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Chapter 18 Not that Complicated
"Perfect." Sonny inspected herself through the mid-body size mirror hanging on the wall. She was dressed quite nicely, and was proud of it. She decided to wear a khaki-white skirt that reached elegantly to her knees. Coupled with a green off-the-shoulder t-shirt that was slightly larger than her normal size. And to top it off, she placed a brown belt over the skirt to blend in the colors. It didn't take too long for her to decide what she was going to wear. She didn't want to go too casual or too over-dressed.
Luckily enough, today was Saturday there was no school. Her mom would be coming home soon, and Zora was still in bed and will still be in bed way past noon. Leaving a small note on the fridge for her forgetful mother and sister to read just in case they would forget about her plans for today.
Walking out of the door with ease, and soon walking out of the apartment casually.
"You sure look happy." The voice froze her in an instant, Sonny turned to her right to where the voice came from. Surely enough, there was Chad leaning against the back of the bench. Looking just like model, with his casual dark tight blue jeans, and a casual deep gray shade v-neck. He was not the first person she would never expect to be here to early in the morning, nor be willing to talk to her. "Look at the way you're dressed." Chad checked her out quickly up and down.
Was he mad? Yes.
Was he going to lie? No, he even had to admit she looked beautiful beyond what he expected. Never recalling a moment where she wore a skirt before, at least not in front of him, and that made him jealous.
"Chad?" not meaning for it to sound like a question as if she was doubting the living person in front of her.
"Of course." He rolled his eyes leisurely his face still giving all signs that he wasn't going to crack open a smile anytime soon. "Now if I may be so bold, where the hell are you going dolled up like that?" Chad didn't waste any more time, wanting an answer immediately. Sonny took a step back in a surprise how his tone changed to an even more bitter ruthless tone.
'Why that bastard, just who does he think he is?' Sonny already disliked his tone, wasn't she banned from his sight, according to him? Or least that's what he made her feel.
"That should be none of your business…" Sonny was surprised at how easily the answer came out, knowing that somewhere deep inside her core she really wanted to spite him and to trigger some sort of anger.
Was it her twisted way to proof that he still cared for her? However, that's what she decided to do anyway.
"But I'm going to go on a date with Hayden." Sonny narrowed her eyes, when she noticed no particular change in Chad, Sonny began to walk right past him expecting him to do nothing of the sort since she spilled the information she knew he wanted. She learned from dating him, that giving him what he wants tends to lead the situation for the better. Typically.
"Just apologize." Chad's hand flew instantly to her arm to stop her right in time. Tugging her back to bring her face-to-face with him. He had to take a deep breathe as he told himself before he wasn't going to be the one giving in.
"What?" Sonny tried to claim her arm back to her side, but it was useless and she looked up to his eyes and everything seemed to stop for that second. His eyes stilled her movements, his calm clear blue eyes that were piercing down onto hers.
"God! You two are the same! You two are a great match, punching people like crazy, I told that dumbass to ditch and come meet real party girls. Happy?"
"Just apologize, and then I just might forgive you." His tone lifted a bit to sound much more softer and more soothing to her ears. Sonny looked away from his face, feeling her chest pound hard with guilt, she should be the one apologizing. Where does she start? Why did it feel like her air supply was being cut short due to such close proximity?
Chad was looking onto her profile view, and she stared to the ground away from him deep in thought. She didn't see the desperation in his eyes, that were practically begging and longing for her again. He couldn't remember how he got in front of her apartment but he had been here just around 8 in the morning. He walked around hoping to clear his head, however his legs subconsciously dragged him here.
Were they still fighting?
Is it still considered a fight when two people cut all ties from each other?
If it was the case with Lucy's bad ex-boyfriend he personally saw no fault in what he did. Sure it might have been too violent but nothing that should have lead them to wear they are now. How did they get like this? He knew he wanted to confront Sonny once more, and this was going to be his chance to do so.
"I-I…." Sonny's voice dried up and made it sound much more squeaky than how it would usually sound. Taking deep breathes to calm her heart, didn't work at all. Chad swallowed the collecting saliva and her silence was painful to bear.
'I can't do it. I'm such a coward.' Sonny then tried to struggle out of his grip when his grip was starting to loosened. Chad had to quickly hold on to her tightly again, why was she going to escape? Pushing all the wrong buttons as she continued to struggle, Chad's temper was getting the best of him.
"Just-Stay away from Hayden!" Chad trying hard to keep a firm grip on her without causing her any harm.
"You can't tell me what to do." Sonny with one last tug she pulled away from Chad. "I've had enough of you're bossy attitude."
'Why can't I face him and apologize?' Sonny didn't spare him one last look and she took off with a blast and started running, and continued to run. Further and further away from him. Sonny didn't stop, until she finally realized she had made it to the town. She didn't even notice the tears streaming down her face until she came to a stop and felt how wet her face felt. She was practically close by the mall by now, the location of their date, and was here
Noticing a pay phone around the corner she decided to give Hayden a call.
