Got Me Going Crazy
By: PinkAzn
Disclaimer: This story is entitled after the Jonas Brothers' song, "Got Me Going Crazy" and is based off about three of their songs – "Got Me Going Crazy", "Can't Have You" and "Sorry". This is a Camp Rock story and is owned by Disney along with the characters. The only characters not owned by Disney are those of my own. I do not own any of the songs used for these stories! I'm being too lazy to think up any original songs so obviously, I don't own any of the songs used in this story. And also, read my little author's notes at the end of each chapter! They might have something important to say!! ENJOY!
Summary: It's been a year since Shane and Mitchie met and now that the rock-and-roll lead singer of Connect Three has finally gotten his act together it's time to bring people from the past back. How will this summer turn out now that everyone is friends and people from the past are returning to bring some kind of inspiration to the camp? Where's the drama and fun? You'll just have to read to find out!
Got Me Going Crazy
Previously:
When the music died down, a loud cheer echoed through the camp. Girls had tears in their eyes at having instantly understood the apology I was throwing into the songs. Somewhere through the song, I had lost eye contact with the one person I needed to keep eye contact with in fear that I'd see something I wouldn't. Soon our eyes locked again. Looking deeply into those deep pools of chocolate brown eyes, I could see unshed tears, eyes wide from surprise at what I had done.
"Riley…" I breathed out quietly, thankful that I had both my hands down so the microphone hadn't caught my whispering of her name.
I saw her eyes blink back the tears and unsuccessfully blink the tears away. Looking at her entire face, I saw her lips twitch slightly into a very tiny smile, but a smile none the less and it made a smile of my own break out on my lips. It felt like a part of this mystery between me and her had just been revealed to everyone while at the same time kept things completely secret. It was one of those things that needed to be done, and I'm glad I did it. A piece of the giant weight hanging on both of our shoulders had just been removed. Now to use the rest of this summer to get everything out in the open and fix everything.
After hearing the song that Connect 3 performed, Riley wanted to talk to Shane about everything that was said in that three minute song. She didn't know what was going through her head as everyone started to part ways to get ready for dinner. But everyone stopped once they saw Connect 3, being led by Shane, heading in their direction. Still unsure of what to do, Riley took apprehensive breaths until her eyes locked with Shane's. She wanted to run, but her body wouldn't move. He was only a few feet away from her when her body finally moved as she ran. She couldn't talk to him, not now, she wasn't ready. She couldn't talk to him with all those people watching, listening into their conversation.
Her body moved on its own. She didn't know where she was going until she found herself at her little hideaway by the lake. She sat down on the hidden bench and tried to catch her breath. Her head was spinning as she tried to take everything that had just happened in the last hour.
"He apologized." She thought to herself, not realizing she was actually saying everything out loud.
One minute she was alone and the next she was jumping from her spot on the bench when a worried voice broke through the silence.
"Riley?" Shane called out as he entered their hiding spot.
She turned to look at him with a surprised face. He finally took a good look at her and saw how her unshed tears had finally fallen from her eyes. Shane rushed to her side and held her close, continuously whispering his apology. He thought she was distressed about the song. All he wanted from her was her forgiveness as he held her close to his body, letting her sob lightly into his shoulder. Shane felt Riley's shaking and sobbing body calm down. Once her tears finally died down, he pulled back, holding her at arms length to look her over. Riley's eyes were red and puffy, along with her nose and cheeks being just as red. Using his thumb, he wiped the single tear that escaped her eye.
"I'm sorry Riley. I never meant to hurt you." He confessed to her.
Moving closer to him, she snuggled against his chest. Letting a few minutes pass by, he felt her shaking body calm down and her light sobbing slowly die down. Once it all subsided, he pulled back to arms length to take a good look at her. Her eyes were puffy and her eyes, cheeks and nose were all red. It was very obvious that she had been crying. It broke Shane's heart to see her that way. Using his thumb, he wiped away a stray tear that had fallen from her eyes. At doing the small gesture, he saw her give a small smile, making a small smile of his own appear on his face.
"I'm sorry again Riley. I didn't know that my song would make your cry like this. If I had known, I wouldn't have done it." Shane explained to her, only making her shake her head at him.
"Shane, that's far from why I cried. If anything, I forgive you." She told him with a small smile.
"Then why did you cry and then run off like that?" He asked, clearly confused now.
Riley took his hand in hers and held it firmly as she led him to their bench. She sat him down and sat next to him. She looked at the lake and watched it before she took in a deep breath and turned to him.
"You're song was beautiful." She praised him, before looking down at her hands. "I know you're sorry for everything that happened to us four years ago. We both knew that everything was going to change. Once you and the guys signed that contract, we both knew, even if it was deep inside, but we both knew that as soon as you guys signed it, things were different."
