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I am back, I'm sorry for leaving you guys with such a cliffhanger but I'm glad everyone liked it.
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Oh, just to add, the chapter starts off the next day after the party and the kiss.
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Chapter 7 Big Sister
"So, you kissed him?"
"For the last time Lucy, I tripped and he fell on top of me..." Sonny tried to clarify to her best friend who was on her tail. Where was Grady when you need him? Sadly, because Grady without any hesitation filled in her shift, when Portlyn unexpectedly came to the shop, Sonny had the duty to fulfill the same thing for him. It was the least thing she could.
Now she had to bear Lucy's constant questions.
"Oh, still it sounds pretty romantic!" Lucy jumped and clapped her hands together in excitement. "Man, I know I should've gone with you. I was getting that feeling that something interesting was gonna happen! But man if I had known I would've of snuck in!" Lucy continued to complain.
"But wait Sonny- wasn't the guy you like there too?"
Sonny only sighed as she sadly nodded her head. "Yeah, Hayden was there... and saw everything."
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"You are almost close to becoming a man, Chad!" Trevor announced as he wrapped an arm around Chad's shoulder bringing him close and childish messing up his hair. Chad automatically refused and struggled against the manly hug.
"What are you talking about, I am a man!"
"Don't try to hide it Chad, we all know it was your first kiss!" Nico put the magazine he was reading down on the glass table. They were all, except for one member present at Chad's house. The typical meeting spot for the four of them, correction three of them. Chad's room was about the size of two maybe even three large master bedrooms put together. It was even nicely separated nicely by un-doored walls. He had his own miniature living room, walk-in closet, game room, and of course his actual bedroom and bathroom; however it was all in reality in one huge room. That was the reason why everyone loved to hang out at Chad's house, even though you can get lost in his house, in every room there was like a survival kit, or food around to keep you alive. How would they know? Well they were adventurous boys when they were younger, you can imagine the rest from there.
Ah, good old memories.
"How do you know?" Chad asked freezing in the spot.
"So it is true?"
"No, I mean- I already had my first kiss!" Chad yelled back at the two who were still persistent on him being innocent. Chad couldn't admit to himself, or any of the other members. How embarrassing would it be if the whole school found out, that the great F4 leader has never been kissed before, well until yesterday.
"Oh, really Chad, Really?" Trevor asked as he sat down on the coach beside Nico, very well knowing what Trevor was up to. Cornering Chad into the corner. "Enlighten us, dear friend. When was your first kiss then?" Nico along with Trevor awaited patiently as they saw an awkward Chad standing still in his large room looking everywhere but the other F4 members.
"Yesterday..." Chad mumbled as he kicked his feet on the hardwood floor in his room. Nico and Trevor let out a unison scream and gave each other a high-five.
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"So what are you going to do, Sonny?" Lucy finally calmed down, and watched as Sonny remained fixed at cleaning the Camera lens on her hands than pay any attention to Lucy.
"I don't know. I feel lost, I kissed the guy I hated in front of the guy I like! That must be the worst kind of irony out there!" Sonny whined as she calmly placed the Camera back inside the glass cabinet.
"Well, I think you should still continue your feelings for Hayden." Lucy was lightly tapping her fingertips onto the glass cabinet. "I mean, it's not like you like this Chad guy-right?"
"Of course not, I would never like someone as mean as him."
Oh, if only Sonny knew how wrong she was...
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"So, remind me again why we are cruising around the same block, Chad?" Nico asked as he was now playing a chess game with Trevor who was deeply contemplating on his next move. Why were they playing Chess? Well maybe its because they have been driving around the area for a good 15 minutes now and for some reason there was a chess board game, brand new on the back seat of the car.
The sun was going down on creating a nice deep shade of orange to all the reflections of the glass windows of the shops. The air was beginning to get more cold now.
Chad only ignored all of Nico desperate hand waves calling to his attention. Why was he doing here? It was the same area again, where he saw him and her hugging. The same area he would constantly and becoming more frequent to just take a glance at someone. Why it had to that certain someone, he didn't know.
"Come to think of it, where is Hayden?" Trevor asked as he finally made a move to move the horse piece. The sound of the wooden piece hitting the wooden board echoed for a moment in the car. Chad's ears perked at the sound of the man's name being echoed in the now silent car. "Aha, Checkmate!"
