Disclaimer: I still don't own Camp Rock or Lovebug.
Caitlyn heard her phone ring and reached to answer it. "Hey, this is Caitlyn."
"Guess what!" She heard a happy voice exclaim. A smile came to her face. From anyone else, that would be just a way to open the conversation, but Caitlyn knew Jason well enough to know that he actually wanted her to guess. She thought back to her last conversation with him before answering his question.
"Uhm…you spotted a Pacific Golden Plover?" Caitlyn helped Jason look up native birds in each state on the tour, and he had been really excited about the shorebirds of Oregon.
"No, but that would have been awesome!" Jason said.
"Okay. Nate and Shane made it an entire day without fighting?" She guessed.
"Nope. That'll never happen."
"Tell me, then. I'm all out of ideas," Caitlyn replied.
"I wrote you a song," Jason announced.
"Wow. Really?" Caitlyn asked.
She was stunned. She met Jason the night of Final Jam, and the two of them had wandered around camp talking about music and looking for birds. She gave him her phone number when he asked for it, but she had not expected to ever hear from him. She was pleasantly surprised when he had called her the next day, and they had fallen into a comfortable friendship. Mitchie thought it was hilarious that her sarcastic, impatient friend got along so well with sweet, clueless Jason, but there was something about him that made Caitlyn smile no matter what else was happening around her.
If Caitlyn was honest with herself, she would have to admit that talking to Jason was always the highlight of her day, but she did not want to examine what that meant too closely. Jason had never said or done anything to indicate that he thought of her as anything other than a buddy, so she was determined not to ruin their relationship with some silly crush. The poor guy had enough trouble with all the crazed fan-girls Connect 3 attracted.
"You wanna hear it?" He asked.
"Now?" She asked.
"Yup. I was worried that I wouldn't be able to sing and play the guitar while I held the phone, but Nate showed me how to put the phone on speaker. "
"I would love to hear your song, Jason."
"Great! It is called "Lovebug", and it is the first song I wrote all by myself." The opening notes of the song drifted through the phone, and Caitlyn heard Jason start singing.
"Called her for the first time yesterday…"
When the song ended, there was silence. Caitlyn's mind was racing. A love song? Jason wrote her a love song? Was he joking with her? It mentioned a kiss, and they never…
"Caity, are you still there?" a nervous Jason asked. "Don't you like it?"
"What? No, I love it." And she did. It was totally not her style, but it was sweet and bubbly just like Jason. It made her want to smile and cry at the same time because it couldn't really be about her. She was just one of the guys, always the best friend. No one wrote love songs about girls like her. Plus, honestly the words just didn't fit.
Caitlyn took a deep breath. "But Jason, are you sure you wrote that for me? Cause I am pretty sure we never, you know, kissed."
"I know, but I want to kiss you. And I know that if I ever did kiss you, it would be amazing."
Caitlyn couldn't believe that just hearing him say that made her blush. She never blushed. "Really? How do you know that?" She replied.
" I know things."
