Mitchie sat in her cabin on the first night of camp. Back at Camp Rock, and she was not exactly happy about it. Of course it was great to see her friends and Brown and Dee and all the excited and nervous new campers, but someone was erased off of her I-Can't-Wait-To-See-You list…forcibly.
Shane.
The thought off his name made her feel helpless and immobile. Without his influence, Mitchie was stuck in a zombie-like trance and she wasn't snapping out of it any time soon. What was she capable of accomplishing without Shane? For the past year and a half, Mr. Shane Gray had been her crutch through everything. Especially since her father had left.
Now she was powerless, weak, feeble. The words, her emotions, she couldn't put them to paper, therefore, she hadn't written any songs in the past few months.
She wondered what she'd do now that she was Shane-less. She wondered where she would be and who she'd be in the coming eight weeks more than anything.
Thoughts raced along the speedway of Mitchie's mind miles a minute, and yet she was still motionless on the outside. Her chin stay resting upon her knees as they had been for the past hours, her hands extremely still, her feet frozen in place. The only movements made were absolutely needed to live. Breathing and blinking. Okay, maybe not the blinking part, but they were the instinctual movements that she made.
The faint light of the sun disappeared beneath the horizon and night spread across the sky at a steady pace.
She sat there for a few moments and pondered whether or not she should go to the Opening Jam Session in the mess hall when and bright yellow and a bright white butterfly flew across the deck of her cabin. They flew close together and in perfect sync and words began flashing upon the billboards of the mental highway.
Caterpillar in the tree
How you'll wonder who'll you'll be
Can't go far, but you can always dream
Wish you may and wish you might
Don't you worry, hold on tight
I promise you there will come a day
Butterfly fly away.
And she did, Mitchie had grown and flown away.