I fluttered my eyes opened and they came in contact with a bright light hitting my face. It took some time, but my eyes adjusted to the light. I smiled tiredly as they roamed the room. This isn't my room, it's the rec room. I don't remember falling asleep here. I went to turn over and get up, but something was holding me down.
"Stay…" the exhausted voice mumbled.
I froze. Who is that? Carefully, I turned my head and came face to face with SHANE! Ah! How'd we end up like this? Though I do like being in his arms- UGH stop it Mitchie! Oh… I remember now. After we played a few rounds of Wii, we settled for a movie to relax. I think the movie was High School Musical. Then he stayed for dinner. We chatted for a bit… then decided to watch Australia.
"Morning sunshine," a husky voice said quietly.
I snapped out of my thoughts and stared into the Shane's brown eyes. "Morning popstar," I said in a whisper. Oh my goodness! What if I have bad morning breath? I turned and rested my head on his shoulder as Shane rubbed my arm with the hand I'm resting my head on.
"OH. MY. JONAS…" a voice interrupted our 5 second moment. We looked behind us and there stood my new best friend: Caitlyn Gellar. Immediately we jumped apart and I stood up fixing my shirt.
"He-he-hey Caitlyn," I greeted awkwardly. "What are you doing here?" I said through an awkward smile.
"Well you did tell me to come around 10 so we can plan what needs to be done for this shin-dig… but I see you're still sleeping," she smirked.
"It's not what you think," I said quickly.
"Really? Cause to me it looks like you two were just waking up," Caitlyn said smirking again.
"How'd you get in?" I asked curiously. I thought she wasn't coming in until freaking noon.
"Raul let me in. Said that you are in the rec room," she informed me and I 'oh'. "Though he did forget that one detail…" Cait shifted her eyes from me to Shane.
I guess Shane got the silent memo (which I did not catch) from Caitlyn because he got up from the floor. "Uh, well I gotta go… I have some stuff to do… I'll see you two later…Bye Mitchie," Shane said and gave me a hug. "Bye Caitlyn," and Shane hurried out of the room. Caitlyn and I stood in silence as we waited for the front door to open and close.
"WHAT THE HELL IS GOIN ON?!" she exclaimed.
"Nothing!" I exclaimed back and walked out of the room.
"Yeah… nothing my ass… I always come over and see you and Shane waking up side by side," Caitlyn said sarcastically.
I rolled my eyes as we walked up the stairs. "Cait, you've only been here once," I pointed out.
We walked to the end of the hall where my room is and opened the door. "Aha! So what? You and Shane have always slept together?" she accused.
I stopped and turned to her. "What? I don't like Shane. Shane doesn't like me… ok?"
Caitlyn rolled her eyes and I turned around and headed to my closet. "Yeah sure… so what was he doing here anyways?" I paused. Why else would Shane be here? "I'm waiting!" she called out from my room.
I looked through my multiple drawers for some sweats. "He just came over to hang out! We played some games, ate dinner and watched movies!" I called back. Eh… these will do.
"You two were on a DATE?!" she shouted.
"WHAT?! NO! Just two buds hanging out! Girls and Guys can be friends you know!" I shouted looking for a shirt.
"Oh! Now you're telling me you two are friends now? He's the jerk-star Mitchie!" Caitlyn warned me. Ugh..Ignore her Mitch, she's just freaking out. "You know! He stole music from a senior! AND threatened to sue him!" I rolled my eyes. I grabbed this plain white shirt and flip flops. "Seriously Mitchie! Shane ain't all that's cracked up to be!" she shouted as I entered my bedroom.
"What's with the screaming?" I asked and she shrugged. "Like I said before… Shane's just an acquaintance… nothing more." I walked towards the bathroom when she didn't respond.
"Lovers!" she shouted before I shut the door.
20 minutes later, I was cleaned but dressed like a 'bum' (as Caitlyn put it). "What do we have to do?" I asked as we walked out of the room and downstairs. I don't really throw parties because I don't really know a lot of people back home.
