AN: So I know that I pretty much promised that the sequel of Everything is Temporary would be the first thing I would work on. But I caught a link to Bhavana331's challenge a few days ago and I've been itching to try this out :))
So, here we go :D
Title: How Do You Measure a Year?
Pairing: Chad Dylan Cooper/Sonny Munroe
Summary: As the summer nights are drowned out by the sound of the crisp autumn leaves, the four seasons of the year pass by differently each time. But for every year, one thing is sure: Times stops and waits for the inevitable every time cold, icy blue eyes meet warm, chocolate brown. A response to Bhavana331's challenge, 525,600 Minutes of Channy.
I'm not sure, but I think I'll try to do all four seasons. I'll try my best to update this on a regular basis.
Disclaimer: Is the usual, I own rights to ABSOLUTELY nothing related to Disney or SWAC.
how do you m e a s u r e a year?
[ five hundred – twenty five thousand – six hundred m i n u t e s ]
( o n e – s u m m e r )
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The staff and workers of Condor studios have been waiting for this day for months. Everyone was watching the clock, waiting for it to finally strike five o'clock. It would officially be the summer. The cast of So Random wasn't like the rest of the staff. They didn't want to leave.
But Sonny Munroe had always been taught to bring out the b e s t in every s i t u a t i o n.
"Oh come on you guys, it's summer! Why are you all so sad?" she asked while dropping onto the famous Prop House couch beside Nico. She a d o r e d that couch. It represented everything that So Random was. They were the most underrated show on TV, there were always people trying to break them up. But somewhere along the road, the cast became a tight-knit family that would s h a t t e r the expectations that had been set upon them.
"Oh sure Sonny, like you of all people actually want to leave this place" she answered nonchantedly, while looking at herself in the mirror that Sonny had given her for her birthday.
Her face turned a bright shade of pink, and she could feel the heat of her blush even more so when Nico told her that her cellphone was ringing. Not mooing like usual, but she had ONE customized ringtone within her selective sixty three contacts. It was a known fact throughout the studio that when "Summertime" by New Kids on the Block was jamming out of Sonny Munroe's cellphone, only one person could be calling.
I think about you in the summertime
And all the good times we had, baby
Been a few years and I can't deny
The thought of you still makes me crazy
I think about you in the summertime
I'm sittin' here in the sun with you on my mind
You're my, my summertime
Almost every actor in Hollywood knew that when you talk wrongly about Sonny Munroe, Chad Dylan Cooper would be right behind you.
Nico grinned at her and said, "Sonny, Chip Dramapants is calling you. Again".
She chuckled half-heartedly before she answered the phone.
"Ch-aaaad".
She could see his grin even before he replies.
"Sonn-shinee".
Only he called her that. He was the only person that she let call her that.
"Why'd you call?".
"It's four thirty, Sonny".
"I know Chad. We're out of here in a half hour".
"Fine, fine. Just come over to my dressing room at the Falls, I need to talk to you".
She stares that the phone after hearing the dial tone, wonder what he needed to say that couldn't wait. She waves to her co-stars before walking over to the MacKenzie Falls studio.
She encounters a lot of Chad's co-star in the studio, hugging them and wishing them a good summer (she was the only one who they treated equally, because she kept Chad in line). She touches the handle of Chad's door before she is suddenly engulfed in a huge hug by somebody behind her.
Out of instinct, the Falls studio hears a scream. This usually happened when Sonny was at their studio. It was Sonny and Chad, as usual.
"AHHHHHHHHHH!"
She turns around to see a smirking Chad Dylan Cooper still holding her by the waist. He pulls her close, and oddly enough she doesn't try to stop him. With her favourite blue eyes in front of her, she grins and pulls him even tighter.
"It's four forty five, Chad" she whispered within their embrace. Somehow, they had ended up inside his dressing room, yet they were still in the same embrace.
( Lose yourself in the moment, he always told her. )
"Listen, I want to give you something before the summer starts" he said, while letting her go and taking a piece of paper out of his leather jacket.
He handed her the paper and told her, "I know that before, you told me that you couldn't be with me because of my rep, my ego. I was the bad boy who never dumped girls in their faces and had a new one on my arm every morning. But when I saw you kiss that guy at the Lakers game, I made a decision that I should have made a long time ago".
It was out in the open, her v u l n e r a b i l i t y and his final d e c i s i o n.
"My ego isn't worth losing you, Sonny" he told her, while gently pulling her towards him.
Her dark chocolate eyes caught his icy blue ones, and time s t o p p e d.
"You and me?" she whispered.
"You and me," he repeated. He gently pulled her in for a sweet, meaningful k i s s.
They smiled and he continued speaking, "You and me. Let's do this. F o r e v e r".
The clock strikes five and cheers are heard throughout the studio, yet between the blue-eyed blonde and the brown-eyed brunette, the s u m m e r had started so l o n g ago.
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Their first season together was i n c r e d i b l y hard. People tried to break them a p a r t and they had constant f i g h t s.
But as most people remember the summer for the beautiful beaches and party hookups, they remembered theirs for their s t r u g g l e to stay together and the t e a r s that were shed along the way.
Yet within the three months of the summer season, Chad Dylan Cooper and Sonny Munroe had found what they were looking for at the ages of seventeen and sixteen.
They had found their s o u l m a t e s.
Lyrics belong to NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK.
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