"Hey Hayden…Yeah it's me Sonny….I forgot my phone at the house…..Yes about that, can I just meet you there instead? …No, nothings wrong I just uhh came for a walk and I'm already close by.…We can meet inside the café inside...Right then, Bye."
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"Man, I was so thirsty…" Sonny literally chugged down a whole bottle of water when she entered the café, and had waited a couple of minutes for Hayden's arrival. It wasn't long before she was bored, and was occupying her time by looking over all the glossy magazines of rich people she barely knew. She never found a pleasure in reading magazines. Nor in reading up on the latest celebrity gossip that is floating around.
However it was one magazine that caught her attention.
"Big News: World famous singer Selena Gomez
has decided to finally get married!
For more information check out page 87 for all the details!"
"What?" Sonny quickly opened up to the page and kept an quick open eye for any time the door chime went off that would signal when someone has entered the café. "She's getting married…."
"Yeah, she is. She began getting too busy, and I tried to help with what ever I could but I..."
"I can't even do anything for the person I love..."
The conversation of the night she and Hayden spent shortly after his return from France replayed in her mind. He lied to her, he didn't want anyone to know he was in pain.
"Please, just for a minute, stay with me like this..."
The reason to his strange behavior lately was connected to this, she picked it up instantly when he returned and it became bluntly clear yesterday they way he was desperate for comfort.
"Who is she getting married to…." Sonny tried to quickly scan the magazine page but the door chime echoed in the silent room.
"Sonny?" Hayden walked calmly approaching her, as Sonny quickly placed the magazine behind her back childishly. "What?" Hayden smiled instantly at her childish antics, and playfully tried to look behind her to get a quick look. Sonny back up cautiously and placed the magazine back without giving him any space to look behind her.
"What are you hiding?" His tone was playful and eagerness.
"Nothing, Hey Hayden. Guess what? I'm hungry." Sonny blurted out as she noticed someone ordering a sandwich with their coffee at the register.
"What? Already?" Hayden look slightly flabbergasted at the sudden change of topic but nonetheless laughed at her spontaneous character. "This is going to be entertaining, then shall we go then?"
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"Did you decide on a restaurant already?" Hayden asked with his face buried in his hands. Makino was in front of the directory of the mall still trying to decide what she was in the mood for. She was standing next to a tall man dressed in a formal suit looking at the directory, as well. "You know you can pick anything, really. Don't think of the prices for the places." Hayden added knowing very well that the reason why she was taking to long to decide was because of the price.
"But…" turned to look at him, right at the time he had removed his hands and was staring at her to continue.
"Really Sonny, I insist just pick a place you want to eat…" Hayden had mentally chuckled lightly knowing very well if that she were here with Chad he would have blown a fit by now. He had to admit he was feeling a bit impatient but that wouldn't be the best move to make right now. He had to make sure his plan would fall into action just perfectly one little screw up on his side and everything could go wrong.
"It's already been 15 minutes…" Hayden whispered to himself as he yawned and tried to entertain himself by watching the other customers with their large amounts of shopping bangs, a few with either ice-cream or coffee, and children being loud and energetic. Nothing new for him to see.
Hayden paid attention as Sonny swiped her hand down the directory under the 'dining' section and was considering what to eat. Her finger subconsciously stopped in the Italian name of the restaurant on the third floor. But just as quickly to push the thought away and try to find something else.
"Alright, I propose that we eat Italian, what do you say?" Hayden made the decision for her, knowing that she really wanted that anyway. Sonny turned to him surprised by nodded and was excited to lead the way. She didn't expect her stomach to cue in and start growling when they were going up the escalators. Hayden laughed at her, but that was all.
"You must be really hungry." Hayden continued to lightly poke fun at her embarrassment. Sonny blushed embarrassed finding it hard to believe herself that she was actually hungry. At first it was just an excuse to get Hayden away from reading the magazine but she completely forgot that she didn't even eat breakfast.
"Miss Portlyn, they had decided to eat at the Italian restaurant." The man who was next to Sonny had immediately after the couples retreat dug into his coat pocket to reach for his phone.
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It was the sharp knocking on his bedroom door that brought back his attention. He had made sure to tell Will that he didn't want to be bothered, typically it would only be Will who would be brave enough to come into his room when Chad was angry. And is the only one in the staff to get away with it.
"What?" was the only answer he was going to give the other person on the other side of the door. Nothing came after that no more knocking for that moment, Chad snickered thinking that the person left after understanding his mood. However, something was slid underneath his door and looked to be a simple white piece of paper.
Chad stood up half-wanting to open the door and yell yet, the other half just wanted to see out of curiosity what it was.
"What the hell?" the first thing that came out of his mouth when he bent down to pick the piece of paper. On the other side there was neat handwriting of the address to the nearest mall. He was going to crumble it up not wanting to read the rest of it, but the in the corner there was a little note.
'P.S It's the location of the date. The 3rd Floor, near Italian restaurant.'
"But I'm going to go on a date with Hayden."
