A/N: Thanks to all those who reviewed, favorited and put my story on alerts. You'll never know how much it encouraged me. Special thanks to my three personal reviewers: my sister and two of my best friends. If you like my story, please, please let me know through a review; otherwise I may feel unappreciated :(
Disclaimer: I do not own Sonny with a Chance.
Morning
At the studio's entrance:
Sonny spotted a figure in a familiar brown jacket and khaki pants. Chad Dylan Cooper was taking long strides towards the entrance, his blond hair ruffled due to the wind.
"Chad, hi!"
"Sonny Munroe", he responded coldly. He halted at the entrance long enough to give her a blazing gaze and then he walked away. Sonny stared at the fast retreating figure. Since when did Chad call her by her full name, like she was someone he barely knew? And was it just a trick of her mind or did he really avoid eye contact with her? Hmmm…
She threw back her hair, exhaled sharply and walked towards the prophouse.
"Hey guys!"
"Hi Sonny!"
"Guess who's got a great idea for a new sketch?!"
"Tell us all about it!"
"Can it involve something from my book?", asked Zora, gesturing to a book titled 'A Guide to Unusual Hobbies'. Sonny took the book and flipped through the pages, her gaze lingering for a few seconds on the index page. Smiling faintly, she said, "You and my brother should get to know each other."
"Speaking of the nerd, where is he? He hasn't left for Wisconsin already, has he?", asked Tawni.
"No, he is going to be here at least for fifteen days."
Forenoon
In the prophouse:
After a rather productive brainstorming session, the cast of So Random! was lounging in the prophouse. Sonny was feeling very happy about the sketch and her cheerfulness was just waiting to overrun the threshold.
'Good' she texted Chad, giving in to her desire of wanting to remind him that she still existed.
She eagerly awaited his reply, but none came. Scowling at the phone, she chucked it at the couch. Usually Chad not replying to her texts didn't bother her. In fact Chad picked up the phone only one in every three times she called. But somehow this time it didn't feel right. It was almost as if he was ignoring her. First cold-shouldering her in the morning, now this…
It was time to pay a visit to the set of Mackenzie Falls.
"Hey guys, I'll be back in a moment."
As Sonny walked through the corridors, a Mackenzie Falls poster caught her eye. In the poster, Chad was gazing dreamily, the serene landscape behind him matching his expression. Sonny looked at his face, entranced…Oh, how she could lose herself in those sapphire eyes of his…
"See, this is what I was talking about", a smug voice said, causing Sonny to jump around.
"Jake! What are you doing here?"
"Watching you stare at that guy", he replied, pointing to the poster with a smirk on his face.
"I wasn't staring at any guy", said Sonny, defiantly.
"What's his name anyways?", Jake asked, completely ignoring Sonny's statement.
"Whose name?", she asked, still standing her ground.
Jake looked at her with his eyebrows raised.
"Ok fine…he's Chad Dylan Cooper", she answered, her voice lower than usual.
"He's a Cooper? He's related to Leon Cooper?! Good choice, Sonny, good choice."
"Who is Leon Cooper?"
"You don't know Leon Cooper? He's the C of the BCS theory of superconductivity"
"The Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer theory", he added, looking at her confounded expression.
"Shouldn't have asked, shouldn't have asked..", Sonny pointedly muttered.
"Anyways, what did you come here for?", she asked, a little annoyed that he wasn't going away. She wanted to go see Chad and her idiot of a brother was holding her up and making her listen to his stupid physics facts. Like she cared about them. In fact, for all she cared, physics could disappear and she would still be extremely happy.
"I came here because mom asked me to give this to you", Jake said, handing her a notebook. It was sketch ideas' notebook and she seemed to have forgotten it at home.
"Okay, thanks. Now go", said Sonny, getting more and more impatient by the minute.
"I am not going to go now. I am going to hang around with you all for sometime and then have lunch and then go home."
Sonny resigned to having an unfavorable day and gave up trying to get rid of her brother. How much consternation could a girl take in a day? She turned around to walk back to the prophouse with Jake for company, giving Chad's poster a longing look before turning around and heading back to her cast.
Background information
1 A look at a page of Zora's book:
A Guide To Unusual Hobbies guides you to
Build a Rube-Goldberg machine successfully (such a machine really exists. Check it out. It's amusing).
Design, build and program your own robot
Raise kittens and puppies to like one-another
Learn languages that are on the verge of extinction
Pot a plant inside a pond and watch it grow
Finish reading Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace in half a day (it is a really big book)
Transport metal objects around by magnetic levitation
Experience zero-gravity and complete vacuum
2 Jake was extra eager to spend time at the studio because of his crush on Tawni. Tawni isn't inclined romantically towards Jake as yet, but she is beginning to enjoy his company. Do you all want to see some Jake-Tawni? By the way, Jake is brown haired, dark eyed. And do you all like Jake Munroe and his physics streak? Please tell me in a review.
3 Leon Cooper is a real American Nobel Prize winning physicist.
A/N:
In case you're wondering, I am extremely fond of physics. And no, I haven't watched The Big Bang theory. But I plan to, someday. And just out of curiosity, any IPL watchers from any of the cricket-crazy nations out there?
