Overheard
Overheard
Mitchie's Point of View
I stood just outside the door of Connect 3's cabin. I heard the whole conversation. Shane was not going to lose his job because of me.
Shane turned and met my eyes. His eyes were wide with hurt and fear. I walked in sadly.
"I heard everything. Shane, if being with you is going to ruin your career, then maybe we should break up for a while," I said and walked out before the tears could escape. I managed to make it back to my mom's cabin before they came.
"Mom, I want to go home," I said between sobs.
"Okay. I'll call your father," she said rubbing my back. I sat there until my dad came.
I left without once looking back.
Shane's Point of View
I was shaking uncontrollably. Nate was watching me closely like he was afraid I was going to start attacking him. Small noises were escaping my mouth. They sounded like whimpers. My vision was becoming unfocused from the tears I was fighting to hold back. I couldn't move. The scene kept replaying in my head. Mitchie had broken up with me, again, and she took my heart with her. Nate's phone rang. He picked it up and said something's I couldn't hear. He hung up.
"Shane? Caitlyn spotted Mitchie." The shaking worsened at the sound of her name. "She was leaving camp." The whimpers were becoming louder. "She's not coming back to camp. She's gone." The whimpers were quickly becoming something close to screams. The shaking was making Nate look like one big blur. "Caitlyn said she was in tears. She looked really…" Nate was broken off by my screaming. The sound was bloodcurdling. It took me a second to realize that the sound was coming from my mouth.
"SHANE!" Nate was yelling over my screams trying to calm me down. Uncle Brown must have heard the commotion because he burst into the cabin. Nate explained what happened.
I don't know how long the screaming went on but eventually they grew hoarse and turned back into whimpering. The shaking didn't stop. A single tear escaped. I let my control slip. Tears were cascading down my face. I could taste the saltiness on my lips.
Suddenly, I saw Mitchie standing outside the cabin laughing. I blinked and she was gone. The tears flowed even faster. I could feel a hole where my heart used to be.
Camp ended almost a month later. I was barely eating or sleeping. I refused to sing or even talk and I had gotten in trouble for giving Tess a black eye and a fat lip when she talked trash about Mitchie. After hearing about my break up with Mitchie, the label rehired me. They told the press that I broke up with her so they wouldn't attack me with the real story.
The label was hounding us to get into a recording studio but I refused to sing or even talk to them. We were in yet another meeting.
"Shane? Are you listening?" I just glared at Mike. "For Gods sake, Shane, talk already!" I turned away. "I told you that girl would hurt you, Shane. Now she broke up with you. She didn't really care about you. You can do much better."
That made me snap. I jumped on him and threw punches so hard that I heard his nose crack. Nate and Jason pulled me off of Mike and I struggled. I pulled free and ran. I hopped into my car and drove. I stopped at a coffee house and put on a hat and sun glasses so I wouldn't be spotted. A small television was turned on to Hot Tunes.
"This just in, not 5 minutes ago, Shane Grey viciously attacked his manager. His manager is in the hospital with a broken nose. In related news, Connect 3's new CD has been delayed. An insider claims it's due to Shane Grey's refusal to sing or even talk."
I pulled out my laptop. I suddenly knew what I had to do.
What will he do. New chapter will be added later tonight. Got to go work on it.