"Music selections, food choices… and space," she said.
"I think there's space somewhere here," I said, this house is huge. I led Caitlyn down a hallway I've never been through before. I wonder where this door leads to. I opened it and it had stairs going down. I started to descend it, but Caitlyn stopped me.
"What if there's something like terrifying down there," she asked.
"Steve doesn't strike me as a murderous type of person," I joked but she panicked even more. "Caitlyn relax…" I said and descended down again. I was a couple of stairs away from the ground when I looked up at Caitlyn still on the 3rd to top step. I turned around and rolled my eyes. I took 2 steps and fell onto it screaming. Caitlyn screamed even louder than me and started panicking that I had to laugh.
"What the fuck is so funny?!" she shouted. "Are you ok?!"
"I'm fine!" I said through my laughter. "It's perfectly safe. Come on down you scared-y cat!" Caitlyn hesitated before giving in and coming on down. We took the last 3 steps together and the whole room lit up. The floor was flashing different colors. There was a bar on your far left. On your far right, there was a DJ turntable and a plasma screen on both sides. On the ceiling there is a disco ball and small strobe lights in the corners.
"Wow…" we both said at the same time.
"This'll totally work," Caitlyn said smirking.
"Oh yeah…" I said and we bumped fist.
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Torres residence- 7:42pm…
Party starts in 18 minutes and counting. I'm currently in my room getting ready as Caitlyn's dressing in a guest room. I wasn't sure what you would normally wear to these things. I mean seriously, I've been an outcast, an outsider, a loser since forever! I looked at my reflection in the huge mirror. Eh, this'll do. There was a knock on my door.
"Come in!" I shouted from the closet.
"Hey Mitch… you're ready?" I recognized as Caitlyn say.
"Coming!" I said and emerged from the closet. "OMJ Cait! You look AH-MAZING!"
"I do clean up good don't I?" She said. "Mitch! You look drop-dead gorgeous! Trying to catch someone's eye?"
I scrunched up my nose as I felt the heat rise up in my cheeks. "You think?"I asked her and looked down at what I was wearing. I had on a bold blue cami with wet looking leggings. Over the cami, I had a white short-sleeved blazer. The look was complete with the little black ankle boots.
"Wait… for the drop-dead gorgeous comment? Or catching Shane's eye comment?" Caitlyn asked confused.
"The first one," I replied and checked my hair (which is curled) in the mirror. Caitlyn scoffed and mumbled something along the lines of 'definitely catching Shane's eye'. "Excuse me?"
"Oh what? Nothing… nothing," she said. "Come on girl let's get moving… we have 10 minutes 'til people arrive!"
I laughed and nodded. "Let's go." We walked out of my room and headed down the stairs. "Ok so we got everything?" I asked once we landed on the main floor.
"Hmm..." Caitlyn thought to make sure then nodded. "Food?"
"Check…"
"Music?"
"Check…"
"Punch?"
"Got it…"
I sighed in relief. "Great now that's all missing is-" Ding-Dong! Caitlyn and I squealed then rushed over to the door. I opened it to see Connect 3 standing in the doorway. "Hey guys… come on in," I said and moved over to let them in.
I was just about to close the door when Sonny Monroe and Chad Dylan Cooper appeared at the door. "Hey guys…" I said and they walked in. Justin and Max showed up and a few more people. I held the door open and heard distantly the music coming from downstairs. I hope I am not gonna be a doorman all night.
"I'll take it from here," Raul said as Mary and Joey walked in.
"Thanks Raul!" I shouted as the music started blasting. I followed Joey and Mary down to the mini-club, as Cait calls it.
"OMJ Mitchie this place is awesome!" some person said.
"Uh thanks," I shouted so they could hear me. I smiled as I pushed through the mini crowd. People are actually having a liking to me. Eh maybe its just because of the party, but it's still awesome.
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3 hours later…
"Girl, you can dance," some guy said in my ear as the song ended.
