Caitlyn's Prov
"Ew!" I grimaced as I thru what I could only describe as a squished banana and paper mush covered with dust into a close by bin.
"Caitlyn, how do you let your locker get so...so..."
"Disgusting." Mitchie finished Ella's sentence for her.
"I dunno. I mean I keep my text books at the top and everything else gets shoved in the bottom." I shrugged.
"Well at least we know you value your education that you keep your books outta that mess." Nate laughed behind me making me jump a little.
"Hey." I smiled kissing him on the cheek, then looking behind him to Shane and Jason, "Hey guys!"
"What do we not kisses on the cheek as well?" Shane laughed.
I rolled my eyes, "Are you's finished already?" I asked.
"Yeah, not all of us keep our lockers like a pig sty." Jason laughed as he looked at my locker.
"Hey, it isn't all of it that's a mess, just the bottom half." I defended myself.
Everyone giggled at my poor argument.
"We can help if you want?" Nate offered.
"No way, I'm not touching anything in there." Shane laughed. "I'll help Mitchie."
"With making out or tidying her locker?" Jason laughed making both Mitchie and Shane blush.
"So, you guys are still coming over to mine tonight, right?" Shane spoke up quickly to change the subject.
A chorus of "yes's" and "sures" before Ella asked what was on all the girls' minds, "Are you guys gonna tell us what the surprise is?"
"Um...nope." Nate smiled.
"Please." I pleaded putting on my best puppy dog face.
"Not even the Caitlyn face will get him to spill." Jason giggled.
"Meany." I pretended to huff.
"I promise you'll love it." Nate smiled wrapping his hands around my waist and kissing me softly.
"I better." I smiled against his lips.
"Ew." Shane groaned. "I'd rather clean out Caitlyn's locker than watch that."
Mitchie and Ella hit him upside the head together.
Making the group go into another fit of giggles.
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Beep! Beep!
I quickly grabbed my hoodie and bounded down the stairs.
"Hi." I smiled as I slipped into the back seat of Mitchie's Golf.
"Hey Caitlyn!" Mitchie and Ella chorused.
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"I'm so excited!" Ella squeaked as we came to a stop outside Shane's house.
Mitchie and I nodded in agreement as we got out of the car.
Ella skipped up the path in front of us and as we got there Mrs Grey had already answered the door.
"Hi girls." She beamed. "The boy's are in the garage already if you's wana come on through." She said waving us in.
Going through the kitchen we saw Shane's dad at the table reading a newspaper, he looked up as he heard us coming through, "Hi ladies. Are you's excited about your surprise?"
We nodded enthusiastically before going into the utility room where the door into the garage was.
Ella went to open the door but Nate opened it before her, scaring her.
"Ah!" Ella screamed scaring Nate and making him nearly jump out of his skin.
"Hi." He said once he collected himself. "Jason, Shane the girls are here." He called over his shoulder.
Jason and Shane soon appeared at Nate's side.
"So, do we get our surprise now?" Mitchie and I said together.
The guys laughed at our enthusiasm.
"You'll get it soon but first..." Shane trailed off with a mischievous grin and all three boys pulled out blindfolds from their back pockets.
I looked at the blindfolds, then at Ella and Mitchie and like it was planned we started shaking our heads and saying no way.
"Come on Caity, please just play along." Nate pleaded.
"Fine." I said reluctantly turning around and letting Nate put on the blindfold, there was no way I could ever say no to those big eyes.
The other girls must have followed my lead as I heard Mitchie complain hers was too tight and Ella complaining she could still see. Nate then led me down the three steps into Shane's garage and sat me down on the Grey's old sofa that sat out in the garage. I felt the pillows move beside me, Mitchie and Ella must have been sat beside me.
"O.k. so before we give you your surprise we need you to hear something." Nate said.
I started to feel nervous what could they not say to us unless we were blindfolded?
There were a few shuffles and then a deafening screech then silence before more shuffling.
"Are you guy's o.k.?" I asked.
"We're fine." Jason said sounding nervous.
There were a few more seconds of silence and then Shane started counting backwards from three, then guitars and drums started playing, was that Shane singing?
We
don't have time left to regret (hold on)
It will take more than
common sense (hold on)
So stop your wondering take a stand (hold
on)
There's more to life than just to live (hold on)
'cause
an empty room can be so loud
It's too many tears to drown them
out
So hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on
One single smile
a helping hand
It's not that hard to be a friend
So don't
give up stand 'til the end
There's more to life than just to
live
'cause an empty room can be so loud
It's too many
tears to drown them out
So hold on, hold on, hold on, hold
on
When you love someone
And they break your heart
don't
give up on love
Have faith, restart
Just hold on, hold on, hold
on, hold on
When it falls apart
And your feeling lost
All
your hope is gone
don't forget to hold on, hold on
'cause
an empty room can be so loud
It's too many tears to drown them
out
So hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on
When you love
someone
And they break your heart
don't give up on love
Have
faith, restart
Just hold on, hold on
'cause an empty room
can be so loud
It's too many tears to drown them out
So hold
on, hold on, hold on, hold on
When you love someone
And
they break your heart
don't give up on love
Have faith,
restart
Just hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on
The music faded and I heard a few footsteps before I was getting used to the light in the garage. Once my eyes got adjusted I saw the three boys standing in front of amplifiers, a drum kit and a couple of guitars. Nate was chewing the inside of his lip nervously, while Jason rocked back and forth on his heels avoiding eye contact with anyone and Shane was rubbing the back of his neck nervously.
The silence continued for a while before Jason spoke up, "Could someone talk please?" He sounded very nervous and agitated now.
"Yeah, hurry up and tell us how much we sucked." Shane added.
I jumped in right away, "Oh no, no you didn't suck...you's were awesome." I smiled.
"Where did you guy's learn how to play guitars?" Mitchie smiled.
"And drums." Ella added
All three boys seemed satisfied with our response and stopped their nervous habits and began answering our questions.
"Shane's uncle actually taught us." Jason smiled sitting on the arm of the sofa.
"Yeah, he owns a camp where people go to learn how to play instruments, sing or dance." Nate smiled sitting on the other arm.
"That's sounds so cool!" I smiled.
"Well, it doesn't just have to sound cool it could be cool. If you's say yes?" Shane smiled pulling out an envelope from his back pocket and handing it to Mitchie.
Mitchie opened it in one swipe, and pulled out three tags attached to three individual pieces of ribbon.
"What are they?" I asked Nate as Mitchie passed me one.
"They're your passes to Shane's Uncle's camp, if you's want to come?"
Mitchie pretended to rub her chin as if she was deep in thought, before we all screamed "Of course!" together.
"Just think Caity, your producing could really take off at camp a lot of people get picked up there by people in the music business." Nate smiled as he slid onto the sofa beside me and put his arm around me so I could cuddle into him.
"Maybe, but I just wanna have fun there." I smiled. "Who knows I could end up producing for you's someday." I smiled as I gestured to the instruments.
"Definitely." Nate smiled.
"We wouldn't have anyone else produce for us." Jason smiled.
"Yeah, and Mitchie and Ella could sing backing vocals." Shane smiled.
"No way, I'm not singing back up to anyone. Ella and I will be big solo artists." Mitchie giggled.
"Oh pardon us." Shane laughed.
"I'll try to remember you's little people when I'm famous." Mitchie joked making us break out into a fit of giggles.
The rest of the night was spent laughing and the guys started teaching us how to play some instruments, or in Mitchie's case showing them how good she was on guitar.