Chapter 3: Triangles Are Fun, Right?

In the parking lot of the Condor Studios at 8 a.m. with a coffee in hand, I head towards Stage 3, but someone stops me.

"Hey, Sonny! Wait up!" I hear a familiar male say…a person that goes by Chad Dylan Cooper.

I turn around and I think I almost drop my coffee, but there he was looking obviously amazing. I avert his eyes, not taking any chances by looking at those blue abysses, but I ask him, "What do you want?"

"I was wondering why you didn't answer my calls yesterday evening," he says. "But I guess you've heard."

"Heard what?" I ask with a hand on my hip, "About the movie in Australia?"

"Oh, so you have heard." Chad says sadly. "Are you disappointed in me?"

"No, I'm not disappointed, but what hurt me was that you never told me that you were even thinking about doing a movie when we were dating!"

"I'm sorry, but I wasn't even sure I was gonna do it then. I never wanted to leave you here alone when I was gonna go all the way to Australia, but I never said no to the director. I was split between you and my career, but I didn't act upon any of it," Chad explains. When he said, he never wanted to leave me; I think my knees became wobbly. Chad continues, "But now I am sure where my answer lies."

I accidentally let my eyes get lost into Chad's eyes. I fall into them real quick. "With Australia," I whisper.

"What?" he asks.

I try to clear my head from Chad. I take a breath and say, "Chad, look, I already know you're choosing your career—"

"—Wait Sonny," Chad interjects me. "I'm not doing the movie."

"What? You're not doing the movie?" I ask astonishingly.

"Sonny, weren't you listening to me a few moments ago?" Chad asks with a small smirk, showing me he was still the Chad I knew.

"But, the radio…I thought…Australia for three weeks?" I trail on, and then, I feel his hand pulling my hand away from my hip, gripping onto it.

He shook his head. "I am not going anywhere Sonny. I can't," he pauses and takes a shaky breath, "I can't leave, not when everything just happened."

It's moments like these that I can't help but fall in love with Chad all over again. It's times like these I forget all the mistakes he has made. I wish it is all that easy…

My phone mooed and pulled my hand away from his grasp. I took it out and saw it had a picture of Tawni Hart on the screen. "Bye, Chad. I have to go," I say, shaking out of my trance.

I turn and leave before he could say anything to stop me.

But oh-so quietly, I hear him say, "Please don't leave me."

I sigh and answer my phone as I entered Stage 3.

Hey, Sonny! Hurry up, Aaron Cole is at the Prop House. Everybody's here already!

"Okay, I'll be there in a minute! I'm on my way!"

Hurry! Aaron is going to try to carry Zora's sarcophagus.

"Okay, okay! I'll be there! See you there!"

Okay, see ya, Sonny!

"Bye!" and we hang up. I was already close enough to hear my cast mates loud cheering for Aaron. I hurry my steps because I didn't want to miss this. I walk inside and see Aaron lifting Zora's heavy sarcophagus, and oddly enough, I hear Zora squealing inside it.

"You're almost there!" Tawni coaxes excitedly.

"C'mon man! A couple more inches!" Nico says.

"Use your werewolf strength!" screams Grady.

With a grunt, Aaron carries it above his head. We all cheer, including me, which made everybody's heads towards me, and they all greet me. Aaron easily put down the sarcophagus with Zora in it carefully down and dusts off his hands. I can't help, but realize his bulging biceps working really well.

He walks towards me and takes out his hand. "Hi, Sonny. Heard a lot about you; and don't worry, all of them are good words."

I take his hand and shake it. "Thanks, and you too with Tridark and all."

He chuckles. "Thanks, so shall we all head to the line rehearsals?" he says, letting go of my hand and turning to everyone.

Everyone agreeing, we're all in work mode when we head to line rehearsals, furiously reading through the scripts, as if we were performing in front of the camera. Working surely takes mind away things because after five hours of line rehearsals and editing the script, we finally finished.

"Okay, that's a wrap!" Marshall calls out. "Nice work everyone! Work is done! Remember rehearsal tomorrow is later than usual, like around 9 a.m."

I slowly exit the rehearsal room, and head towards the lunch room. I greet some people along the way because that was just part of my nature; being sunny; being friendly.

"Hi Sonny!" called out an extra from Teen Gladiator.

I turn and wave back, but apparently I never stop walking because I run into someone.

"Geeze, watch where you're—Oh, hey Sonny!" says an all-too-familiar voice: Chad.

"Oh, sorry, Chad," I apologized. "I didn't see you."

"Impossible, how can you not sense Chad Dylan Cooper's presence?" Chad says teasingly. I lightly smile, but didn't reply like I would have. "Wait, what's up? You would usually get fired up from that."

"Well…you know how you said that we should go back to normal?" I ask.

Chad thinks back, making a face. "No…nope. I never actually said that we should go back to normal. I think I only said that I'll see you around."

"Whatever, it was still in the context!" I exclaim.

"Okay, so yeah, what about it?" he ask.

"Well, I guess it's going to be a little hard to do that; it's going to be hard to go back. I mean, everything has changed, Maybe we should—"

"Sonny, you want to run some lines with me?" I hear Aaron call to me, interrupting what I was about to say.

"Who's he?" Chad asks, crossing his arms with his eyebrows scrunching into the middle.

I mentally face-palm myself and sigh. "He is Tridark's Aaron Cole. He's guest starring in So Random!."

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