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Chapter 12 Photos

"So, what's up?" Sonny asked as she sat down onto the cushioned chair and placed both her arms over the table taking a quick scan of the menu before meeting her gaze to the other person sitting with her. Better yet, the person who had called urgently to arrange their meeting. "Zora said, you had something you wanted to tell me..."

Sonny looked to her friend, Lucy confused as Lucy remained still and silent. Sonny could tell Lucy was contemplating something.

"Oh, gosh Sonny this is going to be awkward to start off..." The childish pout began to form on Lucy lips as she sighed, Sonny only laughed lightly as she saw her friends prominent childish actions that were quite typical. "Promise me, you will listen..."

"I promise-"

"And that you won't be angry..."

"Why would I be mad?"

"Well I feel, like its none of my business... but it concerns you mostly..." Lucy started looking at the menu trying her best to feel comfortable, and Sonny followed her actions and thought the conversation wasn't going to be coming out easy.

After the two have ordered their orders and properly received them, that was when Lucy had begun to strike the conversation once again.

"What are your feelings for Chad?" Lucy asked after taking a sip of her drink and stared straight at Sonny observing her at her absolute best, if anyone could tell Sonny was lying, only Lucy would know. There was this small flicker of her eyes that showed Lucy that she lying and wavering.

"Why are you asking this so suddenly?" Judging by how fast Sonny turned to her drink and taking longer sips than necessary, Lucy knew Sonny exactly comfortable with this topic, or maybe she was coming on too strong. On that thought, Lucy's stoic expression softened up. Remembering that she was here as a friend, not some sort of investigator.

"Please, Sonny I'm really concerned about you..." Lucy stated trying to get Sonny's attention successfully. Sonny turned back to her at the familiar friendly tone that she recognized.

"I met up with two of the F4 members yesterday..." Lucy decided to take the longer approach to things, "Devon and Nico..."

"Did they want something? Did they do anything to you? I swear-"

"Calm down Sonny. You're creating a scene..." Lucy whispered as she noticed people turning to them with curious faces. Sonny automatically smiled and let the tension on her shoulders fall.

"Well, Nico and I went to your job last night. Lucy said you requested the night off."

Sonny suddenly remembered Devon's statement he had made earlier when she was eating lunch with the three F4 members. How did that not register in her head earlier? Was she spacing off that much? What had caused her to become so deaf to such important information? The fact that her friend's name came out of a widely-known philanderer should have caused the alarms in her head to go off.

"They didn't do anything..." Lucy noticed Sonny spacing out, most likely thinking of what they could have done to her. "We only talked about.. You and Chad."

"Talked? About us?"

"Yes Sonny, They seemed very concerned about Chad, and told me to discuss your relationship with him."

"Well I honestly don't see what they have to be worried about! It's not like we're dating!" Lucy noticed the flush of anger wash over Sonny, knowing Sonny very well anything she would say to Sonny would be brushed off. The first thing to do is to calm her down before saying anything else.

"Calm down-"

"What do they see me as some sort of mistress out to hurt him-"

"Sonny-"

"As if I would-"

"That's what they are worried about!" Lucy raised her voice not caring if people were looking at the two of them strangely. Sonny automatically shut up, she never heard Lucy yell at her before. Their friendship was always peaceful, and Sonny had always been the shield to protect Lucy, like a princess at school from bullies. Lucy was short-tempered but never the type to yell.

"What?"

"Sonny, you might no be in love but...he is." Lucy's voice softened as she felt the damage just by looking at Sonny's shocked face. "If you're not in love with him, or have any intentions of getting serious with him it's best that you stop."

"Don't get his hopes up." Lucy spoke again in the same gently voice as before, Sonny could only try to absorb the information that Lucy had revealed to her. Sonny felt her body go into a state of shock, and unsure what to do or say, to make this situation disappear.

Lucy looked up at Sonny with a straight serious face, that still had a tint of softness to it. Sonny nodded and took time to rethink of everything. As if on cue, the flashbacks started to reel in her mind, trying to pry in to seek an answer.

