I'm so sorry the update took this long! Homework really gets in the way :/

To Demon of Angels, Forever Day, xheartxbreakerx211, and Chloe and McKenzie, thank you for the reviews! :D

This chapter has a ton of switches in point of view, so it might be a little awkward, but I just couldn't decide on only one character; this is my attempt to show what both of them are thinking :)

As she reached the top, she took a deep breath, and when she had mustered up the courage, she looked at the oak tree. There was only one person standing below the tree, glancing nervously at his watch, with the same tense expression she had seen only minutes ago on his face. And suddenly, in her mind, it clicked, and everything fell into place.

No!

That was the only thought that shot through her brain in that moment. It was all she could think. She couldn't believe her eyes.

It couldn't be! But it all made sense now. She could have kicked herself for not putting it together earlier! In her mind she flashed back to the last months.

I have everything, yet I have nothing, because I have no one anymore. You only realize what you have once you've lost it. And I've definitely lost 'it'

Chad was rich and appeared to have everything, yet he had no one in his life who he could trust, no one to love.

Basically, I thought I was in love, and to be honest, I still am, but obviously, my love isn't returned. She dumped me because she didn't have the same feelings.

She had told Chad that she didn't love him after their unfortunate date, because of her fears.

I'm so happy for you! I feel very similarly actually. I finally feel like I'm starting to move on, at least enough. I'm never going to really get over her, but I really believe I can learn to love again.

Her "mysterious friend" had somehow come to the conclusion that he was doing better at exactly the same time Sonny had: after the casual conversation she and Chad shared.

"I'm just a little nervous about a… meeting I don't want to miss."

And finally, and by far most obviously, Chad had said right in front of her that he had a "meeting". That word alone should have made the alarm bells in Sonny's head go off. But it didn't. And now, she knew, the right thing to do was to go down there, and talk to Chad. But she couldn't. She just couldn't face him right now. She'd thought that she was finally moving on, when in reality, she had fallen that much more in love with him. She just wouldn't be able to stand the heartbreak.

But she at least owed him an explanation; she just needed a second to pull herself together. She looked down at him, and tried to breathe deeply. It was good that the sun was shining so brightly behind her, so that he couldn't see her properly, even if he did happen to look in her direction. She saw a young boy, running across the field, pulling a kite behind him, trying to get it up in the air. Chad was looking at him too and after he saw the young boy's discouraged face when the kite would not fly, he moved towards the boy, helping him to lift it in the air. The little boy started running, this time in the other direction, towards Sonny.
She glanced back at Chad, but he was now suddenly squinting up the hill, in her direction...

He looked at the boy running around with his kite with a nostalgic smile. He remembered when he was that young and carefree...

The boy was now running up the hill, somehow managing to keep the kite up. He squinted against the sun to see where he was going. Out of the corner of his eye, in exactly that direction he suddenly saw something. He squinted against the sun and saw a monetary flash of red, before it disappeared. Red like the coat she was supposed to be wearing! That must have been her. Maybe she had seen him? Then why had she run away? Maybe she had some preconceived notions about him. Maybe she had seen him on TV and already hated him!

He had to find out. So he sprinted up the hill. All the exercise the producers made him to keep him in shape was finally coming in handy.

She couldn't help it. It wasn't a conscious choice she made. Her feet just ran off on their own when he looked at her. She wasn't ready; she just couldn't deal with this yet. She couldn't deal with him yet.

Once he reached the top of the hill he frantically looked around. He couldn't know which direction she had gone, but he couldn't cross the street because the traffic light was red, so he just ran off to the right, along the sidewalk.

Only moments later he was slowing down, ready to give up. He had no idea if he was running in the right direction, let alone if he had even seen her. A car honked at him from across the street. He sent the driver a charming smile, but as the car drove by and moved out of the way, he glanced across the street and saw a lonesome figure dressed in a red coat huddled up on the park bench across the street. He rushed over and sat next to her before she even noticed him. He couldn't see her face because she had pulled her hood right over her head.

"Are you LifeIsn'tAlwaysSunny?" he carefully asked, somewhat afraid of her answer.

After a moment's hesitation she nodded. He wasn't sure what to say to her. What could possibly have happened?

"I…", she hesitated as she began to say something, "I just … I can't do this. I just can't."

She mumbled, "I'm so sorry Chad," sounding like she had been crying. She jumped up and ran off again, and as she did, her hood fell off, revealing her chestnut coloured hair. By this poing though, she had gotten too far away so he couldn't see her face.

She sat on the couch with a big tub of Ben & Jerry's and stared mindlessly at the TV, just as she had been for the last two hours.

She let herself sink into the plot of her favourite movie, The Notebook, and forgot everything else around her in the real world.

After two hours of laughing and of course crying, Sonny began returning to the real world. As was always the case after watching such a sweet movie, she found herself pondering about it.

"When I'm with Noah I feel like one person and when I'm with you I feel like someone totally different."

"I am nothing special; just a common man with common thoughts, and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten. But in one respect I have succeeded as gloriously as anyone who's ever lived: I've loved another with all my heart and soul; and to me, this has always been enough."

Even though so many situations and people got in the way, an inevitable path of events always led to Noah and Allie being together. No matter how many times someone tried to end it, they couldn't. Each breakup was just a waste of time that they could have been spending together.

Just like…what she was doing. She couldn't know what lay in her future with Chad, but lately she had been given chance after chance to make it right again with him and she hadn't. They couldn't keep doing this forever.

He sat on his chair, staring at the computer screen in his dressing room, just hoping that it had all been an understanding, that she would send him a message and give a reasonable explanation. A knock sounded on his door. He closed the computer, leaned back on the arm chair and called out to the person outside, "Come in, it's open."

The door slowly squeaked open and his breath caught in his throat. It was her. The hood of her read coat was pulled over her head again, and he could see the tips of her hair peaking out. Her face was cast in a shadow, but he could tell it was her. Maybe she was finally going to show him her identity…

"Chad –"

Okay, so I was wrong last time, there are now only two chapters left (including the epilogue).

And yes, I know that cliffhanger was a kind of mean but I couldn't help it! :P

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