-1So Cold

Chapter Five: Irreversible

Previously:

"Did you know about this?" Nico exclaimed.

Tawni glanced forward and saw Sonny and Chad in the center of the room, both looking rather angry. Sonny had her hands on her hips and Chad's arms were crossed over his chest.

"Oh hot damn!" she cursed.

"I'll take that as a yes!" Zora said.

"Okay, everybody, since apparently today is show and tell day, why don't you guys shut the door, come in and sit down and we'll tell you the story." Sonny said, irritation still present in her voice.

"This aughta be good." Zora scoffed, taking a seat on the yellow couch, her arms crossed over her chest.

Sonny glanced around the room at her friends. Nico looked as if he was still in shock. Grady looked at Chad, then Sonny, back and forth, over and over, in pure disbelief. Tawni was biting at the left corner of her lip, taking a seat on the arm rest of the yellow couch. She finally looked beside her at Chad, fury still present in his eyes as he went to sit on Tawni's make-up chair. Slowly, she could tell, his fury was fading into something else. Worry maybe? "Nah," she thought, "Not for me at least, maybe for himself and his 'Falls'."

"Sonny, why don't you go first. Your side of the story is probably the one that needs to be voiced the most." Grady began.

"'Cause it's probably Pooper's fault." Nico said, glaring towards Chad.

"Why I aughta!" Chad stood up, lunging in Nico's direction, rolling back the sleeve of his sport's coat.

"Hey! Hey!" Sonny exclaimed, pushing Chad back down, "This situation is already bad enough without you guys fighting! This is both our faults."

She scanned the room once more before taking a deep breath, "This is a really long story, so I'm going to shorten it up…"

"Skip no major details." Zora said, raising both eyebrows at Sonny with an evil smirk.

Sonny rolled her eyes, "Fine!"

"Okay," she said, "It started like this. I was at the after party for the Teen Choice awards and I got separated from Tawni. I went looking for her and I still couldn't find her. I tried to go outside to call her, 'cause I couldn't get any reception outside. There were all these paparazzi out there, so I had to go back inside and then I ran into Chad. We sat down at a booth, I wasn't really happy about the idea…"

"Like you weren't?" Chad said smugly.

"Shut up, you'll get your turn!" Sonny snapped.

"Wow, those mood swings must kick in like, automatically." Grady snickered.

Sonny's glare averted to Grady, "If you had to live with this," she pointed to Chad, "and knew you had to live with it for the rest of your life, you'd act this way too!"

"Sorry." Grady frowned.

"Anyway," She sighed, "The booth, the booth, yeah, we were sitting there, talking. It was really awkward, not like that kind of awkward, but like, awkward silence awkward."

"Move along!" Chad groaned.

"What did I say?" she hissed.

Chad held his hands up in defense, "I was just saying…"

"Nothing, that's what you were going to say. Shut your mouth Chad!" Sonny exclaimed.

"Back to the real world," She faked a smile, "We were in the booth, talking awkwardly. Then I got thirsty, so I got Chad to get me a Cherry Coke, and he came back with that and his water. I started drinking the Coke and it tasted funny and…"

That was it. It finally clicked with Sonny.

"You, you, you got me drunk where you could sleep with me!" Sonny cried.

Chad's eyes widened as the entire "So Random!" cast was now glaring at him.

"That's low, man." Nico frowned.

"I didn't." Chad said sincerely.

"Then what did you do?" Grady said.

"I did get her drunk, but I did it because I thought she'd be funny drunk. I didn't really have any intention of having sex with her until she started straddling me and kissing me…I'm a guy, okay!" Chad exclaimed.

"That's still messed up!" Zora said.

"Yeah Chad! Now 'cause of your little prank we're in an irreversible mistake!" Sonny said, feeling tears well up in her eyes.

"Why did you let her keep going?" Tawni finally began to speak up, "That's what I don't understand. When she started making out with you, why didn't you tell her that it wasn't okay. The whole 'I'm a guy' thing isn't an excuse? You said you wanted to see her drunk, not have sex with her!"

"I don't know. God! I'm already in this damn mess! Why try to shove off all the blame on me! Don't you think I feel bad enough! Now, because of my own dip-shitted joke I'm gonna be a father…"

Father.

Chad let his last word hang in mid-air. His heart began to pound as he stood frozen on the spot.

Meanwhile, Marshall was coming back from his mid-afternoon snack break, about to make sure the kids were getting ready for their rehearsal in twenty minutes.

He got halfway down the hallway before he heard talking and stopped to eavesdrop.

"That's still messed up!"

"Yeah Chad! Now 'cause of your little prank we're in an irreversible mistake!"

"That sounds like Sonny?" Marshall thought, "Irreversible mistake? What's she talking about?"

"Why did you let her keep going? That's what I don't understand. When she started making out with you, why didn't you tell her that it wasn't okay. The whole 'I'm a guy' thing isn't an excuse? You said you wanted to see her drunk, not have sex with her!"

"Who in the world is Tawni talking about!" his head exclaimed.

"I don't know. God! I'm already in this damn mess! Why try to shove off all the blame on me! Don't you think I feel bad enough! Now, because of my own dip-shitted joke I'm gonna be a father…"

"Chad Dylan Cooper? A father?" Marshall said out loud, "And why is he on our set?"

"I've got to see what's going on." he thought.

With that thought, Marshall headed down the hallway and turned into Sonny and Tawni's dressing room.

"What is everyone yelling about?" he exclaimed.

That was it. The jig was up.

All of "So Random!", plus Chad turned to face Marshall. Shocked and scared looks were present on all of their faces. The room was in a complete state of silence until Sonny fell to her knees crying.