Riley sighed as she remembered what had happened four years ago. She sat there, quietly for a few minutes with Shane not wanting to break the silence, not knowing what to even say to her after everything.
"You know, when you told me you guys got signed, I was so excited and proud of you?" She asked and then smiled seeing him give a silent nod as if answering her question. "I remember Brown throwing a huge party here at the camp for everyone the day after Final Jam. He was beaming with pride knowing that you, his nephew, and two of his other best campers had gotten signed with one of the best labels out there. Do you remember how we celebrated? Because I remember it clearly, like it was yesterday."
Shane thought about it and suddenly things started to come back. It was like it was happening all over again as he nodded his head.
"Yeah, I do. We celebrated for about a few hours with the guys, the campers, our family, and with my uncle. Then we left the party and came here." Shane said, looking around at their secret place.
"Yeah, we did. We came here and we talked about what would happen." She told him softly, looking at the lake and the now setting sun.
The sight of the lake was beautiful when the sun hit it perfectly when it was setting, and this happened to be the one spot throughout the whole camp that caught that perfection every single time. But neither could really see the beauty as they talked about their past.
"You promised me that things would never change. You promised that no matter what, I would still be part of your life and that you would never forget where you came from." Riley told him, reminding him of his promises. "Shane, I believed you when you made those promises to me. But then you changed. You became someone you weren't. You were becoming more popular, more famous and you were growing so much in music, but you changed drastically. Remember when you and the guys came home for the Christmas holiday during your first tour? I don't know what happened to you those five months, but you weren't the same Shane Gray that I knew. Like every year during Christmas, I went to the lake with your Christmas present. I waited for six hours for you, but you never came."
Flashback
A thirteen year old Riley Vargas sat next to the lake in the park waiting for a fourteen year old Shane Gray. She was bundled up in a winter jacket, scarf, gloves, and a hat covering her head from the falling snow. She looked at her watch again once she noticed that the sun had begun to set. She felt the tears form in her eyes realizing that Shane wasn't going to come. Clutching the carefully wrapped present in her hands, she decided to walk home. As she slowly walked home, she felt some of her tears fall from her eyes.
"Why didn't he come? Did something happen?" Riley thought to herself as she walked pass an ice cream shop.
She looked up hearing some laughter and all thoughts of being worried for Shane flew out of her head. There, laughing and joking with a bunch of the popular kids from her school, was Shane himself. He had his arm wrapped around Claire Sampson, one of the most popular girls at her school. Anger washed over her as realization hit her. She ran home after that. She was thankful no one was home at that moment as she ran into her room and crashed onto her bed, crying her eyes out. Shane had left Riley waiting at the park for their annual pre-Christmas present exchange for six hours to hang out with people that didn't even know they even existed when they went to school.
After a few hours, she had woken up, having fallen asleep from her anger, frustration, and tears. She looked herself in the mirror and cringed seeing her red and puffy eyes and messed up hair. Sighing, Riley grabbed her towel and a pair of clothes to change into before entering the bathroom to shower. Tonight was the annual Gray-Vargas dinner where Riley and her family went over to the Gray home for dinner. Coming out of the bathroom, Riley was wearing a black long sleeved shirt an, a mini jean skirt. She went to her bed and put on thigh length thick black socks before putting on her pink boots. She put on her black jacket before she placed her present for Shane in her black bag before heading down the stairs. Once down the stairs, she was greeted by her little sister Reggie and dad ready to leave.
"About time Rilez, mom has been at the Grays for hours helping with dinner." Riley's eight year old sister, Reggie, told her.
"Sorry, I fell asleep." She said as she followed her dad and sister next door the Grays.
Knocking on the door to the Gray home, they were greeted by Mr. Gray with open arms.
"Max, how are you?" Riley's father said as they entered the house.
"I'm doing well Sean." Mr. Gray said with a smile.
He greeted the two girls before leaving them. The two Vargas girls entertained themselves with small talk before deciding to help their mother and Mrs. Gray in the kitchen. Mrs. Gray had apologized for Shane having not been there, but he had been out with friends all day. Riley hid her sadness when Mrs. Gray asked her in a surprised voice why she hadn't been with him. After about an hour of helping in the kitchen, it was time for dinner. They all gathered around the dining room table to have Shane still missing. Just as they were about to say grace, Shane came into the room, slightly flustered.
"Sorry I'm
late everyone. I got a little sidetracked." He apologized. "And I
got chased a little by some fans that knew who I was."
His father excused him for being late as he took his spot next to Riley who kept quiet. After dinner, the kids were excused to go off on their own. Reggie had gone off across the street to hang with her friends since the Grays didn't have anyone her age as Riley and Shane went up to his room. Shane felt a little uncomfortable at how quiet Riley was being, that was until he saw her pull out the wrapped present from her bag that realization hit him.
