Alright, you guys, here's the deal. I had to get my phone replaced recently, and as I was scanning through my new phone looking for all the notes I had on Outtakes, I realized that I didn't have any. Being the dummy that I am, I totally forgot to backup the deleted scenes from Twelve Months. I'll be posting a poll on my profile that I'd really like you all to take a look at. It concerns my continuing to update Outtakes along with updating Four Seasons or just discontinuing Outtakes and focusing only on Four Seasons. I'd really like if you guys participated.
This is the next chapter of Four Seasons, and I really hope you enjoy it! I know that the wait between the prologue and this chapter was rather long, but I had so many papers to write before Thanksgiving break and then five finals to study for that this story sort of got shoved to a back burner for a little bit. Ideas have been percolating for a while, though, so hopefully this chapter is fantastic.
Anyhoo… Enjoy!
Summary: The cast of Mackenzie Falls and the paparazzi: two things you don't want in your relationship when you're dating Chad Dylan Cooper. The cast of Mackenzie Falls and the paparazzi: two things you will have in your relationship when you're dating Chad Dylan Cooper.
Disclaimer: Me no own, you no sue. (Anything you recognize is not mine. Anything you don't recognize probably is mine. Probably.)
Four Seasons
By EmbracingRain
Arc One
Spring
Chapter One
The Sharona Knows Website
Only Sharona Knows what you would never be able to guess!
Chad Cheatin' Cooper
Which Hollywood teen couple is about to give up on each other? Rumor has it that Chad Dylan Cooper isn't exactly the good boy he seems to be in front of the press. Sources claim that Chad was seen on a romantic lunch date with none other than his costar Portlyn, who plays a character by the same name on Cooper's hit tween drama, Mackenzie Falls (see pictures below).
He was also seen canoodling with an unknown girl from studio six at Condor Studios on a weekend trip to the Alps just last weekend. While I don't have pictures yet, I can assure you that I will soon! It's only a matter of time before this big trip is leaked to every reporter in town!
How will Sonny Munroe, Cooper's girlfriend (though apparently not the only one he has) and So Random! star, take this news? Or has she known all along? Have these two been faking it for the publicity? Only time will tell!
Next up: which star of So Random! wore this Melanie Carmichael dress better? Sonny Munroe or Tawni Hart?
March 3rd
10:07 a.m.
Condor Studios
So Random! Set
Sonny and Tawni's Dressing Room
Sonny Munroe was not an angry or violent person by nature. She didn't punch walls, she didn't usually scream, and she didn't make threats. The worst thing she had ever done while working at So Random! was throw a pillow at Tawni's face. And that had been a well-deserved pillow to the face.
But despite her forgiving nature, there was one thing Sonny wasn't going to be forgiving in the near future, and that was Tawni's habit of misinforming people. Because of Tawni's ridiculous habit, Sonny had just marched herself over to the set of Mackenzie Falls and given Chad Dylan Cooper, her boyfriend of just a few short months, a nice, loud yelling at.
…
During a live interview he was doing for ABC.
…
And the cameras had caught it all.
Storming through the door to her dressing room and then slamming it shut behind herself, Sonny hollered her castmate's name, completely and utterly livid, her words and the words of Stephanie Cuthbert still ringing in her ears.
"You're cheating on me with that FLOOZY from Studio Six?! AND PORTLYN?! I can't BELIEVE I trusted you, Chad! You know, I should've known you'd be like this. I never should've given you a chance! I can't BELIEVE I let myself fall for you!"
Chad had looked at her like a deer caught in the headlights of a semi. Sonny had never seen him look so taken aback before. It was when his mouth dropped open and he began to deny her claims that she realized with a sinking heart that not even Chad could act so genuinely bewildered.
"Are her claims true, Mr. Cooper?" Stephanie Cuthbert had asked, shoving herself between the couple and staring at Chad with wide eyes that seemed to bore straight through the blonde's head.
