CPOV
Sonny dragged me into Mr Condor's office. She was strong for someone so petite. And her small hand as just warm and perfect. I smiled at the thought of being able to be this close to her.
"Take a seat," said Mr Condor. All the casts rushed to grab a seat quickly before Mr Condor got angry unnecessarily. He tended to do that a lot.
"Ok, now that you are all settled down," said Mr Condor, pointedly looking at Cloudy, who was trying to lick his elbow. Rainy elbowed him. "Like I was trying to say before your friend irritated me," he glared at Cloudy, who squirmed, "we are going to be holding a competition in the studios."
People started to murmer in excitement. "Quiet!" shouted Mr Condor. Everyone shut up at that.
"All cast members are to take part in this competition. The aim of this is to increase the bond between these two casts, not that there seems to be any bond there in the first place." All of us looked down at our laps, avoiding his glare. This guy was scary, and none of us wanted to risk our jobs by aggravating him.
"The two casts will be competing against each other. Five against five in the first round followed by three against three in the second round. The final round will be between the top member of each cast."
I looked over at Sonny at this. She had tried to get rid of the rivalry with a bowl of egg salad, but had failed. If Sonny could not do it, how was Mr Condor going to get our casts to bond? He was probably going to scare us into it.
"I presume that there have been rumours about this competition going around," he said, looking at the freaky girl from So Random. She just looked back straight at him, not looking the least bit afraid. Mr Condor quickly looked away, a flash of fear in his eyes. I hid my smirk. The boss was scared of a little girl!
"I am going to just go ahead and put a stop to the rumours and reveal the actual details," he continued, looking at everyone except the freaky little girl. I looked at Sonny again, noticing that she was sitting up straight, looking eager to find out more. I thought back to how she had tried to get the answer out of me in my dressing room, trying to tempt it out of me. I had almost cracked. The only problem was that I had no idea what the contest was about as well. If only the announcement had not interrupted us.
"We are going to have a eating competition." Cloudy and Rainy started bouncing on their seats at this, only to stop abruptly when Mr Condor glared at them. "The food you kids,"- I scoffed at that. Kids -" are to gobble up is frozen yogurt."
Cloudy and Rainy had huge grins on their faces by this point, but Mr Condor was too annoyed to even look at them. He was instead staring at his new iPhone. It's not like I am struggling for money or anything, but it must be nice to be as rich as him.
"The competition will start tomorrow, and I expect all of you to be at the cafeteria by 11 am to take part in it. Rehearsals will continue at 3 pm. All three rounds will happen within that time period. The person to win the whole competition gets to win their cast a free frozen yogurt machine for their prop house."
He looked up, apparently done with briefing us. "I'm done. Now get back to work."
SPOV
A froyo challenge? Really? Only Nico and Grady would take that sort of thing seriously. I stood up and left the depressing office with my castmates, making our way towards the prop house. Rehearsals were over for the day, leaving us with plenty of time to come up with new sketches. Hmm, maybe we could do a sketch on a talking cheese. Ooh, maybe a talking cow with a talking cheese! Or maybe even a-
"Sonny." I turned to look at Chad, recognising his voice even before looking at him.
"Chad. What do you want?"
"Cloudy and Rainy seem to be excited about the contest," he observed.
I turned my head, glancing at them for a second. "Yeah, they do. They take froyo seriously."
Chad smirked at me. "Well, that's just too bad. We are going to win."
I stared back at him blankly. "You actually expect to win? Even after knowing that we have foodaholics in our cast?" Chad just nodded, looking bored. "Face it Chad, your cast has no chance," I continued, trying to get him to react. "You people are only suited to eat steak and lobsters."
"Sonny, Sonny. Funny little Sonny. You will see tomorrow. We will beat you."
"Fine," I said, getting annoyed with him.
"Fine," he smirked back.
"Good!"
"Good!"
I turned on my heel, jogging to catch up with my cast.
Tawni smiled at me. "Flirting with Chad again?" she asked, looking amused.
"What?" Oh no, my voice was high. Why was my voice high? I was not in denial! "I don't like him!"
"Sure, Sonny," she said patronisingly.
"I don't!" I repeated as we entered the prop house.
Grady rushed over to the couch, followed by Nico. They plopped down on the couch even before Tawni got to look at the mirror.
"We have got to win that contest," exclaimed Grady, looking at Tawni and me with a serious expression on his face. Zora had already disappeared somewhere, even though I could have sworn that she was right in front of us seconds ago.
"Yeah, a free froyo machine! It's a sign from the gods of food that we got to win this thing!" continue Nico, looking agitated.
"Calm down, Nico," said Grady. "Mackenzie Falls have got nothing on us. We live on froyo, it should be easy to gobble down a couple of cups," he assured Nico, patting him on the back.
I thought back to what Chad had said earlier. He had seemed so arrogant and confident, and it was starting to get on my nerves. We had to win this thing.
"Guys, I agree. The people at the Falls look down on us too often. We have to prove to them that we are not a bunch of losers like they think we are," my cast - minus Zora, of course - looked back at me, surprised. "We have to win this contest. Maybe they won't bug us as much if we beat them at this, no matter how weird this competition is."
"Hey!" exclaimed the guys, looking indignant. "We will have you know that froyo eating is an art, which is not easily mastered by everyone. It-"
"Listen to the pretty girl!" interrupted Tawni."Sonny is right, we have to win this, even though it is stupid." She held up a hand to silence the guys' protests. "But Sonny," she asked, turning back to me, "what happened to 'resolving the rivalry with peace'?"
She was quoting me. A few months ago, I would not have supported this, but Chad was testing my limits. "It was flung in my face along with the egg salad," I replied. Gathering the other three, I begin to explain my plan to win the contest.
CPOV
My cast and I were gathered in our prop house, discussing the contest. Well, I was telling them what to do, but it could be considered a discussion if you ignored the fact that the rest of them had no say on things.
I looked around, noticing that loganberries were back in season. Our prop house was nothing like the one at So Random, which was cluttered and comfortable. Ours was spacious and clean with tasteful decoration, but there was nothing there that made us feel at home.
"So, like I as saying, we have to win this contest, even though it is stupid," I repeated to my cast, undoubtedly boring them out of their minds.
"But why do we have to eat froyos?" Chastity asked for the third time. "I don't want the extra calories."
"Then use the gym!" I exclaimed, getting more exasperated. "We cannot lose to the Randoms, no matter what."
Skyler nodded. "I get what you are trying to say, man. Don't worry, Ferguson and I will do your best."
I nodded to them. "Good. There's a second part to my plan as well," I continued.
"What is it, Chad?" asked Martha, fluttering mer eyelashes at me. I looked away, feeling disturbed. I only had eyes for a certain sunny girl.
"I want to be the one who gets into the finals," I said. The rest of my cast looked back at me, without questioning my motives. If only they knew that I was planning to use the contest to get Sonny.
*AN: Hey, I'm back! A huge thank you to Tinklebell11, Scouti and Lyfeeee for reviewing. There are only one or two chapters left after this, so keep reading. Thank you to the rest of you for reading, and please review!*