22A/N So this was originally a one shot, but then people asked me to do a two shot and loads of people favourited my story (kudos to you you are listed below!) and two of my reviewers replied to me with songs (also big shout outs to you first two names on the list below) and after going through them all I decided on this one. I dunno if you'll like it I hope you do. It ended the way I wanted and I really don't think I'll turn it into a three shot, or multi chapter!
Okay so dedications as of the time I wrote this (if you did favourite my story and you're not here, I'm sorry that I wrote this before but you would be on here too!) :
REPLIERS:
Best with breadsticks (to whom this song choice is credited)
mimo7197
THANK YOU BOTH FOR YOUR HELP!
MY REVIEWERS:
mimo7197
Best with breadsticks
SonnyChadFan
MY FAVOURITERS(is this a word? Who knows…. All I know is I don't own it *sad face*):
SimpleyChanny
SonnyChadFan
Zillionz
Mimo7197
Best with breadsticks (did you favourite my story? I dunno but you gave me the song, so that's good enough to make it on this list anyways)
THANK YOU GUYS!
Disclaimer: I unfortunately do not own Sonny With A Chance and any related characters, sets or props used in the show, Snow Patrol or their song "Set Fire to the Third Bar." I do not own the map of the USA mentioned in this story either…. Even though I made it up I just don't wanna be sued!
Maybe one day when I take over the world I will own everything!
So not going to happen. *sigh*
Sorry if Sonny's a little OOC but she like me (being single on the week up to Feb. 14th isn't fun) is having a bad week
I find the map and draw a straight line
Over rivers, farms, and state lines
The distance from 'A' to where you'd be
It's only finger-lengths that I see
Sonny traced her hand along the edge of the map on the wall.
Ms. Bitterman was making the class learn all fifty states off by heart, because apparently Tawni knew two.
Yes you heard right two.
California and New York, if you're wondering.
And so the class were resigned to having to make sure they knew them like the back of their hands for a test tomorrow.
Or in Tawni's case how well she knew the reflection of the back of her hand.
But instead of standing at the map and writing the list down like she was supposed to Sonny was absentmindedly tracing the distance between California and New Jersey where Chad was filming his new movie.
It seemed so small on the map, and Sonny wished he really was only a fingers length away.
Although she would never ever admit that.
She'd just gotten used to the idea, even after eight months, of telling Chad and everyone else that she missed him.
Telling them she wished he was so close to her was unimaginable.
Now don't get me wrong.
Sonny had found surviving these last couple of months bearable but she was having a really down day, missing Chad more than ever.
Damn him and his stupid charm.
I touch the place where I'd find your face
My finger increases of distant dark places
Sonny glanced to her right as she filled her fro-yo cup with chocolate flavoured fro-yo.
She quickly did a double take.
"Oh my god!" she screamed, so that everyone turned to stare at her, "where is it gone?"
Portlyn, who was standing beside her, looked at her like she was going mad.
She probably was.
"Omg, are you still trying to convince me you're not in love with him?" she said and Sonny blushed deeply.
"I don't love him, I was just used to it there, and I got a fright okay jeez," Sonny said defensively.
"Whatever," Portlyn said, picked up her tray and tossed her hair over her shoulder.
Sonny on the other hand abandoned her fro-yo and walked to the wall where the poster for Mackenzie Falls, with Chad looking all Mackenzie like, had once hung.
She knew that they were probably just getting a new one to promote the new season where "Mackenzie is finally reunited with his family after a year as a hostage to band of ninja pirates!" but Sonny couldn't help but lightly place her fingers where Chad's face had once been.
Then when she saw people were staring she coughed loudly and said, "what? I was just admiring the paint work."
I hang my coat up in the first bar
There is no peace that I've found so far
The laughter penetrates my silence
As drunken men find flaws in science
Their words mostly noises
Ghosts with just voices
Sonny groaned inwardly as she walked into her dressing room.
Ever since Tawni and Portlyn had become friends she felt like the Randoms! dressing rooms were filled with girlish screams and talk of hair products and nail polish all the time.
Sonny wasn't jealous of this new relationship, she just wished they would stop rubbing it in her face.
So she did was she always did when she was having a crummy day.
She went to her Random! closet and pulled out a tailored jacket that had become oh so familiar over the past 8 months.
As she slipped it on over the summer dress she was wearing she wished she could just wallow in self pity in silence inside of having to listen to Tawni and Portlyn laugh like eight year old school girls.
She couldn't even pick out words anymore just an annoying buzz that seemed like it was always there.
Really Sonny is it really? she couldn't help think to herself.
Your words in my memory
Are like music to me
"Fine!"
"Fine!"
"Good!"
"Good!"
"So we good?"
"Oh were so good!"
Sonny replayed ever argument she'd ever had with Chad over and over and every sweet memory too.