"What? Your a filthy cheater!" Nico being a sore loser kept on screaming out at Trevor, who only replied with the same scoffing response. Chad only rolled his eyes, as his two best friends continued arguing. Totally ruining his train of thought. Will, the driver was making the same right turn that would lead them to the shopping center with small shops on both the right and left side. The glow of the street lights provided enough elimination to see down to the smallest detail of the area.
In fact, Chad had almost this whole area memorized. How at the corner there was a small unheard of Coffee shop, or that there was a small Condor Films right at the corner where his target worked at. It was just at that thought were he saw her. She was walking up the street with her bright blue sweater, and her hands shoved into sweater pockets.
"Hey, isn't that the girl?" Nico literally pointed to her. Will, slowed down a bit as if expecting Chad to at any moment to command him to stop the car. However, nothing came out of his mouth. Nico's finger moved along with her, as she continued to go up the street while they were going down the street.
"Why don't give her a ride home. Chad?" Trevor asked with a smile on his face.
"Master, the car is running low on gas." Will spoke up as if on cue to save Chad his face.
"Alright, let's go back then."
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"Just how long are you two going to keep fighting?" Selena asked as she took a sip of her tea. Selena re-adjusted herself by crossing her slim legs underneath the table. Her skin tight dark blue jeans complimented lovely with the grey shirt, and her yellow scarf. Everywhere she went she looked like a model.
"I don't know..." Hayden mumbled back as he looked at the small pond beside him, avoiding all eye contact. "Chad, just crossed the line."
"What did he do exactly?" Selena asked as she placed the tea cup back into the complimentary little plate.
"Isn't obvious.. he wasn't um-respecting you." Hayden mumbled as he still looked at the pond that he now noted had live school of fish swimming in it. They were currently lightly dinning outside at a fancy tea cafe, this meeting was called to by Selena when she earlier asked Trevor how Hayden and Chad were acting. Of course, when she learned that they were still upset she had to get take this to her own hands to figure what happened.
"What? Are you sure you weren't jealous?" Selena giggled lightly at the idea as she watched as he flung his head back to finally look at her. His stare was foreign to her, and to be completely truthful it knocked the air out of her.
"What do you mean?" Hayden asked almost as if something in his hands was about to break and shatter into a million pieces. Selena hesitated to answer but swallowed the lump on her throat and continued.
"You know of Chad and Sonny." Selena played it off with a smile trying to erase that burning stare Hayden was giving her.
"You got to me kidding me, right?" Hayden sighed. "You know how I feel about you, Don't you?" Hayden added as his light brown eyes burned into Selena's deepest core that made her whole body shiver. Was it because of Hayden or because of the sudden change in temperature?
"How long are you going to ignore it?" Hayden asked as if he was literally picking up his crushed heart from the ground. "I'm leaving." Hayden said as he picked up his coat that was left on his seat.
"Wait, Hayden!" Selena finally moved and picked up her coat as well leaving a random amount of money on the table and ran after Hayden.
Rain drops.
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"I love when work isn't such a heavy load." Sonny smiled as she walking home. The streets were filled with lively people, and the lights of the stores were brightly lighting her way, and that somehow further brought up her mood. Suddenly Sonny felt raindrops hitting her sweater lightly. Sonny stopped to observe the raindrops fall from the night sky. "Crap, I forgot my umbrella!"
The raindrops were becoming more intense and falling at a faster rate.
"Well, there goes my good day." Sonny sighed as she paused to think were she could take shelter for the moment. Just perfectly a few small stores away was a store with a windows that had an attached umbrella that would provide her shelter from the rain. Sonny quickly ran under the umbrella and brushed off any little droplets about to absorbed into her clothing.
Sonny turned to the window and observed the little shop's items that were on display window. Sonny smiled as she noticed it was a small pastry shop with such beautiful deserts with strange names that she could never be able to pronounce.
"Hayden, Dammit I said wait!" a familiar female voice echoed loud enough. The sound of quickened footsteps and raindrops were mixing together and coming closer to Sonny. "I can't leave like this!" the same voice added, and that caused the footsteps to stop.
Sonny turned her head lightly to her left to observe the scene, and once she saw two familiar figures she snapped her head back to its original spot. It was Hayden and Selena. Sonny then turned around, so her back was now facing them. Sonny wanted to leave the scene before she could be recognized, but her legs just kept her stiff there.
"What, leaving?" Hayden asked as he turned around.
"I have to leave for Paris soon. And, I don't want to leave with you being angry at me." Selena's delicate voice somehow was carried loudly even with the noise of the rain hitting the floor.
