A/N: Don't throw things at me. Okay? Thank you :D So it's been over a month since I updated this. And I've decided that this story just really isn't speaking to me anymore. I wrote the first part of this chapter about four weeks ago and it hasn't been touched since. So…I'm assuming that I've lost my drive for doing this story. I'm so sorry. But – well, I'm not feeling it anymore. Especially what with season 2 starting tomorrow, season 1 seems…well, old. If you're interested in reading my other stuff, though, feel free to do so. Vocabulary Lessons has become my latest multi-chapter project, but I've also got a bunch of one-shots. Thank you, and once again, I apologize.

Stormy with Patches of Sky

"You make me laugh, you make me cry, I don't know which side to buy." -Miley Cyrus

It was a boring day. One that, thus far, had consisted only of hanging out in the prop house with my cast, watching Nico and Grady in their eventually successful quest to discover identical popcorn twins. And then, of course, the day changed completely.

Chad walked in.

This normally wouldn't be enough to change the entire day (more like affect it slightly...), but then I noticed a small announcement in the corner of the cover of the magazine that Chad was holding up. The main headline, of course, was about Chad, but it didn't seem quite as interesting (shocking, I know).

"No way! Let me see that!" I snatched the magazine from Chad, quickly skimming the excerpt of the article on him before focusing on the announcement that had originally caught my attention.

"I know. Pretty cool, right?" Chad did a variation of popping his collar, a move that never failed to look both awkward and adorable. But that wasn't what I had paid attention to at the time.

"Uh, yeah! They're making a movie out of my all-time favorite superhero, Fashionita!" As I pronounced her name, I stuck out my fist and broadened my stance as I had seen her do in cartoons. Grady and I then fondly reminisced about Fashionita and her glamorous crime-fighting, leading to a somewhat awkward moment where we both professed our desire to play her. I won out, though, most likely because I was, in fact, a girl. "Look, I have to get an audition," I told Chad, knowing that he was the one in the room with the most influence over being able to get auditions. Tawni walked over and immediately decided that she would be competing with me for the role, even though she didn't have the slightest clue who Fashionita was. I shrugged it off, figuring that I had much more background prep on the character than she ever would have. There would be worse competition than her.

"Okay, do you really think I came all the way over here to not talk about me?" Chad asked, clearly getting impatient. I looked at the magazine in my hands again, this time reading it aloud.

"Mackenzie Falls' Chad Dylan Cooper will be doing double duty - " Here I had to pause due to a somewhat immature reaction from Grady. This was repeated once more before I finally continued, skipping over that part. "Apparently, Chad's hosting a new hidden camera show called Celebrity Practical Jok'd."

"Yeah. I play crazy pranks on celebrities, then I pop out and say 'You've been celebrity practical jok'd, sucka! Aah!'" Pranks? That actually sounded kinda fun. As long as I wasn't the one being pranked. Oh my gosh! What if Chad tried to prank me?

"That means you're on two TV shows we won't watch," Nico replied, thinking quickly. Of course we all had to laugh at that as Grady added another "double duty" comment.

"Sure!" Chad looked down at Nico and Grady with a light in his eyes. "Laugh it up now! You won't be laughing when I prank you on my show. Who knows? Maybe one of you will be arrested by a fake cop…covered in fish guts…so beware!" He leaned in menacingly as Nico and Grady retreated, scared. Although I really don't know why they were. Chad was clearly just trying to psych us all out. But they were certainly mad when he ate one of their identical popcorn twins shortly afterwards.

Later in the commissary, we were all dining on hot dogs (there was surprisingly good food for once) when I got a call from the director of Fashionita. I had gotten an audition! When I shared the news with my castmates, however, no one seemed to really care, other than Tawni (who didn't exactly care the way I wanted her to). Instead, they were all paranoid about Chad and his prank show.

"Guys, relax. We're all friends here, and I refuse to believe that any one of us would be working with Chad on a prank," I assured them once they had torn up some poor guy's burrito after pelting him with my uneaten hot dog. Of course, just as they were relaxing, Chad walked up.

"Unless one of you is!" My gullible friends gasped in shock.

"But probably not," he corrected himself, beginning to walk away as everyone at the table sighed with relief. I rolled my eyes.

"Unless I'm lying!" Chad had to start it again. And they had to gasp. Really, guys? Really?

"But probably not." I shook my head as everyone else relaxed.

"Unless I am!" I lifted my eyebrows, waiting for him to just leave. And he got the hint, too.

"See you later," he waved slightly, and it seemed that it was directed at me. I smiled involuntarily as he turned around and walked away. "Especially one of you!" he added, turning back and winking before finally leaving.

"He winked at Sonny!" Grady immediately pointed fingers (literally) at me. My jaw dropped as I realized that he did. I knew it wasn't because we were in cahoots, though. So what else could it have been for?

A/N: Dramatic ending, I suppose. But you all know what happens next. :P Love you all! Hope you understand :D