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Mackenzie Falls lounge:
Chad was still fuming as he flopped on the couch. He closed his eyes and massaged his temples, trying to get rid of thoughts about Sonny.
"Um…Chad Dylan Cooper? Your director asked me to give this to you", a tentative voice said.
Chad looked up to find a red-haired girl stretching an envelope in front of him.
"Thanks", he took it from her. It was the next season's schedule. He tossed it aside and glanced at her carefully, wondering where he had seen her before.
"In case you're wondering, I am Leslie…Leslie Mallory from Hoosier Girl", she said, rather confidently for someone who had sounded so unsure earlier.
"And I'm single…", she added, with a flip of her long hair.
That was fast. Chad stared at her, slightly taken aback.
"Are you asking me out?", he asked, squinting at her suspiciously, his thoughts about Sonny slightly pushed to the back.
"Duh! What do you think I was trying to do? Inform you about my relationship status just for fun?"
What was with this girl? One second she was shy, the next second she was confident and the third she was bossy? Chad was so unnerved by the girl's audacity that a certain brunette was forgotten about for a few moments.
"To what do I owe you the pleasure?", he asked, his voice loaded with sarcasm.
"Humph! Take it or leave it! If you don't want to date me then you're the loser", she huffed.
" I am the loser? In case your pea-brain hasn't registered the fact yet, you are talking to the Chad Dylan Cooper, asking him out, no less", he retorted. The girl was stretching his tolerance; he was seriously going to have to kick her out soon if she kept up her tirade. Who did she think she was to demand to go out with him? Nobody got away with demanding anything from Chad Dylan Cooper unless that somebody was Miss Sonnyshine Munroe. She could demand whatever she wanted; he would do it for her after letting her run around for sometime (just so he could entertain himself with watching her get all worked up) and in the end, unswervingly, he would do it for her, just to see her sunshine of a smile take over her face.
This girl Lucy or Luny or whatever her name was, however, was an entirely different story.
"Now get out!"
"Ok! You want me to beg?", she asked resignedly. " Let me try it this way: Oh Chad Dylan Cooper the great, will you please go out with me?"
"Much better", said Chad, his chest puffing.
"You leave me with no choice", she replied, with a frown on her face.
"So yes or no?"
Chad considered her demand-turned-request. It had been a long time since he had gone on a date. In any case, this girl was begging him and she wasn't bad-looking (though she would never be as cute as Sonny). And his prospects with Sonny looked very bleak at the moment (not that it stopped him from trying). So why not give it a go?
"Yes"
The girl walked up to him and kissed him on the cheek.
"What's your name again?", Chad asked, looking quite unmoved by her gesture.
She looked at him in disbelief and said a little exasperatedly "Leslie"
"Ok Leslie, bye then, get going. Chad Dylan needs his alone time."
Half an hour later, at the commissary:
Sonny quietly slipped in the fro-yo line behind Chad. He stood there, unaware of her presence. She tapped him on the shoulder.
"Wait! Can't you see that Chad Dylan Cooper is getting his fro-...", he turned around, only to see a slightly angry Sonny standing too close to him to do any good to his sanity. Her perfume overtook his senses and reflexively, he closed his eyes. After inhaling deeply, he opened them, getting mesmerized, against his will, in her chocolate brown ones. Cupping her face using one hand and running the other through her soft, wavy locks, he pulled her closer and leaned down…
"Chad!", Sonny shouted, shattering his trance.
"One moment you completely ignore me and the next, you try to kiss me?"
Chad didn't respond. He simply looked at her. They were still standing very close. Neither of them bothered to move farther and neither of them wanted to.
"What's wrong with you?" Silence.
"Answer me Chad!" she sounded desperate.
When silence followed her words yet again, she grabbed his collar and asked, sounding close to tears, "Why are you ignoring me? What did I do to you?"
Chad's heart soared on hearing that she cared whether he talked to her or not; and his retaliation "Like you don't know why" went back down his throat. Gazing into those beautiful eyes, he could not but let her off the hook.
"I'm sorry Munroe"
She let go of his collar and moved back a little.
A hint of a smile appeared on her face, her eyes gained a little gleam.
Both of them remained silent for a few moments, each one consumed in one's own thoughts. Then, all of a sudden, Sonny's face broke out into a huge grin.
"Oh my goodness!", she exclaimed.
Chad looked at her with his eyebrows raised.
"You just apologized! Chad Dylan Cooper just apologized!"
Chad inwardly cursed himself. It wasn't fair that Sonny had this tight of a rein over him. First the jealousy, now the apology. When had his life become so Sonny-centered?
"Shh Sonny, keep your voice down. Don't want people to hear that now, do we?"
"You don't want them to know that you apologized?"
"Yes"
"Then I have to tell them", she said. Her eyes were dancing.
"No you don't", scowled Chad.
"Yes I do"
"No you don't"
"Yes"
"No"
"Yes"
"No"
They looked at each other for a second and simultaneously, they burst out into laughter, joy and energy coursing through their veins. Both of them felt great to be back on bickering terms with one another.
"Hey Chad Dylan!"
Chad groaned. Talk about ruining moments. Leslie came and attached herself to his arm.
"Sonny, meet my girlfriend Leslie. Leslie…Sonny", he said, his tone devoid of enthusiasm.
"Hi", Sonny responded, a little stiffly.
So Miss Leslie Mallory was girlfriend number 9. Jealousy pinched Sonny when Chad introduced her as "my girlfriend". Still, it was only a pinch, not a stab. She knew Chad enough to know that he was already finding Leslie clingy; his unenthusiastic tone was a good indicator. And he had probably asked her out simply because he had been bored. But that did not stop Sonny from disliking any girl who clung to Chad's arm. And this time…
Hula girls! I was rereading some of my favorite stories and this story seemed to be a very fickle attempt compared to all those. No wonder I have been getting so few reviews (only 3 last chapter ). So here's the product of more effort. Do you see a change? Do you like it? Don't like it? Please do review. Because not getting reviews is seriously discouraging. So please…:)