Sonny remained frozen as the two kept silent for awhile. The sound of footsteps almost made her jump, did they notice her? Sonny lightly turned her head around, and the scene before her made her mouth drop. Hayden pulled Selena in for a hug.
Sonny snapped her head back, and felt the immediate tug in her chest.
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"Oh my Sonny, your soaking wet!" it was no one other than her ever worrisome mother that somehow automatically opened the door just as Sonny was arriving. "You forgot your umbrella." She added as she gave a stern shake of the head.
"Yeah I know...I'm going to go bed." Sonny announced just as soon as she kicked off her soaking wet shoes by the entrance.
"What about Dinner?"
"Not hungry." following that was the silent shut of Sonny's room door.
"Well, what's up with her?" Connie asked deciding whether or not she was daring enough to follow her daughter into her room to pry into what was wrong with her.
"Mom, let's eat." Zora said in a small voice that brought Connie back to reality and brought her to the dinning room table.
"Zora, what do you think is wrong with Sonny?" Connie asked before actually taking a bit of the salad Zora had prepared moments ago. "You know, ever since that party she went to I noticed she's been a bit down."
"I don't know, maybe she's like one of those stupid girls who falls in love with a rich guy." Zora answered in a monotone voice obviously more interested in her food.
"You might actually be right on that..."
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Sonny meanwhile after she changed into her pajamas threw herself into her bed, stared at the object on her right hand. It was the handkerchief Hayden had given her the day of the party. What to do with it?
It looked to expensive to throw out.
Yet it felt strange to keep hold of it.
Well first thing first, she should try cleaning all the red stains on it before even deciding to try to give it back to Hayden.
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Hayden wasn't at school today, thus adding to Sonny's headache. She took the time last night to stay up and clean his stupid handkerchief to it's formal clean glory, which took a good hour and $20 she won't be getting back. Well, that wasn't going to stop the day from continuing .
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It wasn't even five minutes after that Sonny opened her lunchbox and took a seat sighing heavily once her butt was planted onto the chair, how relaxing. that Penelope and Chloe decided to make their attack. Aw, so early in the morning yet here they were trying to make it all bad right off the bat.
"So I'm pretty sure you heard of your little friend?" Chloe asked as her hands were planted on the table to add to the drama to the scene.
"Yeah, what's her face." Penelope added.
Sonny remained quiet as the headache began to come alive.
"Rumor has it, that she's dropping out of school! It's all because of you." Chloe being the brains of the duo of course did most of the talking, while Penelope nodded through the small conversation.
"Your lying."
"Why do think she wasn't here today in class?" Penelope asked as she tapped on Sonny's head as if questioning whether or not she had a brain. Oh, the irony of the situation, however Sonny had no time to point that out right now.
"Portlyn." was the last word that escaped Sonny's lips before running out the school cafeteria and out of the school in a cheating amount of time.
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"So you're okay?" Sonny asked to the cuddly looking Portlyn who was sitting in bed with her light pink pajamas that made her look all the more innocent. Yes, Sonny was technically cutting periods to visit her friend, but the school was an open campus and actually acted more like a college than a high school. The only time they actually took attendance was during first period. Yet, if you chose not to show up for your other classes well that's up to you. Either way the school is taking your money.
It was a good thing, Portlyn and Sonny remained in contact with each other often through the phone lines. Portlyn one day gave Sonny her address and told her to stop by anytime.
"I'm fine Sonny, I just caught a small cold." Portlyn smiled as she directed Sonny to take a seat next to her bed. Portlyn's room was a something Sonny wasn't expecting it very childish to say the least. Two walls were a light crème and two were a light pink that gave an essence of young little girl with still dreams of princes, and princesses. "You shouldn't believe everything they say Sonny."
Minutes went by as Sonny remained a little longer than planned when Portlyn's maid offered a foreign tea that smelled of honey and flowers. Sonny being polite didn't refuse. So the two girls continued talking.
"Hey, Sonny..."
Sonny sprung her head back to Portlyn who was fiddling with her fingers. "Is it true that, you know you and Chad... you know?"
"Oh, I guess you heard about it too?" Sonny only asked, Portlyn eagerly nodded and remained silent to wait for Sonny's answer. "Well technically yes, but it was all an accident. Trust me that would never ever happen willingly!" Sonny started awkwardly laughing as if that would reassure Portlyn. Why did it feel like Portlyn was throwing Daggers with eyes?