Chad didn't know what had triggered him to subconsciously reach to the dresser top near by and get his keys, and walk out of his room. It wasn't until he was completely out of the house nearing the car that was questioning his motives as why he was going there in the first place.
Hell, he was already in the car, he wasn't going to bury himself in his room moping around. He should just simply take a bit of discreet action to see the date for himself. Just to see how well she would be in Hayden's hands'.
It was only for that, right?
Jealousy was the last thing he wanted to be his motivation for coming here. However, it was simply just that. Jealousy.
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Sonny tried to keep a minimum of making noises when eating her spaghetti that she couldn't recall the name of it. The restaurant was more like a nicely fine dining that she would barely ever go in. It was liking eating out at an Olive Garden, yet this place had a more elegant feeling to it.
Sonny sipped on her water lightly as she noticed that restaurant noise was at a minimum as well. The conversations of other guests seemed to float randomly and nicely, and still with a silence that made her feel slightly uncomfortable. She wasn't so accustomed to eating in this strange silence like this.
And to make matters worst, they both haven't said much. Once they were both seated she tried to start a conversation by talking about the kind of food and the strange names she found to pronounce. Hayden was lively enough to continue a conversation, so that wasn't the problem.
The problem here was that she didn't know what to talk to him about. All the times in school talking didn't seem a problem, why did it become so now? Could it be the pressure of the "date"?
"D-Do you come here often? To the mall I mean…" Sonny tried striking another around in communicating with the man sitting across from her eating elegantly and peacefully like he was completely fine with the silence.
"Not really. I don't like crowded places that much."
"Then what about shopping?"
"To shop? Well…nope. One of my butler's takes care of my clothing, so I guess the idea of shopping for my own clothes never came up." Hayden answered bluntly only to face Sonny's awestruck face.
"R-Really?" Sonny found it hard to believe. Hayden just nodded with a straight face signifying that it wasn't some sort of joke.
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"Stupid note was right." Chad mumbled as he was standing a safe distance in front of the restaurant and could easily see through the glass windows and could easily spot the two people he was looking for. He observed the two of them, trying his best to fight the numbing sensation taking over his body that made him unaware of his surroundings.
"He did come…" Portlyn whispered as she stood behind a tall pillar connected all the way up to the ceiling. She found it slightly surprising to find him here, not that she doubted her plan wouldn't work, but Chad is quite hard to predict.
"Will the plan be successful?" The same suited man appeared next to her, also observing Chad. Portlyn looked and tried to peer from where she was standing to look inside the restaurant, she could only see their shoulders and up due to the large railing across to prevent anyone falling from the third floor.
She could simply tell from their body language that they were awkward with each other, it was plainly obvious due to the fact Sonny was looking at anything besides Hayden. And Hayden was either looking straight-forwardly at Sonny or at his own meal. Doesn't that mean that Chad must have noticed this as well?
Portlyn looked back at Chad and still noticed that his face was still hardened but the muscles on his back were now less tense. Maybe he really did notice the interactions between the two?
"I trust everything will go well. I shall report everything back to Mr. Condor." The man walked away, leaving Portlyn alone to the plane.
"I'm starting to get the feeling that it won't…" Portlyn mumbled to herself.
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"What did you normally do with Chad when you went out on dates together?" Hayden asked after a long dreaded 20 more minutes of silence and the two were at least half-done with their plates. Sonny looked up at him surprised, and thought back to the so called dates. Sonny subconsciously smiled as she remembered everything from the beginning.
The time they got stuck on a elevator, and were also soaking wet from the rain. She laughed as well when she remembered the way he had asked her out. It was almost like he was talking to himself. How he had waited in the rain for her, without an umbrella. As stupid as that was, she wasn't going to lie it did sway her heart a bit.
All the times she sat with him during lunch, which most at the beginning she was dragged there to join him and his friends. She remembered how he would feed her foods that she never ever heard of before, and loved seeing how she would react from eating such delicious foods. Sonny couldn't help but chuckle at this.
Despite all the damage that was done to them due to Portlyn Chad was bravely come to her rescue knowing very well that it was a trap. He took punch after punch for her and only her.
The time at the zoo being their last time together in an actual date-like atmosphere. They had fun exploring and commenting on the animals and scarring Chad. It was all so fun, and… completely different from the atmosphere with Hayden.
"Are dates, they were fun and unforgettable. Even though they all practically ended up bad." Sonny smiled and nodded taking this strange feeling in. Hayden was amazed at the beauty and sincerity to her smile, but smiled as well knowing from just that smile and the look in her eyes that there was still some sort of feelings for Chad still in her.
"Chad was always very unpredictable." Hayden smiled, and continued the conversation. "This might be a pointless question, but did nothing get resolved between the two of you?"
"No…But I…"
"But what?" Hayden noticed Sonny bring her gaze down to her hands on her lap.
"I should have apologize, to him. He came asked for that…but I couldn't do it. I'm so stupid."
"No you're not." Hayden smiled, "It's never an easy thing to own up to ones own mistakes. A lot of people are afraid to even acknowledge them, but you have already so you're have halfway there. Besides that guy should have to apologize as well." Hayden added with a small laughter that caused her to laugh as well.
