Chapter 11

Divulged

"Uh, hi Skyler," I said awkwardly. I bit my lip realizing that he could guess that I had been with Chad.

"What were you doing over on that street?" He asked pointing to the street I had just left –Chad's street.

"Um, I was just picking up a script for Portlyn, she was sick today. She wanted me to pick it up at Chad's." I lied. As soon I said it I realized my voice had raised an octave. I bit my lip.

"Really? I had no idea that you and Portlyn were friends," he said skeptically.

"We're not. I was just being nice."

"Well… It's getting late, do you want a ride?" he asked.

"I'm fine, my car is right around the corner."

I walked quickly around the corner. A bus came around and I noticed there was a bus stop about five feet in front of me. I ran quickly to the bus and stepped inside. What luck!

"One ticket please," I said politely to the bus driver.

After getting my ticket I walked back to my seat and waited patiently for my stop on Alameda Avenue. I stepped out and saw that my mom's car was parked in our studio parking lot. I ran up towards the studio doors and unlocked it with my key.

"Mom?" I called. I ran towards the cafeteria to find her. "Mom?" I called again.

"Oh there you are darling; I forgot you were on your date. Did Chad drive you here?" she asked.

"No, he didn't. His car is being worked on." I replied grimly.

"Well are you ready to go home?"

"Yep."

Next Day…

"Morning, Sonny," Chad winked the next morning in the cafeteria. I realized I was blushing so I walked, with my large trey of mush, over to my table. I gazed dreamily at the wall.

"Did you and that wall over there have an exciting night, Sonny?" Nico joked. I shook my head out of the daze and flushed with embarrassment.

"Oh yeah, didn't you go to that Hollywood Party that none of us were invited to?" Grady asked edging his chair closer to mine to pressure me into spilling more details.

"Well…no I did not have an exciting night with a wall," I said avoiding Grady's question.

I looked at Tawni for support and Tawni bit her lip. She grabbed a random pencil from the table.

"Rubber pencil!" she said, shaking it in front of Nico's face.

Zora rolled her eyes. "Obviously Sonny doesn't feel like we're mature enough to hear about her exciting night," she observed.

I rolled my eyes too. "Pft, Pft that is Not true," I said. I decided to try Tawni's method of distracting people. "Look, people rubber pencil!" I picked up the pencil near where I was sitting and shook it like Tawni had. Tawni gestured to it as if it was the coolest thing ever.

"Sonny!" Chad called. I jumped up and ran over to him as fast as I could without running into any chairs –or people. "Marta's planning to tell everyone about Us," he whispered. My eyes widened.

"Why?" I asked in a stage whisper.

"Because Skyler saw you walking away from my house last night and he said you told him that you were picking up a script for Portlyn. He noticed you were wearing formal clothing and decided that it would be stupid to dress up just to pick something up," Chad explained.

"But I told everyone I was going to a party last night and that's why I was dressing up." I protested. I couldn't help but feel a tingle through me as I accidentally touched his cheek as I whispered.

"Marta has Hollywood Party alerts on her phone. Even strangers' high school parties show up on her phone. It just so happened that no parties that were really exclusive happened last night." Chad replied.

"Meh."

"Not only that, Marta saw Portlyn yesterday at the studios. That helped blow our cover."

"Besides that first kiss we shared to prove to Skyler we like each other." I remembered.

"Damn it! Why did we have to be so obvious?" Chad said angerly. He looked around to make sure no one heard him. No one did so he relaxed.

"When is Marta telling everyone about us? And more importantly, WHY?" I wondered.

" 1st answer: Press conference in a half hour. 2nd answer: She hates you—" I interrupted him.

"—because I stole you from her," I finished. Chad nodded solemnly.

"Well, maybe it won't be that bad…" he mused. "I was kind of getting tired of keeping us a secret anyway." He put his hands in his pockets and rocked back and forth on his feet, signaling me to go back to my table.

I knew he was right, but I couldn't help but feel a little sad that we would be mauled by paparazzi every time we left the building, besides the fact that the magic of sneaking around would be gone. Everybody would know about us and there was nothing we could do about it. I walked back to my dressing room avoiding the stares, glares, and smirks of the Mackenzie Falls cast and the So Random cast. When I got to my dressing room, I set my alarm clock to three minutes before the Press Conference, so I would have enough time to get ready and go outside, hand in hand with my boyfriend, Chad Dylan Cooper.

Chapter 11

Subchapter 2

My alarm clock seemed to go off too early, but when I read the time, I realized that it was past time to go. I hurried over to Mackenzie Falls Studios (I had to sneak over so that took time away as well) By the time I got there I realized that the reporters had all ready started arriving. I knocked on Chad's door and he opened it immediately. I ran up to him and gave him the biggest kiss I could manage. I loved him more than words could say. And that was the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. We pulled back just as Portlyn came in telling us that it was time.

We managed to watch Marta tell the whole world our deepest secret and watch the crowd gasp in surprise. Honestly we were more obvious than gasping.

I have called you all here to address something that has been going on for some time. Most of you know who I am talking about. Chad Dylan Cooper and Sonny Monroe. The love birds of modern days. All of you must now realize that, well that they are now dating. What's that? You want proof? Would you look behind me to the big projector screen.

The screen showed the texts that I had sent him yesterday.

xSonshineSRXD123: HeY BoYfRiEnD! LuZz U! where is ya? Been w8in half hr plz txt bck luz u SoNsHiNe !3 3 :O

The screen also showed the text that Chad had sent to me, but had never reached my inbox

ChadDCOOPERWHATITDO: Hey Sonshine! Lol come to mah house! Luv u 2! 3

And finally the last text I had sent him right before I went into his house.

xSonshineSRXD123L: ChAdYkInS? MiSs u BayB. TxT MeH BcK!

These texts were sent last night at about 9:00 or 10. Sonshine as Sonny and well, you can guess who the other screen name is. Without further ado, lets welcome out the happy couple!

Chad and I stepped out into the limelight.

Boos and You stink, Sonnys were sounded from the mob of people.

Chad yelled for them all to stop.

Listen, people. I read the article in Teen Weekly about Marta and my ex and blah blah blah. But the reality is that Marta posted that article to make you all believe it was Sonny to hate. You all fell for her lame trick. You all booed Sonny because of the meanest diva in Hollywood's tactic to gain publicity. (No offense, Tawni. Your still a diva don't worry) If you're going to Boo someone, don't boo Sonny. She has to be the one person in this Village of Drama that doesn't mean any harm. Just leave her alone. Please.

Tears welled up in my eyes and I realized that I didn't care if every alien knew about Chad and I, as long as we're together, nothing would ever hurt me, emotionally.