A/N: Well my laptop broke this afternoon but I borrowed my mom's so I could update for you guys :] Thats how much I love ya! haha

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Chapter Nine

"Hello and welcome to the Tim Smith Show, where the celebs dish the latest dirt! Now today we have a very special treat for all the young ladies in the audience. Mega RockStar bad boy Shane Gray is in the building and he is here to tell all! We'll bring out the birthday boy after this commercial break!"

I was watching the monitor in the green room backstage with a mischievous smile on my face. This interview my dad had set up, coincidentally, on my birthday was going to be oh so satisfying. I pulled out my iPhone and sent Mitchie a text message. I'm pretty sure she had deleted my phone number and was going to ignore it but I had a sliver of hope in my body that she was at least look at the text.

'Mitchie, its Shane. I know me texting you contradicts everything that I told you but...do me a favor and watch the Tim Smith Show. Please.' - Shane G.

I pressed the 'Send' button and watched the little confirmation message pop up telling me my message had been sent. I took a deep breathe and prayed for the best. I walked out of the green room to see if it was my time to hit the stage. Sure enough, it was and I waited until I heard my name. My life was about to change for the better in a matter of moments.

"Welcome back from commercial break! Now, my next guest is rock and roll's bad boy. He has trashed many hotel rooms and broken many girls' hearts. Please help me welcome Shane Gray!" I walked out on stage and into the chair right next to Tim Smith's desk. I could barely gather all my thoughts above the loud cheering girls....and I swear I heard a boy or two.

"Welcome, welcome Mr. Gray! Great to see you!" Tim said in that fake enthusicatic voice show hosts always had.

"Great to be here Tim." I said just as fakely unenthusiastically back.

"So, Shane, tell us. Whats the deal with you faking a tour recently? What the heck were you doing?" he asked. I took a deep breath and prepared to answer. God I really hoped Mitchie was watching....

"Tim, truth is. I don't have to lie to you. See my father, who is my ex-manager now, he just hasn't received his e-mail yet, he wanted me to come out here and lie to you and these good people and say that I was working on music. You know I was working on music. I wrote a song called 'Lovebug'. Its an original song and I was inspired by this....amazing girl I met. Mitchie Torres. And I really hope she, and all those assholes who called her a nerd at school, are watching this." I said looking directly into the camera. I looked at Tim who's mouth was wide open in shock.

"So you fired you father and met a girl? Are you single? Taken?"

"Well, I don't know. I'm hoping she's watching and takes what I'm doing now, all the stuff I'm saying on national television, as an apology. I know nothing I say will help you forget what I told you in your backyard but you gotta believe me when I say this Mitchie, I'm sorry."

"Er...bro, this is a talk show. Not a 'Let's-Apologize-To-Some-Unknown-Nobody-On-Live-TV' show." he said. I looked at him and gave him one of my famous mischievous smiles. I stood up and grabbed the coffee cup that was sitting on his desk. He had to know what was coming next.

"Whoa, Shane, what-what are you doing?" he said nervously.

"Well, this is a talk show right? Let's give them something to talk about." I took the cup and poured it into his lap. I swear, I didn't know how hot it was but judging by the he jumped up and started screaming like a girl it must have been pretty damn hot. Once he ran off stage, and I was done laughing, I turned to the audience and saw them staring back at me shocked.

"Now that that's taken care of. Who wants autographs?!" That got them to snap out of their daze. A bunch of girls raised their hands and waved them. I jumped off the platformed stage and went into the audience signing all kinds of objects and body parts. It was good to be me at that moment.

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After I had signed everything from a CD to a baby's forehead, I headed outside to the parking garage to pick up my car and drive back to Long Beach to see if my little stunt had worked. Just as I was about to open the door to my Range Rover, my father's hand blocked me from opening the door. I was so not in the mood for his crap.

"What the hell was that?" he asked.

"That was me, firing you." I said coldly.

"Fire me? So you really want to go live with your mom in boring old Long Beach and be a regular kid? You want to throw all this fame away for some girl?"

"No, see, that's where you wrong dad. I'm not throwing away anything. Unlike you, I'm willing to work out a relationship with a girl and still live my dream too. You made me ruin everything with her and now that I'm legally an adult, its time for me to do the adult thing and go fix it." For the first time...ever I saw a look of defeat in his eyes. Like, he didn't want to fight me anymore. He was through just as I was.