"I'm sorry Lucy...I caused you to be a bit flustered today."

"What? No if anything I should be apologizing..."

"Don't worry Lucy, If anything we are just friends." Sonny smiled taking the last sip of her drink. "Besides I really think everyone is blowing this all out of proportion...I mean how could he love me?"

"Sonny?" Lucy kicked an eyebrow in confusion not understanding where this was going.

"Isn't that too much, or better yet too fast? Think about it. It doesn't make sense..." Sonny was mentally assuring her of the facts, that Chad had never once really stated that before, or has expressed that.

"But they said that-"

"The only thing Chad is doing, is making up for all the misdeeds he has done to me, that's it. He has never said or done anything that say otherwise. Trust me, we're just friends."

Lucy stopped and looked into Sonny's now smiling face melting all insecurities Lucy had before.

"If you say so..."

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Sonny got up bright and early the next morning taking delight in seeing how the warm sun looked. It was a cloudless day, and the breeze was still a bit chilly, but Sonny didn't care. It felt like was going to be a good day, as if nothing wrong could possibly happen to her.

Yet there was a small wave of deja vu that felt familiar. As if she had experienced this before, as if something was calling out to her. Sonny tried to recall and make sense of this feeling.

But once seeing nothing, she merrily brushed it off and prepared to get ready for school.

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The first thing that greeted Sonny as she entered the grand doors of the rich-invested school was a bunch of snickers and cold shoulders. She had to admit she had grown used to the fake smiles, and greetings people were giving her when they all thought she was dating Chad. It amazed her how influential the man was to make everyone like her or dislike her. Maybe he set things straight? People probably figured out that it was all a lie, and now were going back to ignoring her.

Sonny sighed as she walked to her locker knowing having things like this was better. Besides everyone only gave her attention because they thought she was popular, it wasn't going to last long. Popularity never does.

Getting everything she needed out of locker she was suddenly interrupted with the door of the locker was forcibly shut closed, luckily Sonny had finished and didn't have her hands anywhere to be damaged by the impact. She followed the feminine hand that was glued to her locker, and the culprit to closing it shut.

"Opps, did I miss..." It was no one other than Penelope who spoke with a venomous smile, as she finally let go of Sonny's locker. Chloe her other half was standing behind her looking equally just as pissed off. "I had hoped to had done some damage."

"What the hell do you two want?" Sonny asked annoyed, but more angry than anything else. She couldn't believe that they had wanted to hurt her, was it because of the whole dating thing again?

"It's better if we show you instead!" Chloe spoke as she came gave Penelope a nod, and she only responded with a nod. Sonny was only confused.

"Show me what-"

Before Sonny could continue, Penelope's hand had clung itself to the back of her head, and clutching a handful of hair in her tight fist. Penelope have an experimental tug, and received a loud cry from Sonny, who felt the instant fire on her head from the sharp tug. Sonny could still feel the sting, and it resulted in her eyes to feel watery, yet she wasn't crying.

"Let go!" All the things Sonny had her in hands were dropped to the floor violently as she tried to pry the hand off of her. Instead the hand tugged on her hair bring Sonny forward and her face facing the ground, Sonny's body instantly froze as the pain continued to sneer through her whole body. Penelope smiled along with Chloe as they noticed how stiff Sonny was.

"Just like a dog..." Penelope tugged her hair upwards to get a good look of Sonny's distraught face, that was distorted with pain. Her eyes were watery, she still refused to let a single tear fall. "Now, Shut up!" Penelope smiled as Sonny's hands still continued to pry off her hand.

"Let's go now." Chloe said amused at the scene before her. Penelope only nodded as she pulled Sonny along with her by her hair. Almost like a leash to a dog, following its master. Sonny tried to keep up with their fast pace to decrease the burning pain on her scalp, all hopes of escaping shattered knowing that Penelope grip wasn't getting any weaker.

"After all, all girls have a weak point..." The two of them laughed.

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...

