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THE WORST NEWS EVER: I don't own ANYTHING! How awful! :(

Chad Dylan Cooper laid back a little. He was outside at the shared pool between Mackenzie Falls and So Random! Luckily he had gotten out first; no need in worrying about Nico and Grady hogging all the bather chairs with their food. They always ordered everything on the snack bar menu, and the snack bar was sold out for the day.

He pushed his Oakleys down over his eyes and closed his eyes. How peaceful; if I could do this instead of Mackenzie Falls I would be in heaven, he thought. Suddenly he heard loud talking, laughter, and the steady hum of a motor.

Sonny laid back on the seat. It was the first day of summer, and Marshall had agreed to let them take the first week of summer off as long as they each had a sketch for submission on Monday. Sonny knew she would be able to get her sketch done tonight, perhaps sooner. She didn't want to be fired, because she had only been a part of So Random for a few months now.

"Oh yeah baby! Pool all to ourselves!" Nico shouted. He stepped on the golf cart's brake and everyone hit the seat. "Sorry!" he shouted.

"So Tawni, are you going swimming? Do you dive? I LOVE diving; it's just like gymnastics, but it's hard to get hurt." Sonny drabbled on. She was very excited; this would be her first time in a swimming pool with celebrities, that were now HER family. The thought gave her chills.

"Um, she doesn't DO swimming, what she DOES do is tanning." Zora said. She grabbed her towel and jumped off the golf cart seat.

Sonny got off, leaving Tawni by herself on the backseat of the golfcart. As she walked down the pavement in her "water" flip-flops she heard two noises at the same time. A groan, and a splash. The splash was definetly Grady, but she didn't know who the groan was from. She got closer to the fence, but she wasn't tall enough to see over the fence.

She sped up her pace; very anxious to seeing on who the groan was from. After she got over the roof with the shower for people who went down to the beach she slowed, because the fence had lowered to a metal gate entrance. She saw Nico and Grady swimming like two year olds in the kiddie pool, Zora doing handstands, and a blonde figure laying on a towel. Sonny was obliged to lift her sunglasses off her head, but she thought that she should wait. She opened the gate, took a deep breath and smiled.

"Hey guys!" she said happily. Nico and Grady waved, as Zora surfaced. She motioned for Sonny to join her, and Sonny laid her bag down beside the blonde. She knew then as she got closer that it was Tawni. "Hey Tawni! Wow, you're fast. Did you jump the fence?" Sonny asked as she took off her sunglasses.

Then she realized that it WASN'T Tawni. She glanced back at the golfcart. Tawni was sitting there, reading Tween Magazine. Sonny's face went red.

"Um, the name's Chad." Chad Dylan said. Sonny's embarrassment faded as the rudeness of Chad Dylan absorbed her fully.

"Well, you DO look like a girl; anyone ever told you that?" Sonny retorted back. She turned on her heel, and swiftly tumbled into the deep side of the pool.

CHAD'S THOUGHTS

I guess I never really noticed it, but Sonny's a pro at swimming. Well, I couldn't have noticed it. We don't have a pool. I guess South Beach is the better place to look for swimming talent. And did she really mean what she said about that me looking like a girl? Nah, she's better than that. She's always liked me. Like really liked me. How do I know? Well, I don't. She SEEMS like she does. But anyways.

REGULAR POV

Sonny surfaced from her dive and gave Zora a thumbs up. Nico and Grady applauded loudly, and Tawni shouted, "KEEP IT DOWN! I'M VERY BUSY AT THE MOMENT!" Sonny looked at Zora, and Zora gave her an I-don't-know-what-she's-talking-about-she's-always-like-this-when-we-come look. Sonny shook her head, rolled her eyes and dove under and entered the shallow end.

Zora smiled. This was the first trip to South Beach that she knew she'd have fun. She was normally teased by the guys. And since Tawni was the only girl to talk to, Zora had tried many a times to converse with her, but Tawni had stuck her collection of Tween magazines in her face. Now she finally had someone who was nice to her to talk to.

"Hey, can you walk on your hands?" Zora asked. Sonny looked a bit confused; as if saying 'On land or underwater?' "Underwater, that is." she added. Sonny nodded, and completed Zora's task.

Chad Dylan Cooper had pulled his Oakleys back down and was intently staring at Sonny. She had been on his show, he had accompanied her on a fake date to fool a guy she was really into, and had even had his first kiss with her. Yes, Chad Dylan Cooper, the guy every girl in the country wanted to kiss, had only kissed one girl, and that was Sonny.

He had intense feelings for her after the kiss, but he was too shy to admit. Another confession, considering he had crashed her peace picnic, had the guts to admit that he was extremely shy. His mother, who had always wanted fame for him, had forced him into commericals at the wee age of 2.

Chad was going to ask Sonny for a date, but he searched his brain for something: Where in the world should we go? He racked his brain mentally, thinking of some party he was invited to, some private place he could get reservations in a fingersnap, anywhere, but he was stumped. He decided to first impress her with the Chad Charm.

Sonny was in the shallow area drying her eyes with her towel. Her light brown hair was surprisingly curled and in large clumps that looked like ringlets. Her hazel eyes shined in the light of the sun, however, they were red and almost bloodshot from opening her eyes underwater.

Chad walked over the the deep in and took a deep breath. He didn't know how to dive properly. So he bravely yelled, "Hey Sonny! Watch this!" And on that note, he ran and did a cannon ball. Sonny had gone to the deep end, and she was sprayed by the water that had risen.

She laughed. He surfaced and shook his head. She giggled once more as the water he had shook off sprayed her. They swam towards each other, looking into one anothers eyes. Then suddenly Sonny realized what she was doing. She smiled, flirtly, and leaned. Chad was shocked, but leaned also. Nico and Grady both started oohhing, and Sonny got closer. Zora started screaming in hysterics. Once they were almost lip-to-lip, Sonny grabbed put her arms around his neck, and shoved him underwater laughing. (Note: I got this idea while listening to Taylor Swift's You Belong With Me. Weird...)

She swam as fast as her legs would go, because she knew he would eventually catch her. She heard him surfaced, and she squealed, trying to reach Zora, an area of safety in this game. He growled playfully, and Sonny playfully screamed, "Zora, run!" (Sound familiar?) Chad eventually caught Sonny, wrapping his arms around her shoulders. "Um..." she implied, and Chad let go, red faced. She didn't want him to let go, but it wold be humiliating.

She turned around, Chad was stammering; red faced, hands running through his hair. Sonny looked confused and asked, "What's wrong?"

"Eh, nothing. I was just wondering...um, well.." Chad started, but he was interruped by an earpiercing scream.

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