"Uh thanks…" I muttered and walked away from him. Whew… it's hot in here. I climbed the steps and walked down the hall to the kitchen. I covered the side of my face as I caught Troyella making out on the counter in the kitchen. Hey… I don't think they even go to the school anymore. How'd they get in here is a mystery… I wonder who else is here that's not supposed to be. I proceeded towards the patio for some air. Everywhere there were kids from school. People in the pool… people in the little campfire area… even kids around Raul as he cooked burgers and hotdogs. Shaking my head, I found a seat on this loveseat swing. I gently swayed slowly back and forth as I took small sips of my soda. I can't believe that this party is… ugh crazy! I've never thrown a party like this… wait scratch that- I've never been to a party like this period. Teens sucking face… teens dancing on top of each other… there is not one person here who wasn't clinging to the opposite sex. I smiled in a sense of accomplishment for some reason.
"Hey…" a voice said softly. I looked up from my cup of soda and smiled softly.
"Hey you…" I responded and moved over.
"Great party," he said taking a seat.
"Yeah…" I said shyly and looked down at the ground.
"Listen… about last night-"
"It's fine… we didn't do anything. I mean obviously we were watching a movie and dozed off, but that's about it," I said still looking at the grass. I don't know why, when, or how… but suddenly I'm so shy of Shane. We sat in comfortable silence.
Out of nowhere, he lifted up my face with a finger and kissed me. I was shocked at first, but slowly closed my eyes and went with it. Gosh his lips are so moist and ugh… wonderful!
"MITCHIE! MITCHIE!" a voiced called out. We pulled away and saw Caitlyn running towards us.
"Ugh what does she want now?" I muttered and Shane laughed. "Yes Caitlyn… what's wrong?" I asked.
"Were you two sucking face?" she asked and I gave her a 'get-to-the-point' look. Caitlyn shook her head. "Anyways… someone poured vodka in the punches and we're running out of beer."
My eyes widen in pure shock. "What?! Caitlyn… who brought the alcohol? I thought you said Hollywood teens don't drink. Hence the sodas, punch, and iced tea."
Caitlyn rolled her eyes. "I said they'd drink anything at a party BUT soda, plain punch, and iced tea," she corrected. I rolled my eyes and inwardly groaned. "Oh and this bad boy that Miranda brought with her is about to fight Joe…"
Sighing I got up. So much for chillaxing… "Shane, can you please go and find out whatever is going on between Joe-" I paused. "You mean Joe from J.O.N.A.S?" I questioned and Caitlyn nodded. "OMJ I love that show!"
"So do I! Did you see when-"
"ANYWAYS…" Shane cut in. "You want me to do what?" he asked.
"Oh right… check on Joe and that guy who probably looks like he'll beat him up and see what the hell is going on," I instructed and Shane nodded before striding off.
"You… ugh I don't even know what to tell you," I said.
Caitlyn opened her mouth to say something when Lola walked up. "Hey… awesome party by the way… uh Chad and Troy went out and bought more along with Jason," she said.
"Which Jason?" I questioned. Ugh I lost track of who's who.
"Jason White… anyways, they got more booze, and told me to tell you," Lola informed me before walking away.
I groaned in frustration. "Ugh, come on," I said grabbing a spaced out Caitlyn and headed inside.
We pushed through the crowd full of teens either sober, drunk crazy, or horny to the full extent. Ugh, now I see why I avoided places like these. When you try to move out of the area, it's impossible with the constant touchy-touchy of another person. "Mitch, where are we going?" Caitlyn asked as I dragged her along.
"Remember that kid and Joe? Yeah, them," I said pushing thorough a couple making out. "Ugh MOVE PLEASE!" I pushed my way through and found Shane standing in between Joe and that guy in the middle of the dance floor.
"Come on fellas… we're supposed to be having fun… it's a party for goodness sakes!" Shane said holding them arm's length from him. That guy shook off Shane's hand and muttered a 'whatever' before turning to Miranda, grabbing her hand and walking away.
