-1So Cold

Chapter 12: I Want You to Want Me

Previously:

I wear a halo when you look at me

But standing from here, you wouldn't say so

You wouldn't say so if you were me

And I, I just wanna love you

Whoa whoa I , I just wanna love you.

When she was done, the cast was silent. Tawni had silent tears falling down her face. Grady and Nico were still, staring a hole through Sonny.

"Was it that bad?" she asked.

"It was amazing." Chad replied.

Sonny's eyes grew wide, "Really Chad?"

Chad nodded, "I love it."

She smiled widely at him.

"Sonny, that song was great!" Marshall said, "Great job kiddo!"

"Thanks Marshall." Sonny smiled.

Tawni walked up to Sonny and gave her a hug, "That was the most amazing song, ever. The second you record it, I'm tweeting it."

Sonny laughed, "I wouldn't doubt it."

"Do you want to hang out tonight? I don't know what we could do. We could go shopping…get baby clothes, that'd be cute. Or we could go see a movie, Transformers just opened up. Shia Lebeouf is so hot." Tawni said excitedly.

"As much as I really want to, I have a doctor's appointment tomorrow and me and Chad have to go raid his house for his stuff tonight." she sounded annoyed by the end of the sentence. The annoyance directed at Chad's parents instead of Chad.

"Did he get kicked out?" Tawni gasped.

Sonny's hands shot up and clasped over her mouth, "I wasn't supposed to say that."

"I'm not going to tell a soul. I swear!" she replied.

"Thanks, Tawni." Sonny replied.

"So what's with this big raid anyway?" Tawni laughed.

"His mother's doing her big fashion shoot in Milan." She rolled her eyes, "He's still got his house key and he's going to go in and get all of his stuff."

"Is he moving in with you?" Tawni asked.

"I guess. I haven't really asked my mom yet." she said, "He has no place to go though, so she can't turn him down. He spent the night last night…on the couch."

"Do you have any room for him?"

"On the couch, for now. We have an air mattress. He'll probably move onto that, in my room when it gets closer to time for the baby to be born and then on out because I want the baby's bassinet to be in my room." she said.

"Oh, okay." Tawni gave Sonny a mischievous smile, "You've sat down and planned this all out too."

"Shut up Tawni! I'm trying to help him!" she replied.

Tawni laughed in response, "Whatever. When you two are married in ten years, living happily with your kid, then we'll see who's laughing around."

Sonny rolled her eyes, "Whatever Tawn."

As soon as Sonny was about to walk off, Chad came by and grabbed her by her upper arm.

"You want a ride home? I was going to stop by my place and get my stuff. I might as well take you home too." he smiled.

Tawni walked past Chad and looked over her shoulder at Sonny with a knowing look.

Sonny rolled her eyes again.

"Well, if you don't want to, then you can call your mom, I guess." Chad said awkwardly.

"No! No! That eye roll wasn't directed at you, it was directed at Tawni. I'd be happy to ride with you for your secret raid." she smiled mischievously.

"Cool." Chad said, "Come on."

Sonny and Chad walked began to walk out to the 'So Random' parking lot, but to get to that lot, they had to walk through the 'Mackenzie Falls' parking.

As they were talking about their plan of action when it came to the raid, Chad glanced over to his old parking spot and noticed something considerably different.

The green sign that used to read: "MACKENZIE FALLS PARKING ONLY: CHAD DYLAN COOPER", now read: "MACKENZIE FALLS PARKING ONLY: JAKE RYAN".

"WHAT?!" Chad yelled.

Sonny jumped, grabbing Chad's arm in fear, "What is it?" she breathed.

"Look at that!" he exclaimed, pointing with his free arm to the spot.

Sonny gasped, "Jake Ryan?"

"Yeah, apparently there's a new Mackenzie." he said.

"Or you know, Mackenzie could've gotten lost on some sort of yacht trip never to be found again and this kid moves to town and lets Chloe mourn on his shoulder and…"

Chad glared over at Sonny, "Really, Sonny, Really?"

"Sorry." She glanced down.

Then, something more important to him than the 'Jake-Ryan-The-Falls' thing made him take notice. He looked down to where Sonny was still clinging to his arm and grinned.

"You might want to watch," he smiled flirtatiously, "Paparazzi might be watching."

"Huh?" Sonny cocked her head to the right in confusion.

Chad just looked down at their intertwined arms again.

"Oh." Sonny said quickly, letting go of his arm and backing away.

"It's fine with me," Chad said, "but you might want to wait until we get home."

"Excuse me?" Sonny said.

"Oh, not like that." Chad corrected himself, "I'm so damn stupid."

"No you're not Chad. Don't say that." she said.

Chad shrugged, walking over to where his car was now parked in a 'So Random' guest spot. He walked over to the passenger side of the door and unlocked it, holding the door open for Sonny. She got in and smiled up at him.

"Thanks Chad."

"Anytime." he said.

They drove for a while, their conversations varying anywhere from the baby, his housing situation, and 'So Random'. It was about a fourty-five minute drive until they arrived at his house in the Hollywood Hills.

"There's no gate?" Sonny asked.

"Nah, we're just the Coopers, not the Jonas'." he said.

"Wow, I don't think I've ever seen you humble Chad." she said, as they pulled into the driveway of a rather large house.

"It can happen." he replied as they pulled up. Chad stopped the car and got out. He looked back in the window and saw Sonny beginning to get out herself. Chad swung the car door back open and looked over at Sonny.

"I got it, wait up." he said.

