Disclaimer: I don't own Sonny With A Chance, Disney does. I'm just using the characters to write a story that's being begged to be told.

This is my first SWAC multi-chaptered story. Please read and review! I hope that a lot of you will like this story!

Entwined & Laced

By: 'rEd RoSe-StArFiRe-RoSeFiRe'

Envisioned & Mused

Walking on the path in the park near the coastline, Sonny had never felt so free and entwined with the nature. Many things had been bothering her, and as her grandmother had told her, a walk in a park will always help to clear the blues and worries right out of the mind. She had left stealthily from the studio, to divert any attention that would arise if they found out that she was going on a walk without her cast mates.

She walked a little further just before she could see a bench. The bench looked so welcoming to her, especially since she had been walking the past half an hour. She glanced upwards at the clear blue sky, focussing on the beautiful radiant sun in the middle. Her sunglasses protected her from the rays of the powerful sun.

Slowly, she took her glasses off to reveal her brown eyes twinkling in merriment and content. She smiled - a true smile she had revealed in quite a long time. She felt free – to be in a space she could call her own for a while.

The warm breeze swept through her brown hair and finally rested onto her face. She looked upwards with eyes closed, feeling the heat of that Californian morning. The gleam in her brown eyes was evident as she inhaled the fresh air deeply.

It was all she could ask for at the moment - to intertwine herself with the beauty of city she called home for the past four years, Los Angeles.

It was what she had done all her life, entwine and lace herself into the environment she was in and make the best of her life.

The perfect atmosphere was cut short when she heard her name being called. Glancing upwards, she was looking into the eyes of her best friend. Her friend's blonde curls bounced while she ran towards the brunette.

"Sonny!" Tawni cried.

Sonny Munroe's eyes glazed over with confusion, trying to decipher her best friend's urgent and panicked tone. "What's wrong?" she asked once Tawni was near her, huffing and trying to catch her breath.

"Where were you? I've been calling your phone like crazy!" Tawni complained just before she stopped and took some lip gloss from her purse. "All this calling and leaving messages on your voice mail caused my lips to chap. I need some Cocoa Mocha Cocoa!"

Sonny giggled in response, "I – I probably turned my phone off. I needed some time alone, Tawni. But, I'm good now. I just needed some fresh air."

Tawni glanced at Sonny, her eyes away from the compact mirror she held in front of her only to find Sonny's eyes glazed over with emotion she could not fathom. "Hey, you okay?" Tawni asked, after she put her makeup back into her purse.

"Yeah," Sonny hesitated, unsure of whether or not she wanted to reveal her true emotions and almost an instant later, decided against it. "So why did you need me?"

Tawni exclaimed, "We have rehearsal in fifteen minutes, and if I don't get you there soon, Marshall threatened to stop ordering..." She bit her lip, and her eyes almost teared, "Cocoa Mocha Cocoa!"

Shaking her head, Sonny sighed, "Of course. Well, then, let's go!"

Grabbing her sunglasses, she grasped Tawni's free hand, running and leading her back to the studios.

"That was your best rehearsal yet!" Marshall exclaimed as his hands grasped tightly around that week's script. He had noticed a slight change in the atmosphere around the cast and hoped that his words of encouragement would help that week's show. Luckily, his words of encouragement seemed to work, the rehearsal being near perfect.

"Thanks Marshall. Hey, uh, Tawni. I'm going to our dressing room, so don't wait up, okay?" Sonny asked Tawni, who was taking off the Tooth Fairy wings she had on.

Tawni raised her perfectly arched eyebrow, asking, "Sonny, you know that I hate," she shuddered, "caring, but what's wrong?"

Unable to reply the truth, Sonny answered, "Nothing. Just feeling a bit tired." Sonny left before she could hear Tawni ask the next set of questions she had for her.

Sonny was the only normally dressed person before she sat out on the last sketches' rehearsal because she said she wasn't feeling well. On her way to the dressing room, she ran into Josh.

The mailman of Condor Studios immediately brightened when he saw Sonny. "Hey, Sonny! I have your mail for you!"

Unable to hear Josh, Sonny kept walking towards her dressing room, in her own little world. She only heard Josh when he stepped in front of her, yelling, "Sonny?"

"Whoa, what? Josh? When did you get here?" Sonny exclaimed, sweetly.

Eyes widening, Josh was rather confused when he replied, "I was always here. I've been calling your name the past five minutes or so. Are you sure you're okay Sonny?"

Glancing around the hallway, making sure that no one was there to witness this incident, Sonny finally answered, "Yeah, just feeling sick. So uh you were saying?"

"I have some mail for you, Sonny. But, as much as I'd love to stay and chat, I have more mail to deliver so..."

Sonny exclaimed, "Oh of course. Sorry, again Josh. But thanks."

He nodded in response, smiled and was off on his way. Sonny suddenly felt like an idiot, but pushed that feeling away to read her mail. She cruised through most of her mail, which were mostly fan mail that she promised to reply to each and every one later. The one that caught her eye was a familiar returning address.

Her eyes widened, as quickly as she hid the letter in her purse. She knew that the letter was not to be opened here and in the open, but she knew what the letter would entail.

Suddenly, she felt that someone else was in the hallway. She turned around and found herself smiling when she saw Chad walking down the hallway.

Her boyfriend of three years, with his blonde hair and blue eyes, walked down the hallway, looking for Sonny. His eyes looked up and caught her gaze. His eyes immediately brightened as he cried, "Sonny!"

