Sorry it's been a while, but it took me a while to get back into this story. AHHHHH I'm applying to university! So excited. Just thought I'd get all of my interesting pending stories out of the way before I go to study chemistry at uni and have no time!
"Grape."
Chad sighed and gently lowered a huge green grape into Sonny's waiting mouth.
With a smug grin, she daintily chewed and swallowed. "Much better."
Chad swallowed his pride and smiled uncomfortably. He'd spent three hours finding grapes that were more than two and a half inches on average from the same bunch of grapes; with a colour that perfectly matched a colour from the swatches he'd given named Confluence Green. But then, when he brought that back to her, she nearly choked on the first one because it had seeds, so Sonny sent him back out for grapes with the same specifications, but with seedless added to that list.
And so, now he was feeding them to her inbetween her rehearsals.
Through gritted teeth, he faked sincerity when he asked, "Is there anything else?"
"Is there anything else, what?" Sonny smirked.
A shudder went through Chad's body, tensing every muscle as it went. His jaw locked and he bit his lip.
A moment passed before Sonny coughed impatiently.
Holding back a sarcastic comment, Chad asked again. "Is there anything else, Miss Munroe?"
Sonny chortled contentedly. "That'll be all for now, but expect a midnight phone call for some ridiculous demand. You can sit over there."
She motioned to a park bench on the edge of the set, and Chad mournfully slinked over to it. He was hovering over it when Sonny yelled over to him, and he paused just above it.
"Not there!" She motioned for him to move over to the left. "The floor."
Concentrating on the rehearsal she was about to join, Sonny didn't notice Chad's eye roll and purse of lips as he attempted to brush an area big enough to sit on clean, so that he didn't ruin his Mackenzie Fall's trousers.
Chad couldn't believe he was in this position; at the beck and call of a Random! He sighed.
As he sat, mulling in self pity, Sonny was busy at work. As usual, she threw herself into her work, and Chad couldn't help but notice her dedication to every role; her concentration as people – producers and directors – made suggestions; her perfect posture; her lips–
He suddenly realised he was paying too much attention, as he didn't care, so he opted to stare at the floor instead. He was way more interested in that…
A loud noise erupted from the scene, and Chad decided that warranted this attention.
He couldn't get a sight of what it was, so he checked to see Sonny was still neck-deep in cheaply written humour and got up to investigate. He snuck around to the back of the set, where the noise was coming from, to find two Randoms carrying a massive billboard towards where rehearsal was taking place.
They were so involved in trying – and failing – to manoeuvre the sign around all of the junk laying around that they didn't see Chad in time to stop, so they crashed into him and sent him flying backwards across the floor. He let a puff of air escape his lungs and forced himself to shake it off.
Chad Dylan Cooper would not be winded by a Random.
He jumped to his feet to confront his attackers, but they were already rushing to help him up.
The black one got there first, Mako or something. "Sorry, man."
He gave him the last bit of help he needed to stable himself.
"We've done that three times today already. Damn sign!" The blonde one had caught up and was standing facing Chad with his friend.
This one was called… Sadie? Seemed suiting.
Chad dusted his clothes. "Why are you even carrying that thing around? Don't you even have stage hands for that kind of thing?" He feigned sympathy. "It's nice to know what happens on the other side. Broadening your horizons is an important part of being our generation's greatest actor."
The pair chose to ignore his jabs. Either that or they didn't realise they were insults… They seemed stupid enough to do that.
"The online dating agency advertised on this sign paid us to carry this around all day." Mako explained. "Something about celebrity endorsement."
Sadie quickly, and annoyingly over-enthusiastically, agreed. "Yeah, we got $100 each just to carry a giant piece of card."
Chad frowned. "I'm surprised."
Mako reflected his frown. "Because we got $100?"
Chad shook his head. "That you count as celebrities."
"Well, they took a moment to recognise–" Sadie started, but Mako elbowed him in the chest, stopping him short.
Mako sighed. "We've got to be going Chad. What are you even doing on the So Random! set?"
Chad explained about the bet, and his punishment.
The pair listened carefully, and then turned to one another and laughed.
Mako snorted. "Knowing Sonny, she'll have a week of torture planned for you."
Chad nodded. "I figured."
They were picking the billboard back up.
Sadie nodded at Chad as they headed away. "See ya, Chad."
"Well, I'll probably see you around if I like it or not, so see ya, Mako and Sadie." He gave a wave so lazy it looked a lot like a brush-off.
Mako rolled his eyes at Chad's back. "It's Nico and Grady."
As he carried on walking, Chad called back. "I don't care."
Chad thought as he watched the sign being carried away. He could really use some extra money (not that he didn't have enough, but if done properly, this prom thing could pay for itself). He read the name and memorised it: 'DateIT' Lame name but a payday for sure.
If they'd pay Mako and Sadie – a pair of obvious nobodies – $100, then they would definitely pay him a whole load more for his celebrity endorsement.
Chad reached his the spot he'd left just minutes ago, but before he could think he'd gotten away with it, Sonny came charging over.
"Where have you been?" She stormed as she spoke, a sort of anger haze covering her face, in a stupid cute kind of way. "Being my 24 hour slave for a week isn't a part-time job!"
Chad shrugged. "You should have made that more clear."
Sonny narrowed her eyes in a way that Chad was sure she thought looked threatening, but actually… That thought didn't need finishing.
"I shouldn't have to, but if that's what you think, then you can have one warning. But go against what I tell you to do one more time and we will have a problem."
Chad resisted laughing, but couldn't help a mock salute.
Sonny gritted her teeth together. "There will be no retaliation. Ever."
Chad allowed the laughter to flow freely now, and it was real laughter – he hadn't laughed for real pretty much since he became an actor. "For what?"
Sonny smirked, throwing Chad completely off guard. He was used to the stupid cute, but that was almost… sexy.
"For this."
She opened up her water bottle and tipped half of the contents over Chad, before he jumped back in shock.
"So," she carried on the conversation as if nothing had happened. "What were you doing?"
Chad smirked. "Getting a date for the masquerade prom."
Sonny rolled her eyes. "Of course you were."
When Chad laughed again, it was back to his mocking laugh. "You're just jealous because you don't have one."
Sonny gasped. "Yes I do!"
Chuckling, Chad shook his head. "I'm pretty sure you don't."
With a slight foot stomp, Sonny sniffed. "I do, and you'll see him tomorrow at the prom. So there."
"Fine." Chad started.
"Fine." Sonny turned to walk away.
When she was halfway out of the studio space, Chad called after her. "Good!"
Sonny spun and yelled back at him while walking backwards. "Good!"
Sonny left the studio feeling a little odd about Chad, but mainly worried. Because she'd said she had a date, but she didn't. And now she needed one…
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