I am so sorry for the late delay! I've been really busy lately (12 hours a day for the past week and I get about 8 hours of sleep) and I haven't had much time to sit down and write. But I finally got around to doing it! First off, I want to thank everyone who reviewed, favorited, alerted, and read (2000+ views? You're all so awesome!). You may not think it matters, but it makes a huge difference to me. Thank you guys so much! And I want to thank the people who stuck with my story to the end. I really appreciate everything. Truly.

Okay, I'm done giving sappy speeches! Shall I present the final chapter?

Sonny's POV

One month later…

I knocked on the door of Chad's dressing room. "Come in; it's unlocked!" he called.

I opened the door carefully as to conceal what I was hiding behind my back. "Hey, Chad." I said.

"Hey, what's up, Sonny?"

"Chad, do you know what today is?"

"The day we start filming our Christmas episode?"

"No," I said. I cleared my throat. "Happy first year, one month, and two weeks anniversary!"

"Ah, thank you!" Chad said, his look telling me that he was just remembering this, even though he really wasn't paying me any attention. "Did you get me anything?"

I rolled my eyes. "Of course I did."

He looked up from his Mackenzie Falls script that he was reading while I was talking to him. "Well, where is it?"

"It's right in front of you."

"What, my script? That's a lousy gift."

"No, I meant me."

"Sonny, I know that I'm always saying that you are the greatest gift in the world, but I was hoping for something more… tangible."

I rolled my eyes again. My boyfriend was quite the charmer. "No, I mean I'm holding your gift right now."

"So that's why your hands are behind your back like that. Okay, it makes more sense now." He extended a hand towards me. "Well?"

I plopped the present in his hand. "Happy anniversary!"

Chad's eyes grew wide in excitement. I had given him a golden comb. "This is perfect for my golden locks!" Chad said giddily.

"Glad you like it."

He immediately started combing his hair. "This comb works like a dream!"

"I hope it does!" Then I muttered to myself, "I did spend a lot of money on it."

When Chad finished combing, he came over to me and said, "Sorry, Sonny, but I don't have any present to give to you. But-" he said, turning down the lights, "I can give you something just as good."

I giggled uncontrollably. We both leaned in and-

"Happy one month anniversary of you still being alive!" voices shouted.

"Why is it so dark in here?"

Tawni switched on the lights to find us almost kissing. "Whoops, guys, looks like we were interrupting something!"

"Tawni!" I said, thoroughly annoyed. "And Nico, and Grady, and Zora."

"Sorry!" Zora said. "But we couldn't help but celebrate the fact that you're still alive. Someone -aka Portlyn- told us that you were in Chad's dressing room, so we brought a cake in here and everything!"

"Well, I was about to kick you out of my dressing room," Chad said, "but now that you've brought cake, I guess I can let you stay for one slice."

My cast mates immediately cleared off a space on Chad's vanity, much to his horror of seeing all his precious hair products being knocked to the ground. Nico and Grady pushed in at least thirty candles on the cake, one for each day I'd been alive, I assumed, and Zora lit the whole thing on fire.

"Let's sing our public domain song!" Tawni cried out.

My cast mates took a deep breath and started to sing. "For she's a jolly good fellow! For she's a jolly good fellow! For she's a jolly good felloooow!"

"That's definitely still alive!" Tawni sang.

My costars clapped for themselves at their off pitched singing skills.

"Blow out your anniversary cake now so we can get to eating!" Grady said hungrily.

I pulled back my hair to keep it away from the flames and blew as hard as I could. All thirty or more candles blew out in a single breath.

"Hey, wait a second!" Grady cried.

"G, I thought you got trick candles!" Nico said angrily.

"I did!"

"Doesn't look like it! Did you not see them blow out and not relight?"

"I could have sworn that I bought trick candles! I can show you the package!

Zora laughed. "I tricked both of you by switching them out with regular candles!" she said triumphantly.

The boys glared at her with an intense passion.

"Well, no use to letting such good cake go to waste!" Chad said happily, changing the subject from candles to cake. "Let's get to eating!"

We all cheered as Tawni brought out the knife she had been carrying all this time and started to cut us pieces of cake. Once we all had our pieces, she raised hers up and said, "To Sonny!"

"To Sonny!" we cried, clinked together our plates, and then took a bite.

I half expected myself to go into anaphylactic shock.

As we were eating, we made idle chitchat. "So," Chad said, his mouth full of cake, "how's your father doing?"