Her almost red-eyes were slowly brought back to normal at the casual and friendly tone. She smiled genuinely at Hayden, needing to hear such words from a friend.
A friend.
The word echoed in Sonny's mind. That was all to their relationship.
Friendship.
"Don't worry about it, you'll do fine. It's not that complicated as how you make it seem. All you need is the same emotion as when you were thinking back to all the memories between the two of you to help you." Hayden stated.
"Yeah, you're right!" Sonny smiled with enthusiasm quite evident in her tone, as other guests turned to look at her strangely before going back to their conversations. Hayden chuckled but nonetheless Sonny was unfazed by that.
"But first, leave him for me tonight first." Hayden spoke.
"Why?"
"There's something I have to make even with him…." Hayden laughed lightly to himself. Sonny laughed along with him not really understanding where he was going with the conversation but was grateful for his help.
"I'll be right back I have to go to the bathroom." Sonny excused herself and walked calmly to where the bathroom was. All the water she drank today was pushing down on her bladder and really had to go. She went into the girls bathroom but it was unbelievable filled and a line was formed. She existed it just as quickly, looking at the men's bathroom across, tempted but she knew better. She looked down the hall and luckily there was a 'family' restroom that signaled with both a woman and man on the door. And lucky for her it wasn't occupied.
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It was a loud shriek that startled Chad, and made him focus to where it was coming from. It was Sonny, he knew the sound of her voice clearly, he abandoned all thoughts and tried to rush in the restaurant if it wasn't for the woman that he despised the most cut him off.
"Chad what a surprise, no?" Portlyn smiled and stood perfectly in front of him and was clearly in his way.
"It's you….look just shut up and get out of my way."
"Aw, I'm so flattered you still remember me!" Portlyn smiled not wanting him to go on and spread her arms out so he couldn't maneuver around her to get to the entrance of the restaurant. Chad literally growled, the door was just a couple of feet behind her. Without giving a damn, he pushed her out of the way to get to the door.
"Just give it up Chad!" Portlyn yelled , after she was shoved violently but didn't fall down to the floor. Chad's grip on the door handle hardened as he turned to look at her.
"What?"
"You saw them! They're perfect for each other and you know it!" Portlyn snapped back, giving it all to the best for the plan to come out successfully. She agreed to this after all, and was going to finish what she was assigned to. She might not like this, but it was worth for her seeing how much Sonny meant for Chad. She tried this before, and was amazed by the result, but she wanted to see if those same feelings were still in him.
"Shut up, before I deface you myself." He threatened her.
"It doesn't matter what you do to my face, distort it the way you wish." Portlyn tempted him once more. "I already got surgery to change myself just for you…" Chad was dumbstruck from her answer and was slightly disgusted with it as well.
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"I said I was sorry…." Hayden tried to talk to the some what depressed and fazed Sonny who was sulking on her chair. "Well, see I'm apologizing and it's not so hard…." Hayden was somehow trying to connect their conversation they were having before.
"But you saw me in the bathroom! I was on the toilet!" Sonny yelled a little to loudly and caught the full attention of the store, and everyone turned to look at the couple in question. Sonny blushed a deeper red than possible at all the stares they were receiving, and she could have sworn she saw a waiter laugh at her.
"Well, that was your fault. Who doesn't lock the door?" Hayden laughed enjoying how flustered she was. It took him a couple of minutes before he actually stopped laughing, "It wasn't that serious, okay?" Hayden wiped away the tears that came out from him laughing so hard.
"But you saw…." Sonny couldn't find the strength to finish the sentence, Hayden looked back at her daring her to continue as if he was innocent. "Never mind. let's go." Sonny pouted lightly as she got another round of laughter from Hayden.
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"The way you look at me it's...disgusting." Chad finally answered. She eyed him like some sort of food ready to be consumed at any minute. She always had that look no matter what.
It wasn't until Chad was pushed back from the door being pushed open. Chad turned around and automatically let go of the door, and was surprised to see the two of them step out. Hayden looked confused at Chad, and turned to see Portlyn as well, Sonny who was in behind Hayden also noticed the two.
'What is Chad doing here with Portlyn?'
"Wow Sonny! You look so cute, I had no idea you would wear a skirt so nicely!" Portlyn rushed to greet Sonny like a long lost friend. She even touched her nicely straightened hair. Sonny backed away from her hands subconsciously knowing very well what those hands are capable of. Chad and Hayden watched the two girls with caution. "You must dress like this for the guy you really like, right?" She gave Sonny a friendly but suggestive wink and she tilted her head to her companion.
"What are you doing?" Sonny couldn't help but ask ignoring her previous remark that Sonny knew would be best to ignore.
"Hey Hayden, What are you going to do about Selena?" Chad blurted out just as quickly causing Hayden to turn to Chad, and Sonny's mouth was left gaping at his question.
"Just how inconsiderate are you!" Sonny marched towards him not liking how he still had his bossy attitude much like before, and to make it worse here he was opening up wounds.
