A/N: My submission to Dancing on Rainbows' "Un-Cliché the Clichés!" challenge.

This is the challenge:

Your challenge is to take one of the following clichés among the SWAC stories and make it unique and enjoyable to read!

OPTION ONE: Sonny/Chad has to ask Chad/Sonny on another "fake date."

OPTION TWO: A famous celebrity guest stars on "The Falls" and takes an interest in Sonny; Chad gets jealous.

OPTION THREE: James tries to get Sonny back.

I picked the first option, naturally, and I'm really looking forward to meeting this challenge! Not only am I a Sonny With a Chance fan, but I am also a MEGA HUGE Jane Austen fan. You have no idea. Seriously. So what I chose to do for this fic (in order to make it "unique") was base it off my favorite Austen novel, Persuasion. It's still a modern day fic, and I don't plan on changing anything about the characters and such, so no worries!

For those of you who haven't read Persuasion, it's basically about this girl named Anne Elliot who falls in love with a naval officer named Frederick Wentworth. They're engaged to be married until Anne's mother figure, Lady Russell, convinces Anne that she could find someone better to marry. Seven years later, Anne is on the brink of becoming an "old maid" because she's found nobody else. But when Frederick's sister and her husband move in next door, Anne gets another chance at being with Frederick again.

I used Portlyn/the rivalry between So Random! and Mackenzie Falls as the "Lady Russell" figure in this story. Meaning that the only reason Sonny and Chad aren't together is because the rivalry/Portlyn convinces them otherwise. As for their second chance at being together…well, you'll see! Let's just hope neither of them screw it up, haha.

Twelve Months

A Sonny With a Chance story

By: EmbracingRain

Prologue

It had started off so simply. A simple gesture of kindness. Something he rarely did. Yet, here he was getting back at her for getting back at him for getting back at her for that stupid fake date. They were squished in some random hall closet he hadn't even known existed until now, hiding from his great aunt Marietta. Sonny was giggling in an exceedingly annoying way, so he'd placed his hand over her mouth in an attempt to quell the laughter seeping from her mouth.

At first, Sonny had been really irked with him, and went so far as to lick his hand in order for him to remove the offending appendage from her face, but he'd just smirked cockily at her as a refusal to comply. After several minutes of glaring (he could barely see her eyes through the darkness), she started laughing again.

Chad sighed. This was what happened when his mother believed everything she read in the tabloids: he got stuck in random, dark closets with Sonny Munroe, hiding from his great aunt Marietta.

Great Aunt Marietta was a very large woman with a laugh like a horse and teeth to match. She had frizzy, steel gray hair and green eyes that bugged out of her head like a frog's. Her voice was an alto pitch but could reach a very, very high soprano when she was excited or angry. Great Aunt Marietta also had thirteen cats (thirteen to prove she wasn't superstitious) that she liked to bring with her whenever she visited. She also had a nasty, foul-mouthed parrot that she brought to the dinner table. His name was Merle and he had a mouth worse than a sailor's.

Great Aunt Marietta had never been married (it wasn't hard to figure out why), but she would tell anyone who listened about how Frank Sinatra had been her "beau" and how Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, and James Dean had all been "wild about her." Chad and Sonny had, in fact, heard the Frank/Elvis/Johnny/James story twice over the past three days. Unwillingly, of course. And that was why they were hiding from Great Aunt Marietta right now.

She was a nightmare.

Besides, it's not like Chad would want to be in a closet with Sonny Munroe. She was a Random for crying out loud! The members of "The Falls" simply did not mix with the cast of So Random. That was just the way things were.

Usually.

One year ago when Sonny Munroe had come waltzing into his life with her cheerful smile and perky personality, he'd had every intention of asking her on a date. But then Portlyn had caught on to his scheme and put a stop to it immediately. By sitting on him until he gave in. Portlyn wasn't fat or anything, but she did have a lot of muscle, so she weighed more than Chad thought she did. It wasn't his most favorite memory of her. She'd been very red in the face and yelling almost incoherently about the rivalry between the two shows (it was true that she couldn't talk without a script).

Then she had sat on him and shoved his beautiful face into the carpet on his dressing room floor until he'd given in.

He'd had rug burn on his forehead for a week.

Eventually, Sonny just became someone he liked to antagonize on a daily basis. And the best part was that his cast was entirely fine with it because they thought he meant it. They really and truly thought he hated Sonny Munroe. And that worked for him.

Then, Sonny had called him one night during the week James Conroy was guest starring on Mackenzie Falls. It took quite a bit of lying and pretending to vomit while on the phone with Portlyn to convince her that he was "too sick" to come to her birthday party, but Chad managed to weasel out of it in order to take Sonny on that ridiculous fake date. His reasoning was that Sonny was going to owe him big time for taking part in her little plan (never mind the fact that he thought he actually had feelings for her and just wanted to see what going out with her would be like).

She'd kissed him that night.

She denied it every time it came up, but Chad would swear up and down until he was blue in the face that her fingers had slipped and he'd gotten some actual lip action.

He'd texted her the next day telling her that she owed him. She'd called him back and they'd argued about it for a bit, but, ultimately, Chad won the spat after a few "fines" and "goods."

Chad hadn't used his fake date until his mom called him up three months ago and the date became a necessity.

And that second fake date was the reason he was currently trapped in a closet with Sonny Munroe with his hand covered in her saliva and Great Aunt Marietta's stupid parrot squawking obscenities as he followed the ancient woman down the hall.

Soooo... Was it unique? Was it interesting to read? Let me know in a review!

Next chapter will detail Chad's conversation with his mom and why he had to use his fake date with Sonny. After that, we'll eventually get back to the closet scene and then we'll go from there. This story will encompass several holidays and special occasions, so it will be on the longer side of the challenge. I'm anticipating fourteen chapters in all, but that's including this prologue. So probably thirteen chapters plus this prologue.

Anywho!

Please review!