A/N: I am in such a major rush. But thank you all for your reviews!

Stormy with Patches of Sky

"Tonight will be the night that I will fall for you over again." –Secondhand Serenade

I had come up with an idea. An idea so perfect, so ingenious, that it obviously had to go wrong. This idea was to bring Marshall and Ms. Bitterman together. Which, admittedly, succeeded. A bit too well, though. They were all over each other, and Ms. Bitterman decided to get involved with So Random!. In a bad way. She was going to make me eat worms! So I did what any girl in my position would do – I decided to break the two of them up. But it went against my instinct to destroy romance, as proved by my extremely unsuccessful attempt, so I went to the one person who I knew was highly capable of it. Chad.

"Chad, you are the most self-centered, coldhearted, soulless person I know!" I exclaimed before crossing my arms and starting to walk away. It sounds crazy, but this is actually one of the best ways to butter him up.

"Thank you! What do you want from me?" he replied. See? I don't really know why he likes it, but he does. Just like I don't know why I like him. But I unfortunately do.

"I need you to help me break up Bitterman and Marshall," I explained. He laughed, making me wonder if he was going to refuse. I didn't know what I would do if he did - clearly my cast knew no more than I did about breaking people up. He was my only hope. Otherwise, I'd be stuck eating worms.

"Well, I am on a roll." Oh, good. That meant he accepted. But what did he mean by "on a roll"? I had seen him break up with that girl in that commissary...did he break up with another one too? He cheated? Before I could ponder this utter lack of loyalty and what it meant to me, Chad pulled out his cell phone. "What are their numbers?" I scoffed immediately. Yeah, right. That plan was never going to work.

"You can't text them! They're grown-ups, they don't know how." Chad looked at me for a moment before speaking.

"Okay...then you and me are going to have to go to Lookout Mountain." Lookout Mountain? A date place? With Chad? No. No, that would definitely not be helpful in trying to keep from falling even farther than I already was after that dance at the prom.

"I'm not going to Lookout Mountain with you, that's a date place!" I protested, knowing that I would crack under the pressure and let something else slip while on this "date" if I went on it.

"Do you want them broken up?" he asked. I failed to see how this was relevant to my going to Lookout Mountain with him. Or rather, the other way around. Did that make sense?

"Yes," I answered, sure of that at least.

"Pick you up at eight." Chad winked at me before walking away. Wait, was he asking me out? In a way? I opened my mouth to protest, but no words came out. I couldn't help but feel a little excited. Not to mention nervous. My anxiety lasted through the "date." Dreading having to sit there in awkward silence, I went with the safest topic of conversation. The scenery.

"Wow, Chad. Lookout Mountain is beautiful...romantic..." I looked at Chad automatically as I mentioned romantic, and he glanced at me with a smile. No, no, no! Getting off track. Romance was NOT a safe topic. "All the stars are so bright," I looked back up at the stars and changed gears hastily, hoping it sounded related enough.

"Yes, I am," Chad smirked conceitedly. I shot him a look before he understood what I had meant. "Oh, you mean the ones up there." He gave them an appraising glance before deciding that he was still better. "Yeah, they're a'ight. I mean, they don't have their own show." His cockiness was oddly appealing, and I burst out laughing to cover it. I apparently sounded a bit fake, because he looked over at me with a funny look before grinning to himself satisfactorily. I wondered what that little smile meant, and those dimples ended up distracting me from my main purpose - to not say anything I would regret later. Well, my main purpose aside from breaking up Marshall and Bitterman. But at that moment, I forgot both.

"Normally I wouldn't laugh at that, but I guess I'm just a little nervous," I admitted. Before I could reproach myself for telling Chad I was nervous - what was he supposed to think when I said something like that? - he turned to me and smiled.

"Relax. I promised an unforgettable evening, didn't I?" And in that instant, I forgot all about everything. Everything except Chad. I looked at him with a small grin on my face, his eyes practically asking for me to drown in them. If I hadn't already liked him, this would be the moment I fell for him.