Sonny couldn't help but feel more happy as the hand on her hair let her go, but was greeted with a harsh collision to the floor shortly after, done by Chloe. Sonny felt the marveled floors scrap her knees ripping her jeans to reveal the red knees underneath. Sonny rubbed her head trying her best to sooth the burning sensation on her head that made the pain on her knees feel like nothing.

"What the hell was that for!"

"Don't try to play innocent, you damn whore!"

It wasn't until then Sonny noticed the group of people around her, and behind her that all were giving her the same look.

"We all know what you did!" Penelope forcibly grabbed on Sonny's arm purposely digging her nails onto her skin, to make her stand up, and fling her to the table. Sonny's stomach area had come across the pain from the collision with the hard sturdy table. It was then Sonny realized why they were doing this.

"Photos?"

It was a photo of herself asleep in another mans arms grabbed around her securely, and could be misinterpreted. The white nightgown was slightly pulled down to imply the worst. There was multiple photos scrambled around the table, the pictures had gracefully kept her dignity of not showing anything much more horrid that all the pigs would love to see.

"You fucking whore!" Penelope grabbed her by her shirt only to shove her straight back down to the ground. Sonny felt her back ache, and her head pulsate at the hard collision to the ground.

Sonny didn't have any time to get back up before someone had kicked her back down. Sonny coughed as she felt the air rush out of her as her side was the one to take the impact. It was like a free-for-all. All the people did what they could to reach and try to hurt her.

"What the fuck are you guys doing!" It was the firm voice everyone in this building responded to. And it wasn't everyone cleared out of the way to reveal the washed up victim, who was torn from all the violent tugs that had been made. Chad automatically came to face the two fan club presidents with anger in his eyes. "Who the fuck gave you permission to do this!" His voice resonated in the large cafeteria as no one dared to speak.

The two were a bit scarred of the violent reaction from Chad, it proved to them that he had no idea of the crime Sonny had committed. The wild rage behind the light blue eyes had never been seen before. He looked uncontrollable, a beast that needed to be caged up.

He needed to know.

"We are only giving her the proper punishment-"

"For what-"

"Take a good look for yourself," Chloe pointed to the table where all the evidence lay. The photos had done the damage everyone expected to see, Chad's shocked gasp, and how visibly stiff his body almost instantly. "It's true."

"No! Chad Let me explain!" Sonny picked herself up instantly not wanting him to be apart of the group that would misunderstand her. Not him, anyone would be fine, but it hurt her emotionally if he was going to be one of them. Sonny ignored the pain coursing though her whole body as she walked to him. "Please you have to listen to me!"

Chad still had his attention to the photos, as he felt something within drop. It burned and hurt, like as if he was on fire. What was this horrible feeling? Like a roller coaster, that made him feel sick to his stomach, and as painful as touching fire itself. He felt disgusted as he continued to stare at the pictures of the person he thought he knew, so well.

"It's all a misunderstanding, please believe me Chad." Sonny tried to grab his hand, but his hand swatted it away like a fly. Chad almost regretted it, when he saw the hurt displayed on Sonny's face. He looked anywhere else but her, knowing that the horrible feeling increased every time he looked at her. He was mad, disgusted, and most of all betrayed.

"Chad! Please you have to believe me!" Sonny hoped that he would turn to look at her, and would help her. Somewhere deep inside her she had hoped he would come to save her, and rescue her. This feeling made Sonny grow more nervous as he continued to walk away, never once looking back her. Her savior, was abandoning her, right when she needed him.

"Chad!" Was the last cry he heard from her as he continued to walk out of the cafeteria, using the same entrance to leave. He ignored all her cries as he continued to walk away. Not listening to her screams that filled all the hallways, he forced himself to grow deaf to each and everyone. He grew deaf to her sounds of agony and pain.

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"Sonny? Are you alright?" It was a familiar voice that had caused Sonny to finally open her eyes. She didn't dare to move as she still felt as if her body was on fire. Who was calling her.

"Sonny?" The voice approached her this time, and came to kneel beside her. Sonny groaned as she turned to face the person, almost regretting it as the pain increased. "What have they done to you?"