"NO!" Chad had bellowed, more in Sonny's direction than Stephanie Cuthbert's. "I don't even KNOW any girls from Studio Six. I didn't even know there WAS a Studio Six! And Portlyn and I haven't spoken a friendly word in two months!"
The whole set had gone awkwardly silent. Stephanie Cuthbert had broken it by telling her audience that she would continue interviewing Chad after the break and then stood there gaping at the pair of teenagers.
After pulling Sonny aside and clearing up the matter of who she'd even heard the rumor from, Chad had reassured Sonny that she had nothing to worry about. He didn't even know where Studio Six was (truth. Sonny knew where it was and it definitely wasn't across the parking lot like Chad guessed), and Portlyn had been demoted to recurring character two months ago (also true, Sonny later found out when she caught up on a few episodes of Mackenzie Falls. Portlyn had absolutely no scenes with Chad's character). Chad readily accepted Sonny's apology and said he'd come visit her after he was done with his interview.
Sonny had returned to her dressing room, still smitten with her boyfriend but now livid with her friend.
"Tawni!" Sonny screeched again, folding her arms across her chest and tapping her foot impatiently.
"I am changing my clothes," came the blonde's response from behind the curtains of her changing room. "Can you please keep your voice down? You're disturbing me."
"No, I will not keep my voice down," Sonny retorted, stomping across the room to stand by Tawni's chaise lounge. "I have words for you, Tawni Hart, and you are going to hear them whether you like it or not!"
A manicured hand curled around the brightly-spotted curtain hanging in the doorway to Tawni's dressing room and wrenched the piece of fabric to the side. Tawni stood there, her hands on her hips and a look of pure annoyance on her makeup-slathered face.
"Where did you hear that Chad was cheating on me, Tawni?" Sonny asked, feeling her eye start to twitch the tiniest bit as she tried to reign in her frustration and put on a relaxed face.
Tawni shrugged and scooted past the brunette to perch herself in front of her mirror. "I don't know exactly," she said, beginning to primp and coating her lips with a fresh layer of Cocoa Mocho Cocoa lipstick.
"How could you not know?"
Snorting and flipping her hair over her shoulder, Tawni replied, "I just clicked on some link on the internet. I think it might've been like Sharona Knows or something."
"Sharona Knows," Sonny deadpanned.
"Uh-huh!" Tawni said, nodding enthusiastically. "There were pictures!"
"You heard that Chad was cheating on me by reading Sharona's website?" Sonny asked quietly, feeling more irked than ever. Obviously, Tawni hadn't learned from the Oh No You Di'nt incident.
"There were pictures!" Tawni said loudly. "Pictures mean proof! I was just looking out for you, Sonny. I mean, gosh. Diva much?"
Well, if that wasn't the pot calling the kettle black…
"Pictures." Sonny arched an eyebrow.
"That's what I just said."
"Show me."
March 3rd
10:16 a.m.
Condor Studios
So Random! Set
Outside Sonny and Tawni's Dressing Room
Of all the strange things Chad Dylan Cooper had seen around the set of So Random! the strangest had to be this moment here in the hallway outside of Sonny's dressing room. Portlyn and Nico were giggling in a corner behind a mail cart.
Giggling.
In a corner!
TOGETHER.
BEHIND A MAIL CART!
Chad's observation of the oblivious, odd couple was cut short a loud declaration of, "Tawni, that's Portlyn's head Photoshopped onto my body," from Sonny's dressing room. Curious, Chad eased open the door to Sonny's side of the dressing room and poked his head inside. Tawni and Sonny were staring at a laptop on their coffee table.
"Ohh, okay. Yeah, I should've known that was actually you. There's no way Portlyn would wear that hideous dress!" Tawni said as she leaned closer to the laptop's screen. "It totally looks like something out of your closet."
"Tawni, that's your dress," Sonny said with a slight smirk. "You let me borrow it, remember?"
The blonde actress leaped up from the couch with an astonished gasp. "I can't believe you would accuse me of owning such a hideous piece of clothing!" she exclaimed before storming out her door.