"Oh, well that's a relief."
Sonny continued to laugh and just stare off to some corner of the room. To be truthful she had been trying to forget about all of it, it made it easier that so far she hasn't seen him. Sonny's eyes stayed glued to a thin black book shoved underneath Portlyn's bed.
"Hey it looks like you dropped something." Sonny bent down to pick it up and casually opened the book to some random page. Portlyn gave a loud gasp and yell before snatching the book away from Sonny's hands.
"Don't. You. Dare. Look. At. it." Portlyn's voice became venomous as she closed the book tightly. That deadly icy stare Portlyn had even if it was for that instant felt like a snake staring down at a poor mouse.
"I'm Sorry Portlyn. I didn't mean to offend you an any way." Sonny picked her hands up to almost physical defend herself from what was about to come. "Look, I'm sorry. I'll leave now."
Sonny carefully walked out the room almost afraid to touch anything in the room that could also be precious to Portlyn.
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"Well that was awkward." Sonny sighed as she now was walking back to the school. The streets were busy and echoing with honks from angry drivers and the sidewalks were at some parts crowded. Sonny stayed at Portlyn's house for a little over an hour, her whole lunch period.
Well at least, it's a bright clear sunny day. Sonny felt the warm rays of sun with the accompanying winds feel so blissful. When Portlyn comes back she'll fully apologize properly.
It was at that train of thought when a black sleek car had stopped in front of her purposely cutting off he way to cross the street. Sonny almost yelled and began cursing at the driver who was a middle-aged man who paid no attention to her.
"I wouldn't have you painted to be a rebel." It was a voice that she so desperately hoped was a figment of her imagination. Sonny slowly turned around to look where the voice came from, and it was from the back seat. There he was with that famous smirk of his.
"I wouldn't be talking if I were you, hypocrite!" Sonny spat out as she observed him roll down the window down more.
"I'm one my way to school."
"Well, so am I!"
"Look Munroe, I was trying to be a gentleman and offer you a lift back to-"
"A gentleman? Please, don't make me laugh!" Sonny pretending to grab her side and burst into a small fit of laughter. "Besides, you can't park your car here it's in the way. So move!"
Chad sighed as he got out of the car and closed the door behind him. "You don't have to play hard to get. I get it, you have fallen for my good looks. Not that I can't blame you."
"What are you talking about?" Sonny decided to play stupid and pretended to not know what he was talking about.
"T-The kiss. I know you did that on purpose." Chad's confident smile almost faltered a bit but he was able to play it off with a scoff. "So, listen I'll give you a lift."
"How does that relate?" Sonny asked giving him a look of doubt. "Oh no! Are you going to kidnap me again!" Sonny already planted the latter thought into her mind and before Chad could even response Sonny was already running off.
"What? I wasn't-goddammit!" Chad found it pointless to even continue that sentence as Sonny was now getting further and further away. Chad stood for a minute on whether he should chase her in car or foot.
"Master-"
"I'll meet you at home!"
And, before he knew it his legs began to move.
Why is he going chase after a girl? Well wait a minute, that was first. He, Chad Dylan Cooper was doing the chasing, instead of the girl. Just the fact made him laugh a bit as he continued to run after Sonny. Speaking of Sonny she was a couple feet in front of Chad screaming the whole time catching the attention of pedestrians who probably misunderstood the situation as Chad being either a kidnapper or a rapist.
Some people even tried to go up to him, he merely flew by them ignoring all possible comments or questions they were going to make.
Sonny developed an idea, instead of running straight ahead, well why not take turns to lose him?
That was is exactly what Sonny did. Sonny made a sudden quick sudden turn to her left to a rather large alley. Sonny could hear the sound of hastened footsteps coming closer and closer. Maybe he'll zoom right past her. Without any further thought, a sound of car behind Sonny literally accelerated and stopped in front of Sonny. It was a beautiful silver convertible with a familiar-looking blonde woman smiling behind the wheel.
Before Sonny could utter a word, the woman stepped out of the car with a large pair of sunglasses that hid her eyes nicely, and only smiled at Sonny. The woman continued walking with her gorgeous yet tall heels, and she stopped exactly at the corner of the building remaining hidden from other people. Is she hiding?
Sonny then suddenly caught the sound of Chad's voice muttering words that were not understandable to her. He was literally just around the corner, and just about as he was about to turn the left corner as he spotted Sonny standing in the middle of the alley. Before he could make another move, a fist landed to his face.
