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"I think I like Nico," Tawni blurted out to Sonny. Sonny stopped brushing her teeth.

Sonny sat next to her on the couch, and said, "Hey, he and Chad are good friends. I'll talk to Chad and see if he can talk to Nico one-on-one."

"Oh, and Nico?" Chad asked, not hesitating. "Do you like Tawni?"

"CHAD!" Tawni screamed.

Tawni Erin Hart does not cry. She does not cry. Get a hold of yourself, Tawni… you don't cry.

This is what you did to my heart. And don't worry, Chad, I WILL tell Sonny what you said. –T

"What did the note say?" Sonny demanded to know.

"Nothing," Chad nonchalantly said, stuffing the note into his pocket. "Nothing that matters anyway."

"Because some other people in this studio, not just the Mack Falls group, but also the other lame-o shows from the Condor Studios say that I am getting a bad rep for dating a Random! Even my cousin Denise, called me the other day and said she thinks so too!" Chad continued.

Tawni was blackmailing me. And she knew everything.

"Hey Miranda." I usually loved listening to her slow and sweet voice, but I was too scared and worried to be excited.

The girl's voice sounded desperate. "Well you're the father of this freakin' kid, how 'bout you think of something?" I couldn't move. Chad… was a father? Then suddenly the door swung open and a beautiful, slender, brunette girl and I were face-to-face. And it wasn't Sonny.

"H-how much do you know?" he asked me, slowly. And then I ran off. I think that little action answered his question.

Everything.

Tawni's POV

Breathing seemed almost impossible as I sat there in the hallway, between my dressing room and Nico and Grady's. I must've been sitting there awhile because soon Marshall came up to me.

"Tawni," he asked. "Is everything all right?"

I looked up and gave him a faint smile. "Yeah," I replied. "Everything's… fine." I forced the words onto my tongue and out of my mouth. Because everything was not fine. No matter how much I tried to convince Sonny, she would not believe Chad was a bad person, never less a cheating, lying, player, soon-to-be-father. I remembered the scene that had happened only fifty minutes earlier.

"Sonny, you've got to believe me!" I cried. "You have to dump Chad! He's cheating on you!"

Sonny's face looked enraged—and I'm not even sure that's possible for such a country-girl. "Tawni," she slowly said. "Just because he admitted to Nico that you liked him, does not mean you have the right to go and make false accusations about him!"

"But Sonny--,"

"You know what Tawni? I thought you were my friend. I thought you were supposed to support me… but maybe not." And then I ran into the hallway and fell down, crying my heart out into the cheap, scratchy carpet.

So this was where I was sitting, and thinking. Thinking about my friendship with Sonny, about my non-existent love life with Nico… how obsessed I was with myself… what a jerk Chad was… who that Miranda chick was… what if I was making all this up in my head because I was so angry at Chad… and most importantly I couldn't get the scene of Nico dancing, practically chest-to-chest with Portlyn the night Chad betrayed me.

He was dancing with Portlyn. They were pressed together like sandwich bread and meat, and her perfect brown locks hung down her bare shoulders, setting off her sparkly sapphire blue dress quite nicely. Nico glanced over at me, but then quickly looked at Portlyn, and enveloped her in a kiss.

I sat there until I heard a familiar voice say, "Tawni, what's wrong?" I looked into a pair of perfect, chocolaty brown eyes.

"Nothing's wrong," I sniffled, wiping my eyes. I must've looked like a wreck; my mascara must've been smeared down and across my face.

Nico put his finger right under my chin and pointed it up to look straight at him. "Tawni, tell me the truth," he pressed, gently.

I opened my mouth, ready to vent all my problems and everything that had happened, but then I remembered his dance with Portlyn—right after Chad had admitted my feelings towards him. My eyes flared with anger and I said, sharply, "Why don't you go flirt with your girlfriend or something? Since when do you care about me?"

And then, as I was running away to I don't know where, but anywhere, I came to a sudden realization.

Chad didn't betray me. Nico did.

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