1. Prologue:

Third Person P.O.V.

"This is Melissa Chen with breaking celebrity news. Late last week Tess Tyler, daughter of Pop Superstar TJ Tyler was seen fleeing her Malibu home and heading to their airport without her mother. Tess was sporting two black eyes, and a large bruise and cut on her left cheek. It has since been reported that Tess was fleeing to her Grandmother's house in an undisclosed location in Delaware, where she is now filing charges of Domestic Violence, Domestic Abuse, and she is also filing for a change of custody which would allow her to live with her Grandmother full time. We will bring you more details as the come." One of the Celebrity news stations blared.

Caitlyn Gellar and her best friend Mitchie Torres were sitting in Mitchie's house watching one of the many reality shows that celebrities were involved in when this breaking news bulletin had come across the screen. Caitlyn and Mitchie had met two summers ago at a summer camp for up and comers in the Music and Dance industries, they had quickly become friends and now they were closer than ever. To help matters they discovered that they went to High Schools in the same county and only lived about twenty minutes away from each other.

Caitlyn looked at Mitchie with a look of total shock on her face and Mitchie mirrored it as well. Caitlyn and Tess had been best friends during their first few summers at Camp Rock but then things had gone down hill. Tess stopped playing guitar, dyed her hair as blonde as she could, and started acting exactly like her mom, a total bitch. That had been the way Tess was when Mitchie first met her. No one that had ever been close with her ever thought anything of it. They just assumed that she wanted to be more like her mom so she changed herself completely. Tess changed after the first summer that Mitchie spent at Camp Rock, Caitlyn noticed and saw her former best friend reverting back to her old self. But when she wanted to stay at Camp Rock and her mom wanted her to go to Camp Star, it ended in a fight and Tess going where she didn't want to be, and getting her heart broken by one Luke Williams, in the end Tess came back but she was different. She didn't want to talk to anyone about anything, and just kept to herself. After the summer was over she would send short emails to Mitchie and Caitlyn, and it just seemed like she was going through some stuff with her mom. The fact that she was now charging her own mother with abuse was a shock to the both of them.

"We need to be there for her." Mitchie said after she got through the shock of it all. "I know Tess hasn't always been the nicest person, but no one should have to go through that alone." She added looking at her best friend.

"Let me call her Grandma, I have an idea." Caitlyn said with a sneaky smile on her face. All the while thinking that this explained the change in Tess a few years ago perfectly. It also explained the various bruises and scars that Tess always had and had no explanation for. Caitlyn pulled out her cell phone and dial Tess's grandmother.

"Rebekah Anderson, may I ask who is calling." An old woman's voice said through the gravel of the phone.

"Hi Mrs. Anderson, this is Caitlyn Gellar, I used to come and stay with you during the summers with Tess." Caitlyn said with a soft smile and a friendly tone in her voice.

"Oh Caity! It has been so long since I have heard from you. No wonder you called, wanted to see how Tessie was doing no doubt, let me go get her and you can talk to her." Mrs. Anderson said with a happy tone in her voice.

"Um actually Mrs. Anderson, I didn't want to talk to Tess, I wanted to see if there is anyway tha't a few of Tess's friends could come up and stay with you all for a weekend." Caitlyn asked. It was then that Mitchie realized what the plan was and she pulled out her own phone and started to simultaneously call Shane, Nate, Jason, Ella, Peggy, Barron, and Sander.

"Oh sure sweetie, that's fine, do you want to come up this weekend, it is only Monday after all." Mrs. Anderson replied.

"That sounds great Mrs. Anderson, we just have to check with our parents and such and see who can come, but I will call you back with details. Oh and could you not tell Tess, we want it to be a surprise." Caitlyn finished.

"No problem, just try to call me back with all of that by Thursday so I can make sure we have enough food for everyone." Mrs. Anderson answered.

"Thank you so much Mrs. Anderson, hopefully we'll see you on Friday." Caitlyn said and hung up after she and Mrs. Anderson traded final good byes.

"You Cait, are a genius." Mitchie said with a smile in between phone calls. "Shane, Nate, and Jason, are definitly coming, Ella has to check with her mom, and I'm just calling Peggy now." Mitchie replied with a smile.

Even though none of them were emmensly close with Tess, they were going to be there for her when she needed someone the most.

Tess's P.O.V.

"Tessie there are some people here to see you." My grandmother shouted at me from where I was sitting on the back deck of her Beach house in Bethany Beach, Delaware. I was strumming my guitar trying to come up with words for a song but nothing would come.

"Grammy, if it's the press I don't want to talk to them." I started to say as I entered the house, if it was the press I was going to need to get inside quick.

I walked to the kitchen and didn't see the press sitting around the small kitchen table, instead I saw people that I was not expecting to see until next Summer at the earliest.

"You haven't seen all of us in less than a month and you already think we are the press. You need some help girl." Caitlyn said with a smile as she turned to me and gave me a hug.

Mitchie followed her and gave me a hug as well, and before I knew it, everyone was hugging me. Ella, Peggy, Nate, Shane, Jason, Sander, and Barron. And then they all went in for a large group hug that nearly crushed me.

"Why don't you all head out on the deck, there's more room out there than in here, and I'll bring you some chips and everything. Go on then Tessie show them the way." Grammy said to me with a soft smile. All of the food that she had bought this past week was now starting to make a lot more sense.

"Grammy you don't have to do that I can get all the food and everything." I replied. It wasn't that I didn't want to be around my almost friends, it was more of the fact that I needed a moment to realize what was happening.

"Tessie go, enjoy the beautiful weather, and show your friends to the porch now. I will bring snacks." Grammy said giving me a pointed look.

"Whatever you say Grammy." I replied with a strained smile. "It's right this way guys." I added as I started to walk out to the back porch, which over looks the water.

"Oh my God, this view is amazing." Shane said as he wrapped an arm casually around Mitchie, ever since the Camp Star v. Camp Rock Final Jam, Mitchie and Shane had been officially dating, and they had some how managed to keep it out of the press.

"Thanks. Grammy moved here when I was about three, right after Grampy and Dad died in a car accident. I used to spend every summer up here, even when I went to Camp Rock, but then Mom got in a fight with Grammy and I haven't been up here in nearly three years." I said sadly as I sat down in the chair that my guitar was resting in. "Now I don't mean to be rude, but why are you all here?" I asked a moment later after everyone had found seats and was sitting down around the larger table on the deck.

"When Cait and I saw the new bulletin on what was going on with you and your Mom, Caity came up with this great plan to come and visit you. None of us have the best history with you, but everyone here decided that you need people to be there for you and help you through this, and we decided that it would be us if you'll have us." Mitchie said, take on the role of spokesperson for the group.

I could feel tears start to swiftly make their way down my cheeks. The only person who had always been there for me no matter what was Grammy. Grampy and Dad had died when I was little right as Dad was fighting a huge custody battle with Mom. The fact that these people, none of whom I had ever been immensely close to save for one, were all willing to be there for me was just amazing to me.

"Thank you." I said as my tears came down faster and every last one of them swallowed me up in a big group hug as Grammy brought out chips and dip.

a/n: so that is the prologue just giving you the basics for the story, I know Tess seems OOC but that is kind of the point, showing a different side of her that the movies don't show. The next chapter will be the officially first chapter of this story. I hope you all enjoyed this, and please review! :)

xoxo,

Lexi