"Cocky bastard! I see you haven't changed!" It was the same woman who was hiding at the corner, was she hiding from Chad? Chad stumbled back and fell straight to the floor. Doesn't that sound familiar?
"What the hell Tawni! What kind of sister are you?"
"Sister?" Sonny choked out as she turned to face the woman. Tawni, removed her sunglasses and walked perfectly like a model towards Sonny. Tawni was wearing dark blue skinny jeans with her high-heeled black boots worn over them. She had a female black overcoat that stopped right mid-thigh, and all topped with a light pink frilly scarf. Her blonde hair, looked perfectly it was in the perfectly wavy.
"Tawni Condor. Nice to meet you!" Tawni extended her hand and was expecting a reply from Sonny. Sonny however; was more star struck than anything to even respond. This woman was gorgeous her eyes were a lovely shade of light green with a small tint of blue at the edges. Sonny at that moment took the time to scan for any similarities between the siblings.
Sonny could see from Tawni's shoulder that Chad was now standing up brushing off the dirt of his clothes, and had his head focused towards his sister and Sonny. How come they don't look alike? Or have the same last name?
"I-"
"Oh, How about I give you a ride to school?" Tawni even jumped at the idea and without waiting for Sonny's answer took her hand and walked her to the passenger side of car and opened her door. Tawni walked over to her side of the car, accompanied with a cute giggle.
"You go to the same school as Chad, right?" Tawni asked as she used her head to point to Chad who was still standing looking confused as ever when Sonny hopped into his sister's car. Sonny nodded politely and Tawni once again giggled at Sonny's shy attitude.
How strange she was, nothing like her brother. She had that vibrant aura to her that resembled the sun that you couldn't help but feel sort of at ease.
"Buckle up, I tend to speed." Tawni announced as she buckled up and started the ignition. The sound of the horsepower of the car sounded incredible, and Sonny didn't even know of cars.
"Wait, Tawni-"
"I'll talk you at home!" was all Tawni said as she brushed Chad away with her hand before she shifted the car in reverse, and went back the alley from where Tawni had entered from.
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"Oh Sonny you are too cute!" Tawni laughed at Sonny's stories of Chad's antics that of course would get the same reactions she wasn't expecting. Tawni was actually mad at her 'little brother' for being so spoilt and stubborn, and well for Sonny she was surprised at that fact. Maybe she just assumed that just because she too belonged to the same family she would have shared views just like Chad. Tawni had a good laugh when Sonny talked about punching Chad, and well whole the incident that happened before.
Tawni then stopped at the school gates, and spoke her name to have the gate guards open the gates. Tawni drove all the way to the main entrance to drop Sonny off. It was so instant, people from behind the glass doors of the main entrance ran outside as she noticed the blonde woman who dropped Sonny off.
"Isn't that Chad's older sister! Tawni Hart!" One of the males screamed loudly and stood just a like a fan girl, oh excuse me a fan boy. Sonny noticed the expression Tawni had faltered a little as if something was wrong.
"Anyways Sonny. Here is my phone number, call me anytime you need help." Tawni wrote down her number on a piece of paper then passed it to Sonny before she got out of the car.
"Tawni, why are you doing this?" Sonny asked as she now was off the car and closed the door. Tawni only smiled and put her glasses on.
"That's because you remind me of myself. That's probably why he might have an interest in you..." Tawni mumbled the last part as if talking to herself.
"I'm sorry, what did you say?" Sonny asked with a kicked eyebrow.
"Sonny your too adorable! I'll see you soon!" Tawni gave a small wave then accelerated off most likely getting annoyed by the crowd of kids gathering around her car and all screaming how much they miss or love her.
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"Mr. Condor, the plane Mrs. Hart was boarded on has arrived." one of the personal security guard of Mr. Condor had announced to the man as he was getting off the car and walking off to go one of the Condor Co. meetings.
"What's your name again?" Mr. Condor asked pretending to be interested.
"Arnold, sir."
"Okay, Arnold. You're Fired. Joseph, I need a new replacement. Make sure they get the memo that to never discuss of family issues out in public."
"Yes sir! Right away." One of the other guards responded as he took off to escort the shocked man that had just lost his job.
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"So, I take it your fond of this girl?" Tawni popped her head through the door, and like she expected she saw her brother was seating on the sofa that was placed at the center of the bedroom. Everything was still exactly as she remembered it to be.