"Portlyn...?" Sonny hoarse voice reflected her state of the time. Beaten to a pulp by everyone. "You're back..." Sonny's bloody smile must look horrid to her, as Portlyn flinched as she noticed how awful Sonny's condition was.

There was a cut wound above her right eyebrow that was a result of someone colliding her face to the floor. Her jeans were torn, and one of her knees was bleeding causing the fabric to stain red. Her arms her almost covered with bruises and scratch marks that were bright red compared to her pale completion, and some scratches were bleeding a little.

"Can you move?" Portlyn asked wanting to know if anything was broken. Sonny nodded by first moving all her fingers to check if any where broken. Sonny smiled when all ten were counted and functioning properly. Someone had stomped on her hands before, and she was worried that they were broken. Sonny sat up feeling like she was going to fall back down, she felt so weak. Not being able to defend herself from the countless number of assaults that came from every direction.

"Sonny?" Portlyn asked as she noticed a tear finally leaving Sonny's eyes, thought out the whole time, never once did she cry. She tried to fight them all off but that only lasted for a couple of seconds before some had pushed her down to the ground.

"He didn't believe me..." Sonny's voice cracked as she felt the most painful wound that had been inflicted on her. The thought of him, walking away showing his back to her scarred her and burned her sight. She shut her eyes during the whole time everyone was taking delight on inflicting pain on her. Her body after awhile became numb somewhere down the middle, as she still mentally pictured him. How hurt he looked, the look on his face was unexplainable. Chad looked disgusted at her, Sonny some where in the middle of the chaos hoped that the prince that was far away would save her from this nightmare.

He would have believed me.

Hayden would have believed me.

"Who didn't believe you? Sonny calm down..." Portlyn's gentle voice provided her with some comfort as she continued to cry. "Sonny you're shaking, you have to calm down." Sonny didn't even realize it, until she looked down to her shaking hand that wouldn't stay still.

"Chad... He doesn't believe me." Sonny answered, somehow saying it out loud hurt so much more. She felt like collapsing onto the ground and fall asleep, but she knew better than to do that. She had to set things straight him, the relationship that they were building up was going great, of course Sonny told Lucy yesterday that it wasn't anything special. And it wasn't. Or was it?

She felt so confused.

Sonny didn't want to think as the headache was slowly revealing itself.

"What are you going to do?" Portlyn helped Sonny slowly stand up, and gently brought her arm around her neck to provide for more support.

"I need to talk to him. Can you help me?" Sonny asked Portlyn already out of breathe from picking herself up.

"Of course, but first let's take you to the nurses' office."

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...

"You know where he lives?" Portlyn couldn't help but ask as they were standing in front of his front door, the trip to the front door was more strenuous on Sonny but she still continued until they reached the front door, and took a bit of break.

"Yeah, I've been here before..." Sonny said not thinking much of the question nor the answer. Sonny was also unable to see the small amount of damage in Portlyn's face by that casual answer. "Why?"

"Oh, Just wondering..." Portlyn smiled, as she rung the doorbell. They were able to make this far, just by using Portlyn's identity hopefully they could see him. Sonny didn't want to risk saying her name in fear of being rejected right on the spot.

The door opened to reveal an old man wearing a typical butler uniform as he greeted the two female guests.

"May I ask the reason to your visit?"

"We-"

"We are here to speak with Chad." Portlyn had answer with confidence as she spoke to the butler, who was just about to dismiss himself most likely about to tell Chad about the visitors.

"If you don't mind, Mr. uh-"

"Will, Madam."

"Will, you see it's more of surprise.." Sonny let Portlyn due all the talking hoping to not strike anything suspicious, before making this unannounced visit to the Copper Mansion, Portlyn had gladly offered to give Sonny some of her clothes to replace the bloody old ones.

Will nodded, as he took a long time looking at the silent brunette companion. He knew of this female, she came here last time, and was also a big topic between Chad and Tawni when she was here. He tried not to stare at the big band-aid on the right side of her forehead that he could tell was bleeding before, as he noticed the small red mark of the blood leaking through the band-aid.

