Music Room
So I've been in a really good mood for writing which is why I have written this one.I know that Caitlyn and Nate might seem a little bit out of character but I just went with the flow with this one. It's an idea that I've had for about two months now but had no idea how to write but now I've been getting heaps of ideas so I'm just going to go with them. Also, Mitchie didn't lie to everyone here. She was just herself and never friends with Tess.
The song is Time for me to Fly by the Jonas Brothers. It's one of their earlier songs and i love it!
Disclaimer: I own nothing :'(
Chapter 1 – Locked In
"Caitlyn, would you hurry up. I want to eat something before it's all gone" Mitchie called out.
"I'm coming. Geeze, give me a break" Caitlyn said as she hopped along, trying to put on her shoe while trying to keep up with Mitchie. Mitchie turned around and laughed when she saw Caitlyn. She stopped and allowed Caitlyn to catch up and tie up her shoe.
"Why are we in such a hurry?" Caitlyn asked as she caught her breath and began to walk with Mitchie.
"Let's see, I think I recall someone wanting to stay late in the music room to run through the song one more time and then one more time after that. Because of that we are now late for lunch." Mitchie explained. Caitlyn sighed and went to adjust the strap on her laptop bag only to find that it wasn't there.
"Where is my laptop?" Caitlyn asked. Mitchie stopped walking and turned around.
"I thought you had it with you?"
"So did I" Caitlyn as she tried to remember where she had left it.
"Did you leave it in the music room?" Caitlyn thought for a moment.
"I think I might have. You go on to lunch." Caitlyn said as she turned around to walk back to the music room.
"I'll save you some food" Mitchie said as she continued to walk towards the mess hall. Caitlyn hummed a tune under her breath while she made her way back towards the music room. Caitlyn arrived at the music room just as the wind started to pick up.
"Talk about timing" Caitlyn said under breath as she had to pull pretty hard on the door to open it. The door flew open with the next gust of wind and Caitlyn stumbled a bit, having still been holding onto the handle. She let go and cradled her wrist, whimpering a little at the pain.
"Perfect time to mess up your wrist now" Caitlyn grumbled as she hurried into the room.
"Are you alright?" a voice asked. Caitlyn screamed and turned around. She spotted a boy by the piano with a pen in his hand. He had soft curly hair and warm brown eyes. He had a large smile on his face showing that he was chuckling softly at her reaction.
"Yea I'm fine" Caitlyn said, forcing herself to look away before he could find out that she was staring. She blushed as soon as she realized who she had been looking at. Nate Grey from Connect 3.
"Do you need help looking for anything?" he asked.
"Umm.... I think I should be alright" Caitlyn said as she walked over to where she had been a few minutes ago.
"Alright" he said as he turned back towards the piano.
"Found you" Caitlyn said as she spotted her laptop bag on the table where she left it. She grabbed the bag but stopped when she thought she saw something move next to it. Caitlyn leaned forward to see what it was but screamed and jumped back, crashing into a stack of chairs behind her. The chairs fell over with a large bang. The crash made Caitlyn jump and Nate look up from the piano.
"Are you alright?" Nate asked again.
"I'm... yea...... umm.... yea... I'm fine. It was just a spider" Caitlyn managed to say. She scolded herself for seeming like a nervous wreck now.
"Are you sure?"
"Yes" Caitlyn said as she shook her head and started to make her back towards the door. Caitlyn walked past Nate and tried not to look at him. She was almost at the door when the wind slammed it shut. Both Caitlyn and Nate jumped at the sound. Nate turned back the piano while Caitlyn went to the door. She pulled the handle but the door wouldn't budge.
"Come on" Caitlyn groaned as she tried to open it.
"Would you like some help?" Caitlyn was about to refuse but changed her mind. A little help couldn't hurt right? Besides, how often does a famous singer offer to help you open a door?
"Sure" Caitlyn said as Nate stood up from the piano and walked over to her.
"I'm Nate by the way" he said once he had reached her.
"Caitlyn" Caitlyn said as she smiled at him. Nate returned the smile and turned to the door. He gave a tug on the handle and tried to pull it open. Nate frowned and used both of his hands to try and tug it again.
"Open. Up" Nate said between tugs.