He rushed immediately to her and asked, "Where were you? I was going to ask you if you wanted to go out for lunch right now."

Sonny replied, with a tug on her lips curved upwards, "Of course."

Chad smiled as he push an arm around his girlfriend and lead her to the nearest exit. He started off the conversation with a man not knowing who he was when he went to Starbucks that morning. "And I couldn't believe it! I mean ME – who forgets the greatest actor of our generation? I mean, I'm Chad Dylan Cooper!"

Sonny suddenly felt the need to brush off his arm and say, "Hey, Chad, I'm not feeling well. I think I'm going to leave and go home. At first, I need to tell Marshall."

Chad instantly was worried with his girlfriend's health, "Hey, what's wrong?" He was going to lean forward to feel her forehead but she shied away, causing Chad to gasp inwardly.

"I'll call you, 'kay?" Sonny promised as she went back to her dressing room's direction. She didn't turn back to bid farewell or reply when her boyfriend accepted her promise.

As soon as she walked into her dressing room, she felt her cow moo. She opened her phone and found that she had a text from Chad.

I'll be missing you, Short stack.

Sonny glanced upwards from the picture of Chad on her screen to the picture of her and Chad on her dresser. And for the first time in a long time, she didn't reply to his text.

Back at the Mackenzie Falls studio, Chad had been eagerly awaiting his girlfriend's text for the past hour. However, when it was fifteen minutes after he sent his text, he knew that he shouldn't expect a reply.

All he could think of was what Nico and Grady told him three years ago when Sonny was Pauly and supposedly blew off their seven weekiversary plans.

This has all the signs of a girl who isn't interested in you.

Chad knew that he shouldn't be listening to their advice, especially since it was three years since they told him, but he knew that there was something wrong. And he had to do something about it.

The night was filled with twinkling stars and the beautiful moon, always being admired by people around the world. Its silvery rays fell through the window and onto Sonny, her hair now tinted with a silver touch. It was dark in her apartment, by her choice, for she wanted to contemplate for a while about where her life had taken her.

She had been thinking a lot lately, especially since it has been just herself in her apartment. Her mother, Connie, had gone on a visit to Wisconsin, long overdue. Of course she had asked her daughter to come with her, but Sonny, using work as an excuse, passed.

Now, she was extremely glad that she stayed. She had all the time in the world now to think about life and where it was taking her. Even to her, she found her life almost spinning out of her control and reach. She wanted to tell someone but found it was extremely hard to bring it up in a conversation with her friends.

Interrupting her reverie, each knock on the door was louder and harder than its last. She exclaimed, "In a minute!"

She ran to the light switch and turned on all the lights in the living room and attached dining room. Rushing the door, she fixed her hair and opened the door.

Instantly, she felt forced lips onto her own. They were familiar, yet so foreign. She closed her eyes and automatically her arms went around the man's shoulders. The man found that as an invitation and pressed his body closer to hers. Sonny found herself melting into this familiar embrace and immediately she murmured into his lips, "Chad."

Chad broke away from the kiss first – his hair a tad bit messy, his lips messed up with lip gloss and him carrying a cocky smile on that face of his. What tugged her heart the most was the twinkle in his eyes.

"Hey," Chad whispered, his eyes still twinkling.

All Sonny could say was, "Wow."

Chad tugged on his collar and muttered, "Of course! I'm Chad Dylan Cooper. I have knee tingling kissing skills."

Smacking him on his chest, very hard chest, Sonny giggled. She found herself staring at Chad for the longest time before asking him, "Why the surprise? Not that I minded it, but why?"

Chad feigned hurt, his hand on his heart, "Why? Can't I do something nice for my girlfriend once in a while?"

Sonny raised her eyebrow which Chad instantly meant, "I don't buy it."

"Fine, fine! I thought you were losing interest in me, so I thought I would win you over with a surprise kiss and a romantic dinner...here."

Sonny didn't understand, but then knew what stimulated his thought. She didn't reply to his text and or even go on their date. "Chad, you know that I - Wait, dinner? Here?"

Chad stepped to the side and showed behind him in the hallway a rather large picnic basket. Sonny looked up back at Chad and felt her heart tug once again. "Chad, you are awesome!"

"Of course I am, I'm Chad Dylan Cooper," Chad remarked, as if it was a fact, rather than an opinion.

She didn't know why she was getting ticked off at that statement, but she could feel that she was getting angry...once again, at his cocky attitude.

"Chad, you are the most self-centered egotistical superficial jerk-omanic I have ever met!" Sonny exclaimed. The anger inside her soon subsided once she saw Chad's sweet smile.

"But, you fail to see Sonny; I'm your self-centered egotistical superficial jerk-omanic." Chad crept towards Sonny, his beautiful eyebrow arched and his lips slightly pouting.

Sonny let out a tiny laugh; her eyes finally twinkling – Chad had noticed that it was the first time he saw her eyes gleam that night. Sonny replied, "Yes, you are."

Chad was close enough to hold her in his arms. He tightened his embrace as he leant downwards and forwards to whisper in her ear, "I bet you're happy that I am."

Sonny suddenly stiffened in his arms by the touch of his breath on her ears and by the words he whispered into her ears. Her eyes were casted downwards to her feet, before she looked up into his clear blue eyes. She could see a slight panicked expression on his face. She smiled sadly, to her surprise, when she replied, "Of course, I am."

Always exploring and unleashing,

ღ 'rEd RoSe-StArFiRe-RoSeFiRe'