Author's Note: Here is the second chapter. I appreciate all who have reviewed and hope more still will. Constructive criticism is always welcome.
When both girls had finished their breakfast Caitlyn and Mitchie got up to help Connie in the back. As the two girls walked into the kitchen they saw Mrs. Torres on the phone.
"Oh she just walked in right now." Connie said into the phone. "Hold in on and I will get her." Connie turned to Caitlyn and held the phone out. "Caitlyn honey your parents want to talk to you."
Connie handed the phone to Caitlyn who took it with a look of trepidation on her face.
"Hello," she said hesitantly into the phone. "Really?! You mean it? Oh thank you both I love you so much," Caitlyn began jumping up and down as she talked to her parents.
As Caitlyn continued to talk to her parents, thanking them every 10 seconds or so, Mitchie and her mother began cleaning up the kitchen. As they work to pack up the food Mrs. Torres finally breached the mother daughter talk that Mitchie knew was coming.
"So you and Shane looked pretty close," Connie said with a knowing look on her face.
Mitchie blushed and paid close attention to the packs of hot dogs she was loading as she answered. "Yeah we talked last night and realized how much we each cared for one another and at the end of the night we decided to try and be together."
Connie looked at her daughter with a mixture of happiness and worry. "Are you sure you know what you're getting in for?" Connie inquired. "I mean he is a good kid and I like him but if you start dating a celebrity your life is going to change."
"Actually we are going to keep it quiet for now," Mitchie admitted sheepishly. "He lives close by in LA when he is not touring and with Caitlyn and I going to work on this album they want me to do I can see him when I go into the city."
Connie walked over to Mitchie and put her arm over her daughter's shoulder in a half hug as she said "Well I trust you to make the right decision. You have always had a good head on your shoulder. And you need to know that if you ever need to talk about anything at all, no matter what, you can always come to me."
With that Connie kissed Mitchie's forehead as they both heard Caitlyn say goodbye to her parents.
"Well it seems our home is getting one person bigger this year Connie said to Caitlyn as she joined Mitchie and her mom.
"Yup they said they were proud of me and would be fine with me staying down here." Caitlyn said with a smile that took up half her face.
"Well then lets got this place cleaned up and then you two better get packed so we can leave this afternoon." Connie said as she hugged both the girls.
After the kitchen was packed up, Mitchie and Caitlyn left to pack up their cabins.
As they were walking through the camp they were all of a sudden joined by Peggy.
"Hey Mitchie Shane just told me about recording the duet on the next album and the demo that's awesome." She said as she sidled up next to the two girls. "I guess that means we will see each other in LA since I got to go there as well."
Mitchie got a confused look on her face until she remembered about Peggy's prize for winning Final Jam. "Oh yeah you are recording your own duet with Shane." She exclaimed. "That's great."
"Actually since they want to do your duet I am going to be doing a song with the whole group." Peggy explained. "That way there isn't too much of the same thing. So I guess I'll see you in LA"
"Both of us actually," Mitchie said as she gestured towards Caitlyn. "Caitlyn is going to live with my family and help produce the demo."
"Oh my god that's even better." Peggy exclaimed. "The three of us are totally going to have to hang out this year."
The three girls then said goodbye since they reached their cabin. Peggy gave both Caitlyn and Mitchie her cell number before leaving to meet up with her parents who were supposed to be picking her up.
"So tell me about my new school," Caitlyn said as the girls began to pack.
"Mitchie paused trying to decide the best way to answer the question. "Well, I have one good friend named Sierra and she is one of the smartest girls in school. And we have our own Tess. Her name is Katrina, but everyone just calls her Kat."
Mitchie made a face as she talked about Kat which caused Caitlyn to break down laughing.
Mitchie stared at her friend in confusion as she rolled on the bed laughing.
"With that face you made when you were talking about her you looked like you swallowed a cat." Caitlyn managed to get out between laughs.
With that Mitchie too broke out laughing at both the statement and the image it put in her mind."
The girls finished packing their bags and brought them to the van before making the rounds to say goodbye.
As Caitlyn was talking to Baron, telling him about her move to LA, Mitchie was all of a sudden yanked behind a nearby group of trees. Before she could make a noise her mouth was covered by a second set of lips, Shane's lips.
"Well that was certainly nice, Mitchie managed when they finally came up for air.
Shane chuckled, "Sorry," he said. "I just thought I would give you a proper goodbye since I won't see you for a couple weeks."
A couple weeks?" Mitchie asked as she frowned, disappointed at the time he would be away. "Where are you going?"
Well I got to do a mini press tour to show off the new and improved me, so we are going to be swinging through San Francisco, Chicago and New York before coming back to LA to start recording." Shane explained. "And since you don't exactly want this public for the entire world to know about, I figured we would see each other when you come to meet the studio executives and producers."
"Well you just thought of everything didn't you pop star."
"Everything except what I am going to do for two weeks when I can't do this."
As he spoke Shane leaned back into Mitchie and the two were soon back to doing what was fast becoming their favorite recreational activity.
They both felt like they could stay in each other's arms kissing all day but were all too soon interrupted by the calls from Connie as she and Caitlyn looked for Mitchie so they could hit the road.
"I got to go but I will call you tonight before I go to bed."
"Shane smiled as he leaned his forehead against hers. "I'll be waiting."
With that the two shared one more kiss before Mitchie joined her mom and friend for the ride home.
As Mitchie approached the van both Connie and Caitlyn could easily see just how flushed she was.
"So where we you at" Caitlyn asked with a smirk on her face.
"I was just saying good bye to some people." Mitchie responded.
"Were you in a sauna while you were doing it because you sure looked flushed for someone just saying goodbye." Caitlyn's grin continued to grow as Mitchie continued to get redder.
"Shut Up." Mitchie said as her mom who had been laughing at the back and forth closed up the van and said it was time to get going.
As the van began to drive, Mitchie stared out the window and marveled at just how much one summer at this place had changed her life and she already could not wait to come back.
