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Mackenzie Falls lounge:
Sonny's smile never ceased to brighten Chad's day. Even on the dreariest of days, the thought of simply seeing Sonny in all her glory propelled Chad to the studio. So then why had he gotten so mad at her in the morning? Why was his morale at an all time low?
Maybe it was the innocent demeanor with which she had greeted him: she had acted as though nothing had happened, as though nothing had changed. She hadn't bothered showing any regret for leading him on. In fact, she still seemed as willing as before to flirt with him, to play their usual good-good-fine-fine game, if her text to him in the forenoon was any indication. What did she think she was playing at? Why was she being so flippant about his emotions?
It took Chad all of his will power to not reply to Sonny's message with a 'bad'. Catharsis of the sort would only make him seem weaker. And Chad Dylan Cooper didn't do weak. He still had his dignity and self-respect to uphold.
Chad's anger at Sonny, however, did not prevent him from wanting to run into her on purpose, from wanting to see her radiant face, from wanting to get lost in her beautiful eyes, from wanting to hear her tinkling laugh. And even though he wanted to stay mad at her forever, he was already beginning to miss her. And thus he found himself walking to the So Random! prophouse.
Meanwhile, at the So Random! Prophouse:
"So Jake how was the sketch? Did we do well?"
"You did okayish, but Tawni was absolutely great!" Sonny scowled at him. Tawni, on the other hand, gave him a big smile and blew a kiss to her mirror reflection. "Ain't I always great?" But Sonny had known Tawni long enough to know that she was actually pleased with her brother's comment.
"Yes Tawni you are always great…" Sonny watched the conversation with her mouth slightly agape. Was Jake flirting with Tawni?!
"And beautiful", Tawni said.
"Yes, as beautiful as the theory of relativity".
Tawni looked at him keenly for a second, opened her mouth, then, she seemed to decide against commenting on it and closed her mouth. She settled for a simple "Thanks."
Sonny coughed pointedly.
Jake snapped out of his daze and looked at her, his face slightly flushed.
"Excuse us for a second Tawni", she said and dragged him by his elbow out of Tawni's earshot.
"You are hitting on TAWNI?!"
"Errrr…no but…"
"Looks like the Randoms are extremely busy these days", interrupted a voice that sounded slightly angry. Sonny whipped her head around to see Chad striding towards them.
"Hey Chad", she said, letting go of Jake. She walked back to the prophouse with Chad and Jake followed them.
"Randoms", responded Chad, still refusing to meet her eyes. And, unlike the previous times, he seemed to be addressing all of them instead of just her. It stung. What had she done to deserve such treatment?
"What do you want Cooper?", asked Tawni.
Chad did not answer her immediately. Instead he took his time to walk towards the wall, lean back on it and rest a foot on its surface. He put his hands into his pant pockets and looked around the entire room once. Sonny noticed that he had discarded his jacket from the morning. He was only wearing his Mackenzie falls shirt and khaki trousers.
Something about his posture made Sonny want to walk to him and wrap her arms around him and never let him go. But before she could act on her inexplicable urge, Jake's voice interrupted her.
"So you are Chad Cooper…the guy Sonny's cr…" Before Jake could complete the sentence, Sonny clamped her hand over his mouth, afraid that he would say something inappropriate at an inopportune moment. Ticking off Chad when he already seemed to be in a bad mood wasn't very high on her priorities. And besides, Jake was her elder brother and she could never predict when he would go all "Hey, she's my little sister, don't you dare approach her" and embarrass her.
Jealousy that had barely gone back in reared its ugly head again and Chad clenched his fists. Oh, what wouldn't he give to prise Sonny's hand off that guy's mouth. Resisting the urge to drag Sonny away from him, he averted his gaze from her hand and turned to the others.
"I am here to inform you all that tomorrow is Dakota Condor's birthday and her dad has invited all the casts to celebrate the occasion. It'll be held here at the studio itself."
Ofcourse Chad hadn't been asked to convey the message to the So Random! cast. He had just wanted an excuse to be at their prophouse and why resort to lies when he had a readymade one?
Without a word of goodbye, he turned around and left the prophouse.
What was wrong with him? Why did he feel so let-down by Sonny? After all, they hadn't even been in a relationship.
He wanted his life to be in his control, not Sonny's.
And something had to be done about it.
Back at the prophouse:
Unable to hold it in any longer, Sonny blurted out loud "WHAT IS WRONG WITH HIM??"
She looked up to see five puzzled faces staring at her.
"Never mind…"
A/N: Sorry for the lack of humor in this chapter. No background info either. So what do you think Chad'll do? How will Sonny react?
