Chapter 4 - Mitchie's Longest Day
Mitchie's POV
" Well here goes" I thought to myself as I got off the bus in front of Madison High, for the first time since my whirlwind experience at Camp Rock, as I made me way up to the front fountain to met Caitlyn and Loz, I started to anticipate how I was going to reveal to the whole school that I was dating Shane Gray and also mentally I was thinking of all the backlash that I was going to receive from all the girls in my school who had set their heart on becoming Mrs Shane Gray, "This is going to be a long day" I whispered to myself as I reached the front fountain.
As I reached the front fountain I could see Caitlyn and Loz heading towards me, they were both dressed up in ripped jeans and also to completely different Connect 3 t- shirts, Caitlyn's was a dark blue long sleeve shirt with the image of Connect 3 plastered on the front and Loz's was a purple tank top with the image of Connect 3 plastered over the shadows of 2 guitars, with them by my side today and Shane's leather jacket in my bag as proof I know that I could face what ever was thrown at me today, " Hey Mitch" Caitlyn said grinning at me " Hey Cat, Loz ready for another year of school fun" I grinned sarcastically " Oh yeah " Cat and Loz replied in a duh tone to me, " So Mitch how's it been since coming home from Camp Rock" Caitlyn asked, secretly knowing what my answer would be " It's been horrible I really miss hanging out with the gang especially Shane", " Yeah same here I really miss Nate" Caitlyn replied in a sad tone " Me too , I miss Jason" Loz added, " Hey do you really think that we should remember that our boys are missing us as well and they have to be on tour right now which has got to be agony for them" I said in a soothing voice " Oh did I tell you Shane rang me this morning and told me that Connect 3 is coming here for a one off concert" I whispered while pulling Loz and Caitlyn in so that no one could hear us, " No way" came the reply from them in a shocked manner" " yep and they did it just for us" I replied grinning.
Then over the hustle and bussle of students coming back I saw her, the person who I didn't want to see on my first day back, after my fairytale summer, Samantha Bishop, the queen bee of Madison High, ever since I started at Madison High with her, she made it her mission to make my high school years a living hell and with her knowing that I was at Camp Rock for the summer I was prepared for an onslaught today and here it came, she was walking straight towards me dressed in her dark ripped jeans, sparkly princess top and her Gucci boots.
" Hey Mitchie" She spat, I felt her words cut through me like a knife, " I heard you spent your summer at Camp Rock, I'm surprised you could afford it what with your clothes the way they are" she added cruelly, " Yes I did, my mum knew one of the camp's organisers who owed her a favour so she got me in" I replied with a smile on my face, I know that this was a lie but what was suppose to say the only reason I got in was by working in the kitchen during the breaks she would haunt me for the rest of my life if I told her that.
" I heard that Shane Gray and the rest of Connect 3 were there, something about getting good PR or getting Shane back on the rails, did you know that" she replied smugly to me " I did actually, me and Shane became quite close friends there, he said that I reminded him of the music that he liked, you could kinda say we are in a relationship" I replied with a smile plastered on my face, "Yeah right Mitchie, you and Shane Gray in a relationship, stop dreaming it never happened you are making it up", I'm not it's true" I replied angrily to her" , Ok Mitchie if it true then show me some proof " Samantha replied tossing her hair back, at that moment an idea came to my head " It's getting a bit chilly out don't you think Sam" I said with a glint in my eye, at that moment I reached into my bag and pulled out Shane's jacket and draped it round my shoulders the look on Samantha's face didn't change which surprised me seeing as she knew all of Connect 3 fashions I thought that she would of know that the jacket I currently had draped round my shoulders was Shane's lucky jacket the jacket that he never took off for anyone, " What's so special about that jacket" I heard her say in a sly voice, " Let's just say that this jacket belongs to my boyfriend Shane Gray and that this jacket is coincidentally his favourite jacket and the one that he never takes off for anyone or anything" I said with a smile and glint in my eyes, " Yeah right " I heard Samantha utter " Prove that it's his jacket and that he's your boyfriend" she added spitefully.