"Oh my gosh, Riley, was that today?" Shane asked surprised.
Riley's eyes lowered slightly at seeing how he really did forget about their tradition. Shane saw her saddened eyes as he went over to her.
"How could you forget? This was our thing Shane. One of the last things we still do." Riley asked him, trying to keep from mentioning about seeing him earlier.
"I didn't
mean to forget Riley. I even have it marked…" His voice trailed
off as he looked at his calendar.
Staring him back in the face was his calendar, only the usual giant circle that marked their traditional meeting wasn't there. His calendar was only marked with his return and Christmas. Riley's eyes traveled to where he was looking and noticed the missing marking right away. She felt her heart tighten at how he hadn't even marked his calendar with their tradition.
"I guess hanging with the popular kids was more important than keeping a tradition, isn't it Shane?" Riley asked him, anger now flowing through her veins.
Shane's eyes flashed towards her as he heard what she said.
"How did you even know I was with them? And is it wrong to want to hang out with my friends?" He asked her, a getting angry.
"Friends? Friends?! Shane, they aren't your friends! They never even knew who you were until you got famous!" She said, starting to yell. "What do they know about being a friend Shane?! All they care about is popularity, clothes, and getting their five minutes of fame, especially that Claire Sampson!"
"Don't you dare say that Riley! They do care and Claire isn't doing it just for her five minutes of fame!" He said, now angry at her. "She likes me and I like her back!"
"She doesn't like you Shane, she likes your fame!" Riley stated angrily.
"Shut up Vargas. I'm glad I forgot about that stupid tradition. Because if I hadn't I wouldn't have been able to see the real you, a fake. I don't know how we even stayed friends this long. You know what? Want to know the only reason why I became your friend in the first place? I WAS SORRY FOR YOU. The day you moved here six years ago, I felt bad for you. You were pathetic and you had no one. So I was being nice and made friends with you. But now that we're all grown up and I'm actually getting somewhere, I don't need you." Shane told her angrily, every word being acid to Riley.
Riley had nothing to say after his words assaulted her. He didn't realize how everything he just said had practically cut right into her and broke her heart. She felt the tears well up in her eyes, but she wouldn't let them fall as she closed her eyes tightly, looking down so he wouldn't see. Taking in a deep breath, she looked at him directly in the eyes, knowing that her eyes had started to glitter from the tears.
"Fine Shane, if that's what you want, you've got it." She said. "I'm gone."
Riley walked over to his bed and placed the package on his bed before walking out of his room. She told her parents and the Grays that she was tired and wanted to head to bed early. Quickly, she left, went into her house, and ran into her room, locking the doors behind her. Before crashing onto her bed, she ran to her window and closed the blinds to her room. Before she closed the blinds to her room, she noticed that the room across from hers was empty, the room belonging to Shane's. But once her blinds were closed, she collapsed on her bed and crying her eyes out about the day's events. And as soon as the stream of tears began to fall from her eyes, so did the heavy rain that fell from the heavens above.
End Flashback
By the end of Riley's story, she had found herself silently crying. Shane hadn't realized how much his stupidity had hurt her, his best friend. But throughout the story, he realized that he hadn't been the only one hurting. The question that had haunted him those four years ago had come had come back and was now flowing through his head.
What had he done?
Yup, that's it! This chapter was actually pretty hard to write. I couldn't figure out how to get the song "Sorry" to work with this chapter. Anyways, to understand it fully, read the flashback carefully again and fit the pieces together with the song in the previous chapter. And sorry this is the only chapter going to be posted while I was in Vegas for the Labor Day weekend. My next chapter had to be put on hold cuz I go back to school this Wednesday and I had to do some summer homework and there was a small complication when writing the chapter! But it will definitely be up before Wednesday, I promise!!
Also, at the end of the series, I will make a credits chapter saying "thank you" to all those that reviewed and to name and list all the songs used throughout the story!
And just to give you a small idea of the next chapter, it will continue on from this chapter like this one continued on from the previous one.
So I hope everything is starting to come into full circle. Give me your intake of the story. Do you think Shane has feelings for Riley? Does Riley have feelings for Shane? Are they just friends or more than? Tell me what you think in a review! R&R
And AlmostLover17, I'm sorry to say but this is NOT a Shane/Mitchie story. I'm one of those people that LOVE reading and writing main character/OC stories for some reason. But trust me, I do love the Shmitchie pairing for the movie! I just happen to like reading and writing MC/OC stories better. SORRY!! But I can't tell you if he's in love with Riley or what not! I want to leave this all a mystery! :'D And I'm glad you liked my dedication to you in the last chapter!!
PinkAzn