"It's true, there's no point in trying to avoid the question!" Chad replied with the same tone that Sonny was using against him.
"Still! There is a thing called being considerate of others feelings!" Sonny couldn't help but lecture him, their previous encounter and what she had to do was pushed back to the dark corners of her mind.
"Well it's not a good thing to hide these feelings by avoiding the dilemma!"
"That's up to the person to decide only when they feel they are ready! It's not something you can decide for him!"
"Who say's I'm deciding for him? I was just curious as to what he was going to do."
There was already a small crowd of people trying to enter the restaurant who were stuck outside watching the two continue bicker back and forth. Hayden couldn't help but grin knowing that these two always confront each other like they were in some sort of battle field. Yet despite that, it was plainly obvious to anyone that these two were meant for each other.
No matter how hard they try to go against that fact.
"Let's go Hayden." Sonny grabbed his arm and stuck her tongue out at Chad before dragging him out, and out of the view of the collecting audience. She was beginning to blush with embarrassment at how some of the people were commenting on the endless riot, yet some elderly folk pointed out that they were just having a "couples fight."
"Damn it all." Chad mumbled as he was left behind with people wondering why he looked so familiar, and knew there wasn't much of choice left but to leave.
"You handled that well," Portlyn was the first one to talk after the couple left and weren't seen anymore by the wave of crowds swallowing them up and leaving no trace of them. "my opinion of course."
"Shut up." Chad responded as he kicked the ground as if there was some sort of invisible object there that he could only see.
"Where are you going to go? Are you going to follow them still?" Portlyn asked voice with urgency, wanting to tag along with him knowing very well her presence wasn't at all welcomed.
"I don't know, and that doesn't mean you can come with me." Chad spat out icily and he looked among the brave souls that were still watching him. With just that one look the remaining people began to leave. "You sicken me."
"I don't care. I still don't want to give up on you.
"What?" Chad responded confused as to where this source of confidence was coming from. "What makes you think I would want you? Especially after the hell you put me through?"
"You never know, Chad."
"All I know, is that you and I will never work." Leaving it at that, Chad left her there with her mouth wide open. He didn't bother to control the words coming out of his mouth, nor did he attempt to control his facial features that would typically be kept more controlled.
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"That was sweet of you, Sonny…but I already know of Selena getting married."
The two of them stopped at a small empty park, open fields with beautiful trees and flowers decorating the area.
"Oh, you did…" Sonny sat down on the bench enjoying the breeze of the outside air, it was that nice sunny but breezy kind of days where the wind had a familiarity of the autumn air. "Well, I most have made a fool of myself back there, especially at the café." Sonny placed her head in-between her two hands trying to recover from the embarrassment.
"No you didn't, but thank you." Hayden turned to look at her, and Sonny dug her face out and turned to look at him noticing how serious and genuine his tone of voice was. "For thinking about me." He added with a smile.
"Well, you're welcome." Sonny beamed a smile towards him, "What are friends for?" Sonny added with that adorable laugh of hers. Hayden smiled, and couldn't help but chuckle.
"I'll tell you one thing, I surely do regret not being able to see your beauty first…" Hayden sighed.
"What do you mean?"
"Well, Chad was able to see it way before I was ever able to….maybe right from the start, when you two met." Hayden spoke out taking a seat next to her. "You know, that makes him quite special." Sonny laughed reminiscing how they first met.
"I don't think it was right from the start….I actually don't know when it started." Sonny replied, with a dry laugh. Hayden nodded, trying to make sense of the situation.
"Well, isn't that how it starts out? If love was such a predictable thing then everyone wouldn't have their fair share of trouble finding it, right?"
"Yeah, that's true…" Sonny nodded along.
"You as a word from a friend, you kind of missed your chance to apologize to him back there." Hayden spoke out truthfully, Sonny sighed deeply.
"Yeah I kind of realized that just now." Sonny chuckled lightly at her own stupidity. "But it's his fault, he just got me so angry…" Sonny added with a pout.
Hayden laughed at her response loudly, if there were people around surely they would think of him as crazy.
"God, you two are just…"
"Just what?"
"Nothing…forget it." Hayden slapped his thigh as he continued laughing.
"What? Tell me!"
"Later, Later."
"No, I want to know now!"
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"So did you have a fun time with Hayden?" Lucy asked after restocking some of the shelves.
"Well sort of, we just went to the mall and ate lunch together. Oh! And went to the park together afterwards." Sonny added.
"But how did it feel?" Grady asked becoming immersed with Sonny's situation. Listening to their stories was something he had grown used to ever since he had worked here.
"I don't know, normal I guess." Sonny grabbed a broom and started sweeping the floors. Sonny recalled how 'silent' their date was in the beginning, something she feared to get used to. Was it because she was so adjusted to having loud and unpredictable dates with Chad?
"Does that mean your decision is going to be Hayden?" Lucy couldn't help but ask seeing Sonny's distant gaze.