As soon as Tawni was completely out of the room (Chad didn't like being around her for too long. The longer he was in her vicinity the more brain cells he could feel dying slowly and painfully), Chad slipped into the dressing room through Sonny's door and flopped down next to his girlfriend on the hideously orange couch.
"Hey, gorgeous."
"Chad, how many times do I have to remind you to stop talking to your own reflection like that?" Sonny teased him before pressing a kiss to his cheek.
"Well, you know," Chad said with false bravado as he wrapped an arm around Sonny's shoulders, "I'm just too attractive to resist myself. What are you looking at?"
"The Sharona Knows website."
"I thought you and your Randoms hated that website."
"Oh, we do," Sonny said reassuringly. "Apparently Tawni still checks it every day, though. Check this out," she told Chad, pointing at the laptop.
"'Chad Cheatin' Cooper?'" Chad read aloud from the screen. "This is where Tawni got her 'reliable information' from?" He scrolled down the page, scanning over a story about how he was purportedly cheating on Sonny with Portlyn and a girl from Studio Six and stopping at several pictures of Portlyn and himself at Maggiano's.
Actually, it was Portlyn's head on Sonny's body and himself at Maggiano's.
"Do you think Blondie realizes how stupid she is?" Chad questioned Sonny thoughtfully. "Look how big Portlyn's head is in this picture. It's like somebody put a planet over your face!"
"I'm so mad at Tawni right now," Sonny said, shutting the laptop and then snuggling into Chad's side. "Not only did she believe something that Sharona wrote, but she made me not trust you. And then I had to go and ruin your interview…"
"It was just an interview, Sonny-girl. Don't worry about it so much," Chad told her, smoothing her hair. "And it wasn't even an important one."
"It was live, though," Sonny half-wailed. "Now everyone is gonna think that I'm a diva again and that you're a terrible person!"
Chad chuckled and smirked. "Nobody's gonna call you a diva, Sonny. Believe me. You're the one who was apparently cheated on. The paparazzi will side with you without a doubt."
"They'll still think you're a terrible person," the comedienne muttered.
"Well, I am."
"No, you aren't, Chad. Quit fishing for compliments."
Chad sighed and hugged Sonny a little tighter. "Look, Sonny-girl, whatever people say doesn't matter, right? We know the truth. And if people start asking, we'll tell them the truth. Sharona doesn't control the paparazzi, okay? We're better than all of them. Plus, you and your Randoms took down the Wicked Witch of the Web once. Then, it was just five of you. Now, you've got Chloe and me, too."
Sonny looked up at Chad with a small smile. "You really do watch So Random! don't you?"
"What can I say? There's this really hot, funny girl on that show. I can't seem to get enough of her."
Sonny laughed. "You're such a dork, Chad."
"You love it, though."
"Maybe just a little," she admitted coyly before stealing a kiss.
March 3rd
12:19 p.m.
Condor Studios
Commissary
Nico stared across the room, totally entranced, as he repeatedly dunked a French fry in ketchup without realizing it. He could hear Grady in the background talking about a new strategy to get Murphy out of the commissary long enough that they could drink out of the fro-yo machine without getting caught. He could see Sonny and Chad being all weird and couple-y out of the corner of his eye. He could feel Zora crawling underneath the table as she bumped into his legs. He knew Tawni was still trying to make her lunch conform to her new no calories diet by the way she kept picking through the food.
But what had him doe-eyed and oblivious of his food was the lonely-looking brunette sitting at a table for two by herself.
"Dude, are you even listening to what I'm telling you right now?" Grady demanded loudly. He turned around in his seat in order to see just exactly what his best friend was gawking at. "Why are you staring at Portlyn?"
Sonny and Chad stopped flirting; Tawni stopped sorting her food; Zora's head surfaced above the tabletop; and Nico snapped out of his daze.
"I-I-I'm sorry…What?" Nico said, looking at his friend with wide, too-innocent eyes.