I sighed in relief. Whoo good thing nothing happened. I'd hate to stop the party. I turned to where Caitlyn was standing, only to see her up on that DJ turntable. "Come on guys! The night's still young, let's bring up the heat!" she shouted into the microphone and the crowd cheered as Caitlyn switched the song.
I started to head off the dance floor as people started to dance around me, but was stopped when someone grabbed my wrist. "Surely a pretty girl like yourself isn't about to leave the dance floor alone…" I turned around and recognized this guy as Chad Dylan Cooper.
"Where's Sonny?" I asked. He nodded over to the bar where Sonny was sitting there talking to Tawni Hart.
"So how about that dance?" he asked. I took a whiff of him. Eh a little but not major drink-age. I nodded and he led me to the middle of the dance floor. I turned around and started grinding on him as the song 'Beautiful' by Akon started playing again. "Whoa! Girl can move!" he said all happy. I rolled my eyes. It amazes me how they (well some of them) found grinding interesting. Ugh he's ok… not the best dance partner I've ever had.
While looking back, my eyes roamed the room and fell upon Shane. His eyes looked like they were burning in envy, almost jealousy, but I think this is just me. I tilted my head a bit at him and gave him a curious look. He must've seen me because he soon got up and left his spot. Hmm… I wonder where he went.
The song soon ended and Hollywood High cheered. "Alright… how about we slow it down a bit before some people pass out huh?" Caitlyn said. I don't get it though, there are some kids passed out already on the couch. Some are probably hitting it up in a guest room somewhere. Good thing I locked both my room and Steve's.
"What d'ya say Hollywood?!" Caitlyn said and the crowd got pumped. "Alright, alright… well for this song, I'm going to call upon the hostess, the new girl, the party-thrower, and my best friend… Mitchie Torres to sing us a song."
The crowd gave a gentle applause (while looking around) as I stood there like a statue. She did not! I will not! "Who's Mitchie?" I heard Chad Dylan say.
"Me dumbass," I snapped at him.
"Mitchie!" I turned to see Caitlyn approaching me. "Come on." She grabbed my arm and dragged me to this little platform in front of the DJ turntable.
"Caitlyn, no… I can't," I said as she handed me a microphone.
"Why not?" she questioned. "Come on… please tell me we did not work on that song this morning for no reason."
"I thought you were just bored when we finished sorting out everything in about what 20 minutes?" I said.
Cait rolled her eyes. "Well you gotta sing, I already announced it," she said looking at me pleadingly.
I gave in. "Fine… but don't stop me if I run off… I've never done this before."
"Deal… just stand there looking at the DJ table. Soon you'll gather up the courage and turn around to sing to the crowd," Caitlyn encouraged and grabbed another mic. "Ok… please welcome, Mitchie Torres!" There goes that soft applauding. I looked at the crowd who was searching for well, me. "She's over here!" Caitlyn whispered and they turned their full attention to me. Fuck.
I gave them a nervous smile. "Uh… this song, I've written myself. It's called 'Believe in Me'. Hope you like it."Caitlyn started the music and people started clearing the floor a little bit. I gulped. Here goes nothing.
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'I'm losing myself
Trying to compete
With everyone else
Instead of just being me
Don't know where to turn
I've been stuck in this routine
I need to change my ways
Instead of always being weak
I don't want to be afraid
I want to wake up feeling beautiful today
And know that I'm okay
Cause everyone's perfect in unusual ways
So see I want to believe in me
La-la-la-la
-I started smiling as a few couples made their way to the clear floor and started to gently sway to the music-
The mirror can lie
Doesn
And it, it can tell you that your full of life
It's amazing what you can hide
Just by putting on a smile
I don't want to be afraid
I want to wake up feeling beautiful today
And know that I'm okay
Cause everyone's perfect in unusual ways
So see I just want to believe in me
I'm quickly finding out
I'm not about to break down
Not today
I guess I always knew
That I had all the strength to make it through
I cannot be afraid
I want to wake up feeling beautiful today
And know that I'm okay
Cause everyone's perfect in unusual ways
You see, now, now I believe in me
Now I believe in me…'
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I kept my eyes mainly on Shane throughout the half song. He was looking at me, too, but I wasn't sure what he could've been thinking about. His eyes were filled with some emotion that I couldn't quite put my finger on, it just made me all the more curious.
