To Let True Love Remain Unspoken…
Is the quickest route to a heavy heart. Takes place after Tess exposes Mitchie's secret. Kind of what I thought would happen. Smitchie of course!
Peggy and Ella looked at Mitchie. "Mitchie," Peggy started.
"Mitchie has dishes to do," Tess snapped. "Let's go." The three of them slowly left.
"Shane-" Mitchie turned around to explain.
"You were lying to me all summer," Shane accused.
"Yes, but-" Shane cut Mitchie off again.
"You know, I'm so used to people pretending around me."
"I was not pretending!" Mitchie cried.
"And I really thought you were different," Shane said, nearly crying as well. "But you're just like everyone else! You wanted to be friends with Shane Gray, not me! Tricks on me, huh?"
"I was just trying to-" Mitchie failed at explaining once again.
"Save it for your interview with Pop Informer magazine, I know I gave an earful." With that, Shane walked away and Mitchie started crying. Then Caitlyn pulled her away.
"Not here, you don't".
Mitchie lay on the bed in her mom's cabin, crying. Caitlyn was rubbing her back, soothingly.
"My stuff," Mitchie managed to say between tears.
"I'll get it for you," Caitlyn said. "You don't have to face Tess again."
"Okay," Mitchie said quietly.
Meanwhile, Brown had found his nephew sitting outside with his guitar.
"Hey, what happened out there, mate?"
"Nothing," Shane said. He didn't feel like talking about it.
"Didn't look like nothing to me. You looked crushed, pummeled, absolutely destroyed-"
Shane cut his uncle off. "I got it, Uncle Brown."
"Well, have you at least found your special girl?" Shane looked at him.
"It's crazy, I have her song stuck in my head. This is real, this is me, gonna' let the light…" Shane shook his head and sighed.
Little did he know Tess had overheard him singing the song.
Tess ran back to her cabin and pulled out Mitchie's song book. "This is real, this is me, gonna' let the light shine on me," she read. "Oh, this is perfect," she said as a plan began to form in her head.
Suddenly the door opened and Caitlyn stepped inside. "What do you want?" Tess snapped, while hiding the book behind her back.
"I just came to get Mitchie's stuff," Caitlyn said, then grabbed Mitchie's bag. "It's not like I want to talk to the world's biggest jerk." Then, just as she was about to leave, Caitlyn turned back to Tess, and told her, "But it I did, I would tell you to step away from the mirror, and see the all the damage that you've caused." Then she left.
Once she was gone, Tess pulled the notebook back out. "Oh, this is going to be fixed quickly."
Dun, dun, dun. Okay, I know this is short, but it's a good cliffhanger, don't you agree? Now press that pretty blue button down there.