"Sonny…, hi, I honestly wasn't expecting to see you here.. I promise I am not stalking you. I'm just out with some friends, and I honestly thought that a arcade was not your scene." Chad said through a smiling face.

"You know, Chad, just because I see you every Monday through Friday, and randomly on a weekend does not automatically make me think you're stalking me…however, it could start." Sonny winked.

"Hey you, no teasing." Chad laughed. "Sonny, I'm pretty sure this will ruin any ounce of friendship we may have.." Chad started. He could see Sonny's lit up face start to dwindle at the mention of anything near what Chad was going to start talking about.

"Chad…please don't. I have had a bad, bad experience with that. Please… I don't need to ruin a friendship.." Sonny begged.

"I have to do it, even if it means you will end up hating me. I have to ask you.." Chad stammered, knowing now that he was about to ruin something that made him feel whole. He may have only known Sonny Monroe for a solid two weeks, but he was falling harder for him than he had ever for any other woman he had ever known.

"Chad…" Sonny pleaded. "I don't want to ruin this friendship.. Please take that in for consideration.."

"Sonny Monroe, will you please do the honour of going out on a date with me? It would possibly make me the most lucky man in all of Hollywood." He did it. He asked her. Sonny could feel her entire night shattering with just a few words. She turned, and ran. Tears fell freely down her face, and she didn't even try to stop them. She knew there was no use.

She finally stopped running when her chest made it known to her that she couldn't breath. She heard footsteps. Fast footsteps coming in her direction. She begged to herself that it wasn't him. She looked in the direction of the footsteps-quite coincidently the same direction that she just came from. It was him. She quickly got up and started walking away, but before she even had the chance to move her food, he grabbed her arm.

"Sonny please… Don't walk away again. I get it, I shouldn't have said anything. I didn't know it would hurt you so much. I didn't realize something truly terrible happened to you to make that great of an impact on you.. I am truly sorry.. Please forgive me. I can't lose you." Chad begged, tears glistening in his eyes.

Sonny tried looking away, she couldn't look at the tears in his beautiful blue eyes, because she knew she would melt and forgive him instantly. He shouldn't have asked her even after she begged him not too.

"I begged you not too.." Was all Sonny could say before she broke down right in front of him. He couldn't believe what was happening. What had happened to make her so broken inside? She started turning away from him. He tried stopping her, but he knew there was no way he could, so he just let her go. She took off running into the darkness.

Days went by. He hadn't seen her, or heard from her. He was getting worried. Not worried as in, he thought something happened to her, because he knew that wasn't the case. She had Mackenzie to look after. He was worried because he was starting to think he may never see, or talk to her again. And to him, at this moment, and possibly for a long time after this moment, was unthinkable.

Chad stalked into the diner one morning around 10 in the morning. He was hoping she was at work by now. He knew she would be at work, it was Monday. When he didn't see her, he got worried. He went up to one of the ladies that was working and asked where she was. They told him she was in the back, and he eased up a little bit.

He was seated in her section. As he waited for her to come out, he thought about what he would say to her. If she would even let him talk to her. He had a slight feeling she probably wouldn't let him.

Finally after a few minutes she came back out from the back, but the moment she saw him, she started talking to another waitress.

Sonny never came to me. She got someone else to take care of me instead. The pain that soared through his chest was death worthy. His appetite dwindled to less than nothing.

"Mommy, why haven't I seen Chad in such a long time? It's been weeks." Mackenzie said sadly. She really did love Chad.

"I haven't seen him either…" Sonny managed to say without letting a quiet whimper. She hadn't seen him again since she got the other waitress to take his table. The hurt expression on his face when she walked to him instead of Sonny was heartbreaking.

"Mama? Is everything okay?" The sound of Mackenzie's soft voice startled Sonny out of her frenzy. She looked at her daughter and forced a smile. She guessed she would be doing that quite a lot in the next little while. However, she was amazing at forcing the smile. Did it for over a year straight.

"Yes sweetie, I'm fine. Hurry up and eat your cereal so mommy can get you to school, and herself to work for another long day." Sonny smiled. She got up, walking into her room, she quietly shut the door and let herself break down. She sat in there for about 5 minutes, just crying. Nothing more. Just crying. She realized Mackenzie would start worrying about where her Mom went so she quickly got dressed and left her room, shutting the door behind her.

"Are you all ready for school baby?" Sonny asked, smiling.

"Yes mommy." The two of them walked out of the door, like they did every week morning.

The next week went the same for Sonny as it always did, but it felt different. She didn't have a smiling Chad to serve everyday, and she knew it was all her doing. She missed him, but she didn't know if she could forgive him right yet. And even if she felt like she was ready, she still couldn't because he never came in anymore. She never saw him anymore. He was distancing himself from her, and it was all her fault. Tears started to fall from her eyes. Why had she let herself start crying over Chad in the first place. She didn't even know him that well.

She decided to take her lunch, and go find a bench in the park with some privacy so she could cry.

After a short five minute walk to the nearest park in town, she sank down in a deserted bench, where there was no people. Peace. Quiet. Privacy.

"Sonny?" Or so she thought. She looked in the direction where the voice was coming, and it was him. It was Chad. What was he even doing here? And even if he did come here all the time, why was he talking to her?

Sonny didn't say anything back, she just pretended like he wasn't there, that it was all in her imagination, cause it very well could be. She had been day dreaming, and just dreaming about him a lot lately.