The crowd erupted in cheers and I smiled brightly at them. They liked it! They really liked it! I scanned the crowd and spotted two girls with a sour face on: Hannah and Tess. I wonder why. Do they not like my singing? The song? Ugh their probably thinking: 'What a joke'. I stepped off the platform (with the help of Oliver and Jackson) as Caitlyn changed the music back to something with an edge. I walked over to the bar where Rico was serving drinks.
"Bottled water," I said and he nodded before bending down to grab water out of the cooler.
"Here you go…" he replied handing it to me and winked. Eww gross… isn't he like 12? I gave Rico a tight smile before scampering away to Caitlyn at the DJ table. I almost reached Caitlyn when someone grabbed my waist and pulled me backwards.
"So you dance with almost every guy but me… ouch Mitch, I thought we have something," a voice I know all too much said in ear. I spun around to see Shane holding me.
I smirked. Eh he's probably drunk what a little flirting can harm if he's not going to remember? "Oh really now?"
He nodded his head. "Yup… we were even sleeping together this morning."
I blushed. "I don't know… I think your pants are too tight to dance with me. They might rip."
"I think my pants can handle it," he said and tugged me to the dance floor as the song 'Move Shake Drop' by Pitbull started to play. He turned me around and I started grinding on him. Wow he can actually dance! I was really getting into it, like seriously… ah! Ha, ha. This is unbelievable. I'm dancing with Shane Gray! Ugh Mitch get over yourself… he's just Shane. Yeah, but he's like the best dancer I've danced with yet. I felt Shane's breath on my neck and started kissing it. Normally I would've froze and pulled away, but I didn't.
The song ended and Shane turned me around to face him. I lifted up my hair and set it to one side. Boy is it getting hot."Want a drink?" he asked and I nodded mutely. Shane left me and I walked over to Caitlyn who's sitting on Nate's lap at the DJ center.
"Well, well, well… look who we have here," Nate said.
I rolled my eyes. "Hi to you to… what's up?"
"Uh Mitchie… come with me," Caitlyn said getting up.
"Why? I'm waiting for Shane to get me a-" I didn't get to finish cause Caitlyn started pulling me away.
"Tell Shane we'll be in Mitchie's room!" Caitlyn shouted and Nate nodded.
"Why are we going to my room?" I asked as she dragged me up stairs and stairs.
She didn't answer me the whole way. We finally stopped at my door and went inside. "That's why," she said pointing into the mirror. Oh shit!
On the right side of my neck was a HUGE hickey from Shane. Stupid Shane… "Wha-wha-what am I supposed to do? Ho-how do I get rid of this?" I asked looking at it.
"For now, just put cover up on it… I heard methods of taking it off, but it may take some time," Cait said and handed me make up. After putting it on, there was a knock on the door. Caitlyn left me in the bathroom to answer it. She came back seconds later with him.
"What happened?" Shane asked handing me a drink.
I took a sip. Why does this water taste weird? "You gave me a hickey dumbass."
"Shane Gray never gives out hickeys," he said.
I rolled my eyes. "Whatever… let's just get back down there." We left my room, making sure it was locked before heading back down to the party. We sort of bumped into Nate as he was running up the stairs. "Whoa where's the fire?" I joked. Wow we didn't have to push through people to get to our destination.
"They're starting drinking games and asked me to get you guys to see if you'd join," Nate informed us. So that's where they are.
Caitlyn and Shane grinned and quickly agreed. All three of them looked at me. "Uh… what if you've ever played?" I asked innocently. They looked at me like I was an alien. Like I said before: social outcast. "What?"