"Well, I think so. I mean technically speaking it went pretty well. And after all he's done for me…" Sonny replied casually. Lucy nodded, deciding whether or not to say something.
"But doesn't that mean it's out of sympathy?" Grady asked her, Lucy looked at him dangerously. Even though it was the same thing she wanted to ask her as well. "Well, in a third-person point of view it sounds like it."
"Yeah you're right." Sonny thought it over, and nodded. Lucy sighed feeling relieved Sonny didn't take his remark the wrong way.
"I just don't know anymore…"
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"Stupid TV. Stupid sofa. Stupid puzzle." Chad was looking at his options of what to do. Luxurious as his room may be it wasn't enough to entertain him anymore. He used to spent all his time in the newest luxuries that were sent to him from him father, but now it truly didn't have any value. It was there just take up space.
Take up space…
Chad sighed, maybe what he wanted comfort. On that note, he knew the only person who he could confide in easily was his sister who was currently somewhere in Europe promoting some sort of new idea for her husbands company. He knew if he were to call or text her she would be on the next flight back home to him, but he really didn't want to be a bother to her again.
Chad picked up his phone and looked at the recent texts he had, all which where either Nico or Devon. The last time he had had sent her text or a call was a long time ago, one message to her wouldn't hurt, as long as it was casual and normal.
With that, he had sent her a text asking her how she had been, and a minute barely passed when his phone went off, and a reply was awaiting for him. Chad laughed at her response, already imagining her slightly frustrated face, seeing how he had just woken her up, it being currently really early in the morning wherever she was at.
Chad found himself smiling as he continuously send her texts, all which Tawni was quick to respond back to. It wasn't long before she had asked him if anything was wrong, and Chad hesitated to reply. If he didn't reply back she would worry, so he lied. And even added the smiling icon as a weapon of persuasion to prove his mood.
The messages ended shortly after saying she should go back to sleep, seeing how she was going to be busy all this week, and next. Tawni send a kissing icon, with a typical long text of how much she loves and misses him dearly.
Chad placed his phone down on the small table beside his bedside as he was starting to unbutton his shirt and switch into more relaxing clothes. He was on the second to last button when his phone went off again.
"What does she want now?" Chad reached over his phone with a smile expecting it to be Tawni again, but was dead wrong. Completely.
It was a text message from someone he didn't expect at all. It was from Hayden, asking-no more like demanding him to meet him at his house. Chad clutched his phone tightly, deciding whether or not to go, and if he was expected to reply. As if reading his mind, another one was sent from Hayden again, claiming it was time to settle everything once and for all between the two of them.
Chad quickly replied and re-buttoned his t-shirt as quickly as he could and storming off yelling to Will that he was going out. Will, who was standing by his bedroom door followed him out, and took the keys before Chad could.
"Young master, I'll drive. When you drive in this sort of temper it's quite worrisome for me."
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"I told you already….I'm going to go to his house and beat the crap out of him…Do you think I care?…..Look Devon, I'm calling you only because this will determine all…I'm not being dramatic!….Too late, I'm almost there…Don't care…bye."
Chad threw his phone onto the seat ignoring all the calls, and messages being sent to him continuously by either Devon, and most likely Nico as well. Knowing Devon he must have told Nico by now.
"We have arrived, Young master." Will's voice from the front seat cleared all his thoughts, and opened the car door swiftly and quickly leaving his phone behind.
"This won't take too long…"
"Young master…." Tried to call out to him but Chad wasn't going to listen.
"Chad." He tried again, using his name. Chad turned around slightly shocked, not because if this were anyone else he would have fired them immediately for using such a tone and his own name, but because it was Will who was talking to him. "Please be careful, I'll be waiting right here."
It took Chad a while to register the words, before he smiled and nodded. Somehow Will became, or looked more like father to his own eyes right now. Chad continued walk towards Hayden's house, and instead of going through the front door, he went straight to the back yard. The enormous field, resembling a big greenhouse with no walls surrounding the beauty. Even if it was night, the darkness couldn't hide the beauty nor the lovely fragrance that flowed in the air.
A light turned on, illuminating the whole garden. Hayden was sitting on a bench already waiting for him with the control in his hand. Leaving it on bench, Hayden stood up and faced Chad with a welcoming smile, that Chad took as some sort insult. Chad looked at his appearance and somehow it, ticked him off. Only because of what it looked like, to his own eyes. Ruffled hair, and lose clothing, it resembled too closely like he stepped out of the bed, after doing some 'mature' activities.
"How was your date with Sonny?" Chad dared himself to ask seeing his appearance, and glancing inside the tall house, hoping to god that she wasn't in there. Hayden as if knowing what he was thinking, smirked. The lovely smirk that was ticking Chad off.
"Oh I had a lot of fun." Hayden replied with confidence, and stressing the hint he was trying to give to Chad.
"Chad! Hayden!" It was the sound of their two faithful friends who showed up at this moment breathless from the running, and looked at the two, who didn't take their eyes of each other and standing in front of each other dangerously. Devon and Nico noticed the horrible lighting aura surrounding the two. The two weren't sure if the should step in right now, however Chad did look deadly scary that they didn't want to intervene.
