Title: Songs Of You
Rating: T
Summary: These were her songs, the ones shelved away just for her. Maitlyn.
Author: iheartdotdotdot
Disclaimer: I do not own Camp Rock or anything affiliated. I am not claiming any credit at all.
Author's Note: This is my first chapter fic for Maitlyn…it's not going to be long, maybe about five or so chapters. So hopefully you enjoy.
Chapter One
It's the way
our eyes lock
and our skin touches
it's more then anything
I've felt before
It's everything
Oh it's everything
-"It's Everything" by Mitchie Torres
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Mitchie Torres tried not to blush as Caitlyn Geller sat next to her on her bed and peered over her shoulder. Her breath hit the side of Mitchie's face and she bit down on her lip so she wouldn't accidentally say or do something she shouldn't. "Working on a new song?" Caitlyn asked and Mitchie nodded her head slowly trying to concentrate on biting her lip.
"Yeah, but it's not good though." Mitchie confessed as she shut the book before Caitlyn could read any of the lyrics. It would probably be just about the most embarrassing thing if Caitlyn found out about Mitchie's silly crush that way.
"Oh whatever. I bet it's just as amazing as anything else you have written." Caitlyn argued standing off the bed and walking towards the dorm door. "Are we going to go to opening breakfast or what?" Caitlyn asked and Mitchie stood of her bunk. Opening breakfast Camp Rock's way of trying to make all the newcomers feel welcome and a part of the camp itself, it was something that Caitlyn and Mitchie had been a part of since the year before.
"Yeah, just one second." Mitchie quickly shoved the notepad under her pillow and then tossed her blanket on top of that.
"Come on! I am hungry. Plus Brown said something about Connect 3 when I was walking in. Maybe all of them are teaching a class this summer." Caitlyn told Mitchie and Mitchie felt like running under a rock, a really big rock. She did not want to have to face anyone in Connect 3, especially Shane Grey.
"What? Really?" Mitchie asked clasping her hands on her stomach, she suddenly felt really ill.
Caitlyn shot Mitchie a sympatric glance and nodded her head. "Yeah. I know you really don't want to have to see Shane after that really brutal break up. But maybe having Nate and Jason in a class with him will make it better. I mean three heads are better then one."
Mitchie nodded her head, but she still didn't feel any different. She really didn't want to have spend a summer with Shane and then Caitlyn. It was too much. Way too much. "Okay, let's just go. Maybe it's not the case." Mitchie suggested as she and Caitlyn walked out of their room and towards the dining hall.
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The dining hall was loud. So loud that Mitchie's ears started to buzz the second she and Caitlyn walked into the room. "Wow! Something big is going on!" Caitlyn yelled at Mitchie from over the loud talking and yelling.
"I guess so!" Mitchie yelled back. Her eyes darted around the crowded dining hall as she searched for his face. She didn't see him, but she still wasn't convinced that she was entirely safe.
"Let's go get some breakfast!" Caitlyn yelled as she clasped her hand over Mitchie's arm and lead her to the line.
Caitlyn's touched seared into Mitchie's skin and she almost yelped from the intense pain it had caused her. She didn't know when it happened exactly. But at some point in their friendship things had turned different for Mitchie. Everything that Caitlyn did had some hidden meaning to Mitchie, from glances, to touches, to whispers it all held something to Mitchie that caused her to see Caitlyn in a whole new light. "Are you okay?" Mitchie glanced at Caitlyn we removed her hand from Mitchie's arm and folded her own arms over her chest.
Mitchie let out a breath as the tingling sensation eased from her arm and she nodded her head. "Yeah, of course. I'm fine." Mitchie told Caitlyn trying to sound convincing. But she didn't succeed all too well.
"It's fine Mitchie. We will make it through this summer; together." Caitlyn offered Mitchie a wide smile and Mitchie couldn't help but smile back.
The comfort that Caitlyn constantly brought was just one of the reasons Mitchie loved her.
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It didn't take her long to find him. Shane Grey was nestled up to the tree-the one that she and Shane had met at so many times that first year of Camp Rock-with his guitar and sheet music. Her stomach did a million little flips at the sight of him and she felt like running. But then her glanced up and noticed her. "Mitchie!" He exclaimed a smile on his face.
Mitchie shuffled over to him slowly and raised a hand. "Hey Shane." She sat down in front of him and stared at the sheet music on the ground. He was working on a new song for Connect 3, and it looked good, really good. But then again that was Shane, an amazing song writer.
"How are you?" He asked strumming the acoustic guitar chords gently with his dull blue pick.
"Fine." Mitchie answered automatically and quickly. "Fine."
"Fine." Shane glanced up and smiled at Mitchie and her heart did a flip-flop. "Did you tell her?" Shane asked softly and then Mitchie's heart did more flip-flops.
"No." Mitchie glanced away and then stood up quickly. "And don't mention it again. I told you that because I thought we were breaking up and over. I didn't think I would see you again." With her cheeks flushed a bright red Mitchie spun on her heel and attempted to walk away from Shane, but he stopped her.
"Wait!" Mitchie turned back to face him not wanting to sit with him under the tree now or ever again. She wanted that year of Camp Rock to be behind her, even though at one time she had considered it the best summer of her life. Now it was just full of memories. Memories she didn't know where to place.
"What?" Mitchie crossed her arms over her chest as Shane stood up and walked over to her.
"I didn't mean anything by it Mitch...I just want you to be happy." Shane brushed his finger against Mitchie's cheek and she was surprised she didn't feel anything like she had all of those times before.