" Well that's easy" Caitlyn butted in and both her and Loz shoved their Nokia camera phones in Samantha's face, on both phones their was the same picture of myself and Shane lying on the beach watching the sunset, our hands were intwined and my head was resting on Shane's chest and his Shane's leather jacket was draped around me. " Is that enough proof for you" Loz grinned while shutting her phone, the look on Samantha's face was priceless it made me wish that Shane was here to se it with me, it looked as though Samantha had had the wind blown out of her, she had a pale look on her face and her eyes and mouth were open so much that she could catch flies in them if she wasn't careful, and with that revelation Samantha just walked away. this caused me, Caitlyn and Loz to laugh so hard that we didn't even her the bell for class.
The rest of the school day turned out to be quite eventful after princess Samantha spread the news of my relationship with Shane, most of the comments I got were of "congratulations", "well dones" and "you go girl", I even got rousing applause when it was found that I stood up to Samantha from all her other victims, but the other 60 were hating on me and calling me " Slut" , "Scab" and even painting on my locker "Band wrecker", which to me was a bit of an overreaction considering it was me who help remind Connect 3 of the type of music that they loved to play, bit I didn't care, because I reminded my self that I had the gang, Caitlyn, Nate, Loz, Jason and Shane to back me up and there was nothing anyone could do about it. Later on during my last lesson I received a text from Shane.
Hey babe, will b on TRL l8r, jut a reminder to watch as we ave surprise 4 all u, lov ya Shane xxxxxx, by the way Nate and Jason say hi 2 Caitlyn & Loz and luv them 2.
As soon as I read that message I couldn't wait to get home and see what the surprised Shane had cooked up for me on TRL, as soon as the bell rang I was out of the classroom in a flash and on my way to my bus with the thoughts of Shane's surprise racing through my head, when I eventually got on my bus I ran straight up to where Loz and Caitlyn were sitting and said " Let's go back to mine, Shane texted me during last period and said that he and the guys have a surprise for us on TRL", " Cool can't wait" came the reply from Loz and Caitlyn. During the whole ride back to mine all we could think about was what surprise our boyfriends had for us, we all thought that they were going to publicly announce our relationships on national TV and if so we would have to be ready for an onslaught of media coverage for the rest of our lives.
After half an hour on the bus we arrived outside my house, all three of us ran straight in " Hey mom" I shouted as I headed up the stairs, " Hi Mrs Torres" Caitlyn and Loz shouted as they followed me up stairs, " Hey girls how was school" My mum replied but by the time she said it she heard my door slam, as we entered my purple rockstar room with all the poster on the wall and memories of my past summer at Camp Rock, my keyboard in the corner connected up to my computer, we kicked off our shoes and throw our bags over in a corner of my room, we then crashed down onto my double bed as I grabbed the TV remote and flicked on to MTV just in time to see the starting titles of TRL. " Hey guys, quiet down it's on"
" Hey guys Welcome to the show, have we got a great show today, we have got the hottest teen rock group in the US, on the show today, give it up for Connect 3" Jordan announced, as soon as the audience, myself, Caitlyn and Loz heard the words Connect 3 we all went made, especially the 3 of us in my bedroom we were gushing over each of our boyfriends and think about how lucky we are, we got so excited when Shane, Nate & Jason told Jordan about Camp Rock and when they gave a shout out to the gang we just lost it.
Eventually Jordan got Shane to preview one of Connect 3 new songs and when he explained the story, I felt tears come to my eyes the story behind this song is basically about trying to find a girl that you may of heard singing but never actually seeing her face and how far you will go to find her, I couldn't believe that the song Shane had chosen to sing was the song he had written for me.
Every time I think I'm closer to the heart
What it means to know just who I am
I think I finally found a better place to start
Where no one ever seems to understand
I need to try to get to where you are
Could it be you're not that far
You're the voice I hear inside my head
The reason that I'm singing
I need to find you, I gotta find you.
"Hey Mitchie are you ok" I heard Caitlyn asking after seeing the tears in my eyes " Yeah I'm fine, it's just every time I hear that song it reminds me of Camp Rock and where our relationship started" I replied with tears streaming down my face, " I know how you feel we both feel like that with Nate and Jason" Caitlyn and Loz replied also with tears in their eyes, " Thanks girls " I replied.
After a couple more hours of watching videos on MTV, Caitlyn and Loz went home, and I was left chilling in my room, think about the song that Shane had just performed and how it meant so much to both of us, I decided to log onto my computer as I remember that I had to upload some new tracks that I had written during last night, as I logged on I decided to log onto my MSN account to see who was on line, as my contact loaded I noticed that Shane was online and I decided that it would be the perfect time to tell him how much I appreciated the song on TRL.