"Tawni!" Chad stood up with a smile as she entered the room looking around the room with a wide smile and her cute dimples were showing.
"Aw, you have everything exactly how I left it." Tawni ran up to Chad to pinch his soft cheeks. Tawni had once tried taking an interest in interior designing and decided to test it out on Chad's room first. She did a wonderful job of matching his bed set with the curtains and rugs in the room. Chad's room was in cool shades of blue, grey, and a manly dark purple. all his furniture was a sleek white. Chad only pouted and waited for her to finish pinching his cheeks, at least she didn't pinch too hard.
"So I'm a right?" Tawni asked again, as she took a seat on the white sofa and patted the area next to her to invite Chad back to take a seat. Chad sighed and sat back down obediently. "What was her name again, Sonny right? I like her."
"I don't know-"
Chad was cut off when Tawni suddenly punched him on the his upper arm. Chad turned around and gave her a questioning look as he started to rub the spot where she punched.
"That's what you get for being an ass!"
"What did I do?"
"You were being a jackass at school! Sonny filled me in on all your antics you have done! Chad Dylan Cooper just who do you think you are?" Tawni poked his side that caused him to jump a little. Who would have guessed it, that he would be ticklish?
Chad was reduced to sinking further down the sofa to get away from Tawni's revengeful hands that knew all his weaknesses.
"Okay. Tawni, I'm sorry!" Chad pleaded as he was now running out of breathe with all the continuous tickling. Tawni, was the only who could get away with this of course. Chad had never picked a fight with her, or ever been angry at her, well once. Only once had he been angry at her, but it was indirectly. Tawni seeing the tears coming out of his eyes decided to cut it off and laughed at his discomposed image.
"Hey, Tawni?" Chad asked as his face became serious and fixed himself. He suddenly remembered what he needed to ask her. "Are you mad at him?"
"Who, Matthew? Not really."
"I hate him. Why don't you just divorce that bastard."
"Hey! That's not nice of you to talk to your own brother-in-law."
"That bas- that guy..." Chad corrected himself as he saw that Tawni's face was serious. "He's not the guy who can make you happy. Tawni-"
"Chad, I talked to you about it remember? I am happy. I truly am." Tawni said as she looked off to the floor. "I told you, he's a nice guy and gives me all the love I could possibly ever need. I do admit that I miss Jeff, but Matthew is a good friend."
"I noticed when you introduced yourself to Sonny with your old last name, instead of Hart."
"Well, I just need a break, you know?" Tawni shrugged as she looked at the expensive ring on her left ring finger. The thin ring was enchanted with small diamonds that made it sparkle with such power. Tawni, was Chad only sister by four years. Tawni had just turned 22 last month, and well honestly things back at home were just kind getting stuffy.
Tawni honestly missed her little brother who she hadn't seen for a whole year since she had gotten married at the age of 21. Tawni sadly, had an arranged marriage with a son of the networking business. The marriage started out as a plain and simple business marriage, Condor gained the ability to network TV shows, and set up star agencies to employ the newest teen star. That was exactly how Chad was able to get his fame.
Tawni's marriage was getting more complicated as feelings were now becoming more and more involved maybe it was selfish of her to leave at this point. However the feelings were just getting complicated and she just didn't know where else to go to.
"Jeff, he was one of kind." Chad spoke out as his sister remained silent.
"Yeah, he was." Tawni nodded along. Jeff, was Tawni's first and only true love that to this day she wondered how the man was doing today. He wasn't exactly rich or poor, so that lead to her father's disapproval. He spilled his heart out for her, but never passed that clingy line. He was a helpless romantic. Tawni was close to running away with the man she had been dating for three years, however right at the last minute Tawni backed out.
Her father's haunting words psyched her out into believing she would end up dieing a young woman because the man wouldn't be able to provide for all her necessities. Maybe she would have if she ran away with him, but at least she would have been happy. Now she is left regretting.
"I still don't know if what I felt for him was love, or not."
"Tawni, you were at your happiest with that guy. Not with Matthew." Chad placed a hand on knee to provide her emotional support. That was one of the main reasons why he idolized his older sister so much, she was so strong. 'Till this day, she had never once(at least in front of him) cried about it. The other reason is because she was the first person he depended on when he first moved into this house. The bond growing up between the two was strong that Chad honestly hated it when she got married not only because she didn't love the man, but because she moved out the house leaving him all alone.