He knew Chad was not in a very good mood, since he returned rather quickly from school. Chad was only away for a good 20 minutes before returning back home, with his loyal friends arriving shortly afterwards to dash to his room. The man was contemplating on whether or not to let them go through, but he felt rather grateful for this brunette for changing Chad. He had turned out to be a much better man, he smiled more often, and appeared to be happy. Being almost like a father to Chad, and raising him every since he first stepped into that door, he felt proud of Chad.

The man gave a bow, and pointed to the stairs that would lead to Chad's room. Both of them gave him their thanks as they walked past him.

The house was beautiful, Sonny barely realized this now. Before she was in a horrible state of anger to ever noticed the beautiful elegance this house or mansion rather- carried. The beautiful imported vases from different parts of the world that had wide variety of patters, or diamonds embedded onto a vase. The lovely red carpet that was clean, and the polished hard wood floor reflected the cleanliness of the house. The amazing huge painting that hung that showed a birds eye view of the whole house.

"Well damn, I'm sorry bud." It was Nico's voice that could be heard as they both approached the door. Sonny and Portlyn looked at each other and decided that it would be best to enter now, before being caught up waiting for the conversation to be over. It wasn't until Portlyn slowly placed her hand on the doorknob that Sonny realized she was shaking. She was nervous, so much that it felt like nausea.

Everyone in the room turned to the sound of the door opening to reveal the two females, Sonny looked around the room and saw both Nico and Devon who were both shocked at most likely how bad she looked, rather than her being in the room. Sonny scanned the large room, until she spotted him starring out the window, leaning against the wall. (So she could see his profile view.) He most have seen her coming, is that why he didn't turn to look at her?

"Chad. Please let me explain..." Sonny with a small limb walked to Chad to come face to face with him. She was going to try to speak to this man one last time, she didn't have any plan after this if it failed. She didn't even think of that, and she suddenly felt like her throat go dry like the desert.

Chad managed to spare her a small glance, and noticed the horrible band-aid on her forehead first, before he noticed that she was wearing a long sleeve shirt. She wasn't wearing the same clothes as before, a shiver ran down his spine at the endless possibilities of damage the new clothes were hiding. His heart almost burned up at the sight. He focused back at the window, he wasn't going to let his feelings of sympathy to let her win.

"Let's hear it then." The first thing spoken to her the whole day. Sonny noticed the venom tone in his voice that she was still very well familiar with.

"You should know your place. Commoner."

"Bring it on. I'll accept this little war of yours, and you know what I do not plan on giving up that easy."

It was the same tone, he had at first spoken to her. It was when he still saw her as a target for his games. Sonny felt her spine shiver as the sudden change of demeanor. Where had the good, sweet boy from before go? The one that waited for her in the rain, helped her from falling down an elevator shaft, and that lied to her own mother to help her?

"Well?"

"Chad, it's hard to explain what happened that day." Sonny didn't know where to start off, she felt like she was walking on a field covered with landmines. Any wrong move and he would explode, and blow her away. "I can't honestly remember this happening, I swear I had not planned this to happen."

The urgency in her voice, gathered a bit of his attention. Sonny looked up to meet his ever light clear blue eyes, that never failed to amaze her. Somehow the look they shared it provided comfort for the two of them, it was almost they were communicating without words. The look of pure innocence made Chad think twice of his prior thoughts, and Sonny could read that he was slowly calming down.

But it didn't last for long, until someone interrupted the intimate moment.

"Chad, you must forgive Sonny, even if she did that." Portlyn spoke up not liking how the two shared such an intimate moment in front of her. Even though she didn't have a clear view of his face, she could tell her words have caused damaged. Both Nico, and Devon turned to look at her some what angry, they both had noticed the tension drop from Chad's shoulders when Sonny looked at him. There was something suspicious of this woman.

Sonny saw the tidal wave of anger slowly flood his eyes and he turned away. Chad almost cursed out loud for almost giving into her, she was not going to make a fool out of him.

"Get out."