"Oh she SO has to join," Caitlyn said and the three of them forced me to go down stairs. Oliver was now in charge of music. There were still people dancing when I got down there. On the bar, a few people were playing body shots. Eh… no thanks. We walked passed them and into this mini lounge where there was a pool table and two ping pong tables. Beer pong… heard it's a great game. I walked out of there (leaving Shane, Nate and Cait) and into another mini lounge where kids had an iPod hooked up to an iHome.
I stayed and watched as this kid Justin in my French class shouted, "Name this song!" He let it play a little bit then stopped the song after it sang a lyric.
I watched as the room of 8 (plus me that'd be 9) people started asking each other (or their partners I think) what the song is. I rolled my eyes.
"It's Paramore's Fences," I said getting off the doorway that I was leaning on. Justin looked at me and smiled.
"You in? You could be on…" Justin trailed off looking around the room.
"My team," someone said from behind me. I whipped my head around and looked at Shane.
"Awesome… pull up a chair," Justin said and the two of us walked in. "Ok, so the object of the game is to name the most songs. Hesitate when it's your team's turn, you take a shot. You have 15 seconds to answer. After that, the other teams have 5 seconds to come up with an answer. No answer, everyone takes two shots. If another team answers your question, your team takes 2 shots and everyone else takes 1. Got it?"
I gave the group a smirk. "Yup… bring it on…"
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Half an hour later… 2:03 am
"WOO-HOO!" the crowd cheered as Shane and I took our, what 22nd shot in an half an hour? Cait and Nate joined us about 15 minutes after looking for us.
"Name this song…" (plays song)
"Kiss me through the phone!" Caitlyn slurred.
"By who?" Justin asked. Since some songs have the same titles but different artist, he added to know the artist as well. If someone got the artist right before you did, the same rules apply as if you were just naming the song. it's pretty funny… a lot of people stopped playing to watch me and Shane versus Caitlyn and Nate. Plus, a lot were drunk crazy and Raul called their drivers. Good thing Raul said to leave a contact name and number on a piece of paper before heading down stairs.
"Uh… Usher?" Nate guessed before times up. Wrong.
"YES!" Shane and I exclaimed and pumped fist. Nate and Caitlyn made a face before taking their 30th shot. Yeah… shot's are the only thing I'm keeping track of for some unknown reason.
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4:29 am…
The four of us trudged up the stairs laughing hysterically. We did a double step and fell, laughing even harder. I don't exactly remember why we're laughing, we just were. The last of the guests left about an hour ago. And we just finished putting bottles and cans in garbage bags. Raul said that the maid will be here at 8 to clean. So we don't have to totally clean up.
"What's so funny?" I asked through my laughter.
"I don't even know," she replied and laughed some more.
We sighed. "Man I am tired," I said getting up.
"Word… I am beat!" she said getting up also.
"I wonder who's still here," I said thoughtfully.
"Eh… probably people who'll wake up in like 4 hours and find out that they just had sex," Cait added as we continued wobbling up the stairs.
"That'd be hilarious," Shane mumbled.
"Uh huh…" Nate said and collapsed in the hallway.
"Come on guys… I-" my hand flew up to my mouth as I darted to my bathroom and threw up in the toilet. Oh God… my other hand ran through my hair. I do not like drinking.
I felt the vile coming back up and leaned over the toilet again. Ugh… "Better?" Shane said softly and I nodded slowly. He helped me up from the floor and led me back to my room. "Wait." I stopped and Shane handed me a mint. "The aftertaste is gross." I smiled gratefully and ate it. Caitlyn and Nate were passed out on the floor. I laughed quietly and proceeded to my bed. I pulled off the boots and just laid back slowly closing my eyes. I felt the bed shift and moved closer to the person before falling fast asleep.
Hey guys! sorry i havent updated... i was so busy with practice and what-not. plus i got to get my grades up :7
i hope this was ok... it took me a while, but eh i got it out somehow. if its not that great, i sorry. Oh and love the feedback on this story.
ugh sorry for the format after the song... it wouldnt go back... :7
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