Sonny sat back in her seat, completely shocked. Not only had no other guy ever treated her like this before, but Chad was being a gentleman towards her.

He swung the door open and let her out.

"What's gotten into you Chad?" she smiled.

"I don't know. I think I'm going crazy." he laughed slightly.

"Well," she paused, "I like it."

Sonny began to walk ahead of Chad until she got onto the porch.

"Maybe you'll start to like me too. More than just a…friend, I guess." he thought.

"Don't touch the door knob!" Chad exclaimed.

"Why?" she replied.

"Hold on." he walked up to the key pad beside the door and punched in a code. A loud beeping noise came after Chad hit in the code.

"Okay, the alarms are all set off. You've got to remind me to turn them back on when we leave or I'm dead." he said.

Sonny nodded and followed Chad into the house. The house had a large entry way with a huge crystal chandelier hanging over a Tiffany grandfather clock.

"Woah." she said, looking straight up.

"I thought I wouldn't see anything much greater than Tawni's house. I was so wrong." she said.

Chad smiled, "It's pretty sweet isn't it?"

"There you go." she nodded towards him.

"I was talking about the house, not me." he said, leading her into another room.

This room had a large flat screen TV with a Wii cabinet at the bottom. On both sides of the wall were glass cabinets filled with gold trophies and other awards.

"The right's mine. The left's my mom's." he said.

"Wow." she said.

"I thought we'd start here." Chad said, "They're out of their damn minds if they think I'm leaving here without these."

"Honestly Chad, what are you going to do with those?"

"They are going to look amazing in our house one day. Plus, I could pull them out and show the kid one day…"

"You are unbelievable." she laughed, "And our house."

Chad's smiled faded into a frown.

"Just punch me in the gut while you're at it." he thought.

"I'm going to run to my room and get as many bags as I can find. Just sit tight, it won't take too long." he said.

"'Kay." Sonny agreed.

Chad started in a sprint over to the door and out of the room. Sonny sat down on the large couch and crossed her legs. She put a hand on her stomach and rubbed gently.

"I wonder what's made Chad so crazy about being a family." Sonny thought, "The Coopers. Sonny Monroe Cooper. Chad and Sonny Cooper." She smiled, "It does sound kind of nice, I guess."

About five minutes later, Chad came back downstairs with three large duffle bags, laying them on the floor.

"I could've sworn I had more bags than this." he said, "Oh well. This'll work fine."

"You ready?" Chad said, tossing her a black bag.

Sonny nodded, "What's my job?"

"I need you to hold this open while I stash my awards in it." he said.

Sonny nodded as Chad unlocked the cabinet. She held the bag open as Chad picked up award after award and put it in. When they were done there, they went up to Chad's room and packed up his clothes and a few other things then began to load up the car.

"Don't lift stuff, Sonny!" Chad exclaimed, after he locked up the security system.

"Chad, I'm only, what…a month and a week-ish pregnant?" she said.

"I know, I just don't want you to get hurt." he replied, heading down to the car, picking up the stuff and putting it into the car.

"You're turning out to be really sweet Chad." she smiled.

Chad stood silent for a moment before half smiling and replying with, "Thanks."

When they finally got home, Chad unpacked the trunk and sat his stuff on the ground and then opened the door for Sonny.

"Where have you two been?" Ms. Monroe exclaimed, coming out the front door.

"Mom, I told you we had to go to Chad's and get his stuff." she said.

"That was two and a half hours ago!" her mother replied.

"Mom," she paused her voice getting louder, "I am already pregnant, what other sorts of shenanigans can I get into?"

"It's noticeable too, with an attitude like that." Ms. Monroe snapped.

"Oh, and I thought I'd let you in on something, Chad's moving in." Sonny said.

"What? I never said that was okay!" she exclaimed, "I could understand last night but for nine months? A year?"

"Mom, he has no place to go!" she said, "You've got to let him in!"

"I'll think about it!" Ms. Monroe said.

"So where's he going tonight?" Sonny said.

"He's staying here." she replied angrily, "I'm going to get out the air mattress, and it's not going in your room either!"

"Who said I wanted it there?" she exclaimed.

"Well, with the way you're acting it seems like you like him a whole lot more than you say!" her mother said.

"We're friends mom, just friends. Not friends with benefits, more than friends, bed buddies, anything like that. Friends." Sonny replied.

There was a brief silence in the argument that was broken by Chad's angry slam of the trunk.

Sonny turned around and raised an eyebrow at him.

"I'm sorry." he said sarcastically, "Am I interrupting something."

Sonny rolled her eyes and turned to face her mom, who by that time was already going back inside.

"What was that for?" Sonny yelled.

"I don't know, why do you think it's okay to just deny me like that?" he said.

"What?" Sonny asked.

"Nothing, it's not important." Chad caught up with himself.

"If you say so." Sonny said, turning to walk back inside.

"It's not the right time." Chad thought, "Eventually, but not now."

"She wouldn't feel the same anyway." he whispered, watching Sonny go into the house.

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"All the drama, Mack Falls style."

I'm officially addicted to the Mackenzie Falls mini episodes on the Disney Channel website. Haha. Anyway, this is the last chapter before I come back from camp! (Wednesday night!) So expect a chapter on Thursday or Friday. I'll be with my brainstorming buddy Cody all week, so maybe we can get some ideas on how this'll plan out up 'till the end. Thanks again for reading!!! It means a lot! Wish me luck since I'm going to marching band camp and I'm going to be in the hot sun all week! Lol. Love 'yall!