"He's good," I said. "He's progressing on his therapy, and hopefully he'll be out in a couple of weeks."

"I hope he gets better. Your dad was kind of a weirdo," Tawni said. "Seriously, what kind of father tries to ruin their own kid's life?"

We all looked at Grady, who was in the middle of trying to take a bite of cake. "What?" he cried indignantly. "I said that he didn't love me, not that he was trying to ruin my life! At least my dad's not like Sonny's!"

"Well, he's doing better now, so I should be able to spend time with him without worrying that something bad is going to happen. Well, you know, after he gets out of therapy and prison."

"And what about the waiter?" Nico inquired. "Johnson, was his name? What happened to him?"

"When he found out that my dad had been caught, he hightailed it out of town. He's still out there, running away from the law."

"And didn't you say that he was the more dangerous one?"

"Well, he was the one that pulled off all of the stunts and threats."

"I don't think I can got outside at night anymore," Tawni said fearfully. "Who knows, he may still be in town, just waiting for some innocent person to come! Especially if it's a famous person like myself!"

"Tawni, I wouldn't worry about it too much," I said. "He's probably lost his sense of threat without someone to mentor him."

"Or he could become a notorious mass murderer," Zora said darkly. We all looked at her strangely. She took one look at us and popped a piece of cake into her mouth.

We finished up the cake and my costars filed out of Chad's dressing room. When they were all gone, Chad flipped off the light switch and said, "Now, where were we?"

I giggled.

I sat on the couch of my living room, twiddling my thumbs. I had picked out my fanciest dress and found my fanciest jewelry, and had I even found my shoes okay. I wanted to look my best, even though he was just coming over to watch a movie with me.

My mom came in. "Everything alright?"

"Everything's fine, Mom," I said. "I just have to wait for Chad."

"Is he always this late?"

"Yes," I said shortly.

A knock on the door interrupted our conversation. "It's me, Chad!"

My mom left to go into the kitchen as I opened up the door. "Hey, Chad."

He kissed me hello. "Wow, you look great. Too bad we aren't going anywhere."

I looked at him thoroughly, too. "You look nice as well." I took a closer scrutiny of him. "What's that around your neck?"

He pulled out the locket. "If I recall correctly, you gave it to me, didn't you, Sonny?"

I smiled. "At first when I watched you open it, I thought you would hate it."

"How could I hate your declaration of love for me? And a great photo of myself?"

I laughed. "Of course, Chad. Whatever you want to think."

Chad sat down on the couch and I popped in a movie for us. I sat down next to him, and he put his arm around me. We were leaning in for a kiss, but like how most kisses today were turning out to be, somebody had to come in and ruin it.

"I made you kids some popcorn!" my mom said happily.

"Thank you, Mom," I said through gritted teeth. "Now, could you please go somewhere else?"

"Like, back in the kitchen?"

"Like, out of the house."

She took one look at Chad, who waved a hand at her to signal his hello. "Right, Sonny, you want your alone time with Chad," she teased.

"Mom!"

"Sorry! Have fun on your little date," she said while leaving our apartment.

"Sorry about that," I said to Chad as I sat back down. "My mom can be kind of a dork sometimes."

"No problem. I think your mom is cool."

"Thanks. But you don't have to live with her."

We watched the movie in silence (but yes, it did involve some kissing) and after it was done, Chad bid me goodnight and left.

I put on my pajamas, brushed my teeth, and laid down in my bed. I sighed. Life was perfect for me right now. I had a loving boyfriend, awesome friends, a great home, and the public had forgiven me for the whole death fiasco. It turned out that they really didn't care that I had been living a hidden life. They were just happy that I was still alive.

The next morning I was prepared for a happy, sunshine-y day. The world was in balance and I was living large. With the news of my reappearance, So Random! quickly turned into one of the most popular TV shows of today, much to Chad's disappointment. But he got over it quickly when I gave him a kiss after I accepted the Tween Choice Award.

I brushed my hair back into a ponytail and put on my sunglasses. Today was going to be a hot one. I went to So Random!'s set and found out that I didn't have the key to get in. I groaned. I may have remembered to keep that dressing room key with me at all times, but I was constantly forgetting my key to my own show.

I had to walk all the way around to the front and enter through the main entrance. As I was running to get to my stage on time, I heard Murphy yell at me through a slice of pizza.

"Hey, Allison!" he yelled. "You forgot to sign out!"~

Thanks for reading, and I hope to see you next story!

-Muddi the Mudkip-