If looks could kill, Hayden wouldn't be standing…
"Well, Glad to hear that. Shall I wrap her up and giver her to you?" Chad replied sarcastically of course. The smirk on Hayden's face dropped instantly and prepared his most serious face.
"You know, its best that you stop talking as if you own her." Hayden responded, earning soft gasps from the on looking duo, and a surprised look from Chad. He noticed Chad's fist tighten dangerously. Hayden mentally smirked as he noticed how everything was going as he planned, Chad just needed a little more of push. "Especially, since, she's mine now." Hayden's gaze darkened dangerously.
"What?" Chad yelled back from shock hoping that his hears were deceiving him. His imagination was running wild, he didn't want to imagine it, but he couldn't help it. The fact that Hayden…bedded her. All to shocking, and the more aggravating.
"It all started with a Goodbye kiss, she practically begged for it. Soon she was saying that she wanted more and more." Hayden laughed as if he were recalling the false memory. "What can I say, I am a man after all. You she's always so tough, but it was such a beautiful sight to her at her most feminine moments like that-"
Before he could finish his sentence, Chad punched him in the face without thinking much about it. The two onlookers were shocked yet they both understood Chad's anger and even felt a slight bit of disgust towards Hayden's attitude.
"Calm down Chad, punching him wont help!" Nico was the first one of the two to 'unfreeze' and run to Chad.
"Oh hell yes it is! It's certainly making me feel a lot better!" Chad struggled to get free from him, soon Devon had also retrained him as well. "That fucking bastard…let me go!"
There were tears straining to come out of Chad's eyes, but he wasn't going to let that stop him. There was no way in hell, Chad was going to let Hayden off without leaving a good few bruises on his face.
"Chad! Calm down!"
Hayden was standing right in front of him, wiping the blood from his mouth. Looking as if his punch did nothing to him.
"How the hell can I? That bastard..he…"Chad stopped struggling, and waited for the moment for them to loosen their grip. And once they did so, he gave it all he had and freed himself and punched Devon.
"What the hell?" Devon responded when he hit the ground.
"Get the hell out of my way!" Chad responded as he walked towards Hayden and only stopped by Nico this time. Nico had predicted as much, when Chad punched him in the face, sending him flying down to the ground.
"You. Bastard." Nico spat out. Nico charged towards Chad and with all intention of punching him back. Devon intervened right at the right time to stop him.
"What the hell are you thinking? Punching him won't help!" Devon yelled back, but however Nico's temper had burnt up and sent his rage towards Devon.
"You just get your artistic ass out of here! Bet you don't want to get those precious hands of yours injured." Nico teased, secretly spilling something he absolutely didn't like of Devon. As a man himself, he had never heard anyone fuss about his own "delicate" hands as much as Devon. Ever since they were young, Devon was the one who didn't partake in any sport growing up thinking it would affect his art.
"You asshole." Devon seethed and stood up and punched him straight in the stomach, knocking Nico to his knees.
"You're going to wish you didn't mess with me." Chad grabbed Hayden by the collar, and quite ready to punch him once again.
"I don't think I can take your threats seriously.." Hayden replied removing the hands on his collar. Hayden swiftly returned the earlier punch that Chad had given him.
That was how it all started.
Punching, and kicking were thrown at each other. At four friends that had grown up together. And all that were deeply bonded, and promised to see the world together, and corny as it might sound grow old together. They all wished to carry this special friendship of theirs 'til the end.
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Will turned around with the sound of the phone left behind him ringing, the first time he ignored it but the second time he reached back and checked the name listed to see who was calling. It was Sonny, he was quite tempted to answer the phone and inform her of Chad's whereabouts but he knew better. This was something that he knew Chad had to sort out, by himself.
The phone continued to ring, after minutes and minutes ticked away. Will had counted a good four calls now, and now the phone was ringing as a remainder that there were four missed calls, and four voicemails. Without giving it a second thought, Will took out the phone battery and threw it back to the backseat and waited.
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"What? He's not going to pick up now…" Sonny pouted as she laid down on the bed. It took all her courage that she had to call him, and what's worse is that she left him messages desperate for him to pick up her calls, and to apologize for being a fool.
"I hope he'll call…. back…" Sonny felt her eye lids close once her head made contact with her soft pillow. Falling asleep with her phone right beside her, still waiting.
Waiting for his call.
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With one last shaking fist, Devon had Nico pinned down to the ground. Having barely no energy left, all he could do is try to punch him again, but the strength of his punch had lost all force behind it. Nico wasn't in any better condition either, fact actually all four of them had transformed into bleeding bruising messes still trying to fight. Nico spat out blood collecting in his mouth along with the saliva.
And with a hard push got Devon off of him, and nailed a good two more punches on him. Devon had struggled and punch his side as well.
Chad been recently knocked down on the ground, but had quickly turned the tables and was pinning Hayden down and punching him at the same time. His body was aching for him to stop, and all the blood made him dizzy but anger was the only thing keeping him going.
