. It looked very daring, unlike mine that was just laced with the velvet.
Hayden had a very dark green color velvet. His was on the inside of his jacket and patched on his pants. His matched Amy's, which was a lighter green that was the shorts part of her skort. She had a light green tank top under her leather zip-up shirt. It was very…naughty looking.
I could see a very small light in the distance. I figured it was a fire of some sort by the way it kept flickering. If this was the party that Amy saw earlier I would that much closer to being with Sonny. I was excited and anxious. I was scared and fearless. I had no idea what was about to happen. The only thing that I really knew was that I was going to do anything in my power to get my girl back.
I lied. There was one other thing I knew. There would probably be some big battle between Ben and I. Or Ben and Jewel. Whichever, I had to hope that our side would win so that I could get Sonny out of here. Also if it was Jewel that fought him and lost, I would be stuck here with Ben. Not something that I would be looking forward to.
We were walking again, the light slowly getting bigger, allowing me to make out that it was actually a bonfire. I took in my surroundings. There was a house across the street from the fire, and it looked like there had been no one there in years. Near the fire, there was a barn and I could see a whole lot of woods covering the entire area. The only place there weren't any woods were the ways the streets went.
We made it to the area and no one paid any attention to us, for which I was thankful. I guess fate was giving me a break. Jewel made a slight motion that I almost didn't see for us to go with her behind the barn. There were two couples making out back there, but other than that we were good. Jewel pulled us into a huddle.
"Look, we're going to split up. Amy and Hayden, you two blend in the most so you're going to cover the barn. I'll cover the bonfire because that's where people will be paying attention to what kind of creature you are. Chad you search around the area. They're here somewhere. I can feel Ben." she said. She made a gesture that meant for us to go do our jobs and we took off.
I started out by going the opposite way than Jewel went. That meant away from the bonfire. It wasn't hard to go out that way. There weren't any people out that way, just a field. I decided to check anyway. I knew how Ben was. He didn't look like the type to hang out around a lot of other people. I saw the crops that were out in the distance. At least I knew that someone owned this barn and they were doing a little planting, unless those crops belonged to someone else.
I went out that way a little bit, seeing trees on the other side of the field. I had no idea if they were going to be over there, but first I wanted to check out this little patch in the crop field where there were a lot of crops in one spot. It looked like they were growing corn here, but in that one area it seemed like it was wheat. I couldn't exactly make it out because I was looking from the moonlight, but I knew it wasn't the same as all the other crops.
As I moved closer to it something moved. At first I thought that I'd found them and they'd given away their hideout as they decided to move, but then I realized that it was just a crow moving when I spooked it. I let out a sigh and looked at the bonfire. I could see it from where I was, and it blinded me for a second.
I looked to the other side of the field, where the trees were. I thought I saw movement, but it may have just been the fact that I couldn't see things very well with the dot of light in my way. Stupid bonfire.
I started walking to the trees, and then I saw it. There was definitely movement over there. I didn't know if it was going to be Sonny, Ben, or maybe more people making out, but I was going to find out. From the middle of the field, I could see two people struggling, but then they stopped. I couldn't tell exactly what they were doing, but it didn't look right.
The two people moved away from the front of the trees, and four other people came out from the woods. I was going to have to make my way around these guys. Before they could see me, I ran over to the side of the field. There were more crops over there. If the guys looked close enough they would be able to see the crops moving, but not me.
I was slowly making my way to the woods, and I was almost there when someone reached out and pulled me out of the crops.
At first I thought it was Ben, but then the guy said, "What are you doing sneaking around here, punk?"
"I…I…" I had no idea what to say.
"You what?" He was looking at me with his mouth open. Why did this guy have such white teeth? They were whiter than mine, and come on, I'm Chad Dylan Cooper…
"He's with me. Put him down." someone said from behind the guy.
"And you would be?" the guy said, moving so that we could both see him. It was Hayden. Boy, was I glad to see him.
"Someone you don't want to mess with, vamp." Hayden pulled out what looked like a sticker and stuck it to the guy's wrist. The guy dropped to the ground instantly.
"What was that?" I asked.
"It's a sticker the fairies developed. It temporarily knocks out a vampire. I don't know all the facts about it, I just know that it works." Hayden explained.
"Okay, then. Vampires-real. Got it." I replied and looked back to the woods.
"I've got to get back to Amy. You got it from here?" he asked. I nodded and he handed me some of the stickers before leaving. I wondered how he knew I was in trouble, but then again he was probably like Jewel and knew when to pop up out of nowhere.
Hayden apparently took out the rest of the guys because they were all passed out on the ground, too. I made it to the woods, and saw an electric shock go by just as I got there. That was when I saw what exactly was going on.
Sonny was on the ground, passed out. She had a big chunk of her neck missing, and was bleeding out. Ben was holding some other guy-a vampire, I guessed-up in the air. The tips of the guy's hair was fried and he looked dead, but I couldn't be sure. I wasn't thinking straight, so I just ran to Sonny. I picked her up and she opened her eyes for just a second.
"I did it…" she whispered when she'd focused on my face, but then she passed out again. I was picked up off the ground, but I never let go of Sonny for even a second. Ben brought me straight up to his face and looked into my eyes.
"Did you think that you could just come here and take her back?" he said. He had a smile forming on his lips. When I nodded he said, "Well, then, you're in for a hell of a night."