"Fine. Go. Just, don't call me when things go to shit." he said before walking away. I shook my head in disgust and in confusing. I didn't know why he had given up so easily but I was too smart to think that was the last I had seen of my father. I put all those thoughts in the back of my head, however, and hopped in my car, ready to head to Long Beach.

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I, Nate, was the happiest guy right now. I had this crush on Mitchie since I could remember and I had been waiting for something like this to make her realize that us 'dating' could be a good thing. For a week, I had been able to call her my girlfriend. And not just a girl who happens to be a friend but a true girlfriend. We mostly hung out in her room since she was still getting over that Shane guy. I swear, things like a celebrity coming and sweeping you off your feet only to dump you on your ass only happened in movies but if this was a movie, me dating Mitchie, I sure as hell didn't want to credits to roll.

"Nate! Do you want grape juice or water?" She called out from the kitchen. As usual, it was about two in the afternoon and she was fixing us a snack. I had offered to do it but she insisted she needed to repay me for being such a good guy to her but I told her, her just being around me was enough and more.

Just as I was about to answer, I noticed her phone vibrated signaling a text message. I picked it up thinking it was her mom but when the name "Shane" with a little heart by it popped up on the screen, I ground my teeth. What could he possibly want with Mitchie? Hadn't he caused enough trouble? I was curious as to what it said, I mean if it was something bad, I was going to delete it. I didn't want her to read that kind of stuff. Don't call it being nosey, call it being...protective.

'Mitchie, its Shane. I know me texting you contradicts everything that I told you but...do me a favor and watch the Tim Smith Show. Please.' - Shane G.

I shook my head. Was this guy serious? Did he really think going on some talk show singing one of his songs about 'bumping and grinding' would get Mitchie back? I mean, I only assumed he would do something like that because he always did that kind of stuff on talk shows. But it didn't matter, Mitchie wasn't the kind of girl that would swoon over some guy singing about his bedroom skills anyway...

Five minutes. Five minutes was all it took for me to just give in to Shane's requests. I couldn't believe myself. I felt like I had jumped out of my own skin. The Mitchie Torres I knew would never be rolling around on some guys bed making out. But I couldn't help it, honest. Shane was so damn attractive and so charming. Everything that was happening was a blur. First we were kissing, then I felt his hands on my various body parts, mine on his, and before I knew it, we were committing a sin. It didn't last very long but for the time it did last, I was sure I was having an out of body experience. After it was all said and done, we didn't talk to each other. In fact, I didn't even look at him. I simply picked up my clothes from off the floor and slipped them on. Sure this was after we had already confirmed we were dating but...this? Already? I was sure we were moving too fast and I was afraid this was all he wanted from me and now, he was done with me. I shook those thoughts out of my head, however when he uttered that sentence.

"Uh..that was...my first...yeah." I turned to him and he was blushing.

"But I thought-"

"I lied. A lot. It just makes my image better if the public thinks that I do those kind of things."

It was then I knew that what had happened was just as scary for him as it was for me. Sure I would've liked it to be more romantic but it was with a guy I was sure was totally sweet. Would it be selfish to ask for more?

I rolled my eyes at Shane's text message and turned on Mitchie's TV. I turned down the volume so she wouldn't hear it in the kitchen. When I turned to the Tim Smith Show, he was apologizing to her. Gah, I wanted to gag myself. He was so pathetic. He hurt her and he'd have to learn that she no longer wanted, or needed, him. She was mine now. I heard footsteps coming toward her room and flicked the TV off.

"What are you watching?" she ran in her room and asked me.

"Nothing." I replied innocently.

"Oh I thought I heard...never-mind." she shrugged it off. "So grape juice or water?"

"Water please." I said. She nodded and went back into the kitchen. I wondered how long it'd be before Shane would make a grand appearance and try to get Mitchie back since he seemed pretty intent on it on TV. No matter how long, though, I was going to make sure that Mitchie would not see him and that she would stay mine.

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Man did this chapter ever suck? haha I just needed to get some stuff across. So in case you didn't catch it...

A) Shane has fired his dad. His dad was WAYYYYY too cool with it. Shane is suspicious but is going back to try and get Mitchie.

B) Nate is Mitchie's boyfriend and is trying to block Shane from her. [That poppy face lol]

And finally...

C) SMITCHIE DID THE GROWN-UP! LOL xD Yeah, I don't think I ever hinted that they did but they in fact, did. LOL

Leave me a review if you think the story is getting better, getting worse, or still at a constant level of awesomeness. Haha. :]