He wanted to leave Hayden a bloody mess to the point that he wouldn't be able to recognize him. And that mission was accomplished along time ago, yet that didn't mean he was going to stop now. In fact, all their faces were horrible, no one was going to be the first one to stop. They all ignored the aching feeling that continue to grow. Ignored the dizzy spells that came with every blow received.
"I'll hurt anyone… who tries to hurt her…." Chad spoke hoarsely and he tried to land one more punch to emphasize his point, and Hayden dodged his skillfully but tiredly.
"Well you should have said that earlier!" Hayden replied with a same horsed voice as she threw Chad off of him with all the energy he had left. He sat up panting hard, and looked at Chad who was confused and breathing just as hard as he was.
"I was obviously lying…" Hayden announced.
The other two had stopped fighting and turned to look at Hayden with dumbstruck faces.
"You should know me by now! I would never do that…. You should know Sonny better than I do. She's not that kind of girl…." Hayden explained with more detail as he tried to suck in as much air.
Chad was in the fence of being angry and happy at the same time.
"What?" Chad couldn't help but want more conformation to what he was hearing.
"You are messed up…" Devon cried out before throwing himself on the floor, breathing hard.
"You're a pretty damn good actor." Nico added sitting up and trying to control his breathing, this earned a dry laugh from Hayden.
"The only time she was smiling on our date was when she was talking about you." Hayden turned to look at Chad seriously. "And I'm serious right now. I'm not lying…"
"Really?" All the anger within vanished completely as he stood up quickly and yelled with such happiness, only to regret it afterwards. "Ow… it hurts…" Chad rubbed his sore jaw, and sore body. Everyone laughed, but instantly regretted it when their ribs started to tingle in pain.
"You guys really suck…" Devon complained as he rubbed his sore ribs.
"Hey, are you going to okay?" Nico couldn't help but ask seeing how both of his hands were red, and knuckles were cut open and bleeding.
"Yeah. I'll be fine…"
"We should take you to a hospital…man. I'm sorry."
"It's alright…" Devon responded with a smirk by lightly pushing him playfully.
"Hell, in this case we should all go to the hospital…" Hayden replied laughing softly trying not to hurt himself even more. Carefully he stood up carefully trying to stand up with Chad, who was re-energized with the idea of reconciling with Sonny.
"Chad. This should go without saying…but don't mess up anymore." Hayden spoke out, not wanting to burst his bubble.
"I know that. And don't worry that won't be happening again." Chad smiled lightly, as best as he could without the pain stopping him.
"Good. Cause I don't think I'll be able to forgive you if you hurt her…." Hayden extended his right hand, Chad smiled and shook his hands.
"What a strange circle of friendship we all have, no?" Devon explained as he stood up with the help of Nico.
"What do you expect…." Nico was cut off.
"We're F4 after all." Chad smiled widely, wincing afterwards from the pain that jolted through his jaw.
I'm sorry I really tried to update this chapter before I started college, but somehow I got sucked up into doing so much! Trust me there was always something going wrong with my paperwork, that would result to many trips to the campus to fix it. And it would suck cause I would have to do one thing in order to do another thing, and a lot of waiting in line, either physically or on the phone.
And luckily my first week blew by quickly, and I can say the only days I can work on the fic is going to be maybe only in the weekends, but that won't stop me from updating! XD I'll just go into the computer lab and work on it there~ since I don't have I laptop. Lol~
Well I hope this chapter was up everyone's liking! I really loved the ending of it, wasn't it intense? Oh, and you haven't noticed this chapter was more of a blend of both the Korean and Japanese version again.
Explanation:
First off, don't be too mad at Sonny here. Though I'm pretty sure some already are~ lol! She's experiencing that sort of internal battle of admitting when she's wrong. And for anyone (especially for someone with a lot of pride like Sonny or Chad.) it isn't an easy thing to do.
And to explain something, Hayden did have this all planned! He wanted the both of them to get back together, and what better by having them both realizing how much they mean to each other. He asked Sonny on a date only to show her that there was practically nothing between them, or that if there was something how a 'practical' date would go between the two of them. Which Sonny admitted to herself before, that she didn't like it, or rather would not want to like it all.
Sonny was used to the loud and crazy moments she had with Chad, even though the were slightly bad they left her with a lot of memories. And she realized that on her date with Hayden. And only wanted to be with him based on feelings of friendship, which she only realizes after Grady tell her so.
And Sonny got the courage to admit that she was wrong and decided to call Chad! And what those messages say will be revealed in the next chapter!
As for the title, I'm still debating on what to call it~
Next Chapter: To Reach out.
Though it would change~ just letting you know right now. :P
So Thank you for everyone for all the reviews, and those who silently read it! :D I love all the support you guys give me~ and I'll try to update more quickly next time! I've predicting, I'll have it posted within 2 or 3 weeks! So look out for it! :P Please excuse any spelling or grammer errors that could have happened, I was in quite a hurry to update! XP
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