"Yeah. You did," I answered, my smile growing.

"Well, I'm a man of my word." The words were barely out of Chad's mouth when a hideous monster appeared next to the car. Chad and I both screamed, and I grabbed his hands. Shockingly, he didn't pull away.

"What are you doing? This is the wrong car!" Chad yelled with apparent frustration. Frustration? Was he frustrated that we were interrupted? It took a moment for his words, rather than his tone of voice, to sink in, and then I sat straight up, letting go of his hands a bit regretfully.

"Wait, what? You know Bigfoot?" Obviously these Hollywood connections went farther than I had thought.

"Yeah, so do you," Chad informed me with a wave of his hand, clearly put out by something. Bigfoot pulled off his head to reveal...

"Hi, Sonny!" Nico. Dressed up as Bigfoot. It was soon revealed that Grady was also in the suit. I turned to Chad, angry with how events were progressing. After all, I wasn't pleased either that we had been interrupted, especially by something so stupid.

"How is this supposed to break up Bitterman and Marshall?" Because I honestly couldn't see how a Bigfoot was going to help.

"It's all in the script," was Chad's reply.

"What script?!" It seemed like every time I spoke to Chad, he somehow started relating everything back to some kind of script or episode. Sure enough, he pulled out a script for Mackenzie Falls.

"Episode 319 of Mackenzie Falls! Bigfoot gets the girl, it's a classic!" I didn't remember that episode. It must have been one that wasn't yet released. Good thing, too, because I'm sure the public would have hated it. The writers must have been lacking inspiration.

"Oh my gosh! This is your plan? This isn't real! This is a show!" I exclaimed. I had asked Chad, the master heartbreaker, to help me break up a couple, and instead I got a Mackenzie Falls script?

"Sonny, sometimes life imitates art! Okay? And this piece of art happens to be about a couple who takes a drive up Lookout Mountain for a romantic evening..."

"Yeah, and then Bigfoot comes out the woods and scares them!" Nico cut in as Chad spoke. Well, Nico was on board with the idea. Oddly.

"Yeah, and the guy gets so freaked out, he runs away," Chad concluded. Was it weird that he and Nico were practically finishing each other's sentences?

"And that gets the girl to break up with him..." I said like it was a great idea. Oh, now it sounded like I was completing Chad's sentence! Not that I was complaining or anything...

"Exactly!" Chad grinned, glad that I seemed to finally get it. I smiled back at him briefly before beginning a rant.

"Oh my gosh...THAT IS THE WORST PLAN I'VE EVER HEARD FROM THE WORST SHOW I'VE NEVER SEEN!" I yelled at Chad, who looked affronted. Ha. And you know, I didn't lie. I technically never saw that show. And by show, I mean episode.

"Well, here come the lovebirds, so unless you like the chewy taste of worms..." he announced as Marshall's car pulled up, reminding me why I was there in the first place.

"Nico, put your head back on!" I quickly ordered. Maybe it was a stupid plan, but if it was my only chance to get out of eating worms...

And after that, nothing went according to plan. Chad and I predicted Marshall's actions for awhile, since we both "knew people." Marshall and Bitterman had a brief argument before Bitterman started fighting Bigfoot. Not to mention my casr ditched me, along with Chad. Essentially, we did nothing. But I didn't have to eat worms, thankfully, which was my main motivation for breaking them up. Maybe Chad's plan worked after all, however stupid it sounded. Another good thing that came out of this whole ordeal? I got another "fake date" with Chad. And let me tell you, I can't even look at the stars now without thinking about that night. The night that I fell for him. Again. Even though he fled the scene afterwards.

A/N: By the way, even though we now know Sonny didn't watch Mackenzie Falls before, I'm keeping it the way I had it before. I'll talk more about that later. Gotta go now…please review! Happy New Year!