"You were staring at Portlyn," Grady said, sounding suspicious.
"W-well, I… Sh-she has a… Girl got a booger in her nose!" Nico blurted out, his heart racing unnaturally in his chest. "It's just hangin' there all nasty and junk." As his friends stared at him with confusion in their eyes, Nico bolted away from the table and out of the commissary. As he passed Portlyn's table, their eyes met for a split second and one corner of her mouth lifted into a small smile.
March 3rd
5:04 p.m.
Condor Studios
Parking Lot
The paparazzi were waiting for them just outside the side door of Condor Studios when they left work. As soon as the door opened, cameras started flashing and Sonny's world was suddenly reduced to the grip Chad had on her hand, the flash of bright lights that burned` her eyes, and questions that were nearly screamed.
"Are the rumors true?!"
"Miss Munroe! Miss Munroe! Can you tell us how you feel right now?"
"Mr. Cooper, did you really cheat on Miss Munroe?!"
"Is it true that you punched Chad during his interview with Stephanie Cuthbert, Sonny?!"
"Sharona Knows called you Chad Cheatin' Cooper, Chad! Do you have a comment on that?!"
"We have to run," Chad hissed in her ear.
Sonny tried to ask when exactly Chad planned on running since they were surrounded by a solid wall of people, but her question was cut short by a sharp tug on her hand. Then, she was stumbling clumsily after Chad toward his convertible a few hundred yards away. There was a loud thunder of running footsteps as the photographers and journalists began chasing after the escaping couple.
"Mr. Cooper!"
"Miss Munroe!"
"Get in the car!" Chad bellowed at Sonny as they split up upon reaching the shiny black convertible.
Whimpering in slight fear of getting trampled by the media, Sonny did as he told her to, opening the door and jumping into the car. Chad slammed his door shut and jammed the key into the ignition. The car came to life with a roar and the actor slammed his foot down on the gas pedal; the car lurched forward and through the pack of screaming photographers toward the road.
"They mobbed us!" Sonny gasped as she struggled to jam her seatbelt into place. "I thought security around this place was supposed to be airtight!"
"The paparazzi have their ways, Sonny," Chad replied through gritted teeth. "But you're right. Condor was supposed to have upped security since they started filming that movie in studio eleven."
Sonny looked over her shoulder as Chad ignored a red light and sped through an intersection, narrowly avoiding a semi and a school bus. There was one lone photographer still giving chase, but steadily becoming smaller as Chad urged the car down the crowded Hollywood street.
"They aren't going to leave us alone, are they?" she queried. "Now that Sharona got a hold of us, I mean."
"Probably not," Chad responded, his eyes steady on the road and his hands gripping the wheel tightly. He repeatedly checked his rearview mirror as he weaved through multiple cars and avoided red lights.
"…Do you think we can handle it?" Sonny asked quietly, afraid of what Chad's answer would be.
Chad's hand reached out and his fingers laced with hers. "Yes," he said simply. He gave her a smile that was anything but reassuring and didn't quite reach his eyes.
I met my nephew last week! He's now almost three weeks old and he is absolutely adorable! He has these cute little chubby cheeks and he looks almost exactly like my brother, but he has my sister-in-law's complexion. He has absolutely stolen my whole heart.
Anyhoo, I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter! I'm very sorry that I took so long in posting it, but college is definitely sucking up all of my time. I'm taking some challenging courses next semester, but I'm off until January 11, so I should be able to get a couple more chapters up if all goes well.
Don't forget to check out the poll in my profile. I really want to know what you guys would prefer I do.
Please don't forget to review! You guys left an incredible thirty-three reviews last chapter and I was absolutely blown away! I felt so loved! So if you think this chapter is awesome, let me know. If you hated it, let me know. Any sort of feedback is fantastic! Also, I'm sorry this was kind of short. The next chapter will most likely be longer.
Love,
EmbracingRain
P.S. Did anyone get the Sweet Home Alabama reference?