"Why won't it open?" Caitlyn asked is a slightly panicky voice.
"I don't know" Nate said as he stepped away from the door to look at it properly.
"What are you looking at?" Caitlyn asked as she stepped back to where Nate was and looked at the door.
"That" Nate said as he pointed to the door.
"What is it?"
"The door is wedged in to far"
"So how are we supposed to get out?" Caitlyn asked as she sat back down on a chair.
"Well I would usually try and call for help but I don't really want anyone to be walking around in this storm right now. Looks like we're stuck here for a while" Nate said as he turned around and walked back to the piano.
"Great" Caitlyn groaned. She closed her eyes and rested her head against the back of the chair until her ringtone began to go off.
Time for me to fly
Time for me to soar
Time for me to open up my heart and knock on heavens door
Time for me to live It's time for me to sing Time for me to lay
down all my worries and I'll spread my wings Time for me to fly
Caitlyn blushed when she realised that it was one of Connect 3's older songs. She looked over at Nate who was smirking at her while she fished her phone out of her pocket.
"Hello?"
"Caitlyn!"
"Hey Mitchie"
"Where are you?"
"Well... you see... I'm kinda locked in the music room" Caitlyn said while blushing a deeper red because Nate was leaning against the piano, watching her.
"How on earth did you get yourself locked in the music room?"
"Hey it wasn't my fault! The wind slammed the door!" Caitlyn said.
"I guess that's a good enough excuse but how will you get out?"
"I haven't really thought about that part yet" Caitlyn admitted. "We were thinking of just waiting it out until the storm ended and someone could come out and help us"
"Okay... wait... who's we?" Mitchie asked. Caitlyn blushed and she could almost see the smirk on her face.
"No one" Caitlyn said quickly.
"I am not no one" Nate said. Caitlyn glared at him, praying that Mitchie hadn't heard him but unfortunately Caitlyn wasn't that lucky.
"Who was that?"
"Mitchie have you seen Nate? I can't find him anywhere?" Shane's voice said through the phone.
"I haven't seen him" Mitchie answered. "Wait a minute"
"What?" came Shane's voice again.
"Caitlyn?"
"Yes?" Caitlyn squeaked out, having heard them both.
"Is Nate with you?"
"Umm?"
"Where is Caitlyn?" Shane asked.
"She's in the music room. Apparently the wind slammed the door shut and now they, whoever is with her, can't get out" Caitlyn heard Mitchie explain. Caitlyn sighed and tapped her foot while she heard Mitchie and Shane talk. She heard a soft chuckle and turned to see Nate laughing, watching her.
"Is something funny?" Caitlyn asked.
"Yea, seeing you get impatient" Nate replied.
"Sorry if I'm not in the happiest of moods right now" Caitlyn snapped.
"I'm just trying to lighten the mood"
"Yea well it ain't working" Caitlyn said.
"What's got your knickers in a twist?" Nate asked.
"Let's see, I'm locked in a music room for who knows how long, I haven't eaten since last night and I'm starving and I'm not exactly warming up to my company right now"
"Caitlyn?"Mitchie's voice came through. Caitlyn jumped. She had forgotten that Mitchie was on the phone with her.
"Yes?"
"Was that Nate talking?"
"Yes it was?"
"Okay, so at least we have located our two missing campers?"
"What? You mean me and Nate are the only ones who aren't in the mess hall?"
"Yep, makes it easier because you're both in the same place."
"Yay" Caitlyn said sarcastically.
"What's wrong?"
"I'm sure you heard what was wrong before" Caitlyn said.
"Yea, Shane and Jason heard it as well"
"So get them to tell him to leave me alone please?"
"I can't do that Caity?" Caitlyn glared at her phone. She could see Mitchie smiling.
"And why not?"
"Because we think that you two should get to know one another. You would suit each other."
"Well I happen to disagree?"
"Why?"
"I am not going to say why?" Caitlyn said. She looked at Nate to see that he was still watching her. "What are you looking at?"
"Nothing" Nate shrugged and turned back to the piano. Caitlyn looked at him for a little bit longer before going back to her conversation.
"Mitch, I'm scared" Caitlyn whispered. Nate heard what she said and looked up.