"Chad! Wait-"

"Leave my sight," Chad spoke not once looking at her. "You are an eyesore, and a whore."

Sonny felt even more shocked as she heard the last word come out of his mouth, it had done more damage than she thought it would. He didn't believe her.

He wasn't going to.

Somehow this thoughts that were swirling inside of Sonny's head that were brought down with false hopes were shattered. Almost as if something snapped within her, she didn't need for him to believe her. She was better off with this man out of her life, for once and for all. She didn't even like him at all, this feelings were slowly escalating with hatred that was close to surfacing.

"Leave already!"

"What the hell is the big deal anyway!" Sonny asked out loud, somehow depressed where all this was going to, she needed someone to help her and he clearly isn't going to be the one. "I don't see why you are overreacting to this at all! I thought we were friends at least!"

"But no we aren't! I thought you would have helped me out back there like a friend would have done, and still now you don't believe me at all! You believe other people rather than me-"

"There is fucking proof Sonny!" Chad responded, how blind is this woman to not accept that. "So don't act all innocent! I can't believe how ignorant your being! How could you do that to me?"

"And I'm trying to tell you that there is something more to tell! You haven't even listened to my side of the story yet! But you're here already making your own decisions, you refuse to let anyone prove you wrong, once your mind is made up. And besides there was nothing to our relationship!"

That was the trigger.

Even Sonny noticed it, and somewhat regretted it once it left her mouth. The hurt was quickly displayed on Chad's face, but he quickly brushed it off.

"Then there shouldn't be a reason to explain yourself to me. Get out."

Sonny knew that was the final line, there was no going back from it or going forward from it. Sonny only nodded as she walked out the room with her head still head high, she wasn't going to let her pride be thrown away just by explaining to him. What was she thinking, coming here would accomplish nothing.

She knew Chad, she knew he would have acted this way.

At least she tried.

But Sonny would never admit it to herself or anyone that his opinion of her mattered, and to be called a whore by him, hurt. More when it came from someone you know better. She didn't understand this feeling completely but with every step she took, something within her dropped.

"Sonny, wait up!" Portlyn followed suit leaving the awkward room in a hurry.

"Chad do you want some time alone?" Devon know well to ask this question than anything else. If were to ask "are you okay?" he would have met a violent fist to his face.

"Yeah, please." Chad spoke as she continued to face the window, not wanting his own friends to see him in this state. Both of them nodded and once the sound of the door closed behind them, his mask fell. He noticed the two females exiting the house, never once did she turn back to look at him, as he expected her to. Just like she did when she first came to his house.

"It all meant nothing, huh?" Chad sighed as his mind repeated her words that felt sharper than knifes and cut him up from inside. Something was inside him cutting its way though to the surface, and for the first time in a long time, a tear fell from his eye.

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"Do you believe her?"

"Yeah she thinks she could get anyone..."

it was horrible gossip of all the women in the club speaking out of envy of course. She had everything that they did not, so of course all the women would look at her with such envied eyes. Not that she cared one bit for it at all, their envy feed to her ego.

There she was a perfect blue-eyed woman with her perfect hair that was up in a bun wearing a grey an extra small tank top to show a bit of her perfect stomach and the cute belly button piercing, and a light pink feathery over-shirt that basically covered her shoulders and a little bit of her back, but didn't go past her breasts. All this and a small black leather mini-skirt, and perfect black stiletto heels that were customized to match this outfit.

She was checking her reflection in the mirror in the bathroom, as if to get attention from the other women in restroom.

"What a slut."

"Who does she think she is?"

"She's got whore written all over her."

The gossip continued, as she smiled all this envy feeding and treating her recently broken ego. And just like that she left the room, to go to the dance floor. She was trying to look for someone when someone bumped into her.

"Watch where your going!"

"Well don't stand there in middle, that's just asking to get bumped into!" The other person responded a nameless fake blonde sneered with the typical horrible fake tan, the other woman smiled seeing how hideous this woman was made her laugh.

"You are truly ugly." And before the other woman would even respond she was kicked on her shin causing her to lose balance in her own heels and fell down. "This place isn't for ugly people like yourself, belong."