"Sonny, are you crying? Are you okay?" Chad asked more demanding this time. He came up to where Sonny was sitting, and sat down beside her. She tried to hide her tear streaked face from him, but knowing it was no use she let out a whimper.

"Sonny… Please talk to me. What's wrong?" Chad tried once more. He tucked a loose strand of hair behind her ear, and she looked up at him looking completely defeated.

"The first time I let someone in, it ruined me completely. How do I know if I tell you everything bottled up inside me, that it won't hurt me again?" Sonny asked, her voice shaky from crying.

"Because whoever was stupid enough to leave someone as amazing as you isn't me. I wouldn't do that to you Sonny. I have never felt this way about a woman before… You're simply amazing Sonny." Chad soothed. He said it like he meant it too, but Sonny didn't know how to believe him.

"Chad I have been hurt before. I have been completely broken before. Do you know how it feels to lay on a floor, completely broken with a newborn baby crying because of a lack of attention? You don't know how that feels. You don't know what I felt with that. You don't know the pain that I have went through." Sonny cried.

"I may not know the pain that you have went through, Sonny. But that doesn't mean that I don't want to know. It doesn't mean that I wouldn't try my complete hardest not to put you through that pain again. That doesn't mean that I wont try my hardest to help you through whatever you are going through again. That doesn't mean I wont stop caring. I will always care about you, Sonny. I don't think I will ever stop. Even if you pronounced your undying hate for me right here, right now, broke my heart in thousands of pieces I wouldn't stop caring about you." Chad told Sonny with passion in his eyes.

Sonny's eyes glistened with tears, but this time they weren't tears of sadness, they were tears of understanding. She nodded, and took a deep breath. "I just turned 15. I was falling for the quarter-back of the football team. He was 16, one grade older than me. And he was falling for me too. The moment he asked me out, I became the most popular girl in school. We dated for a long time. With him, I swore I was in love. He took my virginity in that year. About a month after we started dating, actually. The time I lost my virginity was the time I became pregnant. He was okay with it. He said he would stay with me, and the baby. He said he loved me. But only if I knew he had been lying. He stuck through with me when I told my parents, and I was with him when he told his parents. We were inseparable. I actually thought he loved me… Boy, was a stupid girl." Sonny paused, and looked up at Chad, as if she was reliving that entire moment. More tears fell from her eyes.

"The months went by. My friends never left my side. But people looked at me weird after the bump started showing. I was considered the school slut. But he stuck by my side, so none of that mattered. I was happy. He always promised me forever. That we would take care of our baby, and live happily ever after. But, a month before the baby was born, he told me everything was a joke. Granted, he was drunk when this happened, but the words still stuck with me, because I could tell that he was telling the truth. Every time he told me he loved me, or looked into my eyes with that adoring gaze, it had all been a joke. I was broken. I wouldn't talk to him when he tried to talk to me. When he told me he was drunk and that he never meant a word of it. Because I did love him. I knew the difference from when he was lying and telling the truth, and that was definitely the truth. One night he came over, and I still wasn't forgiving him, because I knew I couldn't. We had a massive fight, and he hit me. It wasn't the end of the world, but I told him to never touch me or the baby again. Before he left, he made sure I knew that he never loved me from the moment I told him I was pregnant. He told me he just kept me around so that he could be known as the one that helped people. Bullshit. That's all I had to say. That night was the worst night of my life. I tried to kill myself. I hated every inch of my body, and I hated my baby with more than any hate I have ever felt in my life. I didn't want to live, and I didn't want my baby to have a glimpse of life. I tried taking over twenty pills. My parents found me just as I fell to the floor and rushed me to the hospital. They flushed my stomach, and thank god the baby was okay. It hadn't gotten to her yet. But after that I still wasn't quite the same. I got pulled out of school because my parents didn't trust me to keep myself, and the baby nourished during the day. I didn't eat unless I was forced. It was like I was trying to punish myself. After the baby was born, I completely ignored her. My parents always tried to have someone other than me home to watch my baby. But when everyone did have to be gone, they begged me completely to take care of my child. I didn't. They either came home to a very hungry baby, or a rash on her butt from being in a dirty diaper for too long. I was only left with her alone a couple times before they hired a babysitter for the times when they just couldn't be home. That went on for a couple months until they took me to a counsellor and had me sent away. I came back two months later better, and full of regret. The feeling of your half a year old baby not knowing who its mother is is heartbreaking. I spent all my time trying to make that baby love me. It didn't take too long. In under a month that was my baby again. And although my world didn't start looking up again for a long time, I could see that things would eventually be okay." Sonny finished, her face completely soaked from all the tears that fell down it.

"Did he ever get to see Mackenzie?" Chad asked. She could tell that he was completely shocked by my story, and it was a complete information overload. She understood that it would take some time to process it all, and she didn't mind.

"No, I never let him near my child, that is after I became sort of myself again." Sonny explained.

"Sonny he is a dick, and he doesn't deserve you. But I hope that the day you decide to open up your heart again, please open it up to me. I would to everything in my power to show you that you could trust me. I would never do anything like that to you. You have to believe me.." Chad said passionately.

She believed him. "I believe you.."

Chad smiled. He smiled brighter than Sonny had ever seen. His blue eyes sparkled brighter than they ever had before. He started leaning in, and before Sonny knew any better Chad Dylan Coopers lips were on top of hers. He was kissing her. And she didn't mind one bit.