It has been a very long time. 1 year almost to the day (Sorry). I decided to revise and revamp my original chapter. It's longer! Anywhos. Series of Prompts from Boys Like Girls' 2009 album "Love Drunk" and other songs will be tossed into the mix as well. Lyrics that were used for prompts will be in Italics. Camp Rock is Disney Property. No profit. Hope you like!

"Two is Better Than One"

He had never considered that he would fall in love at Camp Rock. Nor had he considered that he would meet the person that meant the most to him. Now he was twenty, she was eighteen, but for three years, they had been in love. And this on the eve of the new chapter in her life. She was going to college. She was moving away, and as surely as they could still be together. Things were going to change. He wasn't sure he was ready for all of this. He wasn't good with change.

Now, as Mitchie slept peacefully, curled up next to him, he recalled some of the greater moments in their relationship. He remembered how they first met. Shane was fairly ashamed of that now. He had been a little shit, and both of them had known it. The only happy part about it was that she had seen past it and was willing to accept him.

He thought about the first summer often.

Shane Grey had been an international rock-star, beloved by preteen girls pretty much everywhere. All the love and the fans and the money had eventually gotten to Shane's head. But he was always picky with the music and as Connect 3's label had been purchased out by a bigger label. A merger that had cost millions and was sure to make just as much. The boys were put onto a rigid new schedule. A batch of generic sounding pop songs. A safe option for a new label. Experiments with the sound can come after this one does well. The three of them were in disagreement with the label about the fluffy new music they were being forced to record, but Rick Perabo was determined to put out the music he thought would sell. Nate and Jason were more compliant though. They had just been given a bigger cut of the profits, so that bought their silence. Shane had not been so willing to comply. At sixteen, he became a little deviant. He had started smoking, and seeing Elani King, The hottest young movie star of the moment and by "seeing" it was accompanying each other to their respective events - premieres, award shows, concerts. Elani was actually the reason Shane had started smoking. The media had had a field day with both of these news bits. The blogs lit up about Shane's bad habits and his casual relationship with Elani. Photos of the two of them holding hands and smoking were everywhere.

These new behaviors had earned Shane the nickname "the Bad Boy of Pop" which his label was not thrilled about. Sales of their new EP were plummeting, ticket sales were abysmal. So in response to Shane's new rebellious streak (and his infamous storm off of a music video set), the label had cancelled the summer tour, and was offering the band an ultimatum- Shane cleans up his image or you all get fired. Needless to say, Nate and Jason had agreed. Shane was to spend a summer being a good citizen and VOLUNTEERING, at his Uncle Brown's music camp for amateurs.

Camp Rock. He had fought tooth and nail against going this year. But it had been his mother who had made Shane realize that he had to go. He had no choice, he was sixteen, a minor. When he had called up his mom to discuss this fact. She had been rather unsympathetic to his plight. Shane's mom was tough, the fact that her son was a rockstar (kind of), didn't make her go easy on him, if anything it made her more fierce. She had been determined to keep him down to earth. For the most part, she had tried, but there wasn't much you could do when you were always miles away.

He did have a history with the camp, he had first attended when he was thirteen, where he had met his best friends and bandmates - Nate Black and Jason Newkirk. It was where they were discovered, a couple of years later.

And now he was back.

In retrospect, Shane laughed about how young and stupid he had been. But at the time he was most discontent with pretty much everything. The day he shipped off to Uncle Brown's camp was the day that Elani had broken up with him. She was dating a co-star from a new movie she was working on. Whatever. But he was still pissed, and that first day was hell.

All of these crazy girls, they all had fancy ideas that they were the most talented, the one girl who would succeed. Or as another competition, the girl who would win his heart. The first day, he was being chased by a bunch of fan girls when he tripped into a garden by a cabin. He hid behind a bush and the girls ran in the opposite direction, convinced that he had gone that way. He was recovering some of his dignity when he heard the singing. A voice of an angel. He slowly stood up and went to look in the window. He could see her back, she had long brown hair and was wearing a pink tank top. As he looked away from the window for the brief second he needed to enter the cabin. She was gone.

Damn. But he went about his business, not completely forgetting the 'girl with the voice' as he now called her.

The next morning he went to breakfast, unable to eat anything except for cantalope and some scrambled eggs. Most dissatisfied, he went to the kitchen, and met Mitchie for the first time. (Although at the time he had no clue it was her.) He was shitty to her, and she snapped back, it was the first real reaction he'd had in a long time.

The first couple of weeks were mostly temper tantrums, and being relentlessly hit on by Tess Tyler. An entitled bitch if Shane had ever met one. He remembered noticing a girl that wasn't entirely comfortable with being in Tess' posse. He would casually observe her whenever they happened to be in the same vicinity. It was obvious to anybody that she was a newbie, and was really having some sort of identity crisis. He wondered if she was any good at singing, she was in one of his dance classes, and she was pretty good. She picked up routines pretty easily.

Meanwhile during his search for "the girl with the voice" he became friends with this tiny little brunette, who was honest (and she had a great smile). And she didn't fawn over him, which was different. He liked it. Innocent flirtations began, he totally liked her, this silly little fifteen year old girl. He had turned seventeen during the summer. She was too young.

Shane thought about the exact day he realized his feelings for this tiny brunette named Mitchie. They had collided on a pathway, she was on the way to somewhere with a box of tortilla chips, and he was walking to the beach with his guitar. He asked if she wanted to hear what he was working on. She agreed and they made their way to a dock, where he began to play for her. Her hair blew in the breeze and she smiled. She had been wearing a tight maroon top and dark jeans. She rested an arm on the box of tortilla chips. With his last note, she smiled, and as she stood up she said "I know of at least one girl who would buy that song." With a grin she walked off with the box. He thought to himself as he watched her walk away "hey this could be something."

He thought of that moment a lot, it was just such a pure moment between the two of them. It was before their friendship became complicated with feelings and the fact that she had lied to everyone for most of the summer. But at Final Jam, when she came out and started singing. That was the moment. He joined her onstage and both of them knew. It was a very telling moment. The duet was laced with emotions. The end of the song they held hands and held eye contact for ages.

He remembered wanting to kiss her so badly, but he held back. It wasn't appropriate, her parents were here, paparazzi was here. This wasn't the right time.

In the present, Mitchie mumbled something in her sleep and rolled over. He stared at her, she was so beautiful. He loved her so completely. As he moved to brush some hair off her of face, she woke up. "Shane, go to sleep" she mumbled, then she fell back asleep. He knew it from the beginning and it was only being reinforced right now. He loved her, he didn't want to live without her.

Two is better than one.

Ok, so for anybody that read my original. and is still with me. Yay! the next update is almost ready. Will be up in a couple of days. I swear on my college education. Pleasee Review!

10/23/10