And just like that she continued walking to met the person she promised to met.

"Hey Portlyn, over here!"

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"Well it's not like I'm saying she did do it!"

"You don't even know the whole side of the story! So you better shut up!"

It was that same moment when Sonny walked into the store, today sadly she was scheduled to work to closing time. But the sight that greeted her was a nickering Lucy and Devon going back in forth not noticing Sonny entering the store. Grady and Nico looked equally lost from the sidelines.

"Sonny!"

It was Grady who noticed Sonny first and that broke all the tension in the room from before. Before Sonny would even respond she came across Lucy who dashed towards her, and examined her.

"Sonny are you okay?" Lucy asked observing the band-aid that was replaced with a new one, and Sonny sighed not sure how to respond to that.

"Yeah, I'm fine-"

"Liar!" Lucy looked as if she was going to cry as she looked at Sonny. Lucy gave Sonny a tight hug, and Sonny wasn't quite expecting. "Just sit down today, I'll take care of all your duties for today!"

"That hurts, please stop..." Sonny laughed lightly to shake away the pain, and Lucy instantly let go. "Thank you, Lucy." Sonny knew that she was genuinely concerned for her well-being. She turned to the three men who were just observing the feminine moment with confused faces.

"What are you two doing here?" Sonny couldn't help but feel defensive knowing that two of his friends were here.

"Well, we're here to hear the other side of the story." Nico explained with a smile. "But you see Devon and Lucy don't see eye-to-eye and everything got carried away from there."

"Really? You guys believe me?"

"Sure. The way you spoke to Chad really pulled us in, you know?" Nico explained the events that followed their own departure of Chad's house. The two apparently met at Devon's house and discussed it over that they truly wanted to get down to the bottom of all this.

"We are here to help." Devon stated stressing the word, and looking straight to Lucy who only gave him a smug look, not wanting to be proven wrong. Devon only smirked at her childish behavior that hasn't changed since the last time they had spoken. Devon finally opened the laptop that was on the counter as everyone gathered around and waited for it him to upload the picture.

"It's online?" Sonny's worst fear was about to come alive.

"No of course not, I had one the pictures from the cafeteria scanned and saved to this laptop." Devon laughed lightly when Sonny sighed in relief.

All four of them, well technically three listened to Sonny explain her side of the story, Lucy nodded along to the familiar tale that she already heard before. All the men only nodded along and tried to make sense of the story.

"Did these classmates call you or anything?" Devon tried to think of a motive finding the classmates all a bit suspicious.

"I don't have a cell phone."

"Well did you ever talk to them again?" Nico asked following Devon's suit as they both felt it had something to do with the classmates that took her to the club.

"Nope. I actually never seen them since that incident."

"They must be guilty!" Lucy pounded her fist on the counter gathering everyone's attention. She was angry still with those horrible back-stabbing people that would take advantage of Sonny's innocence and kindness.

"There was a third person in the room..." Grady spoke still staring at the picture trying to make sense of everything, plus the information Sonny gave her.

"What are you talking about?" Nico asked.

"Well he obviously didn't take the picture, or Sonny..."

"That's true!" Devon realized it now, that followed with a unison of 'ohs' to come from everyone else. "It must be the person who set it all up."

"Think, Sonny! Was there anything else in the hotel room that could help?"

"Not really..." Sonny looked back to the same day, "Wait! there was a message that was written, in red lip stick."

"Was it yours?"

"Nope."

"Than it must be a woman, doing all this."

"What's that?" Grady licked his finger and was trying to remove something from the screen.

"What are you doing?" Devon couldn't help but ask some what disgust with the man's actions.

"There is smudge on the screen." Grady removed his finger, "Or maybe not..."

"Devon, Zoom in!" Nico noticed what the man was cleaning. It was on the mans right hand that was on his Sonny arm, it was a strange ring. After Devon had zoomed in, the ring had become much more noticeable, It was a silver ring with a black outlined dragon, with the inside of it being filled in with a dark green.

