For the first time in his life Chad was speechless.

He watched the fiend, Nyack, stroll out the shop with a grin plastered on his face.

He leaned against the wall and slid down to the floor, tears stinging in the back of his eyes as he closed them.

"Remember Mr. C, give me access to Sonny Munroe or Dakota will have some new fishy friends to sleep with."

Chad froze as he was about to knock on the door.

"Look...Y-y-you can have access to Sonny just don't hurt Dakota!"

A nauseating pause filled Chad's throat with a choking lump.

"It's a deal. I won't even look at your little princess."

Chad opened his eyes and got up, taking deep breathes.

He looked into the shop seeing Sonny paying for a number of outfits.

He wanted to run up to her and blurt out what that man was planning to do. But she looked so happy when she was talking to that man.

He couldn't upset her. It was tear him apart.

Chad felt his phone vibrate realising he got a text. It was Sonny asking him where he was and if he wanted to have lunch with her

That made him smile.

He moved away so she couldn't see him and texted back and that he would and meet her there.

Sonny came out of her Sonny-store and read the text she got from Chad.

He said he would meet her in no time.

She walked out the store towards the cafe.

"Hi Sonny."

Sonny turned around and grinned.

"That was fast." She grinned.

"I was already here when you texted me. So lunch is great." Chad held out his arm.

"May I escort thee young lady."

Sonny giggled "Why you may kind sir."

A week later

Sonny felt the urge to call Nyack. After having lunch with Chad and going to the movies with him the week before and talking to her late father's friend made things cheer her up after a stressful rehearsal when the chalkboard from the school sketch landed on top of her which set Tawni laughing until her sides split as Nico and Grady lifted it off her like proper gentlemen.

She was brushing her hair in her dressing room and it wasn't long when she heard a knock on the door.

As she opened the door Chad stood there with that looked like he had been crying.

"Hi Chad, What's up?"

"Sonny, that man Nyack, he's dangerous."

She giggled briefly, "Chad, he was my dad's friend. He knew me since I was born."

Chad shook his head, "No, Sonny you've got it all wrong. He's planning something...I have proof."

He reached into his pocket and pulled out a tape.

Sonny was feeling agitated, "Chad how could you possibly know that? I only met him a week ago."

He shook his head again, "Your wrong Sonny...He-"

"Oh so just because you're The Chad Dylan Cooper everyone has to be wrong and you have to be right, Is that it?" Sonny half yelled.
"No Sonny, I'm trying to help you, Nyack is a bad man. You have to believe me."

"What are you saying?"

"You're in danger Sonny, believe me. Besides don't you think he looks-you know-bad?"

"Is that how you judge people Chad? By the way they look? I think you just don't want me to be happy because someone is a friend of my families'."

Chad caught her wrists just as she was about to turn away.

"Sonny, Please, I'm not lying, I'm telling you this be..."

"I hate you."