"I know Shane. I just...don't' know what to do. I don't think she will feel that way about me." Mitchie confessed hating how weak and pathetic she sounded.
"She loves you Mitchie...how could she not?" Shane's eyes twinkled and Mitchie shrugged her shoulders, he had that way of making her feel important even if she no longer loved him.
"I don't know."
"I love you Mitchie." Shane wrapped his arms around Mitchie and she breathed in his scent, suddenly feeling at home and comfortable.
"Love you too Shane." Shane pulled away and Mitchie smiled at him. At least he was able to make this summer feel more like the one it should be feeling like.
"Just tell her, so that we can all get back to enjoying Camp Rock." Shane suggested and Mitchie nodded her head.
"Okay, okay." She turned around and started to walk away the sounds of Shane's song drowning all other sounds away.
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He was. They were. Connect 3 was officially teaching the new songwriting class at Camp Rock. It was the first class of the day for Mitchie and she was dreading it. Caitlyn was in the class too, she was sitting towards the back a notebook in her hands and her dirty blonde hair was piled on top of her head in a pony-tail.
Mitchie had meant to tell her the night before, there was the camp fire and marshmallows and musicians on acoustic guitars and Caitlyn laughing every other second. But Mitchie couldn't do it, she couldn't just lay something like that on her. She had to be careful about how and when she finally did do it. "Mitchie!" Mitchie smiled and waved back at Caitlyn as she made her way to the seat next to her.
"What's up?" Mitchie asked holding onto her own notebook tightly.
"I am so excited. They have to be able to teach this class well right? I mean, aren't you excited you are more of a songwriter then me. You should totally be eating this up right now." Caitlyn rambled and Mitchie nodded her head slowly as the classroom filled up.
"Yeah, sure. I'm excited." Mitchie paused before she finished her thought. "I talked to him yesterday."
"Really?" Caitlyn raised her eyebrows towards her forehead. "What did he say?"
"He loves me, as a friend. He wants me to be happy. Stuff like that." Mitchie said careful to not give any details away about the conversation.
"That's good. I mean, you are friends now, right?"
"Yes, we are. So this class shouldn't be that bad. I just...I don't know." Mitchie didn't want to say she wasn't looking forward to this class because of the fact that the only thing she seemed to be able to write about was Caitlyn. And she didn't want Caitlyn or anyone else to hear that stuff.
Shane walked into the class room shortly followed by Nate and Jason. Mitchie took a deep breath in and then let it out quickly as she watched Shane pick up his guitar and stare at the class. "Hey guys. I'm Shane, " He pointed at Nate and Jason, "And those are Nate and Jason. We are going to be teaching this class this summer. Hope you guys pick up a few things from it."
Jason walked up and smiled widely. "Yeah, we are totally looking forward to teaching you and...stuff!" He exclaimed and a few kids shifted uncomfortably in their seats while the others just laughed, including Mitchie and Caitlyn.
"Anyways, Jason..." Shane said and Jason shrugged his shoulders and stepped back, standing by Nate. "First off I wrote a new song..." Shane broke off his sentence as the class sat up in their seats and mumbled a few excited words to the person next to them. "and I'll be teaching you the basics of songwriting off of this song. So I'll play it and then we can discuss some stuff." Shane adjusted left on the fret board to form the G chord and then he started to strum with his right hand.
Mitchie fought back a small gasp as Shane started to sing the same song that he had been playing the day before at the tree. Shane glanced at Mitchie and she quickly glanced away as he broke into the chorus, all about wanting the girl that he couldn't have.
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"It was an amazing song! He is so great!" Mitchie shook her head angrily as she and Caitlyn passed yet another group of girls gushing about Shane's song for the class.
"I hate that song. Why did he choose something like that for the class?" Mitchie asked Caitlyn as they made their way inside their dorm.
"I don't get it though Mitchie...you said it was a mutual breakup, brutal, but still mutual. So why is the song called 'The Girl' and about wanting someone he can't have?" Caitlyn asked as Mitchie sat next to her keyboard.
"I don't know...he's Shane, you know." Mitchie quickly said trying not to make eye contact with Caitlyn, because Caitlyn always had a way of seeing past Mitchie's lies.
"Are you sure Mitchie? You don't have something you need to tell me do you?" Caitlyn asked falling down on her bed and Mitchie shook her head quickly.
"No...no! I mean, you haven't talked to Shane have you?" Mitchie asked scared that maybe, even though he said he wouldn't, Shane had talked to Caitlyn about everything that had happened.
"What? No. Why would I be asking you if I had talked to him already and I knew?" Caitlyn asked sitting back up and looking at Mitchie worriedly. "Seriously Mitchie, are you okay? I wish you would talk to me about whatever happened with you too, I do consider myself to be a good friend of yours...so I wish you would."
Mitchie pressed down on a few keys of her keyboard and nodded her head. "I know, you are a good friend Caitlyn, really. I just need some time to figure it all out. Is that okay?" Mitchie asked her heart pounding heavily against her chest as Caitlyn nodded her head, the same worried expression on her face.
"Okay sure, just let me know when you want to talk." Caitlyn said standing up from her bed and heading towards the door. "I'm going to go find Bella and Peggy." She said before walking out the door and shutting it firmly behind her.
Mitchie flinched as the room rattled from the door being slammed and she turned back towards her keyboard. If anything could or would make since out of this it definitely would be music. Mitchie set her fingers on the keyboard and started to play the first thing that came to her mind.
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I fight
when I should just stay
I turn away
When I should just let you in
I don't know
How to say what I mean
And I can't figure out
How to tell you the truth
-"The Truth" by Mitchie Torres