"I guess you'll just have to settle for me," Chad's cheeky grin flashed in front of Sonny's eyes and she imagined in her memory that a slow song had come on, and that they'd danced and that dancing had led to talking and talking had lead to sharing (of feelings) and sharing (of feelings) had lead to something more.
"Really, Sonny, do you really imagine that?" she could almost hear Chad saying, like a sweet melody whispered in her ear.
Stupid Chad, with his stupid voice, and his stupid eyes, and his stupid ability to make her become lost in their never ending sea of boundary less blue…
Sonny caught herself.
How could he do that even when he wasn't here?
I'm miles from where you are,
I lay down on the cold ground
I, I pray that something picks me up
And sets me down in your warm arms
Sonny was laying on the floor of her dressing room, her chocolate brown eyes closed and her ipod blasting in her ears.
She was praying silently that someone would tap her, and she would open her eyes and Chad's face would be above hers smiling, but she wasn't stupid, she knew they wouldn't get to dance again until he got back in two months after his movie was done shooting.
On good days she would be cheery and think I've survived eight what are two more?
But on down days she felt like she couldn't wait a second longer to see him.
It was at times like this she'd crack open her trusty Mack Falls box set and sit herself down for a four or five episode marathon.
Today though she felt like watching the whole thing.
Maybe she was really PMSing this time.
After I have travelled so far
We'd set the fire to the third bar
We'd share each other like an island
Until exhausted, close our eyelids
And dreaming, pick up from
The last place we left off
Your soft skin is weeping
A joy you can't keep in
Sonny turned on the electric heater to the third bar, even though it was summer she was shivering.
The prop house had jacked up heating.
She imagined Chad was sitting down next to her and was pulling her closer.
"So you watch the Falls?" he'd ask smirking.
"I do sometimes," she'd lie even though she knew this particular season off by heart.
"Really, Sonny, do you really?" he'd ask grinning gleefully that he got to use his line.
And then they'd start off where they'd finished before he had left.
"Fine be that way," she'd retort.
"Fine, I will," he would say right back.
"Good."
"Good."
"Oh, shut up," Sonny would lie down her head on Chad's lap and he'd trail his fingers through her hair that he loved so much.
"Fine I will…" but he'd trail off when he'd see her falling into a deep sleep.
But this was all in Sonny's imagination, and she snapped back to reality, smiling involuntarily as Chad walked onto the screen and stopped doing his signature far away gaze.
I'm miles from where you are,
I lay down on the cold ground
And I, I pray that something picks me up
and sets me down in your warm arms
Sonny was lying on the ground again, Chad's jacket wrapped around her, and she was still, not moving, as she listened to Me Vs. Maradona Vs. Elvis, just as Demi Lovato's twitter instructed.
It was a good song for self pity, she decided as she put it on repeat.
Not only was she having a bad day, she was having a bad week, and she knew everyone at Condor Studios even the cast of the Falls were getting worried about her.
Sure there were only seven more weeks until Chad returned but no one could bear the thought of depressed Sonny for that long.
Imagine happy Sonny, now times her happiness by one hundred and you're not even close to how depressing sad Sonny was.
She had even managed to bomb in the fifty states test and had earned herself a detention.
She had decided to save what little happiness she had for So Random! shows.
If she was fired she really didn't know what she would do seeing as how her job was the only thing keeping her going.
She was praying as always that she could just open her eyes and it would be two months from now, and Chad was back.
Instead though, when she did open her eyes she found Tawni's face in front of hers smiling widely.
"Hey Sonny," she said sweetly, "mind if I take this?"
Tawni was holding up a bumper tube of Coco Moco Coco lip gloss that Sonny had bought as a present for Tawni's birthday next week.
In her depressed state it took her a minute to react and as she yanked the earphones from her ears Tawni was already running from the dressing room, waving thanks over her shoulder.
Sonny struggled to her feet, feeling light headed after rising too quickly.
"Tawni come back!" she screamed following her co-star out of the dressing room, even if she wasn't exactly running in a straight line due to her dizziness, "it's not your birthday until next week! Remember thirty days has September, April, June and November! You forgot July has thirty one!"
As Sonny round the corner and on to lot, she slipped in her heels on one of Nico and Grady's sandwiches and almost came crashing to the ground was it not for someone catching her at the last minute from behind and straightening her up, so she could regain her balance.
But just before she could turn around to thank her saviour, she felt hot breath at her ear and she shivered in pleasure.
"Hey," she heard and grinned like a mad woman.
She would know that voice anywhere.
Suddenly it seemed like she wasn't having a half bad week after all, "I think that's my jacket."
Soooooo what did ya think? I liked the first one better but…? Just please REVIEW! I REALLY REALLY WANT YOU TOO… and if you don't, I'm just gonna have to change the ending and have it be James or Hayden instead of Chad… but was it even Chad? Who knows?
Sorry rant there. Please review though I wanna know if you liked it.
"PEACE OUT SUCKAS!"