A/N: Okay, double the update! Hopefully that means double the reviews! Hint, hint. :D This chapter's short, because there weren't very many moments in this episode, unfortunately. I pretty much lost inspiration for the line from a song, too. So I decided to post this chapter while you were all still happy about the last chapter, so you wouldn't be disappointed later. :) Hope you like it!

Stormy with Patches of Sky

"I'm coming up, so you better get this party started." -P!nk

My plan for the weekend had been to do fun things with my best friend Lucy, just like we had done them back ay Wisconsin. But things didn't go according to plan. Lucy ended up preferring Tawni's company over mine, and I was the third wheel all day. Feeling down, I had retreated to the prop house for some moping when Chad walked in.

"Oh my gosh, what happened to you? Are you okay?" His worry was evident in his voice. Wow. He was caring about someone other than himself again!

"Not really," I shrugged, but I was cut off as I spoke.

"Oh, baby!" Chad rushed over to his cardboard cutout, which had mysteriously sprouted a beard. Ugh. Figures that he would care more about that than me. So much for caring about someone else. "Who did this to you? Speak to me!" Wow, now he was reduced to talking to inanimate objects.

"Gra-dy and Ni-co," answered the cutout, which was mildly disturbing.

"What are you doing here?" I asked.

"I'm checking in on all of my cutouts." He turned to the one currently sporting a beard that Lincoln would have been proud of. "Clearly for good reason." He couldn't stand the thought of even a cutout of him looking slightly less than perfect. Can you say vain? "So, I guess I'll be seeing you at my party tonight," he smiled at me. Chad actually sounded...a bit happy about that.

"Yeah, as much as I'd like to bask in the glory of your Chadness, I can't make it." He looked stricken, like he had just found out the sky was green, or that the world didn't revolve around him. Actually, that last one was probably right on target.

"Y-you were the no? You were the one person I invited who's not coming?" Chad's voice seemed to hitch up a bit at the end, almost as if he was...sad. To think that I wasn't coming? Oh, that's ridiculous.

"Well, you see, my best friend is in town, and - "

"So? Bring her to the party!" He said before adding quickly, "You know, this just means two gifts." Of course. He could never be kind or care for more than a few seconds.

"Well, let's see if you understand it this way. So-nny is not co-ming," I imitated his cardboard cutout's automated voice. Chad's face actually fell a bit.

"Wow. I always knew this would happen to me one day. I just kinda expected it to be from a Tisdale or a Montana," he lamented the loss of his pride. Jerk.

He and his cardboard cutout were stopped at the door by Lucy, who was as starstruck as I had been the first time I met Chad. After the Mackenzie Falls star left, I was forced to tell a lie and say that I hadn't been invited to Chad's party. I just wanted things to be the way they used to between me and Lucy, with us doing fun things like making dream catchers and blindfolded makeovers. And it was that way, for a little while at least, until Tawni told Lucy that I had been invited. And then everything got screwed up. I ended up crashing Chad's party by hiding behind one of his cutouts (there were tons) and getting chased by security. In my haste to get away from the scary security guards, I ran right into someone's arms. I looked up and saw the face of the birthday boy himself.

"Hey, Sonny," he smiled at me. His arms were still around me, and my legs, unused to standing in high heels, turned to jello. "Glad you could make it. Did you bring me a gift?"

"Uh, well, you see, I didn't really have time to shop," I laughed nervously, knowing Chad wouldn't like that.

"Ohh, yeah," he nodded understandingly. "Security!"

"Wait! I'm here to apologize to my best friend!" I tried to appeal to Chad's better nature, which I knew existed somewhere inside. He put his hand on my shoulder, and I grinned at him.

"Oh, that's so sweet. Security!" Ugh! So much for his better nature. I distracted the security with a Chad cutout and rushed onto stage, only to be carried off by bodyguards. My appeals to their better natures were more successful, however, and they set me down. Chad noticed that the attention of almost everyone in the room was now on me, and he couldn't stand that.

He walked in front of me and told the crowd, "Yeah, okay, so enough of this - let's get back to celebrating me," before he was lifted off the stage by security. Ha. Once Lucy and I had made up, we hugged each other and started a domino reaction. All the cutouts of Chad fell, and the real Chad was covered in cake. He stood there, frozen in shock, as Tawni, Lucy, and I ate the remains of his cake and the party went on without him and his cutouts. I couldn't help but feel the tiniest bit sorry for him. But only the tiniest bit.

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