Sonny spent her whole afternoon getting ready for her trip to the arcade with Chad.

The Games of Fun Arcade was about 30 minutes away so she knew they would have lots of time to talk and she was looking forward to it! Because she was growing weary of the sound of her own voice she was determined to turn the conversation of the ride over to Chad.

She was actually starting to miss all his sarcastic comments, his playful smirks, and the witty banter they both always seemed to carry in their back pocket! She was excited to see it all return.

She skipped around the apartment in her bright yellow sunshiny dress, her jean jacket, and her comfy brown boots. When the doorbell rang, Sonny pranced over and threw open the door.

There stood Chad- he wore some casual jeans and a long sleeve blue tee shirt. He hadn't brought any flowers, but it was a casual date after all.

"There's my sunshine!" He winked and gave a charming smile.

Sonny felt her heart warm (she had been feeling that a lot lately!). Sonny's smile seemed to grow bigger with every date and each one seemed better than the last.

Chris and Sonny climbed into the car. He made sure to open the car door for her and double check the safety of her seat belt.

The care he took for Sonny made her feel as though he was her knight in shining armor! As her face blushed with these thoughts Chris' heart filled with honestly didn't feel that much care for Sonny's well being. But to encourage her affections he gave her a sly wink and headed down the road- in Chad's car with 'Chad's girl'.

"So" Sonny gave a little jump as she turned to Chad. "I was thinking… I am so tired of hearing myself talk! I mean lately I've just been talking, and talking, and talking… and quite frankly I'm running out of things to talk about!"

"I doubt that" Chris annoyingly mumbled to himself. But, giving a fake grin threw one of his smooth lines.

"I could never hear enough of your sweet, soft, voice." He softly placed his hand on her cheek.

"Ok" Sonny said in a questioning tone as she politely removed his hand from her face.

Chris tried not to act annoyed at her rejection.

"Anyway"… she perked back up… "Tell me about your day."

She sat back with her eyes wide open ready to listen intently.

Chris paused "Well…" he grinned and gazed at her "it was pretty boring until I saw you Sunshine"

Sonny looked at him with a confused stare. Why exactly was she having to draw conversation out of Chad especially a conversation about himself?

"Well, you had a shoot today, this is like your biggest episode ever right?" Sonny began tugging at his sleeve to get him to join in the conversation.

Chris continued to listen to Sonny's words and figure out how to make a sappy line out of it.

"Yeah, we shot, did a great job…" he said flippently… then Chris burst into passion "But, then I saw a ray of beauty coming toward me and my shoot meant nothing anymore." He lifted her hand to kiss it.

Sonny jerked it away.

"Stop It!" she demanded.

"Stop what?" He sincerely didn't know what she was talking about.

" 'Stop what'?" It seemed pretty obvious to her

"Stop throwing me lines,… and just carry on a normal conversation!"

"A conversation?"

"Yeah…" Sonny rolled her eyes "… you know you use to be able to have one!"

Chris' irritation at her pushiness reached it's max.

"Fine!" He snapped at her, gave her a very annoyed look, and started making vague conversation.

Sonny didn't hear a word after 'Fine'.

The tone of his voice through her way off guard. It wasn't the fact that he was being a smart-aleck (he always was) but there was definitely something different in his tone this time. It felt so cold, careless, and cutting. It was such a quick turn of demeanor that Sonny didn't know what to think. It was actually kind of frightening.

After Chris finished his speech he noticed an awkward silence in the car. He looked to Sonny and noted the uneasiness in her eyes.

"Oh Sonny, I'm sorry" He truly felt bad for hurting her feelings, after all he wasn't heartless.

But, he did quickly notice her affection was slipping away and gave a hurried endeavored to regain it. "I'm Sorry…My sunshine." He smiled with seemingly sincerity.

Sonny paused to consider his intent… Chad wouldn't normally apologize unless it was in a clearly sarcastic tone- He sounds pretty sincere though. Eventually Sonny decided to push her doubts aside and a smile crept back onto her face and she was able to relax again (though not as perfectly as she had before).

While at the arcade, Chris was nothing but a gentleman. He made sure to allow Sonny to choose the games, where to eat lunch, and insisted on taking her to her favorite Ice-cream Shop once again! Sonny truly enjoyed every minute of it.

However, on the way home Sonny still found that Chad had very little to say.

The truth was that Chris knew very little about Chad and it seemed as if Sonny knew everything about him- his favorite food, favorite activities, even his favorite ball teams- and what girl cares about was a lot easier to give quiet, admiring looks.

But, those looks kept making Sonny more and more uncomfortable and she couldn't quite put her finger on why.

In the silence her thoughts began to flounder around, though she tried not to show it. Chad had changed so much. He was sweet and generous, kind and thoughtful, loving and affectionate, but it seemed to go deeper than that. It was like all the romance and adoration was icing on top of a hollow cake.

Why couldn't he talk to her, why was he all of the sudden so interested in her. It had to just be her imagination. She must have been so surprised by his new found affection that she was being over critical of his other actions. She was a little unsure of how their romantic dinner for that night would go.

She glanced over at Chad who had kind of a bored look on his face.

'Well I'm not a very good date' she thought to herself.

She knew she should start up some conversation in order to get things back on track. She flipped around and placed her elbows on the middle console with her chin resting on them "So… I got the 12th highest score on Zombie attack!" She smiled.

Chris returned the smile genuinely thankful she had broken the awkward silence.

Sonny got a look of guilt on her face thinking of all the negative thoughts she was holding toward him.

"Chad, I'm sorry. You have been really nice to me lately and I appreciate it!" Sonny gave him a sincerely grateful smile.

That was just the confidence boost that Chris needed.

He filled with pride 'yep, I'm still winning this battle' he thought 'But a (apparently) sincere apology would definitely seal the deal!'

"No Sonny, I'm not upset, your right, it doesn't matter how charming I am, if I don't put forth my part of conversation and care into our relationship it will never be. I am sorry"

Sonny gazed into his sincere eyes and her big beautiful smile once again returned to her face.

Her thoughts- 'Maybe this won't be such a bad evening after all!'.

His thought- 'Jackpot!'