So Cold

Chapter 3: Truth

The next day, Sonny was awakened by the sound of her alarm clock beeping loudly. She groaned and reached over to turn it off.

She sat up and turned the light off. Today was the first day she was supposed to shoot, "So Random!", since learning she was expecting. She grabbed her phone off the nightstand and checked it.

It said she had a new text. She tapped the screen a few times before the message appeared.

It read:

FROM: Tawni

Hey girl! How 'yah feeling today?

Sonny rolled her eyes and hit reply. She quickly replied back:

"I feel like crap. At least I haven't thrown up yet."

She quickly hit send and stood up. Sonny had gotten her pink skinny jeans on and her bra when the now oh-too-familiar feeling came over her.

"Spoke too soon!" she exclaimed, running to her bathroom, slamming the door behind her.

After throwing up a few times, Sonny heard a knock on the door.

"Are you okay, sweetie?" he mom asked.

"Yeah, mom." She said.

"Do you need anything?"

"A glass of water would be good." Sonny gestured up to the glass that was sitting beside the sink.

Her mother nodded and started filling up the glass when Sonny quickly shot up to her knees and emptied out whatever could be left in her stomach.

"I freakin' hate Chad Cooper!" she hissed.

"I'm sorry, hon, but this isn't all his fault." Ms. Monroe said, handing her the glass of water.

"I wish I could blame him for this." She said.

"I know, but you can't." her mother replied, "I'm going back downstairs, alright, yell if you need anything and be ready to leave in twenty minutes."

"Okay." Sonny replied.

A few hours later, on the set of "So Random!" the Check Out Girls world had been brought to life for the episode rehearsal.

In this episode, the Check Out Girls were trying out for the cheerleading squad.

"Hey, check out the football players!" Tawni said, nudging Sonny's arm and pointing over to Nico, who was wearing a bulky football uniform.

"Hey, check out the basketball players." Sonny repeated the action, but was pointing to Grady this time, dressed in a red and white basketball jersey.

"Hey, check out my pom-poms." Tawni said.

"Hey, check out mi…" Sonny began, nausea suddenly coming over her again.

"No, no, no, not here, it's not time yet." Sonny thought.

"Hey, check out mine!" She exclaimed quickly.

"Hey, check out my toe-touch." Tawni said.

Tawni did her preparation, and then executed a well done toe-touch.

"Hey, check out my, herkey!" Sonny said, trying to sound as perky as possible while keeping the nausea at bay.

Sonny went through the motions and did her jump.

That was all it took.

"Hey, check out me running like a basketball player!" Sonny exclaimed, running off the set and to the nearest bathroom, which happened to be a company, public restroom.

Sonny fell to her knees in the first stall and threw up for the fourth time that day.

Tawni came in right after her and swung the stall door open. She got right behind Sonny and pulled her hair back out of her face with her hand.

"It's okay, it's almost over." She said.

Sonny finally stopped. She sat up and wiped her mouth off on the back of her hand and flushed.

"I wonder how long this lasts?" Sonny groaned.

"I don't have a clue." Tawni shrugged, "I suppose a few weeks, it's totally gross, so I hope it ends soon, for your sake, plus, you nearly blew your cover out there. If you'd lost your breakfast in front of Nico and Grady, you'd have to explain."

"I know, I really am trying, but it's hard." She replied.

"You're doing a good job too. It's gonna be over before you know it."

"The whole ordeal, or the throwing up?"

"Both, I guess."

"Not possible."

Sonny stood up and dusted off her cheerleading uniform and walked out of the stall with Tawni.

"What in the hell is wrong with you?"

Both girls stopped. Portlyn Murray was standing in front of them, her arms crossed over her perfectly unwrinkled "Falls" sweater vest.

"What do you mean?"

"You just run in here like your ass is on fire and puke your guts up, that's so not normal. What are you anorexic or something?"

"I have the flu." Sonny lied.

"Ew.." Portlyn replied.

"Why are you in here anyway?" Tawni said, "I thought you were too good to use public facilities."

"The girls bathrooms over at "The Falls" are broken. Samantha tried to flush a tampon the other day." Portlyn rolled her eyes.

"Bright bunch of ladies, aren't you." Tawni smiled sarcastically.

"I'm out of here, I don't have to take this from the residence of "Chuckle City"." Portlyn flipped her hair and walked out of the room.

"That was close!" Tawni gasped as they followed out after Portlyn a few seconds later.

"She almost got me that time!" Sonny said, "Oh no!"

"What?"

"What if she says something to Chad?"

"Chad'll think you have the flue, it's not a huge deal."

"Couldn't he put things together, like you said, he's not stupid."

Tawni rolled her eyes, "He's a boy. He wouldn't put throwing up with pregnancy. To him, throwing up is just being sick in general, it's not a symptom of pregnancy like it is to us."

"You're probably right." Sonny agreed, as they made their way back to the stage.

"Hey Sonny!" Grady yelled, "What happened back there? Are you okay?"

"Yeah, I'm fine. I think I might be coming down with the flu or something, but I feel a lot better." She replied.

"Good, 'cause Tawni can't do Check Out Girls on her own and I do not want to wear that wig again!" Nico said.

"What about the girdles, they were nice." Grady added.

"True, but it's not worth it." Nico shook his head.

"You two are really weird, you know that." Tawni said.

Nico and Grady laughed before they headed off stage muttering something about Zorra's snake.

"Hey, I'm getting kind of thirsty, I'm going to the drink machines, I'll be right back." Sonny said.

"'Kay" Tawni replied.

Sonny headed out the exit door and down the hallway to the very dead end where a large Pepsi machine was located.

She pulled a dollar bill out of her pocket and slid it into the machine.

"I thought Chuckle City was having rehearsal?"

Sonny's eyes widened and uttered a loud gasp.

"What? You act like you've seen a ghost." Chad Cooper chuckled with a smirk, "When in truth, you've just seen the most handsome thing you'll ever screw around with."

Sonny rolled her eyes.

"This is why I don't want him around my baby." Sonny thought.

"Portlyn said you were sick, thought I'd come check on you." He said sarcastically.

"Look!" Sonny said, taking a step closer to him, "I don't care about you. I never have. You're a jerk who took advantage of me!"

"Like you didn't want it too, you looked pretty willing. I can steal hear you calling out my name right now." He said.

"You need to get a life and stop torturing those who really don't give a rip." She replied.

"You say you don't care, and yet, you threw yourself at me, suggested we get a room, and then never stopped us from having sex, when you could have." He rolled his eyes, "You so care."

"I do not and neither do you!"

"Who says?"

"I do," Sonny yelled, "and that's all that matters!"

"Like your opinion matters to me."

"Well how about this opinion?" Sonny began, her mouth acting before her brain, "I don't want you around me or my baby!"

As soon as the word baby left her, her hand shot over her mouth. Sonny began shaking with fear, literally.

"No, no, I didn't." she said quietly, backing up to the point where her back hit the drink machine.

"What?" Chad exclaimed, "Your baby?"

Sonny removed her hand from her mouth to reveal her quivering lip. Tears began to fall from her eyes as she looked at Chad.

"Chad, I'm pregnant." She sobbed before pushing past him and taking a run down the hall.