"About what?"
"About.... about....what happened" Caitlyn said, her voice cracking at the end.
"Oh my gosh! I'm sorry hun!"
"I don't know what to do"
"Maybe you should talk to Nate. You never know, he might be able to help you" Mitchie offered.
"Yea" Caitlyn mumbled.
"It shouldn't last too long, the storm"
"Have you seen outside, the clouds are black!" Mitchie laughed.
"Okay, so it might last a little longer than I thought" Caitlyn laughed.
"Thanks Mitchie."
"That's okay. We'll get you out of there soon. Shane and Jason want you tell Nate that he's brave for staying the same room as a girl for his only company for however long you are going to be in there" Caitlyn laughed.
"I'll pass on the message. Bye Mitch" Caitlyn said as she hung up her phone. She put her phone back in her pocket as she wiped her eyes.
"Are you sure you are okay?" Nate asked. Caitlyn smiled and nodded.
"Yea" she said quietly. Nate smiled and went back to work. "What are you working on?" Nate looked up after she asked the question.
"A new song for the band"
"I thought your label had to write your songs with you?" Caitlyn asked, confused.
"They do, but after seeing Shane here and hearing his new song, we want to change up our sound. Everyone seemed to like the song we played at beach jam and we want to write more stuff like that"
"I really liked that song" Caitlyn admitted as she took a seat closer to him.
"Thanks. I really liked it to. We haven't been able to write something like that in a long time"
"The label is an idiot if they don't let you write your own stuff. If you write it yourself, it has so much more meaning. Take Mitchie's song for example. Because she wrote it, everyone knows what she is feeling and they can connect with it" Caitlyn explained.
"What song did she write?"
"It's called This is Me" Nate dropped his pencil. Caitlyn looked at him.
"Are you sure that's the name of the song?" Nate asked. Caitlyn nodded.
"I know it is. Mitchie sings it all the time"
"Wow"
"What is it?"
"Those are song of the lyrics to the song Shane heard. He's trying to find the girl who sang them" Caitlyn's eyes went wide.
"You think Mitchie's the girl?"
"You tell me" Nate said. Caitlyn was about to say something when Nate started singing.
This is real
This is me
I'm exactly where I'm supposed to be now
Gonna let the light, shine on me
Nate stopped and looked at Caitlyn. Caitlyn barely noticed that Nate had stopped singing until he waved his hand in front of her face. She snapped back into things.
"Is that it?"
"That's the song!" Caitlyn exclaimed happily.
"Won't Shane be happy"
"Shane? What about Mitchie? Shane is all she ever talks about and she's sworn that Shane has never heard her sing before"
"Should we tell them?" Nate asked, completely forgetting his song and turning his full attention to Caitlyn. Caitlyn thought for a moment before shaking her head.
"I say we wait until the end of the storm. They're going to be spending a lot of time together just now so odds are they will find out"
"True" Nate said as he faced the piano again. Caitlyn stood up and walked over to her laptop bag. She went to lift it with her right hand but a sharp burst of pain suddenly filled her arm.
"Ow!" Caitlyn exclaimed as she dropped the bag back down. Nate was by her side in an instant.
"What happened?"
"I went to lift my bag up but my wrist just felt like it had been burned"
"Let me see" Nate said as he gently placed her wrist in his hand. "Does this hurt?" Nate asked as he gently pressed different places around her wrist. Caitlyn shook her head until Nate pressed one spot. She winced and tried to pull her hand back.
"Sorry" Nate said as Caitlyn relaxed again. "I think it's just a bad sprain from before when you opened the door to come in. Just wrap something around it and it will be fine" Nate advised. Caitlyn nodded and mumbled thanks before she walked off to where her stuff was. Nate watched her walk before he headed back to the piano.
So.... tell me what you think. I got half of it written on my computer already so if you like it i can update quickly. I know it's probably not my best but i like the story line and the other chapters are a little better because they fill you in on more stuff. I am also probably going to be writing more christmassy and new years stuff coz we're getting to that time of the year.... my favorite time. I love carols. I'm just going to stop talking now and let you review this for me.
Just a note.... i am really freaking out about my piano recital tomorrow night. wish me luck because i'm going to need it.