DISCLAIMER: I don't own Camp Rock.

"Nate! Nate! Nate! Nate! Nate! Nate! Nate! Nate! Nate! Nate! Nate! Nate!" Nate heard Ella scream as her heard her accompanying footsteps grow louder as she neared his room, before she appeared in his office bouncing excitedly.

"Yes?" he asked amused.

"Guess what?" she screamed excitedly.

"Ummm…pumpkin seeds are raining from the sky?" he guessed amused.

"Awesome, but not even close. Try again," she ordered.

"Ummm…scientists finally found a way to crossbreed a narwhal and a horse to make a unicorn?" he smiled as her eyes widened by about five times their normal size, earning a chuckle from Nate.

"NOOO!" she exclaimed, "but how awesome would that be?"

"Pretty awesome," he replied, smiling at his best friend. "But what's got you so excited?"

"Huh?" she asked distractedly.

"You know, the reason you came running here screaming my name a thousand times a minute?"

"Oh…OH! You'll never guess what happened to me!"

"No I won't. I already tried, remember?"

She laughed. "That you did, and failed epically, just by the way." Nate sent her a playful glare before she continued, "remember that guy, Matt, who just started working here?..." she trailed off, making sure Nate who she was talking about.

"The one who's been flirting with you nonstop, wears ridiculous clothes, plays drums in his free time and has a gap in his tooth?...never heard of him," Nate said slightly annoyed.

He has a gap in his tooth? Ella wondered, smiling to herself at how jealous Nate was getting. Her plan was working out perfectly. "Ya, that's him, he just asked me out!"

Nate felt a slight pang in his chest. "What did you say?"

"Yes, of course! Who would say no to him?" she sighed dreamily; hoping to finally get Nate to snap and fricking claim her already.

It was obvious to everyone, including her (though she had only been let into the loop a year ago), how in love he had been with her since Camp Rock. She had given him a year to confess his feelings before she took matters into her own hands. His year was up and her strategy was jealousy. She and Matthew had known each other since diapers, but when his family had moved away right before her first Camp Rock, she had lost contact with him. When he happened to move in next door to her a month ago they had instantly rekindled their old friendship and she had confessed her feelings for Nate to him, hoping to get a new opinion other than the ones the rest of her friends had given her. He had immediately suggested that they pretend to go out, just to get Nate jealous. They had made it very clear to each other that they only saw each other as friends and both agreed to not tell anyone their plan, so as to not accidentally give it away. Ella, however, had bargained for Mitchie and Caitlyn to know. That way they wouldn't give her a lecture and might actually help. After a bit of convincing, Matt agreed to tell only them and to make them swear not to let the game slip.

It had taken a month to get everything set up before they finally could start phase 1: get Nate jealous. Phase 2 was now in action: set Nate up. Phase 3 was to have him crash the date. It was up to Mitchie and Cait to convince him to crash the date if he didn't try to on his own.

"Oh really?" Nate asked, causing her to come back to the present. "So when's the date?" he tried really hard to not sound suspicious.

"Oh, tonight," Ella said nonchalantly. "We're just gonna have a movie night at my place. You know how everything's so expensive at the movies, plus it saves gas money." You could see the light leaving his eyes is a sense of hopelessness.

"Oh, well have fun I guess," Nate told her trying to appear happy for her. How else was he supposed to respond when the girl you are crazy in love with is so excited about going on a date with someone that's not you.

"Thank you so much!" she gushed, giving him a quick hug and even quicker kiss on his cheek. Then she was gone.

"Ughhh!" Nate groaned to himself, leaning back in his desk chair, clenching both of his fists to his forehead as he tried to come up with a solution. Ella had stopped by around noon to tell him about her…date…and Nate hadn't stopped thinking about it since. It was now about 6 and he couldn't work anymore.

He hated the idea of Ella going out on a date with someone other than himself. He hated it even more that they were going to be doing their thing. Not 'their' as in Matt and Ella, he meant 'their' as in the Nate and Ella thing.

It was their tradition. Every Friday night Nate and Ella would watch movies in their living rooms together. Every week they would alternate houses, but since Ella had moved out of Caitlyn and Mitchie's apartment to be closer to where she worked, downtown, they had been mostly having their Friday movies at Ella's place. Now Ella wasn't only cancelling their standing date, she was breaking it to do the exact same thing, but with someone else.

"I can't do this," he told himself, bending over to get his stuff before looking up to see her standing in his doorway.

"Do what?" she asked.

"Caitlyn, I don't really care what I did in the recording earlier that you need me to re-do, but I'm kinda late," he told his band mate's girlfriend slightly annoyed.

"Don't talk to me that way or else I'll send Jason after you," she teased, pushing herself up so that she could go in and help him. "Besides, I happen to know that the only place you could possibly want to be tonight, other than here, is crashing Ella's date."

Nate looked her straight in the eye before whispering, "Exactly."

"She's not gonna like it," Caitlyn said in a teasing sing-song voice.

Nate just stared at his other female best friend, the only one who he had officially told about his crush on Ella to (even though he was pretty sure everyone else, minus Ella, knew).

"Are you gonna stop me?"

"I can do better," she smirked mischievously.

Cliffhanger! That's all I have for now. The title will be explained in part 2 if I get enough reviews. It's really easy, I only need 5 reviews to post for this story…

Also, I am told that reviews make life happy, but I wouldn't know about that much since no one likes to review my stories. D:

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