"That looks like this," Nico pulled out the handkerchief, that he had found before. "I think they match." Nico showed everyone the handkerchief, and the resemblances were undeniable.

"Where did you find it?"

"As I was leaving Chad's house, Is it yours?" Nico explained, pointing to Sonny.

"No it's not."

"Could it be your friends?"

"I'm not sure..."

"Anyways, I think it's best if we try figuring this all out tomorrow." Devon stated, seeing how everything was all too much for Sonny to handle at the moment. "It's getting late as well."

"What about school?"

"Just leave that to us," Nico winked some what excited for tomorrow. "You in?"

"Of course!" Sonny smiled liking the idea of getting even with the person who had caused all of this.

"I'm coming as well!" Lucy invited herself as she knew this chance wasn't going to come around twice. "The more the merrier, right?" Lucy smiled.

"Or the more dreadful..." Devon purposely said that knowing very well that Lucy was going to get angry. And as he predicted, she did and went off on a rant that being Sonny's friend is all the invitation she needs to come along, and that she didn't care what he had to say about it.

"You don't mind, right?" Lucy turned to ask Nico.

"Not really..." Nico thought about it, and saw how funny and lively this girl could be and she could certainly make things more amusing.

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"ugh... Hold on."

"Hello Sonny," The woman's voice noticeably changed to a much more higher tone, sounding like someone completely different from before.

"Portlyn I've been think about it, and I think I have been framed by someone." Sonny spoke from the other side of the phone. Portlyn rolled her eyes somewhat annoyed.

"Is that so?" Portlyn asked trying to pretend as if she was interested, she wanted to end this conversation as soon as possible.

"Yeah, after discussing it with a lot of my friends we've come to that conclusion-"

"That's good for you Sonny, but what do you plan to do with that truth?" Portlyn asked having a hard time keeping up with this fake girly tone that she used. "Are you planning on changing Chad's mind?"

"Well, I think I can if I have proof he will believe me-"

"Sonny, you heard him today, didn't you?" Portlyn spoke getting annoyed at how long this conversation was taking. "Just let it be, that guy is cruel to you remember. Just let that guy be and move on."

"I don't think I can forget this." Sonny sounded determined more than ever to go through with this.

"Well, do as you wish." Portlyn sighed. "But I will have things to do, so count me out. I'm sorry I can't be much of help."

"That's okay you've-"

Portlyn hung up then not wanting to hear the rest of what Sonny had to say.

"Who was it babe?"

"Some annoying girl from school." Portlyn replied turning to the man that was seating next to her in the club. "She just doesn't know when to take the hint."

"Now calm down, remember you said you would give me a treat?" The man spoke wanting Portlyn to forget the whole conversation that got her in a bad mood.

"Didn't the girl from before satisfy you enough, Kevin?"

"Who? Kim? That girl she was horrible!" Kevin spoke bitterly as he laughed the memory away. "You are much more skilled than she ever was." He spoke lustfully, as he used his ring hand to crawl up her smooth, creamy, and revealing thighs. Portlyn can feel the sting of the cold ring that was on his right ring finger of the green-black dragon.

"You're still wearing the ring I gave you?"

"Of course, it's pretty stylish."

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AH! This feel really good right now~ I was very stuck on how to write the beginning of this chapter for some reason, but once I got through it I was on a roll! I am typing up the next chapter as you read this! So expect another update!

I think this chapter is very straight forward, but if you have any question fell free to PM me, and I will get back to you as soon as I can.

Oh! and someone commented about the plot line of story, I am following the Japanese version more, but I will include some moments that I think are vital from the Korean version. For example, Devon's past is only revealed in the Korean version. And there will be time's when I change it up a bit, like in this chapter when Sonny and Lucy talk about Sonny and Chad's relationship in the beginning. Yeah that was all me there.

I know every wants to know of Devon's past, but that will be revealed more later on! So please wait for it~

So I really appreciate you guys being really, patient with me this time~

Thank you for reading and reviewing!

Oh yeah ignore any spelling or grammar errors that you may have come across! I'm sorry~

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