"Chad, it's very important for you to decide. If you do like Sonny, then you must give all your strength into making it work." Tawni placed a hand on his shoulder and she looked straight into his eyes that always complimented her lovely green eyes.
"When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve."(*) Tawni smiled thinking Chad would get the message. Chad however; judging by the look on the face was lost.
"What?"
"God Chad! Pick up a book once and a while!" Tawni laughed as she turned around to face the other wall. "Way to ruin the sibling moment..."
"But, I don't get it."
"It's a quote from famous novel, Farewell to Arms by Hemingway." Tawni slapped his forehead lightly. "When it comes to any relationship or love questions, just come to me." Chad took moment to think about the quote, while Tawni busied herself by reading magazines that were left on Chad's glass table in front of the white sofa where the two of them were sitting.
Questions, well it wouldn't hurt to try.
"Hey Tawni-"
"Oh my god, Is that little Selena, on the cover?" Tawni asked Chad as she showed him the cover of a magazine he had bought just to support his friend. Selena was smiling childishly, like always wearing an over expensive outfit. It was totally beyond the casual clothing she loves to wear.
"Yeah, but-"
"Gosh, she has grown so much. Look at her, she's only 19 right? My, look how time flies by." Chad could tell that Tawni was way absorbed into the magazine reading about one of her best friend to even notice the eager look on his face.
He really wanted to ask her something.
Hi you guys!
I'm sorry for the late update, but trust me I had it done and typed and ready to go on Sunday... but as luck would have it my house is being repaired, and well the computer was going to be in the way so it had to be disconnected as well as the internet. :(
I tried making time to go to the library but school has me so tied up! D:
Okay, let's clarify any questions...
Chad and Sonny's feelings for the kiss, are purposely still left unknown (I know I'm so bad.) Those feelings won't be tackled until maybe the next chapter, or the one after the next one. Not quite sure yet.
Chad, was once again circling the same market area were he was Hayden and Sonny hugging. I'm pretty sure you can tell by the context clues how often he goes there to try to see her right?
Now, Hayden's feelings about Selena are reveled! Yet, Selena's feelings won't be revealed until later on. And for those who don't understand why Hayden got mad, well they have been friends for a long time. And somewhere along in time, Hayden had confessed his feelings towards her, yet she didn't reject completely, but she was still to give him answer. So in other words, she is trying to dodge that topic but again that will also be revealed later on. . Yes, Selena will be going away soon D:
What is Portlyn hiding? You will have to find out later on! .
Yes, Chad was chasing Sonny around. why? I'm pretty sure by the end of this chapter you guys can see how childish Chad still is, and well not sure of how to handle the situation after kissing her well that was the only he knew how to.
I wanted to reveal how cruel Mr. Condor is, by firing some random employee, you can just imagine how many people he fires a day, can't you? More of his evilness will be displayed more and more, so this is your warning(and foreshadow!)
I took the time to type out the whole Tawni and Chad moment there, just to show a cute side to him. I want everyone to understand Tawni's story and how vital is it to the upcoming events. Tawni loved a poor-ish man named Jeff, however her father obviously disapproved, and well was making plans to break them up. Tawni of course had told Jeff, this and wanted to run away with Tawni. (Romeo and Juliet here.) Well her father never knew of what they were planning, but talked to Tawni about it. And well just like it says he psyched her out of the relationship by having her doubt what love is. Which, is how she is still today. Mr. Condor has affected and scarred his children, yet he still does not see it. (Yet! .) Well anyway, he had arranged Tawni to get married to some rich guy named Matthew who Chad just dislikes, not hates.
He's just jealous! (AW!) On the serious note he was more scared of losing Tawni, and well they are very close and keep in contact with each other so he knows of what Tawni has to go through.
As to why Tawni left him, not that she divorced him or anything- she took a 'much-needed-break' to go see her brother. She left him because there were feelings that were beginning to arise, and well honestly that scared Tawni because she has only been in love once, but at the same time is still unsure. Do you guys understand? it's hard to explain really... I just hope you guys understand.
(*) Quote from Farewell to Arms by Earnest Hemingway a famous old English writer.
Before I forget there might some questions of age well here there are.
F4 are all 18(they're seniors remember!)
Sonny, Lucy, and Grady 17 (juniors)
Selena is 19 (she graduated!)
Tawni is 22
Thank you all for you patience, and for your lovely reviews!
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